Seraphayel wrote: »

Out of all the Chapters this is definitely the most hollow one. Still excited for Blackreach though.

I'm Hyped for the vampire feeding changes and the changes to vampires. Vampire lord is something that will be interesting and I do want that for my volkihar vampire I created but the other changes to it I'm very hyped for.

The other “chapters” had a hook for me.

There are no hooks here.

An active skill line would have reeled my giant whale butt back in, as it is “legerdemain advanced” is not tasty enough as bait.

^ But it all depends on what will be on PTS next week. So the initial reaction is: "Meh, could be better" - but if I see some good things on PTS then the impression will go up.

Really looking forward to the new story, and the antiquities feture.

Nothing for PvPers.

So... Having mulled the presentation over, I now present my toughts on it:

The trailer looks nothing like the game, as usual, but at least Lyris looked like herself so there's that. A vampire speedfreak takes out the red shirts and then gets pwned by the heroes. *** hum. No surprises then, everyone already knew that vampires are the focus for 2020. I guess vamp fanboys are happy, but I grew out of that phase a long time ago. To me they are a 90s thing, but to each their own I suppose.

Solitude and Morthal looked nice enough, but Dragon Bridge looked bit wimpy, though they didn't show them all that much so we'll see. Location is good for me since Solitude is "my" home in Skyrim and Hjaalmarch being one of my fav holds so that's a plus from me. And the icing on the cake is that we might get a proper Labyrinthian, in comparison to the short foray offered for Halls of Colossus. If there is a decent house available in either city, I might end up buying one, but not if it's for crowns only.

Blackreach... Cool, I suppose. Especially the idea of enlargening it to lie below a larger portion of Skyrim. But the thing though is, that Blackreach is the Underdark of Tamriel. Having tons of flamboyant, outlandishly clad people scurrying about in droves on their flaming laser breathing ponies or ancient relic steam puppies, kinda takes the whole "alone in the dark, lost within the deep places of the land filled with old an foul beings" wibe away from it.

Blackreach, to me at least, is about stillness, isolation, and darkness. A place where time stopped, and forgotten artifacts of a bygone era lie gathering dust, while monstrous beings that can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with, stalk you in the darkness and silence waiting for a chace to eat you. ESO black reach doesn't sound like that thing to me, but more of a hurly burly carnival ride full of noise and flashing lights.

Especially if they stuff it full of vampire and werewolf communities and such... And the idea that everyone grows up hearign legends about Blackreach... Eh, I guess I can chalk in down to this being a thousand years before Skyrim and stuff. But to me, Blackrach was always a secret known by only a few scholars, well versed in forgotten lore buried in dusty tomes.

Antiquities... Hmmm, am not sold - yet. I suppose it could be fun, but it depends on how much RNG is involved, how huge a time sink we are talking here. We already know it's gonna be BOP, so that means no way to get the loot but by participating in the activity. And then there is the question of furnishing slots... Most of my homes are already at full capacity so where exactly am I supposed to display them? We need more slots. And this coming from a guy who already has a dedicated museum home full of curioes.

It did feel though, during the after show, that they were trying to sell it just abit too hard. I mean, what is it actually? A Minigame to get goodies? How many are there? Are you limited by a daily quest or something to get them? What is the skill level needed for the Minigame, and what are the impact of skill on the results? Is it gonna be just another frigging chore to do each day or something actually engaging?

The reason why I am sceptical is, that it is a totally new thing to be added to the game, that does not have itself as the end goal (as it was for housing for example), but instead gives you stuff for other activities. As such, it is not baked into the base game loop, despite all their claims towards layered cake and such. So I get the feeling that it's gonna end up being a bolted on thingy that does not actually fit within the framework of the game. Like I said, it could work, but it might just end up being just another chore for chasing BIS stuff that you need to be competent in actually itnerestign activities. And if that ends up being the case, then bummer indeed. Like I really detest that the way to get furnishing plans requires you to serial loot funerary urns in tombs... I hope it wont end up being something like that.

Don't get me wrong though, I like the idea. It is a lot more interesting to me than grinding dungeons or chasing achievements. I just am not seeing yet how they are going to integrate it to the current ESO experience. I hope it works and won't be relegated to something you zip through each day like crafting writs. At least it will cover the whole game world and will be supported in hte futurte too, unlike burglaries and assassinations. They reallly shoud add some actual new Thieves Guild And Dark Brotherhood activities with each chapter.

Re-downloading the whole client is an aggravation, but the fact to the game size goes down, and by a significant degree is nice. And who knows, maybe even the game play performance fixes actually work for once.

Hoped to hear a word about the extensive gear set audit that is supposedly coming, but didn't catch a peep about that, so that's a bummer too. But hey, we'll get to meet Gabrielle again so there's that then.

But for what it's worth, I am, even to my own surprise, actually interested and looking forward to this stuff, and way more interested than I ever was for the Dragon nonsense.

And finally, just gotta touch this thing... Looks like Beth-man shouty guy was in attendance again... Zheesh... On the off hand chance that you re reading this, please try to mellow it out a bit. It's nice and fun to be exited and all, but please do try to take the health of other people's ears into account. M'kay?

I'm not convinced that the minor features Greymoor offers is worth paying the same price as I did for Morrowind and Elsweyr. I'm kinda questioning what sort of feedback ZOS got on that customer survey they sent out that resulted in the same price for less gameplay-changing content.

We got a new story, after all. And some improvements. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

logarifmik wrote: »

We got a new story, after all. And some improvements. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah, but Orgrimar (sp?), Murkmire, Dragonhold, etc all gave us those too. For me at least, it has to be more than just that to be worth a full chapter update.

Overall, this is better than Elsweyr, in my book.

Super excited about new vampire content, and the vampire revamp. Huge fan of vampires and dark gothic type storylines in general, so this chapter is right up my alley. Also pretty hyped about going to blackreach again because that was one of my favorite areas in skyrim. Overall really looking forward to it.

I'm fine with it because I love Vampires but I have a hard time believing that's all the features they could come up with..because I'm sure they sold a *** ton of Elsweyr boxed with Necromancer.

I was hoping for some new weapon lines, specifically one hand and rune. However, the vampire rework and mythic items sound really neat and I’m excited for those. I’m also excited for a “darker” themed story.

I’m just gonna be disappointed if I have to look like a god awful vampire lord. I completely avoided being one in Skyrim because I hate it that much