Onceler wrote on Feb 19^th, 2014 at 11:05am:



I read you can't group with people unless you're the same exact level and in the same exact point in a particular series/saga.

That kinda blows.

I've played ESO and wasn't impressed, it looks pretty, but i found the game play stupidly boring.  I'm not a big fan at all of Kill X mob quests.

Sadly with Wildstar the more I play it, the less I enjoy it.

I did not find very many kill X mob quests when I played in the most recent beta. Grouping with varied leveled people was not an issue however if they were doing a quest you have already done then it does not let you help them on the quest as the story had already progressed past that point in your world. I did have that issue with a friend while playing through the beta and I posted on the beta forums and in the survey  I filled out after how it was an issue. Not sure what they will do about that particular issue however.

When running some dungeon areas if I grouped with people who were doing the quests you could just abandon the quest and then all start at the beginning and there were no issues. I do not believe level had anything to do with it. More an issue of how far you quest had progressed.

Done 5 beta's for ESO so far.

Graphics are really nice.  Character customization is best Ive seen.

You level up skills; sword, mace, shield, magic schools, alchemy, smithy, etc.  When they reach certain level, you can 'morph' them into improved versions and more.

Combat is a combination of active and click and use X,Y, Z. ability/spell to attack.  Ranged combat with Bow left me wanting more.

Stealth;  never found it useful

Crafting was pretty good - did some weapon/armor.

Grouping 4 person max.  Good comparison would be KOTOR.

Think it was L17 that you could start PvP, never made it there.

Siege warfare, PvP. is where everything is at.

Game costs;

$60 or $80.  Expensive one is limited and gets you Imperial, they can play any faction, unique crafting skill, horse.

Sub is $15 a month.

The combat pace is slower than ddo.  This is because they've put in many enemy 'tells' with a short delay to allow you to react to it in lowbieland areas.  My understanding is that the newbhelper goes away at level 15.

The combat system is live action, like ddo.  I was a bit thrown off so far by not being able to use scenery or static objects to intercept a fireball launched at me for example.  But I still like it quite a bit.

Being able to intterupt enemies while they are putting together their special attacks was pretty cool.  Blocking holds a lot more meaning as well.  It actually will determine whether you live through something if there isn't a healer type backing you up.  Or whether you survive a boss attack with a healer type backing you up.

I didn't play PvP.  I probably will eventually, but killing everyone around you isn't my sort of thing really.  Likely to hit that after finishing the storyline quests for my faction.  I've noticed that some of the hardcore pvp heads on other forums have mentioned that entering pvp zones before being prepared makes for poor partners and easy prey.  There are already whales out there...

Combat was a lot of fun and very smooth. Didn't try stealth character was playing a caster. I did not notice anything choppy, but that may have been a client side issue for you klajsdhd. As far as cartoony I cannot disagree more. Compared to other games like Wildstar and even DDO it is about as far from cartoony as you could get IMO.

I prebought it and cannot wait for release personally. You can join up to 5 different guilds so that is nice if you want to have a smaller guild with friends and still join a larger one for grouping for PVE dungeons or the large PVP battles.

PVP starts at lvl 10. I tried it a little bit and using the siege engines like catipults, trebuchets and battering rams was pretty fun and I am not usually into PVP. I did notice some latency issues with the PVP stuff, but it was extremely large battles with 100s of players on both sides at the same time. Hopefully they can get that latency issue cleared up and I think it will have some of the best MMO PVP I have seen yet.

PVE content that I played was a lot of fun. There were quests for solo/group play, open dungeons where you would find other players to kill with and/or group with running around, and there are instanced dungeons for parties. They talked about having raid level content as well (raids are 24 players) but I have not seen any of it in the beta that I participated in. 

Ill check out eso.. sounds ok so far... but havent had a chance to play it yet..

Casually I'll play all 3, If I get engrossed, faction will entirely depend on friends.

Munkenmo wrote on Feb 24^th, 2014 at 6:01am:


Sadly that will not happen in Cryodill or during any pvp.

The fact you must buy the game, subscription and collectors edition to play one race is abhorrent to me.

I honestly like having it as a sub game so much more than if it was F2P. P2P games are of higher quality and the lack of a store makes it all about playing the game and not about what you bought from the store. $15 a month is not very much money and you do not have the pay the sub until after you have played for a month because the 1st month comes with purchase of the program.

Another beta test this weekend! I am happy to hear it. Cannot wait to play again.

and kierg10 keep telling yourself that.

Interesting video & good to know they are listening.

Well, looks like I'll be giving it another try this weekend