Yes it is not supposed to be one. That is why you don't try to complete stuff instantaneously it is supposed to be done as you keep playing. The grind is supposed to keep you playing for over a long period of time.

Disgruntled Player: WTF ZOS I paid the outrageous sum of 30 dollars and after playing day and night for two weeks there is nothing left? Back in the day a game you paid your hard earned money for could be your sole form of entertainment for at least six years! How do you sleep at night you scam artist!!!!!!!


Developer1: Okay guys lets make sure we put a lot of content into this one, we got some negative feedback last time

Devloper 2; But Bruce, it was just from the five forum trolls that always complain and if you look at their accounts they don't have any characters past level Three!


Devloper 1: Squeaky wheel gets the grease bro...more content ok?

Disgruntled Player: WTF ZOS I paid the outrageous sum of 30 dollars, and now I have to make your sucky game my day job to get anywhere?!!!! How do you sleep at night you scam artist!!!!!!!

The702Guy wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

VaranisArano wrote: »

About jewelry crafting?

You know the funny thing? The actual XP costs to level are the same for jewelry crafting as the other six crafting lines. As in, exactly the same.

I think people are forgetting how long it took them to max out the basic craft lines back at launch.

@starkerealm It’s not the leveling to 50, it’s that it takes the equivalent of 20 honing stones, 30 dwarven oil, 40 grain solvents, and 80 temps to upgrade one item to gold. Makes the actual jewelry crafting (craftable sets) almost irrelevant with the waste of mats IMO. I know I wouldn’t drop 80 temps to gold one piece of Hundings Rage.

The 20, 30, 40 part isn't actually that crazy. I mean, yes, if you're barely squeaking by on a normal basis, and don't engage with the crafting system much, then that will be a little excessive, but for anyone who runs writs on a regular basis, and refines large stockpiles of mats, those numbers are entirely manageable.

The 80 Chromium... yeah, it's fine. I mean, before this dropped gold jewelry was incredibly expensive stuff. And, it still is. If you really want to, it's something you can now work towards.

However, it's also worth remembering that the difference between purple and gold set bonuses are incredibly marginal. In the case of something like Hundings, you're talking about a difference of less than 10 weapon damage on the 5th bonus. In part because your set bonuses are the result of you averaging together each piece, and because the difference between purple and gold is actually fairly small to begin with. Can you get purple Hunding's Rings? Yeah, for most things that's going to be more than enough.

Now, the purple to gold does have a more significant impact on your traits. Infused Jewelry goes from +51% to +60% for example. But, that's still not really that massive. More noteworthy, but not a build breaker.

AlnilamE wrote: »

Ilithyania wrote: »

When I first started playing Oblivion I remarked to my husband that it was very similar to my job. Someone tells me to do something and as I go around talking to people to get it done, these other people will ask me to do things as well, until I have a huge list of things to work though.

I guess having a limit to your quest log in games is refreshing. :-P

Plus, I get to shoot fireballs at things, which would not go over well at work...

fireball your boss. very tempting

efduncanub17_ESO wrote: »

There is so much to do just do what you want...ESO is the least grindy MMO ever

I so agree. And as long i enjoy the game-play, i enjoy logging in. Doesnt matter if that is once or three times a week.

xXSilverDragonXx wrote: »

Thing about this is jewelry drops are rare. That makes it particularly grindy. In any given dungeon you maybe get two or possibly three items to decon. In any given dungeon you get about double that it seems both upgraded and non upgraded. Running around the game for a day I pick up loads of things to decon. Unless I am grinding dolmens, very few of them are jewelry. This is out of balance if the leveling for jewelry is anywhere near what it is for everything else. I leveled my heavy/light in just some weeks with doing a few dungeons a day (maybe three at most). How is that going to happen when you get only a portion of drops for jewelry? Serious balance issue.

Yes, I fully agree with this. I always incorporated levelling crafting into my normal questing - just exploring and questing for a few hours usually gives me 10-20 pieces of weapons and armour... and one or two pieces of jewellery. I found clothing and woodworking levelling painful enough, but I can't even imagine how slow jewellery levelling is going to be without things to decon.

I managed to avoid dolmen farming since I started two months ago but I guess I have to start now. Not ideal because I always prefer to do things naturally.

I think they should make jewellery levelling similar to the other crafting skills - give us a reasonable amount of items to decon, please!

DanteYoda wrote: »

Games used to be about casual fun, these days though companies have realised customers will go to almost any length to acquire stats, cosmetics and other useless virtual things at almost any cost to beat other customers or just big note themselves..

So companies market their games around them.. Really op you should be blaming your fellow customers, Zos is just enabling them..

*Remembers waking the sleeper on Firona Vie in EQ*

Yeah Yeah sure casual fun.

RTFLMAO