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So now that its easier to play with friends, how is questing with them compared to 1+ years ago?

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Zewks
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My experiences questing with friends (grouped up) in ESO has been a horrible experience in the past. My fiancee wont even touch the game again because of her experience with it.

- Quest instances not syncing up with group members properly causing them to be split up.
- Group members making different choices which separated them from the rest of the group for the duration of the quest
- Each group member needing to collect quest items when the spawns and drop rates were clearly designed for just 1 person.
- Missing out on the quest events because someone already started the next stage/step of the quest before you could get there
- Having one group member make a choice that ruins the direction of the quest for the other players
- Forced solo missions that proved to be frustratingly tough for a non-hardcore gamer to the point of having to replay it 10+ times because of dying.

Do these things still happen in the game? If i try to hype the whole "One Tamriel" concept to my fiancee or friends for this free trial weekend, is it gonna bite me in the rear?
  • gard
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    My group play has always been in dungeons. Cross alliance possible since introduction of the finder as far as I know.

    Other than WB quests, I've never really seen the appeal for grouping to do the story quests. I might have to start a new toon and try it out.

    Which reminds me: ZOS, please let me buy more character slots!
    My wife complains that I never listen to her. (Or something like that.)
    -- I'm a one man smurf zerg!

    My ESO addons:
    Midnight - Find out when midnight is so that you can check for ww/vamp spawn.
    Goto - Adds a tab to the map pane allowing you to teleport to a friend, guildmate, or groupmate for free.
  • Zewks
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    gard wrote: »
    My group play has always been in dungeons. Cross alliance possible since introduction of the finder as far as I know.

    Other than WB quests, I've never really seen the appeal for grouping to do the story quests. I might have to start a new toon and try it out.

    Which reminds me: ZOS, please let me buy more character slots!

    Even regular quests. Some people just like to play through an mmorpg with a friend or family member. (id play skyrim if i wanted a solo experience).
  • Nestor
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    kaylb14_ESO wrote: »
    Do these things still happen in the game? If i try to hype the whole "One Tamriel" concept to my fiancee or friends for this free trial weekend, is it gonna bite me in the rear?

    No. For the most part the instancing and such is fixed. Sure, if you have done the quest and are helping someone else, you will not see the Quest NPCs and such when the other player will. I have not teamed up for every quest, but the ones that I have work just fine. I have not had quest items get weird on me for being in a group, but I also do not actually pick up a quest item each time, I can and will get credit if the person I am grouped with does.

    Having said that, Quests are really better Solo for lots of reason that have nothing to do with game systems. I would group only for grinding, public dungeons, solo dungeons and of course group dungeons. Include in this Craglorn, although the Main Quest can now be solo'd, the Group Delves are nice to a Two Person Team, at least the ones I have been in.



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