I am pretty excited. I hope we will be able to change spells and their animations for different magic types (so I can finally make a legit ice DPS warden)

I am also excited to see what housing options we get in Skingrad. The style looks amazing. Looks like a lot of fun.

And...this is kinda lame I guess, but I REALLY like the pre-order Eyebright Raven pet "Known as some of hte smartest birds in all of Tamriel, the Eyebright Ravens name for exceptional pets." Ravens are insanely intelligent IRL. They will even fashion tools to solve problems, they remember faces and remember the interaction. They will troll you, or bring you trinkets. I think its really cool to put this pet in game and I especially love the write up for it.

Q4 PvP has me feeling as excited as 2017 when warden was released. You have my support again, don’t let us down.

beautiful chapter!
beautiful zone!
beautiful animals!!
beautiful ayleid ruins!!
beautiful ithelia!

i am really excited to explore the chapter in spring/summer! i love the bosmeri area of Dawnwood, Skingrad looks fun, and it seems like another favourite chapter.
scribing seems fun too

that new mantikore mount also is amazing! and a raven pet wow.



some pictures i love under spoilers

Thanks for the screenshots @LunaFlora!

It was about what I expected. Scribing, eh. Need to see it before I get hyped and even then, buttons in ESO rarely feel fun to press.

Q4 being something I have no interest in for the second year in a row kinda sucks. Whatever this new pvp thing is, please for the love of god don't give it an event or force it on us. Midyear Mayham is too much as it is.

Purchased! Purchased Necrom right away too, but this time love the new mount and pre-order pet!

Sooo excited to see more Ayleid content and learn about this lost Prince and the zone looks gorgeous too! Also looking forward to the new scribing system — I love customization!

At first I was sad there weren’t going to be new companions but I’m happy to see more to come later in the year!

(Edit: silly typo)

- Story sounds good.
- Scribing is no spellcrafting, but I'll give it a try.
- A bit disappointed the new companions won't be added before Q4.
- Might be a pity for some that Necrom's ending was spoiled - I've seen people complaining about the lack of Necrom spoiler warnings here at the forum just 2 or 3 days ago (although it's of course hard to announce that new story without mentioning Ithelia).

As a bow player I found the showcased scribing skill very disappointing. The freedom to customize the skill effect is kind of cancelled out by tying it to an animation that is highly restrictive in terms of its use: "firing an arrow into the ground and doing a backflip". Yeah I really want to customize that To be honest it makes it kind of a non-feature that way. Yeah you can customize a skill, but due to its animation its use is so oddly specific and out of line with the other abilities that you won't want to slot it.

Fata1moose wrote: »

No vet overland = no buy unfortunately.

Also not convinced on scribing being spell crafting without you know…spells.

Because it's obviously not Spell Crafting as everyone envisioned it to be. It's Spell Customization. Probably what ZOS was only capable of doing within the confines of the existing code and gameplay mechanics. We have to appreciate what we can get, not demand what we want.

XSTRONG wrote: »

All I can say is boring [snip],

Only interesting thing was the new PvP feature in like a year from now and im not even a pvp player so...

So then what's NOT boring to you? What we saw is the meat and potatoes of ESO.

[edited to remove quote]

According to the roadmap, we're getting only 2 dungeons and 1 zone again this chapter. Can you confirm this? @ZOS_Kevin

I've been getting back into ESO lately, and I do think the scribing system will be enticing enough to get me to play more than I already do.

I'm very curious about the new daedric prince. Necrom's story felt pretty dull/standard. It was just a bunch of running around and listening to characters tell you how badly the world is gonna end because of daedra, and then everything is fine and that's that. But the mention of the new prince really lit up my interest at the end of necrom and had me going back over other elder scrolls content to consider the implications.
So to see the new prince, seemingly resurrected and walking on the surface of nirn, is very exciting. I'm just worried it'll turn into a typical every-other-chapter story though. I'm hoping this new prince brings something unique to eso gameplay. All of the dire chapter stories never feel so dire because everywhere else is normal or facing their own issues. Since this daedric prince is seemingly here on nirn, I think it'd be neat if her presence has some kind of effect on the rest of the world, not just the chapter area. Especially since it's the 10 year anniversary of eso. Even if it was something as simple as adding some random NPC dialogue in cities, or if something drastic and terrible happens in the story having a temporary new skybox/textures to the environment of other areas until the crisis is over could be cool (eso already edits some areas for holidays and added dragons and such to cities to pull attention to elswyr dlc, so it seems within their scope). Or maybe adding just some new enemies in older areas...something to reflect the wide implications of her return.
Then again, maybe she won't be so bad. Since we have literally no knowledge of her, we don't know how she is going to be. I hope the story isn't entirely linear of us just trying to stop some evil plot of hers. I don't believe we know why she was erased? If that's the case, we don't know her alignments, her tactics, her ambitions. There is a lot of mystery, and I hope the uncertainty about her is present throughout the chapter. If there were actual story/dialogue options to match the shade of gray currently surrounding her, that could be fun. Especially since she seems to be able to exist in cities, she could be an actual part of her intentions and not just a background voice telling lesser daedra and servants do stuff for her. That would really open up my intrigue personally. But I'm assuming this will not be the case, which is fine. It's just what I got from seeing the trailer.
That being said, I wonder how the story will end. This game is a prequel and the daedric prince is seemingly forgotten again by the later games.

Other than that, it seems pretty standard all around. It doesn't quite feel like it fit up to the hype zos was setting up, but we'll see once the year is over. It still looks good enough that I am planning to pre-order it after I've seen some more info on the scribing content.

I still want a class-change token and some pseudo-levitation mounts though haha.

thegreeneso wrote: »

According to the roadmap, we're getting only 2 dungeons and 1 zone again this chapter. Can you confirm this? ZOS_Kevin

Try not to think as "only" getting.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Two, scribing is designed with balance in mind. This is still an online game where you are interacting with others and working toward goals with others. The team needs a way to balance, and scribing (a precursor to spell crafting) achieves that.

Does that mean all of the scribe-able skills are tailored by means of their animation to only be useful in very rare circumstances, as is the case for the showcased bow skill?

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

FayJolyn wrote: »

Liked the stream! I love the look of the new zone. I see potential with the new system, but I don't get why you guys just couldn't name it spellcrafting? Mayem after the chapter has dropped is gonna be interesting for sure.
I applaud that we're potentially getting many new in-game earnable rewards.
The new Prince is so pretty, now I really have to finish up the Necrom story.

Was that also you @ZOS_Kevin? If so, hello! o/ It's nice to see the person behind the avater!

So we did not name it Spellcrafting for two reasons.

One, since that is a feature in Oblivion, we did not want to set the expectation that it was the same. Since it does not function the same, we did not want to mislead players.

Two, scribing is designed with balance in mind. This is still an online game where you are interacting with others and working toward goals with others. The team needs a way to balance, and scribing (a precursor to spell crafting) achieves that.

Also that was me! Hi!

At the 40 minute point, correct? https://youtu.be/EDZvHNg85Mc?feature=shared&t=2400