Forum Game ~ You get to make any 3 changes to ESO

GreenHere · March 2021

ZOS held* a surprise contest where they pick a random community member and let them make any 3 changes to the game that they want -- balance be damned!

*confetti*
YOU WON!!

*kazoo sounds*

(congrats!)

As long as your changes don't break the Terms of Service, Local or Federal Law, the Coldharbour Compact, the Geneva Suggestions, etc., they'll put 'em in the game. You only get three wishes changes/additions, so make them count! The more original, unlikely, and/or unreasonable, the better! (this is just for fun, y'all -- go nuts!)

This post was inspired by a true story, and also @Starlight_Whisper 's neat thread, "Forum Game: Back in my day"

*Obviously (...hopefully...) ZOS did not actually do this, and is holding no such contest at this time. This post is just silly satire, or whatever, and I claim no legal liability in case of personal injury or property damage. No copyright infringement intended. Side effects may include nausea, dizziness, or a strong desire to add @GreenHere to your Ignore list. Consult with your doctor before engaging in rigorous forum activity. Please don't sue me, Todd Howard!

GreenHere · March 2021

We FINALLY get the option to hide Hands, Shoulders, Belts, and (probably most importantly) Hip & Crotch flaps in the Outfit system!
Volendrung is removed from Cyrodiil; Wabbajack takes its place!
Invisible pets/summons/assistants option! Other players no longer have to see or interact with your pets and whatnot, unless they choose to toggle the setting on in their Settings. (Unless in PvP, where you see pets always) Sorry y'all, but I hate seeing your dumb pets/bankers/etc.; they're everywhere, and it's too much. No more letting your Twilight endlessly flap her wings in my face, no more dopey Bears blocking our crafting stations, and no more making poor, obviously un-athletic, Tythis run after you all over the face of Tamriel! Deal with it. >:D

Sheezabeast · March 2021

1) We can now choose multiple items to upgrade in quality at crafting stations.

2) As long as you have learned the style on your current character, you do not have to pay additional gold at the outfit station to change your outfit to that style. You earned it on that character, you get to use it. Your other characters still pay gold, but your crafter, the one you learned it on, gets to use it for free.

3) There is now a separate roleplay server, where every baddie is non-aggro unless attacked, and the world is your stage! There would be an observer mode, and a player mode, where you could observe roleplays in action, but not participate, and you would not be able to aggro baddies or block player paths or use emotes to disrupt gameplay.

Sangwyne · March 2021

1) Heavy and Light armor penalties are done through Battle Spirit instead of applied to their passives, allowing PvP to be balanced without negatively impacting PvE playstyles.

2) Malacath nerfed from 25% down to 20% bonus damage and Arctic Blast is split up into two morphs; one that is a %HP burst HP with a %HP heal over time for PvE tanks, and one that deals damage over time around your character and stuns if enemies are hit by 3 or more ticks.

3) Armor can now be transmuted to different weights, allowing people to wear specific sets as say, medium instead of heavy, using the belt as Light armor and gloves as Medium armor rather than monster helms to get the most value out of each slot, etc.

There, PvP is saved. Now stop nerfing tanks.

coop500 · March 2021

1) Add playable Lilmothiit race! Racial passives wouldn't be OP though, more akin to argonian, situational stuff.

2) Add some of the older, discontinued items (mounts/pets/costumes and such) from the crown store to the world as earnable items.

3) No More Ugly Flaps or floating hip plates! Just, please, stop this nonsense once and for all.

Starlock · March 2021

DICTUM 1
Extensive restructuring of monetization to more tried and true models. [snip] when your game is financed solely with content expansions (DLCs) and a subscription. Subscription grants access to ALL expansions, but expansions can also be bought separately directly with money (never with fake currencies like crowns). Any current infinite spending transactions will be retired, put into the base game for everyone, or sold as a one-time mini-DLC. Purchases seamlessly transfer across servers and platforms; characters would remain tied to platform and server. No more being able to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year on a single video game; they'll have a Patreon set up for extra donations if you really want to spend that much.

DICTUM 2
Game masters will finally exist on all servers and platforms. While one of their roles will be to deal with rule violations in-game (say goodbye to bots forever, folks!) their main role will be to do what all good tabletop game masters do: enhance the enjoyment of the game for all players involved. New in-game tools can be developed for this purpose, such as the creation of pocket realms based on the housing system where game masters can host events ranging from navigating mazes to creating dungeon crawls filled with monsters. They will also have the ability to initiate world events anywhere on the map, such as roaming world bosses, to make the game world feel more dynamic for everyone. From hosting role-playing groups to dueling championships, DLC giveaways to fashion shows, the game master would be a big community builder.

DICTUM 3
Completely revamp the PvP system by divorcing PvE from PvP characters. Entirely new class-based templates will be created for the PvP environment instead[snip] No, you are now a rank and file soldier. A siege engineer? Frost mage? Perhaps a daedric summoner? Or all three if you want to level up and progress each of those different class types! The course of the war in Cyrodiil will now impact the PvE zones too, moderated by the game masters Pact kicking butt? Game masters can initiate Pact invasions in PvE zones - a special roaming world bosses and mobs to terrorize the other alliances! Besides, that planemeld thing was taken care of years ago. Let's finally advance the game timeline and make those something more dynamic.

[edited for bashing]

Voidheart80 · March 2021

1. Player Pets fixed, allowing you to click through them while in city zones so they don't interfere with crafting or bank / merchant / turning in writs NPCs
2. Interacting with a crafting nodes / treasure chest in the world while another player is in combat and a second player walked up the node/chest it will throw them in combat preventing them from ninja looting
3. Extended Dyes and amour customization including dyes that glow / special effects such as Shadowy Figure like the Shades in Markarth, Ghosts or the Hadgraven Witches / Crows in Evergloam etc

Artorias24 · March 2021

1.) Fix Lag

2.) Disable every proc set that directly deals damage or heals you in cyro. Make them crit in pve again.

3.) Give Group duels

PaddyVu · March 2021

1. Give us atleast 1 race change token for free when u change racial.
2. Joining encounter in progress apply to all dungeons, not only DLCs.
3. Make mistform function as blocking

Taloros · March 2021

1. Reduce login and logout times, i. e. the time from login screen to game world and back.
2. Improve the animations, for example make the hips and torso move more life-like when running.
3. Remove or heavily nerf light attack weaving / animation canceling.

redspecter23 · March 2021

1. All non enemy player combat pets can only be seen and interacted with by their owners.
2. Furniture bag, just like craft bag but for furnishings
3. Account wide achievements as well as account wide motif knowledge and recipe knowledge.

Sarannah · March 2021

I would:
1: Make auto-barswapping a thing, and show 10 skills on screen. Whenever the player uses a skill on the non-fronted skillbar, the game automatically barswaps with a 0.25s delay and uses the skill.

2: Implement an actually infinite CP system which only has non-gameplaybonusses from a certain point, like 810. Where there is no maximum on the CP-system, and where it does not matter gameplay-wise how many championpoints one has.

3: Add major QoL. QoL like: Making dyes single colors and permanently unlocked, make wayshrinetravel free, add wayshrine furniture for houses, 100 maximum quests in the questlog, +5 accountwide inventory slots per owned pet, maximum bankslots increased to 5000, a treasuremap holder, give every DLC npc's quest a different questmarker color, etc, etc.

Edit: Non-serious:
1: Whenever you kill something it revives right away.
2: Make wayshrine travel send you to a random wayshrine.
3: Add a thousand mouseclicks before being able to log-in. How badly do you want to play?!?

Path · March 2021

When I "Speak" in spatial, emotes are automatic.
Such as, "No (insert emote) I will not bow (insert emote) to you.

Allow multiple windows open, selecting a primary.

Allow custom, I mean really custom, keybinds without the need for a gaming mouse or keyboard.

TX12001rwb17_ESO · March 2021

1. Add option to hide shoulder pieces and hip-flaps from Armor.

2. Make a base version of all mount types buyable at Stable masters entirely dependent on location, Guars and Kalgouti could be brought in Morrowind, Nix-Ox could be brought on Vvardenfell, Bears from Wrothgar, Camels from Hammerfell and so on.

3. Make more abilities illegal acts such as the act of Daedra Summoning or Wild Animal Summoning and dueling within City Limits.

Cireous · March 2021

Healing bow
Give us a "Dramatically increase damage taken in Overland" Mythic item at the same time Companions release
Reversion of all "group only" healing and support sets and skills back to "ally" healing

SammyKhajit · March 2021

Craft bag is free for all.

Maiq the Liar is a companion and runs away when the final boss shows up (‘Maiq is tired...’).

Ability to hide other players’ combat pets at crafting stations

WiseSky · March 2021

Let us Create Our own Personal Quests for other players
Each Quest can be done without the use of the Compass, Map and Pins are removed, as in Morrowind
Really Heavy rain and Snow

P.S. 1 of those things is already available in beta, one in the works and one I wish for.

Hallothiel · March 2021

Get rid of crown crates completely. Crown store can stay if prices become reasonable, and everything, including ‘must-have’ items like special mounts, can be got in game with gold. Not by doing really hard stuff - give them as a random reward for doing normal stuff.

Furniture & siege weapon bag similar to craft bag. Siege one can be limited but would allow unused siege to stack!

Hybrids become properly viable. Properly. As in ‘accepted in end game trials’ viable.

(One more? Please? Stop everything being a dps race; it’s dull & brings out the worst in people. More complicated mechs that players need to work together to overcome, less ‘burn the boss’)

Scardan · March 2021

1. We have DoT trackers, buff trackers and other combat addons funktions without add-ons.
2. Quests are not on rails now! Now, you can roleplay as bad person and see Pircalmo eat his wife, while you get all the credits!
3. Cyrodiil is moved to different servers and sieges are reworked to be better than Mount and Blade sieges.

Larcomar · March 2021

We had a post liek this a whil eback, but always worth saying:

- Can my uber cp810 slayer of molag bal please learn the mystical ability of stepping. And not have to bunny hop like a moron in front of every damn 2 foot high wall /mini ledge / pebble in the game.

- The out of combat malarky when mobs chase you half way across the map, stopping you mounting, but then slap you like a wet noolde and then turn around and run back rightwhere they came from

- The horse mini game. Seriously, the fact that I have to spend 60 days levelling speed and 20-30 days levelling stam before i have a horse worth riding is bonkers. And frankly just discourages me from making alts.

My biggest wish though it some kind of difficulty slider / potion to make incrtease the difficulty of and make overland vaguely interesting and challenging. Not for everyone, just for those of us who want it.

priestnall.andrewrwb17_ESO · March 2021

Fix WW (and DK) pounce locking up. Add a non-dlc / dlc check-box into veteran dungeons. Oh... and combat pet skins. Take my money - TAKE IT!

Sotha_Sil · March 2021

1. Complete redesign of the magical system : put all previous ES schools of magic in the game (illusion, alteration, mysticism and so on).

2. Let all furnishings ingame be available via crafting (even buildings and landscape elements).

3. Rework sets : they support the skills and not replace it.

Vanya · March 2021

Altmer Female Companion Valsirenn or Quen
The ability to marry Estre or Avinisse.
Can be become High Queen of Aldmeri dominion

Fajin · March 2021

1) Make proper regional prices for ESO+ or make a system where it can be bought through playing the game (like WoW has WoW Token)
2) Add an ability to inspect other players (Gear, achievements, collections etc)
3) Fix loading times, so having alts is not painful anymore

Fischblut · March 2021

1) add ability to dye our mounts (including their effects)

2) make achievements account wide

3) if new CP system hits live, make all stars active at the same (no awful limit of 4 per tree

)

If these things would be implemented, I would be very happy.

Tandor · March 2021

1. Introduce a NPC trader in each city with a small limit on the number of items that anyone can list for sale, at a high rate of commission with all commission shared between the trading guilds operating in those locations. This would enable casual traders, those without guilds and those guilds without traders to do some trading without impacting at all on the trading guilds.

2. Introduce a trading quest into the tutorial which would lead new players to the NPC traders and provide an introduction to the whole trading system.

3. Provide a proper search function for buyers, enabling them to visit a trader to collect an item free or pay a fee to have it mailed to them. One option might be for the mailing fee to be waived for ESO+ members.

Together these changes would meet a lot of the concerns over the present trading system while maintaining the principles behind it, and would ensure that it operated consistently across all platforms.

BlueRaven · March 2021

1) Bosmers become stealthy again.

2) Tanks get a dps increase.

3) Macs get at least one full time programmer to support the client.

Elo106 · March 2021

Im going to keep this realistic and not fix performance magically.

1) I move all characters to one server, mega servers still exist but if you log in to PC you have the same characters as on XBox and PS, same for EU/NA servers, only exception are Macs, they are banned to an Apple only server

2) Add Ranked Arena and other small scale pvp options like moba style tower pushing games. More small scale pvp will distract all the pvp streamers talking about bad performance all the time, got to improve the games reputation and get more players.

3) I add Spellcrafting or atleast another magicka skill line with an EXECUTE for magicka classes

Josira · March 2021

First Change: Vampire Rework 3.0. this includes updated visuals,new and improved animations,and an emphisis on absorbing life from your foes,rather then using ones own life.

Second Change: Racial Ultimates. this includes some races having transformation related ultimates.

Third Change: Two New Skillines: One Hand and Rune,and Hand to Hand.

etchedpixels · March 2021

1. New underlying engine
2. Ability to do live patching/version desync because of 1 so bugs can be rapidly fixed
3. No shooting through walls because of 1

The elephant in the room to me is the game engine. Visually it's falling behind, the physics is now way behind and there are clearly a lot of bugs not being fixed because either it's too risky or the engine can't do it at all.

Unfortunately I can't see it happening until their new engine is finished and running one or two single player games.

Starlight_Whisper · March 2021

Tanks have lowered bash cost so they don't have to use a staff for off balance.

Elemental drain and agro fire cost the same

Twilight Matriarch has a third morph making it better for healing roles over dps while being worth two bar slots