Teiman
1995
Thanks for these tips!.
I plan to go back and collect all skyshards that I have missed, but when I have my first horse and I overlevel everything, so I don’t have to fight too much random mobs for that.
I stayed up a little bit, not all night. No e-peen though as suggested below. I’m running multiple crafters and there is no queue for research. All of them had a craft research that should have finished less than an hour after the servers went down. I’d planned on staying up late enough to start another item trait researching before bed anyway. With no ETA, I stayed up an extra hour since it saves me 5 or 11 hours research time if I’d been able to restart.
Not stupid though, so did go to sleep once tired. Give me a research queue and that would cut out even that little bit of staying up I did. Of course, I don’t expect them to do that since the research time and the hassle of getting items with traits and starting all the researches is what they seem to want to use to create scarcity later. Since I’m not a well-supplied crafter for a big guild, just a pocket-crafter for family, its a real PITA with no expected pay out for me. Well, other than none of us getting severely in-game market price gouged in the early game, if you count that.
Patch notes are up. Some of you will be very happy to find out that they upped the spawn rate of cargo boxes for the assassins quest.
Yeah, I was wondering about that as well. Either I suddenly read fluent German or that IS in English!@#!
Downtime is over 12 hours now. Goodbye smooth launch ;)
It’s a good thing though that they seem to be taking issues seriously. The patch notes look good, too.
Patch is now available, though I think the servers are still down
Teiman
2003
It refers to the warning “ATCHUNG, YOUR DELETINGW CHARATERING” (sorry my fake german)
“Added a textual warning when deleting a character reminding you that items still attached to characters on deletion will be deleted. This includes items granted through pre-ordering, Imperial Editions, and beta rewards. Note: This message is currently only in German and French. We intend on adding an English message soon.”
Good stuff.
Mail been gone since last night.
And just now, all the guilds disappeared :)
The login screen says they’ve been temporarily disabled.
Ok, I finally booted up the game. Still on character creation. First impression: character models look a hell of a lot better than I expected from the screenshots.
Yeah, the difference between beta and live are noticeable.
Gil102
2007
All right…I played a few hours last night and a few the night before. Two dumb questions that maybe someone can answer:
- If I put, say, TWO Class skills on my hotbar, will it level twice as fast?
- I want to try a Storm Caller but I’ve read that if you are ranged, you pretty much NEED to get a pet from Daedric Summoning to survive. True or false?
-Gil102
Razgon
2008
- Two skills from one class path means it will level twice as fast yes
- I have no idea, and I don’t think anyone else knows yet as well :-)
Honestly, just try out without a pet. My pet is…not good. Most of the time it just stands and looks at me while I kill things. Other times it does attack, but mostly too late.
I don’t believe #2 - besides, with the game JUST having come out, I doubt anyone knows anything with 100% surety. What you hear will be rumors, people who have watched twitch streams of people in beta, and people who shout the loudest.
What determines your survivability IMHO is your health, your armor, your skills, and the amount of damage you do. Since you’re talking Storm Calling, I assume you’re picking a Sorcerer as the class. Sounds good!
- Health: You can put lots of attribute points into health to make you harder to kill. See, easy!
- Armor: You can also use any kind of armor - you aren’t forced to use light armor. You could use, say, 5 light armor (and pick the light armor passive abilities to boost your magicka regen) and 2 pieces of Heavy Armor for additional protection. You could also pick the Lightning Form ability to buff your armor. It can morph to last longer or to give you movement speed when it’s active, depending on which you think is more important. You can enchant your armor with health, or armor value.
3, Your skills: You can use a Fire Destruction staff. The first Destro Staff skill, when used with a fire staff, provides a knockback. So the mobs won’t be able to touch you! You can use Encase or Rune Prison from the Dark Magic skill lines, which disorient and or root enemies in place. Root them then knock them back when they break free!
- Damage: You can load up on high damage abilities, or add some self-healing. Daedric Summoning has the Daedric Curse, which morphs to Velocious Curse, which is a spell that explodes after 3.5 seconds. You can combine that with the first Storm Calling spell, Mage’s Fury, which does damage and extra damage if the target ends up below 20% health. So throw a bunch of curses and spells on them, shoot them with a staff, and they’ll probably blow up!
So as you hopefully see, there’s lots of ways to keep the mobs away and/or keep yourself alive.
As an aside, one of the toons I’m working on is a “Shaman-like” character, combining 2-Handed weapon damage and Storm Calling spells. The build is here. The plan is to wear 5 medium armor and 2 light.
On a separate topic, here’s a nice interactive skyshard map. What I especially like about this map is that it ties the skyshard locations to the hints in your journal, so if you’re missing that one elusive skyshard, you can hover over the hint text on screen and see where the skyshard is located.
- Server down for maintenance/patch in EU. Hopefully not down for 12 hours here as well… Wish I knew about that Fishing Stonefall exploit though… Veteran Swords from fishing pods sounds very nice to have something to aspire too, even though i’m STILL only level 14, as I spend too much time in Ultraedit compared to how much time I am logged in game.
Sucks that they take them down not soon after I get off work… couldn’t even work on my addons. Well, I could work on them but it would be nice to test them as well :)
It really really really sucks that addon cant send chat messages. I wanted to make an addon to spam guild chat whenever I got an achievement, or possibly have an addon that you’d interact with the guild-frame (sucky as it is) to show achievements/guild news. Since Zenimax obviously spent a full day on doing all the guild related stuff in the game. Less money on John Cleese and maybe they could have sent some devs into EQ2/WARHAMMER/Etc to get some inspiration.
Speaking of code.
on EU servers we get 3 x messages whenever there is an announcement: (Google translate here!)
Server will be going down in 15 minutes.
Server wird nach unten gehen in 15 Minuten.
Serveur sera en baisse en 15 minutes.
Disregarding the fact that they give no information on when it will be back up… It is getting a bit annoying having the countdown spammed in 3 locales whenever you are playing.
There are already German/French Locales in the game, and when they link their items, they show up in their languages. Europe is a big place, and it is not out of the question to imagine that soon we’ll have Italian and Spanish messages added to the mix, not to mention Russian (Except that their client seeems to not handle unicode based on some “\000325” etc letters in chat last night from GMs.
Would it really be so hard for them to have these DEFAULT messages pre-loaded into the client as STRINGS, so the GM could do a
/shutdownwarningtoallplayers 15 and the client would then send [ALERT]STRING:5[/ALERT] to the clients
And the client would find out that STRING:5 is “Сервер будет снижаться через 15 минут.” or whatever. the local equivalent is…
And all of us would NOT get “spammed”.
Gil102
2012
Thanks for all the feedback. I have three character concepts I want to try out, and I have this weird desire to make an unconventional, yet effective, character for soloing. So far, a Dark Elf Templar joining the Aldmeri Dominion and using Dual Wield plus Restoration seemed interesting. The Storm Calling Sorcerer is part of my third character concept and I want to try ranged combat.
Are Mundus stones ONLY found in Cyrodiil? Information on this seems kind of vague…
-Gil102
The pets don’t stealth when you do, do they?
