All is OK.

NB DW/Resto and vet content is pretty easy for the most part, difficulty is not the problem.

• VR is a grind, progression is super slow.
• The story falls flat after Coldharbor, it's no longer immersive.
• VR content is unrewarding.
• Groups start getting selective with which classes/builds they'll accept. Ie. Stamina builds need not apply.

I would say spot on but I'm only vet 2 and still in vet 1 zones so I feel I have to withhold judgement until higher vet levels. Considering I'm a templar and we are supposed to be underpowered I'm expecting to continue to find the difficulty right for me, but I started to learn to use CC (binding javelin, volcanic runes) to deal with camps of 3 or more long before vet levels. I also use light armor and resto staff, not because I feel pidgeon holed into it (have 1h/shield to 45ish) but because I built a character that's primary group role is as a healer.

And I'm 50 alchemy and have a stack of pots that restore health/stamina/majicka at the same time as well as pots that put spell crit over 100 for 13s while restoring both health and majicka.

so yeah there is that.

iuki wrote: »

Here's a lil trick that makes VR and heck most of the game considerably easier....

BLOCKING.

ie. Eat some good health/magika food, run into spawn of 3 mobs, hold block down, and spam the crap out of impulse. Profit.

CC is rather pointless in PvE in most cases, better to slot hotkey with a DPS buff or high dmg skill and kill those mobs as fast as possible.

Blocking=good but telling people that are struggling with vet content to ignore cc is bad advice. Gargoyles, Trolls, Harvester etc. that are immune are one thing but there are a lot of people on the forums complaining about packs of 3 normal mobs, and fast or not a good volcanic rune to keep them on their backs while you dps them down would solve most peoples problems.

Yea, forgot to mention that: if you can't be bothered to block and want even easier mode in PvE...use volcanic rune with knock back morph. I AoE kill 6+ pack VR 10 spawns with that rune in a manner of seconds...totally naked.

Still, blocking is crucial mechanic that I did not really use for the longest time. Once I did, it was like /facepalm. It made the game rather trivial after that.

To me, VR 1-12 was easy. Some the quests that had elites was trouble some but in those cases I just put message in zone and gather people who need it as well; when in doubt, zerg it.

I find it challenging and often fun. Sometimes getting my face smashed in by a mere three enemies is frustrating, but mostly it's pretty fun. What bothers me about Vet. content is that for all the added challenge I don't really see much reward. There are no more skillpoints or attribute points to gain from leveling, such little xp gain my bar barely pops up anymore, and the loot's comparatively no better than normal content, just higher-leveled.

Sure, the content is still good. I like questing and exploring the other factions, and I like the difficulty level. Compared to how I was playing before, I feel like Veteran content really challenges you to play better. Your character doesn'y get stronger, you, as a player, do. Honestly though, I miss pre-veteran content and feeling like I was advancing. After the initial "Awesome! I'm a Vet.!" feeling wears off, it gets old pretty fast and the sideways-leveling is entertaining for only so long.

It's not that I don't like the game, but I don't log on as often anymore and don't stay on for as long as I used to either (and neither do my friends, which doesn't really help). I log on to feed my horse and start some research. I stay on for a few quests, really get into it for a couple hours, see that my bar has barely moved a millimiter and then get overwhelmed and bored and then log off. I'm only Vet. 2 and I've got ten more veteran levels - just under two entire factions worth of content - before I can see the new content.

I like the difficulty. I like questing. I do still have fun getting lost in adventuring, but I feel like Veteran content is just missing something. I skip all dialogue - I've seen it before - but I don't progress fast enough to feel like I'm getting anywhere. To me, and probably many other slow-levelers out there, veteran content is pretty stagnant. And that is frustrating.

Poll needs to be more specific. You will get a bunch of VR1s saying it's no problem.

VR 1-5 is mostly okay, with some weirdly difficult or easy boss fights here or there. VR 6 is actually easier than VR5. VR7 seems to ramp up a lot and become extremely frustrating especially considering mob density, healer npcs, etc.

VR 2 right now in a 1 zone. I can handle 2 man groups. 3 man groups is a death sentence.

I don't believe any of the choices I believe it is difficult, but not as difficult as people think it is. The reasons people don't do it, is not only because it is hard, but because the rewards are not worth it. if you do not care for story, you will nto do vet zones. 200 gold is not worth playing a quest for 30 mins, fighting bandits as powerfull as a grand master wizard.

Only problem is, its getting harder to find people at dolmens and world bosses.

Allright, i am now V7 and in Stonefalls. I can still manage and even killed some trolls. Only the storm atronach's i need to keep away. I can easily defeat 2-3 mobs, but they often hit like a truck. So i have to make sure the first one dies fast.

Only problem i had was in reapers march. I had to kill a healer and a assassin NPC. Both where bosses. I attack assassin, but healer keep healing him to full health. I try to attack healer, but he heals himself full while i get backstabbed and stunned by assassin. I was lucky later on when i stunned the healer and could quickly finish of the assassin.
Healer was a long fight because i had to interupt his selfheal while doing damage and heal myself when he shot me. Bow was my friend.

2 bosses is mostly very hard. I want to find people to help me, but in stonefalls i hardly see players to help for world bosses and Dolmen. There was also one dungeon with argonians (solo dungeon) and you had to kill 2 bosses there. I managed to bug them out so i had to deal one at a time. Else i was fubar.

Almost done in Stonefalls i think. So next weekend on to the next area

I completed all the VR 1-10 content as a DK tank (1H + shield, heavy armor).

I didnt find it too difficult; everything could be solo'd except the content that obviously isnt designed for that, like public dungeons, world bosses and dark anchors.

The only exception to this was a couple of quest bosses in the VR 10 zone (which for me was Reaper's March)... those took 2 people to complete, and I wasnt the only one with this issue; I helped out as many people as I could with those specific quests while I was in the zone, and I still do when Im passing through.

The hardest things for me to face were groups of enemies with multiple healers and/or casters.

The most frustrating thing to fight were healer bosses, because you had to be VERY timely with interrupts or you would lose minutes of progress whittling down their health.

Caster bosses often required me to swap out abilities before the fight in order to cope with their specific mechanics.

Hmmm....so it looks like the point I was trying to make in this thread

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/108771/overall-gameplay-too-difficult#latest

bares out. its the vocal minority complaining about vet difficulty. Most of us are doing fine

Azinurn wrote: »

if anything needs to be toned down its most likely the healers , since they never run out of mana

i mean i have been stuck in a loop whit my healer where i cant kill the healer but the healer cant kill me since neither of us will run out of mana hehe

Nothing is worse imo than a healer with two scamps/pyromancers.

Hilgara wrote: »

Hmmm....so it looks like the point I was trying to make in this thread

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/108771/overall-gameplay-too-difficult#latest

bares out. its the vocal minority complaining about vet difficulty. Most of us are doing fine

"Most?" a 25 vote difference is definitely a huge minority. lol.

and keep in mind that this forum isn't everyone. There are more than enough people frustrated with the current difficulty that I think at least a minor change to solo content is warranted.