Thing is, we all went through this as a new player, and back when I started, early access on PC, there were no guild traders, and no one really had mats. We all farmed them. There was no CP passive back then either, and no surveys, as there were no crafting writs.

We've all gone through the pain of being poor when just starting out. Of not having much in the way of mats. You take the time to farm them, if nothing else. And, One Tamriel has helped with that, as you're not stuck in the low-level zones where the majority of players were at launch, competing for the same nodes. Now, you can take your character just about anywhere and can find places where other players aren't farming.

Plus, I pretty much picked up every node that I came across while playing the content. And now, you have writs that help you - you get back more alchemy plants that you put in for the writ and you get a chance at surveys. As others have mentioned, there are ways to get them if you PVP, too.

I just don't see the issue. I feel your pain, as I was there once, as well, and so was everyone else. It's much easier now to get what you need than when many of us started. And now, level-up rewards. When most of us started, we weren't handed things just for leveling up. We weren't given gear, potions, food, gold, etc. And, we weren't given any set gear just for completing quests. It was all just plain green, with the occasional blue, gear. Sets didn't drop as they do now - they only dropped at certain level ranges. ZOs has already done a LOT to makes things so much easier for new players now.

Priyasekarssk wrote: »

For experienced PVP players, Its not an issue always AP parcels from imperial city is there. If you are new player , PVP would be very difficult unless someone baby sits you.
Bankrupt yourself by giving hard earned gold to an experienced player in guild stores. Other option is die without potions , that many new players are doing. You are not alone. Zenimax wont listen and some experienced players calling themselves game well wishers will come here and bully you and make fun of you give solutions that dont work and not even applicable to new players.
Zenimax wont give a *** because of crown potion sales.

Really?

Outside of using trash pots when I first came to ESO from Skyrim years ago, I have never used/crafted potions on any of my characters, and I never had survivability issues. Are potions helpful, or almost obligatory in end game content such as vMSA or vet trials? Probably. But this specifically references "new players." Today's new players are battle scaled to have higher resources than max CP-ers. A lot of us are from pre-1T when we started with nothing and surviving really was a challenge.

By the time any player gets to the point where potions actually provide a tangible benefit, then that player should have had adequate time to collect plenty of alchemy reagents. Unless, of course, they are the persons @Jayne_Doe is following around who choose to ignore all the alchemy nodes.