3643

I am looking at purchasing “Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited” from steam but cannot find and information for the pricing structure of the expansions. (IE Dark Brotherhood).

If I get this on Steam, do I then have to purchase Dark Brotherhood etc?

Thanks!!

3644

Regardless of where you buy the game, you pay for DLC using a virtual currency called “Crowns”. For example, the Dark Brotherhood DLC is 2000 crowns. You buy crowns at the crown store.

If you’re an ESO+ subscriber, you get 1500 crowns/month, and access to all the DLC (as long as your paid subscription is active).

I don’t know how often crowns go on sale, but I bought 3000 for $15US last Black Friday. Unfortunately I did this on the PS4, and now I’m back playing on the PC and those crowns I bought won’t transfer over. Doh!

3645

Sounds like that only applies to very high level play/PvP.

3646

Thanks Gordon!

3647

Thanks, I bought it there.

3648

The whole “sorcs are garbage” thing seems…well, overblown. I was put off a bit too by it, but I was just in Cyrodil today on my NB and it seemed every other player was a sorc. So, no, they certainly aren’t dead. After the initial qq’ing it seems they’ve adapted. Move along, nothing to see here.

3649

I played this a little bit a year or so ago, so if I play this again I’d start a new character. I don’t remember, is the early game content always the same, or are there multiple places a player can start off?

3650

Three different starting locations, based on what alliance you choose. I do doubt you’ve seen all the starting islands have to offer though. Most people go through them , seeing only about half. They are massive, and contain a ton of secrets, if that sort of stuff interests you.

3651

Absolutely. This is one of those MMOs where it’s actually not only fun but productive to wander around. Get some lockpicks as soon as you can, and open those chests you find, too!

3652

Is there an active QT3 guild for this? I read about a guild earlier in the thread, but I don’t know if it’s still going.

3653

A guild would be cool, if just to sell crap. The economy in the game is sort of awkward to navigate.

3654

There is a Qt3 guild, but I never see anyone on, not that I log in often. I’ll check to see who the GM is, maybe they can turn the guild over to an active player.

EDIT: McMaster is the GM

3655

They’ve changed how horses work since then. Right now each character has a “horse training stat”. There are a 180 possible points to train, so it will take a minimum of 180 days to max out the training stats for maximal carrying/stamina/speed boosts. The utility of your mount depends solely on these training stats; every single mount in the game is identical, it’s just aesthetics. So if you just want any horse, you can buy a plain brown horse in game for 10000 gold (which is fairly easy to come by.) The imperial mount is a decent looking reskin though.

3656

Yes, it’d be cool to revive the guild, but I’m not sure McMaster is even playing any more.

3657

Well, the character I’ve been playing since launch turns out to be about as poorly optimized and misbegotten as a theorycrafter could imagine. Back in the mists of time I created this Nightblade. My idea was, well, I had no idea what I was doing. She’s a Breton, with all that light armor and magic bonus stuff. But she wears medium armor and is purely stamina based. She switches between bow and dual wield, which in itself isn’t bad, but pretty much none of her racial bonuses are being used. I plan to switch her to a Bosmer when the next update lands in August (allowing race switching), which should solve the problem. But as I grind out CP (at 100 now) it’s sort of embarrassing because she’s so clearly unoptimized, even by my not too demanding standards. The biggest issue is running out of stamina in bow fights; my spike damage isn’t quite high enough to finish off some fights before the stamina well runs dry.

Oddly, though, she still is quite viable in most of the content. I can’t reliably solo Imperial City stuff (or couldn’t at CP 40; maybe it’s better now), but most PvE non-group content is quite doable. I thought briefly about spending the gold to respec her into a magicka NB, but 1) I’m raising a little NB to do that already, 2) even though my gear isn’t great, I can’t afford to junk it all and get new magicka gear, and 3) I really like being an archer. I will respec eventually to clean up the misallocation of early crafting points, but that can wait.

3658

I couldn’t get Bow to really gel until I tried the spike trap ability in Fighter’s Guild. That thing is GODLY. Give it a shot.

3659

I just reinstalled ESO (after the arduous process of getting the email associated with the account fixed to something I actually have access to!) and after logging in I immediately hit the stage of “what the heck do I even do here?” I was amused by the 10 minute stream of notifications my character received when I logged in, but once that finished I realized I had no idea how to play the game.

I do recall my first ESO toon was an attempt to create something like a traditional Shaman - starting with a Sorceror, the idea was to have a mix of 2-handed whacking along with buffs and some spellcasting. I also vaguely recall that while it worked, it didn’t work as well as I hoped, so I converted over to a pure spellcaster.

I guess I liked spellcasters, as all my characters were wearing robes!

I suppose I’ll do what I always do when I pick up a MMO after a long absence - start a new character and refresh myself on the game’s mechanics and interface.

How are the crowds? I realize I was logging in early in the morning on a weekday, but I only saw maybe three or four people running around.

3660

Working backwards, I’ve found a lot of folks in zone chat, most times of day. Not that I interact much with them; I’ve been playing since beta I think and I’ve never grouped with anyone other than in PvP for the zerg. Because the game (until the One Tamriel stuff launches eventually, at least) has you go through each alliances quests and areas after you hit the level cap (as you build up Champion Points), there are always people rolling around in the newbie areas, on top of the usual churn from the game being subscription-free.

I’m no theory crafter, and I can guarantee that my characters are sub-optimal, but in terms of enjoyability, one of my favorites is my heavy-armor wearing melee sorc. Focusing on Storm Calling, using a two-hander, I cast about three self-buffs for damage and protection then charge into the fight and whale about with my sharp or blunt object, casting the insta-cast direct damage spell you get. She’s 24 or so and it works well enough and is fun.

But yeah, the game has so much to do it’s overwhelming. I like your idea of just starting a newbie to re-learn the ropes. That’s what I always do, too. Fiddle around with different races and classes, though, and always explore. There are tons of things–lorebooks, treasure chests, crafting materials, quests–off the beaten path. Sure, you can power through doing just the main quest stuff, but why do that? The only way I can stay sane playing this is to go with the flow more or less.

I would though suggest focusing on one main crafting line, maybe two, per character, though everyone probably should have some facility in provisioning and alchemy (though in truth you can get by without putting any points into either and just loot stuff). If you like the game enough to subscribe, you get the nifty crafting bag that takes all crafting materials, from all your characters, and holds them in a separate, seemingly bottomless, bank that you can access whenever you are at a crafting station. Stuff just magically is there, which also means any character can harvest for any other character. Neat.

I’m King_Poodle in the game and I’d be happy to help if you see me around.

3661

Thanks for the offer. I played quite a bit in the past (have a 50 Sorc and a 50 DK) but not recently. Your melee sorc sounded like my Shaman idea. IIRC, I felt like the closer I got to 50 the more it ran out of steam. Oh, I could kill stuff, but it seemed like so much more work than casting a few spells. Maybe I should revisit the concept, though.

3662

It is a lot of work, yeah. I’ve played pure casters in so many MMOs, though, that I wanted something a bit different. I’m trying to level up a pure sorc, but most of my time has been getting my stamina NB up in CP and crafting, really.

But it’s funny as hell to pop the Storm Calling ultimate and shoot lightning out of my hands. Especially as the game usually glitches and she’ll run around for a long time with glowing gloves.