xenowarrior92eb17_ESO wrote: »

What the title said...literally...after you finish ur achivs and quests... there is no actual reason to go back there...its quite sad to see so much wasted effort,work and time...I really hate it in other mmos when most zones become abandoned completely due to the lack of need...I thought that will change in ESO but right now I feel that nothing is different...sure there are people in each dlc and so on but my point is that after they finish they don't have a reason to go back there...we need a reason...ZoS should think about this and idk get some idea...ask around...at some point I see a game with probably what...50 dlc areas and only a handful actually used while the rest will be ignored...I would love to see this matter addressed...I wonder what other people feel about it?

ZOS gives (some of) us a reason: hiding motifs behind dungeon or daily content. I STILL haven't finished my Minotaur/Order of the Hour motifs and I was doing both these dailies on at least 2 alts every day for awhile. Nowadays, Gold Coast is pretty dead so it takes awhile to find a group so I often don't bother trying since there are so many other dailies that ALSO have motifs. I like questing and tend to take my time through zones, but feel I don't have time to quest anymore if I want to do the dailies I need to turn in for achievements (like CWC slag town and bursar quests) and tiny percent chance of earning a motif.

I'd like to see the areas populated, but not the way ZOS currently tries to handle it by adding yet another thing to grind with abysmal drop rates.

I'm still doing Clockwork City and Vvardenfell dailies every day, since there's still motifs, valuable gear, and furnishing recipes to collect, and I like both environments. I do the other dailies and repeatables whenever I feel like it, so there's always content for me to do.

I get a little bored between the big DLC releases, and ZOS could add a lot more varied overland content through the guild dailies.

Imperial City - NO
Orsinium - NO (vMA, and just a cool zone)

The rest yes. Haven't even bothered with CWC yet.

Invincible wrote: »

More like a 3 hour experience. I don't count repeatable endless daily quests as "content"

10+ hours for a straight grind, in my experience. Main Quest only, anyway, assuming a high DPS character who can melt all mobs. Also not counting achievements, which will take you a lot longer. However, I do think that to "complete" a DLC, you should do all the quests once, so that would include dailies like Kvatch Arena but not include dailies like "fetch 5 ornate items" which have no actual content.

Clockwork City you might be able to sweep through the main questline in 3-5 hours, doing no other side quests. That's probably about how long it took my DPS character who rushed through it. That's not the entire zone, of course, so doing ALL the quests for the achievements brings it closer to 10.

Imperial City's questline is probably 10 hours, because you have to do each district, then return to the sewers to turn in the quests (could be sped up by sigils of Imperial retreat for a pure speedrun, I suppose). Then after you've cleared the district, there's an additional short quest there, but again you have to go back to the sewer base to turn it in. Plus the dungeons on normal, vet, and vetHM (WGT finishes out the Main Quest of IC, so yeah, it counts as MQ content). I completed IC over the course of several days on a dead campaign, so factor in riding time from the gates and time for PVP if enemy players are present.

Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood both feature quests locked behind grinding. So you do have to account for the Tip Board and the Black Book quests to grind for TG and DB levels so you can do the quests. Both easily hit 10 hours on the main quest, then add the other quests in the zone. Not counting the grinding, you could probably do the TG and DB main quest in about 3-5 hours.

Orsinium is the largest DLC and the one most packed with content. The Main Quest is quite lengthy, including a section where you have to quest for three orc clans. This DLC is the size and scope of a base-game zone and it shows in the length of time it takes to clear the zone, get all the trophies, and unlock those costumes. The main quest alone easily hits 10 hours of playtime.

I'm still playing in Vvardenfell and Clockwork City. I have long since completed all of the quests.

I've still got a few characters I want to put through CWC. I don't intend to stop putting new characters through IC, TG and DB quest lines.

Unfortunaly in some area, craftings stations, bank and merchants are very distant to each other, this is why some prefer vivec ...

let's take a look to the Brass Forteress, Craftions stations are pretty close to each other, but you can't take and turn in your crafting writ.