I've always loved playing RPGs throughout my life and enjoyed the story's great games tell like Witcher 3, Skyrim, and Morrowind. I have been playing this game for 3 years primarily in PvP and some trials/dungeon content. I know there is a ton of questing content packed into this game and even more so since I have eso plus. I would love to be able to immerse myself in this games quests and story but I just cant because of how easy the overland stuff is. Any advice you guys can give me, or should I stick with playing single player games to quench my thirst?
I've always loved playing RPGs throughout my life and enjoyed the story's great games tell like Witcher 3, Skyrim, and Morrowind. I have been playing this game for 3 years primarily in PvP and some trials/dungeon content. I know there is a ton of questing content packed into this game and even more so since I have eso plus. I would love to be able to immerse myself in this games quests and story but I just cant because of how easy the overland stuff is. Any advice you guys can give me, or should I stick with playing single player games to quench my thirst?
I've always loved playing RPGs throughout my life and enjoyed the story's great games tell like Witcher 3, Skyrim, and Morrowind. I have been playing this game for 3 years primarily in PvP and some trials/dungeon content. I know there is a ton of questing content packed into this game and even more so since I have eso plus. I would love to be able to immerse myself in this games quests and story but I just cant because of how easy the overland stuff is. Any advice you guys can give me, or should I stick with playing single player games to quench my thirst?
Kalik_Gold wrote: »Quest at max level (50, 160cp +), only then the rewards matter.
What rewards, exactly? A green non-set helmet? A sword from the Wilderqueen's Arch set? 150 gold? There are very few quest rewards that are useful in any of the game's challenging content.
Gotta say Ravenspire has been the best story so far, started out slow but the lead up and final acts were great.
I've always loved playing RPGs throughout my life and enjoyed the story's great games tell like Witcher 3, Skyrim, and Morrowind. I have been playing this game for 3 years primarily in PvP and some trials/dungeon content. I know there is a ton of questing content packed into this game and even more so since I have eso plus. I would love to be able to immerse myself in this games quests and story but I just cant because of how easy the overland stuff is. Any advice you guys can give me, or should I stick with playing single player games to quench my thirst?
I fail to understand how story and content difficulty are related. If you want to follow the quest story lines - and many are quite good in ESO - just follow the story (which BTW, is still best done in the original order.) For the sake of getting enjoyment out of progressing the story what difference does it make if the mobs along he way die in one or 10 hits?
I'm confused. You speak of immersion, yet relate this to combat ease. Why does one affect the other? If the goal is to obtain the story, wouldn't the combat be more of an unnecessary burden to address to complete the story?I would love to be able to immerse myself in this games quests and story but I just cant because of how easy the overland stuff is.
Only if it were non-optional. Another way to look at it is that group content already has an option between normal and vet modes, while overland content forces everyone into normal mode. I don't think any of us wants everyone, regardless of preference, to be forced into playing pre-nerf Craglorn. But I do think the time spent making a vet overland option would be dev time well-invested.To crank up difficulty on overland would be akin to nerfing difficulty in the Trials to accomodate the overlanders.
The only reason I can think of that a casual player would have to oppose this is that a casual player would prefer dev time be invested in things they'll enjoy, not content designed for other people. But that's just a version of "*** you I've got mine", so I don't take that too seriously.
ESO is not instanced individually and as such it would create a more complex situation server side to start creating different general instances at different difficulty levels.
It is clear the servers barely handle things as they are. Zos knows better than to add more load and more chances for things to go wrong.
MLGProPlayer wrote: »
Kalik_Gold wrote: »Quest at max level (50, 160cp +), only then the rewards matter.
What rewards, exactly? A green non-set helmet? A sword from the Wilderqueen's Arch set? 150 gold? There are very few quest rewards that are useful in any of the game's challenging content.
MLGProPlayer wrote: »
Picking the gear to suit the role you want to play is the essence of an RPG. No where is it said that you have to have the best gear and be the most powerful. If you want to be less god like or more god like, that is up to you.
MLGProPlayer wrote: »
Picking the gear to suit the role you want to play is the essence of an RPG. No where is it said that you have to have the best gear and be the most powerful. If you want to be less god like or more god like, that is up to you.
Sure mainly in MMOs we choose our healing gear if we're healing or dps gear if we are dps. That's very common.
Let's be absolutely honest though, no one plays a RPG or MMO and intentionally chooses the worst gear we have in our packs to play the game in. No one, No game. I mean I'm a fashion hound when it comes to how my characters look in game and I've been known to let a piece or two slide because it has the look I want (back in the old days) as long as it's not too low. If it was too low, my coolness was put aside for effectiveness.

DocFrost72 wrote: »MLGProPlayer wrote: »
Picking the gear to suit the role you want to play is the essence of an RPG. No where is it said that you have to have the best gear and be the most powerful. If you want to be less god like or more god like, that is up to you.
Sure mainly in MMOs we choose our healing gear if we're healing or dps gear if we are dps. That's very common.
Let's be absolutely honest though, no one plays a RPG or MMO and intentionally chooses the worst gear we have in our packs to play the game in. No one, No game. I mean I'm a fashion hound when it comes to how my characters look in game and I've been known to let a piece or two slide because it has the look I want (back in the old days) as long as it's not too low. If it was too low, my coolness was put aside for effectiveness.
Dark souls wants a word. (Those games were harder than any TES experience)
I've always loved playing RPGs throughout my life and enjoyed the story's great games tell like Witcher 3, Skyrim, and Morrowind. I have been playing this game for 3 years primarily in PvP and some trials/dungeon content. I know there is a ton of questing content packed into this game and even more so since I have eso plus. I would love to be able to immerse myself in this games quests and story but I just cant because of how easy the overland stuff is. Any advice you guys can give me, or should I stick with playing single player games to quench my thirst?