Players should NEVER start with the tutorial in the latest area. It's such a bad decision from ZOS. If you start with Morrowind/Summerset/Elsweyr tutorial you have NO idea about the game, what's going on, the main storyline with Molag Bal, the faction war... you basically know nothing about 99% of the game you're playing.

Yeah, definitely have the option. Even if the default is the new chapter tutorial, at least have the option for the others.

Being able to do the new tutorials on existing characters would also be a nice way to introduce the new storyline narratively, and also allow players to get those missing skill points they can't get.

It just makes sense.

I'd love to be able to choose the start, as tbh I miss being able to jump right into the base games start

Starting new players off in a new area is such an awful idea. Let players choose where they want to start, and inform them of their choices: that Morrowind takes part at the start of arc 2, and Summerset at the end of arc 2, etc.

Nairinhe wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Players should NEVER start with the tutorial in the latest area. It's such a bad decision from ZOS. If you start with Morrowind/Summerset/Elsweyr tutorial you have NO idea about the game, what's going on, the main storyline with Molag Bal, the faction war... you basically know nothing about 99% of the game you're playing.

^ This. Make everyone start in Coldharbour like proper Vestige. No confusion. No worrying about that skill point.No "wtf, why I can res if I still have my soul"

This is something I didn't think about actually. If we chose to start with the original again wouldn't that mean we get no bonus SP.

Seraphayel wrote: »

Players should NEVER start with the tutorial in the latest area. It's such a bad decision from ZOS. If you start with Morrowind/Summerset/Elsweyr tutorial you have NO idea about the game, what's going on, the main storyline with Molag Bal, the faction war... you basically know nothing about 99% of the game you're playing.

This granted most new players will start with the base game anyway.

This becomes more ridiculous with Elsweyr as the story start in the two dungeons dungeons who is released before the chapter and an new character can not do the dlc dungeon until well past the zone.

But yes have all characters be able to do the tutorial, have it as an continue of the prequel quest.

I have to agree on this.
With the third chapter being released, as well as the main story, there are plenty of different tutorials.

All of them are beautifully made, and it would cost nothing to simply add a selection panel.

Most importantly, I think that players should immediately get a starting Inn Room as part of the tutorial at this point, instead of running through the quest again.

Aliyavana wrote: »

Complitionists will start in a chapter if they want all skillpoints in the game

They should really just fix this already. Maybe at the same time they implement the changes of being able to choose.

Even better than being able to choose would be being able to play all tutorials as introductions to their respective chapter. Make them available for everyone. Why waste good content? Also, just thinking about that never to be gained skill point makes the completionist in me itch.

My favorite Starting area is still The Wailing Prison especially with the intro video. Yes there should be a choice.

There should also be an option to do the full tutorial to start each chapter with existing characters, like Morrowind. There was a small section there that you never get to see if you didn't start a new character there, I'm sure other tutorials have been the same, but sadly I can not say for sure.

I think there should be a choice, with a brief explanation for what you're getting into by starting in each area.

I joined the game with Morrowind. I saw myself as a strictly solo/offline player, and I just wanted to play in Vvardenfell again after falling in love with the Elder Scrolls with TES III. At the time that's the only place where I wanted to play and would have been disappointed if I had started anywhere else.

On the other hand though, I eventually realized just how out of the loop I was by starting there and choosing to stay there until I played that zone to completion. There were bits of the story that I had no point of reference for yet. When I finally left Vvardenfell for the first time it was for inventory management - I had to clear out the survey reports that I had accumulated. I had to LOOK UP Coldharbour on UESP because I had never been there. I was trying to craft but nodes were extremely hard to come by because the zone was so heavily populated at the time. It was amazing how much easier crafting became once I completed Morrowind and finally traveled to my alliance zones. I had no idea what a dolmen was because they only existed in the base game. I couldn't fill soul gems because I hadn't unlocked the soul magic skill line, so I was constantly rezzing at wayshrines. Hell, I didn't even know I could travel at wayshrines. I thought they were just for rezzing and that I could only fast travel by boat, caravan, or silt strider.

The Wailing Prison is unquestionably the best starting point. If I had it to do all over again that's how I'd want to do it. However, I do see value in giving a choice. If there are people who have been waiting for TES to go to Elsweyr and are coming to ESO specifically for that, they should have the option to jump right into that. Some of those people are like me, who end up sticking around and growing more comfortable with other parts of the game and being in an MMO.

Start in Coldharbor, choose your faction, start the Vestige quest line. Once a new player is in Tamriel proper, they can go to whatever zone they want, but at least they'll realize that there is an actual starting point with a story to follow. You just lose so much of the story when you don't pick it up in order, and I think Elsweyr is going to confuse things even more by starting with dungeons, and being spread over a year.

The tutorial for each DLC should also be an intro quest where current players can get the skill point, without having to start a new character.