Outfits and outfit slots:

Accountwide outfit slots were long overdue and so it's a welcome addition.

The ability to hide every armor slot in outfits is also a very good addition and was also long overdue.
It reveals minor problems with the armor designs though, especially where belts are concerned. The actual belts have always been part of the chest armor, with the belt slot just being the buckle.
I would have prefered if some sort of belt or sash would have been part of the waist slot, but it's a minor thing.

Faster riding training and mounts for gold:

Faster training is a nice change, it wasn't really needed in my opinion though.

The mounts for gold are, at least in theory, a good thing. I'm not convinced about the distribution though.

Respec changes:

I'm not a fan. They weren't needed in my opinion and may make respecs too frequent and easy.

I love the experience improvements!

Agree with the revert to not allow respect during leaderboard content, but I do like keeping it for IA.

A few suggestions for future QoL improvements

1. I find the fast travel fee system annoying. For me, the cost of fast travel is the loading screen and the run time to the destination, not the gold, and seeing the gold and the timer countdown every time I go somewhere is just extra cognitive load. I don''t feel like it really adds anything at this point.

2. I would love to see the anniversary cakes in the Gold Coast Bazaar, since those seem to fit perfectly with the theme of catching up on missed collectibles. Those are particularly painful because unlike other missable collectibles, some of them show up in the Collections screen as Not Collected even though there is currently no way to get them. At least 2023 falls in that buckeet.

3. It feels like free champion point respect fits with the free attribute and skill respec, I'd love to see that. In general, I'm a fan of the time delay being the cost for changing rather than a gold cost.

4. For Infinite Archive, I would love to see the Duo leaderboard split between Two Players and Player + Companion. It really doesn't feel fair for companion runs to be compared against having a full second players, since a companion just isn't anywhere close to the power increase a second player gives you.

5. One more small one. I often play split screen on 3440 x 1440, so ESO is in a window 1720 x 1440. Almost everything in the game works great in that resolution except for Tales of Tribute. There are some important controls that hide outside of the window and don't scale in on the thinner screen.

Again, I'm even more excited about the player experiences than the rest of the content for this year. I love that you have a team just focused on this and I'm looking forward to Update 49 and all the updates after. It really feels like ESO is leveling up in a way that I haven't seen in almost ten years.

Just a quick thought on research. The passive now makes the longest timer 10 days but there's still 15 day scrolls in the crown store. I know it said in the patch notes that scrolls are staying the same but is this going to change at some point?

It's probably still going to be cheaper than getting 10 1 day scrolls, but I can see it putting people off having to buy something that much longer than needed

Account-Wide Outfit Slots for the people that have paid for 10slots on each of their characters over the years are they compensated?

also could the armoury npc slots be combined account wide?

and lastly it would be a nice feature if the armoury npc could have its own type of limited space 'craft bag' to hold your set items, for players that want to do many builds on one character it takes up all your bag space storing all these different sets.

Elrond87 wrote: »

Account-Wide Outfit Slots for the people that have paid for 10slots on each of their characters over the years are they compensated?

also could the armoury npc slots be combined account wide?

and lastly it would be a nice feature if the armoury npc could have its own type of limited space 'craft bag' to hold your set items, for players that want to do many builds on one character it takes up all your bag space storing all these different sets.

I am thinking an armory wardrobe/closet where we can store a set number of amor sets. I would appreciate a storage view that has all the set pieces in one group so I can quickly tell if a piece went missing.

The stablemasters in Cyrodiil do not have any new mounts. Perhaps the Imperial Horse or the Imperial War Horse could be added to the six stables in the zone.

shadoza wrote: »

Sordidfairytale wrote: »

Any other points of feedback?

I know it's not in the list of current changes, but... scrying, more like crying, am I right? Can @ZOS_Kira take a look at this friction skill line unlock? And while you're at it, can you please address if you think we'll ever get a sequel to Dr Horrible?

Could you explain why 'scrying is more like crying?'

The first stage (green) is really long and boring. Most players are farming it out on small maps. The items are low-value so the time doesn't feel well spent. Increase the value of the antiquity or improve the value of the bonus finds and the frequency. On the final levels, we need more, new antiquities or the ability to sell the old ones for gold. There are some things one does not need 5 of.

You did an excellent job of explaining, thanks.

I am really looking forward Respec Skills & Attributes in the UI for Free!
Best QoL in the list imo.

Now if we could get Respec 'sets' for free once you fabricated them into gold before, it would make my year. But It would drain memory ressources memorizing all those, so I guess juggling with sets as well won't come into this game.

I have another, and this is purely from a console perspective.

Can we please make the add-on menus a bit more sensible? Let me start with a question, if you wanted to uninstall an add-on, which of the following would make intuitive sense?

1. Menu\Add-ons\Manage Add-ons
2. Settings\Add-ons\<Find your add-on>\<Uninstall>

Can we just get one place to manage add-ons? It's a bit cumbersome to have to browse all add-ons to find the ones I have installed and do only some of the available actions for them.

Here are some more potential future player improvements.

Account-Wide Armory Slots

The feels parallel to the outfit slots, but significantly more impactful. I would love to have the max number of armory slots unlocked, but I play actively on 20 different characters, and that would be 240,000 crowns, or about $1100 if you buy the largest crown packs on sale. That's just too much for the value.

Assistant Upgrades
The older assistance (Banker, Merchant, Fence) were released with deliberately crippled functionality in order to give players a reason to still physically go to the corresponding NPCs. Have we passed the point where that is necessary? It feels really bad to pay real money for a crippled assistant, and the newer assistance (Deconstruction, Armory) have full features. That would mean banker assistants could access Guild Bank and Guild Listings, merchant assistant could repair for gold, and the fence assistant could launder as well as sell stolen goods. I'm actually okay with the 35% reduction in sale price for the fence, since it bypasses the difficulty of escaping with your stolen goods. For laundering, maybe it could just cost 35% more to launder instead of being impossible?

Here are some small cosmetic ones

Account-Wide Treasure Hunt Achievements
There are a limited set of achievements that are still character-specific, mostly because they give specific character-specific rewards such as access or skill points. A notable exception are the "treasure hunt" achievements, where the character needs to run around collecting a bunch of components. These are fun to play once, but really are not fun to play multiple times (much less 20). I believe they stayed as character-specific because of technical constraints, not design constraints, so maybe that's something to revisit.

Cadwell's Silver / Cadwell's Gold Quests
These are different than just about all of the other quests in the game because they are not directly actionable and instead represent a category of other quests. Since there isn't an equivalent when you're working through the main quest for your own alliance, maybe these are leftover from previous systems and can be removed?

Companion Quest Markers
Since I play on many characters and haven't done all the companion quests on all the characters, I either have to have the companion quest in my quest log or have it constantly above my companion's head. I would love to have the ability to hide the companion quest marker.

Companion Dialogue
When talking to a companion, most of the type I want the Companion Menu instead of Let's talk about our partnership. It would be nice if Companion Menu was the first item instead of the second.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

XimTheBard wrote: »

Hello, a friend and I noticed that while you've increased all these houses to 350/700 maximum furnishing slots, the amount of players that could visit has not changed.

I have several friends in the RP community who were excited to see the increase to 700, thinking the player limit would be increased to 24, which would allow big events to be hosted in these homes, as 350/700 notable homes have been 24 player limited.

Is there plans for the player limit to be updated to 24 for these houses, or will they remain as is?

Hello! Here's a reply directly from Kira and both our Player Experience Improvements and Housing teams:

An interesting callout, to increase housing population caps along with our furnishing limits increases and home categorization rebalancing. Not something that we had initially considered, but as part of this feedback (since we've seen it called out a couple places already), we decided to take the opportunity to adjust the pop caps to better align with the new categories. We've put in a bug that once resolved, will up these (hopefully for a future PTS), and def aiming for U49 proper. Now Staple homes will have a population cap of 6 players, Classic homes will have a population cap of 12 players, and all notable homes will remain at a cap of 24 players. (Note: This will effectively increase the population cap to homes that were previously Classic but have since moved into the Notable category.)

I think I’m confused. I have what I think is a classic home (“Gorinir Estate”) and the pop cap is already 12. Is the pop cap on this house going up?

Celas_Dranacea wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

XimTheBard wrote: »

Hello, a friend and I noticed that while you've increased all these houses to 350/700 maximum furnishing slots, the amount of players that could visit has not changed.

I have several friends in the RP community who were excited to see the increase to 700, thinking the player limit would be increased to 24, which would allow big events to be hosted in these homes, as 350/700 notable homes have been 24 player limited.

Is there plans for the player limit to be updated to 24 for these houses, or will they remain as is?

Hello! Here's a reply directly from Kira and both our Player Experience Improvements and Housing teams:

An interesting callout, to increase housing population caps along with our furnishing limits increases and home categorization rebalancing. Not something that we had initially considered, but as part of this feedback (since we've seen it called out a couple places already), we decided to take the opportunity to adjust the pop caps to better align with the new categories. We've put in a bug that once resolved, will up these (hopefully for a future PTS), and def aiming for U49 proper. Now Staple homes will have a population cap of 6 players, Classic homes will have a population cap of 12 players, and all notable homes will remain at a cap of 24 players. (Note: This will effectively increase the population cap to homes that were previously Classic but have since moved into the Notable category.)

I think I’m confused. I have what I think is a classic home (“Gorinir Estate”) and the pop cap is already 12. Is the pop cap on this house going up?

Gorinir Estate is becoming notable so its population cap will be increased to 24

Request for clarification.

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• Longer Antiquities Lead Expiration
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The patch notes include a new thing: white leads. I just checked in on PTS with a PTS character for the antiquities folio and have yet to see any white leads (haven't used it in all four dozen-ish zones). Is this something that's in the pipeline or are the patch notes just using the standard white/green/blue/purple/gold template? Inquiring minds want to know.

Hi,

I am a console player with ESO+ subscription. I understand this testing feedback is for PC platform/players only. I could not immediately find any mention regarding the following elsewhere. Please let me know in case I could post these somewhere else.

Active quest counter limit - It is 25 currently with no option to upgrade via gold/crown store - new/returning player like me are struggling to add/manage interesting quests while doing main, zone & daily quests simultaneously due to this limit

Bookmark quest option - No option to bookmark quests due to above limit to add quests - e.g. map in Cyrodiil even with console addons do not show delves, ruins, etc. - it takes some noting down & searching via net/uesp to get such quests later

Few account/character bound items cannot be deposited in bank but take up bag space - e.g. respec scrolls, dye, containers (first ones received for cyrodiil - defense & siege), quest items (like rubbing, musical instrument), etc.

Numerous weapon/armor/jewellery Sets - there are so many + mythics - confusing & difficult to manage which to retain - since build guides & guidance from guild members ignore most of the sets

No central trader - time is wasted searching from one guild trader to next from one zone to next to get materials / recipes for completing dailies, writs (event based & master), and later for grand master crafter achievement

No option to mute sounds of these in PVP zone like Cyrodiil

• exult when a character levels up even while hidden - it does not happen while mounted
• whistle sound to call mount
• while increasing speed of mount
• while/after absorbing Sky shard

No prerequisite alternatives - e.g. to buy from vendor scribing Banner Bearer requires Alliance War achievement - it is a struggle (with lots of frequent revives & time taken to go back to quest area from revive area) to increase Assault/Support overall skill line to get this - but there is no alternative option for this for non-PVP player like me