I'd be fine with different style wings as long as an archive feel stays intact.

robertlabrie wrote: »

I'm sure this sounds nitpicky but I don't care for the aesthetic of Apocrypha and that's honestly a reason I don't play it. Maybe I'm alone on this. Would love if y'all would consider other wings in other aesthetics like Breton or Khajiit or Imperial. Keep the creepy tentacle portals, keep the whiny floating books, keep the crystal monster thing that you fight after four regular bosses. Just add another portal at the hub to a different wing and once I choose a wing lock me into it for that session. I just want some different backgrounds to look at while wandering around holding left mouse down. Maybe I'm way out on my own on this, thumbs up if you agree.

I don't care for the look of this apocrypha either. While a lot of it is cool, it feels too alive, which is a strange thing for me to say about anything in ESO. But it doesn't feel like this dark and secret realm of secluded knowledge and alien keepers like it did in Skyrim. There's a big mortal bookclub village in the middle of it with lots of nondaedra to be seen. And even then, a lot of the daedra as you say are very much characters rather than unsettling. And on top of that, there are a lot of other replications of life, like plants, which makes it feel like it's a familiar place being catered to mortals.

Basically, it feels too accessible.
Now what I liked about traversing apocrypha in Skyrim is when it feels like you're in a place you're not supposed to be, yet are drawn in, with access to all sorts of forgotten and horded powers to almost tantilize you into staying there at a great risk, under an ever watching daedric prince who has no true regard for you. It felt like a place for only the most daring, competent, or foolish to enter in order to satisfy their own desires. And that is what I pretend the IA is by the minimally consequential loot/rewards it provides. In fact, it felt most fun when that was my access to find class script scraps. Or when Tho'at was supposed to be representing a plot device for Ithelia.

I think if they are to add more wings, it should be in a way that's more sinister and perilous, as well as rewarding. Not more catering to mortal comfort. Herma Mora already has us doing his chores for him and gives us the temporary boons to do so with a big tentacle thumbs up. Trying to make his realm/invaded library more easygoing just as an incentive to make his maid want to be there feels unbefitting of a daedric prince.

Perhaps a way to do so would be finding a way to "enter the books" that take place in different settings.

It would be better to focus on new content and a less contentious format.

I know so many players who just despise IA. There is so much gated behind so little actual content, it is a legit reason to quit eso. I'm not even exaggerating. It's the kind of thing I observe players doing immediately before they quit eso. There is so much wrong with how it is designed. I honestly can't imagine why anyone would want it to be expanded upon.

It is pure pain for me to play. So tedious and so uninteresting to look at. At least give us a vet version! gah.

it would be nice if we got environments from the areas we see in the index orb
Summerset, Galen, Western Skyrim, unsure which others.

could be mixed with Apocrypha assets like the pipes and creatures to keep it clear that it is in the infinite Archive.

That would be cool. The one with the fire damage also need to stop after the stage is completed. Makes it a pain when you're knocked out choosing your verse because of it. Happens too often.