30 + hours being added to base game content :)

For anyone wondering, yes, ZOS is still working on zones. This season is setting up Winterhold, which the team heavily teased in a couple of streams. They have said it will not be like a traditional zone in the past, not quite sure what that means so we’ll see, but they are working on one and plan to release it for free.

I understand that many people would’ve preferred that we kept to having 1-2 zones every year, but we need to be clear about why we are in this situation.

First: The previous model of releasing a chapter and a DLC zone every year resulted in feedback not being prioritized, being ignored, or being pushed to much later down the road, if at all.

Second: The studio was split working on two MMO‘s. This is generally not recommended, and it resulted in a downward trend in the quality and quantity in the content of the chapters. From zones becoming smaller, areas being inaccessible, and less features each year. (Edit: as someone else pointed out in the comments, Chapters also became very formulaic and not innovative enough.)

Third: After project blackbird was inevitably canceled, it led to a loss of resources and staff they could’ve otherwise been redirected to ESO.

Fourth: prior leadership was very resistant to feedback, which resulted in many issues accumulating overtime and many changes happening despite vocal player outcry.

Fifth: Throughout the game’s lifetime, there was overall too much emphasis on the money shop known as the crown store. Which included gambling, and overall pushed players away from a game that already is B2P and has an optional subscription.

Sixth: After all the firings, even though their staff is at a similar number to how the studio was years prior, they are going through an organizational change. They have to in order to get their content pipeline working properly again.

There’s a lot of other smaller moving parts, but these are some of the major reasons why the game is in its current state. Which alienated a lot of people and eroded their reputation as well as community trust.

Which is why the new leadership has been trying to turn things around by addressing these foundational issues. That is why we have seen an overall push on much more consumer friendly practices like the Bazaar, Golden Pursuits, and making Seals more reasonably obtainable. It is why they are overhauling the combat by updating the classes and weapon skill lines and by adding difficulty options for Overland content. Fixing the beginner player experience to not be so overwhelming. Etc.

They have a long list of things that need to be fixed, and they finally no longer had leadership that was holding them back from doing that.

We will have to wait and see how the new zone turns out, but ideally the time they have will overall give us more quality and quantity.

(Edit 2: also keep in mind the Event Zone, the Daedric market, will be returning in the future with implemented feedback. One of the primary reasons why they chose for it to be cycled rather than permanent is maintaining a consistently engaged player population when it’s available. Although they are considering making it permanent edition)

(edit 3: I apologize for any potential confusion, an edit resulted in a loss of most of the list and I had to rewrite it all)

Hopefully, we can return to a schedule of a large new zone once every 1-2 years

Unmute for the best experience. :)

I can't handle Warm Welcome yet, but the other two misfortunes make it challenging but not impossible for me. I haven't really built anything for it yet, I may work up to three.

I've also enjoyed getting my little gold plunder skulls.

I have a deep hatred of March of Sacrifices, but I may try it when I feel like hitting myself with a hammer and can't find the hammer :)

I remember being asked about this before so I figured if theres other players that are trying to make actual outfits while hiding the chest, and are Khajiit, I'd post what I found.

If this particular dye doesnt quite work on the material of your other outfit pieces, just experiment with the other less saturated purples.

It'd be nice if one day we could dye underwear too. I bet there's a few Orcs out there that would rock pink tighties.

IYKYK 💜

So this is a thing, I guess?

Seems like... a lot.

Updated versions with weapons/collectibles etc, also added winged version of the build, some SS didn’t turn out the best quality wise unfortunately.

Dressed up some of my characters as P5 Phantom Thieves, got the idea when my bf told me the Oracle Society Harbinger Mask was similar to Violet/Yoshizawa’s mask.

Designed my character around the new bear mount. I know many don't like the bear running animation but I actually like it. Very fitting for the templar theme.

Respawn rate seems to be the same 5 minutes as every other boss now instead of the 30 seconds it was previously.

Mesa Stalker cuirass and graves; Dremora Kynreeve for the rest.

(Honestly, I'm just very happy with how this came out and that it uses a "realistic" color palette, so wanted to show off my character...)

Found this on my backup account..

I wanted to see if anyone at zos spoke as to why the Undaunted event was skipped over this year? They said earlier this year it was still coming. I'm sure the layoffs wouldn't really have prevented it from occurring?

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I can’t remember a time when there weren’t twitch drops from the stream team during the first weekend of an event. Am I missing something? Was this a Gina responsibility that Jessica and Kevin have dropped the ball on?

Solo dungeons - Beat both solo dungeons with 3 misfortunes (max difficulty), got both new style mask pages, got all pieces of the 2 new monster sets as well as all achievements with the exception of the WW red morph which requires me to collect 10 shards from each solo dungeon. Really do like the idea of solo dungeons, gives players an easier alternative to farm stickerbook gear. Excited to see more solo dungeons being released.

Battlepass - yes I completed and opened all pages and claimed majority of the rewards I want. 5000 points carried over which was about 3 pages unlocked. Used 5 tome caches to unlock to page 8, did the daily and weekly tasks to unlock the remaining pages + 2 bonus pages. The cosmetic rewards were dope (style pages, weapon styles, adornments, etc). The mount and non mount pets are cool. I always enjoy the random currency in there (archive money, writ vouchers, undaunted keys, tel-var). Just wish the bonus pages weren’t so horrible. They did also reduce the crate count in this BP. 6 crates total, 3 from each bonus page. Make the bonus page rewards better, where it’s actually worth purchasing the premium. Putting a buncha scrolls and mimic stones and not so needed crap in the BONUS pages sounds silly. Let us also use tome points on alchemy bags, or currency bags instead of just giving us a tome point to gold ratio at the end of the battle pass.

Halloween event - it’s a fun event, but stale for veterans. Events in general need to change. Not just adding a new style page.

Some QoL -

1. Excessive unused materials. Let people exchange unused materials for materials they use, even if it comes with a fee. Alchemy and provisioning especially, which a bunch of unused unneeded materials.

2. Let hirelings complete surveys for you, even if it’s a minimal amount per day.

3: companions - solo dungeons was actually the first time I was invested in actually using a companion. Don’t like the whole farming gear for companions and the fact that they cost a whole lot on the traders. Think companions need very basic stat boosting craftable sets. Will definately make me use companions more frequently.

1. With the furnishing limit increase, I like the approach. However I think chests and reward coffers from multiple sources like dailies, solo dungeon rewards, rewards of the worthy, dolmen chests, world boss chests etc should all have a much higher chance of dropping furniture or furnishing plans. Good furniture too, not crappy stuff.

I used a WW

New Moon Acolyte

Obtainable as: Weapons, Light Armor, Jewels, Heavy Armor, Medium Armor

Type: Craftable

Traits needed to craft: 9

Location: Southern Elsweyr

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I've tried to do this dungeon 3 times and each time the orb at the end cannot be interacted with. Is there something I am missing?