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Summerset still best zone imo

The Scribing quest line is the single worst quest I've ever played in ESO. The repetitive nature of it as well as the back and forth was so exhausting. I was falling asleep while doing it.

How about the super surprising plot twist?! “I think the woodelf king is behind the wildburn seeds?” 5 minutes later in the same quest “the king IS behind the wildburn seeds!”

If I'm gonna be honest, Ithelia could've tied in nicely to the Psijics concerning that one quest with the Staff of Towers. Very big missed opportunity that would've been interesting to see.

With that lore, Ithelia could have been a sick retcon for like half the game. Like we could have failed to stop her soon enough and she reshaped things in a big way before we managed to. That would have been the kind of thing a 10 year anniversary quest should have been

Great vid! I haven't played ESO for such a long time and sometimes I really do miss it ! Be safe and well, Looking forward to the next vid :)

I finally feel like zos finally heard all of our complaints, and reinforced them. Then when they realized they hadn't added anything of value to the game, they filled the crown store with a constant recycled asset stream of fear of missing out. Even the grind, the whole grind just drags you along through 10 years of content you never knew you weren't interested in.

I am still convinced they went with the uncanny valley approach to Ithelia on purpose. Not only is she a Daedric Prince, she's also the opposite of Hermaeus Mora. Mora looks very unsubtle in his grotesqueness, so she has to be the opposite--i.e. subtle in her grotesqueness, since she's still just as Daedric as Mora :P

"New Subscriber"! I JUST LOVE YOUR HONESTY Azura!!

Thank GOD I wasn't the only one disturbed by Ithelia's appearance in game 😭

Thank you I appreciate your thoughts.

It's interesting how divisive the opinions are on Skingrad here. Some think it's not enough like Oblivion's Skingrad and isn't as interesting, others love it and are happy it's nothing like Oblivion's Skingrad. Same thing happened with Solitude. I remember many people *hated* how similar it was to Skyrim's Solitude.

I really wanted to like this one, a new daedric prince was strange but intriguing but everything kinda flopped in my opinion :(

I had so much fun throwing my toy horse mount at enemies with trample xD

As a relative newbie to ESO, I enjoyed Gold Road. I like seeing new places to explore and battles that don’t seem impossible. That being said, I can see why experienced players could get bored with it.

this is how i felt when they released summerset isles. the lore describes it as this really high fantasy high magic crystal tower glittering glass city and we got... another stone building human town

Adding different realities wouldve been too much work apparently. Very underwhelming.

Ethelia looking like Steve Tyler and Iggy Pop did a bunch of dope, screwed around and had a daughter

5:03 THAT is a graveyard, not a cemetery because it's part of the chapel/cathedral complex. Cemeteries are burial grounds that do not have a church, chapel or cathedral in the vicinity. Also, graveyards are always established on consecrated grounds, especially Cathloic or Orthodox ones. Cemeteries aren't always like that and are always bigger in size.

I agree about the spellcrafting, ive been playing a lot and havent found a pull scribe yet. They should have let you upgrade existing skills, that would have been better

As you're a tanking goddess, could you share what you think were the most useful skills for your tanking? I mean when you have your scribed skills done and have taken them for some runs.. Haven't bought the chapter, but curious to hear how useful or not scribing is for tanking as that's what I usually play..

I'm so glad i have you guys to tell me these things. We are all guinea pigs in a free market. Just a nerdy version of it. I share your love of Ayelid designs. They made it mysterious and dorky.

I have felt that each chapter is just copy pasted with a couple unique ideas that just wind up falling to the wayside. Something strong is added to lure people in as the only hook, then just gets nerfed later. It feels SUPER bad.

I just found your channel today. You are so incredibly beautiful. The Elder Scrolls is arguably my favorite franchise and love that your channel covers TES and Bethesda content. I love your crown.

So nothing changed writing wise since the abysmal High Isle story... good to know.

I pivoted off ESO long ago but the quest that will always stick with me was the guy got turned into a female goblin then got kidnapped by goblins.

As someone that's only played a handful of hours of ESO in the past and thought about joining during Gold Road, this seems pretty... alarming for a chapter release and it doesn't entice me to play the game anymore. Great review!

Time consuming. That's one way to put it. Every single boss (small or big) has this mechanic when they turn invulnerable and summon adds you have to kill before you could damage the boss further. And they do it like 3-4 times during a fight, regardless of DPS.

I wonder if Zenimax's release cadence, pumping out an expansion every year, is why most of their expansion's storytelling and game play features have been lackluster? Would the playerbase accept a 2-3 year content "drought" if it meant a much meatier expansion experience with actual in depth new features & expansive storytelling beyond "stop big bad from ending Tamriel"?

Ithelia's look was breathtaking. Like i was laughing so hard i couldn't breathe.💀

that's the most real review i see on the internet

good mug looks practical

Happy Summer Solstice

If you think the scribing questline is painful, wait until you repeat it again and again on your alts because it's the fastest way to get scribing ink.

First, let me say that this is the first video I have ever seen of yours, and I must say your content looks great. I haven't played ESO since it's launch but have kept up with the game's story over the years as everything that occurs in it is now considered cannon. . . 😐 When I heard they were bringing a new Daedric prince into the lore I became a bit worried. . . And you just confirmed why. I'm still a bit confused as this "Ithelia" character really doesn't fit the mold of any of the known Daedric Princes. I guess they were going for a "nice" Daedric prince. Maybe something along the lines of Azura and Meridia, but even they have their limits and are still worthy of worship. I can only imagine will Zenimax and Bethesda will throw into the mix next. Overall, a well informative video 😎👍 Thanks for sharing this.

on what settings you play?

Completely agree with you about the story. After meeting Ithelia and getting her perspective of why no one new about her it just made me Dislike Hermaus Mora and found myself rooting for the supposed villain of the story. The feeling I kept getting was Mora couldn't handle not being as powerful as her so devised a plan to get rid off Ithelia. But when you look at the way her return was handled no one was willing to give her a chance and it seemed almost authoritative that what Mora said had to be the best way to do things when Ithelia is the Prince of paths/free choice and she's the villain?

I use only 2 of the scribing skills so far .. they are versatile and useful tho

I've had Necrom for ages but I haven't touched it yet 😮, i keep farting around just wandering about catching butterfly's. Will be getting Gold Road for sure but the story sounds a bit grim lore wise. Great vid 🙏🇮🇪🇪🇺

Your reaction to Skingrad sounds EXACTLY like how I was with my friend on release. It felt like just another random city. It’s pretty, but it definitely doesn’t resemble Skingrad.

Damn so it looks like after my 1 year off time i stay offline and probably never come back, i loved this game so much back in the days. It was down hill after the level scaling for me. Thanks for the vid. Stay healthy 🤘

It’s sad but I honestly feel like eso is just kind of soulless now, like it’s only developed to sell crowns

I saw a map that had red mountain on the wrong side of the continent. I believe it was on one of the older games.

Long before this dlc was even announced, i had created a concept dlc for that exact zone on the forums. The story i wrote stated that there was something strange going on in the area and there would be a sort of mysterious treasure hunt in the midst of the alliance conflict. Long story short you follow around some quirky wood elf girl and eventually uncover the mysterious power which allows you to choose an ending to the questline. The power was going to be the dragon teachings and the dlc was going to introduce the bard class that i also made a separate concept for.. im not mad that they didnt choose my idea over their own for the area. just mildly disappointed which can be expected as a concept artist/writer.

I quit eso before necrom, i bought the chapter before necrom but for me it was really boring, now i was thinking of giving it another try to this game and buy this new chapter but i was afraid because i don't want to buy something that i won't enjoy and this video help me a lot, thank you for being so clear and give us your real opinion, I won't come back to the game, i think 3.3k hours on this game was enough, it's an amazing mmo but for old players it's becoming more and more boring, have a good day and thank you again for this video 😊

The fox was played by Yuri Lowenthal - Spider-Man (PS5)

Dope review. Thanks 🤝🏻

Are there any active vampire guilds that wouldn’t mind a new player 🙃

15:40 "I'm just really disappointed that they missed so much potential to make something great" - Perfect quote for most of ESO's story content/releases. Has great potential because of the amazing art style and music, but misses the mark 7/10 times. Thanks for the review, Azura!

Maybe Ithelia and Mama Murphy from FO4 is related xD

27:25 Totally agree I feel the incursions are just too long, and the side bosses I feel shouldn't be a part of it.

I absolutely loved this game and have put more hours into it than any other game I've played. I stopped playing about a week before greymoor came out and have heard nothing but negative things since. I tried to come back recently and only lasted about 20 minutes before I didn't want to play anymore.

I passed on buying this chapter. Sounds like I didn’t miss anything. Thanks for the review. Watched the whole thing. P.S. Try listening to yourself at 1.75 speed. I thought your voice erm “perked” up a bit like that. Thanks, again!

I thought about going back to ESO but I got into FF14 instead. I love Elder Scrolls but I missed the classic mmo progression. Thanks for the video. I'm not sure I'll come back unless they do something that surprises me.

I'm on the fence about gold road... Now I'm really now sure about it

You have a nice voice. Subscribed

ZOS Can we have a story about Jyggalag? ZOS: We have Jyggalag at home....(lol)

Necrom main questline be like: GO GRAB 3 THINGS BEFORE WE CAN ENTER THE PORTALZ (Rinse and repeat) High Isle story would've been better if they didn't make Bacaro too cartoony. He was probably bitter about the 3 banners war as he is literally the founder of the society of the steadfast. If they made him someone who had genuine good intentions and not a power hungry druid wannabe + They made him the quest giver rather than Lady Arabelle we would have had a real complex villain that we were attached to.

Hello new here. Love the Deer mug! As a new player I am on the lookout for FUN quests and I gotta say I don’t think I’d enjoy gold road after hearing this.

Haven't done the main story quest so skipped the spoiler section. Otherwise I agree with a lot of the pros and cons you made. Like how they will monetize the color change skills. I've only been playing since 2020 just before Greymoor came out and up until this year I was always excited for new content. This year....I should've just waited until it went on sale in a few months like it always does. One final complaint from a Console(PS5) player, so PC got the week and a half ESO Plus free trial to actually complete the Scribing line but Consoles get 1 day. May the Hist guide you travelers.

Ithelia got dat Borderlands shading, but shes in a reality where the shading is less prominent xD

I don't really plan on buying it until it goes on sale and is already nerfed. Though even then, I might not because it sounds so tedious to complete. I knew it was going to be like this. The last DLC that I actually enjoyed was the Solitude one. Though that may have just been because the map was similar to old game I played. I mostly pvp, but even then I haven't heard people give any high praise in that area for scribing.

I love the visuals of the new zone (I did not play other Elder Scroll games so I didn't have expectations), everything from the main city to delves, bosses, incursions, especially nature, everything is stunning. I did 30 zone dailies achievements very quickly and didn't mind revisiting the same places over and over, it was all so beautiful. But the lore/mechanics/quests behind it are... lacking. Some I liked, but most I just wanted to skip through. The main quest had a huge potential that sadly never became more than that. Ink drop chances disappoint me the most (even after the patch yesterday). :D I know people are saying there is no rush and we will eventually have plenty of them, I don't even care to get 500 for the achievement, but I wanted to play with the new skills... and I can't. Today's daily endeavour is to kill 40 enemies with scribed skills... yeah, I wish, all I have are 4 skills I tried out for my tank, and I don't want to repeat a 4-hour questline on an alt character to get 9 more inks. I did a lot of material farming in the past few days and I think I will just end up buying the ink with money I make from selling other materials.

love the new trial, like it a lot more than that PoS from last few years. Scribing is interesting, but the color changing option for skills is great for accessibility for those that have colorblind issues. Outside of that, very meh over all.

20:48 No joke, I was making screaming noises after doing this ''quest line'' for 2 hours straight, felt like I was truly losing my sanity

The story was interesting and had potential that it absolutely did not live up to. It was absolutely not worth stretching the story over 2 chapters rather than the traditional chapter+small zone dlc. It had some interesting parts, amd overall wqs worth doing *once,* but once was enough.

the free eso+trial happened the same time, so its kinda ok

Fair review. Haven't done the story because I can't stand Leramil. Too creepy. Didn't much care for the Bosmer gal with bad skin, a ludicrous armor style, and no butt but I did the Scrib thing. Took me ages though because, unlike you who simply put in three hours and got it done, I needed a three hour break between rooms because the quest line put me in a homicidal red rage that took hours to cool. Sarcasm off, this game hit its high water mark in storytelling with Orsinium. And that was LONG AGO. I stay for group PvP but that's dying out. Too few full-feaured adults, alas 😢

Dont forget that they probably gonna nerf everything too. So much for the grind😢

I hope that they make akavir dlc. some day

i can''t wait to heal with a bow it increases my stamden healer.. my job is done.

I wouldn't disagree with anything you've said, but don't you think the music in the newer zones sucks? Also, you have to do that Scribing quest for every...single...character... you have? Ouch!

I got doetracted by your beauty 🤭. Anyway... I an gw2 veteran bit i never played eso, im bery curious because i love the single plater games of the franchise. But ive always looked doen upon this specific game

The main story quest is so disappointing. We are like being forced to bullying her out of our will, it hardly convinced me to defeat her. I felt like I am the antagonist.

Can you do Guild Wars 2?

Personally I know someone that looks like Ithelia so I don't see the uncanny valley. BUT, from the glass shredded character to seeing her in game, its, disappointing. One thing I've noticed is that ZOS is trying to shake off the nostalgia of Skyrim to a point. Did you see the IGN 10th anniversary short? Music much? Yeah, no one truely dies 💎. The quest line was good as I saw zones I've to been in, for a long time, I think it exposes the new players to higher level characters and develop a sense of FOMO. First few rooms I did over 3 days. I did the last two rooms in 1 hour. Indrik was the hardest to do because feels (see my X if you want to). They should consider dropping the cast times to being variable from instant to 1.5 seconds based on spamming. Something I've really noticed is theirs an overuse of particle effects turning the screen into a molasses of colors. Gotten over 15 ink over 3 hours, so maybe its changed? Also dislikes? So pitiful to those 39 people!

Doesn't matter what you say about ESO expansions when I and thousands of other people have totally given up on the game because of the constant lag problems. Until they sort that out its a no go for me a and many others.

casually wearing that beautiful headpiece looking like some sort of elven queen is some strong energy

The Cyrodiil Jungle thing that got changed... Like Beth removed it for all different reasons. But she could have been the one who caused Cyrodiil and Talos Used his Dragonbreak or her removal, Removed the so called Jungles.

My key came broken in the mail

For the devs to actually do something different and fun, I think the game will need new leadership, because for the last three or so expacs, it's been the same old with different coats of paint. Their goal is to keep the game running at a certain subscriber base for as long as they can, and they are terrified that any major change will upset that balance and lose them all of their subscribers. I love ESO, it's the only MMO that I play now, and its MMOness is what I think holds it back the most.

8:24 GUILTY!!! 😂

the story is ok, could be longer, deeper and more exciting. i actually enjoyed the scribing quests, since it made me revisit old zones. scribing seems ok, but not game changing: i could imagine a necro dd benefit from some skills. the city of skinrad is quite random, but the zone is ok: even if i don't know why they've put two shrines next to another.

10/10 Review.

my friends only stayed like 2-3 days then left the game again. Scribing is underwhelming and needlessly grindy for inks.

Just came across your channel. I always appreciate honesty in reviews. I will say it comes across that you and your friends don’t really enjoy the game you’re spending so much time in. It’s odd to me. But I enjoyed the video all the same!

I like your Autumn theme crown.

I won't come back until they add a Veteran mode for World Questing. I don't enjoy dungeons raids or PVP at all and I played through the whole campaign and loved it but it was TOOO easy. Enemies can barely kill you even if you just stand there

its not the first new daedric prince that is litterally the plot of one of oblivions dlc

I agree with you. Been a big fan of Elder Scrolls game all the way back to Oblivion. This was a massive let down. The Ink does not drop as much as I would have thought. Keep up the great work. But I have to ask where did you get that wonderful body mark?

Scribing made me give up on Gold Road after 1 week. I was so mad after doing that unbelievably boring questline, grinded out the pieces I wanted only to learn that specific abilities from scribing can only use certain damage types. I wanted to put bleed or cold damage on vault and I wasn't allowed to because vault is only allowed to use poison damage for no reason. The expansion just feels like more of the same and almost nothing has changed. It's so safe and so boring.

world bosses are so boring in gold road

Ithelia looks like the freaking H3H3 chick

18:08 *sigh* ....More of this shit.... :D

After Gold Road, I get triggered by the word "townhouse."" Lmao I also didn't like the path the storyline went and the way she was treated.

Gold Road is very mid. Scribing is meh.

The last chapter story I can remember truly enjoying was Elsweyr then everything following was extremely underwhelming and then Apocrypha had some interesting bits but Gold Road has been nothing but an annoying grind-fest, which has already completely turned me off scribing, the chapter story was a snooze-fest and felt even more hand-holdy than the quests usually are, which is to say the devs trust us to keep track of what's going on in the story about as much as a 2yr old. Not even the world events are fun, I just slog through them waiting for the end to go get my container for a chance drop of a Shardborn motif which is one of the few things I like from the expansion.

Azura...to think I used to worship you! Kidding

The new daedric prince is an superfluous addition. For most Daedric Princes we have no idea how their planes look like. They should focus on fleshing out the lore of the other princes. Let's see if the new addition is even joining the pantheon in TES: VI. Considering the writing in TES:V and Starfield, i don't think they have the writing skills to recompile all lore from ESO into a new canonically accurate vision for the next game.