They are in the business of making money and not about perfecting their game. Put out a product that is good enough, keep the rotating wheel of power going soo players will use ALTs and ALTs = more $$.
Its strictly business.

Kurat wrote: »

I'm in Craglorn, some guild is looking for few more dps to fill their vet trial run. They ask me to link clear, RIP i dont have clear with this toon but I do with 10 others. Sorry dude f off.
Achievements should be account wide.

Please explain this. I don't know what this is talking about. What is ' link clear ' ?

I'm fine with the achievements being character specific, but I would like to be able to use the titles on any character.

Last year I had to waste a lot of time and food recipies levelling provisioning on my warden, who will never use it, just so I could complete enough Witch's Festival writs to get her the 'Witch' title. The title itself has nothing to do with provisioning (I wanted it on her because it's the nearest I can get to Wyress) but for some reason that's what it's tied to. I'd much rather have just done the writs on my existing crafter and then used the title on the character it's appropriate for.

There's other titles I'm in a similar position with. For example I'd like to use 'Explorer' on characters who are currently exploring, not ones who have completed all the maps to get to get the Tamriel Master Cave Delver achievement. I'd like to give 'Suns Dusk Reaper' to my necromancer, but it's utterly pointless for him to learn a bunch of motifs when he will never do any crafting. Or 'Mystic' on my sorcerer.

I suppose if you see titles strictly as a way of showing other players that you've completed that specific achievement then this system works (except for the limitations mentioned above), but if that's the case I'd prefer them to make all the titles more explitly tied to their achievements, rather than making things which would be ideal descriptors or flavour text for characters but have absolutely nothing to do with the achievement they come from.

tmbrinks wrote: »

I guess it's time for this monthly thread again...

I still say no.

Add an "overall" achievement counter for your entire account, like Kyoma's Global Achievement's does on PC, but no further.

You already have account bound CP, account bound styles, account bound gear, etc...

I think they've found a healthy balance.

Agreed. Different people have different approaches, and the present balance between them is reasonably struck.

Nairinhe wrote: »

Kurat wrote: »

I'm in Craglorn, some guild is looking for few more dps to fill their vet trial run. They ask me to link clear, RIP i dont have clear with this toon but I do with 10 others. Sorry dude f off.
Achievements should be account wide.

That's exactly why they shouldn't. Maybe it's your day 1 on that class you just power leveled your char in Skyreach carry and have no clue how to play it.

Eh, you can get achievements on a tank or healer and then respec them to dd. And even if your dps is actually abysmal, you can still link achievements and wear titles.
Also, a lot of titles and skins are bought... Have you seen all those ads in zone chat? You can buy any achievement, maybe except Godslayer (and even that can be done if they do it via account sharing).

Dragonnord wrote: »

This request again?

Here it goes my answer again, for time 100...

You get vMA Flawless Conqueror with your OP Magblade or Magsorc easy mode one buuton heavy attack build but you stink using your Stamden and you want your Stamden to have the achievement too, even when you can't get vMA no death with him/her?

Sorry, but don't agree with you OP.

I don't think Flawless is a good benchmark these days, that arena is very old. And you can pretty much cheese Flawless if you use sigils.
This title on stamina character was pretty impressive back in Orsinium patch, but nowadays it's much easier to get.

Ratzkifal wrote: »

Atherakhia wrote: »

This game has, without a doubt, the most abusive grind for alts of any MMO I've ever played. It is disheartening how little effort ZOS puts into anything that can't be put on the cash shop. This would be a trivial thing they could do though.

I might share your sentiment about shared titles but this doesn't seem right to me. In WoW you have titles restricted to your characters too but the level grind is just so so so much worse. Who wants to grind another 120 levels just to do current content on their new character? Of course you can always pay for boosts because that's not predatory design at all.
The CP system makes ESO one of the most alt-friendly MMOs on the market. Does that mean it couldn't be more alt-friendly? Of course not! But don't make it sound like ESO is terrible for alts when it actually isn't all that bad.

Imagine if we had to grind for transmogs on our alts because a Sorc can only unlock the light armor outfit styles from learning a crafting motif... Yeah, I'm glad this isn't WoW.

This, back then I played wow BoP gear could not even been be transferred to alts.

I kind of would like it that way for convenience reasons but would be pretty strange to have something like TTT on a new necro tank that would probably never go for such things any more anyway. Prefer starting as much "fresh" as possible but wouldn't be against a switch of a kind for ones who enjoy such a thing.

Nairinhe wrote: »

Atherakhia wrote: »

This game has, without a doubt, the most abusive grind for alts of any MMO I've ever played. It is disheartening how little effort ZOS puts into anything that can't be put on the cash shop. This would be a trivial thing they could do though.

You can level a char to 50 in several hours if you want to, and after that just get all account wide CP. Worst thing you have to do is to gather mages guild books.

Or the Psijic portals, if that irks you. Alliance skills can be annoying to grind if PvP isn't your thing, and Undaunted can be bothersome if you don't run dungeons. But those are the outliers here.

This is contrast to games which require you to grind up your post-cap prestige ranks per character, and I really don't see this as abusive.

Yes, it could be kinder. We could have account wide achievement progression, for example. But, as alt grinds go, ESO is pretty laid back.