Lemdro.id

3 points

1 month ago

Pretty standard fare for mmorpgs since WoW, the whole themparkization of questing.

Even with that big shortcoming, there is still a lot to see and do, and just about all content but DLC dungeons are functionally free after you pay the box price, and the most recent box typically includes all previous expansions.

Tamriel is one of my guilty pleasures, even with 's ongoing skullduggery and bad ideas floating over the rest of the series.

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Roonerino [they/them]@hexbear.net

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2 points

1 month ago

I revisit it every now and then because I want to like it so much but I always get bored fairly quickly because it’s just such a piss easy game. I wish they’d just give me a difficulty slider to crank up, I don’t even want a bonus for it.

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3 points

1 month ago

There’s “Extreme” and “Savage” mode raids for every expansion’s content, if you wanted to try those.

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Roonerino [they/them]@hexbear.net

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1 point

1 month ago

Oh, no I just mean questing and running around the world. I’ve never been into the raid stuff.

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batsforpeace [any, any]@hexbear.net

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2 points

1 month ago

I had this issue too while questing, it took some tinkering to make a ‘nerfed profile’ where the overland enemies pose a bit of danger, wearing almost no armor, no blue/red CP skills, fairly low health, also using some of the new ‘scribing’ skills, they’re customizable but not very powerful, I use a npc companion too because it’s more fun gameplay overall, on average I don’t think people have enough time to mess around like this though, the overland feedback thread on their forum has like 200+ pages of people debating for and against raising overland difficulty lol

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2 points

1 month ago

Yeah, the overworld is meant to be roamed around in casually. Like many MMOs, the challenging areas are contained experiences.

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Roonerino [they/them]@hexbear.net

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1 point

1 month ago

Yeah MMOs seem to have just evolved over the years to make the leveling process extremely fast and extremely easy. I always just end up back on a classic WOW private server.

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1 point

1 month ago

Yeah MMOs seem to have just evolved over the years to make the leveling process extremely fast and extremely easy.

I suppose the difference there for me is I never liked leveling up and mostly saw it as a way of learning how to play the class for the actually challenging endgame content, a sort of extended tutorial with story beats.

The older games that outright took away level progress on death, I played those too before. I don’t want to go back.

I always just end up back on a classic WOW private server.

It’s definitely subjective preference, because for me returning to “classic” WOW (yes, I was there) would feel more like a punishment.

I started MMOs back in Everquest 1 and I don’t want to return to day one vanilla there, either. Like I said, personal difference.

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