Poor pirate dude. First his ship wrecks (I assume) and he's washed ashore, and then he's attacked by swarming, leaping mudcrabs and opportunistic gulls. But I'm sure it'll be fine, and that tiny axe will be all he needs to extricate himself from this situation.

I am looking forward to seeing what the difficulty levels are like. I have a feeling, though, that I'll stick with default setting for the most part.

Alternate interpretation: Those sea gulls aren't attacking him; they're actually going for the mudcrabs which are attacking him. (Yeah, I'm probably wrong!)

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Alternate interpretation: Those sea gulls aren't attacking him; they're actually going for the mudcrabs which are attacking him. (Yeah, I'm probably wrong!)

Right or it's his warden buddy behind him throwing seagulls with his up-and-coming skill style 🪿

Am I the only one thinking this is a tease for the rewards of the upcoming Golden Pursuit tied to the increased difficulty?
The tats, the tiara, the costume? Or maybe they will come with high seas event...

So instead of getting like 35 gold from killing something, I'll get like 70 gold.... No actual rewards?

UntilValhalla13 wrote: »

So instead of getting like 35 gold from killing something, I'll get like 70 gold.... No actual rewards?

But hey, the battle will take 5 times longer...

Seems like they should have at least made the reward 5x too.

FurryCandyHearts wrote: »

I am very much looking forward to NEVER using this feature as i already find the programming of overland wildlife to be highly passive-agressive in its current design and annoying beyond all measure. How you would think that intensifying that would be something people would want is well beyond my ability to comprehend. No thank you!

Many of us asked for it.

Very much looking forward to it, but it would be nice to have overland mobs that have not chance of winning to just stay calm.

If people want harder content then how about forcing people using trial in in 4 man dungeons be required to do vetran dungeons. That would give the "we want harder content crowd" some harder content and help reduce the speed running on normal dungeons so people can do the actual quests the first time they get a dungeon.

and enforce it by kicking them out of group if they don trial gear in a 4 man normal dungeon

FurryCandyHearts wrote: »

If people want harder content then how about forcing people using trial in in 4 man dungeons be required to do vetran dungeons. That would give the "we want harder content crowd" some harder content and help reduce the speed running on normal dungeons so people can do the actual quests the first time they get a dungeon.

good luck with queue times then if that were to happen lol

honestly in most normal dungeons experienced players could probably still burn through all the mobs naked (no armor) so it wouldnt solve your speedrunner problem

Silufadumar wrote: »

For me, the implementation of this is possibly the worst Zos could have chosen.

What I was hoping for, was a Veteran version of the different zones, I wanted something akin to Craglorn from way back when, where everyone knew they were facing harder content, knew they were better off in a group or soft grouping and could get rewards unavailable in a normal zone.

A level playing field IS IMPORTANT!

We don't have mixed normal/veteran dungeons or trials for good reason, so why thinking doing it on a zone scale is a good idea is.... frankly beyond me.

Maybe I'm wrong and most players will love it, but as it stands I don't think it's a system I'll be engaging with much.

Pretty much how I feel.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

This is the official discussion thread for, "Greater Dangers Means Greater Rewards with Challenge Difficulty"

"Tailor your overland and quest experience via Season Zero’s new Challenge Difficulty system."

"“Challenge Difficulty is probably THE most-requested feature from players,” explains Mike Finnigan, ESO’s Associate Design Director. " ==> I believe it is most requested by the same few players who tend to get abusive if you don't agree with them so no one argues anymore.

"No matter which option you choose, you can still play with anybody else around since you aren’t separated from your fellow players simply because you have chosen differently." ==> I believe this only happens when one chooses to play solo for then there are areas where you cannot play.

"“We plan to look at layering on rewards in the future in controlled spaces to punch it up.”" In my opinion this happens too often. The development teams says there is no special reward just monetary incentives involved, then they start stacking on the special rewards that further the power gap between standard players and the preferred players.

"As always, the team paid close attention to the community’s early reaction to the system on the Public Test Server." ==> I believe by community, the article means GMs and streamers. (In accounting, we call that cooking the books.)

and a half hour time penalty

Vaqual wrote: »

FurryCandyHearts wrote: »

I am very much looking forward to NEVER using this feature as i already find the programming of overland wildlife to be highly passive-agressive in its current design and annoying beyond all measure. How you would think that intensifying that would be something people would want is well beyond my ability to comprehend. No thank you!

People specifically asked for harder overland and story content, because fights have gotten comically easy with 10+ years of power creep. It is extremely anticlimactic if the big bad guy dies half way through his first dialogue line, while barely scratching the player.

The fact that the rewards are marginal is good, because that way no one has to feel forced to opt-in.

so if the issue is power creeps then they are catering to the min/max 1% community

Vaqual wrote: »

FurryCandyHearts wrote: »

and a half hour time penalty

Vaqual wrote: »

FurryCandyHearts wrote: »

I am very much looking forward to NEVER using this feature as i already find the programming of overland wildlife to be highly passive-agressive in its current design and annoying beyond all measure. How you would think that intensifying that would be something people would want is well beyond my ability to comprehend. No thank you!

People specifically asked for harder overland and story content, because fights have gotten comically easy with 10+ years of power creep. It is extremely anticlimactic if the big bad guy dies half way through his first dialogue line, while barely scratching the player.

The fact that the rewards are marginal is good, because that way no one has to feel forced to opt-in.

so if the issue is power creeps then they are catering to the min/max 1% community

No. Even players who don't optimize are affected by it. The changes to base stats, ability scaling and ability reworks alone have contributed significantly.
Of course you can choose to do all your story content completely naked, unarmed, and with half-full ability bars to create some semblance of challenge. But if that would be the intended way of playing an RPG I'd heavily question the design.

You have a weird perception of player power by the way. I would be very surprised if only 1% of players finds overland/story content to be extremely easy.

One cannot do story content completely naked, unarmed. That is misinformation.