Assistants would provide an unfair advantage in PVP zones, both with resources available and being able to bank currencies.

If they're not worth the price to you for the conveniences offered, don't buy them and spend the money on something you'll enjoy more. There's an opportunity cost for everything, and no right answer.

Acrolas wrote: »

Assistants would provide an unfair advantage in PVP zones, both with resources available and being able to bank currencies.

If they're not worth the price to you for the conveniences offered, don't buy them and spend the money on something you'll enjoy more. There's an opportunity cost for everything, and no right answer.

I don't understand why you say this. If you go to pull up an assistant in a PvP zone it tells you they are unavailable in that zone. I am not in front of game right now, but I believe it also tells you this in the description when you purchase them.

So, since they are only available in PvE, I do agree with the OP that for their price they should do everything their counterparts do in the game.

I finally bought it, and it's super convenient and a time/ life saver! But it should definitely do more for the price lol.

I very much agree with OP that the merchant should repair and the banker should access guild banks.

As a PvEer, I'll defer to the PvP folks on whether Cyrodiil use is a good thing or not.

FierceSam wrote: »

The Banker is simultaneously the most overpriced and outrageously useful purchase I have made.

It would certainly be really useful if he also allowed me to access my guild stores... I know I would do a load more trading that way.

Although I want to kick his ugly butt every time he tries to walk past me when I call him.....

Or beams someplace when you do manage to select him....

Yes, they should have full functionality.

PvP though? Nah.

I've no comment on pvp, but for pve the banker and merchant are simply overpriced for what they offer. 5000 crowns is not insignificant and for that I'd like to see the ability to access my guild stores and get repairs.

They should get full functionality when placed in a house.

I think they are fine as is. Gives players a reason to occasionally visit the big city. I like seeing a city full of players when I visit.

I could see arguing for a lower price maybe, but what they provide shouldn't change.

Repairing your stuff is certainly a feature worth thinking about. I never understood why the assistants don't do this, especially since manually repairing your stuff piece by piece is pretty annoying. I know there are AddOns for this, but in my opinion, the existence of an AddOn should not be an argument against somthing the game is missing. Plus, there are still some weird people playing ESO on consoles I hear.

Definitely overpriced, especially given their restrictions over the in town NPCs. I bought the Merchant assistant not realizing it didn’t repair. I’m dealing with it, but do feel somewhat cheated since there was nothing about this in the description. And it’s not like the big online retailers - you can’t pack them back up and return them.

I do get some use out of it, but it should have been fully described at point of sale, and regardless costs really too much for a game item, IMO.

I’m relatively new to ESO, like playing it, but I really don’t think it’s a good consumer value. Especially with all the multi-hour long maintenance shutdowns, and I don’t mean the current spate of daily patch shutdowns. Weekly multi-hour shutdowns tells me not much planning or careful thought is generally put into updates/patches. No need to do that if you can just add your next errant thought into next week’s update? And then fix it the following week ... This all means that the Customer’s time is low/no priority. I’ve played other online/MMO games that shutdown infrequently.