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For me the game has definitely sucked out my time, but I've not paid a cent, if you're not one for the cosmetics then you're safe on the money side (except maybe the subscription which saves the inventory management issues, but you can definitely play without it). There are free trials every few months so if I were you I'd give it a shot then.
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I'm just starting out this game, playing as a stamina necromancer so far. When I played WoW I pretty much exclusively did PvP but I'm really enjoying PvE so far in questing. I have yet to hit level ten, I'm looking forward to group content. edit: if anyone is looking for a buddy to play with I'd be down, I'm available in the evenings EST are there builds that work for both PvP and PvE? I want to do both and it seems like the guides posted here lean one way or another a pale ghost fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Oct 12, 2020 |
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Good news for anyone still wasting their time on this game, there's a free trial of ESO+ going on now, take advantage of it to throw all your crafting poo poo in the bag.
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does gear matter in early level PvP? I'm getting my rear end handed to me and doing no damage
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a pale ghost posted:does gear matter in early level PvP? I'm getting my rear end handed to me and doing no damage PvP is probably the one place where gear does matter yeah.
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a pale ghost posted:does gear matter in early level PvP? I'm getting my rear end handed to me and doing no damage If you're not doing battlegrounds you should. Small PvP fights, some people will trounce you but you'll also find people who aren't very good, they only take 10-15min and they'll level you up pretty quick.
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:Gear matters but I would guess the real biggest problem you run into in early level PvP is that you just don't have a good mix of skills available to you. A lot of valuable skills are later in skill lines, so you probably don't have them. Going from random gear to matched gear with bonuses is noticeable, but it's not going to get you from rear end handed to you to fair fight, it'll just make it take a little longer to get your rear end handed to you, though that little longer can be valuable. yeah, I've been doing BGs and have been having fun but I'm almost always the worst person on my team.
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If you're playing a stam class, slot and use vigor. Then go and find one proc set and one defense/sustain set. Something like Shacklebreaker (sustain) and Ashen Grip (damage). Ez wins abound.
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Scyantific posted:If you're playing a stam class, slot and use vigor. Then go and find one proc set and one defense/sustain set. Something like Shacklebreaker (sustain) and Ashen Grip (damage). Ez wins abound. What does it mean to "slot"? And are those sets I get from quests/dungeons?
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a pale ghost posted:What does it mean to "slot"? And are those sets I get from quests/dungeons? Both of those sets are craftable. These are all the craftable sets: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Craftable_Sets Are you on PC? If so I can probably craft for you tomorrow or on Wed. My crafter isn't done researching so I can't do the 9 trait sets and the 8 trait sets are iffy depending on what you need, but otherwise I can probably do it.
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a pale ghost posted:What does it mean to "slot"? And are those sets I get from quests/dungeons? It means purchase it with a skill point and put it on your skill bar. It's the only universal stamina healing skill available in the game. Luckily ZOS caved in to the casuals and moved it to the very first skill unlock in the Alliance War Assault skill line, despite the fact that Rapid Maneuver was and still is the single most useful universal non-combat skill in the game (makes your slow rear end horse not slow). The sets I mentioned can be crafted. If you can find a crafter to make them for you, then great.
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:Both of those sets are craftable. These are all the craftable sets: Thank you both for your replies. I did slot vigor, and I morphed it into the stronger solo heal based on a guide's advice. A crafted set would be excellent, is there anything I can do for you in return? I'm broke, I just spent all my gold dying my armor lol edit: I'm only level 17 so I won't be able to use that crafted armor, right?
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a pale ghost posted:Thank you both for your replies. I did slot vigor, and I morphed it into the stronger solo heal based on a guide's advice. Crafting the armor is based on what you've researched, so while theoretically a level 17 character could it would only happen if you log into a character to research traits and do nothing else with that character. Edit: I misread the question. Armor can be crafted at a bunch of different levels. Every type of armor can be crafted, and hence worn, at any level. The only issue with being low level is that you'll outgrow the armor. So at level 17 the armor I craft will be just as effective for you as the max level armor would be on a max level character, but the further away you get from the armor's crafted level the less effective it becomes. Peaceful Anarchy fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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I'm @hexenritter in-game, could I get a guild invite? I don't get to play much online poo poo any more but I've been having fun with this as a replacement for Skyrim and after a couple of marathon sessions and making plenty of use of experience boosting scrolls my Magicka Sorceror is level 28. I'm tempted to get the 3 month ESO+ option because I plan on playing it for a long while and the benefits are appealing enough (especially the crafting bag and crowns). I don't have a set of +Training gear close to my level and am still researching it off various items and will be for the foreseeable.
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Hexenritter posted:I'm @hexenritter in-game,
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Hexenritter posted:I'm @hexenritter in-game, could I get a guild invite? I don't get to play much online poo poo any more but I've been having fun with this as a replacement for Skyrim and after a couple of marathon sessions and making plenty of use of experience boosting scrolls my Magicka Sorceror is level 28. I'm tempted to get the 3 month ESO+ option because I plan on playing it for a long while and the benefits are appealing enough (especially the crafting bag and crowns). I don't have a set of +Training gear close to my level and am still researching it off various items and will be for the foreseeable. Use the free trial and see if you really want to commit to that 3-month plan.
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:Are you on PC-NA? It tells me account not found for @hexenritter Sorry, just double checked, @Hexenritter78 Scyantific posted:Use the free trial and see if you really want to commit to that 3-month plan. Yeah I saw that was going on and decided to check it out first. The crafting bag's been a godsend already for an inveterate crpg player who loots everything that isn't nailed down. edit: Are items like this just vendor trash? I can't find any way to display them in my house. 
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Oct 13, 2020 17:58
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Hexenritter posted:Are items like this just vendor trash? I can't find any way to display them in my house. Yes, everything in the treasure category is vendor trash, stuff for your house is in the furniture category.
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SplitSoul posted:Yes, everything in the treasure category is vendor trash, stuff for your house is in the furniture category. There are a few daily/repeatable quests for stuff like "Collect 3 Utensils" or "Launder and deliver 5 tools," but otherwise vendor trash.
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SplitSoul posted:Yes, everything in the treasure category is vendor trash, stuff for your house is in the furniture category. That's a shame. But, that's just cleared a bunch of inventory space and subsidised my empty soul gem habit.
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What is the ESO plus craft bag? I just subscribed for the XP bonus and DLC
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a pale ghost posted:What is the ESO plus craft bag? I just subscribed for the XP bonus and DLC
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That's pretty cool. Is there a reason I can't morph my necro's goliath ability? Ravenous goliath is supposed to unlock at level 12 in that skill tree and I have it at level 20 and i still can't morph it
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a pale ghost posted:That's pretty cool. You have to get a skill to level IV to morph it, and have a skill point.
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Doctor Zero posted:You have to get a skill to level IV to morph it, and have a skill point. Oh ok, I haven't been using it much so that's probably why I can't morph it!
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a pale ghost posted:Oh ok, I haven't been using it much so that's probably why I can't morph it!
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:Post your id and someone id and I, or someone else, will add you to the guild. If you're on right now I'll hop on and do it now. My ID is @keepcoolbruv
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The enchant on it won't proc. No difference beyond that.
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Mose Velsor posted:I'm more of the type that goes all in, not much for the cosmetic and stuff. I think I will pass ESO and give Albion a chance. Give both a chance! Very different games really and with Albion you'll eventually get to a point where you'll need lots of gold and things due to the permaloss gear. As with ESO you can grind it out or cash store it too. Both are fun games however. The main difference I guess aside from the obvious is that Albion is more reliant on group play vs ESO to get anywhere.
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So I was building my stamcro to be a PvP character, but I'm contributing jack poo poo in BGs so far and I'm getting really disoriented with how fast it is. I'm considering that PvE might be more for me. The guides online have the builds for each as being very distinct, is there a way to effectively do both or am I pigeonholed?
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a pale ghost posted:So I was building my stamcro to be a PvP character, but I'm contributing jack poo poo in BGs so far and I'm getting really disoriented with how fast it is. I'm considering that PvE might be more for me. The guides online have the builds for each as being very distinct, is there a way to effectively do both or am I pigeonholed? PvE has the advantage of predictability. You're not going to get ganked by a hidden nightblade in PvE. You're not going to get critical hit by an equal in PvE. Even the big bosses that can one hit kill you in PvE you can prepare for in a way you can't in a PvP battleground. Also PvE enemies can be kited or tanked or run away from in ways that you can't in PvP. One thing I'll say about battlgrounds is that Deathmatch loving sucks if you're not good, like me, but in the other ones you can still contribute if you try to avoid the big brawls and try to accomplish whatever needs doing like capturing a flag or stealing a relic. Also in non-deathmatch, even if you die, just defending a flag or relic for a few more seconds or distracting an enemy and forcing them to deal with you instead of doing something else can be quite useful.
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Xinder posted:Recently got really invested in TES after my wife made me play through Morrowind for the first time. Grabbed ESO during the sale and I'm surprised by how much an MMO is clicking for me. We've been playing through as just a duo so far (only about a week) and I probably am only going to be doing pve forever but if the EU guild is still around I wouldn't mind an invite. It might make the crafting stuff easier, and maybe we'll want to try that terrifying Halls of Fabrication again at some point and be smart enough to get an actual group this time lol okay i guess the EU guild is dead because i never got an invite. On a more exciting note: the ESO+ trial is letting us play through Clockwork City as a break from Vvardenfell and we are loving all the lore. We stop for like 10 minutes in every new dungeon or whatever to read the newest volume of Truth in Sequence. Are there any other dlc zones we should be looking into for this kind of good writing? I could be convinced to go pretty much anywhere except Skyrim which Bethesda (and i guess ZOS in this case) refuse to do anything interesting with. e: actually i would go to skyrim if you told me they had wasabi and snow whales in the game
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Xinder posted:e: actually i would go to skyrim if you told me they had wasabi and snow whales in the game How do you feel about adorably chubby not-walruses, cute little Fennec foxes and sweetrolls? fake edit: As well as my Altmer Sorceror, I've also made a Dunmer dual dagger/bow Nightblade and a Breton Necromancer now, and at some point I want to get the vampire and lycanthropy skill lines, just haven't decided which one for which character yet.
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I notice this thread is way slower than the FF14 thread, is the game less popular? I tried FF14 but it seems really really boring
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a pale ghost posted:I notice this thread is way slower than the FF14 thread, is the game less popular? I tried FF14 but it seems really really boring This game is not anime. Goons fuckin loooove anime poo poo. But also there's only like 5 people posting itt regularly.
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It's not just the thread, the goon ESO discord has mostly dumped the game and moved on to FFXIV on account of it being a better managed game. I'd go into more detail but I'm not going make myself look/sound like a broken record. I ditched ESO late last year after being fed up with the performance issues. My house is still a good travel location for goons playing though, I've got it set up with a banker and every craft station (base versions, I never bothered with attuned stations).Xinder posted:lol okay i guess the EU guild is dead because i never got an invite.
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a pale ghost posted:I notice this thread is way slower than the FF14 thread, is the game less popular? I tried FF14 but it seems really really boring Pretty sure it's mostly the anime/JRPG thing, which has a much stronger community of online discussions. A slight dash of PvP community being far more integrated in-game than out (much like GW2) and the fact that it's really a love it or hate it game thanks to the combat system. Another reason for less online discussion is ESO doesn't really have competition, it's closest is GW2 but the progression system and other mechanics of the game make them significantly different from each other. FFXIV will always have a lot of discussion generated for being in the shadow of WoW. When you look at the numbers that do get released the two games aren't that far apart, with FFXIV in the lead, it just doesn't drive discussion the same way.
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nessin posted:Pretty sure it's mostly the anime/JRPG thing, which has a much stronger community of online discussions. A slight dash of PvP community being far more integrated in-game than out (much like GW2) and the fact that it's really a love it or hate it game thanks to the combat system. Another reason for less online discussion is ESO doesn't really have competition, it's closest is GW2 but the progression system and other mechanics of the game make them significantly different from each other. FFXIV will always have a lot of discussion generated for being in the shadow of WoW. that's reassuring. I haven't enjoyed leveling in an MMO like I have in ESO, I want it to last
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Hexenritter posted:How do you feel about adorably chubby not-walruses, cute little Fennec foxes and sweetrolls? Very cute, but not lore-exciting. I guess maybe we'll check out Summerset or Elysweyr and hope for the best Scyantific posted:
Disappointing but not surprising. Guilds don't seem particularly important unless you're planning to invest in them anyway. We're making do just fine without being in any.
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