Alright, I might not be the best player on planet, I have physical limitations.
I might have taken the worst choice of my gaming life choosing Sorcerer as my first class something like 3 months ago when I bought the game, thinking it would be decent like in Skyrim, but it's too difficult have to rely on weak light armors while having very expensive spells.
But I'm smart, I read articles, I watched videos, I'm always trying to improve my skills as player as well my in-game skills and gear. This is so true that these days I've been soloing almost everything in Craglorn. Hell... Exarch Arnoth had 820k of health and did it alone. This might not be a hell of an achievement for some, but it was to me.
But there is point where you can't improve anymore because of the rarity and difficulty of getting some items, like Valkyn Skoria Monster Set for increased damage or Engine Guardian's for sustained attack power.
So we have to rely on Champion Points which doesn't matter how hard you play you won't get enough to be a good sorcerer with one character. We are somewhat forced to play over and over again, with multiple characters, spend hundreds of hours, getting through the same boring quests with two, three, four or more characters.
It might sound like whining, I know, I'm terribly ashamed of this, but I'm just being honest. It was not once or twice, but for several times I've been ridiculed in game by other players that are powerful enough (or do not play as a Sorcerer) and do veteran dungeons over and over again just because they can.
I don't remember names but I can quote someone, who joined a team AFTER me, in the last minute for the show in Crypt of Hearts, and when we were about to face some of the mini-bosses he/she said explicitly "You stay back! We'll do this boss 3 man and reduce his AoE"
Of course I was very pissed and answered something like "hell no", because in the end I also need the Gold Keys, the experience and I like to help too, even if I'm not too strong. At this point he answered "alright, than I'll sit back and when you die I'll take your place and finish the boss".
Not surprisingly, I died, afterall nobody helps me anyway, I do every single thing alone. But this is something that shouldn't happen. It's goddammit MMO, it's supposed to be played as a team, one helping each other, but not even Guilds help and even they downplay me because I'm not as strong as they.
Since I started playing I'm trying to get my hands in Valkyn Skoria Helmet. The first time I did this dungeon I faced Valkyn himself. I couldn't beat him for obvious reasons related to this badly balanced class without CPs and the team left. I feel like they say "I won't help this weakling, I don't need this, I already have what I need to be awesome and blah, blah, blah" and again, in the end, I have to work out as best as we can, "living" with crumbs and alms from other players
Plus the fact that ESO is not the most stable game around. For those living on US it might be perfect but here where I live every single day I play with a latency of 200+ that for no real reason jumps quickly to 999+ until the point I'm booted.
And don't try to tell me it's my fault because I tried everything. I forwarded my modem/router ports, I run the game as admin, compatibility mode, adjusted settings and no chance.
The result? A terrible experience that costed me 120 bucks (yeah! that's right, ZOS doesn't consider the exchange rates around the world, it seems) that makes the game unfair, because one millisecond of lag is enough to make me unable to, for example, raise my shields against a boss fight and be ridiculed again by someone who have more than one of this helmet.
What do I have to do? Cheat?
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