Zones used to be phased. People hated it.

Yeah I feel phasing should come part and parcel of questing on any game. What's the point in completing an area of it's exactly the same as when you first entered it. It just feels like you haven't completed anything.

But you are right. Zos seem to generally fall short of their great ideas. Still a good game tho..

Honestly, if they took a long hard look at the areas have already created them they could sort issues like these out. Such as dolmens, I understand morrowind because that's now the beginning of the whole story.. but dlc areas should definitely have dolmens, even if it means less of them for smaller areas.

Yeah I agree with that. I know Zos want to create an enviroment for both new and vet players but they must know the whole storyline will suffer because of this. They need to decide what direction they want to go in before they even bother adding more content. And before that they need to correct the content they already have.

Phasing is not really feasible in a story driven MMO like this. Yes all MMOs have a story, but Elder Scrolls in particular relies on it heavily.

People hated the old phasing. You literally would be put into different phases for choosing slightly different quest responses. It truly made the game feel like a solo player game where nodes would be stolen by ghosts all the time.

Yeah, phasing does exist in a few areas, most notably Glenumbra, where you see phasing in The battle site, and you see phasing the next little village up the road. Those pre-quest will see a completely different scenario. It also exists in Velyn Harbour, and some other AD areas.

We do need phasing added back on a highly considerate basis, so some places have a post-quest phase where everything is either neutral to you or dead.

Also, with the time-setting on quests, its easier if you think of it like this - all zones exist in a frozen time period, so literally the minute you hand the quest in, its "freeze-frame" time, and so when you go back to that area you are effectively travelling back in time to the freeze-frame moment.

With the DLC's, they are set in 2E 583/584.

To make things even more complicated, with Vvardenfell, the first part (tutorial area) is set prior to the main story on the mainland, and the main area of it is set post-main quest. So really, do the Vvardenfell tutorial, then jump out and go to the starting wayshrine of your home alliance, where you will be whisked to the Wailing prison to start the main story.

Also, Cadwells gold and silver are rewinds in time as you have to "go back" to see the other possibilities.

And if you *really* want to complicate things, there is a time order to the alliance zone quests. I think its AD, EP, then DC last.

Sometimes it is hard to tell if an area is truly phased or not. For example, on Auridon after finishing Silsalin, the town is safe and people are working to rebuild but, if I go to Tanzelwil, while the spirits don't attack me others are fighting them and it's not really clear if they are actively on the quest or just grinding for the experience. The same is true for the village with the peaceful animals. They will still attack if attacked so who knows why so many are fighting them. On the other hand, if I left Ayrenn in Elden Root or further down the quest road, it is distracting to see a lot of marines talking to the empty air in Vulkhel Guard.

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Yep I've saved countless burning villages on this game.. xD but seriously, it's rather annoying going past a village after I've complete cadwells gold and all dlc, just to find those same village burning still.

Honestly Zos, why put so much effort into the quests themselves and then end them with some half-hearted dialog and the players imagination?

Does anybody else agree? Should Zos at least phase areas?

Phasing if done right is amazing. They do use it in certain areas, usually those areas are where botters hide. Botters have stopped hidding though lol. I think if they did this they should have it set up so everyone always phases into the subject of the group leader content wise.