You can get mount upgrades in the crown store thing, but I’m not sure what the cost ends up being if you buy a full upgrade all at once. And I thought mount upgrades were across all chars, not just one? Did it change or am I remembering incorrectly?
Hansey
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The mounts themselves are shared across all characters, but the upgrades are not.
The paid mount upgrades are very expensive compared to just logging in every day. 10 levels costs 1000 crowns, so 6000 crowns to upgrade a single character’s mount speed alone. 6000 crowns costs around $44.
If they sold the mount upgrades for one tenth the price, they would be moderately attractive.
Ah ok, I’ve subbed off and on over the years and have like 15000 Crowns since I never spend it on stuff. Occasionally I’ll buy a cool mount and upgrade the speed and carrying capacity. But if I played a lot that cost would be a bit prohibitive.
Oghier
4368
When TESO released, the delves were boring. They were little caves, pretty much one of three or four templates. This is from inside a delve in Summerset:
This game has gotten so much better, in every way, over the past few years.
Well all the delves were unique, they weren’t literal clones/templates, but they were kinda samey, you ran through, beelined to the skyshard, killed the boss, then got out of there before anything respawned, usually through a one-way door. That’s something pretty different though, for sure.
K, my sorcerer was a mess, so I just deleted him. I’d love suggestions for starting a new caster class type character.
Destruction staff, all magica, high elf, Sorcerer. Pretty much the most conventional “mage” type character. Can do with or without a pet.
Magica Templar is “sort of” a paladin with more ranged options. It’s a more tanky character, that can be made to be very caster centric. Either high elf or breton. High elf if you want to use a destruction staff and play more like a mage, Breton for more of a tanky hybrid, can go sword and board even.
One of the things about ESO, is that you will almost always have 2-3 mobs bum rush you that you have to face tank, it’s why magica Templars are such a good class, because they are really well equipped to deal with that from the start.
High elf Magicka Templar it is. Thank you!
Oghier
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Brian, if you want to heal, a Breton or Argonian will be slightly better than a High Elf. High Elves are decent at any sort of casting, of course :)
If you’re on PC and you want some early gear made up for a quick start, shoot me a tell in game!
Picked up Summerset and wanted to tryout Psijic stuff. Unfortunately its gated behind some rather tedious questing. Apparently its so people can’t put the good new skills on all their alts…or something. Really took the wind out of my sails though.
Breton Templar it is! That works better for me since I’ve preferred Bretons since Arena anyway. :)
Aw, man, now you just made me mad again that Guild Wars 2 doesn’t have fishing. And while I’ve been curious to check this out, @stusser successfully crushed that curiosity by complaining about the mount grind. I’ve got three different mounts for all my characters to ride around in Guild Wars 2 and I didn’t have to play for months and months* to get them.
-Tom
* excepting, of course, the months and months I’ve played Guild Wars 2
Mr Chick, your mighty reviewer weight in the industry should allow you a free copy on Steam of the Summerset Collectors Edition, it comes with a free mount. :)
And the grind @stusser mentions isn’t the cost of the mount, but the cost to upgrade the mount to make it better.
Think of the glorious fishing!
There really is no grind, it’s just a matter of logging on daily and talking to a stablemaster to train your mount to make it run faster.
I haven’t played for a couple of years, but I seem to recall that mounts really only mattered in PvP. If you’re questing/exploring, it’s a pain to mount/dismount every time you see a harvest node. You can get a skill early on that greatly increases your running speed, and on the pc you can probably get mods to easily move it to and from your skill bar.
Yeah, I strongly disagree with that.
Yeah, me too. The mounts are essential. Even if you don’t want to use it to greatly increase your cross-country movement, the extra 60 bag slots are crazy good.
Wait , my horse has a bag? How I access that?
KevinC
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You don’t. Every bag space increase you put on your mount increases YOUR inventory.
