When I am doing multiple crafting writs I can't "activate" the quest. That's fine, but when I am trying to select the "style" of the item I am crafting it's not listed in alphabetical order which makes it a royal pain to select the correct style to craft and wastes loads of time.

Either let us activate multiple writs simultaneously or make it so it's easy to search these things (either by a search function or just having the option to list them alphabetically).

Low hanging fruit. No idea why this has not been addressed.

Another irritant is the constant combat and messing about when doing survey maps. Do I really need to fight the skeevers next to the plants? Do I really need to wait and wayshrine for the things chasing me to change their minds and run away? Really annoying and, again, time wasting for no good reason. What kind of an ecosystem also has apex predators every 30 metres?

The tightness of the resources is also a bone of contention with me. For example if doing a woodworking survey... is there a reason I can't get heartwood? Will it break the game if I can craft another chair? Why?

Top 5 Long-Term Bugs
Trial/Dungeon Instance Crashes: Recurring "instance kicks" or game crashes during high-end boss encounters that invalidate score-pushing progress or trial runs without warning.

Perpetual 'Stuck in Combat' State: A bug where characters remain in the combat state indefinitely after an encounter ends, disabling the ability to mount, use wayshrines, or swap gear manually.

Audio Loop/Fragmentation: Sound effects (especially Ultimate abilities and heavy combat sounds) looping infinitely or cutting out entirely during high-intensity group content, hindering situational awareness.

Health Bar Desync: A critical issue in both PvE and PvP where player and enemy health bars do not reflect actual server data, leading to mistimed heals or failed execute windows.

Hitbox & LoS Inconsistency: Skills failing to fire despite a clear line-of-sight, often caused by invisible terrain hitboxes or "fizzling" mechanics that haven't been tuned in years.

Top 5 Pain Points
The Automation Crisis (Combat Integrity): The One-Action Rule is being bypassed by third-party scripts that allow for 100+ server-side actions (gear, skill, and CP swaps) with zero player input at the time of action. This replaces player skill with script execution.

Platform Disconnect (PC vs. Console): There is a massive rift where one platform utilizes "Quality of Life" tools that are actually mechanical advantages (instant automated swaps), while the other is forced to play the game manually as designed. Equity of enforcement is needed.

Lack of Policy Clarity: Important discussions regarding the Code of Conduct and automation go unanswered. Players need to know if the Add-on Terms are a hard standard or an optional suggestion.

Erosion of Player Agency: The game is moving toward a direction where scripts make more decisions than the players. We need a Manual Commit requirement for all character reconfigurations (build swaps) to ensure the player remains the one active in the RPG.

Disconnect from Core Gameplay: Pushing features that emphasize automation over manual mastery destroys the reason many players engage with the combat system. Combat integrity and the manual execution of builds should be the priority over automated convenience.

Pain Points:

1) Vampires still lack fangs (unless you play a beast race or Orc).

2) Vampire texture is outdated; it also shouldn't affect your fur (as a khajiit), markings, and tattoos.

3) Character creation is rather limited for Khajiit and Argonanians who have a WIDE variety of looks (bipedal variants only obviously). Character creation could use an update in general.

4) Lack of immersion with player races and vampirism/lycanthropy. You should also be able to be infected by ANY vampire or werewolf you encounter. Players that don't want to be infected can be given a toggle option in gameplay menu (chance to be infected with lycanthropy or vampirism toggle on/off). It's absurd to have to run all over Bangkorai/The Rift/Reaper's March at night searching for specific bloodfiends and werewolves. Not everyone likes being 'turned' by players (roleplay choice). Those that do, the option will still be there.

5) Inconsistent and often shallow storytelling. A lot of it feels too modern (same with certain companions) and not very lore friendly.

rockDokRock wrote: »

Yes. You are missing my point. If I have multiple "Blacksmithing" master writs, for example, that works for the one I activate. If I want to do the other ones I have to make note of it's details and do it manually as you can' thave more than one "Blacksmithing" quest active at a time. That's my point.

I never do that. It's too inconvenient. When I want to work on master writs, I do one for all 7 professions, port to Snugpod, ride 10 seconds, turn them in, port back to the guild house, do more. Rinse and repeat. It's faster than writing the details of a writ down.

It does bother me when I have a master writ active, and also a daily crafting quest active, and the UI won't let me choose which one I want active when I go to craft an item.

De.Soto wrote: »

#1 Pain Point:

You not standing up for your playerbase and going radio silent over an issue that currently affects around 100,000 players, maybe even more.

That's everything, the rest doesn't really matter atm.

What issue is that?

• Inventory categories: Have automatic categories to make our inventory easier to navigate. Consumables, gear, maps, fragments, materials, scrolls, furniture, etc.
  
• Make metallic dyes it's own category: trying to find a dye that is metallic is difficult when you have to manually click on each one in order to see how it looks.
  
• Show duration/percentage on our gear: Self-explanatory. So we can see if it's time to repair or charge something.
  
• Mini-map: NAVIGATING IS HARD ENOUGH AS IT IS, OKAY??
  
• Update old textures because they look horrible

Basically just take a look at the most used/popular add-ons out there and see if you can implement some of it permanently into the game, would save us all a lot of hassle

cookerski wrote: »

4 - Confirmation when deleting items - have you ever tried to delete a pile of event crafting writs?

Considering you're talking about BIOS updates, I assume you're on PC. And there is a very easy way to delete multiple things without requiring a confirmation (or an addon).

Mark everything as junk. Then you go into your junk tab, and there's a "Destroy all Junk" button (default [X]) which bypasses all confirmations and clears it in one fell swoop.

This happened to me this morning, and it's happened to me a handful of times before this:

I wanted to do Arx Corinium by myself (need a lead). I ported to the dungeon, and as I was fighting mobs in the first room, I thought, "Why do I feel so weak? Why is everything taking so long to kill?" Fortunately there was a chest in that room. When I looted it, I got a purple piece of gear, and that's when I realized I was in the veteran dungeon. That's not what I intended, and I have no idea how it happened.

My pain point is that the default dungeon difficulty setting is decoupled from related UI when in gamepad mode. You have to go to Social->Group to change your default setting.

Also, when you enter a dungeon alone, there's nothing to indicate which version of the dungeon you're entering. It would be great if the dungeon name and version or something displayed on the screen for a few seconds upon entering. I know if you enter the dungeon through the door, IIRC (haven't done it for a while), it asks which version you want. But if you port in directly, there's nothing.

It would also be nice if the setting was available in the dungeon finder. The first time I somehow ended up in a vet dungeon solo, I remember asking in guild chat how to get out of that mode (after exiting and entering the dungeon a few times and still finding myself in vet), and nobody knew. And nobody knew how I'd ended up in a vet dungeon in the first place lol. By going through the UI, I eventually found the setting under Social->Group. The first place I checked was the dungeon finder and it wasn't there. Your role setting is there, but not your default normal/vet setting.

AzuraFan wrote: »

This happened to me this morning, and it's happened to me a handful of times before this:

I wanted to do Arx Corinium by myself (need a lead). I ported to the dungeon, and as I was fighting mobs in the first room, I thought, "Why do I feel so weak? Why is everything taking so long to kill?" Fortunately there was a chest in that room. When I looted it, I got a purple piece of gear, and that's when I realized I was in the veteran dungeon. That's not what I intended, and I have no idea how it happened.

My pain point is that the default dungeon difficulty setting is decoupled from related UI when in gamepad mode. You have to go to Social->Group to change your default setting.

Also, when you enter a dungeon alone, there's nothing to indicate which version of the dungeon you're entering. It would be great if the dungeon name and version or something displayed on the screen for a few seconds upon entering. I know if you enter the dungeon through the door, IIRC (haven't done it for a while), it asks which version you want. But if you port in directly, there's nothing.

It would also be nice if the setting was available in the dungeon finder. The first time I somehow ended up in a vet dungeon solo, I remember asking in guild chat how to get out of that mode (after exiting and entering the dungeon a few times and still finding myself in vet), and nobody knew. And nobody knew how I'd ended up in a vet dungeon in the first place lol. By going through the UI, I eventually found the setting under Social->Group. The first place I checked was the dungeon finder and it wasn't there. Your role setting is there, but not your default normal/vet setting.

It does exist in dungeon finder, you can select vet or normal. It defaults to normal.

Main pain point: That it is necessary to travel to the Undaunted Enclave daily to find out what the Pledges are. There are addons which can flag this up, but it really should not be necessary. Something like an icon next to the day's pledges on the Dungeon list would be great:)

One thing I'd really love fixed, from a console player's perspective at least, is the targeting.

There was a thread last year detailing some of the pain with it, but I'll reiterate it through a tale or two.

I was doing the quest to unlock Mirri. During this quest, I found my reticle not taking priority in which target was selected. So, for instance, my target reticle is pointed at the quest object. However, Mirri somehow opened her dialogue because she was between my camera and my reticle. Then in other situations, there's some distant grappling bow post that gets priority, even though I'm trying to activate something closer to me and my reticle.

Part of the issue here is Companion pathing, where they just keep getting in the way. The line between me and a lootable object should be sacrosanct. But the fundamental issue is really competing priorities in the looting system.

Then even looting and basic object interaction is problematic. I find I often jump, even though the loot/interact button prompt is available to me. It seems like prompts happen too soon. If a target is out of range, I shouldn't see a prompt until it's in range and interactable.

• Pain Point 1—Dialogue Interface: I'm not a huge fan of the default dialogue menu in this game, and would vastly prefer something more akin to other first-person roleplaying games. NTak's Dialog add-on is pretty brilliant and fixes almost all of my problems. It centerizes the camera on the NPC you're talking to, as well as the whole dialogue menu. I'd love to see something like this or more dialogue camera options built into the game proper (sadly the add-on kinda breaks every other year due to game updates).
• Pain Point 2—Dialogue Pacing: Don't mean to be rude, but probably my biggest gripe with ESO is the rather long winded dialogue. It almost feels like Netflix-esque "second screen" content and gives me headaches after tens of minutes listening to it. And hey I have nothing against the writing quality itself, just the endless repetitiveness of the dialogue repeating the same info over and over. The brevity of the base game's dialogue was perfect—short and sweet, not wasting your time.
• Pain Point 3—Ewok Party Epilogues: I think the epilogue to every story being some player-fawning blowout has grown pretty tired. While I always enjoy goodbying the characters at the end of a story, I think there's gotta be more narratively innovative ways of satisfyingly offboarding the player.
• Pain Point 4—Companion Clones: Seeing literal clones of my companion everywhere as they follow other players is weird. It's one thing for it to be pets since they're generic models, but companions are like specific people from the world, and it really breaks immersion. I'd love the option to turn off the clones, and heck turn off other people's pets—both for saving performance power and immersion.
• Pain Point 5—Lack of Alliance Soldiers: A ton of the zones barely have any Alliance Soldiers in them at all when they totally should. Vvardenfell for example has no Ebonheart Pact soldiers despite the base game telling us they had garrisons there (plus y'know super close Daggerfall Covenant invasions on Bleakrock on in Stonefalls). West Weald has no Aldmeri Dominion soldiery despite the lore and maps showing us they were present in the region. Kind of a big immersion breaking dichotomy between base game material and the later expansions. Some generic soldiers patrolling around in the armor of their alliance seems appropriate, even if its just semi-frequent random encounters.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Holmarion19 wrote: »

Main pain point: That it is necessary to travel to the Undaunted Enclave daily to find out what the Pledges are. There are addons which can flag this up, but it really should not be necessary. Something like an icon next to the day's pledges on the Dungeon list would be great:)

Thanks for the feedback and suggestion, @Holmarion19! We've passed this along to our Player Experience Improvements team.

In gamepad, too, by any chance? Most addons of this nature are kbam only.

folder_rats wrote: »

• Pain Point 3—Ewok Party Epilogues: I think the epilogue to every story being some player-fawning blowout has grown pretty tired. While I always enjoy goodbying the characters at the end of a story, I think there's gotta be more narratively innovative ways of satisfyingly offboarding the player.

Favorite epilogue in the game even to date is Clockwork in how starkly different in tone it was. No fireworks, no nameless gaggle of npc's spamming 'yay, WOO,' just a man burdened by certainty mourning at a quiet grave thanking you for delaying the inevitable by telling you (the player, not the character) things you're not meant to hear. It was one of the most chilling, human moments I've seen in the game. Kind of a far cry from the office pizza party quest endings we've had in years since.

New character pain points:

If we can't get a class change token, please make it easier to replicate our character to play another class. So far I have refused to make another character due to a few major pain points:

1. Let us transfer our crafting knowledge to the new character - skill levels and trait/motif knowledge. Crafting is the most tedious thing to level, and I honestly remember it being a painful, unfun process. It also doesn't really make sense for the player to have to go through crafting levelling again; class skills need to be mastered by the player, crafting skills already have been.

I often see people saying, "oh no, I accidentally consumed the motif page on my non-crafter character". I don't see why we should be forced to play in such a limited, micromanaging way; let us play all our characters naturally!

2. In the same vein, let us transfer our World and Alliance War skills to the new character. Guild skill lines I can understand needing re-levelling because they're about your character's relationship with the guilds.
3. Let us level mount training in one go. I don't see why it needs to be artificially delayed. Let us spend all our vouchers and the necessary gold to level it all instantly.
4. Let us transfer our character's appearance to the new character as a preset to be tweaked.

If we could smooth over these new character pain points, I'm sure more people would be happy to make new characters, especially those like me who mainly play on one character.