I always find myself intimidated when I come to the forums to look at character builds and play strategies. There are a ton of acronyms, and assumptions about synergies between default builds and armor set combos, that are completely foreign to me.

I've played since beta, with some long breaks, and had a great time, without really obsessing over my builds. I've simply found skills that interested me, morphs that seemed logically complimentary, and played how I wanted to play. For a while I was a Dragonknight with a two-handed sword and heavy armor, who used crowd control to survive. Then I became a dual-wielding fireknight who occasionally took out things from a distance, with his bow. I've leveled every single class and weapon skill to at least being morphed (and most of them have a morph at rank four), and I have a ridiculous number of skillpoints to play around with various combos, as the mood suits me. I'm also, finally, leveling alts, again simply using the playstyles that interest me.

I don't PvP, and I don't do veteran content, although I may stick my toe in with tanking some if I can find non-obsessive groups who want me. Even still, there always seems to be something to do and something to hold my interest, and I've never felt like my survivability or viability was gimped. Mind you, I don't randomly pick and combine skills. There's always a coherent logic to how I set up my bar (usually, in order, a direct-damage, a damage-over-time, a self-heal, an opener or utility skill, and an AoE on the main bar), and I put some thought into how I want to play. I don't, however, obsess over min/maxing.

There's nothing wrong with min/maxing, and my closest MMO friend does it almost obsessively. I'm just grateful that ESO gives me plenty of ways to enjoy the game without needing to.

Often I feel like a minority here on the forums. Are there other folks with a similar approach?