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Yeah, two of the three guilds I’ve joined have weekly cash requirements either for sales, raffle tickets or straight up donations, but given the benefit, it seems worth it. That said, I expect I’ll only remain in the one guild with the Wayrest vendor since it seems pretty large and active.

I’m sure at some point I’ll start playing less and if I get the boot, so be it. At least it’s benefiting me now.

I’ll have to check out the Master Merchant addon, though it seems that several people in my guild are already using it, as there’s always a lot of price check requests happening in chat, which get answered almost immediately (with some reply that always includes “MM” in it, so I assume that’s Master Merchant).

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For those of you that are addon addicts, check out PhinixUI. It isn’t so much an addon itself as it is a “out of the box” configuration for a bunch of other addons. It saved a TON of time digging through and configuring things, and now I have a nice usable set of (presumably) everything under the sun.

It includes Tamriel Trade Center. I’m not sure why this is chosen over Merchant Master, but like I said, someone else made the decisions for me so I can get around to playing.

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So last night I returned to the game after a break to avoid burnout, and felt right at home with my Nightblade. Got to level 8 and unlocked snipe for my bow, and wow, couple that with stuff like Assassin’s Blade, Strife and Agony and he’s just mowing folks down as they approach. So great.

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I’m similarly entranced at the moment with my stam sorc. I wasn’t feeling it with the mag sorc for some reason. I’m quite interested in the idea of using magic mostly for the buffs, and then most of my offence coming from bow or dual-wield weapons. And I’m going to totally ignore how much fun Brian is having with his NB so I don’t roll something else.

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What build are you using for your NB? I’m thinking about joining ESO and I have always enjoyed the Rogue class in MMO’s and I’m hoping NB would make a nice fit for me.

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Primarily Stamina, then Magicka so far.

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I spent a little bit of time in the game last night. I was starting to adjust to the UI. I did have some weird thing happen during a quest. I was doing the newbie quest where you have to gather the poisoned meat. Some guy attacked me, and when I killed him the guards then killed me.

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They are making ESO into more than a MMORPG. One of the thing they did is that you can attack named npcs that are not part of a quest. These that highlight in white glow. Probably you wounded one of these with AOE damage, and he attacked you retalation. Then if you atacked a civilian, the guards attacked you to defend them.

If you are not interested in this yet, you can disable it in setting, setting so you can’t attack random civilians.

I play some rogueish assasin, and I have this setting enabled. I randomly kill people on back alleys or when the guardians are not looking, to sell whatever they have in the pockets.

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New Update for 3.0 and Patch Notes: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/335600/pts-patch-notes-v3-0-0

Lots of hand wringing and end of the world prophecies…so ssdd.

Executive Summary is that resource sustain/management has had a major rework (nerf) by adjusting a lot of the skills, passives.and more importantly the Champion Point system, It looks like there have been some minor item tweaks too.

I can understand why they did this since some of the meta builds would make the battlegrounds that required capturing a flag/king of the hill almost impossible. And frankly the 5 piece heavy armor with the 5 piece light armor regen accessories + 2 piece monster set meta has been stale and silly.

The end result (imho) is that competent or better magicka sorcs will be in a very nice spot. Everybody else has been pulled down towards my bottom dwelling scum sucking melee magicka nb. I know nobody got a buff but I was secretly hoping like I always do that somebody on the combat team would realize that forcing all magicka nb’s to use a destruction staff is not a good thing.

But at least I can welcome all my new bottom dweller friends. It reminds me of the old joke about someday I’m going to burn down a barn just like that one. :)

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I am just starting, so that probably means nothing to me.

I normally play sorcs, but randomly decided to make a rogue this time, and I don’t feel my character is very powerful. (I don’t use any AOE skill)

The idea of a Morrowind is exciting, much less exciting when I learn that they can’t use the original music for license reasons :(

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Yeah, this is only for end game. If you are leveling up and still exploring all the content I wouldn’t pay any attention and just have a great time.

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What surprise me more is how much content is mostly… hidden?

I have completed the game, and only have 2 collectible items… There are lots of mementos, and polymorph and curious items. They seems things you have to google to find them.
In a normal game, I would have already 30% or 60% of these things, but in ESO I have yet to even start to scratch the surface.

Well, I care about these things. Yesterday I “wasted” a lot of hours doing the Litany of Blood.

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Fishing is a whole secret world. I burned out before I got the master angler achievement but I did finish 1 alliance + cold harbour + cyrodiil.

The nice thing is that if you keep a casual mindset and don’t get over-competitive about titles or achievements there is a huge amount of content to stumble on and enjoy.

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They couldn’t have expected a positive reaction to the patch notes. No tokens to combat RNG, no weapon trait balancing, just nerfs all around (except for magsorcs.) Nothing provokes people like consecutive nerfs to a class (of course, everyone forgets that magsorcs were subject to the same a few patches ago.)

Not really enticing me to return to the game, though I’m keeping up with the news with interest.

But again, this is just endgame, and mostly with regards to PvP. (Players doing endgame trials will be hit hard too, but they’ll manage one way or the other.) These changes actually close some of the gap between casual players and the hardcore population.

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Weren’t magsorcs already considered pretty OP in relation to everyone else? Strange choice. Not that my lowbie stamsorc cares much.

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OP if the player knows what they are doing. I’m not a sorc expert by an means but when played well they are really strong even with the 6 second shield recharge time change that happened a ways back. Even when my nb was at its most powerful in 1.5, I would avoid them unless I could jump in when they were outnumbered. I personally couldn’t play it. You have to be good at multi tasking and if you slip up with the shields you are going to melt.

I think the big complaint now seems to be that Dark Exchange is really a good skill and it didn’t get a nerf hammer like all the other resource management skills and passives.

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Not happy with my char at the moment. Maybe Nightblade is not my thing?

Something is very wrong when I have to swap to resto staff to do some hard content. Also in pvp everyone instakill me. They have a burst damage that burn me in like 150ms. These 600 levels people have count for something + some OP builds, I imagine.
I am re-learning cyridoll pvp again. When attack and when not attack. At first every time I attacked somebody this happened:

So I am considering totally reshaping this character. I don’t have any AoE skill, and my single enemy damage is patetic. Maybe Bow is a bad weapon? I am going to respect to resto+destro staffs, to mix aoe damage with healing.

Other people play like a superhero. When I find a templar in a dungeon, he drag agro from all the mobs in the room, and use some superAOEs to clean them fast.

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In Cyrodiil unless you’re playing a specialized hybrid build (or a tank) you have to invest heavily in either stamina or magicka. If you want to use bow, then 2h is a good match for rally. Otherwise, resto + destro is probably the way to go for magicka. Nightblades are not great in terms of survivability, so you have to burst them down first (or travel as part of the zerg.)

Consider playing on Azura’s Star if you’re not maxed out on CP. It’s less laggy and more fun than Trueflame IMHO, though there’s not much action in off hours.

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I am connecting with my inner animal. Is working. What I don’t know is what animal is (yet). It can be a wolf and follow the zerg. It can be a hyena and wait in choke points. It can be a poo throwing monkey, and find a way to attack people form max distance, them hide.

I was destro+restro sorcer on the PC, and pvp worked fine, mostly because the blink skill sorcers have. It was a great “oh shit” skill.

Anyway, I can deal with this. I will put on my big pants and find a good magicka build for nightblade.

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Teiman, I just want to say that you are easily my favorite poster on Qt3. That’s all.