It looks pretty cool. But why did DK get a massively OP set? It's not really the class that needs the most help (Necro anyone?).

Also, the silence about crown gifting was deafening.

I honestly liked everything I've seen today. The changes with the crafting, the jewelry rebalancing, the archive and allll the new, shiny rewards you can earn.
I am seriously looking forward to U40. Like, really.
This stream was great to watch!

is the jewelry change only removing unrefined tempers or is it also removing unrefined trait material too?

Im personally feeling happy with what they presented. It actually looks pretty solid. Definitely something for everyone and i love that they actually made endless achieve base game. Super good call. Will be nice to have something that could actually present a challange for vet players too. Im a fan. Im also anxious to see all the class sets and the mount obviously. Always happy to get a new house too. HOWEVER- as a vet endgamer im gonna hold my judgment until i see class balance on pts. That always scares me. Other then that im pretty well on board but y'all- pour one out for crag. Its the end of an era.

I saw something that was only on screen for a moment. there was a lead drop. I think it said it's located in Apocrypha. can you confirm if Apocrypha is going to receive it's very own antiquities unrelated to the Telvanni Peninsula Antiquities?

Grand Master Crafting Station - Good
Rebalanced Jewelry Crafting - Rather Good.
Group Finder - Amazing if we can set requirements like achi or something like that (nobody wants a player who just unlocked vet content to join for vet dlc trials...). If not then just "Good" as it will still be better than standing in Craglorn and spamming zone chat
Endless Archive - hard to say right now but...:
- in terms of rewards i saw only crafting/alchemy materials/furnishings that u can buy with new currency. But nothing about the most needed one: Transmute Stones. Ppl will still need to do random normal dungeons in order to reconstruct gear... or do some PvP.
- nothing about rewards for achievements. We could see a horse in trailer tho so i guess thats it.
- I dont feel rly good about the class sets. I mean idea isnt bad but... when i checked the new sets on some i was like "Thats too op" or "This is useless...". I guess some changes will maybe fix it but first opinion on them is rather negative.
- Lack of difficulty. I get it why they did it like they did but for me and more experienced players first like 3 Arcs will be mostly boring. And it sad that we cant skip them. While its important to have good accessibility for all players, making the start of the activity boring for more experienced players isnt a good idea.
- Big plus for this being free.
I guess we have to wait for PTS to see how players enjoy it to get better opinion about it. For now i guess thats it.

My major point of concern for class sets is that if a skill line has 2 specific roles it fulfills, and it gets an item set, that one of the roles may be ignored. My main example of this will be winter's embrace for warden. It's primarily the tanking line for warden, but it also is a secondary dps skill line due to it's passives and several of it's morphs. I'm extremely worried that we'll get a set for it that is quite literally just "when you cast a winter's embrace skill you get armor" or something to that effect. While the item set we got was revealed for green balance which is strictly a healing line, i still have this worry.

- The Endless Archives looks like a promising new version of an arena setup. What I enjoy greatly is that we're allowed to chose wether or not we'd like to run solo through it and that you implemented two different leaderboards for encouragement.
Personally, I'm not too excited about meeting olf foes from the dungeons of the previous years again. As a veteran PVE player, I can count down their abilities in my sleep and I was rather excited to fight something/somebody new as an increase in difficulty and to tickle my sense of exploration.

- I like the changes that are going to be done for the jewelry system. A little nervous in regards of the automatic change from grains to ancient grains but considering similar changes in the early years of ESO (looking at you, Soul gems) I doubt that much if not anything could go wrong. I've never bothered to upgrade any of mine to gold as the slight increase in effectivity simply wasn't worth the waste of potential gold on my end. I'd be interested to know wether or not there'll be hirelings added for this specific part of the crafting system too now.

- Unexpectedly I'm most excited for the upcoming group finder. I feared you'd turn it into another simple queue, cutting off a huge aspect of player interaction from the game. I know a lot of players have been asked specifically for something like that but I believe many underestimate the positives that come from player interaction. For all I can say, many other aspects of the game that require it are growing a bit odd as less and less players are interested into playing ESO as anything else but a Solo game. I like the idea of designing it like some sort of notice board. In regards of the trial section, I'd welcome the ability for people to set up conditions that interests have to meet before joining the player's specific group.
This way trial groups can avoid being fed leeches, Achievement hunters may avoid trolls or people bluntly underestimating the difficulty increase.

- Not excited for the additional decks for ToT. I'm not a ToT-Hater, i played it a lot when it got released and unlocked the trophies one by one. It just didn't do it for me in the long run as I originally had hoped it would be a game that would encourage players to meet ingame for matches and unlock a new potential event that could be setup by players. Such as breathing more life into taverns all across Tamriel.

- I find the visual design of the class sets underwelming. To my untrained eyes, it looks like a bunch of meshes from DLC of the previous 3 years got subtle changes done to them and then combined into a new motif. The nighthollow 2.0 look for the necromancer is especially disappointing on my end. It looks pretty, but it doesn't look much of a necromancer.
It begs the question if the motifs in their choice of texture and meshes are supposed to show some sort of connection to the other motifs released in Necrom (Looking especially at the Dragonknight Class Set). I think an independend design that purely focused on representing the class itself would have been more of my thing. The Necromancer looks like a overhaul of Nocturnals agents, only the skull emblem on those axes gave it away for me.

Question:
Will there be 3 different sets for each role per class or will we only get the tank set for necromancers and the healer set for wardens? Will the effects of the 5-piece-bonus reflect the visual identity of each class? Because that's what I've been hoping for years now. A class set with matching visuals and a bonus that only the class benefits from to breath some new life into class identity. But only as a Necro Tank? Please no...

I wish to see some return for purchasing all the crafting stations. As tings stand now you can simply port to the house of someone that did collect them all and profit witout any effort.
All activities in the game reward you why being a master crafter with all attunable doesn't?

This said finally some improvements to crafting and the endless archive look fun! Some more diversity in enviroments to accompny the bosses would have been better tough.

The trial group finder has the potential to revolutionate the game. Really looking forward to it.

Great job to eveyone in Zeny !!!

@ZOS_Kevin

Has the team designing the custom group finder put in any safety measures, so it doesn't get flooded with real money trade spammers like in world of warcraft?

Will run progress in the Endless Archive get lost if a two man group gets disbanded? I've noticed that after weekly server maintenance groups sometime disband, and I would hate to lose progress on a run because the group auto disbanded over the night.

If I start a run in Endless Archive and then go back to the hub area and quit the game, will I be able to pick up where I left off? e.g. I played for a while and could keep going but I want to go to bed. could I come back after I wake up and continue?

So, here's kind of a... weird observation.

In the UI that shows how far you've gone into Endless Archive, your stage number is displayed from smallest -> largest, which is a bit unusual.
(For an example of this, look at the numbers at the top right of the screen, right under the header "[F5] Mora's Boons".)

So, for example, if you're in Arc 1, Cycle 2, Stage 3, it will display as: 3 - 2 - 1.
This is a bit backwards for how most stages (and chapters) are displayed in games and literature.
For example, World 2 Level 1 in a Mario game is displayed as 2-1, not 1-2.
The 5th verse of the 3rd chapter of a holy book might be described as 3:5, but not 5:3.

I'm curious as to why this order was chosen, as I'm concerned it may feel a tad counterintuitive to some people.
(Not insurmountable so, but it's an interesting direction!)