That's what I love about ESO, actually: I can play it a number of different ways, depending on my mood at the time. I enjoy story-driven questing, and while that's comically easy content for me at this point - I routinely kill quest bosses before I even realize they were supposed to be a boss - I'm playing for the story, not the difficulty, so it works out.

If I want something more challenging on the PvE front, I hit up my guildies for some vet Dungeons or Trials on the weekends, and we all enjoy tackling and figuring out difficult mechanics together. I don't do this all the time, because the often overly strict end-game meta can get old at times, especially as someone who plays more Stamina than Magicka toons, but it's a nice interruption to the questing difficulty.

Speaking of build diversity or lack thereof in PvE, that's something that I really enjoy about PvP: you really CAN make your own thing, and it can be viable. One of my main PvP toons is a magplar using gear that literally no guide I've found recommends, and yet I do quite well with her, because I figured out a play style that works for me and got the gear to support it. Plus, as a longtime fan of Planetside 2, the very strong similarities in the strategic maps between that game and this one really appeal to me, and I enjoy the fact that I can use some common strategies between them, despite Planetside 2 being an MMOFPS rather than an MMORPG. Also, I enjoy strategic thinking, so Cyrodiil is great for that.

On the topic of gear, that can cost money, yeah? So I also spend some time practicing my trade skills with three trade guilds, and even though I'm far from the richest person out there - I really detest farming, and I rarely do it - I still make more than enough money to buy most things I want in-game that are available for gold. Plus, I've gotten to enjoy learning how to corner specialty markets.

Oh, and then of course there's the crafting. I have a master crafter toon, and I'm so glad I do. From making awesome-looking gear to building furniture for my steadily growing collection of houses, I always have plenty of stuff to do on the crafting end. But hey, no pressure - if I'm not feeling it one day, I can just go do other things for a while and come back to it. Same goes for pretty much everything in this game.

As someone who typically doesn't much care for MMORPGs, ESO caught me by surprise and has kept me interested for over a year now, longer than any other MMORPG since Guild Wars 1. And I think it's precisely because of this flexibility that I find it so enjoyable. Sure, it doesn't excel in any one area - I think the Secret World had/has a better story, for example, and I prefer Guild Wars 2 combat for the most part - but the competent jack-of-all-trades approach combined with a solid, believable setting makes for a game that's greater than the sum of its parts.

I don't really "roleplay", but I play ESO so I can enjoy the setting and lore of second era Tamriel

A hard daily work of doing writs on 15 toons.

When I need to remind myself how greedy guys makes a buggy game I come to play ESO

ESO is not-the-best replacement for the singleplayer TES game.

Other.
It is a broken game to me.

I’d go with an option of I mainly pvp with occasional pve due to completing most pve content already and not needing anything from it.

Saphayla wrote: »

I was torn between A game to PvE only. I can't stand PvP. and A game to do whatever I want. If I feel like running a dungeon, getting skyshards, hunting for trophies or bashing other players, that's what I'll do!, because both sentences stand. I do whatever I feel like doing, but I simply never feel like doing PvP, as I can't stand it in this game.

I’ll agree, I can’t stand PvP in this game either. Never going back to it after finding out that lazy gankers can take half my hard earned TV gems.

Anyways I like this game and have been actively stealing items from Summerset lmao, so there’s that.

And housing. And friends.