I like harder contents that made for solo or 4 man like MA or the DLC dungeons. Because my computer cannot handle trial those harder dungeons are my endgame. I expect lots of wipe, but sometime when you do get the right group, it feel good to beat it.

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No. The carebearification of this game has seeped into too many areas already.

Yeah, and unfortunately ZOS listens more to the casual players that want to be able to beat everything first try, than they do to their endgame community

This is coming from someone who has cleared vSPhm and soloed all bosses in vFH except Domihaus, who I got to 9%...

These new HMs are just insane. I have run in a group that did a no death / speedrun on the first attempt, then failed to take hm to below 70% after 2 hours. It is literally easier to solo Domihaus to execute IN hm than to complete Scalecaller Peak hm, which has no execute, with a group of 4 highly skilled, top 0.1% players.

ZoS also seems to equate difficulty with increasing amounts of RNG and one-shot mechanics. Stuff like the stone orb spawning under your feet, the Zaan beam grabbing someone right between the Ice CC and the boss, and the synergies overlapping so they are literally invisible just shouldn't happen. On the other hand, I think bosses 2 and 4 of Scalecaller are extremely well-designed and are what good fights in ESO should be like. Pressure the group with strong DoTs that encourage co-ordinated movement instead of these damn insta-kills all the time, which have the side-effect of encouraging 3 DD runs to nuke past the undesirable mechanic.

I'm not saying these hms should be nerfed, but the fact that the last two patches have locked their titles and skins behind supremely hard content which caters for the super-elite makes me fear for the future of this game. What new player is going to buy this DLC when they hear that groups of people who have all completed vMoL cannot even come close to completing this?

Keep vet trials the hardest content in ESO, and let people compete by trying to get world record speeds and climbing the leaderboards. Hardly anybody says 'I'm not going to do vDSA, it's too easy', but instead they try to complete it faster and more smoothly. People who complain about PvE being too easy are, in my opinion, just trying to massage their own egos. Nobody needs to be put into Dragon Bones dungeons by the group finder, so they can spend the next four hours wiping to the first boss.

I also disagree with the idea that each instalment of new dungeons should be harder than the next. Make more puggable dungeons! The VAST MAJORITY of players are random pugs with random builds and are just about skilled enough to complete things like CoAII, DCII, CoHII and the like. After 2 years of playing ESO, I still enjoy doing these dungeons. For every guild that has been grinding the heck out of SP and FL over the last week, there are two more where literally nobody in those guilds has even stepped foot in these dungeons because they don't want to spend their entire afternoon wiping and walking away empty handed.

Just one snowflake's opinion.

Neither of them is "too hard". Actually, non-hm vet versions were easier than I expected.
I liked Fang Lair hardmode (is that the one with the dragon?). Even though it wasnt easy, it seemed "difficult, but fair".
I'm not a fan of SP. I cant put my finger on it, but the mechanics feel a bit wonky. Havent tried it after the patch, though.

I'm afraid I don't do ANY of the special group content. I play more or less casually, so I don't have all the silly mega rare gear, and simply can't compete in any of them. I've seen so many wipes on what few attempts I've made that it's completely discouraged me from even bothering to TRY anything that's labeled as Group oriented.

It's unfortunate. There's much there that might be fun, but the punishing difficulty, coupled with the tendency of most groups to blitz through every dungeon so fast that they'll be at the end while I'm still reading the dialog from the first contact, means they're just not any fun, and to me that defeats the point of playing.

So, I voted Nerf Everything, with the caveat that I'd RATHER see a level of difficulty below what's now considered normal (so that those who DO like it as it is can still enjoy it).