- U35
- Templar Jabs animation

I'm afraid that probably the next one in the list could be subclassing

This is my top 3:
1. One-Tamriel, it made the game too easy.
2. Account-wide achievements, this made starting a new character unfun.
3. Reducing maxiumum group size from 24 to 12, this created a new hardship for guilds that frequently ran large groups.

1. Level scaling that came with one tamriel that ultimately (IMO) negated any sense of exploration, achievement, and satisfaction in overland content, which is a vast majority of the experience of this game
2. Expansion of the crown store. It started out pretty sparse and there was a decent bit of stuff to earn in game. Over time they've traded in game rewards and meaningful questlines for cash shop re-skins of mounts and such along with skips for skill lines made to be monotonous purposefully to drive players to the store
3. Not so much a change, but just the overall approach to stories overtime has deteriorated - especially in chapter releases where it's the same plot line every single year: big bad comes in, world ending threat, we stop it, everyone's happy. More so at the LACK of change here

Edit: grammatical and spelling errors

1) replacement of soft cap system with cp system

2) u35

3) Rushing Agony in PvP

1. The dumpster fire of Update 35.
2. Neon cartoon exploding mounts.
3. Changing numerous sets from affecting 'nearby allies' to affecting 'group members' (Earthgore, Winter's Respite, etc).

That said, I would feel remiss if I did not mention some of what I consider to be major improvements that I greatly appreciate such as the entire outfitting system (what good is adventuring if you can't look good doing it?), introducing the companion system, account wide achievements.

Not a super popular opinion from what I can tell, but: I loathe forced hybridization, and the incessant whittling away at the Support roles has essentially killed any desire I have to play group content like Dungeons and Trials. I've been a dedicated Healer/Tank for nearly 20 years of MMOs. I don't enjoy being strong-armed into the DPS competition. So I've essentially stopped engaging with that content entirely, which is sad because it used to be among my favorite activities. I don't think I'm alone feeling that way, but Support was always a minority player base so the mob tends to shout us down in these discussions.

Instead of making Support roles more rewarding/engaging/cool/etc, they just... decided everyone should be a DD, because DPS is more popular. Like... okay, I guess. Enjoy that development ouroboros of "infinite diversity" enforced hybridization that eventually turns everything into the same grey slop.

Kind of surprised that so far AwA and OT are on many lists ITT. I played on and off since beta, loved Elsweyr, then left and returned sometime after High Isle and stayed since. So I wasn't around for U35, no idea what happened. For me, AwA and One Tamriel were good changes: I have no desire to re-do things I've already done – some only for a dye/furnishing/etc. to begin with. (Like why do I still have to re-log in on my old main to buy Elsweyr achievement furnishings? Oversight? I'd be happy if furniture plan learning could be account-wide also; some are expensive and it's irritating to accidentally eat one on an alt.)

No interest in harder overland. I always play stealthy with Shadow Rider so I only engage in combat (or harder content, vet) when I choose to. Hate contending with nuisance mobs that to me are just hurdles in the way of the actual goals. Harder story/delve bosses would be fine the first time around, but if questing on alts to get some # of quests for an achievement; I just want it to be fast. So if they're talking about implementing higher difficulty, that needs to be optional.

For me, the bad stuff was always related to aggressive monetization and sensory irritations:

• The crown crate system,
• When Alfiqs were introduced as the very first reskin of banker & merch, with no discount for long-time players who had the old ones, setting a precedent,
• Exploding and noisy mounts, recalls, etc. and the fact that nothing has been done about the flapping Twilight except to make it even worse: BRIGHT RED – a color used for attention-getting IRL, associated with alerting, anger, etc. (Related: Please let flying pets sit; neon pathing mess in Housing edit mode)

1. Hybridization
2. Cast time on ultimates
3. Introducing proc sets

MoonPile wrote: »

For me, AwA and One Tamriel were good changes: I have no desire to re-do things I've already done...

For me, AwA was a good idea in theory. It was the implementation that went wrong. If they'd stuck to making grindy/difficult achievements account-wide, like the undaunted 100/100 ones, all the 30/30 ones, and difficult ones (vet, trifecta, arenas, trials), I would have been cool with that. But they took a sledgehammer to it and made just about everything account-wide, including quest achievements and other ones that should have been per character. And they destroyed the map for alts by completing most of it for them, making it difficult to keep track of what each character has completed.

Limited to three?

1. Acct wide achievements - not that I am against them, and I do find them gratifying at times. AwA significantly impacts alt characters for role-playing or otherwise, in my opinion. And a simple toggle would have fixed that.

2. Everyone is a damage-dealer now. I generally play solo DPS but enjoy being party healer at times (not very good at melee, honestly, so no main tanking for me). With hybridization, the roles are reduced, ridiculed, and virtually eliminated for most content. All you need to do for dungeons is toggle the trinity, and after you're in switch back to DPS (hence some of the anger at "fake" tanks and healers).

3. Increasing catering to the flashy, nonsensical additions - like the Mardi Gras parade float outfits and Las Vegas 'fan' dances recently, Coldharbour recall animations and noise, very bright mounts and their animations, etc. I know some enjoy these as is evidenced by the number who race to buy the latest. And I suppose that's the whole point - money. It's almost as if more effort is be put into these cosmetic pixels rather than high quality content, but that may also be completely unfair to the talented people who work behind the scenes to provide both. I really like pretty, but I also prefer things which fit within the game world in a logical way. :: shrugs ::

Companions should be on the list, but we're limited to 3 . Going through their entire recruitment and life-story questline on every character every time (where's the cursed AwA when you need it?!?!?) is boring, obnoxious, and silly. The peculiarities of a few of them are weird, too. I've begun running without a companion again since overland isn't nearly as challenging as it was, as long as you're careful in spots, obviously. Come to think of it, I don't have all the current companions unlocked on either account on either server. And NO interest in the latest pair at all.

AWA.
One Tamriel.
Vet zone removal.

1. No pet Sorcerers being told they need to subclass if they want to have a viable no pet build.
2. Subclassing.
3. Seasons.

Vonnegut2506 wrote: »

1. Update 35
2. Templar jabs and flurry animation changes
3. The pointless change to Blighted Blastbones

Poor Blastbones. Look how they massacred my boy.

SilverBride wrote: »

1. No pet Sorcerers being told they need to subclass if they want to have a viable no pet build.

Source?

All the changes made during alpha / beta when they hard pivoted to try and make the game more like Skyrim.

Going B2P with the crown shop as the main monetization scheme.

U35.