Needed to have a poll option for reserving judgement till I actually see it when it drops. I'm not really excited for it as the video was too short and did not show near enough to make a good call.

I'm excited about pretty much everything shown, except Vengeance. Vengeance makes me sad because it's just not a fun experience and I don't see that changing in the future either. For that to change it would have to stop being "Vengeance". The only potential it has is as a below lvl50 campaign to give new players a more even playing field, but even that will leave them ill-prepared for the real ESO PvP combat experience because Vengeance is simply too bare bones and not customizeable enough.

I see Sage Voernet was mentioned, but since I saw an icon for future content which I assume is for Sage’s Vault last stream where the city of Moonguard would be in-universe in Glenumbra, I’m curious if it was intended to be Sage Gyron Vardengroet instead? I will see when PTS comes eventually.

Edit: looks like other sites are misspelling Voernet as Varnet https://wccftech.com/elder-scrolls-online-seasons-2026-overview/

I think the stream misspelled it as well

I'm excited, but I have some reservations and concerns.

• Season 0 is an odd name for the first season. Harkens me back to programming 101, where you learn how arrays work. Naming in general has some oddities - like subclassing isn't subclassing. It's multi-classing. Things like that, small fries, but still could be improved.
• Much of the future content is quest or quest-like content. I don't really care about questing for its sake, especially in this game where the writing doesn't fit my tastes often. I don't know how repeatable these are, or how rewarding they are. That needs to be expanded on. Unless there's some really attractive rewards, I won't add it to my routine. Getting small stuff like fragments of something, gold, or just other negligible things is going to sink. I want motifs, mounts, houses, the like. Things you guys would other wise monetize for 5k to 13k crowns. Or trade bars or seals. Something of actual value.
• Uncertainty around Night Market's future. I get that it's an event zone and you're experimenting. I support that, but I worry the rewarding feeling will be lessened, and FOMO will be worsened, with it being a returning feature. I would like to see it have a permanent mode and another wing for the event content.
• The release of the upcoming content is very staggered and communication hasn't kept up. Just this month alone, we have some features that are coming out in Season 0, 1, in between those launches. Gold Bazaar launched on its own, with only a few things on the shelf for now. It's fine you're launching things when ready, but just try to package them up. Reach out to content creators and other game resources like ESO Hub for a better way to communicate these things.
• "Cant wait". I totally get you guys are excited, I am too, but this verbiage feels like its taking up too much space that could otherwise have been spent elaborating on new content. I'll shift to "can't wait" mode when I see some cool rewards for doing whatever new content. The cuts of people running and playing in first person are cool, but a little thin. Show me why I should be excited for Sage's Vault, Rumors, and other new systems. Show, don't tell.
• "Why now?". The why now question about why is communication suddenly important didn't really feel like it was getting answered. It's fine, but many of us suspect it's because the old leadership didn't want it, and now that the game's got new leadership and endured some hard times, it seems important.

I'll keep it simple and clean: my annual ESO+ would expire in 14 days - it won't; it will get renewed for another 12 months, and before that, I'm going to purchase the Season Pass on April 2nd.

Actions speak louder than words, right

You should address the broken twitch drops, quite a few didn't get their crates.

I was there for over an hour and only got one crate.

I’m still in the “wait and see” phase. I usually don’t go nuts from these type of streams in the first place (well, I did in 2023 when they showed off a new Class), but it’s really the PTS that proves things for me.

I was never someone bored by what we had gotten in the past. I liked the large zone with 6 delves and WBs and the Dungeons and everything we used to get. So while some of this looks cool, I’m still sad that the things I like are what’s being pushed out for experimentation.

The statement that “we’re going back to what we do best, which is stories” was… awkward. ESO’s storytelling and writing has been its weakest part by far for the past few years, so trying to hype the TG and Sheo (oh god why?) stories on the strength of the storytelling was a massive misstep for me. I would love nothing more than to see the stories get back to the level we had in Wrothgar, but considering so much has been laser-focused on being able to flirt with [insert one-dimensional fan-favorite here], the stories lately have been miss after miss for me. And that was before games like Baldur’s Gate 3 came out to prove that people are still able to write compelling and complex character stories.

What do I think ESO’s greatest strength is? Finn’s encounters team, and more specifically the incredible 4-man dungeons. BGF HM was so clever and I loved it… and now we get a year where ESO’s best content is not coming. Oof.

I’m also desperately waiting for new Classes because I love making new characters with unique abilities and writing their own stories for myself. Subclassing really did nothing but throw all of mine in a blender so I could homogenize them beyond recognition, so at least the Class Refreshes and Mastery are coming to give them some sense of identity back… but that’s gonna take a full two years to get through. It pains me that we’re unlikely to see any new stuff for Combat until like 2028 (i.e. not “the stuff you had before but in a different wrapper” like Subclassing was). Please give us our Artificer, and the Battlemage, and the Hydromancer, and all of these Classes that we see on NPCs. ESO has averaged a new Class every 3 years (Release in 2014, Warden in 2017, Necro in 2019, Arc in 2023), so we are due… and having to wait for two more years is painful (especially since a lot of other Live Service games are hyping the new Classes they released this year…)

So the stream was… fine. Nothing really grabbed me and I’m still a bit salty about the fact that the things I like are the things that got the axe this year. But I am hoping we’ll get to see new Classes and Dungeons in the future made with as much love and care as these things.

excited for all the things.
interesting announcements and teasers.

questions
- what is an excursion zone? i hope it will be permanent.
- can we please have permanent High Seas of Tamriel? i love water content, the underwater bubble is fun.
- will April dev updates finally talk about Warden?

LunaFlora wrote: »

- will April dev updates finally talk about Warden?

Warden’s refresh will be U51, which will release in September. That’d put it on PTS around the end of July, so that’s when we’d hear about it.

The big Class line for U50 that’ll come up in the April stream is Werewolf.

tomofhyrule wrote: »

LunaFlora wrote: »

- will April dev updates finally talk about Warden?

Warden’s refresh will be U51, which will release in September. That’d put it on PTS around the end of July, so that’s when we’d hear about it.

The big Class line for U50 that’ll come up in the April stream is Werewolf.

i know when it will be in the game, but the dev updates also talk about things farther in the future.
u49 does not have Challenge Difficulty, but February and March discussed it.

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HYACINTH HYACINTH HYACINTH HYACINTH GIVE US MORE HYACINTH CONTENT i want a romanceable companion version but I'd settle for rumours/favours/him to just show up again in general