Holiday Season edition>Crown Store Showcase - December 2025https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/69023>Daedric War Celebration event (November 20 - December 2)https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/68985>New Life festival event (December 18 - January 6)>Elder Thread>>2018864>ESO Server Statushttps://esoserverstatus.net>Latest ESO Livetwitch.tv/bethesda>Places to Buy/Recommended Addons/Assorted Links/Tweakspastebin.com/BuD9GaGX- There are occasionally Free Play Events for prospective new players.>UI Addonsesoui.comminion.gg>/tesog/ Guilds[PC NA] mail: @taeralis, @zsj[PC EU] mail: @zsj, @Boggus, @NovaPixelOr post your @username/platform/location here.>Do I need to subscribe?Optional, with largest benefits being access to all DLC (but NOT the 2025 Content Pass/Solstice), cash shop currency on sub start/renewal, and the Craft Bag (can save your characters a ton of space).>Which faction should I choose?Want to PVP in Cyrodiil with friends? Make sure you're in the same faction. Otherwise, doesn't matter.>Where should I begin normal questing?Check out the OG beginner stuff, first: go to Port Hunding, Khenarthi's Roost, or Bleakrock.>Pledge/Trial Calendarbenevolentbowd.ca/calendar/eso-pledge-calendar-en/>DLC Chronological order flowcharthttps://imgur.com/a/1FqzvH1>The More You Know- Level Rewards give you tons of stuff along the way, including a free mount at level 10.- You need to be at least CP300 to queue for vet DLC dungeons.
the first link in OP is fake because the article hasn't been posted yetI'm going to bed now, see you all in 9 hours
Despite all my rage, I am still just a sload in a cave
>>2089622the only way to save the game now...is playable Sload
I think it's time we start shaming players who do subclassing.
Argonians and Khajiit should be enslaved forever
FACT: Khajiit are the most powerful race in Tamriel.
Trumpanzee b liek
My account in ten fucking years old.It is done.Fuck the base game quests.
>>2090482FalseThat's canonically the Argonians.
>>2090946I sure hope you mean the Hist, egg-sibling.
>>2089884agreed, I miss being able to pvp and get mad at the nightblades, now everyones a nightblade hybrid mix, what's the fun in that..
how does the furnishing vault work
>>2091070place it in your home somewhere and you can use it like an extra larger bank for furnishingsit has the same inventory if you put it in different homes
>>2091081can you still use it when your sub is over
>>2091106you can use it to withdraw or place the furnishings in it but you won't be able to deposit anymore
>pve and pvp dds need assassination>tanks and healers need siphoning>if your [any character] isn't a NB you'll have a dead weight skill lineI'm not sure why everyone's mad about the beam, it isn't even the strongest skill in its line
>>2090879My account is beta and launch old.I still haven't completed this.
I touch myself at night knowing pvp nerds suffer
>>2089612why are they holding fish?
>>2090774Send them all to Ayrenn's Vineyard
daily login rewards for this month
>>2092096gonna use my foodstamps to buy that stinky rat
The December clown store showcase is up. All-maker crate and purple fatecarver are the things that caught my eye. You just know the skill style will be overpriced
I spent my seals on this cool dog
Is the complete edition of the game at its cheapest now? Or is it going to be cheaper on the next sale?
Which class/race combo would you fug?
>>2093146why does the class matterstop fucking bears
>>2093249Different classes lend themselves to different personalities.A Dragonknight might view the bedroom as an arena where they conquer or are conquered by their partner.A Templar might view the act as sacred where every moment is meant to be special, or even something that should only happen under the blessing of Dibella.A Sorcerer is going to probably lean into more experimental stuff.A Night Blade is going to be more open to quickies or one-night-stands.A Warden might lean to more exhibitionist stuff like making love outside.A Necromancer is going to be a fucking freak.
>>2093028it's usually the cheapest when they're about to release the next expac (february or march)
>>2093363Thank you.
>>2093146any argonian female, really
>>2093376The monkey's paw curls.You wake up next to a Shadow Scale.
>>2093146I just want to romance femceloid
>>2093302sometimes I read posts that make me realize I'm not as autistic as I thought
the event is about to enddon't forget to grab the last tickets
>>2094533KeK it floppedRepeat after me:>DYING >GAME
>>2094663It all depends on if they don't fuck up the content reveal next year and they make some subclassing changes to strengthen pure classes.
Is Altmer society high trust?
>>2094663You'll be bleating this 20 years later
I heard that ZOS might be trying to fix subclassing by buffing your main class abilities more and nerfing the subclassed abilities. Will this actually make a difference or is it just a really shitty band-aid?
Why does /v/, and other shit areas of the internet, keep thinking this is related to either TES or TESO? ZOS can't even run an event in game successfully let alone do viral marketing.
>>2094877because they've only ever played Skyrim and have a very surface level understanding of the series so any large spooky statue = daedric shrine, clearly
Really I don't know why you say subclassing is broken, apparently only PVP nerds seem to be bothered by it. ZOS shouldn't make a big change just for a community that represents less than 25% of their player base and which also spends way less than PVEers and Housing bitches
>>2094877>>2094879I don't recall Skyrim having anything like that, looks more like ESO slop to me. Now ZOS doesn't have the funds to build statues to hype up their 2026 season pass, nor would anyone in their right mind call that a huge announcement. But I wouldn't dare to claim Bethesda can't have bought into ESO lore and art style.
>Read the combat live letter>classes getting artstyle changes (FINALLY)>skill lines getting reorganized to make sense>subclassing being treated as a choice rather than the boring slop it is nowIt might finally be time to play ESO again after 4ish years. I suppose the fear of job hunting has finally caught up with them.
NOOOO DON'T TAKE AWAY MY SUBCLASSING WHAT ELSE WILL I DO BESIDES DAWN+ASS+ARC
>>2095078So the corpses mechanic and tether skills will remain? Oh, how great.
>>2094663seems stable to me
>>2094838yes>>2094852subclassing should have been added that way in the first place, prioritizing you main class over the other ones
>necro second-last in priority despite being the most assMannimarco was right, fuck this gay earth
they cant take away my sorc skills i have skill styles on them already
>>2095270Nah, Dragonknight is certifiably the most ass and needs the most work. >Ugliest skills in the game (LOOKING AT YOU VOLITILE ARMOR AND DRAGONS BLOOD)>second most disorganized class in the gameNecro sucks because of the lack of mechanics and rewardI'm happy. I'm getting exactly what I want. Be patient, brother, we will get there.
>>2095078>>2095149Is this related to that class feedback form they did a few months back?
>>2095471necro sucks because you deal more damage with scribed skills than using your own class skills
>>2095529What 4 years of bad combat changes does to a mf
took me 6 years but i finally completed this boring garbageevery fucking zone is the same, including DLC>dark otherwordly force threatens the land and the ruling head of state>you retake some cities from said force while allying with The Zone's Good Guys who may or may not include selected exceedingly powerful individuals>head of state is killed at some point and you travel to the region's version of afterlife to reclaim the head's soul>final assault and/or defense against le evil force>ur da hero here's 600 gold, a skill point and some garbage item you'll immediately deconstruct
pen0r
>>2095784Murkmire, Wrothgar, Thieves Guild, DB and Elsweyr did something different, as far as I recall. I'm pretty burnt out on the "prevent demon apocalypse/big war!!!" storylines though
>>2095784big autistic energy coming from this screenshot
>>2090774>>2091680Fucking hell I'm on my kneel laughing.
I am hopeful for ESO's future
Naryu romance next year will save ESO
Naryu romance.Single classes with no subclasses receive some sort of buff.A political enemy rather than just another deadra cult for the 20th time.There, I will spend lots of money on crowns zenimax.
>>2095960Serious question:Isn't that what The Elder Scrolls as a series is?Excluding Arena, because I straight-up don't even know the first thing about it:>DaggerfallGo save the king from this lich who becomes a god by the end of the game.>BattlespireGo save the Battlespire from the literal devil because some dumbass allied with him.>MorrowindGo fulfil this ancient prophecy because three god went full retard eons ago and now the consequences of their actions has showed up.>OblivionGo stop Actually Satan from invading and merging the world with hell because some dumbass allied with him for power.Also the king dies. GG.>SkyrimGo stop this world-eating god-dragon from eating or enslaving the world.Also you're the super special powerful chosen-one and only you can save us.
>>2096227>A political enemy rather than just another deadra cult for the 20th time.member the ascendant order? I member
>>2096260the three latest installments don't have you wrestling the sleepers/mythic dawn/dragon cultists away from every second village/town>>2096140I'm sorry your favorite mumorpuger uses the same template for every zone you niggercattle, next time we'll triple the whedonisms and offer you a spitroast between that faggot darien and skordo
>doubling down on the super special class lorethere is no salvaging dk's lame dragon larping and magma spikes lol
By lore, ES dragons don't breath fire but they use shout right?
are they dropping a new patch with this update in which case, any ideas or patchnotes? Seems rather excessive to have 7 hours downtime but what do i know, i didnt play that game too much
lol this place is dead af
also why is every quest giver le stronk independent women and every npc failing is a white incompetent and optionally evil dude? I install quest skipper mod ust to not bother reading any more of this drivel was skyrim equally as bad? Ive played morrowind for 100 hours recently and it wasnt THAT bad, one of the more competent and likeable characters was the fights guild dude who uses you to rid the corruption of the fighters guild for example
>>2097265but enough about nords
>>2097077Yes. Dragonknights don't make any sense at face value. Its safe to say Gabrielle was right and they are just a bunch of bunch of LARPing weeaboos using basic destruction magic
>>2097358Shouts are essentially basic destruction magic in the cases that apply and can be warded against.
>>2097358None of the base classes make sense really. DK's Akavir connection is dubious at best, NBs feel more like vampires than illusionists, "aedric magic" isn't a distinct thing from regular magic, and sorcs are bizarre. Who plays a summoner and just stops at mid-tier daedra, and why does dark magic=crystals? I suspect the classes and 3-faction pvp were designed with an original setting in mind, then they got orders to make it Elder Scrolls and decided to adapt what they had instead of starting from scratch.
>>2097265This game was pozzed from the start. Playing AD, the very first thing you do is kill the le evil racists for your girlboss queen. Skyrim at least had the balls for you to side with the racist faction
Is there a lore explanation as to why the monsters in the Infinite Archive get stronger and stronger?
>>2097637yes, CHIM
>>2097593>>2097325the retarded woman stands up to the king/counts/general must be ingrained into the cuck wirter genetic dna at this point.
Jorunn, Emeric, Irnskar, Sai Sahan, Shalidor, Vanus, Darien, King Dynar, Torvesard? all strong independent women
>>2097255new crate in the crown store
>Chuddy(a khajiit himself):"Sounds good. Where do i sign up?"
i need some help or idea.Im doing a light attack build only just for fun and so far noble duelist, balhazars band, slime head and mothers everything else. I want to replace mothers but the crit is just really good. I tried molag kena but it was only like 800 more damage on an 16k crit per hit. I wasnt impressed so i went back to mothers. Im currently farming undaunted unweaver but it kinda goes against the light attacks only rule so im a bit torn atm. You have any suggestions?
>>2098114*besides killing myself that is
>>2098114you could try something generic like Order's wrath or Pillar of nirn
this game needs an 8th class
Excited for class identity refresh.Excited for Naryu romance.luv eso.Simple as.
you play like 4 hours a year you don't luv shit retard
>>2098544>excited for naryu romanceI will pray for you. I hope you get better. You deserve better than this.
>>2098832You mean, like, 2 Naryus?
>>2098832the only thing better would be Valsirenn romance
>>2098544The Bosmer guy who canonically fucked Naryu was very excited too!
>>2098206true
the fuck is going on with alliance VS alliance this time?
Not played for a few years, are there any strong arguments to/not to return just now? I have seen subclassing and I imagine almost everybody is playing the exact same build now with beam, which sounds awful. Anything fun to do or avoid? Also the thread is in /vm/ now?
the new crate…mid
>>2100382arcanist beam reigns supreme
>>2100614It's not even new Again. Dead game. They don't even bother to make new slop to sell.
>doing leyawiin zone story>dagon appears a grand total of two times>his model doesn't have lipsync and is so badly animated it looks like it came out of a 1999 gameat least i got three hot bitches to gawk at my cool lizardboth it and greymoor were full of girlboss bullshit btw so nothing changed from the previous DLCs and base game>>2101109the game might be dead but that's no reason to lie
How long does AD take?I finally made it to Cadwell's Gold and I kinda just want to power through it.I'm already fully aware of the story of each zone due to reading the wiki, and it seems like anything not involving Razum-Dar doesn't matter in the long run once I start to complete DLC chapters.
>>2100382Don't bother returning. Zos is full of shit as always.
>>2100382IF you can have fun just going through quests and treating the game like a single player story game, then yeah. I'm having fun.No way in hell would I ever try to do multiplayer shit outside of the daily normal dungeon, though.I also buy gold off of Player Auctions whenever I want a new set of gear, so my opinion is probably shit.
What is the theme of these crates even supposed to me? Orcs + Khajiit, but why? How is any of this stuff related to anything? And why does Forgemaster's Throne defy all the laws of mundus
>"We drank the water and something bad happened!">go inside>the water is glowing green with stereotypical poison clouds wafting off of itCome on guys
>>2102233when it comes to crown crates, don't overthink, just accept
Mirri romance....
>>2102498Crown crates are canon
>>2102543they aren'tyou don't see stuff like (>>2092911) around in the 3rd and 4th eras
>>2098114so i got the unweaver set and now crit for up to 18.5k. The downside is i need to use merciless resolve stamina morph every 10 seconds but i think unbuffed on the weakest dummy i could find with 300k health i sit around 24-27 dps. i cant imagine another way to boost my dps higher than going from violet to yellow quality. The ticks on my heavy attack lightning staff are around 22k with a crit and obviously the last tick does around 50k so ill never reach those numbers but the pro is 2h is always aoe so while with the staff i had to finish off every single mob one by one it took mere seconds to do so on a 2h axe.
>>2102547You can see some in Skyrim anniversary edition with approved creation club content(also canon). You will see more storm atronach horses in TES VI.
>>2102524why are you dressing her like a street whore? She's better than that
Have you always been able to queue into dungeons from Cyrodiil?
>>2102547>>2102557this is Arvak erasure
the daedric horse mount from Skyrim's Creation Club looks Crown Store as fuck
>>2102793ADAW
>>2103135It probably is from the crown store. They've put stuff in from that shitty blades game into the creation club so this wouldn't be any different.
>>2103135Missing the full body neon halo and a gay furry prostitute in a carnival costume
>>2102547Morrowind had giant flea busses, Oblivion let you ride a unicorn, and Skyrim added a few magic mounts later. The newer mounts are going too far with the glow effects but for the most part crate mounts aren't that out of place for the setting. The real problem is seeing dozens of them in every town because MMO. "Realistically" they'd be much rarer and limited to certain areas, groups, or individuals.
why didn't we get any new companions this year?
>>2105800maintenance mode
>>2105800ded game
>>2105800We're probably getting one in Jan or Feb considering the Valentine's Day event achievements tell you to gain a gazillion rapport with a companion. Or maybe we're meant to take the old ones on murder sprees and have sweaty makeup sex, I don't know
>>2105800They should update the existing ones first. Allow us to travel with up to three companions at a time. Add new voice-lines plus reactivity. Bantz, obviously. And, of course, romances. Bastian, Mirri, Ember - playersexual. Azandar - gay. Isobel - gay, unless you're an altmer. Too much for lazy, greedy asses.
>>2105909What are we still missing, an orc and a bosmer? How will they screw it up?
arcanist is the only class you needeverything else is irrelevant
>>2106569based and morapilled
>>2106569oh boy, beams
>>2105822>>2105823This
Just coming back after a long time away, only played casually - normal dungeons, overland shit, etcMy "spell damage" and "physical damage" as well as the spell/phys crit rating are matched, and when hovering over them, they say they work "if higher" than the other. Almost every goddamn thing I can find boosts both spell and physical damage or spell and phys crit, am I just retarded and missing something, or is the text outdated? My damage feels fine (stamcro, even just fucking around trying to level up destruction staff and bow which I never used before), champ level is like 200 and I'm crushing delves (and overland content obviously), am I missing something, is the text just outdated?
>>2107158since update 33 (hybridization update) there hasn't been a distinction of physical and spell damage. They are both just one stat now
>>2105800Because they over invested in Blackbird and lost a bunch of staff when it got axed in the mass layoffs.>>2105974>orc is a fat woman who don't need no chief>bosmer is Tanlorin 2.0 but this time its a transman with top surgery scars
>>2105800Darien should have been the companion. He ain't doing anything.
>>2107177Gotcha, Thanks! I figured I'm just being paranoid, but holy shit does ZOS need to update that text in that case, hard to imagine anything more demoralizing than implying "all your effort is for naught" on a MMO stat screen.
>>2107158>>2107486why do you write like a woman
Update 49 datamine when
I miss the Balfiera tutorial...
>>2108175I miss Overload 3rd bar.
>>2108175same
What will be added soonest?Another Tales of Tribute DeckAnother Scribing SpellAnother Cyrodiil Daedric WeaponAnother Companion
>>2108706whatever costs the least money and effort
>>2108706I hope we get a dark brotherhood season with a night mother tot deck and maybe a scribing skill for the db skill line
The crew were not fans of the trial of air. Especially doing it without the cheat item.
>My deadra is cool and not like those other deadra
>>2105974Forgot Nord. But I bet they'll have a 3rd khajiit before they do all the missing races.
>if you don't want to simp for a deadra, then you shouldn't play the base game main storyline, craglorn, morrowind, summerset, gold road, blackwood, necrom, or solsticeThis is honestly one of the things I don't like about eso. I love the game in general but I'm growing weary of every storyline except a few forcing you to simp for deadra. And the number of times I've had to read "they're not so bad!" from some idiot makes my eyes roll.I want another expansion that is not about deara, or it's about only killing deadra and reminding viewers that every problem mortals face is their fault. Why does it seem like the eso writing team are all deadra apologists, and why would that even be a thing in the first place
yum, map and story completion. All solo, although companions didn't exist when they first made all this so it's not true solo.Where to next I wonder.
I can assure you, I no longer enjoy playing this game. Not even my argonian characters motivate me, not even gooning. I've done almost everything, from PVP (which I hated) to Housing, from DLC dungeons to veteran trials and yet I simply find everything dull and repetitive and not worth paying for.I joined guilds, I tried to RP (did not like it), I befriended racists, furries, scalies, drug addicts, people different to my culture and mother language, all sorts of freaks...I liked some but I don't take online acquaintances seriously. I did want to join your guild but it seems it's even more dead than my desire to keep playing this game. I waited for cool stuff, got everything I wanted from the CLOWN store and other reward systems. I'm done, It's not fun anymore, it doesn't entertain me anymore.Thank you for reading my personal diary, anon signing off, have my last screenshot, good luck!
>>2110231nords are indeed a forgettable race
>>2108706immersive skooma addiction
is this game deadthe 2025 premium edition with all the previous dlc is on sale for $20
>>2110211A monitor this wide doesn't seem practical. Is it comfortable to use with games like this?
>>2111640around 10-15k concurrent players at any given time, divided between two servers (NA and EU)
>>2111679is it fun as a casual game to sink time intoi like daggerfall morrowind oblivion and skyrim, but i heard the game is kind of bland overall i might be in the minority saying this, but i would hope it is a pretty social game i can't stand mmo-type games where all the players are silent as the grave 90% of the time and you can't tell if someone is actually present or afking
If the game is dead then why does this thread keep getting renewed?
>>2111756because someone keeps making new threads
>>2111756this board has threads that have been up for over a year
>>2111756The head honcho of this general is a known ZOS shill, literal paid advertising, he also keeps uploading screenshots of his tranny characters
>>2112302tell me more about this 'zos shill'
>>2111732ESO suffers from MMO-syndrome, so functionally it's just a generic take on TES. Characters look more generic, locations look more generic, gameplay is more generic, soundtrack is more generic, etc. Decent game overall with some nice features, but skippable.
>>2111732This game is more like those gacha Zelda clones than a classic mmo. For the most part you can treat it like a single player game and just explore the lore.
amazing quality control, zosi don't think even vanilla skyrim has water seams
disturbing gimp lizard tbdesu
all the chicks who sat down around me while i was doing /pushups waiting for the WBs to respawn disagree :)
Is raceplay popular in TES&ESO?
finally managed to remove the omnipresent blue tint and the game actually looks kind of nice now
>>2110376Why in the world would you goon to this dry ass game? There's absolutely no motion going on here.The player skeletons don't even have jigglebones ffs.
>>2112974You are trapped inside a urinal
finally started doing the solstice questlinewhat should I expect?
>also need to fish in fucking cyro>it's fullfug
>>2113315ah well it was nothing, didn't even see a single soul
Has dungeon finder and pugs gotten worse? Wait times have been going on far longer than it was sometime before the writhing wall event. And groups are more cancerous as usual.
>>2113575I noticed players having difficulties with the newer dungeons (naj-caldeesh and black gem foundry). Nothing else other than that
>quit game and uninstall after update 35 and high isle>move on couple years>got an urge to try eso again>install it again>get updated on current status of the game>not even single day in I uninstall again and leave once moreThis is just sad... man...
UuughgNever pretend you're a female unless you are ready to get actual stalkers at some point
>>2114023>things that definitely happened
spellsword class when?spears when?ZOS pls
>>2114450>spellsword2-handed stamina sorc>spearsstamina templar
>>2114456>spears>>stamina templarthat's a staff
New TRUTH NUKE just droppedIt's over...Maintenance mode confirmed https://youtu.be/d7G7TatAys4?si=wTieg3je591ZpFLT
>>2114817nah, that's 100% a spear
>>2115265thats a javelin
>>2115274same thing, different namestick with a pointy bit
>ancient Ehlnofey who walked Nirn during pre-Convention times>talks like an old jewweird choice for a voice but humorous
>>2115222*yawn*Wake me up when we're at 2015 numbers. We're at 2017 numbers right now.
The only thing that can save this game, for real now, is fan service. I am still waiting for that Lifts-her-tail costume in crown store or as a golden endeavor and no, don't put a diaper on the character's butt or make the skirt as long as a nun's habit, just make the skirt as short as the scorianite skirt.Christmas wish: Or make lifts her tail a companion, name her, follows-her-master and once we have completed her quest and gained her friendship, her name turns into follows-her-friend.The bonus she gives us?, +15 minutes to our drinks and food effects and also -50% to armor decay. And yes, give her a cute voice, no I don't care it breaks your already pathetic slop of a game "vibes".
God I hope the subclass changes ruin arcanist beams
>>2115560why are you against people having fun?
>>2112481>For the most part you can treat it like a single player game and just explore the lore.sounds like a waste for an mmommos that minimize player interactivity are lame i will pass on eso then
>>2115592this desu. just buff everything else to arcanist's level. who cares about being "overpowered" in a pve game?>pvpfagslol vanguard is your future
I have had a key for this game since it came out and never botheredWhat are the top reasons to play this mmo vs something else that is low tier like fallout 76 or whatnot, I have zero idea what kind of appeal this game is supposed to have since all classes also can do all melee or magic stuff like a normal elderscrolls game as far as I know with weird ass classes
>>2116321>who cares about being "overpowered" in a pve game?The playerbase demanding 100k for vet content because they hate mechs and want to skip them. You either join the meta slaves or play single player.
>>2116667I wonder if there are voice lines in trials that never get heard, because it would mean holding up the group.
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>>2116902ripparoonies
>>2116321>who cares about being "overpowered" in a pve game?I do. Invuln phases are not fun gameplay nor good game design. That is the design choice damn near every pve based game relies on to keep the game from becoming a faceroll.Zos has been rolling these stupid types of bosses out since probably the Deadlands, and it's so corny.
>>2117067they should handle it the way Diablo 4 did
look at this pretty khajiit lady
>>2116902RIP Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsvale Dimmadome
Something is going on with this queue today
>>2118877I really think it got worse after the writhing event
>>2118877>tank loads in>already did that dungeon today>leaves group and instance>healer gets cold feet and leaves tooNothing personnel, kid
Why are people recommending this as a new world's alternative when its clearly now abandonware?
>>2120294why the hell would anyone play new world?
>>2120294>Eso is abandonwareHeh, true but it's because ESO has better housing and furry races.That's how I play this game now, a vaguely TES themed housing "game".
>abandonware>still getting new expansions and stories 10 years after launchyou guys have no idea what that word means
>Stage 1: Denial Face it, the game is in maintenance mode and I can literally list 100 reasons that prove it. The users of this chinese mongolian basket waeving forum can be childish, yes, but not naive or actually stupid, I really can't find another explanation for the way you cope than you being part of ZOS staff. Your toxic positivity brought this game to its current state.
>>2120540>"you're coping"I've been hearing that "this game is dead" since 2022. It's almost 2026 and the game is still here>toxic positivitydoesn't happen. zos gets criticized every single time they do something to the game
>>2120701They ignore it They even ban people from forums and censor discussions.And the cherry on top, they even make fun of their playerbase, calling them crybabies
>>2120939the forum is a overmoderated shithole and no sane person uses that. Still, they put out a form 3 months ago asking people about the current state of classes and next year they will start to roll back on the subclassing system. we will see how it goes.>calling the playerbase crybabiesgina was specifically referring to pvpfags, and we can all agree that pvpers aren't human
liggerbros...we won
>>2121158What am I looking at?
>>2121158I have an idea how to revive this game. Contact Todd now.
If ESO tanks, what mmo will y'all switch to?
>>2121188the new divinity game
>>2121378I go back to SWTOR, the one MMO that won't die
>>2121378eso isn't going anywhere in the total sense, but between updates I love going back to swtor. It's a game I've been playing for over a decade and it always feels good to fly around the star wars galaxy. It's one of the last remaining pre-disney star wars projects and it still gets updates, albeit sometimes slow and sometimes small.I play pretty much every mmo that comes out, including the plethora of korean grindy ones, and I would say overall my favorite is swtor. I played wow for like a decade too, but I quit cold turkey during the jailer story arc because the writers stopped caring so why should I.There are a few upcoming mmo's I'll give a try, but nothing stands out as likely to become one I play a lot. pax dei is worth a try, and chrono odyssey, and a few others, but these don't feel like long term mainstays.>>2121188That's from the trailer for the new Larian game, in the Divinity franchise. Shown at the Game Awards last night. I love a lot of their games so I'm looking forward to it.
>>2121378I don't play MMOs
>>2121378ffxiv is the main eso is the side piece
>>2121158GIWTWM :(
>>2121188TESVI: Black Marsh world premiere
>>2121378I don't care for other MMOs, they are just animeslop or wow (which I never liked), the only reason that keeps (kept) me from playing this game is that it is supposed to be a TES game
>>2121379welp, looks like it's finally time to jump off the boatthe only think keeping me from abandoning this craphole of a game was my love for the only (i thought) place where I could find lizard racesShit looks good, and they actively engage in gooning fanservice. Bye zos, I will not miss you. The rest of you, get a life losers.
>lizard gooners are leavingW
>>2122712he said the same thing some days ago and he's still here...
>>2122712I'm still here and not going anywhere soon.
i don't hate gay people but i do hate the ones who constantly lie for attentionglad you won't be in my game some day
>>2122420If you're a lizardfag, play original sin 2.
turns out that you can actually get rid of the wall after doing a few zone quests
>>2124274same location before
which character they will bring back next time?
Is it worth getting into ESO? Or does it suffer from dailyslop, FOMOslop, and other flaws that make MMOs less enjoyable? I like MMOs but they're so hard to get into nowadays.
>>2126616Varen aquilarios or Abnur tharn
>>2126713Just play it casually and enjoy exploring the zones. Eventually get into the harder content like trials for fun. if you feel like, buy some cosmetics but there's no need to. That's the best way to play eso. I don't think the fomo is very bad in this game, and it has a normal login calendar thing like a million other games but it's just extras, there's rarely anything exclusive on them.
>>2126713only if you want to play it as a singleplayer game, players are abandoning it by the thousands and zenimax doesn't care about it anymore, it's on maintenance mode
>>2126739Abnur is likely but what on earth makes you think Varen is a possibility?
>>2126768>only if you want to play it as a singleplayer gameNevermind then. I hate it when MMOs are just singleplayer games with extra steps. What a shame.
>>2126768yea lad, keep saying that the game is in maintenance modeone day it may become true
>>2126775why are you so determined on lying to fellow gamers about the state of this game? reality doesn't care about your feelings, period.
>>2126781you have never seen seen a game in "maintenance mode" or "end of service"ESO is nowhere near that
This is still in the top few most popular mmo's, and is the most popular on consoles. We get multiple expansions every year and that has no sing of stopping. It's a straight up lie to say it's in maintenance mode, but I can give the benefit of the doubt and assume it's an ignorant /v/ tourist who doesn't actually know what that phrase means and they're just trying to say something negative. New World's recent announcement is what maintenance mode actually means.ESO is good for casually exploring the elder scrolls universe and visiting places a main game hasn't featured yet.It's somewhat shallow when you directly compare it to some of the other good mmo's, but if you're looking for a nice mellow casual game then it's great. The generally good graphics and voice acting make just wandering around doing quests and absorbing the visuals and locations enjoyable.The harder eso content isn't very hard compared to the harder content of some other mmo's, but that's by design, since this game is made with accessibility in mind. They want the skyrim boomer crowd to be able to do well. It's not a bad thing or a criticism, it's just a comparison to some of the higher apm and precision of some other mmo's.I always find it suspicious when someone says ":is this game dead" and then an immediate response says "yeah dude it's totally dead" and then another response something to the effect of "wow bro thanks for telling me, I won't bother". It feel like a ritual or performance rather than organic. Why would someone who's actually interested in a game not do their own research on a site that actually has player numbers? Why would you take the word of one anon who just says "yeah dude it's totally dead" and that's it? That's not how normal people conduct research.Anyway, ESO is not my main mmo, but it is one of them that I've played for a long time and will continue to play because it's always nice to relax with and come back to.
>>2126781Do you not know what maintenance mode actually means? It doesn't just mean the devs doing a shit job, it means doing literally nothing more than keeping the servers online. No balancing patches, no new content, not even more scam crates.
>We get multiple expansions every year and that has no sing of stopping. It's a straight up lieall we needed
>>2126814>no new scam crates>the big event was just a re-skin of all previous ones (and it flopped miserably)>extremely buggy game (ask the main event that would change the game)>no significant changes in combat>no significant changes in PVP>no changes in races and by the way you have to pay to play imperial even after 10 yearsno significant changes in animations (oh nevermind there are and guess what they are shit)Open your eyes, zos doesn't give a shit about this game, the only thing keeping it running is the love of fans for TES franchise...more than 10 years and the game hasn't changed at all other than routine maintenance and some nerfs/buffs
>>2126826Yes, all of that is true and a problem that could very well kill the game soon. It still isn't maintenance mode. That is a very specific term that objectively doesn't apply to ESO yet.
>>2126826>no new scam crateswrong, we got 4 crates this year (Carnaval, Akatosh vs Alduin, Hidden Kindred and Moons Over Orsinium)>the big event was just a re-skin of all previous onesnope, main problem with the event (other than the bugs) was that it dragged on for too long. Should have been 12 days instead of 40.>extremely buggy gamefeels bug-free compared to mainline bethesda games>no significant changes in combat>no significant changes in PVPgood>no changes in races and by the way you have to pay to play imperial even after 10 yearsthey wanted to add lilmothiit as a playable race in the murkmire dlc, but bethesda said no
>>2126837It feels like they really want to make Maormer playable too.
>>2126893akaviri, maormer, dremora, more varieties of argonian and khajiitimagine the possibilities...
>>2126899Akaviri and daedra would need to be in a new game written around that possibility. Maormer could just be barred from the AD and fit well enough.
>>2126899>akaviri, maormer, dremorathat'll never happen>more varieties of argonian and khajiitThis is possible. Maybe they could have different stats
>>2126616Unlikely, but I'd love to see Khamira again
>>2127200Don't like khajeets but this cat was enjoyable and I like her hhhrrmmm she kept doing
Next ESO cinematic should be like this. Tight breton woman X argonian behemoth or minotaur.
>>2127332>filenamekek
>>2097265Your have severe brain damage from the culture wars. Like anon said it before, it was all there from the start, and even long before that in the media. But you ignored it because your NPC cyberbrain didn't have the anti-woke update yet. You were fine with every second soldier/guardsman being female despite women being an obviously inferior choice for that kind of job. You were fine with no region being racially homogeneous to a more significant degree. At least in the real TES games the guards belonged to the races of their respective homelands. Every second guard in Vulkhel is not even an Altmer, forget about them being mostly male. You got cat thieves and midget cannibals standing guard alongside the divine golden-skinned Altmer in the holy homeland. By Auri-El, it was over before it even began.
>>2126713I am playing it as a singleplayer game for the most part and that's probably the best way to enjoy it, or any MMO for that matter. I don't trade, like, at all. I don't hoard trash materials. I most certainly don't craft. I don't buy Dungeon DLCs for dungeons I can't solo. I just play for fun, alone, without any clowns dressed as lizards and daedric gods dancing in front of you and then screeching in chat because you didn't follow the current meta. I simply avoid the subhuman part of MMOs.
>>2130307average day in rimmen
>>2130310Except it's a female khajiit.
>>2129497Would you feel better if Ayrenn wasn't real and King Camoran was secretly running the Aldmeri Dominion?
>Mannimarco's VA has diedRIP Mr. Where is the Amulet of Kings
>>2130736"Female"
this game needs more provisioning ingredients
>>2131523This game needs fewer white provisioning ingredients wtfThis game NEEDS trophy fish to be relevant to crafting
>>2132612I'd rather have those as furnishings.Elder Crossing
found another cute khajiit npc in solstice
It's like the game somehow knows I'm looking for a specific weapon from a dungeon and looks to fuck me over every single run
>>2134441It's pretty normal to put the thing you're looking for in chat at the start of the dungeon, the people in the group can trade after.
>>2134441you generally have to run a dungeon 42 times to get all equipment from there in your stickerbook
>>2134446I do, they usually say they didn't get it. >>2134447I get that but I'm only looking for a specific weapon. I got plenty of fuck-you transmutes to spend
>>2134441Let me introduce (and trigger ptsd) you to the burning spell weave inferno staff before stickerbook and transmute
New life festival tomorrow
Same 9 years old festival tomorrow
>>2135703what? doing the same 12 dailies for 20 days doesn't sound fun to you?
>>2135703>>2135807They've added 8 new dailies and you only need to do 1 unless you're desperate for those charity writs
>in Galen>have bounty >female systres guard stops me>recognize the voice>It's jack from mass effect (Courtney taylor)>suddenly rock hard>"That was good for both of us.">Yeah, it was
>my toon has been level 20 since pre-covidhow much time would it take at max lvl to get gear for cyrodiil to become a happy little nightfag shitter?
>>2136798I managed to get from level 0 to 50 in 2 days once. still, I don't recommend it, take your time and play the game at your own pace
You can get a total of 18 event boxes in one day per character
>Release a tropical island zone>Don't release swimwearWhat would each cultures swimwear look like?
They are doing new content reveal suspiciously early (January 7)
>>2138181sea urchins
>This has been a challenging year. While we had high ambitions, we stumbled. Writhing Wall was not the experience that we wanted to deliver or that players deserved. Subclassing introduced and highlighted issues with class identity. Previously, we referred to this year as a “transition” year, yet I feel that there was not enough transition in meaningful ways.>Players have been asking us to be more transparent and communicate better; to provide a more rewarding experience; to be more exciting; to address long-standing issues and pain points; to improve combat, class identity, and PvP; and generally make more investment in the core game experience instead of just chasing the next big thing. We hear you. We agree.
>>2138908this was the first year since release I outright quit playing ESO and even uninstalled it. I paid a subscription for several years up to 2024I hope they can unfuck it
>>2138908maybe Rich leaving the ESO team was a good thing
>>2139549Now rehire wrobel
>>2140074No
the second reward in the golden pursuit is this christmas treewhich is pretty cool
>>2140198Yes. Wheeler sucks ass.
>run first dungeon i've done in months>fake tank 2h/bow, 5k dps>healer heals a total of 10,000 hp over the whole dungeon while providing no buffs or debuffs. I don't even think they had a full set of anything>other dps does 5k dps>92% of group damage is done by me, 80% of group healing is done by me, I hold aggro for every boss>they aggro the boss before turning on hm>one of them somehow fails to die for 3 minutesIt was only vet CoA2 but why is this the usual group comp instead of something at least trying to be good?
>>2141240I think you just had very shitty luck
bosmer are for...
>>2141538raccoon food
>>2141240It's a dead game dude...
>>2141637you've been bleating this for 20 years
>>2141669b-but the game is only 11 y/o
Know what will save the thread? Argonian women.
Just got this game for 5 dollars, haven't played it since the beta which I did not like enough to buy the game then. What am I in for?
>>2143282MMORPG-style game in the elder scrolls universe
>>2143282Zelda gacha with some mmo mechanics
>>2143282Great environments, shitty quests and furries
>the 8k crown blacksmith personality has no footstep soundssasuga zos you manage to fuck up the simplest things
>>2143282Maintenance mode Skyrim, but worse
>trial group taking forever to form>do IA daily endeavor in the meantime>group disbands>get the "removing from instance" countdown in my solo IA runit just werks
>>2110376>I tried to RP (did not like it)you missed GachiERP, brother...
>>2143282good action MMO with tons of builds but blurred by metafags getting outplayed by meta build websites that give them flawed builds so the insiders keep the highscoresstamina healing is broken despite every magicka healer saying otherwise
>>2143615is this still an issue with group finders? or do people still avoid them that bad?
>>2143818why are you like this?
have they added npc wives yet
>>2143818HOLY SEXO
>>2143834because you will soon
>>2143843They have companions, although you have relationship, you can't marry them YET.
>pure class stamblade orc>null arca + ansuul + velothiyep, it's gaming time
>2 of my long standing highly populated clans are outright disbanding and closing foreverIt's never been more over.
New player who posted earlier here, thank you for your feedback. I will say I am pleased with the first person controls. Combat feels very disconnected, more disconnected than the singleplayer games even but whatever, it's an mmo. My question is uh, how many bots are in this game? I keep seeing people straight line to resources and hardly anyone responds to me talking to them.
>>2145143>first person controlsthis game was made with third person camera in mind. most of the time you should be aware of your surroundings during combat, and you can't see enemies behind you using first person camera>botspretty sure bots aren't a thing in eso
>>2145225I prefer first person. It is how Elder Scrolls is meant to be played.>pretty sure bots aren't a thing in esoThen what is the explanation for that?
>>2145250>I keep seeing people straight line to resourcesno idea what you mean by that>hardly anyone responds to me talking to themthere are only 2 servers, and most likely, they don't speak your language.
>>2145250Just players hellbent on gathering resources is my guess. Some will go on a farming binge to sell on the market.
>>2145260>no idea what you mean by thatI followed them. They go in a straight line from a herb, then a straight line to a chest, then ore, and so on. Looks like a script to me. Some of the distances are quite far too.
>>2145143>hardly anyone responds to me talking to themdon't expect too much of that. It's normal to queu in a dungeon with pubs and they just want to speedrun it and get out of there.
>>2145267That is so sad. MMOs have fallen... why even play if not for the social aspect? There are much more engaging games that respect ones time more than the standard fare of an MMO. I'm sure I will find talkative players farther into the content.
>>2145277I'm not sure if it's always been like that or it began being like that when sub-classing introduced and now players can make a build that burns through bosses while skipping mechs. Either way I hope they stay true to their word and manage to fix sub-classing.
>>2145260>>2145264Ok how about this guy. He has been standing here for hours, has a high level player standing behind him, can't access the iron node. What is going on here? How is this not indicative of botting?
>>2145432>>2145143Farming mats with bot is meaningless in this game. You can make 20 characters and max crafting lines on each. Thus can give you an insane amount of recourses every day for free, just for login in.
>>2145225>pretty sure bots aren't a thing in esoYeah I can tell who hasn't been around in the first year of the game. Bots were infesting every corner of the game and ZoS did a poor job at getting of them, just like every other fucking garbage MMO I played at launch. The bots were abusing glitches like crazy. There was this place in Bangkorai where you got instanced during a quest and it had an instantly respawning cloth resource. The bots were standing around and competing against each other. The bots also gathered normally in every zone. They would literally do nothing but stand around if you gathered before them and left the window open.
>>2145536Then wtf is this guy doing? I watched him run to this straight spot from a previous node and just stand there and when I passed through the area again, an hour or two later, he's still there. I tried harvesting the node and it's inaccessible. Just because there isn't an obvious motive doesn't mean this isn't botting, which it obviously is. Do you have any other explanation for this?
>>2145584I spend an hour dropping the bear trap memento to lure buts into enemy spawn.
>>2145432let my man enjoy the wallsome players like dungeons, some like questing, that guy likes staring at walls
copy pasting someone else's build < asking AI for a build
>finish all other content after 6 years>finally get to skingrad>gone are the colors and warmth, instead it's just mud and gray bricks everywhere >it feels too wide and somehow fucking claustrophobic at the same time >cathedral is a good reference point so go there>the spot to the left of it that would normally have a bridge is now a city gate >open map>half the city is missingand that's how i lost all will to play, unfuckingbelievableI'll maybe check in when they drop the inevitable whiterun + dawnstar + winterhold + solstheim zone, there's no more nostalgia to draw content from and everything original they come up with is irredeemable garbage
>>2146704>>gone are the colors and warmth, instead it's just mud and gray bricks everywhere?
>>2146824yeah and now try without the piss filter, fag
>>2146704see >>2128216
Okay, don't let the shills gaslight you my dear newbie, I was a noob once too so I came to solve all your doubts.1) Bots and automated key pushing (i am not a computer nerd so whatever) are a thing in this game, even if they are rare. I've seen them used for: PVP combat, fish and resource farming, event boxes farming (killing world bosses or completing zone events) and also as part of PVP groups, following some retard loser around while spamming heals and area of effect attacks. 2) The materials market crashed because it was a big ass bubble, it reached dystopian levels and zos manipulated the market in a way it bursted and now they are dirt cheap.3) Old players are leaving that's a fact!, the game is no longer interesting because it is repetitive and boring for PVE and messy and unbalanced for PVP, simple as that, because i could also give you more reasons but they are not as objetive as the last ones. 4). I started playing 3 years ago and back then there were some sociable and good-hearted gamers in this game, mostly millenials, thanks to them I was able to complete a lot of veteran content. Now it's just zoomers like myself who are, in case you hadn't noticed, less sociable and more immature individuals. Find a guild that has been doing content for years, there are some that even claim to have started decades ago in other games like wow, they will admit anyone at this point and they can help you a lot.
>>2146687>AI buildno way AI has enough context of this game to put together a decent build
>>2146868Merry Christmas to you too
>>2147000Checked.I think if there is still a purpose to botting, based on what you and others said of motivation, it would be to sell accounts.I'm still early on (sub 30 still) and find the combat fun but I can see that falling off rather quickly because there aren't many skills per class it seems? Along with weapon skills there is a good amount of variation though and I have changed what I am doing several times to finetune how well I can kill. Trying to solo Spindleclutch at level 20 lead me to optimizing my build and approach to combat and also goes into your last point about finding a guild. I got all the way to the end but could NOT kill a single enemy before dying myself, too many enemies and the boss just wiped me in a second. I have been keeping an eye at the guilds soliciting membership in zone chat but so far the names of these guilds are unappealing to me, none of the names seem— lorefriendly?Still, it is early yet and I am patient. Thanks for replying even though I had to infer you were responding to me.
dolmens still lightning you for afkingleveling still not worth the timenice game todd
where does one find healer girlfriends in this game?
>>2089612Question:I have 2 different accounts. One for Steam and one for the non steam version. Can i link them and get to use both characters on one account or am i fucked?
>>2147435you can link accounts on the official websitenot sure if your characters will be shared between accounts
>>2147425High Isles
>>2146704It's a thousand years ago, that half of the city was vineyards, and expanded over time. I prefer that to eternal Seyda Neen.
>>2147542>Is female>Looks maleHMhmmm
>>2147671Yeah she is kinda ugly, her voice is really cute though
>>2147671>>2147733Stfu weeb, this is what a cat looks like
It's that time of the year again
>>2143818I'm following those steps, son
closer angle
and sleeping
merry christmas /tesog/
I like seeing the christmas outfits people put together. and there's a lot of people at the event vendors and event questgivers. feels good
>>2145143>hardly anyone respondsThat's just the reality of modern games and the community surrounding them, nobody plays MMOs to socialize, ironically, and if they do they keep it at a minimum, people likely get weirded out if you just talk to them.That said there are some populated areas where people tend to talk with each other a bunch. Auridon, Rimmen and maybe the newest expansion zone might have some conversation going on.
>>2149911this house was really cute@LadyRedReaperif anyone wanted to check it out
>>2150113I have had excellent discussions about lore and feet in Stonefalls
Can you believe it? Redguards! In your own homeland! What are you going to do?
christmas is over. what now?
>>2151781new we wait for the Jan 7 reveal of new garbage content everyone will hate
I swear you zoomers avoid basic communication skills like the plague. Fuck you guys
>>2151794oh yea?please do enlighten me on this supposed 'advanced communications'
can i make any cool looking male chars or do females get the special treatment?
>>2152020i feel qualified to say it is overwhelmingly a mans game but it depends on race and vibe
>>2152020do whatever you want
>>2152020Males look better in this game and I ain't even gay>>2151794I'm not using discord, you pedo>>2151789I'll be there to shitpost about it
i can't wait for the exciting reveal of <%nostalgia bait region> being threatened by <%generic cult or evil deity> with <%annihilation, death, submission or destruction> of <%the region, the world, or the population> by the use of <%some ancient forgotten macguffin>tune in for winterhold and the eye of magnus: the prequel!
>>2152944sounds good
How would you fix sub-classing?
>>2153273make class skills weaker when they're used through the subclassing system compared to a character of that same class
>>2153273They have something with class restricted stuff, but I don't know if sets are the way to go. But definitely having something that only your base class can use, that buffs one of your skills, would be nice. Maybe an enchant, so there's a little bit of sacrifice if you want something extra from your skills.
>>2152944truke. enough of the fake oc shit
>>2152944I bet they will release another video like that of the Breton knight to hype and bait, mayhaps a custom argonian armor with plates protecting the tail or something and then ....oh surprise fucko!!!, it isn't in game
I am enjoying this game in first person.I prefer no voice acting but the voice acting in this isn't bad sometimes.
>>2154975cozy
>>2154975Is that a male or a female?
>>2155238it's a cat
Food and Drink should be separate buffs because why drink anything ever?
>>2155494also, I hate how consuming a new buff overrides the previous one
>>2155515>he doesn't barf up his previous meal to eat a different one
>>2155515That is obviously fair given the sometimes competitive nature of this game. Imagine someone getting revenge by eating 7,000 chickens at once to do battle with an Archmage. It would be a never ending arms race of buff stacking Glorious, granted, but ceaseless and tedious.
I do like the idea of being able to mix and match drinks and food. Eat something, for example, to increase health and stamina, then choose a drink to increase health, stam or both regen.
Is there a reason you types mustn't make linked responses when you actually agree with someone? I have noticed it across the site for approximately one entire decade and all I have are suspicions.
>>2155537there is an easy fix for thatputting a cap on the quantity of buffs players can have at the same time and preventing the player from eating/drinking until the current buffs run out
>>2155584It's a meme.
Sure, sure. I totally believe you.
>>2155817RED DIAMOND RED DIAMONDTHE HEART AND SOUL OF MEN
>>2155842A bardic classic!
I just saw some clown running around in what looked like what I could only describe as Argonian Power Armor. It looked so fucking stupid.
is it true this game is pretty much unplayable with subscribing to eso+ for the craft bag? i've heard the base inventory is retardedly small to encourage you to subscribe i'm asking because the premium 2025 edition of ESO is 20$ and it seems like a decent deal for iti miss the series
>>2157328It is completely exaggerated how it's "unplayable". You're listening to addicts who need every single item they pick up because they're meta players and guild store traders who have to minmax and hoard in order to "keep up" and "play the market". You absolutely don't. I played at launch when there was no "crafting bag". Now, of course it is true that they keep adding new items into the game while our banks and inventories remain at their launch capacities. But you really have to ask yourself if you actually need all that stuff. The vast majority of loot is only useful for dedicated crafters or if you have to have dozens of different builds for some reason. With a subscription no thinking is required and you can just play without worries. Without, you'll have to play the dumb inventory micromanagement minigame but you can get the hang of it, figure out a system that works and use some addons to help you out.I personally auto-junk most crafting materials because I don't care about the rewards from crafting. I never bother selling anything on the guild store because it's a waste of time. I don't have multiple autistic niche builds because I don't care about that. My character slots exist just for extra inventory. Treasure maps are a waste of time and get auto-destroyed. Most motifs in this game are so ugly that I would never bother searching for them.
>>2153273Add more resource mechanics and skill interactions like crux/fury that buff certain skills (enough to bring them up to pure arc tier), and tie passive bonuses to the use of those resources so you have to dedicate more bar space and button presses to get the most out of a skill line. Stacking damage lines would still work, but the rotations would get a lot more demanding and the gap would be smaller so most would probably go for simpler builds, and there would be more things to build around than just roiding up fatecarver.
>>2157328The craft bag looks useful when you're new and have no idea just how many of the materials you loot are worthless crap. And the crafting system itself isn't hugely useful or exciting. The system was there so I engaged with it and managed to reach the crafting endgame and get all the rewards I wanted without the craft bag just fine.I think eso+ is wasted on new players, you won't have the means to engage with half the content until mid to late game anyway.
>>2157422So what do you even do in the game?
>>2155403Ah a tranny then
>>2157928pretty sure that's not you in that pic
Esoteric green pact roleplay
>>2157838solo content
>>2157838gay furry erp
>>2157838Nothing really that's why I left>CraftingYou need eso+>House decorationYou need eso+>Treasure/antiquities hunting You need eso+>TrialsNeed access to the latest DLC and also to other DLC so you can gear up and oh you also need even more space to store all the loot you get soooo yeah you need ESO+>Hanging out with other playersThey are in DLC zones, and most don't even talk just like (You) so whatever And before you tell me "ooh just buy the DLCs", nah I am not spending a gorillion dollars for a game that has no quality and delivers poor content and is entering maintenance mode
game has no furnishings anyway
where the dunmer obsession with mushrooms comes from?
Any datamining or leaks hinting towards 2026 shit?
Why is every ESO RP discord link dead?
>>2159283>gorillion dollarsThe super mega DLC bundle costs $25>You need eso+Haven't needed it for any of the shit listed
>>2161516>db season return to blackwoodI'm just going to not read the rest. If when we get a DB season it would be with Bravil (night mother crypt location) and niben river zone + rivers east of Bravil and the surrounding area + southern valus mountains. No shot they half-ass the next content batch after the disaster of the worm cult season.
>>2161516Is this AI hallucination?doesn't feel like a real leak
>>2161624They've already talked about revisiting older zones, so that's actually the most believable part.>No shot they half-ass the next content batch after the disaster of the worm cult season.Not like they have much choice. If they were capable of dropping a huge new zone on demand we wouldn't have gotten Solstice in the first place. I'm just praying the next zone isn't another made up mishmash island.
gotta get them seals
>>2161817you have 6 hours and 40 minutes
>>2161624>No shot they half-ass the next content batch after the disaster of the worm cult season.Interesting how you think they dish out content within a few months
daily login rewards for the first month of 2026
>>21622805 tripots and 2k gold is just insulting
>>2157838erp
>>2162406 How? I can't find anyone interesting even for normal RP
>>2162280>2k goldPpft I make more by stealing from all the piles of corpses in Skywatch and selling to a fence
>>2162487Don't you go to the bungkai zone to find rp?
slept on the julianos house entirely and now i need all its free furnishings for my new gorinir house im going to milk myself
is this game as dead as people say/really going on maintenance modeI'm down to drop 20 quid on the premium edition on sale if its a decent elder scrolls-lite experience that I can spam NIGGER in the chat while I play
>>2163285Last year was awful so its in a slump, but not dead or maintenance mode yet. There's a content reveal stream coming up on the 7th so we'll see if the devs got their shit together or not soon.
>>2163327That day they either kill or save ESO
Weren't people excited for subclassing? Why does everyone hate it now?
>>2163346because the obvious happened. Everyone is using the exact same build
>>2163346Some people do just hate the concept of class mixing (or anything that shakes up the meta), but most of it is more annoyance at the rushed implementation causing a bunch of easily predicted problems. They should have reworked and modernized the other classes to accommodate it first.
>>2163346>PvP babies say it's OP>A year ago I said it would kill class identity, everyone laughed here and called me a doomer shitposter, now everyone is saying it. (WHO IS LAUGHING NOW?)>Noobs have a hard time learning it>makes game feel more boring
>>2163382The only thing I really notice being overused is that Warden charm thing in pvp, but maybe that's because it's so annoying.
>>2163346>all classes play the exact same>no class identity or mechanics >made pure classing worse>everyone uses the same handful of builds on the same class>somehow managed to create even more build and roster stagnation post lost depths>wonder why people are bored>still somehow let languid eye skirt on through
>>2163515>still somehow let languid eye skirt on throughAssuming you meant fatecarver, they knew exactly what they were doing there. The game needed viable alternatives to weaving, beam builds are the middle ground between one-button HA builds and sweatlord animation exploits.
>>2163546No, I meant languid eye. It's the strongest ult in the game when paired with cryptcannon in dungeons.
>>2163558Probably just isn't widespread enough for them to bother with it yet, if they even know.
>>2163285If you make an alt account and whisper them nigger you'll be banned because they now use AI to filter all messages whether private or public.
>>2163850that's what the RPfags claimwe haven't seen a single piece of evidence of that happening to this day
Have you guys ever been kicked from a group because they found out you're not sub-classing? Jus curious
>>2163967I've never been kicked from anything despite of my suboptimal builds and low dps, looting or chatting mid combat, fucking up mechs and pulls and insulting the big gun damage dealers. I generally only see kicks for afking, fake tanking and refusing to let the group initiate HM
When will get a new playable race?
>>2164008neverbethesda does not allow it
Predictions for 2026's season(s)?I keep seeing people guessing Dark Brotherhood in the College of Winterhold but that doesn't really make much sense for me.
>>2164016Lies. Todd Howard begged with tears in his eyes that they add Maormer and Lilmothiits but Zenimax likes to see a grown man cry
>>2164018the only concept art we have of lilmothiit to date, comes from zenimax
>>2164058How cruelly they tease Todd.
>>2164017Dark brotherhood expansion (hooray), this uncovers lilimothiit race (somehow the lilimothiit are back!)Voice chat introducedCross platform support Rework of combat animations
>>2164017Naryu romance
>>2164017no respectable member of the community is making predictions anymore because zos has just proven their word means nothing and also having high hopes for this game never ends well
give me skyrim slop
>>2163327Is the story in this game good by elder scrolls standards?Will it at least be interesting if I'm a lorefag?
>>2165148I'd say better than Skyrim on average. Vanilla is pretty barebones, some of the expansion stories are really good and some are bad as can be expected of any ongoing game.>Will it at least be interesting if I'm a lorefag?That's the main reason to get into it really. Again, there's some bad with the good (IE they fucked up Alinor) but they do showcase a lot of lore that will probably never be featured in a mainline game as more than footnotes in a book.
I want a new class
Pyandoneabros this is our year
>>2165673Let's fix these classes first
>>2091458Pvp has always been a mess in this game since the closed beta tests.No idea how anyone takes it serious.
>>2164017DB story + Naryu romanceTG story + Quen romance
January 2025: 20k playersJanuary 2026: 11k playersit's over....
>>2166061Microsoft only needs to invest in another pandemic
pic related its me and my husband
>>2166846Never ask a Bosmer supremacist the race of her husband.
>>2165673Skald classBerserker - DPSGreybeard - TankBard - Healing
>>2167149D&D style music-magic bards are not a thing in ES and I hope they never give in to the retards wanting them. Might as well start doing Fortnite collabs at that point.
>>2167297Your headcanon is not reality
>>2166061Is ESO really down to only 11k?
>>2163850I remember seeing this mentioned a few months back but it doesn't seem to happen anymore, I have a friend who cusses non stop in whispers and has never got banned or warned.
>>2167310you can check it here: https://steamdb.info/app/306130/charts/the Jan 2025 number mentioned above is wrong (the right one is 16k)and this only count the steam client, there is also the ZoS client, Epic games client and Consoles
>>2167316Oh that makes more sense I imagine most people obviously use the main client.I was going to say there's no way this game doesn't have at least 100k people playing it.
>>2167300No one in the setting is running around buffing people with a lute.
The traders near the Vivec Wayshrine are the only ones I ever even bother checking out. The others don't really exist to me. Vivec is the best hub in the game and everybody has access to it. I'm not inspecting every dead zone only to find empty search results or bloated prices. If this dogshit company refuses to make trade global I'm not wasting my time.
>>2167514use TTC like a normal person
>>2166412The game has been consistently dropping in players since 2020 which aligns with pretty much any other online game that saw a spike during that time.
>>2167540that's not immersive tho
>>2167514White eagle pact member here. Buy my things.
>>2167550The rate at which it's losing players is alarming, it's a clear sign that the game is dying
>>2167668>White eagle pactHuh, same. I've been waiting to fall short of my quota and get kicked for months but lazy rich Vivec City shoppers will buy anything at any price
>>2167550According to this chart ESO still has a good 5 years. Sounds good to me.
>>2167297bards college expansion is canon
Winterhold college (to attract Skyrim uncs and also deliver something that was left in "uuuuh the sea ate it", spoiler: the vestige sank the city) New subclassing skill: BardEach race will have unique singingLater this year:New combat animations More customization options for all races
>>2167322Where in TES4 was someone going around summoning mushrooms and forests midbattle to heal people?
Location dataminedMentions New Sheoth
>>2168177>dataminedThere was no update though or am I dumb?
>>2168177Source?
>>2168177>already New Sheoth>not (old) Sheoth or Cylarne>meaning there's no greymarches between ESO and OblivionJyggabros...
>>2165187What's up with the DLC situation? It looks like the Premium Edition grants you access to all chapters, but not all the DLCs for those chapters. For example, the Greymoor chapter that seems to take place in the Skyrim region where Markarth is, Markarth itself is inaccessible unless you pay for a DLC not included with the Greymoor chapter. That sounds really jarring to me since it seems like these smaller DLCs associated with chapters also include meaningful story content. Is the experience of playing the games with the chapters but without the DLCs going to feel incomplete?
>>2168500Yeah, the stories do tie together and its stupid that they don't include them or at least do a separate bundle sale at the same time. They do regularly go on sale though.
>>2169123I love the scribing quest. The Aedra theme was nice to explore and its full of sovl
>>2168177>>2168444Is tomeshell gone?
>2026 ESO Reveal>Wednesday, January 7 at 3PM ET>Twitch.tv/Bethesda>three Ouroboros Crates after 15 minutes and five Ouroboros Crates after 30 minutes of watching
nooo drunk personality is back my og nooo
>>2169413really nice of them to announce new content the day after the event ends
>>2168566Calculating the price of the premium edition, even while on sale, coupled with the DLC prices set to 50% off (for the sake of being generous), it's still over 100$ to get the 'full experience' then (all chapters and story DLCs). That is absurd considering the whole craft bag thing I've heard about wouldn't be included in this. This pretty much dried up my interest in experiencing the story in this game first hand. I'll just watch some youtube videos.
>>2169766>$25 for the bundle>$30 for 60 days of eso+ to finish the small dlcs later on if you liked your 2 years of base game + chapter content>3k crowns from eso+ to buy whatever dlc you liked the most or missedStill cheaper than 20 hour single player rpgs
Return to chapters announcement in a few days.Q1-2, Q3, and Q4 seasons are just being shoved into the old chapter model.Dark Brotherhood storyline, Winterhold minizone, and Shivering Isles medium-sized zone. Class updates. Winterhold College skill line. Chapter is called Apotheosis.Don't ask for source, not giving it. Wait 2 days.
>>2169868I suppose so. I guess I'm just not used to the MMO pricing model.
I don't give a fuck about your class balance and zones. Just give me new ToT decks and ToT tournaments with real players
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>>2170048Are we not on page 6?
>>2170048what the fuck is your problem?
Battlegrounds needs a vote to forfeit
>>2170420battlegrounds needs to be deleted from the game
Awful day for dungeonsThis was one of those days that you get repeatedly queued with drooling retards
>>2170618Templar. Best to just pick whatever you like thematically though. The leveling/questing experience is braindead easy so none of them are difficult to start with, and there's a class revamp on the horizon so god only knows how they'll play a year from now.
>>2170618sorc or templarboth are easy and not as braindead as arcanist
the event is going to end in a few hoursgrab your last tickets
>>2169744Wasn't it always like that?
I’m sure whatever they announce tomorrow, won’t come close to chapters released 6 years ago.
>>2170923if solstice is an indication of anything (and the fact that the current ESO team is a skeleton crew), it will probably be a buggy mess
>>2170932>>2170923no doomposting
Is vampirism still mandatory for PvP?
the red area contains the ideal body type and you can't convince me otherwise
>>2170970I just sculpted a toon for an hour (and ended up in that area) and in the end found only 1 fashion combo that had the right vibe and didn't clip noticeably from a distance.
Never done a trial before. How hard are normal trials?
>>2170987not hard at all, just imagine you're running a 12-player dungeon
>>2170987They're easier than dungeons. If you join as a dd you're only responsible for 12% of the damage rather than 50%. People drop dead all the time and no one cares about your fuckups.AA and Hel Ra are pretty brainless to start with but some DLC trials have mechs where your mistakes will explode other players
anyone else getting constant disconnections on PC-EU or is it just me?
>>2170861the event just ended
>>2170987They are piss easy anonThe only hard part nowadays is finding people to run them, no one is playing this game anymore
what do we think of subclassing
>>2171124see >>2163515
>mfw we get another island
>>2171033I think that might be just you
>>2171182I'm expecting Hammerfell this time aroundso much unused land in that area...
>>2171182There's a few islands they could do without asspulling another mess like Solstice, even if they have to asset flip again.>>2171609ZOS probably isn't allowed to do anything else with Hammerfell until VI covers it.
>>2171720Yeah. Not much to talk about until they add or buff more skills.
>>2171720scribing was never meant to replace class abilities, just complement whatever your build was missingsubclasses have a greater impact on your kit
>>2171182I'm more concerned about another daedric invasion plot. ESO is already oversaturated with those.
why this keeps happening to me?
>>2172008you're either queueing for a dlc dungeon as dps or your queue is bugged
Alfiq
Any info on the next event?
>>2172254a rerun of the writhing wall event and whitestrakes mayhem, both on january 21st
Maintenance time
It's over...
both alchemy and provisioning are in dire need of buffs
They better show us something good today. I can no longer find reasons to keep logging everyday
the stream will start in 3 hourshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3KEv1KkCZMwhat are your hopes / dreams / expectations?
>>2172937I hope they deliver a full zone day 1 this time around
>>2172937>hopesa reason to log in besides endeavors>dreamsnew weaponactual rebalancing of the 99.9% of sets that have been either entirely left behind or were delivered stillborn, and exist only as noob traps and bait for completionists.sex with naryu>expectationsmost annoying character ever conceivedmilquetoast content island including a panic memberberry in a desperate attempt to resuscitate slow-declining playercountthe unending torment of drive-by doomposting from the fattest grognard to waddle across the face of the earth
>>2172937>hopesA likeable faction>dreamsNew class, faster clown crate (re)cycle>expectationsNew companions, some small area, a $180 house
>>2172937>hopes/dreamsa new class, new race and maybe a new companion since we didn't get one last year>expectationsanother lame expansion
it's about to start
>Battlepassthis game is so fucked
TL;DW: some QoL improvements, more monetization and they reinforced stuff that was already announced previouslyno new zones
>>2173309weren't the golden pursuits their attempt at a battlepass? they really are just milking the dwindling player base more and more...
>>2173478golden pursuits are at least free of any costwe are going to get real paid battlepasses now
what a load of nothing, they're determined to let this game die off to pursue who knows what else they're working on (prob ES6 support).
>>2173490the other thing they were working on was cancelledESO is the only thing zenimax still have left
wtfhttps://x.com/UESP_net/status/1968142382450479388
>>2173542after some research I found that this is a NPC for a future event (Heart's week event)
>>2173355>female werewolf modelOH GOODNESS GRACIOUSalso rip eso this is ass
2026 is a good year to take a long break from ESO
I hope when they made the overland harder they put the npcs in actual gear like every elder scrolls game. >kill guy >look inside>one shoulder piece green qualityI mean, yeah, you can argue we just broke his armor, but come on, dude. Looting is half the fun and there is no loot.
>>2176599harder overland is confirmed >>2173297but I doubt there will be significant changes to the loot system
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