HUGE Quality Of Life Changes Coming To ESO in 2025! (CP Rework, Graphics Update, CONSOLE ADD-ONS!)

[@HackTheMinotaur]

What do you think about ESO Update 45?

[@jtk961]

green cp changes best change in a while and was needed

[@callme_fakez]

Loving it 💪🏾

[@jreese46]

The plan to stop nerfing?

[@Qutna]

Both win and miss..... The green points, the addons on console, the updating of the starting zones... are huge W. The PVP test is a wait a see. (really low expectations there) Then they say, "they are overloaded with proc sets and floor effects on PVP", and proceed to add exactly more of the same on the new dungeon, that are almost duplicates of old sets with new textures. and even those sets, might be useless for PVP is the test becomes permanent. they could have made sets that modify class skill, add variety to many of those skill that are stagnant since the game was released, creating more variety, without adding more ground effects or procs to keep track off... Imagine sets that modify the existing skill, unique effects that modify how some skills function to enhance them for an entire new play style. but no.. more of the same.... with a shiny new texture and animation to overload the server...

[@Kallebe6487]

Endless nerfing with every patch.

[@Robert-pt2jz]

Think they need to make mount training account wide. Biggest turn off from new characters has to be mount speed followed by inventory space

[@Felana1988]

my god yes.

[@NateChaudTV]

Yup

[@AK-gc9ce]

yeah that's why i quit playing. eso plus is forced for inventory space. then adios

[@gorrvaskr5963]

I’m new to the game and literally leveling alts and keeping them at a stable before I continue with my main because of fomo 😂

[@persies4397]

ESO is one of the most alt-unfriendly mmos out there. Yes you can share gear, that's great. But there is so much skill related stuff that's character specific that killed my desire to ever play alts. And that led me to quit the game.

[@LazloArcadia]

Honestly I think ESO needs to update the base character models and movement animations, and NO I'm not referring to simply adding a few more emotes. I'd also like to see them fix some of the huge lag issues in group content.

[@InfernalConundrum]

I second animations. Different animations for different weapon types. Swords swing differently to maces/axes. 2h weapons are held differently. All the 2h are held in a greatsword stance. I'd prefer maces held at each end of the hafts instead of at the sword grip

[@BranBal]

​@@InfernalConundrum I second your seconding! That would be awesome

[@Kronosxviii1]

So true, all the two handed weapons feel, sound, and look like your swinging a scrawny tree branch instead of a real weapon. It's one of the main reasons why I always leave w/e I decide to come back to scratch an elder scrolls itch. Combat just doesn't feel as good as it does in other games.

[@myrillya]

@@Kronosxviii1 I think it’s always a thing of personal preference. Personally, I really like how combat feels in ESO. Idk maybe it’s because I’m used to it, but I’ve never had an issue with the feeling of the combat system, not when I was starting off with ESO in 2019 and also not today either.

[@kirinkappa5662]

its insane how bad the movement animations are in a game with this type of budget

[@redfreckles1671]

Some things i would like to see fixed... 1. All of the green tree to just be passive, and have 6 slotted spots for the blue and red trees. 2. Any and all IDENTICAL items to be stsckable (runeboxes, treasure maps, exemplary jewelry for a FEW examples) 3. Mount speed and upgrades to be account wide once maxed on one toon.

[@joeadcock5030]

They need to change them back to how they were....

[@jdh-9975]

The old cp system was trash

[@skarmachild]

Give us another CP Slot for each Tree every 1000 points. So at CP1000 we would have 4 Slots in each Tree, CP2000 we would have 5 Slots in each Tree, etc etc.

[@CrazyIvan865]

Yeah, no. That would be stupid broken and entirely unfair you newer players, ESPECIALLY those wanting ro try out PVP or battlegrounds. That sounds like a REALLY bad idea ​@skarmachild

[@CrazyIvan865]

This! I was going to say... Make ALL treasure maps and items stackable (writs I can see why they don't stack, each has a different unique item. But runoboxes, treasure maps, etc? Nah, eff that, make em stack. Keen eyes: dig site, from the excavation skill line applies to dirt mounds for treasure maps. I ran around N. Elsweyr for over w fetching hours yesterday and STILL couldn't find the fetching dirt mount even though I know I should have been right on top of it. Actually let us know which abilities have a channel, cast time, duration, etc IN the ability or remove the sets that require those for props. Same with the sets that Telenor with "blink, Teleport, pull, charge, etc. Not all skills tell you specifically what type of effect it is. Also every ability that taunts should have "TAUNT" apitalized and in big red unfriendly letters in the description. As a tank main, so tired of other people stacking taunt on a boss, they blame the tank for not holding agro, then the "antitroll/taunt" mechanic kicks in when it reaches 5 stacks, boss becomes un-agro-able, runs off to slap the magDD or Healer squishing, party wipes, tank gets blamed There should also be a way to "view player role spec" similar to other MMOs to prevent or discourage the issue with Fake Tank and Fake Healer Ques. I ran norms on my main tank last night and was shocked to to actually get a healer in 3 out of 6 or 8 dungeons. That never happens. I've about given up running dungeons, and especially vet dungeons on ANY character that isn't that tank, because he isn't built for "buff the DPS so they don't have to bring any of their own buffs to the table" he's build for "stay alive at all costs, more missing health, more health regen. Buff party, shield party, debuff enemies, heal self and party, cleanse self". I've been called a selfish tank because I'm not wearing sets that buff group damage output. Why do people have this mentality when it comes to tanks, but a DD isn't called selfish if they have sets and items that only buff themselves and not the group? My just is take the heavy hits and be the living punching bag so that part states alive. And in most cases, especially vet dungeons, I don't have a healer because some DD wanted to line jump by Queing out of role. There REALLY needs to be a way to address this. Because last week I que'd as a DPS on my Magplar DPS for vet dungeons... out of 5 dungeons every single one I was pulled in the middle where someone left, and not a single one had an actual healer in the healer role. And these weren't "base game dungeons". These were newer DLC dungeons, that are designed to be mechanics heavy PUG killers. Also... there needs to be some way for the average Joe to be able to complete certain PVP content without having to deal with gamers and ball groups. Perhaps a "pacifist"/non-combatablt toggle that requires a cool down to turn on and off, and requires breaking stealth (so that it. Can't be switched on and off for combat and ganking) that makes a person immune to player damage, but makes them deal no damage to players. Because they're cutting out the skills and item set uniqueness and versatility to dumb it down and want to act like people aren't taking part in PVP because of the lag and shit. Nope. It's because they've made it so that the OP hard-core PVPers and hacker/cheaters who rarely ever do anything other than PVP, reign Supreme, and you're average Joe can't even get in there enough to actually experience and "get good" as the PVP Malakes say. I have little to no interest in PVP. But there are sets and things I need from cyrodiil, there's things I need from imperial city. But fetch that. Would I like to do the non-PVP dailies in both? Absolutely. But... fetch that. It isn't worth it. Hissmir fisheye rye. Fishing is painfully tedious with very very very little beneficial outcome. Sure they made a companion that give a bonus as though you're fishing with 1 other person. So if you grind through 4 hours of a companion quest, you have a slight bonus. They also made a slot able in the green tree which stacks with that bonus. And inly takes 300 green champion points to get through all the prerequisites. Why not apply that buff to Hissmir Fisheye Rye, since it's a stupid expensive recipe, and was made pretty much irrelevant when they updated fishing holes to automatically tell you what type of water they were. That way people who don't have 400 green CP and endless time to run through insane co.panion quests on 4 different characters, still have some semblance of access to the buff.

[@daltonsimmerock5999]

I think something else they should change is mythic styles. Once you've discovered a mythic, then you should also unlock the style for it to use in the outfit station.

[@showmeyourtuts3670]

Thats actually not a bad idea

[@Kuushr]

Mythic styles would be cool

[@HomelessShoe]

I kinda like that idea. We've this in WOW.

[@BLVCKSCORP]

Please make a forum post of this.

[@kullinaama]

@@BLVCKSCORP imagine thinking forum posts do something lol

[@BirdShutterbug]

YES! loving that the green star skills will be passive!!

[@snowsongvideopix8680]

Same here!

[@halaniwalombardi3562]

Its a miracle you love this game at all but i guess you gotta get that return on investment somehow, ego won't let you go anywhere else other than this poS game with objectively bad combat.

[@10th_Doctor]

@@halaniwalombardi3562 And YOUR ego makes you come here to crap on other people's comment on a game you hate. Go slather some more makeup on hon. We can still see most of your face and your man brows.

[@snowsongvideopix8680]

@@halaniwalombardi3562 You are assuming a lot about strangers, and you know what they say about assumers as well. LOL

[@michaelp4396]

Not making the auction system available to soloers (no guild) will always be a knock against this game for me.

[@spacepuppie]

same

[@snypr5276]

When you say auction system do you mean the trader auction or just trading as a whole?

[@spacepuppie]

@@snypr5276 ESO doesn't have an auction system at all. You have to be part of a trade guild where you can only trade with members of that guild. But if you're someone who doesn't want to be part of a guild, and just want to trade goods with the general game community, you have no way to do that. There is no economy for solo players. It really sucks =(

[@snypr5276]

@spacepuppie the Guild traders get auctioned once a week to determine what guild has what trader. That's what I meant

[@spacepuppie]

@snypr5276 you asked, 'When you say auction system do you mean the trader auction or just trading as a whole?' ... I was answering that from my position. First, I don't think you understood what @michaelp4396 was saying. Or I misunderstood, but I don't think so. Anyhoo, as I understood the statement that @michaelp4396 made, there is no auction hall or auction system for solo players. You are forced to join trading guilds in order to sell stuff to other players. Because that is not available, @michaelp4396 is saying it's a game breaker for them. I was agreeing and stating that it's the same for me. I don't want to be forced to join a guild in order to be part of the economy. But I love crafting in games and selling my stuff on an auction system of some sort. So, as much as I like the game play of ESO, I don't like that I'm left out on trade. It kinda makes crafting pointless =/ I hope that clears up what I was saying =)

[@sly2076]

ESO needs new creative leads to breathe some fresh ideas into the game. The same boring sets, copy and paste zones, and bare minimum effort isn't cutting it, and is actively killing the game.

[@a2raya87]

game been dead last 2 years tbh, i took a year break and there's really nothing interesting anymore, i guess 10 years is long

[@jimmythecrow]

@@a2raya87 lol, its been dead since summer set

[@jasonv.5938]

Oh yeah, they're still taking in tons of cash, and have more players now than in the past 3 years, but it's dead. Sure.

[@theslavicrat3784]

@@jimmythecrow Yall say it like it isn't in the top 5 most played mmos

[@Drag0nRis1ng]

@@theslavicrat3784 it's one of the most popular things to parrot if someone doesn't like something about the game or decides they want to move on... "game is dead"... WoW players were saying that since the very first expansion and every expansion since. The game is still going strong (not as strong, but it's still keeping on with respectable numbers for a 20 year old game)

[@misterbrady100]

I'm glad that they are making all of these improvements. Especially the green tree changes. But without performance improvements none of this is enough to retain players. As soon as players start playing content that requires a lot of interactions, like vet/trials and pvp, they notice a their skills are not responding in clutch moments. That is causing a lot of player attrition to other games that don't have these performance issues. I hope for the future, but until this is solved ESO is not on my 'recommend to friends' list.

[@jimmythecrow]

yup, thats why I dont play. Cant pvp without lagging all over. Then the power creep is insane.

[@misterbrady100]

@@jimmythecrow Yeah. One of my favorite choices they made was the no proc experiment. Sadly they didn't go further with that.

[@CrazyIvan865]

I didn't even PVP. Just running nWGT last night to help a couple people farm SPC was brutal. I'm a warden tank. The amount of lag, the amount of times I cast an ability and it didn't cast, even IF it did cast the animation, the amount of times I used destructive Clench, saw it visually cast, visually land, checked bar, no taunt, cast again, saw it cast, saw it land, no taunt. Meanwhile, I'm bur ING through my magika bar trying to get Agro on the boss while the boss is slapping out healer in every cheek she's got on her. 2-3 weeks ago, I had a lot less lag and no problems with magika sustain, no problems pulling and holding ago, few problems landing those Frozen Gates to pull enemies (my aim isn't the best. But I shouldn't have to cast a HUGE resource drain ability 3× to get it to actually land and activate when there's elite enemies that need to be pulled and stuck) the past 4 or 5 days it's been unbearable. Idk what they did to the game or what resource drain AI they updated or what, but something has changed in the matrix. And not for the better. My internet hasn't changed. I'm on a LAN/Ethernet cable instead of Wi-Fi, showing as low as 10ms ping when I run test, zero packet loss on tests, around 50Mbps upstream and 117-300 downstream. Like I said. Idk what they did. But as is, it's almost unplayable. And they might have gotten a deal with Microsoft to "help encourage the sale of newer gen consoles", which I highly suspect, especially after this announcement with add ons only being available to newer consoles. But... I don't think it's an issue with the consoles, so much as programming. 4 years ago I played daily, on this same console, on Wi-Fi, the Wi-Fi was downstairs and the crappy cable company supplies router... and the player base was UP back then, compared to now. Never had issues with silhouette shadow PCs, or with NPCs and stuff loading in, never had issues with lag or DCs, never had issues with the abilities showing the cast animation without actually casting... Whatever they did, they need to undo. Probably more of that Spy-AI bullshit. If you don't believe me, look at the people who've caught bans from whispers with friends when no player reported anything. Or just read the TOS/TAC itself in it's entirity.

[@farhan.safdar]

Things we actually need: 1. Account wide mount speed / stamina / carry capacity. 2. Account wide armory slots.

[@CrazyIvan865]

That'll never happen. There's a reason why they sell mount upgrades in the crown store. And armory slots... to unlock 4 additional slots for 5 characters would be 20 total slot upgrades at 1,500 crowns per each... that's 30,000 crowns. 21,000 crowns is like $150. USD. We're talking around $250USD for all that. While if it were account wide, that'd only be 6,000 crowns which is in the ballpark of $50. They're get 1/5th of the money out of us. EVERYTHING they do is to get money out of us. Whether we're compulsively buying stuff from the crown store. Or not even sub'd to ESO+, we're playing for free, and they're selling our information and Datta to the highest bidder (check the full text of the terms and conditions and all the legal documents). Everything is to get money out of us. ZoS has an average annual profit of $180 MILLION a year JUST from online subscriptions and average subscribed members. That isn't counting gow many people buy crowns to get stuff from the crown store. So what everybody that isn't ZoS corporate wants these changes, it'll never happen.

[@alisamicanturu9026]

My characters sprint speed is higher than my mount speed I doubt it still changes

[@billkrussick6477]

they nerfed our overall speed quite a while ago, i suspect we're just going back to what it used to be. jmo.

[@kuttinoaldridge682]

@@billkrussick6477 Still much faster especially with the edition of the champion poits. ive been able to turn my sorcerer into the flash. when im not lightning dashing im already moving at nearly 80 percent extra run speed with skills and cp. great for digging up reiics

[@10th_Doctor]

I love the speedy G build on my gatherer orc vampire nightblade steed mundus. I'll outrun mounts LOL.

[@CrazyIvan865]

​@@10th_Doctoryeah. But you literally had to build for every single speed buff in the game.

[@10th_Doctor]

@ Ok? And? Who's playing that char? You or me?

[@jackiechanswag]

I would love to see mount upgrades be account wide ! I will wait to play again when the difficulty changes happen.👍

[@ryanblack3686]

Crybaby

[@d.costello281]

Companions should carry their own equipment have a back bar that they can randomly switch to if they choose and at least have 1 soul gem to revive themselves if they die. And make mounts capable of walking with you like a pet would if you choose. Make mount combat a thing. Release a item called portal shards you are allowed to have 3 and can place them anywhere in tamriel as long as it is in overland. They will work portable wayshrines after placing them you can not remove them for a week.

[@CrazyIvan865]

The portal shards is kinda dumb. And couple possibly impact their revenue from people using them, instead of purchasing houses to use as free portals/wayshrines. But I see what you're saying. Could come in handy for getting to certain locations. But also not being movable for 7 days would be problematic. And make them very less worthwhile. I can't find how that would be useful. Once per day maybe. Now sure where this idea came from or what the end goal or utility purpose would be. So it may now be as dumb as my brain initially thought. It could just be my brain isn't seeing the purpose of it. I do like the idea of being able to set mounts to follow rather than just disappearing when you dismount. But let's face it, the game is struggling enough as is with all the companions, combat pets, non-combat pets, spy-AI and all this other stuff they have going in the background. Having mounts stay out would be an additional strain; and one they would see as an opportunity to add MORE spyware/malware/AI bullshit, then say "it's bogging down the system, we're getting rid of it" and keep the other programs they implemented and used the mount update to hide it. I do agree with the companion carry capacity and soul gems though. I would say companion ONLY equipment, 25-40 unequipped item limit, and they're capable of using soul gems and potions, as well as razing players if "rez player priority" is selected, but can only carry a stack of 50 soul gems and 50 potions. And can only carry the "essence of" potions that drop, not player crafted potions. I very much like this. I was just thinking last night? As we were caught in a a 3 man Scalecaller Peak dungeon when one of the DDs dipped out after dying in the first add pull. We got to the boss with the floating orbs and it was pretty brutal. It took a handful of tries. At one point our DD got turned to stone, Healer and I were clutching that shit as long as possible while trying to kite the orbs and beams while also trying to get over to get him out... I remember thinking "if only Mirrir could activate that synergy to get him out" and at another time he died and I was like "shit, I wish Mirri could get him up while I have literally everything in the room wailing on me and the Healer is busy keeping my health and magika up". Because while the companions were a good idea for a little extra help with solo players. They're virtually useless. Anything they cna help me beat a little fast, is likely something I'd probably just zip through anyway. Anything that really requires a little extra help (for instance, my tank can tank MOST world bosses and most normal dungeons, even some of the DLC ones. I've literally soloed a couple dungeons with just him and Mirri. Took a few hours, but we did it) they're pretty useless. I have Mirri built as a DD on my tank, had bastion (ABSOLUTELY WORST COMPANION) as a tank on my templar DD with some heals... even the easy world bosses they die really quickly and then just lay there. And I'm too busy getting slapped around or interrupted to be able to get them up. I know the companions are meant to NOT replace human players. But... I'm usually solo. And even with good friends... everyone's time is valuable. Someone shouldn't have to sacrifice their time to help me farm gear and weapons from world bosses or dungeons. And getting a group of strangers together is so much worse than it was before Covid. And it was terrible back then. You know. Like... most overland sets that's all I need. Is the weapons from world bosses. But.. whether I "LFWBG" in zone or in guild chat, nothing but crickets and loneliness. I understand. Othe r people have their own quests, own pledges, own grind, own stuff going on. And many either have completed all the stickerbook stuff. Or don't care to. But... there really is a "go fuck yourself" from the developers to solo players. Which make up the bulk of their player base.

[@DaedriikPrince]

Two things I would love to see being added in, at least one of them! 1. Being able to buy class tokens! 2. Pre-Save a character to use for another class!

[@CigarMick]

Remember when scammers used to say they are a new account and need money to buy a horse? Giving everyone a free horse at level 10 took care of that. They need to create a way to gather information about item pricing for the guild stores on consoles. Something that shows the average price of an item so you know what to list it for.

[@mrvampire7577]

Hi, can you donate to me so I can buy a mount that will go with my other 30 mounts I don’t look at. 😁

[@iGivor]

We need cross-save only

[@chuckbot4504]

i’d start playing again if they did cross save

[@zattotaros5306]

yes, that would be something gamechanging

[@BLVCKSCORP]

Just implementing cross safe gives me a headache

[@chuckbot4504]

@@zattotaros5306 i figure if population drops low enough on different platforms, that’ll be their last resort.

[@bluegoose7832]

cross-save and cross-play is needed for this game. Just bite the bullet and combine servers. The population isn't ever going to be as high as ESO's peak, and Xbox's servers in particular are suffering because that entire console is dead. The only people on ESO Xbox are veterans. Nobody socialises, it's just high level players doing dailys and crafting

[@OzarkMountainKing]

The CP tree skills should be all passives. Having to pick and choose only 4 or of so many choices that we've worked for and not be able to use them as needed without swapping around the bar is a real pain in the a$$. Adding so many additional passives to the green tree is great, but there is not really anything on the green tree that shouldn't be a passive anyway.

[@efalien5926]

I assume, you only mean the green tree. That I agree. All trees, not so much. Game is so easy, if every CP would be passive, everyone would get trifecta s so easily, it lose any meaning

[@dakarbrown5474]

It's mind-blowing that.People are excited about changes to the green tree.

[@OzarkMountainKing]

@efalien5926 Yeah, it was like 4am here. You picked up what i meant.

[@DaedricPrinceOedon]

​@efalien5926 its a video game. The only meaning is what an individual chooses to have. Theres no absolute universal meaning. If everyone gets those trifectas easily then so be it.

[@OzarkMountainKing]

@BansheeKing22 I was really only referring to the green tree, but you have a point. PC players have a console and add-ons that they use to make everything easier. Who hasn't used a cheat code or exploit before at some time on other games to just demolish a game? I'm not suggesting that anyone cheat, but add-ons and console commands on PC make ALL games totally different for PC players, even if it's just resource mapping and spawn timers.

[@jadedj5385]

They probably will not permit the creation of Add-Ons that would discourage purchasing assistants like Armory (vs Dressing Room) and Deconstruction. I can see crafting writ and UI add-ons being permitted.

[@mariop8852]

I think ESO needs a complete relook at each class and make sure that each role brings something unique. each class's healer/dps/tank should have something that boosts team or hinders enemies that is specific to them and each class needs to be competitive in each role. I would take all the Major/minors off items and spread them to each class/role. For example Courage could be a templar buff and Force could be added to a sorcerer abilities. I think thats the best way to ensure no class/role is considered useless.

[@joffers3767]

They gotta update the old outfit styles, man. Daedric for example looked so epic in skyrim, but in eso they gave it no justice and gave all the daedric-ness to the annihilarch's chosen set instead.

[@calincampbell5637]

Yeah apparently in Coldharbour they only have access to magical brown cows, who's leather can't be dyed any other color so they're stuck looking like their armor was made by a sh*tty cosplayer.

[@robinwitch666]

Daedric in Skyrim looked like an infuriated potbellied stove.

[@mayedalshamsi]

Removing Cyrodiil would also solve the PvP lag issue. Just following the devs' logic to its natural conclusion. Bunch of clowns.

[@Bongwater33]

I agree, why does every MMO have to try to be all things to all people? Most eso pvpers have plenty of other games with better pvp, if they focused on PVE for development they could be #1 instead of wasting all this effort on a small % of the playerbase that is by nature never satisfied.

[@mayedalshamsi]

@Bongwater33 - That's the opposite of what I meant... I'm saying removing 99% of the skills and their functionality isn't a solution to the lag. It's avoiding the problem. Just like removing Cyrodiil would be avoiding the problem, instead of solving it. The true endgame in ESO was supposed to be PvP. But instead, it seems to be housing and RPing by the looks of things.

[@jasonv.5938]

​@@mayedalshamsibecause that's what people like. There are other games that handle PVP better.

[@mayedalshamsi]

@@jasonv.5938 - Why can't we have both, though? Many people prefer ESO's PvP combat style over other games. They just don't like the lag.

[@Toldyousonoob]

The lag from all the Australian and New Zealand people trying to play on North American servers second, this game wouldn’t have lasted as long as It did if it wasn’t for the fighting

[@Xindi86]

The mount speed made me think of a while back where my mounts all of a sudden seemed to be slower... now you tell us they are going to improve that, I wonder if they first made them slower a while ago 🤔😅

[@leatherDarkhorse]

honest, cp should be straight up passive instead have to equip.

[@StonedViper]

You mean like it was 3 years ago?

[@provisionalhypothesis]

and then people complain things are too easy, but also want more power. devs should NOT listen to players, player's desires will ruin the game lol

[@boseidon]

@@provisionalhypothesis we' ve seen enough of how they massacred their own game and community though. they don't even know how their game works. only thing they're good at is throwing shit on the wall to see if it sticks

[@calincampbell5637]

What's the point of a build then?

[@LuzeraoRP]

@@provisionalhypothesis damnb you cant be this dumb

[@snowsongvideopix8680]

Thanks for the great ESO update 45 video, Hack the Minotaur! I'm pleased with many of these changes, especially the turning of many of the things on the green area of the CP tree into passives! My BF often mentions that this would make more sense, so he will be glad to see that happen. I also look forward to seeing the graphics updates to the starter zones!

[@Павел-т2г1н]

So that's it? Instead of improving server performance they plan to remove 80% of complexity out of the pvp??? Oh, that is SO lame! It's like the WORST think they could've done to pvp! My suggestion: just turn Cyro into a pve zone. I'm not joking. If you can t properly handle pvp, then just make the whole game a pve experience. I d better see a normal quest line, world bosses and all that in Cyro than do pvp with only class skills and even those simplified.

[@Dezhavu13]

Thank you for the info. Could you pass a QOL suggestion on? Please ask the devs to learn the many uses of the alphabet, like putting things in alphabetical order. This pertains to so very many of the crafting windows. Also make the crafting windows searchable. It would not hurt anyone's feelings if they also added a viewer to provisioning and alchemy crafting as there is in the others. Okay, that was more than one suggestion, but some very important ones for those of us who craft or sell crafted furnishings a lot. Oh, and the uptick in drop rates for furnishing mats (which was not enough) has only led to higher pricing for those items AND for those that were not even affected by the recent downturn in pricing at traders. If dedicated crafters could spend more time playing the game rather than having to endlessly farm for mats or farm the traders for reasonable prices, that would be a huge QOL change. Making an actual profit would not hurt either.

[@NYC_FelixL]

Isn't the reason why they changed the green champion points to slottables was because it was less strain on the server compare to how it was before the champion point change?

[@adamuser8246]

Sounds Really nice, wish they change transmute crystals to be stackable, or some way to reduce inventory count.

[@atonofspiders]

I see why they don’t but yeah

[@aceslycer]

If they did, how else would they force you to buy eso+? I can't play the game without the crafting bag. and if they are not gonna increase the inventory/bank space, I think at least surveys should added to crafting bag and maybe have them active at all times in the crafting bag.

[@JynxedKnives]

I would like to be able to use the stamina bar to swim faster

[@Derpitz96]

Just play argonian lol

[@ryanblack3686]

Just don't swim.

[@justinhammer3196]

SWtoR is getting a graphic update too. Gotta do bare minimum to make ppl think there is a future to keep what money coming in coming in.

[@oferreiradelima4436]

The only graphical tweakings they should really consider (and I believe that's what they're actually doing now), is to update BG textures and models to be as closer as possible to the DLCs. BG and DLC some times look like different games. It would be wonderful if they could retcon some architectural and geolocigal inconsistences as well, specially when it comes to area transitions. :)

[@outsider2638]

Ok, things that should have been done years ago is what now comes instead of big updates. I try to smile with the changes and forget the grandiose times of Chapters.

[@sly2076]

ZoS is acting like updated textures for zones that no one goes to, and CP changes is a "big" update. What a joke.

[@FabresFour]

The grandiose times of repetitive content, that’s what it was. ESO, before the Chapters were introduced, constantly changed and added very interesting and distinct content. It brought new challenges, new systems (justice system, monster sets, trials, etc., etc.). And all of this happened in a time without Chapters. Then the Chapters came along, and changes became less frequent and more spaced out. Chapters were a predictable, boring content module that ended quickly and left mechanic updates extremely far apart. Thank goodness they got rid of that system.

[@FabresFour]

@@sly2076 This update is just like every update we've had over the last 6 or 7 years. The first quarter of the year brings a DLC with 2 dungeons and some QoL updates.

[@tyhjyys]

i'm starting get this weird feeling when it comes to certain modern mmos. somewhere between jaded and straight up disappointed, but i could just be inconsiderate. maybe it really does take months and months to implement QoL and fan requested features?

[@provisionalhypothesis]

if you were a coder you'd understand

[@BranBal]

​@@provisionalhypothesis Could you help us understand? Even a brief text would be great

[@sly2076]

​@BranBal ESO has millions of lines of code going back to 2007. Any little change can screw everything up, so it takes a long time to change stuff unfortunately.

[@EchoDoctrine]

Very pretty environments, I’ve not played ESO in 4 yrs, might be good time to jump back in.

[@mattteezy3585]

Don't kts still the same as u left it lol. I checked

[@EchoDoctrine]

@ what’s kts?

[@halaniwalombardi3562]

@@EchoDoctrine Please dont lie to yourself, the game is shit its dead. Worst combat for an mmorpg known to man. Even everquest has better combat than this bullshit

[@treehous3.]

​@@halaniwalombardi3562on top of the endlessly reused beta assets sold to us as new content. Like literally there's still guards walking around in beta armor. Or how about how we've had the same 6 weapons since beta, like no other weapons exist in TES. I played the game since it came out, they've done nothing fresh or new, and continue to use 11 y/o assets.

[@danhensley]

I was happily surprised with the QoL changes. And despite all the doom and gloom around ESO right now, I'm excited for another good ol' dungeon pack.

[@halaniwalombardi3562]

bro shut tup this game is history only 14m players and less than that log in daily in the 10 THOUSANDS range

[@tomfrakey6335]

As a PVE player I plan on participating in the PVP testing because, while it does not directly benefit me, indirectly if it makes the community happier and helps the population improve I'm down for that.

[@KenshinHimura13589]

Good take!!!

[@pauloskinner]

I'm a PVE player too and I'll participate because it seems fun and less comlicated.

[@CannibalShadow]

👏🏾

[@tom2324]

Remember to stack enough armour, health and impen not to get insta killed and have fun!

[@Rreka240]

@@tom2324it’s not about that stuff in the upcoming cyrodiil. It’s about skills, gears are set. Can probably have differences via food/drinks

[@WatcherAsher]

The slotted to passive is going to be epic!

[@josephjohnson5415]

I still don't know if it's enough, I left during when they tried to throw in a new deadric prince like a year ago. But I was always a pvp player but simply had enough with how broken cyrodil was. Maybe this test which sounds like a damage meta test might be worth trying.

[@Frosthies]

One of my hopes is that they add a "hard mode" or something to make overland content engaging. Some of the quests feel like their bosses had phases and interesting encounter, and it's all hidden away behind how easy everything is.

[@kannbrown65]

For Green tree CP, I think the idea of does it affect combat, including avoiding it. I get sneak. But I do think fishing, looting, gathering, and crafting ones should be passives.

[@stevenscarah2543]

Another thing that would be great is guild tabards, show you representing your guild but hide the tabard! Cause that thing hides your sick look to show off

[@ryanblack3686]

Wear a costume

[@stevenscarah2543]

@ryanblack3686 still defeats the object of clothing styles you can't see

[@davidclark1095]

I wish they would fix the "scale" of the zones to fit closer to their respective sizes. Summerset should be 2x bigger than Auridon. Galen feels as big as Auridon. The only zone that seems like the scale seems more appropriate is Cyrodil. Does anyone else feel the same way?

[@RaccoonRepublic]

I feel like ESO has the most diverse and expansive zones of any MMO. Yes, they are smallish - but not to the point of feeling trivial. You can spend many hours exploring the many maps of ESO and not see all there is to see. All I really want is to see a Central Skyrim map so that we can finally circumnavigate Tamriel.

[@JazzJaRa]

Cyrodiil is small compared to the size it "should" be. They reduced the size to get more battles happening. But due to that the low population of the map is always at the same point of the map. In the early days there were battles all over the map.

[@cayde7207]

It’s best not to worry about the scale… the size, distance, length and width of many things in the lore have been beyond inconsistent, I don’t believe this world was made with scale in mind. Besides it’s best to have the size we got for convenience sake considering the amount of back and forth quests we have… adding anymore square footage to that would be an absolute pain in the ass. I’d also hate to 100% the entire region if it was anywhere close to accurate sizes for a country considering Tamriel is a continent 💀 heck’s no 😂

[@Obrim34]

Wow, this video got me super excited to play eso this year. I havent played it in like 5 months now.

[@koreyp360]

I miss ESO alot. Played at release with V12-V14 characters. Then changed to around 900CP. Recently after the Aragonian xpac.

[@skkahl3400]

I'm so happy about the Champion Point System change. I'm constantly changing the green stars.

[@davidwheelock5639]

Zone maps should mark survey discoveries

[@RalajDryadalis]

There's an addon for this so no reason for ESO devs to waste their time on something players already have. This is going to include console players soon.

[@BlightningBackhand]

points change over sounds great content , smoothness - when we complain we want ANYTHING for Cyrodil support I dont think anyone meant they wanted an Ice troll with a pick axe lobotomy of the system....

[@the_main_character447]

I think an auto attack would do miracles for this game. Weaving can be incredibly frustrating and with even a little bit of latency the gane will skip entire ability casts or delay weapon swaps which feel bad.

[@Usograve0708]

Great changes. Can't wait to get back into ESO!!😃

[@hx3trapped]

I think this is good news… it’s at least a step in the right direction for sure.

[@dakarbrown5474]

The game has been out ten years now

[@VeeeeeryDisturbing]

Personally, there are three things that I would like to see: 1 - the chantry of Auri-el and the forgotten vale in general. 2 - this one is highly unlikely but one of the other continents, like Akavir or Pyandonea. 3 - also unlikely, but a non-pvp instance of Cyrodiil with Imperial city and all of the towns accessible.

[@aarongregg9699]

something that would be kool to add to collections would be recipes so you know you have all of them for each zone and then they could have holiday event recipes in collections to. also add in to the CP Skill Tree> Purple and Yellow (GOLD-legendary) :).. also it'd be kool for the graphical upgrade if it was very detailed like if you look in first person at the grass it looks round and also the leaves on tree look very flat instead of a slight bend to them. i know nit picky i know i know...

[@Rreka240]

I’m excited for the map to look less cluttered ❤

[@spiritualgirl91]

addons for console would be absolutely amazing! and them starting to work on improving graphics is going to be exciting! almost sounds like they've finally understood that they might have to separate how skills and passives work between pvp and pve! would've been about time they did that imo.

[@angelaspangler2542]

Bigger view of items when you are crafting. So i can actually see how it looks before i make it. Like an option to see full size weapon/ clothes.

[@jimbofergus]

Zos has been saying they're addressing Cyrodiil performance issues since launch. I'll believe it when I see it.

[@TheMadLep]

Thanks for this summary vid, much appreciated!👍😁 (Still using one of your solo one bar builds and having a blast with it btw, thanks for all the hard work on your website, its a huge help!👍)

[@charlessmith2963]

While these changes are impressive, modern MMOs still struggle with being welcoming to new players. As someone who has played MMOs for years but stepped away due to life circumstances, returning now feels like starting from scratch in a radically different environment. The experience of being a "new" player is daunting, with every step feeling like an uphill battle just to find the fun.

[@gorrvaskr5963]

GW2 is the only MMO I’ve ever got other players who don’t play them to enjoy. Amazing base storyline that is linear and easy to go through with a Breath of the Wild like open world exploration that rewards you greatly for both.

[@Ironwill902]

I would love to see them increase the number of items we can place in our homes. From 700 to 1100 and more mounts, minions/pets, and house guests.😢

[@rovaan57]

Would be nice to see them update older armor textures to fit the quality of more recent ones, some of my outfits have jarring difference in quality, where some pieces look great and others are blurry.

[@emrek99205]

What does it mean when watching this video I can mentally name (and potentially find) every location in each 2 second cutscene? Maybe that I been playing too much. Or that nothing has changed in 10 years. I even noticed that some of the clips of Cyrodiil later in the video were taken from the ~2014 trailer and don't exist as seen in the game today.

[@reach_2002]

They should make green all passives and give the other champion sections one more slot

[@bertlizer]

My dream is simple : make the alliance ranks meaningful : being able to use it to get special abilities or passives ! Even very little % could give your AP gain some sense !

[@masonlink9362]

The graphics rework looks really promising, especially for people without ESO plus! Excited.

[@j.d.4697]

But I did call it when I suspected they changed the BGs in preparation to downside the servers in line with corporate "more profit for less effort" MO. That's where Cyrodiil is headed now as well.

[@austinp9348]

They need to rework their DLC content pricing. Insane how much money you’d need to invest in order to get all the content in the game. Or you can commit to about $200 a year to get the content for “free”.

[@alexandermatchay460]

Yes, princess are crazy. But having ESO plus also nets crowns, so in time you may buy dlcs with them. But still, monetisation in Eso is stupid.

[@ElReverendoHijoDePut4]

That is the fault of the community itself that feeds these leeching practices, they won't change as long as FOMOS keep spending loads of money just to look cool and get all the playable and cosmetic content before their friends, or feeling panic and anxiety if they're the only one in their social circle without a DLC or a cosmetic.

[@Bongwater33]

is 15$ a month really straining your budget? Thats about the cost of one lunch for one person at a restaurant.

[@austinp9348]

@ yea cuz that’s the point {{sarcasm}}

[@ghostsamongus3370]

Other mmos require a sub to play even the most basic content...

[@JohnDoe-xl1ig]

Love the graphics updating. I know it doesn't make a game, but I like visuals and sounds.

[@AdventurewithLynes]

As a very new player. Level 6... I wish the questing was more fulfilling. Mobs die within 2 seconds and anytime you are given the suggestion to put on a disguise, it's just easier to run to the objective and kill everyone than it is to sneak. I wish there was a way to have a difficulty level for the outside world

[@ski364]

Honestly nothing I see here will change my mind; I am not going to come back if this is all they have to offer.

[@Twizzybeatzz]

I recently joined the game. Was rather excited. Coming here and reading through the comments reminds me why I hate interacting with game communities. Bunch of angry, jaded players on every one.

[@swingkid1771]

Green CP changes, big WIN. Hope to see something similar with Red and Blue trees, if perhaps, to a lesser extent. PVP test will suck for a week, but perhaps lead to very positive changes once the data they gather is analyzed and intelligent conclusions are made toward positive long term changes to gameplay in Cyro. A worthwhile sacrifice. Graphic changes, great but low impact, ESO is already a gorgeous game to look at. Perhaps the addition of Add-on viability to consoles is the first baby step toward cross-play... We can dream, right? Great Video as always HTM. Miss seeing your ESO content, don't be a stranger!

[@SlumdoggVII]

Man I really just feel lile they should have done this last year during the 10 year anniversary. Tbh it should have had these updates on stsrter zoens for PS5 version to begin with. The major thing I wish they would change is having Pets and House Guests on the same section of furniture We shouldn't have to decide between having oets or coins and the house guests esp since housing is ESO end game and most likely 90% of the reason most people are still here playing lol It is so aggravating having all of these under the same furnishing limit

[@bloodtopaz8816]

While this is good news, I probably won't see the difference. I haven't memorized any of the terrain in the game and I have been playing since launch. I wouldn't be able to tell you if there was a tree there before or after this update. I will see the water, that will look different but from the pictures, I don't think the change is going to be so substantial that I will look at it all and say "Wow!"

[@dakarbrown5474]

Yes, because you're not a geek.They think everybody is a geek

[@Nathan-o1k9w]

I quit ESO 5 years ago due to nerfs, damn watching this has made me start back over again, Thanks

[@GamonSamurai]

It would be great if they could revamp the look of all base game zones, not just starter zones. The graphics of some of the older zones really show their age. Animations are another thing the game should definitely improve, they look very stiff and cartoony, something I could ignore in an Indie game but not in a AAA game like ESO in 2025.

[@randconfig8626]

I love them, it's really great to finally be getting quality of life and I think Battlegrounds and Imperial City staying complex with smaller populations, while Cyrodil being simplified for massive populations war fights will give us the best experience for PvP. My only concern is that classes like Necromancer require so much for every one of their abilities and has no real/definitive archetype/playstyle that if they simplify them for Cyrodil, the ability design they give them will feel alien to 90% of necromancer mains (again, cause each necromancer is almost completely different from the next in PvP build variety).

[@BlackPantherEclipse]

I'm excited for the console add-ons. I simply want the add-on to easily find mage guild books while I'm questing. That's all I've wanted since the game first released on console.

[@BZZ86]

I always played on 'low' preset cause of my GPU/RAM. I got myself an upgrade and changed all settings to max now. The new graphics will definitely help with new players, I just hope they still keep the low settings as basic as possible for people that have poor rigs. As for the rest we will have to wait and see. Overall it looks good.

[@SDAHGM]

where is the scene at 4:55? never seen it before, is it new DLC?

[@masterofhaloben]

Sad no new expansion but glad to see they are making good changes and thank you hack for your hard work.

[@Robert-bs8xr]

They should add capes and cloaks like we used to have in Skyrim mods. That would be sooo dope. I really don't understand why they don't add this

[@AnArtInEveryLabor]

For base game provinces they really need to make the side quests repeatable daily quests like in Craglorn. The idea of bringing friends in to a game where you have to a make a whole new character just to quest with them for 99% of content is just scuffed. Make it replayable and we can actually "play the way we want" like they're always telling us to.

[@1Apep1]

It is good that they are testing ways to improve performance, but reducing build options that much is not something that should end up being the solution. Especially in PVP and especially in Cyro build diversity is one of the strengths of ESO that make the game stand out from the competition. And sure, there is always some annoying meta that too many people use, but there is also a lot of room outside of that, where people can make an effort to find what they actually enjoy playing. Taking that away would be a huge mistake.

[@ralgore]

Wow, they certainly took their sweet time with the green CP changes =P

[@gabeghiby6935]

thanks for keeping it under 10 min bro'... the shorter, the better, if you can make it under 4-5 min would be even better... we don't have the time to keep watching long videos, but your updates are informative and worth watching...

[@bloodrunblack]

Excited to try the new campaign.

[@O0dZ-x5e]

Also they need to fix the housing. Why did I spend so much money on cool locations just to be told I can’t put the things I want in there bc there’s a limit. Super upset about that

[@ghostman1971_]

Good decision with the passives for the green champion point. I like it.

[@vrkfarms4100]

How many champion points will we need to get all the passives for the green champion points AND 4 active ones?

[@UnfadingSilence]

See they are once more going in the wrong direction with pvp removing skill lines will just kill pvp all together, no group play, no ball groups, no guild vs guild, no bombers all of which rely on skill trees

[@betsylewis-bowie5073]

Unless I'm misunderstanding the stripped back skill lines are only for the 'special' period. They need people as many players as possible to play in cyrodiil so they can run numbers and they think if they dumb it down that us PVE'rs will help them stress test the zone. It would be stupid af to make that an actual change. But hey.. I could be wrong.

[@UnfadingSilence]

@betsylewis-bowie5073 yeah, but that's been the common misconception about the PTS as well, not a lot of people even play on the Pts, so even when they do testing on the pts, it's not going to be like how it is like on the actual life server, so they actually need to do these tests on the life servers like, i know that he said in the video that they're going to also do something with the live servers, but I really hope that they don't base their opinion and I mean them as in ZOS unjust, how things look on the PTS

[@baklava-tchai2247]

thats a good thing ball groups and crosshealing ruins the game

[@UnfadingSilence]

@baklava-tchai2247 oh for sure I agree but that will just kill population in pvp

[@Grimsforge-Gaming]

The way they use the pts is nothing more than an advertisement for what is to come. They already have their mind made up that this is the direction they need to go to make the most impact with performance and tackling the coding problem they face (the current code is spaghetti due to previous teams creating it and no longer with the company). It’s in ZOS nature, it is in their dna, to NOT listen to criticism or feedback regarding the pts. This isn’t an opinion but based on a decade of content creators going to the pts to “test” and posting their findings for def ears. Look at all the names in my “10 years of pvp” video and see how many are actually still playing. “Here’s another example of a content creator thinking the world should revolve around them..” NO.. here’s a content creator acknowledging the YEARS multiple creators put into this game just to be ignored 😢 Do I think they strip down pvp and say it’s quality of life, yes. No matter what anyone says

[@arandomstormcloak8839]

I felt like the mount speed bonus on the green section never worked for me, hopefully this changes that

[@joeyr184]

What i would like is for overland content to be a lot harder so adding the ability to change the scaling of difficulty like what Lord of the rings online did a couple of years ago would be great. If you want it easy set it easy if you want it hard set it hard. Everybody wins.

[@Taarente]

It does sound like nobody at zos actually does any actual performance testing of any new skills, sets whatever and are surprised people complain about lag, disconnects etc. Scribed skills don’t work properly or fire late if at all. Given they managed to not even have a data centre with a ups for its servers, i’m not convinced they actually have the ability to do anything other than stick another mount or pointless emote in the crown store.

[@O0dZ-x5e]

If your fishing, you can just slot it, all your doing is fishing. Sure it’d be easier if they just made it passive but you can just swap for most of them when you’re doing that specific thing.

[@stalarionjagarn188]

I'm interested by the new Cyrodil, it seems like they want to make it akin to a MOBA or battle arena in term of combat logic. If this work, the gap between high lvl player and mid lvl will be less noticeable.

[@cracmar03]

I hope that in disguises Forebear and Crown dishdasha's are counted. Several of my redguards carry these in inventory.

[@rabies8]

The champion point changes are nice and the costumes turning into collectibles is nice, and it gives me hope because what i really want is to see auras become toggleable because i cant use my scrying stone while one is active. I can literally be locked out of it for 3 minutes. Its such a big oversight. Other than that. The visual changes won’t affect me that much, and the majority of people that are in the starter zones seem to be bots. Not that i mind the guilds constantly having crafting materials available, but bots don’t care about graphics nore can they appreciate them 😂

[@jeffthomas3707]

Personally I'd like to see a lot of the base game armour sets either updated or removed altogether, some are just not used. I'd like to see more things to do outside of questing and daily Undaunted. Going into Banished Cells for the 150th time holds no excitement whatsoever. The game is basically just rinse and repeat once any new content is completed, which can be done in a matter of hours now that most open world emenies fold like tissue paper even to a low level character.

[@georgesimmons5959]

We are not minions to gather resources and deconstruct them and watch our share of the resources go to those who created this MMO; I feel we should get at a minimum 70% of the the items deconstructed. As I read the Posts (remarks) left by our members I think of the luminous Ink to assist Scribing which just came on to us as a resource to bring about scribing which landed in game with a nice return for farming for the ink as we went about securing resources in our travels, Ink was available at first and has since dwindled down to not getting one bottle where the rout traveled produced 5 t0 10 bottles per week in the first few weeks, after that time frame the bottles became 5 per week, and to this past three weeks i collect 1 to 3 bottles over the same course per week. More over, this is called "Bate and Switch" in economics/commerce would and is illegal.

[@simonw1252]

Cautiously optimistic about all of it. Character animations could be tweaked, Cyrodil changes they propose 'Could' be geeat. Lets see.....any more of your Builds coming soon mate? 🙏