In the short term, I think they should eliminate Subclassing and use the Class Mastery Passives to right combat, add more of them if necessary. They can update the looks of them and other things later. Then start rolling out whatever content they can while they construct more Classes that will sell themselves and generate fast revenue. And that's what this is probably really about. Money. Delaying the current situation with people's characters will cause more people to leave.

I honestly don’t care if they skip the new features and content and just focus on finishing the class reworks. I’d honestly prefer that to anything else at this point. After the reworks have been finished they can work on new content.

they need to finish the class reworks that needs to be number 1 priority having just DK, and WW updated is bad

Class balance and reworks. The game is in an unacceptable state right now, esp. in PvP. I spoke to my brother about what happened and he said he didn't feel a reason to log in. He plays templar. I can't blame him.

i think ZOS should decide on that.
their plan for 2026 seemed good, however that changes will probably be fine

At this point, I want them to push out class refresh first so that we can start real discussion of class balance. And bug/exploit fixes.

I know many here will vehemently disagree, but I barely care about the class reworks at all (in fact, the DK and WW reworks actively destroyed the concept of my main, who was a DK using poison and no fire, and who used to use WW until they changed the model).

The only thing that will keep me playing is new content, primarily zones, stories, and dungeons. If they stop releasing these things in favour of combat reworks, there will be nothing to keep me interested and playing. I know most of the people on these forums are hardcore old guard and many take combat seriously, but I expect a large portion of the silent casual audience will feel similarly to me.

(Edit for clarity.)

Class updates and combat, obviously. They’re the core of the game and they’re 2/9 done (if we’re counting Vamp like WW). I’ve said so many times this should have been all-hands-on-deck first order priority. Now we’re in limbo with a partially finished combat system and no clear timeline to finish it. NOT good.

Everybody equally benefits by the class reworks. That’s a universal thing. It doesn’t matter what kind of new content or features they develop, it’s not for everyone. Therefore there is only one main priority right now. And I would add Crossplay, as that’s another huge thing.

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

Arunei wrote: »

The thing is, they can't "focus" on one or two singular aspects because there are different groups that work on different things. They can't simply chuck everyone at one or two things when those people might not have any sort of experience in doing the stuff any particular number of people might want to see done.

The group working on the infrastructure for crossplay aren't going to know the first thing about how to balance or code for the reworks, for example. The ones who do things for the Crown Store aren't going to be able to just switch over to developing Dungeons. The ones who develop PvP aspects probably aren't going to be much help in story writing for quests.

I'm sure there likely ARE people who would be able to reasonably jump between teams, but for the most part I really doubt that'd be the case.

The class rework will impact every content though.

It impacting everything doesn't mean all those teams are qualified to work on it. The story team won't be able to code the new Skills. The PvP team won't know how to animate them. The Dungeon team won't know much about adjusting numbers.

"Too many cooks spoils the broth."

Having an excess of people, especially those who aren't qualified to work on specific things, will not get them done faster. It more often than not will slow them down and impede them with different people getting in each others' metaphorical way and communication having to go through way more people than it normally would.

As someone who has been away from ESO for years, Combat is the biggest issue I see mentioned in all my experience. I would prioritize Combat improvements.

Combat refresh needs to be completed. It's the most visible and glaring issue and leaving that undone looks bad. I see regularly people that play the unfinished classes aren't even playing right now as they wait a year or more for their turn.

Next is content. I don't know what they will be able to develop now but they should focus on getting Winterhold done as they got people excited from the tease.

I see Crossplay listed but there are players that don't care about this at all, or even want it. Hit or miss as to how much this will add to the success of the game whereas the other two impact everyone.

thedocbwarren wrote: »

Would be nice to get something like a basic roadmap or information. If no new content on story or chapter-like then maybe give some roadmap on ES: VI to look forward to. My feelings are since the pivot from story and chapters to tasks and grouping, I want to drop down to a single player game. That was why I even came to ESO, lore and story.

Jessica posted yesterday saying they're already getting together with leadership to reevaluate everything in regards to the release schedules and such, and that once they had a timeline for us they'd let us know.

Everyone is going on about the class rework, and yes as it stands it's barely been started, and should continue, but if continuing this endeavour is all we're to expect as output for the foreseeable future then there will be nothing for me to do with my shiny new reworked skills.

It's all well and good catering for the newbies and trying to attract new players, but without the "old guard" the game is a shell of what it used to be. Who'll be there to lead lower levels through their first trials, lead helpful guilds who include everyone in trials, overland exploration etc?
We need new content at least as much imo. Shined up skill lines are not content. We need new interactive content like questlines, dungeons, trials, delves, arenas etc and without new content I'm sad to say, there's very little for me (and many other longtime players) to do when they log in. I'm already playing much less that I did last year simply because there's nothing left for me to do.

Wondering how far crossplay has progressed, but that also seems high priority next to the combat refresh.