Try questing in broken or lower level armor.

I guess you could try Thrassian Stranglers. Don't spec cp and attribute points so you don't have crazy damage.

As Varanis pointed out, dropping armour will probably have a similar effect.

Thrassian Stranglers reduces your health and Pelinal's Wrath deals constant damage, but they give substantial damage buff so overland stuff will die even faster.
As for food, use the "parse food" or crown drink from login rewards so you wont get max health.

There are vampire skills that use health instead of stamina/magicka. Can make things a little more interesting, especially when combined with the reduced health regen of vampire. And don't put any points into Undeath passive, to prevent being hard to kill at low health as a vampire. Maybe combine with Thrassian Stranglers for permanent health loss + health loss on skill activation + no health recovery + add in under-leveled armor for feduced damage mitigation, etc. You have to jump through hoops and basically kill yourself, though. It is hard to make the overland mobs dangerous in and of themselves.

Might want to use Armory for this, so you can switch from vampire to non-vamp easier, without needing to get cured before doing more difficult content than overland.

@VaranisArano Afaik enchantments are also inactive on broken armour.

subarctic wrote: »

ESO really needs some cursed objects and contagious diseases and intoxicating beverages that mess up your skills when fighting. The overland game now is a big yawn. Extraordinary strange that devs in a large MMORPG like ESO simply don’t understand that many people want challenges when playing a game, including overland.

Of course, "challenge" means different things to different people, varying both by skill level and subjective opinion.


Meanwhile, I'm having a hard time remembering any MMO I've played, where the 'overland' was at all challenging once I'd reached level cap + gotten geared up. (And since I never raided, it would obviously have been even more trivial for any raid/trial/vet level player.)

Even in games with level cap increases & gear resets, the new expansions are rarely challenging for raid/endgame players. Because it has to be playable for non-raiders who just have regular gear. (I remember when I played WoW the first few expansions, raid players didn't even start to replace any of their gear until they hit the new level cap of an expansion. All the quest rewards & drops doing overland were just stuff to sell or scrap.)

First you need to get level CP 160 in order that mobs are the strongest compared to your level

Remove all Skills
Remove all Passives
Remove all Attributes
Remove all CP
Remove Mundus Stones
Remove all Equipment
Remove all Buff Food and Drinks
Remove all Potion Buffs

At that point you can take one MAX 2 mudcrabs, you will be running around and fighting for your life

ADD
Vampire stage 4 (no health regen + a lot more incoming fire damage)
Thrassian Stranglers (debuff will be reset as soon as you move to another location)

At that point you will die fighting 1 Mudcrab

ADD
Use Equilibrium as your only skill into your rotation to take off 6000 health each cast

At this point you will die after 2 activations

ADD
Use a Negative Potion up to max level as Ravage Health potion

At this point you are dead whenever you drink


ADD
Unbind Block
Unbind Sprint
Unbind Roll Dodge
Turn Contrast/Brightness/Gamma to 0 in video settings

At this point you are Can Roleplay as a Frail Old Blind man who dies whenever they drink

That should take away your feeling of invincibility

What I suggest from that point on is your own personal way of Remove all the above mentioned via RolePlay.

You could always use an armory slot that has no cp, mundus or gear saved. Also, just use generic found weapons and armor.

WiseSky wrote: »

First you need to get level CP 160 in order that mobs are the strongest compared to your level

Remove all Skills
Remove all Passives
Remove all Attributes
Remove all CP
Remove Mundus Stones
Remove all Equipment
Remove all Buff Food and Drinks
Remove all Potion Buffs

At that point you can take one MAX 2 mudcrabs, you will be running around and fighting for your life

ADD
Vampire stage 4 (no health regen + a lot more incoming fire damage)
Thrassian Stranglers (debuff will be reset as soon as you move to another location)

At that point you will die fighting 1 Mudcrab

ADD
Use Equilibrium as your only skill into your rotation to take off 6000 health each cast

At this point you will die after 2 activations

ADD
Use a Negative Potion up to max level as Ravage Health potion

At this point you are dead whenever you drink


ADD
Unbind Block
Unbind Sprint
Unbind Roll Dodge
Turn Contrast/Brightness/Gamma to 0 in video settings

At this point you are Can Roleplay as a Frail Old Blind man who dies whenever they drink

That should take away your feeling of invincibility

What I suggest from that point on is your own personal way of Remove all the above mentioned via RolePlay.

This made me laugh, thank you

If you have a spare armory slot you could strip out all your CP, attributes and skills, save the blank build, then see whats the minimum you can get by using. No CP is a good start (or only non-combat bonuses from the green tree). Maybe no passive skills or at least none that help your defence, and obviously no attribute points into health and no food/drink buffs.

With the armoury it's easy to switch between that and a "full" build when you need one, which is why I think this is the best starting point. You could also make a set of level 1 armour with no enchantments, but then you need inventory space for a second set.