I know a lot of people who complained about the length of VH for example. Many players prefer dungeons to trials, which is probably why we get 1 trial but 4 dungeons each year. In fact, more people would probably do this over VH as there's a very clear player preference for the shorter content over the really long content. It's not a reason to not do this over VH. That kind of development is better off towards and evolution of the VH arena.Īrenas in the first place aren't casual content, and there's enough of an audience for this kind of content that we get difficult content like this every year. But the development time, limited replay-ability, and general player behavior works against it. Sure, the new armory system will help players switch from one build to another but the beauty of 4 player dungeons and now companions allow players to stick to a single play type rather than differentiate. And thus designing solo dungeons becomes a development problem. The vast majority of players just don’t want to engage. Players skip adds, focus on orbs, cloak up to avoid enemies. That players will always take the shortest and easiest path to complete content. Vatreshan Hollows is essentially the perfect marriage of modern ESO dungeons and arenas.Īnd yet Rich Lambert is right in his recent comments about difficulty. Sub-bosses and Bosses, Optional Bosses, branched paths, variable difficulty between normal and vet, buffs for battles, and fine tuning of difficulty by the skippable attribute orbs. VH was designed more along the lines of a dungeon than a traditional arena. While not a bad idea I believe there’s the issue with Vateshran Hollows.

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