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SBFord
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Castle of the Worm Awaits - Elder Scrolls Online at MMORPG.com
I’ve still not found a guild, or touched crafting, but I have decided I really should begin to make my way out of Glenumbra. I still don’t know the secrets of Daggerfall and that alone is keeping me here. I’ve a couple of quests remaining in the zone but I have to admit I’ve grown tired of the same scenery. I also can’t shake the feeling that Abnur Tharn, whom I keep running into, looks frighteningly like Peter Stormare.
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I don't think people want to be forced to group, but they want some content to require some interaction with another human being, even if it's to briefly pair up. It seems somewhat odd that MMO's are now, technically, almost entirely single player.
Each zone also has group events at each Dark Anchor (dolmens) and world boss and there are the 4-man group dungeons and 12-man raids as well of course. Dolmens and world boss raid groups are quite common these days - especially in zones that drop the most wanted set gear - ask in zone chat if one of them is going and do that for a while.
But if you really want the old-fashioned do it all in a group game play feel, you'll need to go to Cyrodiil and PVP for that. It's all about groups there. No need to wait either. Some of the most fun PVP in ESO is found in the PVP campaign reserved for those under level 50 who are not min/maxed with BIS gear and oodles of Champion Points (CPs are actually turned off in that campaign since low level alts in ESO can use CPs earned by high level characters in the same account.)
I'm in 5 guilds (the ESO max) 3 of them are PVP guilds where most of my friends are and the other 2 are trading guilds. I was recruited into the PVP guilds while PVPing of course and it's very easy to find a guild that way. The best way to get into a good, active trading guild is to ask in zone chat in the zone that has your capital city and Undaunted enclave.
Old fashioned "do every thing in one" guilds are rare in ESO. There ARE a few of those but not many. Partly to blame is the fact you can be in 5 guilds so your attention and loyalty is diluted.
But the main reason is that in order to sell efficiently you need to be in a good trading guild that is successful at procuring a good spot each week to sell their wares. Even then you're limited to selling 30 items at a time so most people will be in 2 or 3 of those types of guilds. Oddly over time those have become the more social guilds that resemble traditional guilds in other MMOs. In one of mine a call went out a couple of weeks ago for anyone interested in raiding to go on discord at a specific time and place... enough people to form 3 raids showed up.
So my advice to you, assuming you don't want to PVP yet, is ask in chat for a good trading guild that is recruiting (actually it's rare to not see several recruiting in zone chat) join one and start to get your social MMO fix there. It may be a trading guild but that's not all they do.
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“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
You think TSW has a better quest system than ESO? Really? Have you played ESO? Cause I've played both ESO and TSW and imo TSW has far too many repeatable quests, and the dialogue system is... Clunky?