So ever since Scalebreaker hit I've been online for three times, no longer than an hour. I've read the upcoming patch notes and it seems that those three hours will be even less next patch. I was wondering what keeps you guys playing?

I've played ever since beta on PC, with a big break between launch and the Morrowind release. I've always loved the game and the world of TES, even had a website with builds and guides for my guild Sanguine's Sentinels where I just to be in, we even were planning to do a YouTube channel which we only just started but... But lately, to be fair it started since Murkmire, I'm having a hard time enjoying the game. Obviously combat changes are the biggest reason, keeping to completely change your build (I'm sorry after all these years, I'm tired of crafting and farming, I don't need to reattune my traits and farm golden mats every three months, I want to enjoy my game). Also, rotation changes every time and hitting 50K on a 3mil or 6mil dummy is becoming a joke since muscle memory is your enemy in this case.

Then there is the performance, the FPS drop at the beginning over EVERY fight in any trial... And I just completely stay out of Cyrodiil that place is all fine until a zerg comes in (not because of the reason people rant about zergs, simply because the game starts lagging, FPS hits a bottleneck so what's the point?).

Finally, I am not alone it seems since all my groups fell apart, my trial groups and even my guilds, all old players that leave while I do see a lot of new players that came in with Elsweyr. No problem with new players, but can't do a vSS HM with new people for instance.

So I am wondering, to all the older players who have been around Tamriel the last couple of years, what keeps you playing? I don't want to just drop it I've invested so much time and energy in this game that I just can't drop it like that, but every time I log in I know that I won't have my trial group up (and lately, they are hard to come by on xOne EU, my only platform right now) which doesn't even matter because I once again have to farm yet another heap of golden mats and a new set simply to stand by (stamDD, magDD luckely is pretty spared in that regard).

So please, if you have played this game for a long time and remember those good old days where you could Dragonleap unto castle walls or really felt your class was different (let's face it, right now it's like the ending of Mass Effect 3 where you simply chose what colour your buttons will be like), let me know and maybe I'll see something in a new light or learn something I haven't yet to rekindle my love for this game.

Thanks.