and your point is? couple seconds of aoe and 80% of mobs are dead if you have the proper build(s)

They could make fewer enemies, but tougher. For example in stead of 3 wolves with 15K health that hit for 2K to have a wolf with 50K health that hits for 5K health and has some special attacks.

Compared to many other MMOs the mob density in ESO is actually on the thin side. You should try some Korean grinders if you really want to see thick densities.

AzuraKin wrote: »

and your point is? couple seconds of aoe and 80% of mobs are dead if you have the proper build(s)

That's not the point. The point is, it takes only waving your hand to get rid of a fly that's humming around your ears. But if that fly comes back every ten seconds, you can't concentrate on whatever it is you're actually doing. That's how overland trash mobs feel in ESO.

The most annoying part for me is....
..you see a book...get attacked....kill the mobs...start reading a book....get one sentence before attacked again..read another sentence.
..then just say...you know what....never mind reading the damn book !

So yeah I can appreciate exactly where @Prof_Bawbag is coming from.

There is a place and a time for everything.
The time for combat is not always the time for exploring and they often conflict with each other.

Personally the first thing I did in wrothgar was just sit next to a waterfall.
Listened to the wind whistling.
Watched the leaves blowing around and the squirrels hopping between logs.
Some moments are so precious.....then someone shouts...'oy! dinner!'...or you get smacked over the head by an NPC some other player thought you should meet personally.

We need the "look of death" passive/aggresive.
No NPC would be stupid enough to attack you unless you give them no choice.
Effect scales with experience + NPC danger level.

Skyrim's dragons are more annoying than any of the enemies in ESO, Oblivion or Fallout 3. At least in those games you're safe once you enter a settlement.

Used to at least enjoy exploring delves, in VR zones you'd often have it to yourself so it'd feel genuinely like a skyrim delve, now with One Tamriel, that never happens.

Please ZOS, make those instanced, people could still go in with friends in a group etc, but it'd bring back the feeling of discovering and exploring a long-abandoned cave or barrow.

Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »

@Prof_Bawbag

Really not sure if the point your trying to make. Is it you hate that wayshrines do not get your closer to your destination or that it's such an inconvenience to kill some trash mobs on the way.

Just ride past the trash mobs and Your fine as long as you have some stam on your horse.

That's not the point either. It's not about going from point A to point B quicker or more conveniently. It's about discovery and immersion. Relaxed, looking for details. That's best done on foot - even walking. Quick respawning trash mobs everywhere are a hindrance to that kind of discovery and immersion, and what you suggest is not an adequate solution, unfortunately.

Different strokes for different folks, OP.

I can't fathom how anyone could enjoy any type of PvP in an MMO, but they do, and that's their prerogative.

Myself? I love the exploration and Questing in MMO's, so that's what I do in ESO.

I mean without enemies the game would be boring. Wandering around aimlessly is not super fun as is without any enemies it is like FO4 and granted fun but I wish there were more random encounters with enemies like in ESO.

I just want mobs to not aggro if I've already started interacting with a node or chest.

Xabien wrote: »

I think I get what OP is trying to say. Part of the problem is that while each zone map is a decent size, they're all rammed-to-bursting with mobs and other stuff. There's no distance between anything, so no feeling of discovery (similar to skyrim) where you wander into a wood and come across a REMOTE tower or shack or something, because nothing in this game is really remote.

I think it's a matter of how you perceive the scale of the game. What you say is true - but on the reverse, some of prefer that more crammed map as opposed to Skyrim's.

Now don't get me wrong, I loved Skyrim and exploring - but there was times where it felt like I wasn't exploring, it felt like I was wandering empty wilderness with nothing to show for it. Atleast in ESO I know I won't go more than 60 seconds without doing something. ESO gives me the illusion that I'm discovering "more" - when realistically each zone has the roughly the same amount of content as Vanilla skyrim - it's just you can burn through it that little bit faster than you would in Skyrim.