It's the mentality of many gamers these days. Me? I take my time and solo as much as possible because of this. I never do the Dungeon Finder because it's always a rat race through whatever dungeon it is and a lot of the time they are not what they have selected on the G.F. Instead of a Tank, Healer, etc...many people just lie and pick anything that gets them into a random group and then it's RUN RUN RUN as fast as possible. Sorry, this isn't fun at all. You will see massive groups of Players (BOTS??) running from dolmen to dolmen over and over doing just that. Same for Public dungeons and when using the before mentioned Group Finder.

In the guilds I'm in we often have to tone down new members that have this "RUN RUN RUN" mentality when doing Undaunted Pledges. They run ahead of the Tank and die in heavy mobs/bosses while the rest of the group is moving steadily in the dungeon. You would think they would get it when they die but often they don't. They rez and do it again....and again...and again. If the new player doesn't get it after we explain to him/her multiple times then that person often doesn't get invited to run Pledges anymore and ends up back in the Group Finder doing his/her "RUN RUN RUN" routine through dungeons. And we usually are all in VOIP comms so it isn't like they don't know not to run ahead and do this.

Minyassa wrote: »

I'm an older person who's new-ish to MMOs...ESO is the third one I've played, but I count it as a first in many ways as I am given to understand Turbine/SSG MMOs don't really represent a "normal" MMO environment. So I've been playing since the last free trial promotion, and I decided to just ask about some things that I am seeing in the game. I'd like to be clear that I am not complaining, I just honestly would like to know about some things. Here's the one that's on my mind today:

Why do people rush so hard to get through a delve?

I see people racing through at top speed, drawing mobs as they go and ignoring them until they give up, and they go straight to the boss (or the skyshard) and then boom done and then race back out. A few might loot a little here and there, but mostly I see folks going as fast as possible. It doesn't affect me too much as I've learned to be wary of sudden respawns, that is just part of the game, but I would like to know the reason behind it. Is it a number-crunching thing with xp from fighting incidental mobs being not worth the time spent fighting them? Or is it about exploration achievements and trying to get them done fast?

Several possible reasons.

1) The game has been out for 3 years now. People have like... 10+ chars. Going through a delve for a first time is exciting. For a 100th time? Mildly speaking... not so much.

2) Honestly? Delves are dull as hell. Like...

As a "partly try-hard" person who likes group play, I have a trial which starts at 20.00PM, I have some PvE guild event, I don't have time for a... what? Boring solo instance?

As a "casual lore-nerd" (you can be both, yes ), it's... pretty much the same. It's a solo "get skyshard, kill the boss" instance with some totally boring quest "Bring me N amount of X" from an equally boring NPC. Why would I bother to do it thoughtfully, if I still have Cadwell Silver and Gold unfinished? Some actual story and dialogues?

Like... I can understand many things, but... Delves? What the hell is interesting about them?

I'm also not young(32 years old), but I also rush. My reason is I only play in the evenings after work and weekends, and I have certain things I feel I need to achieve before I log off. In about 3 hours a day I have to squeeze in filling my 150 trader slots, vMA, usually 4 daily dungeons, at least 2 delve quests, craglorn dailies, and farming at least 45 mins to keep my stock up. Not to mention crafting writs and trait research. It's a lot to fit into 3 hours, that's why I speed through everything. It's a issue with my limited playtime and so much to do...

I tend to rush through since I have done them all at least twice so I know them I much rather do quests then boring old delves

First few toons i did it all slow play but once ur OP for PvE and just want it done you speed up.

I am however 100% against grinding / speeed levelling first time round. Ruins the game

jlboozer wrote: »

I'm also not young(32 years old), but I also rush. My reason is I only play in the evenings after work and weekends, and I have certain things I feel I need to achieve before I log off. In about 3 hours a day I have to squeeze in filling my 150 trader slots, vMA, usually 4 daily dungeons, at least 2 delve quests, craglorn dailies, and farming at least 45 mins to keep my stock up. Not to mention crafting writs and trait research. It's a lot to fit into 3 hours, that's why I speed through everything. It's a issue with my limited playtime and so much to do...

32 years old..... not young? I laughed when I read that! I am more than twice your age and, believe me, 32 is young.

Back on topic...........I am retired and have plenty of time to play but I play by mood. Some days I don't feel like dealing with the mobs so I run by them to get the shard and boss. Other days I will fight every mob, read every book, and look in every crate, barrel, whatever. Also, I've been playing for a couple of years so I have done all the delves more than several times.

altemriel wrote: »

I usually do delves only once, for the skyshards, pledges - some I like, some not, so I usually do only those which I like, I do not care that I am doing the same pledge 20th time already, I still love it. Blessed Crucible for example is my favourite!

Please ZOS, give us more such a PVE arenas, I love that !!

Erm... That's dungeon. Blessed Crucible is a dungeon.

Delves are simply overworld caves, mines, tombs, etc, with skyshard and boring boss with no interesting mechanics

Dungeons I can understand - they are interesting, some - very beautiful (Vaults of Madness are my favorite)... And if you're bored, you can always PUG for spicy experience

But delves? Like... Imo, absolutely unfun. I go in, I take skyshard, I go out. Nothing to see there

The only time I rush is when there are other people in there just ahead of me. Otherwise they kill everything and I don't get xp. Otherwise if I am the only one, which often happens late at night, I am in there 20-30 minutes picking up everything. I do this even if its the second time through.

People could be rushing because they just want to get through it and move on, or perhaps they have been through it before and are just farming.

altemriel wrote: »

Blacksmoke wrote: »

I tend to rush through since I have done them all at least twice so I know them I much rather do quests then boring old delves

I usually do delves only once, for the skyshards, pledges - some I like, some not, so I usually do only those which I like, I do not care that I am doing the same pledge 20th time already, I still love it. Blessed Crucible for example is my favourite!

Please ZOS, give us more such a PVE arenas, I love that !!


More beatles of Morrowind, Incineration Beatles!!

Haha well I have 3 maxed out characters so I need the achievements and skyshards

For me it depends on the mood I'm in, and how I want to play that day. I enjoy a lot of different aspects of the game. I love the storylines and immersive feeling of it all, so sometime I'll go all out to improve that experience, stop and read every lorebook, be in first-person (or 3rd person with FOV and vertical height all the way down for a cinematic eye-level over the shoulder view, more cinematic that way), take my time and smell the roses, see the scenery.

Other times, with other characters, I'll be playing them for a different reason, leveling up for group dungeons, or trials, or something, or maybe an achievement collector character. For them I just enjoy blasting through everything. It's especially fun on my nightblade to just ambush every enemy from far away, teleporting across the delve in little spurts.

I seem to do more of the second nowadays that I've done most of the quests. I also have a lot less time than I did a couple years ago when the first example made up like 90% of what I did.