Some of what you describe might be because there are so many of us killing the mobs. I have only found one world boss up and ready to go when I got there. It's what I hope it is, anyway.

I'm enjoying it a lot. Yes some of the dialogue could do with refining in flow and style; Having said that I have enjoyed the side quests that I have done so far and been entertained by the twists and turns in the various stories.

I'm an Oblivion fan (more than Skyrim) and it's been great fun coming across delves and ruins that I recognise and remember.

Not finished the map or the main quest yet as I'm deliberately not rushing it, been taking companions on undaunted/mage/fighters daily quests with alts as well.

So, yes, so far an enjoyable experience.

I think the zone looks cool, I think it would be nice to have a zone that offered more to do in a chapter at some point. It's always a new questline, then some variation of what Dolmens were. Harrowstorms, the weird summerset orbs, now oblivion portals. Would just be nice to have another type of activity to do in the zones. I like the story, I like the way the zone looks, but I'd like to see something new in the overland group play department.

It is quiet and a bit emptier, but that actually feels better to me and more in keeping with every other Elder Scrolls game except ESO. It's nice to be able to walk 30 feet without having to dodge gratuitous wildlife.

The storylines are mostly good, there are some lovely Oblivion references including the fan and the vampire on the Bastian quest. Companions are a bit meh, but it's only one feature and may well improve over time. The dungeons that came before it were also good - the cauldron in particular is a bit more lively than most dungeons. Not yet tried the trial.

The downsides are actually not the new zone but the rest - the green CP tree is still unusably full of pointless slottables, and the changes to proc sets have been so badly overdone that combined with the last mess there is now only one thing that matters and thus only one set of gear that is worth wearing.

For once we got a big ass region with almost no mountains and restrictions, full of medieval structures and ruins. It feels so tesiv

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Feels perfect to me and a lot better than Greymoor. its gonna be sad if we dont get more Cyro for next dlc.

They confirmed during the Year-Long story reveal that the Quarter-4 Dlc will take place in the Deadlands itself. Mostly because they didnt want to repeat what they did last year and split the chapter into 2 zones (Skyrim/Blackreach)

New favorite zone. My only sadness is that the furnishings were not more of a blend of argonian + Imperial, with some updates to Murkmire styles (and no more "argonian chimneys" oh dear). I had wanted to see that.

However, it is a gorgeous area, with interesting npcs. I've rehomed all of my characters to there.

Its kind of shocking that most responses are about 'look'. That shows the audience they are targeting, 'it looks nice' crowd. Even the 'looks nice' crowd is mostly saying the actual content is pretty bad though. A lot of work goes into these but the content is not good. I can't pretend at 1000+ CP that its this epic quest when everything dies in seconds, and no i don't want to make myself weaker (boring). The empy Oblivion portal runs are also something strange. How much work was to put everything in place for such empty, boring content? Also shows the state of the game where the boss needs 5 immunity triggers to not evaporate in 3 seconds - worse than Dolmens released 8 years ago, atleast those have farming value to them.

The main mythic item forced to be farmed by BOT like activity of standing in one place for DAYS - the droprate has to be below 1% on this specific lead, everything else in the entire game you get very quickly in compariso. The absolute worse way to farm it, BOT like activity, and you make that one the hardest to get? For paid content? That just can't be right. Daily'''maintance'''' for EU is also great bonus - another one just announced, cool.
Another zone (17th) for low level players when all i see are sped up high CPs. I believe there is many more high level players than new players at this point and yet the content is not reflecting that at all. Craglorn was released 2014 and it was quite difficult zone for everyone at that time. First new zone released was difficult, infact still might be more difficult than stuff we get in 2021, something went wrong here.

[snip] Overall another update for the phantom new players that surely exist i'm just not seeing them on my screen.

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Yes and No.

I am just getting started in the zone but traveled around getting the lay of the land as I do before questing. The zone seems empty as far as random trolls, wolves, etc. I felt like I had entered the PVP zone.

I was very disappointed the portals are a pub dungeon. The first boss wiped most of the players in there. It was a long and irritating fight that left Mirri dead minutes into the fight, most of the players dead and a few of us trying to keep going so it wouldn't reset. I left after the first boss. May run it later after I finish questing.

I will run the quests once but feeling this is going to be a zone where I won't quest all of my characters. Maybe the quests will make up for the disappointing feeling of how empty this zone seems.

I generally like it but have been disappointed in the open world as there seems to be a lot more invisible walls than in other areas. Places where you could have climbed over to explore or discover as a shortcut in prior releases are inaccessible even though you can jump high enough to reach them. It isn't a game breaker but does take some of the fun out of just riding around to see what there is.

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SidraWillowsky wrote: »

What happened to the DLC and their corresponding expansion zones being so different from each other? Morrowind and Clockwork City. Summerset and Murkmire. Why have they started just kind of extending the existing DLC zones in their expansions????

They said it was much harder on the team for that kind of work which is why there was a shift to "Chapters" and Year long stories so then there was a consistent theme over the course of the year. Much easier on the content pipeline for the content of the Year to share aesthetics and assets.

Because some people actually did not care for Murkmire being so different from Summerset (i.e. completely unrelated)

I like Murkmire - one of my favorite zones

HOWEVER - Q4 DLC zone is Deadlands which will be Very different from the mostly bog and marsh of Blackwood

I wouldn't necessarily have a problem with that if they then used that saved time/effort to add new innovative features, systems, more trials, races, classes, skill lines, etc., but they don't. We haven't had a new combat skill line since psijic with Summerset (the vamp REWORK doesn't count as new content), no new pvp systems since Morrowind, only one trial a year, etc. ZOS hasn't even fixed a lot of the combat bugginess/issues with necro that came out 2 years ago.

I haven't spent a long time there yet, but my first impression was that of an extended Murkmire. Just one more thing to add to the lackluster-ness of this chapter.