Probably, as you're too fixated upon looking at your level affecting your basic attack damage formula. Stop looking at algebra and actually play the game, and you'll find that One Tamriel does wonders for the game.

It doesn't remotely go far enough, but now there's at least no deterrent for going through the rest of the game areas at the later levels, whereas before, you were in the same couple of zones all the time; that's where all the high level mats used to be, after all.

Quite frankly, I'd like to see a damn near completely even playing field in PvP. Having to spend a half a year grinding, just to qualify for the Trueflame campaign, is one of the worst game "features" a developer could make. A Dynasty Warriors sim makes for bad PvP.

Level is just one 'progression' in the game. As others have said above there are many more. Some numerically based, some less quantifiable and more intrinsically based.

Perhaps seriously ask yourself; why the focus on leveling up? Really critically look at why you (and some others) put such a focus on that little number.

...But you are moving forward. You unlock crafting skills, better equipment, skill lines, appearances, items, questlines and such 'n' so forth.

If you feel like there's no straight-outta-the-80s progression mechanics, however, make a new character, gear them up in steel armour and head off to Cyrodiil. You'll quickly find that there is all the terrible level disparity a masochist could wish for.

dragi25rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Seriously, we all passionately level up and get stronger, that is the major motivating factor for most.
Help me understand now with One Tamriel whether there is any "new" benefit to Level up?
There are still the same incentives, but the major one has been hacked off.
I am deflated. Am I the only one that feels like this?

Leveling up and your character stats raising slightly along with everything else in the zone is just the minor part, the real power of leveling up comes from your skills you gain, morphs and your passives. There is alot of passives from skill points that make you greatly stronger. Being level 20 and fighting level 20 creatures compared to being level 40 and fighting level 40 craetures would be like night and day because of all the skills you have gained.

Also the ultimate goal is still there to be as strong as possible when going to the Cyrodiil seige warfare endgame because your enemies will be trying to be as strong as possible too

mtwiggz wrote: »

One Tamriel is one of the worst ideas ZoS has ever had.

Between not feeling the effects of difficult content due to battle leveling to the grossly over populated grinding and farming areas, nothing feels right.

One Tamriel definitely makes the game feel more populated, yet at the cost of being able to advance your character in a progressive manor instead of a linear one. The high competition for crafting nodes and XP grind spots is absolutely ridiculous as well.

Overall I understand what their end goal was with One Tamriel, yet I believe it was an absolute mistake boarding on immersion ruining. Get the smelly Argonians out of my town!

"not feeling the effects of difficult content due to battle leveling" ...........exactly

mtwiggz wrote: »

One Tamriel is one of the worst ideas ZoS has ever had.

Between not feeling the effects of difficult content due to battle leveling to the grossly over populated grinding and farming areas, nothing feels right.

One Tamriel definitely makes the game feel more populated, yet at the cost of being able to advance your character in a progressive manor instead of a linear one. The high competition for crafting nodes and XP grind spots is absolutely ridiculous as well.

Overall I understand what their end goal was with One Tamriel, yet I believe it was an absolute mistake boarding on immersion ruining. Get the smelly Argonians out of my town!

My experience is that with 1T I am gaining more mats than ever. All coffers overflowing. Between decon drop trash and every node being useful everywhere my crafter are being worn out.

This isnt harvesting just grabbing what I see while pursuing quests and decons.

Heck the char I leveled from 17 to 50 has just off decons took most of equips into 40s and that's after I decided it took too long to keep banking to let me "real crafter" do the better decons. The 17-50 spent nothing on the equip skills except for 1 in keen eye but will likely 50 out all three equips before making half that on consumables where daI'll writs run.

As for leveling, the progression from 1 to 50 was great imo. The extra skill/att every 5/10, bar swap, skills gains morphs etc all serve to keep you in can't wait for next mode.

You will get stronger. Stats aren't everything. Active skills, passives and simply the ability to play the game give you a stronger advantage than raw stats. In fact low level characters have higher stats exactly to compensate for the lack of other things.

ArrerBoy wrote: »

Actually I feel like this system works better. It means all my alts contribute to the same progression so I don't have to focus on one particular character to improve them.

This. As a altoholic I really appreciate that once I grind a new character up to 50 when I log in I can choose any of them and progress my CP.

dragi25rwb17_ESO wrote: »

It is more like leveling should be removed altogether then as it has no effect. Now it it is there as a number only.

MajinCry, love the algebra note , we all love the game still.

Rev Rielle, 'progression' needs to feel like you are moving forward.

If I could, I would like to go back to the way it was with leveling. I know I can't so I will suck it up....

You ARE progressing.

Your skill lines level, you get new skills. You get new passives. You get more skill points.
Then, when you finally get to level 50... you start earning Champion points.
And with each and every one, you will get an increase in power.

The progression is still there.

I think part of the issue is how level progression is presented to the player. Typically, we go from 1 to some high number, constantly improving. This is how it works in other games. ESO has both levels and champion points and to a casual player, as they level up, it appears as though they are LOSING power. Stats go down, weapon and spell damage goes down and they get confused. It makes more sense when you start to figure out what scaling is and how it works, but I'd guess that new players have no clue that to actually progress, it's all about keeping your gear level appropriate to your character level.

This is something that is not comfortable and familiar. It's not a simple integer, constantly rising. It's a variable, constantly changing. You hop up and down on the power scale as you level up and gear up. So now you have character level, champion level, gear level and gear quality that all factor in, making it daunting for many new and even experienced players to wrap their heads around.

The good news is that as a player becomes more comfortable with the game, they level up faster. This makes the process from 1 to level cap take as little as a few hours for some players so the majority of this mathematical leveling nightmare is mostly skipped if you choose to go fast on later toons.

[quote="I much prefer it this way as opposed to the old system of "hey, if you didn't kill that Boss the first time, just gain 5 more levels and you'll be able to melt their faces off". I found that boring and felt that my victory was undeserved. [/quote]

Interesting....I am opposite, I feel powerful. It is satisfying.

Now, every fight is the same, you know exactly what to expect, forever and ever.