s7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »

What ZOS is going to do is release new items in CP170, but you will not be able to craft any items above CP160. So all your crafted sets will be fine. But if you want to get that slight edge, you will grind the new CP170 sets from wherever they drop.

I wish I could read this as a great joke and not the ominous shape of things to come. But the more I dive into crafting, the more I feel like the joke is on me. It is such a cool system, with some wonderfully robust options, and it is a part of the game that I will continue to enjoy up until the (as of yet completely undecided) "day I quit ESO will be..." moment. But...

- Jewelry crafting, so that we can run 2x crafted sets. They can build in whatever scarcity-protection metric they have to in order to prevent people from self-golding dropped jewelry to preserve the vet-grind population. One possible solution would be to avoid an "improvement" skill (white->green->blue, etc) and make it more like Glyph crafting, where the color of the jewelry is related to the color of an ingredient required to make it.
- At least a handful of candidates for BiS gear from crafting at any given time, even as the ebb and flow of meta- and balance-patch factors affect particular crafted sets. As it stands, crafted sets just seem to be sliding further down the list, from viable to sub-par to obscure to auto-kick.
- Style changing on existing items, so that Motif knowledge actually gains an ounce of relevance. Grinding for weeks to get the pieces of a style - no matter how cool it looks - only really serves to help the (already minuscule) Master Writ drops. You can only wear a single crafted set, meaning that the other half of your gear is going to drop in a random assortment of a limited number of scripted styles, and if those aren't your preferred style, so be it. But if we could convert gear (dropped or otherwise) to a style we know, motifs would actually be worth hunting.

Meh. I didn't mean to rant, but this is relevant to me right now because I've been crafting like a madman to prepare for Homestead, and only really recently noticed how limiting the system is once you reach the highest tiers. I'd love to see it carve out a viable place at all stages of the game.

But yeah, the long-term good of the game will hinge on keeping players engaged in the hunt, so I will be here long after the OP if ESO is going the distance. Higher gear level? Bring it. Higher crafting passive/material levels? Bring it (and some more Skyshards for the specs, please). More traits to research, recipes to decipher, materials to compile, etc? My boots are laced. Let's dance.

MasterPerceval wrote: »

When I -god forbid- leave this merry earth.

Your god does not forbid it; she guarantees it.

Maybe when Mass Effect 4 launches, as long my PC runs it XD

When they introduce Housing without any in-game utility.

Oh wait...

Bye everyone!

ZOS_DaryaK wrote: »

We've removed a few posts that were not adding anything constructive to this conversation.

Thank you! I thought the trolls took over this forum.

kylewwefan wrote: »

I would be upset also if they only increase gear level 10 points. It's irritating enough being stuck at 160. It should go straight to 200 IMO.

What would that accomplish? Since the game scales, your DPS will remain 100% unchanged. You won't become any "stronger" which is what people seem to think will happen when they raise the gear cap.

Norn wrote: »

Agreed. No good thing would come out of it. And to be honest it would be actually quite pointless. Someone else made a huge post about it explaining why it would be pointless in some other thread asking if this pointless change would become a pointless reality. Pointless.

You don't need a huge post to explain why it's pointless.

Scaling ensures that nothing will change after a gear cap increase.

If you increase your damage and resistance by X amount while also increasing the same stats for your enemy, you arrive at the exact same spot you started at.

Reco wrote: »

... when they raise the item cap to CP170 or more.

The idea of having again to grind for months all over to get all the bis gear for all 3 roles again, would me make so sick. I would leave instantly. 100% serious.

Well, in every MMO I've ever been in, gear upgrades have always been part of the game. I actually am looking forward to a gear upgrade. My guess is it will be about 3 or so months after Morrowind and the upgrade will be 175-180 CP (I think).

I can't speak for others, but I like the sense of progression I personally get from gear upgrading. To me, if a game goes too long with no changes in gear, it starts to feel like I'm doing nothing in the game to really improve my character. So, I know you're not happy about the idea of gear upgrades, and I'm sorry about that.. but I would brace yourself if I were you, because I believe it's coming.

then mmo's arent for you, every single mmo raises lvl caps or some thing from time to time, and in most games there will ofc be new stuff you want. i'll quit when it dies XD

I've already moved back to FF14 but, against my better judgement, I still browse the forums in the slight chance ZOS does something drastic enough to draw me back to ESO.

For them to have me stop even that, they would essentially need to kill this game completely by adding BIS gear to the crown store.

What is the point of raising gear cap if they are just going to scale stats to the new cap so when you are maxed again your stats will be exactly the same?

The day I quit ESO will be the day buying a new computer is more cost effective than upgrading my current one.

When this game stops being fun to play...oh wait... that happened when they introduced the Mega Server and forgot to change the quest system.

50 players in one dungeon is NO FUN!
Well maybe for some people it is

When they added new gear to old dungeons I farmed for over a year already. Oh wait that happened already LOL. Now I have an account with 3.2 million gold I want to trade for WoW gold