Hi. I am a Super Casual. Proud if it.

If this was that MMO which hails from Irvine California then that would already be the end of me here and especially in Trade Chat over there. The player base is incredibly toxic.

...and therein is the source of our problem in ESO and yet ESO's really great advantage.

With very new characters, no CP, a rotten dog's dinner of blue gear, a skill bar full of unlevelled skills, no food as I am (rightly) saving up my valuable purple ESO+ tri-pots for when I am CP160+ and wanting to "step up" I bravely step into a FG1 or whatever Bolgrul is offering during Undaunted and...

I'll follow the fearless tank into the first pack of mobs and... instantly die because the mobs don't seem to die so quick and... wait... this boss has adds which spawned mid fight and... dead again.

And NOT ONE TIME did anyone rage on me. Not once!

"Hey dude... stand a bit closer to me and I can heal you more" comes one whisper.
"Hey matey, next up stand behind that boss and when he puts red circles on the ground then roll away if you don't have a damage shield".
"Hey... do you have a bow on your back bar?"
"Hey I got some food here"

Everyone trying to help!

Okay I am sending myself up a bit here. But until we are able to dole out CP to all our characters and until my character is CP160 my gear will be rotten I'll admit. Of course I try to mitigate things a bit. I do actually quaff a purple tri-pot at the dungeon enrance and I focus 100% on staying alive if I know my character is weak.

I know that overland, I can do anything with any skill combination and any green gear except solo dolmens and a few bad quest bosses here and there. Some would argue that this breeds laziness?

I agree but... there is no solution. I remember the dark days when I absolutely struggled to defeat quest bosses and stay alive. I recall dieing over and over again to this quest "boss" in a underground lair in an island just north of Skywatch in Auridon. Stamina Sorceror. Couldn't get past that one. Quit the game for a week or two. Was that 2014?

Somewhere along the way I "clicked". Skill bars are not about loading up as many damage abilities as possible. Hmmm... this ability gives me massive penetration and all I need to do is slot it. I wonder if that might help? (TLDR: slot it now! It helps a lot lol).... hmmm this is a damage shield... I wonder what will happen if I keep it up and then pull that pack of ten mudcrabs or delve mobs (TLDR: You'll still be alive lol)

I am STILL a Super Casual.

I was standing at the door of Skyreach the other month during that Craglorn/Orc event and... this random dude asked if I wanted to duo the dungeons (I think we did two back to back not sure how that worked). We had a blast. We both died a couple of times. I mixed heals with damage. Got the heart racing! Had a total blast! He seemed happy with a couple of the drops. The XP (CP)! Wow!

My skill bars are a mix of Major Brutality/Berserk/Prophecy etc, a damage shield, an AoE spammable, perhaps a heal on damage ability, an emergency heal, a DoT or two, etc. I can solo most overland content except Northern Elsweyr dragons (I haven't tried tbh) but I can solo Reaper's March WBs I know for sure for example (very very slow lol) and dolmens are so easy I don't really focus too much on what I'm doing.

In dungeons I help as best I can. I am still focused on staying alive. An alive "bad" is much better than a dead "bad". I try to bring in group wide buffs and I apply boss debuffs and the remainder of my time I focus on DPS.

Magicka will spell weave a bit if I think the group needs me to try harder as the progress is slow, in between the other stuff as afore mentioned.

Stamina, being up close, I must focus heavily on moving and staying alive and healing myself. I am always dual wield with Bloodthurst morph of Flurry as my main spamable (heals on damage) so weaving is not something I am comfortable with as yet but I do need to insert heavy attacks for sustain lol. I run a bow backbar on my stamina characters for when I don't understand the fight and I am admitedly observing and my DPS tbh drops way down.

But I have a TON of fun with this incredibly immersive game. Thank you for not raging on me. Trust me... I am trying to pull my weight. I empathise with newer players. I understand the frustration of the better players.

We were all bad once. We can all improve. But this community is so very welcoming.

Please remember that ZOS gets their money from a very vast player base. I suspect there are many like me. Oh yeah... time to play the age card hehehehe... in my sixties... and ESO is the best!