hm i hope this post doesn't die, was looking so forward to all your opinions :c

I have fun questing and exploring. The thought of having to study builds and learn exact rotations sounds too much like work to me

I just don't have the key-foo, or the motivation to try and learn it. Or to memorise mechanics/dungeon maps/high-end-rotations. So I'll never be of any use in real Veteran stuff, nor would I draw much fun from it.

I love quests, and exploration, and NPC dialogues, and collecting things.

That said, I'd be happy if the overland/quest things got a little more challenging (because yes, after a year or so of playing, and getting used to how the game works, there are no challenges left in non-Vet content). But as it is there is a gap between "easy" and "Veteran" with nothing in between, and as long as that's the case I'm happy to stay on the casual side of it.

I have played for 5.6k+ hrs, so I had time to do a lot, vet dungeons and farming monster stuff included.
But now I've lost the patience to do hard content, the dungeons I find repetitive and vets often too long a chore to really amuse me.
I voted for causal then, even if once in a while something engaging may be fun, like was the murkmere giant WB that I did yesterday with 3-4 randomly convened people: more than 10' of fight, lol.

I can’t think of one gaming instance I was ever put off by how easy something was, I’m 40 and have had plenty of challenges in life so I’m here for story, helping friends, general exploration and overland stuff like hunting shards and bosses. How things will change after I get most of the exploring out of the way is anyone’s guess but I’m taking it pretty slow.

I do watch quite a few theory crafters and pay attention to how players build their classes but understand I’m at a huge disadvantage playing on console without a lot of the addons that assist with tracking fights. Necro is pretty clunky for me trying to aim and activate corpses and the pets/buffs are rather short. Rough class to get good with for me let alone master as blastbones is maddening at times.

One day maybe I’ll expand into the harder aspects of the game but they are low on my priority list atm.

I pretty much exclusively play vet as normal offers me nothing at this point. It is fast 10 transmutes but what good is a quick run if it's boring and trivial..

But yeah.. Even then sometimes you hope for Fungal 1 sometimes you hope for Stone Garden.. Depends on my mood.

I think that one of the factors that contributes to this game's longevity is that there are so many different things to do. I'll spend some time working my way through a zone, doing the main story, checking off POI, doing x quests in the zone to get the achievements, etc until I get a little burnt out on it. Then I'll run around and I'll do some achievement hunting. Going through zones looking for M'aiq, pickpocketing, paying off guards, etc. Then I'll get board and go do some vet dungeons, doing daily pledges and harder content until I get burned out on that and just want to chill, so I'll run and work on getting mythic items and other furniture antiquities. That will get old and then I'll jump into Cyrodiil and spend sometime pushing or defending for emperor, taking keeps, ganking dirty AD or filthy DC. Eventually I'll burn out on that, then I'll have the desire to pick up where I left off on that zone I was working to 100%. Or maybe run a trial, or do HM on a dungeon I've never done. And if all these are things I feel burnt out on, I'll jump from my stamblad main to my magplar and the exact same things will feel totally different.

I play ESO like a single-player TES game. The only group stuff I do are World Bosses and public dungeons if I need to. Sometimes I will run with people in Delves for fun. But I'm into exploring big time. The game world was meant for that.

Both. I prefer casual playing most often, but I can enjoy a challenge now and again. Far from super-1337 though, so I often wait with the vet hardmode on newest stuff. :-P

Just depends on the mood and what (if anything) I'm trying to accomplish. Guild does vet events and I like to participate. Other times just advancing the story, farming or exploring.

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Adzer2 wrote: »

I enjoy challenging content, but theres a limit, when it gets to be a chore to complete something or is completely unpuggable then it takes the enjoyment away.

What's unpuggable? I've pugged every dungeon, every normal trial, and several vets trials (no HM).

Wow! Congratz man!!!!

I will tell you the ones i didn't pug!
During free eso plus i tried to pug all this dungeons and got to see some toxic behavior from players and lots of leavers, here's a list of the ones i remember never being able to pug on Vet.

Fang Lair
Scalecaller Peak
Depths of Malatar
Icereach
Castle Thorn

took me more than 1 h to pug The Cauldron , we only did it because the russian tank player was patient and really good!
Can't even imagine, pugging hard modes of vet dlc dungeons.

Mik195 wrote: »

Right now soloing Selene's on normal is as hard as I can do. I don't expect to ever be able to handle veteran, let alone hard veteran.

You will be able to do base game vet dungeons in no time.