Well with the nerfs to Oakensoul, DKs, and dynamic HoT (I'm a healer for PUGs) I don't think there will be as much I *can* do. I'm a lower-tier player and need all the help I can get. These changes are a punch to the face. There is only so much ToT and decorating I can stand. Needless to say, the little vet stuff I have been able to do on my healer and DK will be over.

It doesn't make me happy. Right now I'm thinking about other MMOs, but ESO is the only game I've ever played so I would really rather stay, but like a said cards and houses isn't enough.

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Gonna give MYM a hard push next week, we will see after that.

I am heading into 3Q and Whitestrake with 12 Event Tickets and nothing to spend them on. I saw the Power Ranger outfit and decided maybe it is time to get off this year's Event Ticket grind for a couple months. The next two after that are Undaunted and the High Isle one. Then I assume we find out what 4Q holds for Event Tickets as we head into Witches Festival.

Edit: actually, I should have taken 2Q off, as well, due to the mount being less than interesting. Silly me.

TaSheen wrote: »

"Other" - I don't know yet because I haven't got the data to download the PTS.

and we have not seen what is going live yet. Even then, it is easy to talk one way but do something different when this is on the live servers.

It won't. I've 0 interest in trials or PVP, and I doubt the changes will impact the combat content I do much - if at all.

I don't expect it will but worst case scenario I would go entirely to crafting and decorating houses, which is already how I spend the majority of my time.

I've played some of my usual content on the PTS and have noticed no appreciable differences, so I don't intend to play ESO any less than I currently do because of U35. Likewise, I don't intend to play ESO any more than I currently do, either.

A few of the previous updates had much more significant impacts than U35 on my ability to clear certain content that I have grown to enjoy, such as soloing resources in Cyrodiil (as PvE, or fighting against the NPCs, rather than as PvP, which I'm not any good at), or soloing certain world bosses. Those previous updates may have made it more difficult, if not impossible, for me to successfully clear specific content, but they didn't influence how much time I spend playing ESO.

Note that I generally do spend less time playing ESO than I once did, but the reasons for that have nothing to do with updates past, present, or future.

First of all, I was spending some time playing TES:Arena, and now I'm also spending a lot of time playing TES2:Daggerfall, so that's taken several hours away from playing ESO each day.

Also, I recently stopped doing the daily crafting writs on all of my alternate characters, because it seemed to be taking up half or more of the time I was devoting to ESO each day, especially with playing other TES games for several hours each day.

Associated with cutting back on daily crafting writs was the decision to stop worrying about logging in twice a day to cycle through my characters and collect the mail from their crafting hirelings. I was actually setting timers on my iPad so I'd know when it had been 12 hours since my last login, which was introducing some unnecessary stress about whether or not I'd be able to log in twice each day.

Now that I've taken a much more relaxed approach to the game, I can focus more on enjoying the content that's fun for me, and from what I've seen so far on the PTS, U35 isn't going to have much impact on that.

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Associated with cutting back on daily crafting writs was the decision to stop worrying about logging in twice a day to cycle through my characters and collect the mail from their crafting hirelings. I was actually setting timers on my iPad so I'd know when it had been 12 hours since my last login, which was introducing some unnecessary stress about whether or not I'd be able to log in twice each day.

That’s one that I was pretty upset about. I put skill points into hirelings and didn’t realize I had to login after a cool down. I was expecting 2 of each in my mailbox once a day. I think that was a reasonable assumption to make.

I likely fall into the category of player that ZoS seems to think these massive nerfs adjustments are going to help.
But I'm in wait-and-see mode.

On the one hand what I've read about the coming changes I cannot logically see how it is going to benefit me.
As a very non-big number spitter I am still getting comfortable with weaving and if I hit 15k - 20k during a dragon fight for example, that's doing good for me.
Then I read that I am going to be losing DPS with every character class I play...
I also actually like bar swapping, I feel it gives combat a bit more dynamic feel.
So these changes will be helping me access harder content? Fuzzy logic that.

But on the other hand, who knows. I don't visit the PTS, so I won't know until I know, ya know?
If it's a noticeable hit to where I struggle to solo world bosses or solo dungeons that I know I can do well now, IDK.
Maybe it will be time for an extended break.

They said wait and see, so I will.

As I'm on Series X and have no access to PTS, so I don't know for sure until it goes live.

As to the question...
I'm already playing less. As mentioned above, U33 and the AWA debacle already soured me on this dev teams approach to the game (and their non-responsiveness to asked for feedback), so that took a big hit to my play time.

Now add to it this complete combat overhaul travesty and what it could mean to my mid-level playstyle, and it feels about time for a break. While I've usually been fine with rolling with the 3-month cycle punches, churn fatigue is definitely become a thing!

My annual sub runs out at the end of Aug. (just shy of the console release unfortunately), so I'll cancel and will convert it to a monthly so I can test everything out on live and see what's what. If content is then out of reach and my toons are/feel busted, I will only be out a month instead of the yearly sub, and will cancel for good.

Been playing daily since day one and never even thought about cancelling my sub (never actually even paid attention to when it auto-renewed), but it really feels like death from a thousand cuts and I can see they've got their blade out again... and I'm on my last few hit points.

I was doing mostly overland.

Got oakensoul and I tried some new things.

Oak will be gone, so I am just going back to overland.

I doubt that it will have a huge impact on the way I play. I will be unhappy if I can no longer solo base game dungeons but I'm not going to quit over it, and I'm certainly not going to punish myself by cancelling ESO+.

I don't know yet. I don't test on PTS. When the patch is live, I'll see if the game is still fun to play, meaning whether I can still do the activities I enjoy without them feeling like a slog, and without having to completely change my build (I use the term "build" loosely because I pretty much use the skills I like and that's my build), and without having to relearn my class.

If I have to change my build to enjoy the activities I like (I'm not an end game PvE player), I'm gone. If I have to relearn my class, I'm gone. If it takes me longer to kill stuff, I'm gone. If not, I'll stay, and I'll change my sub back to annual (changed it to monthly because it renews tomorrow and I didn't want to be locked in for another year before I try out these changes).

That is all.

(I play a bow/bow warden, so I'd say there's a 50/50 chance I'll be staying, given the changes.)

I play non CP Cyrodiil mostly and the patch is killing few of my builds.

I'll just pick another build that is least affected by the patch and will continue to fight other players.

It just feels bad that this patch is killing more viable builds and promotes zerglings even further.

These changes and my realization, that ZOS doesn't really know what they are doing are perfectly timed for me. It finally gave me the push to take a break from the game and enjoy the summer. Maybe I'll come back after the next big overhaul, so see you guys in 3 month.