I love the game, but yes the grind is getting to me and sometimes I do feel burnt out on it for sure.
I have done almost nothing but grind for gold since Homestead came out to buy the houses I wanted.
For a few months, I was one of the top sellers in two decent trade guilds with traders in 2 of the main capitols.
I just need a break from that right now...cant bring myself to maintain that.

Then Morrowind came and we cant even get the house recipes from that zone even if we grind
Then clockwork city came and it was the same thing. This made the burnout feeling worse.

I ran a couple of my characters through the quests and most have thier home zone done and needed a break from that so didnt mind grinding for gold and some things for a while. But now I would love to run some of my other characters through the quests but I cant because I have to grind, grind and grind for grind unless I want to take out my credit card and spend all my savings which Im not willing to do.

"I'm burnt out cause the game is repetitious and RNG fail!!!" Says the person who's logged 5000 hours

"I hate this game cause devs!!!" Says thee person who has three accounts cause they ran out of character slots

It never ceases to amaze me at the people who play a game for double digit hours per day, for consecutive days, weeks and months...and then they wonder why they are burnt out.

Rupz_Koomar wrote: »

Appleblade wrote: »

Agreed. Personally, I found Clockwork City to be some of their best work to date from the perspective of world building. Literal world building in this case. I want to make my backyard look like the Evergloam now.

Agreed , Clockwork City is a very good DLC (of this game) lorewise , artwise and questwise . Really enjoyed it. Completed it in less than a week. It is after that I was burnt out.

Try firing up an older single player rpg and play it on minimal graphic settings. After that jump back into ESO and open up your journal and read a bunch of lore entries. If that doesn't work watch a boring movie then after the movie stretch and go outside and take a big breathe of fresh air. If still no luck camp a dolmen in Alik'r Desert while reading a book and taunt the boss when it spawns with inner fire. If still nothing you can try 30 levels of blade and soul. if you're still not feeling it try playing something laborious like DA2 on insane difficulty.

Combat in ESO can become exhausting because every skill is on the GCD without cooldown and most skills are instant cast. On top of that all the 20 second cc skills were nerfed and eclipse is pointless.

Maybe if ZOS wasn't so cash grabby forcing the devs to focus on cosmetic limited time fluff and instead hired more people and focused on creating the best game they could! But hey that won't happen, because Capitalists have to ruin everything.

I completely understand where you are coming from. Like i have a lot of fun playing the game but i feel like all that fun is ruined by the crappy bugs and Lag that plagues the game. From Animation bugs to abilities not working. Nothing is more infuriating then when you are trying to play and be Screwed over by the game.

Yes its getting there for me other than to do trials with my guild and a little PvP with my other guild I don't even want to log in anymore

I'm currently taking a break. Came back for the dungeon event, had a few fun dungeon runs, got Dark Shaman costume, back to taking a break we go. It's just become more frustrating than fun to me personally.

I miss old ESO of like version 1.5(good old OP Praxin days) or even earlier. Craglorn launch. I actually had op fun in Crag with friends back when it was actually a fun group zone. It also seemed like we didn't have such strict limitations and despite all the flaws of the whole system at the time(such as abilities scaling off whatever with no way to tell but test), like we kind of had more versatility and not set in stone "sorc magicka dps use these 3 sets and these skills only". Or maybe I was just more potato at the time and it didn't bother me as much

Honestly though...things change, but one thing that never changes is ZOS, its lack of comprehensive vision for their game, inability to keep their promises as well as communicate with the playerbase, and its outstanding ability to ignore gameplay/QoL issues in favour of crown crates or whatever.

I use the game as a social hub and still find certain content that I enjoy. I guess I wouldn't be too happy to play if people I enjoy talking to stopped playing. I am burnt out on levelling new toons though.

Rupz_Koomar wrote: »

Appleblade wrote: »

Agreed. Personally, I found Clockwork City to be some of their best work to date from the perspective of world building. Literal world building in this case. I want to make my backyard look like the Evergloam now.

Agreed , Clockwork City is a very good DLC (of this game) lorewise , artwise and questwise . Really enjoyed it. Completed it in less than a week. It is after that I was burnt out.

Think lots who went all out during the dungeon event is a bit burned out for some reasons.
Currently just getting skill points on adds, has to organize the loot some days.

Doctordarkspawn wrote: »

Personally, after two years, I've come to hate it.

This is mostly due to the gameplay changes meaning I'm not able to run like I used to, or have the freedom of build I used to.

When I cant play my way like the tagline says, yeah I got burnt out fairly quickly.

What are you talking about. ESO has such great, fast-paced combat that offers a diversity of gameplay options for any given class!

Sarcasm aside, I have to say I couldn't agree more. Having personally played since launch in 2014, this is definitely one of the worst times to be playing the game, only really comparable to the content drought in 2015 around Update 6. They've completely ruined the way classes used to play, the combat is slow and boring, and the diversity of viable builds is almost non-existent.
PvE is a mess of boring fights that are so f*****g long because of insane amounts of health and while some fights may be inspired, most of them are just not designed that well, plus the addition of new dungeons is way too slow, which means we constantly have to run the same content non-stop, which gets dull immediately.
PvP isn't much better, just the same old tired content and the battlegrounds which could have been life-saving, but were so poorly designed that barely anyone plays them anymore, leaving you to fight against the same premade groups over and over.
Lastly the repeated focus on the crown store and the insane of amount of work that goes into the crown crates leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. It feels really scummy.
It's clear that ZOS needs to step up and listen to their audience again, because when they just do whatever the f**k they want it really isn't that much fun to be a player.
I'm sure not everyone sees it the same way, but the longer you play the game, the more you'll end up feeling like ZOS doesn't care about anything but getting new players in and milking whales through their store.
I'm sure people are gonna call these kind of negative comments "hate", but I think none of us would spend so much time on a game we despise, and for the most part we all have good intentions in mind, but it's f*****g hard to stay positive forever..

I hope they create some kind of new, fresh system in the game, not just dlc and chapters.. The feelings I feel after I finish a dlc is a sense of emptiness, we do the content but then? After a couple of week we are at the same point again.. nothing to do, random normal, pledge, esc, quit...

I find a number of games I really like and play them all for a really long time, so it's nearly impossible to become burnt out in any of them. I am playing Gw2, have every class max leveled plus 2 of some classes, all in full ascended gear, all with personalized open-world builds tailored to my playstyle and am only just now finishing up the 2nd zone in Path of Fire (god this expansion is so incredible, it has been tough for other games to compete). I am also playing the reboot of Secret World Legends and although I have made it half way through Egypt, I am having a hard time leaving Kingsmouth because, for some weird reason, their gearing system allows you to purchase every best in slot item for a currency you can most quickly earn doing super fast newbie quests in the very first zone, a system that is crippling my enjoyment, but I keep telling myself one day I will login to explore instead of grind the same quests over and over so I can continually earn the newest best in slot whatever... uh, one day.

As far as single player games go, I still haven't beat Skyrim. I'm on my second play through with the Special Edition and this time around I am not afraid of addons and Nexus Mod Manger and LOOT and breaking my game, so it's so much fun tailoring the experience to exactly what I want. I don't think I have actually even come close to beating Skyrim yet, and I consider it my absolute favorite game (don't judge--I had been playing WOW and Aion and Rift and Neverwinter and didn't even know Morrowind and Oblivion were a thing back then--I'm such a dummy). Dragon age Inquisition. Not that much fun at this point since my throne is broken and unclickable and there seems to be zero information on how to fix it other then finding a random save I probably made a year ago before it had broke, and start from there. Yeh, that's not happening. So as much of an okay game the third installment of Dragon Age turned out to be (ugh, why did they get rid of actual tactical combat? ...the entire reason the Dragon age series was so different and interesting to begin with), I feel like i am missing out on half of the game because of not having access to the throne stuff. Divinity Orignal Sin: Enhanced Edition. Just started playing this to get up to speed for Divinity Original Sin 2 which apparently is the best RPG ever, ever until the end of time... according to everyone. Looks like the 2014 version is gonna take a huge chunk of time to make any headway in. Does anyone know how to turn off friendly fire? I keep burning my characters to cinders.

And then, of course, ESO. Five CP 740 characters, every class in all yellows and BiS healing gear minus stuff attainable in trials. So at the moment, I have houses and houses of furniture I've been collecting from crafting and the lux vendor and am finally feeling like I'm ready to start decorating something. I have saved every real life penny possible to be able to afford both Christmas presents for my family and Pariah's Pinnacle (because I am seriously, in love, with Pariah's Pinnacle--again, don't judge, because I will be buying this beast) and, yeh, I think i'm going to start this in-game housing thing for real. I am such a perfectionist though that even just considering the choice to begin decorating feels overwhelming. There is just so much furniture to choose from, coming from so many different places with so much variety in pricing and in themes and appearance, how do I even decide which pieces to use? Yet, I am really excited to see what I can create; although, my house will no doubt end up becoming some kind of weird magical, mystical crystal cavern just because I don't know how to house.

Anyways, that's where I'm at. There have been plenty of times where I have been playing this game or reading about all of its problems on different platforms and in PVP and with my own experiences of insane FPS drops in major cities and the ever present disappointment that I am still using a staff and the same abilities on every one of my characters 3-1/2 years into the game without any new combat-related skill lines, morphs or weapons being added, while galloping through town standing on my horse and running in place, to look for an NPC that's going to shoot 10 pages of dialogue at me that could have been summed up in two clever sentences, passing the 200th house or cave opening that's closed to the public, after having just searched through 15 nearly empty pages on the guild trader to find an item that should have came up on the first page, just thinking to myself, "This studio is really inexperienced at MMOs and it shows in just about every aspect of the game". But then I think to myself, so what, they made the game I wanted, they made an Elder Scrolls MMO, and what other publisher was going to do this? It obviously had to come from this one and there was no choice but for it to be this stuidos very first MMO, so I've always tried to cut them some slack. Think about how much better the game gets every year, and how much better Elder Scrolls Online 2 will be, how much better this game will be when you upgrade to your next console or computer.

ESO has always been plenty fun enough to play alongside my other games and since it's inception has always remained in my top 3, and is sometimes the only game I'm playing for months.

I don't know, I guess I'm just trying to say, play other stuff, do other things. Play games that do well what you feel this game doesn't so you can appreciate each game for what it does best and you can enjoy them all. Beats burning out and becoming a crispy forum user, unable to appreciate anything at all.