Yeah, I'll admit, I'm just lazy. I make one build per toon and run with it. I have one that's pure psijic/sor (for me it seems more button mashing and slow, but still an interesting run), one pure vampire/sor (she seems gimped now), one pure vamp/necro, one that uses pure mage guild/sor (its so fun to see the bad guys go flying in the air using volcanic rune and smacked with lighting blast coming back down), etc.

The new armor build thing helps with this now a lot as its a bit annoying to replace armor, specs, skills, champion points, etc to switch from Stam dd to mage dd to healer, etc.

With all that said, more slots=move fun for some but most defiantly more $$$ for the game

Rasande_Robin wrote: »

I can't speak for others, only myself. But I'm very "value" driven. That meaning I "can" do things that are fun... But when value outweighs fun. I do value...

I am the exact opposite. I play to relax and have fun. I see no value in doing things I don't enjoy just because they may drop a better reward that I'll just end up deconstructing anyway.

Elsonso wrote: »

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

So many character ideas so little slots.

With the Armory and six characters, you can go a long long way to playing every possible build within a class and race. This is an amazing tool that can do almost everything you need it to do to respec a character.

Personally, I don't chase race. I patiently wait for ZOS to homogenize the races so that they are different in only cosmetics.

The armory solved nothing to me. I like making characters, not builds. Different races, gender, class, personality, background etc. Only slots solve that.

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

Elsonso wrote: »

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

So many character ideas so little slots.

With the Armory and six characters, you can go a long long way to playing every possible build within a class and race. This is an amazing tool that can do almost everything you need it to do to respec a character.

Personally, I don't chase race. I patiently wait for ZOS to homogenize the races so that they are different in only cosmetics.

The armory solved nothing to me. I like making characters, not builds. Different races, gender, class, personality, background etc.

Me too, but like with tools, the right tool for the job. ESO is not a good tool for that job. ESO about player experience and player capabilities. That is the focus, and it always has been.There are better tools (aka games) out there for playing characters.

There are other games out there that do housing better. There are other games out there that do card games better. There are other games out there that do PVP better. There are other games out there with better stories. In almost every category, there is another game out there that all or most of it better. ESO doesn't do very much that is better than all other games out there, but one thing it does do is bring features together into one game, even if the implementation is not best in class. That affords some ability to "one stop shop" when looking for a game.

If someone is here to play a stable of characters, and that is it, there are other games out there that are better than what ESO offers. The only reason for that person to stick with ESO is if they want to do something else in the game, besides just making characters.

I would be remiss if I did not remind that ZOS recently nerfed character individuality in favor of player experience. As long as the character player can play their stable of characters with an increasing ability to adapt to ZOS doing this, they should be safe. Chances are they are not going to buff character individuality any time soon, so I predict a downward slide here.

Elsonso wrote: »

Me too, but like with tools, the right tool for the job. ESO is not a good tool for that job. ESO about player experience and player capabilities. That is the focus, and it always has been.There are better tools (aka games) out there for playing characters.
*snip*

ESO is an MMORPG, in the Elder Scrolls franchise. A franchise of RPGs known for its sandboxyness to make the characters we want to make, play, and make stories with.

It should be a good game for me to make characters with. I shouldn't need to think of wanting some other "tool".

DMuehlhausen wrote: »

There should be less slots total. No need for more. As it is now you really only need what 6 specially with the armory. Fine you want to craft give you 12 maybe even 18. There is literally no argument for more. You can do every class and build at this point easily.

If you don't want more slots fine. It seems super odd that you would dictate to other players who play differently than you how many character slots are adequate, or don't have any more being offered. It doesn't affect YOU, how many characters other players choose to develop

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

Elsonso wrote: »

Me too, but like with tools, the right tool for the job. ESO is not a good tool for that job. ESO about player experience and player capabilities. That is the focus, and it always has been.There are better tools (aka games) out there for playing characters.
*snip*

ESO is an MMORPG, in the Elder Scrolls franchise. A franchise of RPGs known for its sandboxyness to make the characters we want to make, play, and make stories with.

It should be a good game for me to make characters with. I shouldn't need to think of wanting some other "tool".

Over the years, I have noticed that product descriptions can be fast and loose with terms, and this is largely what I see happening with "MMORPG" games. If there is any aspect at all, even the smallest of them, that is an RPG, those three letters get slapped on it. In effect, they dilute the term. It is like how some people call a Ford Mustang a "sports car", a description that falls short when compared to a Lamborghini. ESO can be an "RPG" until it gets placed against a game that is better at RPG, like the Bethesda games mentioned above. This applies to all "MMORPG" on the market today, not just ESO.

Multiple characters, and therefore more character slots, make less sense following Update 33. That update represents ZOS stepping back from the "RPG", creating even more distance between ESO and the other ES games. That means that eighteen slots is a lot of slots for a game design that doesn't have a high demand for alternate characters. I expect that they will add one with the next character class, mainly so that it isn't necessary for anyone to delete a character to use the new class. Outside of that, I am at a loss to understand why they would add more. Even Crown slots have no justification, if few people buy them.

Mesite wrote: »

If they allow us to sell our unused character slots at the guild store it would solve the problem. I have one or two unused character slots.

There is a maximum amount of slots per account. It is not possible to have more than the maximum slots. Buying slots from another player wouldn't give that player any more slots if they were already at their max.

I'm not sure that would even be possible anyway. We can buy and sell game items, not account features.