Performance
Balance swings
The forums

their top 3 or 5 things in this game that drives them crazy/angry/depressed/loss motivation/etc.

1) what was done to vMA and vDSA weapons with Greymoor - the worst and the most disrespectful thing they've ever done to their old players. I lost motivation to do arenas cause of it.

2) my character doesn't become more powerful with every update. They haven't increased CP cap since... almost two years?

3) constant changes to gear

4) lag in Cyrodiil. I hate no-CP content, but if I want to have lag free PvP, I need to do battlegrounds

5) guild traders system instead of normal auction house

1. Unbalanced gear/skills - I don't like fact that we have so many useless skills nad so many trash sets. Why not buff some content to be equal good as meta? Why some easily crafted sets are much better than most of dungeon sets? Why so many skills are useless - why don't buff them to be equally good as meta skills? Some time ago I made 5 additional characters to my main, just to taste every class of game. I'm bit disappointed with stamina character that I HAVE TO use stupid bow nad Volley meta in any serious content for every build. I wanted 2h/dual wield Templar thinking "hey, beeing 100% melee have greater risk and it's harder to play, so there should be more damage, when you master it" - but of course not, because you can't outperform Volley with Maelstorm Bow so let's everyone have the same bow and same skill - this is so much fun... All you had to do was buff some skills/sets (and follow damn train CJ)
2. Ballgroups in Cyrodill
3. Agressive Crown Store - I don't mind to support game by buying some cosmetics from time to time but current policy (especially Crown Crates designed to drain poor, weak minded people) is disgusting. For any serious player game is based on subscribtion (I can't play without craft bag or even double furnishing limits :P) but microtransactions are still typical for free to play mobile game and this is very sad. There should be completely different Crown Store for ESO+ members (long term dedicated players), because for now ,this really poor discounts, rare and only for less atractive items are almost insulting.

Aznarb wrote: »

Eliran wrote: »

Aznarb wrote: »

1 - People who complain about perf when most of time it's on them side hiding the true perf problem.
2 - Combat add-on that shouldn't be allowed (I know I'll not make friend with this one, don't care)
3 - PvP Perf and content that really need some love (Im not even a pvp player)

Would also add : Lack of use of any healing/defensive set.

I am curious which addon is that?

All addon that tell you every timer of every mechanic in trial/dungeon, the one that made big warning telling you what to do etc.. These addon that don't requiert you to learn the instance, just your rotation.

- Raidnotifier
- Howtosunspire
- Asyliumhelper
- etc..

Edit : I'm not gonna fight against people using them. They can tell it's QoL if it made them feel better about their lack of skill, no problem, won't change my point.

I partly agree to that but some trial mechanics telegraphs are quite buggy. For example a few patches ago in vMoL the colors didn't display at all, people didn't know what to do and the group blew up over and over. We had to install raidnotifier just to show what the vanilla game failed to.

1) Mac client being neglected.
2) Non-stealthy bosmers.
3) Tank (and healer) dps nerfs.

1. Server Performance.

2. Huge meta shifts (and even non-met build shifts) every 3 months (every major update). Crazy nerfs & buffs to random stuff... Like WTF ?!

3. Monetisation in a B2P game - way too many aspects of the game being locked behind pay-wall, "gray area" of P2W (DLC classes) or way too strong DLC dungeon sets (locked behind paywall as well). Same for "Time savers" and "selling convenience". It feel like those parts were cut-off from the game only to be sold for yet more cash, or the game is deliberately designed in a way to force buying "time savers" or "convenience".

4. PvP Balance. And I am not talking about population imbalance here. More like some "questionable" design choices. Emperor, Hammer, Low pop bonus AP relogers, Nigh / morning capping, score calculations, winning PvP content by doing PvE stuff... It all could have been designed way better, exploit free.

5. Lack of group finder support for um... a lot of end game content. Why are Arenas and Trials (at least normal mode) not there yet ? Group Dungeons (4 man content) is... where is the other content ? Arenas are also 4 man too and not there... And normal Trials are often easier than vet DLC dungeons... game is like.. um 6+ years old at this point ? Is it laziness of the devs or what ?!

Hmm

1. Crown Crates and related loot box mentality
2. Crowns store purchases should be for both geographies
3. Culture of customer disrespect at studio (communication, customer service, social bans, etc)
4. Stamina class skills are an afterthought
5. Game UI still lacks many QoL improvements
6. Character has to jump to clear minor obstacles
7. Random Number Generator is a sadistic psychopath

redgreensunset wrote: »

Players who say "this could easily be implemented" when they have no idea about the coding issues possibly involved.

Wait, we could have included the forum and forum dwellers in this list?

1. Loading times, especially for those of us who use add-ons.
2. Changes that remove cool functionality from skills.
3. Those and other changes that invalidate well-established build choices.

1) No magic staves
2) No trial Finder
3) No home Waystations

Performance, esp mini / pop up loading screens, esp in regular zones - utterly immersion breaking and frustrating.

Ball groups in cyrodiil - they just ruin it. Once they come on, I just go and do somethign else or log off now.

The variability of audio volume and the ridiculous noises that characters make when riding. They're way too loud, incredibly irritating but come with sounds you do need to hear.

Edit - + silly jumping. Pet hate in all games tbh. On what planet do you walk up to a small knee high ledge and try to jump on to it - usually failing dismally. When will developers realise most people just climb up.

+ the utterly stupid stuck in combat stuff. The number of times a mob pursues me, I can't mount for ages - and then just runs away as soon as they get to me.... grrrr. Either have them attack me, or have them give up after a while. Why on earth do they run up to me *then* turn round and go home.

1. Inventory. Some MMOs even have unlimited space and stuff that stacks. ESO inventory design is just terrible, so much stuff that doesn't stack, character bound stuff, so much other stuff like treasure maps, museum pieces, recipes and other coming your way.
I can imagine people quit playing for this (pure logistical annoyance).

2. Very tiresome sell/buy economy, vendor "guilds", no way to find what you search.
I can imagine people quit playing for this (looking around for an hour or longer every time you just want to buy a rare piece of furniture just because the designers refuse to have a search option).

3. Content generally way to easy (which is boring) And stuff also being untiered. Some normal difficulty dungens being much harder than some veteran. Why not have some harder areas like public dungeons.
I can imagine people quit playing for this (out of boredom).

Extra (4): Having to manually train horses every day for every character during 180 days.

Extra (5): Pay to win stuff from crown store. Really utter shameless.

Extra (6): Not even having basic functions as minimaps but when people design them for you you tell them if they suffer bad performance is because they use add-ons. Infuriating stuff.

Extra (7): Way too much RNG/randomness. Hand out vouchers for minipets so I actually get one I like instead of dozens I do not. Or recipes I need instead of all the random stuff that piles up and up. And crown crates .. the horror!

This game could have been the best MMO around but some of these design (and commercial) choices really make it drop a few points it could have had. Sure it's still enjoyable but not outstanding or exceptional.
ESO just has WAAYY too many frustrating (and unnecessary) time sinks.

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1. Performance and Balance
2. Lack of accountability or transparency from the powers that be
3. The fact Sundays are dead on EU apart from level chasers grinding Vivec’s

Asardes wrote: »

Aznarb wrote: »

Eliran wrote: »

Aznarb wrote: »

1 - People who complain about perf when most of time it's on them side hiding the true perf problem.
2 - Combat add-on that shouldn't be allowed (I know I'll not make friend with this one, don't care)
3 - PvP Perf and content that really need some love (Im not even a pvp player)

Would also add : Lack of use of any healing/defensive set.

I am curious which addon is that?

All addon that tell you every timer of every mechanic in trial/dungeon, the one that made big warning telling you what to do etc.. These addon that don't requiert you to learn the instance, just your rotation.

- Raidnotifier
- Howtosunspire
- Asyliumhelper
- etc..

Edit : I'm not gonna fight against people using them. They can tell it's QoL if it made them feel better about their lack of skill, no problem, won't change my point.

I partly agree to that but some trial mechanics telegraphs are quite buggy. For example a few patches ago in vMoL the colors didn't display at all, people didn't know what to do and the group blew up over and over. We had to install raidnotifier just to show what the vanilla game failed to.

Just a tips for this, the color is in your buff, even if the color animation bug you'll still have the buff ^^
Edit : or debuff didn't have run it since a while, but it's either buff or debuff just take care to not display any buff/debuff that you don't care about so you can easily track them (I don't use thing like action duration too so that how I play for uptime)

Hope it help !