I think I’ve decided to just fiddle around with what floats my boat rather than trying to game the meta and min/max. As I am not in a player guild and have no intention of doing raid-level content or serious PvP outside of the general zerging, I see little reason to angst over each point spent. I reconfigured (with the mandatory and free respec I found when I logged in again) my 44 NB to focus on, well, toggling between a bow-focused style and a dual wield melee style, with a stamina (that is, weapon skill) focus. I have other skillbar presets for sneaky stuff but I’m going to try to make it as an archer to fifty at least.
The next highest character I have is only 15, so the others are pretty much blank slates. I do have a lowly sorc I’m foolishly making into a ranged nuker/pet wrangler (named him Afi Komen and he rides a camel, which I had to buy when I found it; I made him look like a biblical prophet as best I could), and another level 10 sorc I will develop more traditionally I think. I have zero idea what to do with my baby Templar and baby DK, but I think I’ll go with what looks cool.
The quests in this game IMO are pretty good, and varied. I find the basic PvE stuff pretty entertaining.
Maelstrom arena is also a solo experience. I’ve only ever finished the normal mode but it was pretty fun. It does take some rebuilding of your character mostly to focus a little more on sustain and survivability…at least it did for me as well as having a good ranged option which I solved by going destro/restro on my nb.
I find that I have to pace myself though and once I start getting the itch to skip the dialogue I know that I need to take a break from questing for a while so I don’t screw myself out of good content. Luckily there is a lot of content. I’m still working through the Thieve’s Guild quest line.
When I feel like mindless action I just go pvp.
When I don’t feel like pvping or questing I just go harvest resources and play the refine raw materials lotto.
And sometimes I just go fishing to try and make some progress on Master Angler.
I’ve not even gotten into harvesting or what not, but someone in the mages guild is gonna apparently teach me all about runes.
I am really liking this game a lot.
It’s a very cool MMORPG in very many ways. It’s imperfect, as they all are, but it’s imperfect in generally entertaining ways. And it’s TES. I started with Arena and have always loved the setting.
Yeah, if this was anything other than Elder Scrolls I’d likely be a LOT less interested.
So what does everyone think of this One Tamriel thing?
I personally like the social aspect of it, but not sure about the leveling aspect of it.
It’s a fantastic change. ESO’s “battle leveling” works great. Monsters are always a reasonable challenge, and you can always use the loot.
I recently hit max level on my DK and am doing Cadwell’s Silver now. I started out around CP12 or so, but all the monsters are CP40 (killable, but somewhat challenging at first) and the quest rewards require CP40 to equip. That’s not ideal.
It’s also more Elder Scrollsy. You should be able to explore where ever you want. That’s what these games are all about.
It allows you to play with your friends on other factions, which has been a long time coming.
And finally, it means that zones won’t be faction-specific. Right now as I do Cadwell’s Silver in Aldmeri Dominion, the only players I see are fellow Daggerfall Covenant. That means the world is much less populated.
That all does sound great, truth be told. :)
This actually sounded cool enough I wouldn’t mind re-installing and trying out a new character, knowing I can sort of pick a direction and wander. When is this update going live? Is that information known yet?
Oghier
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That’s a great change!
I haven’t played in over a year, but this could draw me back. TESO’s world is huge, and being able to farm anywhere I choose would add considerably more fun to the game.
The game is really quite well done overall. I still wrestle with reconciling all the abilities with the limited hotbars, and actually figuring out how to build the character I want to play (rather than the min/maxed FOTM found on most guides) but the world is pretty engaging.
I will say though that doing the Dark Brotherhood stuff is sort of squirm-inducing. Clearly role-playing isn’t a key part of the MMO experience any more (if it ever really was), as this is pretty much just like the TES solo games in that you can become godlike in every sphere–head of the Mage’s Guild, the Fighter’s Guild, the Thieves Guild, and now the assassins too. And the whole “kill an innocent” bit was sort of icky, in a role-playing sort of way. Yet is there any other way to explore the Gold Coast without joining the Brotherhood? If so, maybe on other characters I’ll just go to Anvil and not become a hit khajit or whatnot.
Yes, you can get to the zone and explore without doing the DB questline.
The DB is all about murder for hire, and worship a god of shadows. It’s supposed to be icky. If you’re roleplaying a paladin, you probably shouldn’t do that.
Yeah, I was thinking of creating a new character for the DB stuff. My breton battlemage likely wouldn’t dig what they have to dish out.
You can actually go there at level 1, all the DLC content is battle-leveled.
Oh, I’m talking from an role playing perspective.
stusser
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I know, what I’m saying is you don’t need to level up a new dude to become an assassin.
Yeah, I recall seeing that on the DLC pack description once I described. I like that they did that.
I like the one tamriel announcement but that can’t be all they are planning for the immediate future. I’d love to hear about some new weapon or spell school skill trees.
A lot of people on the forum seems to be wondering where housing is.
Oghier
3602
Housing stuff has been datamined in Vvardenfell (a province currently in development). Elloa mentions it around the 10:00 mark, here. No idea what the timeline is.
EDIT: Here’s the article she mentioned, over at Tamriel Foundry.
