• There would no proper XP grind zones after Lv 50 except DLC zones any more. For any player without access to the DLCs getting from 0 to 501CP would become a nightmare.
• The number of instances of every zone would become one from three. This means crowd would increase by at least twice. The cities would become a lot more laggy and the number of disconnects and infinite loading times are set to increase.
• Farming would become a lot harder due to the decrease of the number of instances. In all popular farming zones like Wrothgar, Hew's Bane, Craglorn there would be around three times more farmers. But on the other hand, game wide spawn of all mats would decrease three times due to the decreased number of instances, hence nodes. Plus, farmers would no longer be able to take advantage of almost empty Cadwell Zones while farming.
• The same also applies to thieving. More thieves, more competition, less loot to draw from. Currently the empty Cadwell Zones are very reliable for thieving compared to the main alliance zones. Loss of these empty instances is a HUGE hit to thieving.
• Same is going to be applicable to XP grind spots. The number of grinders in a particular spot would rise steeply. The popular grind spots would be filled at most times.
• The battle scaling would make the zone mobs even easier for new players and old players alike.
• According to Matt, this would create an incentive for grouping. But currently it is very easy to complete world dungeons and all quests solo. In fact, with just dropped gear, you can easily kill mobs five or more levels above you without any CP once you are accustomed to your character. With battle levelled zones it is going to be even easier. So there is hardly any need to group outside of dungeons, guild activities and RP.
• There would be huge inflation in the prices of almost everything in game but earning gold would become much harder. We have already seen a maqssive price surge on gear mats since DB. The changes would push the price further up in a HUGE ratio. This won't be a problem for the old players with millions in their banks. But newer players would be a lot more trouble gearing up their characters with the changes.
• Character progression took a massive hit with VR removal in DB patch. Enforced Battle leveling might nail the coffin of character progression.

• Increase the refresh rate of nodes by 2.5x and increase their quantities by 50%.
• Increase the refresh rate of containers for stealing from by 3x.
• Increase the respawn rate of safeboxes, chests and thieves' troves by 2.5x and give them a 50% chance to contain an extra item.
• Make all enemies in the second zones of each alliance onwards significantly harder with more health and damage. Give a few enemies in every mob a timed interrupt-able very hard hitting ability like the Iron Orc Rangers in Upper Craglorn. Make NPC healers' healing abilities a lot more powerful. Give the tanky NPCs a lot more armor and HP. Give some instant CC abilities to every damage dealing NPC, like the bloodfiends and Nightblade type NPCs have with their gap closers. This would make the game combat much more interesting. With battle-levelling, the new players would still able to kill enemies quite easily. The increased difficulty would also make them much more used to the tougher stuff later on. It would also give older players some incentive to revisit the zones and do PvE there and also give some incentive to group up in PvE content for the newer players.
• Introduce dynamic respawning to all mobs in the zones in proportion to their rate of death, like it is currently in IC sewers.
• Increase the gold dropped by mobs by 2x.
• Assign particular sets to drop from particular types of enemies. E.g. O.75% chance to Armor of the Construct set pieces from the Dwarven constructs, 0.5% chance to drop Hircine's Veneer set pieces from wood creatures, 0.75% chance to drop Night Mother's Embrace set pieces from Nightblade type enemies etc. Also increase the rewards obtained from World bosses and public dungeons, like Agility/Willpower/Endurance drop chances. And maybe 18% chance to drop Silver Pledge keys, 6% chance to drop Gold Pledge keys from World bosses. Also add some similar drop chances to the "Area of Interest" enemies.
• The basics of what I am saying is to make the general zone combat harder and add potential rewards to it. This kind of risk and reward system would make combat much more interesting for old and new players alike.

Atarax wrote: »

OP, just a bit of history on the server tech used in ESO.

If lots of players are in one area, the game creates a new instance of that area. It's really not a problem here to have everyone be able to access all the same zones at any point in time. Not everyone will be in the same instance, even if they're in the same zone.

OP, just a bit of history on the server tech used in ESO.

If lots of players are in one area, the game creates a new instance of that area. It's really not a problem here to have everyone be able to access all the same zones at any point in time. Not everyone will be in the same instance, even if they're in the same zone.

Rev Rielle wrote: »

At first glimpse one might think: Three times the players, but three times the area available also.
However, the area available will be much much more than just three times:

At the moment when leveling 1-50: You have ~4 zones.
After One Tamriel is released: You'll have ~22 possible zones.

Leveling post 50: Currently you have roughly ~5 zones available.
Post One Tamriel release: You will have ~22 zones.

Sure some hubs will inevitably become more populated, but there are already mechanism in place for that; phasing.

I don't see it being a problem.

ContraTempo wrote: »

Doomed. Drama.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=potlDrRI01A

Transairion wrote: »

World bosses and dolmens respawn on a regular basis. If you actually need a specific dolmen or world boss for the achievement, you can hang around for the 7-10 minutes it takes them to respawn. It's really not a big deal./quote]

Yeah, no that doesn't really work when you realize certain quest need certain mobs alive to be completed at all. If I'm on a solo quest, IE loot 3 RNG item from mobs in this area, and they're all dead because it's a public area I'm not going to be happy to just sit on my ass waiting for respawns so I can advance.

Waiting for respawns is horrendous.

I don't see how all zones will suddenly be crowded. Existing players will just spread out.

You're still thinking of it working like it does now, with each zone have 3 versions (1 per faction).

Come One Tamriel, all factions will have the same zone: Rawl'ka for example will not only have all the level ~45 AD players, it'll have the Cadwell's Silver players AND the Cadwell's Gold players added into it as well. Every zone with have every player who's in that zone questing, regardless if they're level 10 or CP510, thrown into the same spot and only separated by new instances spawning.

Make sense? You can spread out, yes, but if you want to quest in Grahtwood at level 20 you're going to have to deal with Silver and Gold players also around, which doesn't exist now. If they just happen to be grinding CP where you need to quest, well too bad I guess... So the actual starting zones, I imagine, will be brutally populated. The only location I can see not being very populated is Craglorn, just because there's not a lot of reason to go there after doing the questline once.