Racial passives actually can be a thing depending on how far you want to go/push things.
For me, I like learning new specs as I go, and experimenting along the way. I like to see what works and what doesn’t for myself, and my play style. The biggest thing in respeccing, would just be leveling all the skill lines. If all your stamina skill lines are at zero, that will take some time and you’ll be in some trouble against the content, especially now that everything scales to your level. Trying to fight level 50 stuff with level 1 unmorphed skills can be a bit tough.
If you don’t care how your old sorc is specced, you could certainly try it out. I’ve never respecced out of an inherent build (i.e. stamina or magic), because I always have specific races for specific builds.
Another thing I’ve found helpful is using an add-on like this that allows you to load skillbars via hotkey. I keep one training hotkey full of skills I don’t normally use but want to level in, and I swap to that just before turning in a quest.
I’ve said this before, but for new players, make sure you go to Cyrodiil when you hit level 10 and complete the very short PvP training (no actual PvP involved.) You’ll get 2 free skill points and access to the most important skill in the game - Rapid Maneuvers. It’s a long lasting buff speed buff that makes traveling MUCH faster, and you can cast it from your mount. I usually keep it on another hotkey skillbar whenever I need to go more than 10 steps.
My level 50 sorc is a … Nord! I created a built sort of like an Enhancement Shaman - 2H hammer with shocks and buffs thrown in. At the time it seemed like a mix of Magicka and Stamina abilities would be a good thing! I’m not sure how optimized the build was but I enjoyed coming up with the idea and seeing it to fruition. Although I vaguely recall I respecced him to pure Magicka so I guess maybe the Shaman idea didn’t work as well as I hoped.
Continuing with a new guy is probably the path of least resistance, and avoids the skill line issues you mentioned.
I really do think there is a lot of merit to learning how to play it along the way, one skill at a time, instead of having everything dumped on you at once. There is quite a bit of management in ESO, and a lot of it is sort of subtle. It’s really nice to level right now anyway, given that you can just go anywhere.
RichVR
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Seems I need an invitation to use the Zenimax forum. I searched my emails but never got a code. Any ideas?
Well as a nord you’re more suited to be stam based than magicka, and with the current holiday XP bonus you can level your weapon skills in no time. The weapon trees are very front loaded anyway, so I wouldn’t hesitate in changing back to stam. You can always level an Altmer instead if you end up missing magicka sorc.
RichVR
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Finally finished the witch quest today. It’s nice that it unlocks account wide. I like being a skeleton.
I’m still getting used to this. The guy I rolled a few days ago bought the horse for 1 gold (I originally purchased the Imperial edition). I made a new toon yesterday and spent about 30 minutes running around stables trying to figure out why I didn’t have the option to purchase the cheap horse any more!
I finally figured it out after googling it…
RichVR
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Yeah it took me a while to find the correct mount part of the UI. Could be more clear.
My problem is that after I got the Imperial edition I clicked on all of the DLC. Now I have a shitload of arrows on my compass bar. I know I can delete quests. But that makes me feel like I failed, somehow. :)
Another thing. I had the pumpkin and the guts, but I just couldn’t figure out where delves were. Then I ended up in Albion. One of the tips on the loading screen explained that a delve is marked with a torch icon. The delve I ended up in had a few people in it already. I just followed along helping out, until we ended up at the boss. Killed him easily. There was no talk, no PUG crap. Just a bunch of people with the same goal who supported each other.
Then the trip to the witch was pretty much riding north, finding wayshrines and trying not to get distracted by all of the new quests that popped up. Honestly I was so happy to meet the witch by her cauldron. So peaceful. So calm. Drink that bubbling green crap with the skulls floating in it? No problem. :)
Hahahaha, I’ve had exact opposite issue. Easily found a delve, like, right away, but yet to find a pumpkin.
RichVR
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Pumpkins can be found at grocers. Where else would you find a pumpkin, Brian? :) :) :)
Funny thing. There are a crapload of pumpkins around the entrance to the witch’s cave. But none are clickable. Such a tease.
Er…pumpkin fields?! Fine, I’ll go to a grocer. Yeesh.
So it seems that farming Dolmens is something that happens all the time now. I ran across one near Vulkhel Guard and there must have been 15 players just standing there waiting for it to spawn. Spent about 30 minutes there and everyone grouped up and just killed it over and over (it’s about 3 minutes between spawns). Did that right before bed, so I logged out around midnight.
I logged in this morning to get a few things done and there’s still a group there at 5:30 AM.
I guess the bottom line is, if there’s something to be farmed in an MMO, people will farm it!
This was with yet another new stamina sorcerer - this is the one I’m keeping, I swear.
Come to NYC. There are dead and dying pumpkins everywhere.
stusser
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There was a homeless guy taking a shit in a pumpkin in Tompkin’s Square on sunday. He was singing “We built this city” over and over. Not the whole song, just that one phrase of it. Not even closing with “on rock and roll”, just “we built this city”.
Pretty funny, people walked by oblivious until they noticed what was happening then ran away. I would have filmed it but I was concerned he’d fling feces at me.
I thought for a second you were referencing some event that took place in ESO…
RichVR
3860
Does a Khajiit shit in a pumpkin?
Lake
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I had the same problem so I contacted customer support. It took about 24 hours to get a code.
I’ve tried to jump back in but since the last update it just stalls at ‘loading’. Doesn’t even appear to connect to the server as the popup never fills with whatever the latest news/updates/whatever like it used to when it was actually loading or updating. Not sure I feel like reinstalling this thing, but I have ressubbed every few months or so and enjoyed it. Is this a known thing? Is it really ‘loading’ for a long time with the last big update and I’m just not waiting long enough (I’ve let it run for close to an hour and still never even got the info in the popup screen)?
