3623

One nifty thing about this game, for me, is that it sort of supports stumbling around figuring out what you want to do. As long as you don’t obsess over DPS parsers or the equivalent, the metric is as noted above: can you do the stuff in the world you want to do? If yes, keep doing it. If not, fiddle with something and see if that helps.

My biggest challenge I think is focusing on doing something. There are a lot of things to do…

3624

Update 11 first look

http://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/2016/06/21/update-11-featuring-shadows-of-the-hist-first-look

I really should change my magicka nb Khajiit into an Altmer master race but I just can’t bring myself to do it.

New monster helms and updated Dragonstar Arena plus Craglorn trials.

It’s a bit on the light side but I’d rather they do this than just put out 1 Orsinium every 6 months.

3625

When I see content like this coming, I really am happy I’ve subscribed.

3626

To add to what everyone has said, using stamina weapons with magicka skills definitely works, and dual wield gives more tool tip damage (if you mouse over the skill) than staves. However, being able to weave in light/medium/heavy attacks in addition to abilities adds a great deal of damage, so generally using a staff on your main bar is preferred for magicka builds (the dual wield bonuses goes well on the back bar for some magicka builds.)

Sorcerers are the exception here: if you want to use a weapon instead of a staff, you pretty much have to focus on the stamina side since sorcerers don’t have a spammable damage ability in their class tree.

But then if you’re just questing you don’t really have to focus on just stamina or magicka, you can put some points in each and still have fun. People in dungeons might grumble a bit if they see that setup though.

3627

Oh, and the other thing about weapon choice is that medium/heavy attacks (where you hold the mouse button down and your character does the wind up attack) restore stamina for stamina weapons, and magicka for staves. So if you’re using mostly magicka skills, you might want a staff on at least one of your bars to restore resources in a pinch.

3628

What do you mean by “one of your bars”? Is that the weapon switching thing you get at level 15?

3629

Yeah.

3630

Yup, that’s the one. So my sorc for example (like most endgame min/maxed sorcs), is magicka focused, so he uses a staff on his primary bar. On my second bar I wield two swords, and I switch to it every so often just to rebuff and place damage over time skills. I don’t actually use any skills from the dual wield tree (other than passives.)

Being able to bar swap also brings a huge improvement in terms of QoL. Best advice about ESO I can give – once you’ve reached level 10, even if you don’t plan on doing PvP, at least travel to Cyrodiil and do the introductory quests there. It takes about 5 minutes go through with no combat involved, and it unlocks 2 new skill trees, 1 or two skill points and 2 easily accessible skyshards. Rapid Maneuvers is the most important skill in ESO. Once you unlocked bar swap, stick it in your back bar and you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it. It’s a long lasting speed boost that works even on horseback.

3631

Ohhhh, I’ll go do that next time I log in, thanks!

3632

So…I tried to do this. I traveled to one of the two locations available, took a quest and keep dying every time. Damn zombies and their necromancers. Any tips?

3633

Unless things have changed quite a bit, I think you grabbed an entirely different quest. The one you want is “Welcome to Cyrodiil.” There’s no combat, just a bit of running around and learning siege weapons in a safe area. It should be offered by one of the faction leaders near the gate where you zone in.

If you find it, you’ll likely be confused at one spot where the UI is unclear. The answer is to slot the Repair Kit in a quickslot, like a potion, then use it on the catapult. Nearly everyone has trouble with that the first time.

3634

Weird, I only saw one quest, and it was to help some ladies get an elder scroll at the top of a tower. It was my level so I thought I’d be okay. Nuuhhh uhhhh.

3635

Ah, found it, had to enlist in an alliance war as a guest.


3636

I see this is on the Steam sale. Is the Imperial edition worth the extra ten bucks?

3637

You get a horse and you can pick Imperial as your race. I think you might also get a cosmetic pet or something.

3638

You want a horse or another mount for sure.

I usually ride a Tesselated Guar, because, well, guar. But one of my sorcs, Afi Komen, who not surprisingly looks as close to an old-school prophet as I could get him, rides a camel. The Imperial horse is, well, a horse.

I’m actually liking the “go back and do the other alliance’s quests” thing you do after the story missions, though it screws with leveling other characters because I forget which quests I did with whom. And I’m torn between working on champion progression, to boost everyone, or actually leveling another character. It’s complicated by the fact that while I’m liking my main, a stamina NB archer/dual wield type, I really like my sorcs, who are still in their teens. My favorite might be my Breton heavy-armor, two-handed weapon storm sorc. The ultimate that makes you like Emperor Palpatine in Return of the Jedi is maybe my favorite attack in the game, and charging in, with the electric storm form thing on, and whaling away with spells and using cleave for the damage shield is pretty awesome. At, um, 13, at least. I’m staying magicka based but I want to shape her as a battlemage type, maybe a mage tank-ish thing if I can.

I like my Orc Templar, too, Zob-Rombie (and yeah, he looks kind of the part). I’m building him sword and board with a focus on healing, magicka based. I have a tiny DK, a large Nord woman, that I want to build as a stamina two-handed brute pretty much, with minimal use of magic and full on weapon specialization, but I don’t know how that will work. And there’s my other NB, a Khajit named Sells Used Guar; I want this to be my stealthy guy but I suck at that pretty much.

I haven’t been back to Cyrodil though in ages, because I’ve been enjoying the PvE stuff. Need to get back there I think. BTW, is that how you get to the Imperial City for those quests, via Cyrodil?

3639

The free horse is (at least it used to be) just marginally better than walking. So it’s ok but not great. It does free you up to save up money for other things, though.

The big addition is being able to choose the imperial race. It’s a pretty good race. Of course you don’t get to look all exotic!

When I was playing a while ago, you could upgrade in-game from the standard to the imperial edition. I suspect that’s still an option. It probably costs more than $10 (though I have no idea, really) so if you’re not 100% sold on wanting it, you could theoretically purchase the standard edition and upgrade later on. Of course, doing that negates the value of the horse since you’d theoretically have enough cash saved up to buy your new toons a horse right off the bat.

3640

I see some people stating not to buy the Steam version? It is 50% sale while the direct retail is the usual amount. Not sure why they are saying buy it direct?

I plan to just get the standard version and $20 on the Steam sale seems like a good deal to try the game out. But figure I would ask here first.

3641

If you don’t mind cdkeys.com, it’s less than $15. It’s the version downloaded from the developer website.

3642

Thinking about getting back into this and getting a month of ESO+ to check out the DLC and whatnot. My only character is a mid-level Sorceror (around level 30 I think?) but from what I’ve heard, Sorcerors are now garbage. Should I re-roll or stick with my already-leveled character to poke around in Thieves’ Guild and Dark Brohood?