Troodon80 wrote: »

HanYolo wrote: »

My only gripe would be that it took me 10000+ hours to find this section. I don’t know if a new character gets any form of hint to look there for information but that I only found out about it now is telling in its own way, I guess.

I've mentioned this so many times, it's unreal. I'd wager the vast majority of players don't even know this exists in-game. It has a lot of information, but it's also lacking the more hands-on stuff. For abilities, it basically says "you can slot abilities" but doesn't say why you should even bother. Can I do more damage? Do I have heals? Will they help in some way? Who knows, work if out yourself.

Further on this, here it is in-game:


New player perspective: "I just went through the tutorial and I was told light attacks and heavy attacks deal damage. Is there any need to use abilities? Why would I bother when light and heavy attacks do fine?" This was genuinely me when I first started playing.

Moreover, they show Dragonknight abilities rather than dynamic icons for your class (when I first started playing, I started on Templar). So if you look at the tutorial, you're thinking "I don't see those abilities, those are not the abilities on my bar, how do I get those abilities and what do they do?" They also don't show anything else, such as weapon, armour, and guild skill lines and how to unlock them. The ability bar shown in the help section is also only an image, so you can't hover over the abilities to see what they do. Nor does it tell you about hovering over abilities to read the tooltip.

How I would write this one Help Page is something along the lines of this:
It's, quite frankly, bizarre how the Abilities help section gives you only the barest of information while the Status Effects section gives you a complete rundown of exactly what each status effect does and the percentage chances to apply. Similarly, the Removing Negative Effects section tells you how to remove effects with examples, "Templar Skill Purify and Alliance War Support skill Purge."

Why can't the Abilities section give a basic hint toward doing damage, healing, aggro, and applying buff/debuffs using abilties?

In fact, buffs are only mentioned in the following categories: Events (Jester, New Life, Witches) for experience buffs, Combat (Mundus Stones), and Synergies (Charged Lightning). Why couldn't it also mention class specific buffs which apply both to the player and their group? Why doesn't it touch on debuffs? It gives a passing mention to negative effects in two categories, but doesn't differentiate the difference between a snare and a hard CC. Why do you have a section which says "Remove Negative Effects" when most of the recent content has unpurgeable debuffs/DoTs? A new player looking at a negative effect, maybe a bleed, and spamming Purge; they're wondering why the effects are not getting removed.

The game contradicts itself in some of the sections, too, which isn't helpful. Likely due to some of the help sections simply being out of date. For example, Cleanse: "Removes all negative effects from the target." No, it doesn't. It removes those which ZOS allow to be removed, which isn't all by a long shot.

Don't even get me started on their standardisation process of standardising stuff and then leaving in exceptions and deliberate inconsistencies.

Also a small section to explain the transport system and how to use the docks etc

ESO has in-game icon for tutorial? lol