WatchYourSixx wrote: »

After reading through a very lengthy first page of this topic... I decided to contribute my thoughts, as I am bored, yet not bored enough to read any other comments. My apologies if I mention something someone else has already stated.

Judging by the fact that you're highest lvl char isnt even vet yet (as of the time of that video) I can only assume all you've done is questing and maybe the occasional dungeon. Content past lvl 50 gets much harder, and if you want a real challenge, go try to solo craglorn without a heal . With that being said, I find the difficulty of the quests to be perfect. I've been playing since the game was released and during beta. I am a very experienced player in terms of MMO's (Been playing for about 9 years) and I was amazed at how difficult things were in the beginning. Questing is much more fluid now and you dont have the difficulty barriers that made it frustrating (NOT FUN). Granted, I kinda liked the difficulty, so I know what you are saying. However, the point of questing throughout your average quest isnt to be hit by a wall of difficulty. You shouldnt have any difficulty dispatching a wolf or a mudcrab. Your average bandit shouldnt be hard to kill either. You are an un-killable (can always resurrect) soulless machine, so why should it be hard to kill simple things? You should be enjoying the quests for the content, not the difficulty. Difficulty is introduced at vet lvls and on.

Your perspective you gave in the original post also simplifies the game way too much. Like several others pointed out, you are using a sneak attack (guaranteed crit), and a teleport strike (at least in the video). A 2 sec stun can cripple most enemies.

What I mean by that is how you play makes the game easier for you. For example, I play with over 340 CP on my baby toons and fly through 1-50. If you dont enjoy it, mix it up. However, dont expect things to be hard to kill if they are not 2 diamond or 3 diamond difficulty.

Also, from a programmer's standpoint (though im not sure if someone mentioned this already) would not take 20 min to implement as you said... its not as simple as just modifying a value or adding in an optional debuff. There is a lot of work that has to go into just adding in one tiny feature, testing, new bugs that might create, QA, and obviously writing the code itself which would have to be completely seperate from their monster mechanics anyways, as you are not adjusting current values itself, but providing the option to modify values of either the character or monster. Granted, I have never worked on an MMO before, but I have worked on my own games and been programming various projects for about 4 years.

Lastly, I dont see this ever being a possibility. The market for it is simply not there. Several players might see it as a welcomed addition, but others (Many many others) would agree that its a waste of ZoS resources... Maybe when the game is stable they can throw in another mechanic to mess it up. It wouldnt be something they sell in the crown store, because how would they sell that? A thing that decreases your dmg done? Who in their right mind would want that? They wouldnt be able to make that profitable at all. That means that the mechanic would have to be a base game implementation. Either way, see my paragraph above..

That's my two cents. Take what you want of it.

CP5 wrote: »

Alright, read some more of this thread and see there is a lot of.. 'conversations' happening so i'll just give my perspective, a solution that may or maynot have already been listed, and leave it at that.

I have a v16 character and I want to finish out all of the quest throughout the zones on them. This means fighting a lot of v10ish mobs, and they aren't even worth the time to notice. I went to the end of one of the major quest chains and oh no, there is this oh so powerful lich being raised from the dead. And oh no, he was revived. But before he finishes his first monologue, or even summons any minions (if he even does?) he was dead. I get more challenge trying to run past the mobs than I do killing them. Because I leveled this content is not even worth my attention to complete.

What I would suggest is an option, a toggle that when enabled battle levels your character down to the zone you're in. You would retain skills and passives and what not (perhaps with a debuff to compensate for those) and attributes would be determined by the ratio you have the attribute points spread out in. But you would gain rewards for the zone equal to your characters level. Meaning you wouldn't have to worry about going to a zone only to complete a checklist of chores, the drops you find, the rewards you get, the enemies you face, all would be at least worth fighting. And for those who don't like challenge, well then leave this setting off, simple as that.

Vigarr wrote: »

Dahveed wrote: »

You didn't pay any attention to the OP. Read it again, and you'll realize how foolish your statement is.

ha I've seen this same rant about Fallout and TES so many times that I assumed it was the same situation...clearly I was wrong

I know the starting area is easy but I don't remember it being that easy. There's still plenty of challenge to be found in the game with dungeons and the like. I get killed when not careful and I encounter tough enemies like a harvester that I was wailing on for what seemed like an eternity because every 5-10 seconds they would zap me and replenish their health.

tinythinker wrote: »

Not sure why this is controversial. I get that some people would prefer development resources spent on something else, but that could be argued about for any player suggested feature. If a toggle/slider only debuffed you (damage done and healing received reduced/damage taken increased), nothing else has to be altered or rebalanced. Only players who consistently find that they are facerolling everything would want to use it. If a player wanted to constantly move the slider around for some reason, that's their issue and doesn't affect anyone else. I don't see this feature as a priority and won't care if never goes in, but it's very cut and dried and the idea gets my because it solves a problem without imposing on other players.