Gonna try this as a High Elf, and I just spent 30 minutes with the character creator, heh.
High elf stamina sorc with dual wield is insane amounts of fun… :P
The game is fairly easy the first 35 levels or so, but can get challenging past that, depending on what content you’re doing. The gameplay is such that you always sort of at least have to pay attention, because actual dodging is a thing etc. It’s not WoW levels of LOLcombat.
robc04
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That’s good. I’m sure I never reached level 35.
Yeah I am not sure if the game should be tossing new players right into the new expansion content. I decided to find the first wayshrine and head over to Khenarthi’s Roost, which a wiki told me is that staring area for Aldmeri Dominion players. Gotta play old content first.
A bulletin post gave me my first quest there, which was sorta funny, it mentioned about me falling out of the sky, which didn’t happen.
Level 4 already after only 90 or so min, is leveling up this fast normal? Here’s my character in whatever armor I’ve found on the ground so far. Heh…
I am a sorcerer wielding an axe. :| And I haven’t spent any skill points yet, gotta read up on what is best for this Stamina Sorcerer build.
I did see this build which looks pretty cool:
Also it is indeed a damn fine looking game.
I’ll mess with add on’s tomorrow. I need a mini-map. Also there are collectible shards in this game! And apparently fishing spots!
Tom loves fishing, why isn’t he playing this.
Teiman
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The Morrowind expansion had left me dissapointed. But was well intentioned.
I guess I am more interested into emergent gameplay than theme parks.
Visiting Morrowind turned into a theme park was like visiting a France theme park in Ohio, with people foning a fake french accent.
I get the nostalgia vibe, because I too, I am a human being. But eh… Lets move on.
I will not get this expansion, but I will pay attention to see what it includes and how it moves.
Reaching level 4 after 90 minutes is pretty on par if not slower than average for MMOs at this point. Advancement does get slower as you go though.
So when I originally played this, I wanted to be a caster, and picked a sorcerer. This got really boring though.
Are y’all saying if I wanna be more of a caster, a Templar is the way to go?
KevinC
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Not in my opinion. Magicka Templars feel less caster-like that sorcerer, to me. What were you using as a sorcerer and what bored you about it?
Don’t recall at all. Reinstalling the game now, so I’ll look when I get home tonight.
So I killed a chicken last night and had to pay a fine. :D
Also I am the number one slayer of butterflies. :P
I was up way too late playing this.
@tomchick , see what you are missing out on!
hums Night Fishing Song… ;)
Overall the game has been fantastic and I am in 100% agreement, that voice acting really ups the quality bar of this game.
Yeah, it’s fully voiced and just gorgeous, even the launch areas are really pretty. Right up there with Guild Wars 2. And unlike GW2, you can explore anywhere at level 1. It doesn’t feel like a MMO in that respect.
My main complaint at this point is the mount system, where it takes 180 days of paying 250g per day to fully level up your mount, and it isn’t account-wide. This really sucks when playing alt characters.
I’ve really enjoyed the background music that just pops in at the right times. I haven’t played ES5 in a few years, its nice to return to that world.
I never bothered with stamina or bag space. Speed was enough for me so I cut the time and cost by 2/3 in that case.
Yeah, but still 2 months of logging in every day to get that.
Not a fan.
Hansey
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On my first character, I maxed out bag space on the mount first. I was still new, hadn’t joined any trading guilds yet, and after the first couple of bag and bank space upgrades, the cost was too much. So getting that extra one slot every day was totally worth it. Speed was second, and I only just finished stamina the other day. (I do not always log in every day, and sometimes I would forget to go see the stablemaster.)
Since I’m now in a pretty good trading guild, and have plenty of gold, my alts can spend their points more efficiently: speed -> bag space -> stamina.
I don’t mind too much that the training isn’t account wide, but it sure would be nice. I mean the mounts are, and isn’t that what you’re training? Because yeah, starting a new character and then getting on your super slow mount is soooo painful…
It’s a gold sink to help keep inflation down I guess.
Nobody cares about the money, 250 gold is a vanishingly small amount in ESO. The problem is you can only get 1 horse level per day, and each of the speed, inventory, and stamina meters have 60 levels.
robc04
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I don’t really play MMOs much at all, but I always hear people talk about mounts. What is so important about them and why do people like them? In single player games that offer mounts I tend to walk any way because mounts usually make things more awkward, like picking stuff up.
There’s a lot of traveling in MMOs, and mounts are much faster than walking. Mounts with 60 levels in speed are really dramatically faster than untrained. Also mounts can sprint forever, even once they’re out of stamina, although a single hit from a monster will knock you off at that point. They’re a pretty big deal.
