4044

Ok… so basically, rather have a high level weapon than a high damage one?

4045

Well, your weapon’s base damage is determined by its level and quality (color, like purple). Of course procs/runes and such are separate from that.

That leads to the question on whether you’d be better off with a blue level 40 axe dealing 100 damage or a green level 45 axe dealing 90 damage. I don’t actually know the answer to that one, but I’d stick with the blue one. It’s not like it matters for long as you’re constantly upgrading equipment all the way up to CP160 and scaling stops there anyway.

4046

8.5 million client copies sold.

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This number is based off of units sold and is not simply a tally of registered accounts.[/quote]

4047

It’s a b2p game, so the number of copies sold is the number of registered accounts.

A more significant metric would be the average monthly number of active players.

4048

You can have an account without purchasing (beta players, for instance) so accounts would be even more inflated than copies purchased. As you mentioned though, it’s still a meaningless stat that companies keep throwing out to sound like their numbers are close to World of Warcraft.

4049

8.5 million minus me until they fix magicka melee nightblade and make it even marginally competitive again. Just got the notice that my 6 month ESO plus expired. I’m feeling a bit salty about how they have handled the pvp combat balance.

4050

Beta players can’t play the actual game, so not really.

4051

I’ve read they have ~1million active monthly users. I do not know if this is credible or just ‘fake news’, so YMMV.

4052

That sounds like a plausible number, at least.

Since ESO is B2P they don’t actually care how many total accounts exist. They care about new accounts, MAUs, subscribers, and conversion rates for paid DLC.

4053

Just a PSA - for the next week they’re disabling Champion points and doubling AP rewards for Cyrodiil pvp. IMHO PvP is better without champion points anyway, so this is a perfect time to time to unlock some of those alliance skills if you haven’t already. Vigor is especially important for stamina characters.

4054

I feel ya. Magblades seem to be the most neglected class at the moment. Mine was ostensibly my main character at one point, now he’s lurking in Rawl in his underclothes, divested of all equipment.

Have you gone back since Homestead? The nerfing of the proc sets was a decent change.

4055

Nope. I hit Alliance Rank 36 in January and then the magical spell that ESO had on me just broke. I realized that I was always hoping that one patch someday would let me play like I used to a year or a year and a half ago. The latest changes basically force magblades to use a destro staff. You would be foolish not too with the 8% damage bonus passive for sloting a destro skill. I’ve spent all this time with dual swords and just like being sneaky hitting hard in melee and then trying to get the kill or get away. Concealed weapon is a joke.

The current meta is really bad. I mean stinky bad. And they must know it. They went without doing ESO live for months. The proc sets debacle was only part of the problem. The heavy armor and stamina favoritism has driven the pvp into the ground.

The love is gone. Maybe I’ll check back in in June to see what the arenas are like. I don’t think my play style will do too well there though.

4056

I hopped back in, also an ex-magblader. Setting it up to farm vMA and working on other characters. I am happy with no main though. For people that were attached to their magblade more strongly … yeah … sorry,

4057

I do enjoy ESO more when I’m bouncing between different characters. Last night I had a lot of fun in Cyrodiil with ye olde viper’s/tremorscale cheese (I was mostly on break from ESO during its heyday…can understand the complaints) but paired with heavy Pelinals so I can haunting curse/fury for extra burst. Worked pretty well.

4058

I haven’t really played ESO much since launch. I own the base game, but what do I need to buy to get caught up with all the expansion content? The store is a bit confusing.

4059

Nothing, you can buy the game in June and start playing in Morrowind on day 1. Or you can get the various DLC today and play through the huge amount of content already present.

4060

So is it better to subscribe, or to just buy the DLC in pieces?

4061

Try the game first and see if it clicks with you. There’s a ton of pre-DLC content, so if you like it, you can subscribe a bit and get enough spacebucks to buy the DLC eventually. If you don’t like it, well that’s that then.

4062

They have the gold edition on GMG with all the dlc for like $20 right now.

I haven’t played a ton, but I liked it and the dlc and a horse for $20 seems like a good deal.

4063

You don’t actually need to do either one to play the game. I do think the Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild DLC are really worth the money, though.

Yeah $20 is a hell of a deal.