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Villain posted...

How is ESO as far as MMOs go, and is it comparable to any?

@Villain - It's a really strong MMO in my opinion, one of three total that has ever grabbed my attention for more than a week. You do want to get some of the expansion content though, especially if you want to move beyond the default four classes the game has (Morrowind added a Warden which is like a Druid with a pet bear, and Elseweyr added the Necromancer class).

The world is very interactive compared to the other big ones (WoW, Guild Wars 2, Final Fantasy XIV). With the Thieves Guild content pack you can pickpocket people and steal from chests, plus it unlocks a whole new quest line and new daily quests in a whole new zone. With the Dark Brotherhood you can assassinate NPCs, plus do a new quest line and new daily quests in a new zone.

There's a lot to complete in each zone, from standard quests to public dungeons and public group dungeons and group combat encounters. The base game has a central story about your character's origins and then each of the three Factions has its own territory spread across multiple zones (and each zone frequently has a sub-story that contributes to the main Faction story). Within each of those "faction territories" there's usually at least one or two mini questlines that follow you through the zones, and you can influence the outcomes/characters of those quests and then see the consequences of your actions in the next quest in the next zone. ALSO, you'll encounter things like graveyards with hostile ghosts or towns whose population has been wiped out, and when you do the quests for those areas the ghosts might be "pacified" or the population might come back to the town. Honestly I felt like I had a bigger impact in this world than I have in any other TES game, even though it is all fairly scripted.

Probably the two biggest drawbacks imo are that crafting materials become unmanageable because there's a ridiculous amount of them, and the combat becomes kind of stale after a while with one class. For the first problem, you can kind of mitigate that by joining a Clan and sharing your materials with the Clan Bank. You can also get ESO Plus (the monthly sub), which gives you an unlimited inventory specifically for crafting mats, plus access to some of the other "minor" content (like certain new dungeons, the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood stuff and a lot of others). For the second problem, you *can* re-spec your allotted abilities and your character's traits (between Magicka, HP and Stamina), but if you've played other MMOs you know that if you want to change roles you need to get a whole new set of gear, and you're still limited to that class.
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