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GW2 HoT or ESO help decide please
criscoduck09
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I love guild wars 2, i have 1 80 pretty well geared. I am not in a guild, I do not PvP. I enjoy the game very very much and have recently returned.
Should I pick up Heart of Thrones.
Or...
I love all things elder scrolls. I played all the single player games. Daggerfall is still my all time favorite game and I played Skyrim until my fingers bled.
Should I pick up ESO for the 20 odd bucks its going for now.
I have to choose one or the other.
Help!
Should I pick up Heart of Thrones.
Or...
I love all things elder scrolls. I played all the single player games. Daggerfall is still my all time favorite game and I played Skyrim until my fingers bled.
Should I pick up ESO for the 20 odd bucks its going for now.
I have to choose one or the other.
Help!
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Recently I started playing ESO heavily and loving it. Questing and exploration in this game is what I wish GW2 had. The combat system took some getting used to but getting better at it. I don't plan on PvPing in ESO either but you dont have to. The questing is top notch. I urge you to give it a try and believe you will like it. I get a Skyrim Online vibe from this.
In the other hand, I bought ESO for 14.90€ in some sale and I regretted not having spent those in watching a movie at the cinema with some burger and fries instead. Very dull, bland, classes are out of balance and all in all it was a disappointing experience.
In the end it's all about tastes, so you have to find out what's yours..
My opinion is my own. I respect all other opinions and views equally, but keep in mind that my opinion will always be the best for me. That's why it's my opinion.
Honestly you can play ESO later when you're not so into GW2 anymore. Silly to hop games when you are happy right where you are right now.
But you should not expect ESO to be an Elder Scrolls game like Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, etc. It's an mmorpg set in the ES universe. I love it because I love mmorpg in addition to Elder Scrolls games. If you put them both together, you get ESO.
The people who seem most disappointed with ESO seem to have expected Skyrim online. That is not what ESO is.
Note that I already own GW2 and $50 for HoT expansion does not appeal to me either.
My recommendation would be playing or switching to a ranged class if you do play it.
The worst aspect of it was that I never can get as immersed into it as I can the single player games. In those games I will just wander, whatever I find will be level scaled, I can just set off in a direction and go on an adventure. In ESO I cannot do that so much, there is level scaling only in the DLC (it will be coming to everything eventually is my understanding), and though the game supports exploring to an extent, each large zone is walled in with a zonewide questline you follow from start to finish.
The best aspect of it is the insane amount of content you get. The game world is massive, every npc is voiced and lip synced, quests are almost all multipart and involved. You get such a large part of the elder scrolls universe, you will see familiar places, and even though the zones are split among factions you do see every zone with every character. There is enough to keep you busy here for a long, long while.
Joining a medium size-big guild that organizes map metas is a guarantee of getting stuff done, but not necessary.
Hot can be bought by around $35.
I'm not sure how ESO compares to the other Elder Scroll games.
$20 for a game isn't bad.
Can always pick both.
Currently playing: GW2
Going cardboard starter kit: Ticket to ride, Pandemic, Carcassonne, Dominion, 7 Wonders
New maps are outstanding, story is very good, raids are great, etc.
From other side: ESO is a game with interesting questing and huge content. If you can adapt yourself to a dull combat system and average animation it's definetly worth to try, it's just $20 now
GW2 for casual world event play. Find a zerg event train run around hit button and profit. If you like to spend cash, you can buy everything in game you want including leveling.
But I guess it's the same for ESO once you hit Vet levels so pick your poison.......
Other than that, both games are pretty much equal amounts of p2w, if you care, which is fairly minimal too nothing at all since you can get just about all gear except certain cosmetics earned in both games. You already know like anyone else who actually plays GW2 that you don't need to spend money outside the box price to enjoy and to be on equal footing as to everyone else who plays. I assume the same with ESO but I could be wrong.
"If I offended you, you needed it" -Corey Taylor
HoT is pretty good, the mastery points might feel a bit frindy though but I rally like how they handled gliding.
"I don't give a sh*t what other people say. I play what I like and I'll pay to do it too!" - SerialMMOist
GW2. It was a decent game, I've enjoyed it a lot in the past. I've been paying attention to the forums regarding HoT and it's been a very mixed bag. So for now, I've stayed away. In the end, I'll get it when it's on sale, I guess. From what I can tell, not having played HoT yet, it's going to be one of those things where if you liked GW2, then HoT will be enjoyable, if you didn't, HoT won't change that for you.
Not those illegitimate sites like G2A.
As for the personal story it is about the same difficulty as the original one was just after release, way harder then most content now but far easier then it was during beta week 1. Having another player or 2 helping eachother out will make it easy though and I guess that is what you are talking about. To be honest have I only played through half it it myself solo and about a third afterwards with my guildies, a mission was initially bugged at the release so I decided to wait with the rest and I been busy earning mastery points since then. But the only mission I had any problems soling was the one where you escorted glints egg, died like 20 times in the cavern... Otherwise I had no real problems alone (with no wiki, just playing), but I guess it might get harder towards the end.
What is really hard to solo is the heroic challenges in the open world, some of them have veterans spawning on the points and actually killing the boss before they respawn is extremely hard solo. But I have done a bunch solo with my theif, hard but not impossible. Playing with a friend or 2 makes things a lot easier, otherwise you might need to wait until lsomeone else comes around.
The open world dynamic events are mainly set around specific hubs where people rally to, you might have to wait with a specific hub until a few players show up but there is always a few going on except in the last zone (the mega servers is somewhat broken there so a soloplayer might be forced to only do that one in the weekends and wait out the timer of the old zone before getting into one with the chance for completion).
The new zones are huge, the new mastery point are account wide and should keep you busy for a long time. Being in a guild helps in HoT but it isn't a must. Solo exploration is pretty challenging but fun in my opinion, always done the exploration part when none of my guildies been online. Some kind of stealth makes things a lot easier though (if you playing a class without stealth then the norn elite skill Snow leopard makes things a lot simpler).