4628

There’s still Old School Runescape to try, you know… and Ultima Online.

I kid. ESO is a very well done game, but I didn’t get hooked with it either despite not having any true complaints about it. I’m thinking my time with MMOs has maybe finally passed (been doing them since 1993…). Might be the same in your situation - just time for a new genre.

4629

Yeah I think so. Just looking at my list makes me miserable.

4630

I mean, if you can’t put your finger on why you don’t like it, it’s kind of hard to tell you ways to fix it or assure you that thing will get better or whatever.

Although personally I think it has the best combat in any Elder Scrolls game and one of the best combat systems in any MMO I’ve ever played. Which is a bar a toddler could step over, but still.

4631

Yeah, ESO is not my favorite game by any stretch but the combat beats the crap out of any other Elder Scroll game.

4632

I still have 28 days of ESO+ to burn up so I’m going to keep plugging away. Try different characters, probably.

4633

I am finding my (net-researched) stamina sorcerer build extremely effective and mildly prone to inducing of power-mad cackling.

4634

Yeah I was hoping to be able to avoid reading essays on builds and characters, but I guess not.

4635

I’m sure it’s not necessary, but there are a lot of directions you can go so if you’d rather not figure out synergies for yourself or just like powering through combat on the way to the good stuff (me), it’s an easy shortcut.

4636

It’s probably necessary. I like powering through combat and hanging out with the voiced NPC’s. Boy howdy I enjoy the NPC voices in this. I’ll look up things tomorrow, try them out, eventually settle on a character and probably get sucked in like normal.

4637

Depends on what you’re looking for in a MMO. The story quests are decent. I enjoyed them enough the first time through, but they do get samey after a while. The combat system is pretty great though, and it might not be apparent until you get to the end game stuff. The dungeons are fairly well done, the trials are ho hum, but the PvP is fantastic. It’s what keeps me coming back often.

If you’re just questing any build is fine. I’d recommend an Altmer magicka templar. You can probably spam one skill and power through all the quests, and they’re good at everything in the endgame.

4638

ESO is very very different in terms of class and character building than any other MMO. It’s a bit unintuitive at first, but once you get the hang of it it’s pretty awesome. Your “class” is more defined by your weapon choices than your base character class. There are some really fun combos…stamina sorcerer is great, magicka templar is also great, both of those I found to be pretty fun to play.

/shrug. You may just be burnt on MMOs etc. I found the main story line, and particularly the John Cleese voice work, to be well worth the price of admission. I also found it fairly entertaining to just run around the world and sight see, as there is some nice world building. You should be able to at least get your months worth out of it.

4639

Same with me. I spent 4 or 5 days with ESO and then went back to LOTRO. I loved Skyrim (200+ hours) and Morrowind (didn’t play Oblivion), but this hasn’t grabbed me yet.

I think I have to approach it clean, tossing my habits of LOTRO or Skyrim. And I have too much invested in both. I don’t think I can do that now. Plus…time.

4640

Awww this makes me sad as I wouldn’t necessarily consider myself an MMO guy but I like to think I played the one with the greatest melee combat (Age of Conan) and I consider all of ESO’s combat (melee, ranged, and magic) to be an absolute blast. I do wonder what system you are playing it on (PS4 here) and whether playing with a controller would help the combat feel better.

For me, ESO has all those great MMO ingredients: combat/PVP, quests, exploration, and crafting. I never considered myself too keen on the lore of the Elder Scrolls but I absolutely love the stories ESO told me about the Khajit (no longer just goofy skooma addicts!) and it even got me to like the stupid high elves.

4641

Yup. It’s Elsweyr, as rumored.

Plus, dragons!

4642

This one is ready to go!

4643

I don’t play much anymore (once a month maybe?) and everytime I log in the load times seem to be getting worse. Just timed it and a teleport from one wayshrine to another one in a different zone took 2min & 15sec to load up. Is this normal these days?? (on the EU server btw)

4644

I haven’t played in a while, but out of curiosity is this on a hard disk or SSD?

4645

No, that is not at all normal. Do you play with a lot of mods? In particular, if you have Master Merchant, Harvest map, Bugcatcher or other data-heavy mods active, they can sometimes get out of control. Take a look in this folder:

C:\Users****\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\SavedVariables

See if any mods are blowing up and delete them altogether. That made a big difference for me a few months ago.

4646

The game is on my HDD.

Thanks for the tip with the mods. I think I installed some a while back, will kill those and compare times!

4647

Possibly related to your issue.