It’s a good game, pretty fun too
All I can say is “kumastay” 
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I prefer WoW, just to get that bias out of the way, but ESO is a good game on its own.
1.) ESO has a magnificent, epic, and stable lore. For people who love the RPG aspect and appreciate world-building and lore that remains consistent, the Elder Scrolls franchise is outstanding.
2.) Gameplay/combat in ESO is clunky. I despise the controls, and I play it with an X-Box controller for that reason.
3.) The artwork is subjective, and I don’t like ESO’s look. I don’t like the way the models move, and though the landscapes are beautiful, I don’t like the rest of the art.
4.) Combat in ESO is clunky and bad. This is just my opinion, and I say that as someone who thinks WoW’s combat can be clunky and bad, too.
5.) Playing solo content in ESO is wonderful from a story standpoint, and you can see the entire story in all its complexity without group content.
It’s enjoyable, yes, but I prefer WoW by a long shot.
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Honestly it’s kinda like apples and oranges, sure they’re both fruit, but that’s where the similarities end.
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I like them both for different reasons . No need to pick one mmo or another my thoughts are if there are 2 you are interested in them
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ESO has some fun questlines but overall I get bored of it a lot more faster than I get bored of WoW. It’s still worth trying though.
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Not a fan of ESO personally, I’ve given it lots of time… maybe it’s better than what it used to be… been a lot time now.
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It’s hard to compare the two. I love ESO’s combat and more open-ended, sandbox gameplay. Each expansion feels like it opens up more of this connected fantasy world. It’s also very easy to log in and do some delves each day.
However this design can feel rather directionless in some ways. It’s a game that encourages immersion more than progression, and it could stand to improve a little in both regards.
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WoW is the better game imo. I play both–and while I appreciate ESO is fully voice acted, classic WoW is so seamless and immersive I play it far more frequently. ESO’s combat just feels too floaty and disconnected for me whereas WoW’s character design offers depth that ESO just doesn’t approach.
And, I like WoW lore more than ESO’s too.
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ESO is ok but the enemy scaling makes it feel like a boring treadmill. And of course wow implemented such a boring feature.
ESO’s problem is the combat style and keybind limitations. Can’t just keybind all of your abilities. You have to cycle bars.
There is a trend of devs trying to dumb things down and put in so many limitations to hinder players. It needs to end. And this isn’t directing at any group of devs specifically but when you surround yourself with dummies, you end up thinking EVERYONE in the world is dumb. The players are not idiots.
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I wasn’t ever actually planning to return to be honest. Was fully intending to quit after completing BFA since the story just wasn’t agreeing with me (I play games purely for story and lore). Came back after two years after getting hit hard by a bout of nostalgia of the good times I had in WoW.
Bought a 6 month sub, set a goal for myself and hopefully once I complete that goal, I can drop WoW and go back to Tamriel. Till the DF reviews come out anyway.
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Gotta turn your graphics up my friend. It’s like the best looking MMO I’ve ever played. I love the character models especially compared to skyrim in which everyone looks like they’re made from vomit.
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WoW and ESO are 2 different games. Both MMOs, both different directions of gameplay.
ESO has no flying, but mount speed can be made VERY fast. Think “Skyrim MMORPG” and that’s ESO. It has mounts unlike skyrim, and you can equip 2 different weapons for 2 different hotbars you can switch between of 5 normal skills+1 ultimate skill. The skills are more wider to choose from - you can choose any skills from questlines like psihic mages or undaunted, but not from the base classes. Meaning if you pick a necromancer, you cannot choose skills from nightblade(rogues). Their world feel WAY more lively and every NPC has voiced lines for EVERYTHING they say, quest or no quest. They are also well voiced, not lazily voiced of the same few actors like skyrim. Dungeons can be toxic, you have max geared players soloing dungeons and run off as soon as you enter and will ignore tank being not-max leveled. They also use diablo 3’s paragon levels after lvl 50(max base level), afterwards you gain “champion levels” and you put these champion points from each CP into trees to make yourself further and its account-wide. They also have VASTLY improved teleportation, Rather then flight points, you use wayshrines to teleport from one to another instantly free of charge, OR teleport to a wayshrine for a small fee anywhere in the world.
Hope this gave you some insight, if you try ESO, try it WITH A FRESH MIND, not a mind to compare it to WoW. They are NOT remotely the same apart from being an MMORPG. I play WoW, FFXIV, and ESO so I’ve got first hand experience in it all.
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No, they’re not all that similar. I like FF14 for its main storyline progression but little else, personally.
I love the world and all of the interesting things/quests/npcs/storylines/lore you can find in ESO. The dungeons are also fun.
I’m not really a fan of either game’s raiding and prefer WoW for that.
And like I said, the pvp is mediocre.
ESO is definitely a fun game but it’s also different feeling than the others.
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I am a champion 1800 Stamplar main in ESO. I have completed all the trials, veteran dungeons, veteran maelstrom, and quest complete in all content up to current.
Key differences are:
The combat system is a bit faster paced and more rhythmic. The basic controls:
Directional dodge (double tap direction key or can change to a bind to tap while holding a direction key)
Tap LMB to light attack (mostly for doing weapon enchant procs, time them after attacks to take minimum time “lightweaving”)
Hold LMB to heavy attack (resource restore)
Hold RMB to block
Tap RMB to animation cancel (buff abilities typically grant you the effect before they complete their cast, so doing good damage is about stacking those buff casts up as fast as possible with animation cancels)
Hold RMB + Tap LMB to interrupt
Weapon swap (forgot default binding, switches between front ability bar and back ability bar)
This set of combat abilities is meant to be used in tandem with your front ability bar, back, ability bar, and potion keys. Read a build guide, you can screw up your character in ways that will make them do no damage at all.
The equipment:
Every set bonus from every zone, dungeon, and raid is all the same item level, tied to your champion level. Cap item level is 160, which is what every item drops as for champion level 160 and above accounts. The idea is to collect every set bonus and exotic relevant to your play style, and enhance them. Enhancing gear is only slightly more complicated than valor upgrading. It is not Black Desert tier shenanigans, gambling highly optional. There is an armory to store the gear and make skill/gear templates.
The rest is subjective. They both have BGs and WPVP to play in slightly different styles, they both have large content updates, they both have dungeons to do with regular repeatable rewards. Some of the best set bonus comes from dungeon dailies in ESO (monster set, 2 piece bonus for helmet and shoulder).
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Hmmm.
WoW vs ESO
Just cause they are loosely the same genre doesn’t mean they are comparable enough to be considered true competition with eachother.
Both have their similar elements, but equally are vastly different in appearance, approach and execution.
While I love both, the list to point out how differenttheybare just to long, and going through that much nuance is just seems silly.
Like comparing Steak to Ice Cream.
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I have not played to endgame, but the leveling experience for ESO was a blast. the skill system was much more enjoyable than wow to interact with.
I found the quests more involved as well.
The combat is different, but personally not an issue, though I have seen others state it as an issue for them.
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I enjoy ESO every now and than, having played through most of it. I play ESO when WoW feels stagnant for me nowadays, and swapping back and forth.
For classes I would say having everyone being able to use all armor and weapons takes away any and all class fantasy and makes it even more of a meta fest than WoW. (at some point everyone uses heavyarmor + 2h weps in pvp no matter what class, zero diversity).
The good parts are outdoor content, and daily/weekly things to do. Outdoor content is actually a part of the game in ESO unlike WoW.
I think its worth a try, definetly. I mean you dont have to “divorce” WoW in order to play ESO…ESO doesnt have a sub if you dont want it to so can play both.
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ESO was fun for a couple days
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I like to play ESO, the storytelling is pretty good and im a huge fan of its lore and eso is extremely solid with its lore and i recomend the solo content and group pve content aswell. They can be pretty cool. it is also a good completionist game.
The amount of viable class combinations can be pretty fun to play around here and there, i like stam sorcerer a lot for instance and used to like the NB bow till the heavy nerfs to bows in pvp which turned me off. You can also have a good time running around the world
Now the bad side?
ESO graphichs can look pretty stiff too just as some animations and they use the same skeleton for all races which is another downside.
I dont think its more casual friendly in many, MAAAANY ways when comapred to wow or other mmos, there are many systems that create a problem to sell a solution like the mount speed, which you cna only gain 1% speed every day by buying it everyday but miracously the game store seels you a scroll that will speed things up, same for crafting. Thats a hude downside of the game. You can’t also change your character face/hair/body type etc looks whitout paying. Oh and the craft bag, boy it is annoying but can be solved with a sub fee and you do get coins to use in the store with said fee so it helps. The crafting research time is extremely bothersome too.
There is inst much attention to eso pvp at all, like we complain about wow etc but the reality is that even shadowlands wow got at least a new arena, new brawls etc and some balance patches whereas eso hasnt gotten new pvp content since… well… 2015? 2016 maybe? Its a very unbalanced feast and the best pvp gear are pve meta sets which cycle a lot. I must say i had a lot of fun in cyrodil with my ranger build though but it is really whatever.
I dont hate the combat but i must say swapping weapons constantly because you msut keep cycling buffs is a horrible system. Sure its fast but mos tof the time you are not dodging or attacking you are buffing or debuffing then you can do something.
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I’ve played ESO quite a bit. Generally, I like it over most other elder scrolls games because of the better graphics and multiplayer aspect. But I’d say it’s more of an elder scrolls game than an mmo.
It’s hard to compare the two versus WoW and FFXIV which is a bit more comparable.
I can do a pros and cons of ESO.
Pro:
Absolutely stunning graphics that have aged very well.
Simple easy to use outfit (transmog) system.
A great variety of viable builds.
It builds itself more wide than tall. Every zone is a potential end-game zone. You can level there or spent time there in end game. The way the world scales to you is so nice any part of it can be relevant at any time.
The over-all atmosphere and world. I really feel immersed into Tamriel.
Quests stories are good and every single one of them is voice acted not only voice acted but GOOD voice acting.
I can be a freaking vampire (blizz give us vampires pls).
Very, very alt friendly.
PLAYER HOUSING. Although I will admit not the best player housing but better than no player housing.
Play your way. Do what you want for the most part it’ll work out. There is “hard” content but virtually any content is accessible to anyone.
Absolutely fantastic and fun non-combat game mechanics such as thievery, assassination, etc.
Best profession/crafting system in any game I’ve ever played. I absolutely despite crafting in 99% of games at most I’ll take gather and gather passively as I play but I cannot stand crafting I dread absolutely every moment of it. But not in ESO. In ESO I actually maxed out all of the crafting skills.
All classes for all races, and any class can tank heal or dps.
Not super restrictive without a SUB but I find the sub to be incredibly generous and 100% worth it.
Cons:
While all of it is optional, I am hugely not a fan of the real money shop. It has literal gambling loot boxes, and many items are permanently locked behind. They’re all cosmetic or like housing furniture. But still I’d rather just BUY things than gamble for them. Things in the store are often overpriced $10-15 for a costume. Houses with real money can cost over $100 it’s ridiculous. It 100% is centered at whales.
The combat can get boring and cumbersome at times.
The action combat healing I am not a big fan of.
There is no aoe taunt or aggro stance/aura in the game. Tanks have to taunt every single creature individually. It makes adds and trash a nightmare. If the enemies are weak enough to die in a few hits don’t even bother taunting them.
FOMO (fear of missing out) is common with promotions store items and events with limited time rewards but honestly not the worst I’ve seen in the mmo industry.
All the races are very same-same. They all use the same base model/skeleton with the exception of head or added tails in two examples. While you can be a lizard person or cat person still no body proportion differences like wow where you can have a hulking tauren and a tiny gnome. (This is an issue with all elder scrolls game).
The game has both DLCs and Expansions. However older expansions get converted into DLCs. DLCs can be bought to own permanently or are active along with a subscription.
No flight.
Zones are separated from each other with a loading screen. (although this is common in mmos, wow is more of the exception).
Only 5 or 6 classes.
Poorly balanced PVP.
Over-all ESO has it’s good and bad like almost every game and certainly MMO out there. It’s a pretty good casual mmo and if you like elder scrolls lore you get A LOT of it.
I find it difficult to compare to wow as they ultimately scratch completely different itches.
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