I only got about 90 minutes in but had a blast. I went to Rivenspire for the first time in, I dunno, a year, to grind some gear. Got to try and solo a world boss (very hard but doable if you're patient enough) and got a sweet piece of Necropotence breaches for my troubles.

Then I ported over to the Hammer-whatever Arena and did about 10 duels. Great times.

Me too man me too.

I didnt quite get it at first, I think the dawning that they were putting reasons to go to every Zone made it click for me - loving it.

I, too, am loving it. Not sure if it is the Witches Festival event as well, but the zones, dolmens, bosses etc feel more alive. And I love going to old zones and having them be viable once more. It makes the world not feel paper thin. Like things are actually happening instead of being there for us to storm through them, level up and never come back.

Loving it. And a shockingly low incidence of bugs, freezes and lag (duel *** aside).

Yeah me too! First I was stoked, then I was sceptical and something towards "this is the end" for ESO.

But overall as you say the good outweights the bad.

First of all: mixed alliances! This was IMHO the right thing to do for PvE. A fresh breath of life to silver and gold zones that were empty. I really havent experienced any of this toxic behavior we all feared.

Second: pledges and dungeons! I started playing healer one week before TO - now I got two because of the amount of dungeons and pledges we do.

Third: new armor and gear! There are so much new. Much of this is just decon fodder but there are some really nice new sets and changes to certain old sets that didn't scale or was BoP etc. Eg. the sets in Orsinium - it is possible to get a proper set of Briarheart now. Or you can farm a proper scaled set of Fiord for a scroll carrier build.

Four: perfomance! I've only played PvE since the patch but overall it seems that the performance here have improved. I feared the opposite.

The list of good is longer but these are the key points that comes to mind. There is also a bad list but there are enough threads about this already.

Now pls RNGesus: give me more divines SPC pieces! That training sash and resto I got yesterday was a slap in the face!

I was surprised with the update, I'm a CP460 Magknight dps, and I was worried about content being overly difficult or something. My toon was parked in Rkindaleft, and I wasn't sure what I'd be greeted with... well, it turns out I was handling mobs pretty well just as I had been before (white training gear btw), enemies were slightly beefed up more, but not by much. So I'm still happy. And I like running around with other alliance members *malekhajiitdance*

I like it more than I originally thought I would.

i love this update. it solves so many problems and opens so many possibilities.

For me, i have lotsa to-do things for each character and only drawback of playing one is not playing the other. been a while since i was this frenetic. happy happy joy joy.

For me, its great to see so many folks playing almost everywhere. there are still plenty of places where you can go and have some mostly undisturbed time but hey every city is buzzing, every dolmen and many world bosses are jumpin'... great time.

For me, its really really good to be able to take characters "home" to their original zones and get useful fun play out of it. i really like that no area is useless.

For me, i really love the rate at which mats are flowing, as much from drops that get deconned as anything else, but also tons of mats easy harvest always useful. Three characters in the developing levels are doing great and the others at capper are also busy little bees. my poor equip crafter is sore from all the deconning. i also like how many formerly BOP sets went BOE from their overland sources and chests.

For me, i love many of these new sets and the harvests for them are fun. it basicaly got me to playing dolmens more than i ever have.

Now, not everything is complete yet::
i believe they need to finish their "gear overhaul" that startsed with the massive changes to drop sets, drop scaling and node scaling in 1T by similar upticks to equip crafting so that it remains a vital piece of the play showing the massive skills and time to be worthwhile. This should include adding jewel crafting (cuz now most all drop sets have jewels easily acquired), ability to scale up the level of crafted gear while keeping quality (cuz as you level each new drop piece is automatically scaled) and removing the lower cap from mat-levels (cuz now that the nodes scale you do need more room for use of mats at lower levels.)

So great change and massive progress but not quite done yet.

Just to add my voice to the rest..... 10 steps forward 1 step back in this update IMHO.
A very big step in the right direction.

Yep. Actually getting to try this today and loving it. Had to skip so many quests and slogging through silver(im over 200 cp) now I get gear my level and full exp. Granted I did go back and try a world boss(dugan the red) and got my rear handed to me just now but that's better than facerolling through it all. Now to go back in and see Mr. Red again....muwahahaha

Not surprised it's amazing.

Me too! I frankly gave up on this game a year ago. There is so much to do now, barriers to leveling eliminated, too many good things to mention. I called in sick yesterday to respec my DK, lol. Trying to find a way to leave early today!. Great job, Bethesda.

The game is more exciting but less interesting to me. The stories make no sense if you do them out of order, and Dolmens are about as bad as Cyrodiil at the moment.

I don't consider this a good trade, but I certainly see why people would.

I'm liking the new sets. Ive been farming Rattlecage with a few friends. I don't have perfect traits... Yet... But my Magicka Pariah Heal-Tank has never been stronger. My character was lacking in damage (1.3K spell damage, ouch!) but Rattlecage has nearly doubled that and I don't have to sacrifice a slot for entropy. Still super tanky, still a great healer and now I have some acceptable damage. I can't wait to see what my build can do when he's finished and in all gold gear.

I'm also loving how normal mode maelstrom arena gives champion 160 gear now (purple jewelry still exclusive to veteran mode.) That makes those sets much more accessible!

I'm really enjoying it too and the timing is great with the Witches Festival. I'm finding the world boss difficultly awesome. I'm in areas where it's taking 10 - 15 players about a minute or two to kill a boss. It's fun actually putting more than just one hit on them. I also enjoy talking to the other folks while we wait for respawns. It's much better than the empty world we had just a few days ago.