How is ESO Different from Other MMOs? 

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I was there in the pvp warzone in ESO, I felt like another solider among dozens of soldiers on the field, I still remember everyone mounted on horses riding together stampeding towards the next tower. I could have sworn there was a special sound effect that sounded like a roaring war charge of people screaming or my imagination was intense...

What makes the game especial to me is that the endgame is the whole game, the moment you start your adventure that is the game, you can enjoy the game the way you like, become a thief, do dungeons, quest, play the card game, craft, every major system is available from the start and everything feels rewarding because you start unlocking more and more things organically, it never feels like a second job.

I remember 1 bit in my guild, everyone had a good laugh. I told them how I had finally hit the level cap, it took so long but I did it and was proud. They ask me "How long did it take you?" The answer was 250 hours and everyone was SHOCKED with how long it took me, they asked me how could it possibly take me THAT long? I told them "Well I was questing right? And there was a resource node, and another, and another and before I knew it I was on the other side of the map. And there the skyshards, and making a nice little home." They all laughed but understood. My easily being distracted actually made me one of the master craftsmen in the guild long before I hit the level cap so that was my journey. Honestly I actually enjoyed the leveling journey as I never felt like I was playing the game wrong. Not like WoW where I often questioned if I was doing it right. Did I pick the right professions? Talents? Am I really satisfied with my race? My outfit? In ESO I only felt that for when I wanted to try doing serious dungeon stuff, which is normal.

I've put 4.5k hours into ESO, and it's been so amazing for so long, but I've recently switched to WoW since I like dragons and the new DLC dragonflight was on sale so I decided to give it a go. And jesus, the difference is astounding. There's obviously a massive difference but my main thing which I instantly noticed, the game actually encourages mount collecting through GAMEPLAY unlike ESO which needs to just shove every single stupid mount into crates, leaving 1 SINGLE MOUNT per CHAPTER locked behind a pretty tough achievement not to even mention how they're usually just recolours of crown store mounts.

Been playing ESO for a few months and I'm loving it! This video was a great overview of all the things it does differently, I'd really enjoy any content you make on this game.

I played A LOT of ESO before going to GW2. I really enjoyed the vastity of the lore and the horizontal progression. It felt like I could have fun without the urge of grinding insanely. Really reccomend the game!

already sink in more then 2.5k hours gametime really love the lore and quests in the game

let's be real, ESO have the BEST leveling and questing experiance ever created in mmo, the fact that u can go to ANY city or map and have introductory huge quest line to it is just massive, u even have 3 factions main quest that make u feel that u have a real impact on the world and its politic. let's not even start talking about the crafting hands down also the best in all mmo, each peace of armor with it's own traits and bonus set and even skin can be crafted once u master the skill, with so many styles

Havent found any other rpg that gives me a rush like eso. The quests arent rinse and repeat. Decent character creation. Lore on lore on lore. New updates still. New content. Community. Ill be on eso till the new elder scrolls or dragon age comes out

I know I’ve definitely watched more videos on ESO then played it. At least to me, it seems interesting enough but I honestly can’t say if I’ll ever get into it.

A few more points to add, ESO has fewer abilities on your ability bars than in most other MMO's but the abilities are more impactful with you having a higher chance of using all of your abilities in combat. So instead of having rows and rows of ability bars but only using a fraction of your abilities, or having numerous abilities that provide tiny buffs that you have to keep active at all times you have fewer abilities but they are all impactful, the buffs are more impactful and sometimes passive just for having the ability slotted. Abilities use resources (Health, Magicka, Stamina, and Ultimate) to cast with some abilities restoring certain resources. Also, abilities never become irrelevant. Skills you unlock at the beginning can be just as relevant in the endgame as they were at the beginning so you have a lot more good choices when it comes to useable abilities and builds. Similar to how you mentioned player choice and skill lines, this means that not everyone is choosing the same skills, in the same rotation doing the same thing as everyone else. There are so many different variations on how you can play the game and every class can be configured to be either a Tank, Healer, or DPS so if you started out in a class that you thought would be great for a Tank but then decide you would like to switch to DPS then you don't have to make a completely new character to do that. A continuation of that is how armor is handled. Yes, the three armor types all have passive stat unlocks that make them more appropriate for different class types with Light Armor being more geared towards magic users, Medium Armor more towards Stamina DPS, and Rogues and Heavy Armor more towards Tanks. However, the Set Bonuses for set items are arguably as important if not sometimes more important than the armor passives. So you have Heavy Armor sets that are geared towards DPS or Healing, Light Armor sets that are geared towards DPS or Tanking (yes, really) And Medium Armor sets that are geared for all kinds of things. Magic Users don't have to change their entire playstyle to Tank since every class can fulfill every role and you can just equip a Frost staff and a couple of abilities to tank just as well as a sword and board. The point is that you are never shoehorned into anything. The downside however is that along with all of these content updates come a lot of constant changes to gear sets, abilities, and classes. It seems like no sooner have you got your gear fully upgraded to Legendary quality and got all of your skills leveled that a new patch drops that might force you to redo your entire build, depending on the type of content you play. Granted this is a lot more relevant if you do PvP or Endgame Raiding than if you do PvE and Roleplaying but it's still annoying.

Thank you for making this @Nixxiom ! This has bar far been my fav Mmorpg to sink into! Would love to see a Lore series with your storytelling to it! 🤩

Great video! Thank you for the content. Hopefully more ESO content soon!

To me, the real fun begins with the endgame PvE activities but I'm just a sweaty type of player. There's a ton of dungeons, solo arenas and trials to choose from, leaderboards for each one of them and massive amount of challenging achievments to get.

I appreciate the positivity you bring into this video. I've played since launch on and off. When I moved to PC EU the world first time really came alive. Been on since years now.

It's almost a perfect game. Their pvp and combat is by far, my favorite. My only gripes are poor dev decisions like U35, and cyrodill performance is still insane most of the time

I love ESO personally, its a fun game and i love the world/lore. I Enjoy the combat for what it is. I understand the criticisms but i'm glad you enjoy the game Nixxiom! Meanwhile People getting mad that you arent making video's about games they want to see.

Certainly can't agree that there is always a challenge for you because single-player questing is super easy in EVERY location in ESO.

I love having the option to join 5 player guilds, with different themes i.e. vampire guild, trading guild, pvp, pve, etc, also all the players one megaserver.

It’s my go too mmo, has pretty much everything you could want in one. The combat almost took me out of it multiple times but there is a rhythm to it after awhile & it’s not too bad once you understand it

One of my fav things about this game is the voice acting!

Love how you used old PvP gameplay, I miss those days. PvP was so much better with big groups.

I like ESO and want to get back into it but I am not a fan of the crafting bag being tied to ESO plus.

People complain about the combat a lot but it’s a step up from auto attacks and whack-a-mole hot keys with 50 skills to keep in mind.

My mom was a skyrim and oblivion pro and now she plays ESO for fun so I have been wanting to get it. Thanks!

I wouldn’t worry much about animation canceling unless you want to get sweaty towards the endgame content. Yes, animation canceling and light attack weaving is a thing in eso, but with practice you can master it. A few tips for new players - rebind your weapon swap, dodge, and ultimate keys to mouse buttons, you’ll thank me later 😊

My personal favorite is the fast and interactive combat system, wich is for the most people overwhelming in the first place but it´s really worth it to learn. While in combat you also need to make fast desicions. You need to be prepared, different fights can require different compositions from skills, gear and champion points.

Honestly i was expecting this game to flop back when it was introduced, i played a bit but didnt have time to sink into an mmo. Glad it's still alive and strong.

One of the original beta testers here, been playing since before stone falls was even completed. honestly love this game to death and there is so much to do. But some advice to a new player, give your self a focus goal and accomplish that. either play through the alliance quest line first or try to reach 50 on your first char. once you are able to get some accomplishments under your belt then try to "delve" into the crafting system and try to play the market for gaining gold. iv been paying for the subscription since day one and i have no problem with this. I do think there is enough content for me to justify the cost because i am able to set long term goals that keep me logging in daily. I do hope more variety comes to PVP soon as it does become stale after a while.

Surprised you didnt point out the soundtrack and voice acting

I’m sort of reminded of the subway meme when people complain about the combat in ESO. My brother in Talos, you made the build.

But ye the lore is the biggest thing and exploring and collecting is fun and its very social esp if you find that guild , its just home away from home not feelin like I gotta be ELITE gamer to even remotely enjoy myself

The biggest thing for me is that eso doesnt force me to play at specific times or in a specific way. I can play how i want & when i want which still feels meaningful. Most online games seem to have limited time events (season pass, holiday events,etc) that carry their content drops so you have to play during a specific time otherwise you feel left out/behind.

ESO is so underrated. Insane Lore, Good Stories and All the sets and build crafting, the freedom to do whatever you want. Its my 2nd favorite mmo. Also I love how ZoS is so friendly to the community.

I Love ESO. I played WoW for 6 years .Just started ESO and loving it!!

Its a great and i agree with most points, but i must say that i find the combat the most lacking

As far as ppl complaining about the “animation cancelling” in combat, its not even really animation cancelling, its weaving a light attack in between the use of main abilities during the gcd. Everyone calling it animation cancelling makes it sound like you’re cheesing the game or something. Back when it first launched players started actually animation cancelling to do this but the devs took what the players were doing, embraced it, and built the combat system today around that.

I fell in love with this game a couple of years ago. I've been playing MMO's for 7 years and definitely, this is the best one. Also you can paying $10 USD at first. Highly recommend 🙌🏻😌

The crafting bag from the subscription is a must have, saying that ESO can be enjoyed without it is a lie. Without the infinite crafting bag the game quickly becomse an inventory management simulator

I just started playing and have about 12 hours in...and im stuck. I am trying to get the door open to the undercraft and i have no key or lock picks,,,help!!!

good video. i always see videos like this but people hardly mention how fun the endgame content is edit : literally as soon as i sent that he mentions his other video about endgame lol haha

Level scaling is amazing thing. What they can adjust to make ir even more amazing. Is made that when u lower level and gear its a lot harder to kill mobs and when u bigger level, better gear is a lot more ez to kill mobs.

ESO is a hybrid game, both horizontal and linear progression :)

i am an ESO player since the beginning, i played on it's 1st day of release, and then i did quit just before they release Morrowind, and i didn't play again until recently when they announced Necrom, so i did completed the base game progress ( VR 14 as they called it back in the days ) And the reason i quit was probably the base game didn't had much content, but after around 8 years, i finally returned due to the new Necrom news, and suddenly, i had a around 5 expansion worht of content, and it just reminds me on why ESO is just good. I am mainly a solo player on ESO and ocasionally having fun in Cyrodiil with my fellow Dominions, and what really hooked me for the past months is just basically the lore of this MMO, it's second to none!

I love ESO, I can't play it b/c my Xbox broke. If they had cross save and cross play I could play on my PC and still play with my friends. I miss doing the trials and story content. Also the classes and combat is very fun. When I hear people say the combat is bad I have to question their intelligence.

As a huge Skyrim fan like 5k hour's i'm really into ESO also. But one thing i would change is turn ESO into vertical progression like WoW.

It's a great game for sure! Unfortunately, I didn't find any of the classes appealing. I'm always checking whether they add a new one and try it out, hoping it clicks.

I’m getting curious about this game. Quit wow after years being rogue since forever. Ppl told me Templar is fun to start with. Any recommendations about wich zone i should start, class, race? And since i turned away from pc, how is it on ps5? There will be no addons for example, qol wise, still a go?

I'm so glad ESO exists, despite my gripes with it. It's the only mmo I really enjoy due to story and the combat, I don't enjoy combat like WoW lol. And it also helps its one of the best mmos for consoles, especially for Xbox

Love this series

This video explains my ESO addiction pretty well 😂

The only thing that this game is lacking is diverse game mechanics. There basically two types of quests: interact with an object or kill someone. I still remember dragon racing from WoW...

I wouldn't call it 'world pvp' they dont have the same kind as they do in wow. It's limited to pvp zones like cyro and BGs.

Should give Return To Reckoning a go....graphics are nothing to write home about but it's fun....and 100% free

Gotta love cool cosmetics tied behind loot boxes

I love how each zone questing experience is so unique. I can't do anything else when I play. I put my headphones on and listen to the npcs and the music. I love combat too, it's not just pressing 1,2,3.. over and over like with wow. I've had my wow account for 13 years and I cant play it for more than a month before getting completely bored and quitting.

I like the part where I mistook player houses being very “expansive” for expensive. 😝

I have been playing for 2 weeks now, and the only bad thing I found about ESO is that everything feels so easy. I haven't die once in my entire playthrough. I'm currently cp 80 and I am really hoping the end game PVE gets harder. Besides that, I find everything else super fun.

HELP!!! I need a new home for a while ESO or GW2 long term. I love PVP and I like to feel unique in PVE content(like a role). Thank you!

The biggest difference is the fact that the devs still have no idea where they want to go with the game and will constantly buff and nerf just about every aspect of it to the point where you will always be wasting your time on builds that are rendered useless just a few weeks later, but don’t get rid of that gear because a month or two after that they’ll nerf something else and you’ll need that old gear again.

ESO is like the perfect game that ticks 99% of the boxes that I can't bring myself to play.

8:50 I wish it was.... I love the game and I play it daily, but I wish it was...

Why is everyone saying the combat is bad? I havent really played this game but the combat looks way way way way way better than tab targeting

I really want to love this game. The setting is immersive and engaging, the exploration is rewarding.. but the combat is so easy. It's near impossible to die against anything while exploring the vast world. I mean I can leave the keyboard and wait and it's going to take a few minutes for the mobs to kill me. Meanwhile, I kill them with a few attacks in 4 or 5 seconds. I need a minimum of challenge to stay engaged in a game. I had to pass on this game because there is just no challenge for 99% of the content. And the 1% that is challenging is end game content that takes forever to reach. It saddens me because I feel like this game really had huge potential to be great.

I started playing a year or so ago. I struggled to get into it but it grew on me. And now I'm really enjoying it. You have way more freedom to build your character when compared to WOW. The PvP is also fun. (balancing might be an issue as is with most mmorpgs) The quest variety is also way better than WOW. It is such an underrated game to be honest. It really is one of the best mmorpgs out there at the moment.

Apart from Wow ESO is the only other mmorpg I come back to periodically and honestly wow was my childhood but ESO is way funner

And what about the music? So good and immersive.

You forgot to mention that if you don't pay for the sub you don't get access to the Crafting Bag. Without it good luck trying to manage your inventory and crafting.

I know I know, the immense pay for convenience in a non free to play game. Knowing that nothing in terms of QoL will change because theyre profiting from not improving it. The fact that making another character is so much of a grind in terms of skill lines and skill points that I dont think I will be playing anything other than my main.

2:35 This is entirely untrue. Once you hit about 600ish CP level almost nothing in the open world will present a challenge aside from certain world bosses. This is one of the biggest problems with ESO. It's like they designed the level scaling system to work with post-50 horizontal progression but ESO doesn't have horizontal progression, it just has a secondary vertical progression that's account wide.

My problem is after getting the gear/mythic items….what’s the point

For those of us stuck on Xbox that can't run FF14, this has been a solid alternative

Props for giving your character a mighty dump truck, only way to play ESO as far as I'm concerned!

As much as everyone complains about pvp lag when the game is running smooth the combat feels so good. Its the only mmo where it feels like i have full control of my character imo.

Scaling doesn’t give you a challenge everywhere, but makes the game feel all flat and less memorable. I love ESO for its story, for its openness towards solo players, I love, that everything is voice acted, but you actually can just sleepwalk through the game, maybe except for bosses of a 4-player dungeon (as a solo player). It doesn’t take players seriously, it keeps you in your comfort zone all the time and still tells you, you’re the great hero who just defeated a huge threat for the world. I like, that you can choose, in which add on you want to start or play next, but inside one of those chapters, they should make a more noticeable character progression and the combat more challenging, at least more varied. Despite that, there are two things I don’t understand in this game: 1. in which case would anybody - especially in a SOLO FRIENDLY mmo - like to finally get to the boss of a dungeon, only to have other players suddenly appear and do all the work for you? Dungeons should be instances for the group of players entering them together (1 - X) ONLY! 2. Why isn’t there a auction house - again, especially in a solo friendly mmo? The one thing I’ve always loved about mmos, even while being a solo player for the most part, is the auction house in those games! Why would force people to be in a guild, that expect weekly gold from you, for that, so that I, as a casual player, won’t ever be able to be in such guild, because I won’t ever play continuously enough for that? Those design decisions pretty much ruin it for me. Even WoW is implementing AI dungeons, you can solo, so these will be a better experience than the ones in ESO.

Love eso

I love ESO and appreciate the delves pumping out new content however it does have some bugs I think that could be fixed. Either way ESO hands down you get what you pay for when you just purchase the base game. However if you just purchase the base you want to purchase a month so the UI changes over. And there are things like the malstrom arena that i think is fun

Too bad i got totaly burnt out. Played from start, now im the second expansion offline

Amazing quests, graphics. Well done. 😅

Still waiting for new chapter :(

"Its just a LITTLE crafting bag." - sssure.. just little. If u care about professionals at all, its must have. Game is designed that you need it, theres so many different style crafting ingredients that glutter your inventory and bank if you dont have INFINITE crafting bag.

I like ESO as much as the next person, but this feels like a paid ad xD

I love eso but I don't play it because I fucking hate attack weaving.

ESO is a good game, played it alot. but for me im enjoying GW2 alot more now.. the combat is alot better in Gw imo. and i like GW payment model better.

I used to play a lot but the lack of pvp make me quit, i fed up to spam the same bgs and cyrodil was a lagging mess is anything change pvp wise?

Thanks for telling me about about ZYGOR its great.

Eso sits perfectly in not looking too cartoony like wow guild wars or too asian like ff bdo with their degen shit.

The take a break thing is real. I will leave for months then come back and play for a couple months. It is easy to drop out and back in.

I would have to question the non p2w system. Is the crown store only cosmetic? Skill lines and sky shards come to mind. The history of locking op classes behind a paywall then nerfing them. Hiding mythics behind a pay wall only to nerf them. I'm also not a fan of their promoting gambling. Otherwise, what you said is mostly spot on.

I think the combat and the way armor looks is the main thing that always puts me off. I keep coming back and trying to get into and just cant. I feel like Im hitting things with a wet noodle. Maybe its just my class. Ill try to switch it up next time.

Being able to do Several things at once pretty much kills the role play for me

plenty more to do after a few months? Oh boy... looks like you didn't get the news that they stopped the steady content update stream to focus on QoL during the 3rd quarter kekW

And all of it without the risk of ever encountering a challenge.

world is amazing, combat with animation canceling is just cancer.

For all the people crying about the combat, if they were to overhaul it they would lose a MAJORITY of the current players who have learned to love it, and gain a SMALL amount of players who didn’t love it before. It would kill the game. The combat has been established over 8-9 years. If they do a complete overhaul it would severely hurt the player base. The existing players enjoy the combat, hence why we still play

My only beef is with ESO combat system. It feels clunky. All spells feel so random and its really hard to find a smooth rotation of skills. But when you do its probably not optimal and you'll have a lack luster build for pvp and pve

Eso combat is one of the best, pvp also was fun

5:48 I like ESO but it does have some pay to win in the store. The consumables(potions,food,poison) for example

Sounded like a loveletter :) and you didn't even mention the Fashion (another endgame part beside Housing).