Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Theodric]

I wouldn't worry too much about the 'meta' in ESO, especially if you're not intending to do high end content. It's by no means 'meta' but I play a Breton Nightblade who specialises in using a pair of daggers and a bow in battle...and tapping into stamina rather magicka. It leaves me at a disadvantage compared to what would be considered 'meta' but it's the playstyle and overall 'class fantasy' that I enjoy most.

[Kolsykol]

I wouldn't worry too much about the 'meta' in ESO, especially if you're not intending to do high end content. It's by no means 'meta' but I play a Breton Nightblade who specialises in using a pair of daggers and a bow in battle...and tapping into stamina rather magicka. It leaves me at a disadvantage compared to what would be considered 'meta' but it's the playstyle and overall 'class fantasy' that I enjoy most.

That's true, it's just not how my brain works tho.
I can still play weaker factions or characters in RTS and fighting games ( I have a curse where my favorite characters in fighting games are usually some of the worst and most difficult to play ).
But I still hate the feeling that I am not performing '' properly '' so to speak, it kinda took the fun out of Starcraft 1 and 2 and Warcraft 3 for me back in the day.
I was really good at the games RTS have just been one of my strongest genres, but part of the reason why I was good was also because I got rly deep into the meta builds and timings etc I got really into the E-sports side of things too.
And it kinda just made it not fun to play, but at the same time I hated the feeling that I wasn't performing as well as I could if I didn't.

Basically I can pick a faction or character that isn't the best, but I still have a VERY strong urge to play the character optimally that is hard to get over.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

I wouldn't worry too much about the 'meta' in ESO, especially if you're not intending to do high end content. It's by no means 'meta' but I play a Breton Nightblade who specialises in using a pair of daggers and a bow in battle...and tapping into stamina rather magicka. It leaves me at a disadvantage compared to what would be considered 'meta' but it's the playstyle and overall 'class fantasy' that I enjoy most.

Unless the game just really hooks me somehow enough for me to want to play with other people in high end content, which I don't really expect it to insofar as the MMO and battle content aspect goes, I definitely won't really be caring much about meta. Heck, I don't care about meta in here either!

I've had a tendency to play characters in past TES games who use magic and dual wielding. Duel-wielded and used spells in Morrowind as a Dunmer, was a Dark Brotherhood Altmer assassin dual-wielding Umbra and Dawn/Duskfang in Oblivion. More than likely would continue the tradition in ESO. x'D Probably as a Dunmer though, they don't look as bad in ESO as I remember they did in Oblivion.