- The PvP thing: I’m not going to comment on other than I think it’s the wrong direction to go by stripping down skills and watering down combat instead of fixing hardware and server issues.
- Two new Dungeons: They are fine, the sets look decent but the heavy attack sets probably need to be buffed if you want them to compete with Sergeants / Noble Duelist.
- Quality of Life changes: The green CP changes are great, love these. The starter zone updates are okay but I’m not sure that’s something that should be set as dev time priority. The map changes won’t improve the game for me at all.
- Addons for console: I don’t use Addons and I don’t play console so this does nothing for me personally.
- Houses: I assume these are just more houses that cost a ton of crowns? I’m not really into player housing.

I guess my biggest takeaway from this announcement is that there were no improvements or changes to class skills, world skills, no new skill styles announced, no new scribe skills announced (this system is awesome and fun), and no new questing zones. I’m hoping these will come later in the year!

Edit: I probably couldn’t play this game without ESO+ so needing that doesn’t bother me.

Tales of Tribute not mentioned, mega fail.

The dungeons look interesting! Redoubt had some impressive scenery. Story-wise, there seems to be a trend of opposition to the 3-banners war, and they all seem to be bad guys. I'd love to see this thread developed beyond that.

Regarding PvP, I can't see how ZOS could possibly do this differently, so I'm supportive. Its going to be disruptive for a lot of established groups (and a lot of friends) but those people were demanding change, and I feel like ZOS is out of options.

I think the green cp changes are a very good move. The micro-management was not fun. The mount speed thing will be a blessing for poor noobs/new alts who were painfully trudging across Tamriel at snail pace trying to get skyshards, or trying to keep up with crown in Cyro!

Regarding the "starter island" changes: I realise I will have to wait til Test Server to really see. Some of it looks nice, I think the water and atmosphere things will be welcome changes. But ZOS: If going forward you want to capitalise on base game zones- and we're going to be spending more time in these zones- I hope there's room to go a lot harder with the changes with future zone refreshes.

Base-game architecture, in particular, does not match the high aesthetic quality of later zones. Also, the cities of each particular base-game province are identical, and lack personality. Meanwhile, places like Vvardenfell and the newer pve Cyrodiil zones are excellent examples of the distinct personality of each city within a province. All of those cities are a pleasure to be in. I'd say the same with vegetation, as well as rocks/mountains- compare Bangkorai with The Reach, for example. The latter looks amazing. Meanwhile, Bangkorai mountains and rocks could certainly use some work!

Like many others, I like the upcoming basegame updates (especially the changes to the Green CPs)! The new Dungeons seem fun too, and I'm curious to see the new mechanics of the bosses.

At first glance the new Dungeon sets seem a bit underwhelming to me though. If tests on the PTS conclude that some of them are indeed subpar compared to the better Dungeon sets, I hope that feedback will be listened to and that they'll receive some buffs during the PTS cycle.

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Danikat wrote: »

I'm concerned about the proposed mount speed change. I know for most players mounts are strictly a way to get where you're going as fast as possible and any speed increases are good, but I really like the middle ground of being able to go a bit faster than running but still having time to watch my surroundings for anything interesting.

I've only ever trained more speed up to +10% on any of my characters and now I'm concerned that will be too much for me. Especially since PC doesn't have the same option consoles have to go slower than the maximum speed by not pushing the stick all the way forward - our options are only full running speed or sprinting.

It might be fine if it's a trivial increase, but I assume not because that would be disappointing for most players. Ideally I'd like some version of the controls consoles have but that's difficult to do without an analogue input (and no I'm not going to use a controller just for this). But something to give us more control instead of assuming everyone wants maximum speed at all times would be very helpful.

There's a run/walk toggle.

And you can run faster on foot than on a mount at the start. I'm glad they're fixing it.

Not for running, and only for sprinting if you’re on an Orc. Without any buffs, mounts “run” (i.e. not sprint) at 115% of running on foot; mounts sprint at 145%, while footspeed sprint is 140% (unless on Orc, whose innate sprint buff makes sprinting on foot slightly faster).

The disadvantage on the mount is not initial speed but *access* to that speed and to extra speed. You aren’t going to be sprinting for very long at all with that tiny amount of initial mount stamina, and the only way to improve that is through the 60-day time gate/pay gate of mount training. (Compare adding stamina to a player character with attributes, glyphs, etc.) You don’t get speed training on a mount without a 60-day timegate or paying in crowns. (You can get an easy sprint boost via medium armor.) Once your account has CP (which can be invested on any character, even a new one), you don’t get access to the CP mount speed buff until way up the green tree - where it is much more expensive and roughly half as powerful as the footspeed buff, which is immediately accessible.

There also isn’t a Minor Gallop, whereas there is a Minor Expedition.

I’m also still constantly surprised by how many players don’t know about Major Gallop from Continuous Attack, although a set like Adept Rider can get you both Major speed buffs earlier than the level 10 requirement for Continuous Attack.

This is true, and I'm fully CP'd into speed right at the start. Horses are barely worth using until level 10 when you can get the continuous attack passive, or 30 days when you get a noticeable number of trainings in.

I'm glad they're changing it. Still.

Above it says "The dungeon DLC will NOT be available for purchase for crowns at launch."

Like all previous years, I bought an extra 21000 Crowns for our family in the New Year's sale for this and similar useful purposes, as I am not prepared to pay ESO+ subscription fees for all of us. So I would like to ask if this dungeon DLC will be available for Crowns later and when?

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The "successful" part is when you just press a couple buttons and your sets win fights for you.

Exactly. The only way to "git gud" at PvP is by grinding out specific sets and specific skill lines. If you pop into Cyrodiil or a Battleground without them, you're not helping your team; you're just luggage. There are like four different builds. Anything else is either just fine-tuning one of them, or a total meme.

That's 40% of why PvE players avoid PvP altogether. You can't be in any way useful, no matter how good you are with buttons, positioning, etc, if you show up wearing all crafted gear. AND, some of those required sets can only be accquired from playing PvP, so you're doomed to spend your first XX hours just being a jobber for the sweat crowd while you "earn" the gear you have to have.

(The other 60% of the reason PvE players avoid PvP is because PvP attracts some of the most obnoxious people in existence. Some of us would be fine walking face-first into failure for a month if we didn't have to put up with the comments, DMs, group chat abuse, and vulgar emotes from the people we're forced to interact with.)

Green tree passives - yes please. But... why only nine? Why do the others still need to be slotted??

It's a start. I hope it continues.

Still putting out new content that is group walled, yay awesome.

Hello!
I appreciate that you are trying to change, but......
Just because of such a landscape, you don't want to try it! And the change in the combat system, completely thoughtless ❌ They could have left the environment and the combat system as it is, you just need to take it and really think about it, try to find a balance between classes, races and groups of balls, maybe reduce visual effects ?! ⚖ It seemed that he did everything in a hurry and didn't think at all what he was doing! I probably don't have a real person who understands Cyrodiil, maybe ZoS is more interested in PVE ? !
I wish you the best of luck!