Tag: elder scrolls online

Zenimax decided last year or after the last big area dlc / content chapter (the island Solstice, Season of the Wormcult) that they no longer do these big updates, but seasonal content. Which could also be a new area I guess, though probably not the size of say High Isle or Summerset.

Sadly the very first thing they introduce is a hard multiplayer area. A strange move when most of your playerbase plays your game solo.

Yes i know the arguments. It’s an MMO! Yes I know, and it’s fun to occasionally group up with people for a world boss. You just show up and join the other ppl already there. I really don’t feel like joining groups in this weird Nightmarket setting. Also the rewards are odd. Briarheart set pieces and the like, that i already have collected or are no longer relevant. Shame they didn’t throw in any dailies or related quests for solo players.

Also the dailes for endouvour points have disappeared. They’re now weekly ‘achievements’ or quests if you will. In this atrocious UI as you can see blow :).

The rewards are ok, it doesn’t give you the incentive anymore to log in every day. Which some people like and some people do not. I find myself not logging in daily any more. Anyway, I am still playing ESO, now doing story quests from areas that I haven’t done so far. I am using Caldwell silver quest as a guide. I have now arrived in The Rift! Which has been fun so far. I finished the main story, now doing side quests.

This year instead of a ‘Chapter’ like previous years we got a Season Pass. Although in practice it’s not that much different. It’s called Season of the Worm Cult and it’s a continuation of the original ESO main storyline. It comes with a nice new island new bosses etc, you know the drill ;). It’s a pretty looking island and I liked the story as well.

The island was released in two parts. As you can see in the shot above, there is a huge wall dividing the west and east part. I thought it was a neat idea to split the content, June the 1st part and October the rest. I was expecting a week or two some events and then we could finish the story. But the execution was pretty bad. There were a bunch of daily quests, that you could repeat over and over and over again!

You can only defeat a camp of Deadra with 100 players spamming AOE damage so many times before it gets boring ;). But anyway, the other part of the island is now open, so I am now in the process of completing the story arc, overall it’s pretty good! If it wasn’t for the opening events dragging along. Anyway, here are a bunch of pretty shots.