lagrue wrote: »

I think you could please most Pre-One Tam worshippers with one simple change... add a dynamic toggle that increases their overworld difficulty.

I cringe when I see people saying we should go back... Pre-One Tam was okay, but it was segregated and boring. There was no point going back to old zones, ever, you could stomp enemies, but why... no EXP, no materials worthwhile - there was just nothing... if you reached the highest zone possible, you stayed there... being relegated to one zone for the rest of your career was awful.

I personally don't want more difficult overworld - but I do understand that others do - and generally speaking when somebody is praising the Pre-One Tam era, they are mostly referencing they miss the fact of overworld difficulty...

One Tamriel is how this game should have launched, but it can be made better for everybody if this toggle is added. Even if it was rudimentary like skyrim where a multiplier is placed on ingoing and outgoing damage, I think it would make leagues of difference for those who miss the challenge.

Pretty much. My only complaint with overland zones is the mobs are just too weak for high level players. A run-of-the-mill mob has about 30k health, which, to a player who deals 30k DPS, is literally nothing. Not to mention those who deal even higher DPS.

The simplest solution is literally what you said. Have an option that basically scales various stats on our characters, based on a selected difficulty setting. You could have Easy, Normal, Hard, Veteran, and each setting just changes how much damage we deal, how much damage we take, how much healing we receive (I wouldn't change healing done, as that would impact other players). Normal could be where it is now, Easy could be a little bit more forgiving (newer players do tend to struggle in newer zones), Hard could be a bit harder, and Veteran could be even harder.

A system like this is already in place; PVP's Battle Spirit status effect. Battle Spirit does various things, such as adding a flat 5000 health to your max health, halving your damage and healing done, halving the effectiveness of damage shields, and increasing the range of long-range abilities (if I remember correctly, abilities with a range of 25 meters or something) by 8 meters. Zenimax could take Battle Spirit, rename it to something else (or hide it entirely), add it to all overland instances (including building interiors, delves & public dungeons), tie a difficulty setting to it (could be in your character sheet or something), and change it to scale the stats I mentioned in the last paragraph based on the chosen difficulty setting.

Tada, more difficult overland without affecting other players, and without reintroducing leveled zones.