Did Year of the Dragon work?

As an overall storyline it was more coherent than the Daedric Princes storyline that touched on Orsinium, Clockwork City and Summerset. But that’s really damning with faint praise. I can judge its overall impact by the fact that I am utterly uninterested in how it ends.. (I have just started playing Dragonhold).

I liked
- more players trying Wrathstone dungeons, in particular trying to do the stories
- Symphony of Blades, great final boss, shame the 3 mini bosses beforehand are such rubbish
- V2 dragons, still flawed but great fun atm
- Necros, not my favourite class but fun to play
- The design, Elsweyr looks great despite its flaws
- Scalebreaker dungeons, largely good fun and look fantastic

I didn’t like
- Questing in dungeons. It’s rubbish and it doesn’t work. It’s a crap experience for everyone even if you are all trying to do it
- Frostvault buggy buggy buggy buggy still doesn’t work
- The inexplicable mini bosses in Depths of Malatar. What is going on? Why is it going on? And stop using very faint lighting effects as indicators shite dungeon design at its heart
- Elsweyr tedious task management on behalf of the cat folk with added Abnur Tharn.
- V1 dragons. You put all your eggs into the dragon basket and this is what you come up with? Crappy one shot, static, spinning, shiteshows with badly implemented skills and effects. The very definition of whelming..
- Sunspire. Initially so badly implemented that groups were being organised to loot it without ever fighting a boss. Still a dull, if challenging, set of v1 dragon fights
- Sench-raht pounce. I mean really. Have you seen anything that looks less static?
- Crappy dungeon loot. I mean how hard can it be to come up with interesting, fun stuff? Instead we get innumerable items with no loot, and the same low grade stuff we’ve seen before.
- Dragonhold getting totally lost in the Witches Festival - way to end the Season of the Dragon.
- Server performance. *** up your servers once shame on you, *** them up every time there’s a new launch or an event, you clearly have no shame

I liked it generally. Only real issue I had was no end game content for Dragonhold, was really hoping for a new solo arena or something. Oh well now I’m hoping we get one in the Skyrim Chapter, the journey up to High Hrothgar would be a top notch solo trial.

Wifeaggro13 wrote: »

The dlcs were average. It's the game design that ruins any of the efforts. Since 2016 theses has been a steady slide of mediocrity and half finished ideas. Cant really vote on this poll as it's very biased

Summerset were the best. and you know why? because the ESO story ended there. everything what you have done in the past 3 years since wrothgar. ended in Summerset ^^ and it was the most epic ending in the elder scrolls history after morrowind one.

You met with great characters. You visited the best and the most wonderful and beatifull and colorfull zone in the history game. the most civilised one. the best misc questlines. can not approve on my opinion. but cannot deny it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnpTgepe1tA

beside summerset gave more into the elder scrolls arc and plot than any other expansion yet.

Bringed up the truly role of the Towers. The Towers are the ultimate 'light towers' and gates between the endless realities. the multiverse. they exist in all reality in every form. Just like the like in Bioshock.


Remember. Constants and Variables. where the hero exist in every possible form and mode.

furthermore if you do not believe me. just check this.:


This is the Ayleid gate nexus. Infinite doors to Infinite paths.

IYear of the dragged on (and on)

Good

New class - Necro was way overpowered at launch (surprise, surprise). But it has settled down and indicates what ZOS now think a class should be. Offers skills for all roles, DD, Tank and Healer and for both stam and magicka builds. You can make a viable Necro build using only class skills. I can see ZOS tweaking other classes to enable them to do this too.

Version 2 dragons - actually work

Southern Elsweyr - great zone. Well laid out for dragons. Nice questline. I like the fact that rewards open up as you progress (kind of like a single player game). A bit let down by a stupidly designed world boss.

Meh

Dungeons - DoM (great final boss challenging and satisfying to beat, crap mini bosses, no logic to them at all), LoM (looks lovely, some interesting challenges, poor new mechanics like barely visible AoE, loooooooooong, barely moving dragon at end), MF (looks lovely, some interesting challenges, incomprehensible mechanics, looooooooong, not moving dragon)

Bad

Elsweyr - torpidly dull. Version 1 dragons were awful. Zone layout is very badly thought out. “We put all our time and energy into dragons and none into anything else” seems to be the overwhelming feeling here. A dull, incomplete story whose main protagonists seemed to vaporise as soon as you met them.

Sunspire trial - quite dull

Frostvault - still buggy as hell.

Dragons - ZOS bet the farm on dragons, but failed to deliver in Wrathstone (no dragons at all), Elsweyr (v1 dragons) and Scalebreaker (chained up or poorly animated dragons). It’s only with Southern Elsweyr and the V2 dragons that they even begin to appear threatening. Hopefully they will rework the earlier parts to have better dragons. Very disappointing.