Señor BuzzKill reporting in. This thread has been a huge love-fest for ESO. Time to throw some ice water on that, eh?
KevinC
4445
I’m supposed to grab a pitchfork and torch, I take it?
Yeah, that sucks. In fact, it sucks enough that I sent in a support ticket about it.
This is getting a lot of attention already, so I expect they will issue a statement and remove it soon enough. It’s also extremely illegal under the GDPR.
KevinC
4448
Who’da thunk that Zenimax would pull something like this? They’re such an upstanding company!
Not to minimize the douchebaggery involved with that, but it seems pretty easy to edit your hosts file to make the tool inoperative.
RichVR
4450
Meh. I’ll just wait for them to pull it.
Sure, if you happen to hear about it. The millions of players who don’t follow this stuff closely, they’re just SOL.
KevinC
4452
Why are they SOL? Say RedShell is on their system. Then what happens?
Their privacy is violated without their knowledge or consent.
KevinC
4454
I hope the 5 people that care get some sort of compensation. ;)
On a more serious note, I haven’t found much detail in terms of what they track and how that data is identified with a person. Other than their own PR and marketing, that is, which I don’t give much credence to.
EDIT: To be clear, not making any statement about whether people should care. But in today’s world of social media, phone track, and devices listening in every room… I just don’t think many people are going to get too worked up about ESO tracking.
I’m assuming that if I buy summerset (with morrowind included) from GMG I’ll be able to add it to my account even if I got the base game through steam?
I played about 10 hours or so of the base get a long while ago. I remember enjoying it and I don’t remember why I bounced off, and im in the mood for an ES style game for whatever reason.
That’s a good question. When I purchased it last night (I got the “upgrade” edition) I got an ESO key that I activated by logging onto my account. I’ve never played it through Steam so I’m not sure what the process is there.
My character finally found a decent outfit around level 12!
I started my new character in Summerset. Where do I go to get going with crafting?
I never really figured out crafting in ESO. I would suggest gathering all the materials you can and just selling them on your guild’s trading post, then worrying about it at max level if you decide to care about it.
KevinC
4460
You can’t (or shouldn’t) wait to start crafting until max level. You are going to be time gated by Research, so it’s something you should start working on ASAP if you want to do it.
Sounds like you grokked crafting much better than I did, I looked at it, shook my head, and decided not to bother.
KevinC
4462
It’s different, for sure. The main thing is you have all those traits on gear, like Precise gives a crit chance bonus or something like that. So to learn to craft those traits, you need to first find an item with it, then use it to Research that trait. If you find a dagger with Precise you can learn that, but you’ll need to research it separately for swords, maces, etc.
For each trait you learn for a particular type of item, research time doubles. So the first dagger trait is 6 hours, then 12, then 24… the 8th and 9th traits are 32 days and 64 days respectively, for ONE item.
So, if you want to craft, you will want to start learning traits early. If you wait until end game to start, you will time gated for a long time.
EDIT: Couple things that make it not quite so bad as it sounds. By spending skill points on crafting skills, you can get 3 research slots so that you can be researching 3 items at once. You can also spread crafting up between a couple different characters, so one person is a blacksmith, one is a woodworker, etc.
I don’t know about Summerset, but in the base game, there’s a tutorial of sorts if you go to the main city on each of the starting islands. I believe you start it by reading the notice board.
Trait researching is only required for blacksmithing/woodworking/clothier. They take substantial investment, so if you’re planning to play casually I’d say just blow it off. You can probably find someone to craft the sets you want. If you do decide to go for it, I’d recommend doing all 3 on one character, so that you don’t have to spread motifs around.
The other 3 types of crafting (provisioning/alchemy/enchanting) don’t require research at all. The alchemy tree (and to a much lesser extent, provisioning) provides passives that improves potion (and food) usage, so it’s recommended for everyone. They’re both easy to max out, though alchemy can be expensive. Enchanting you just need on one character. It’s probably the least useful of all the crafting skills, since you can probably buy the exact glyph you need from markets (albeit at a premium.)
I’m planning to dip my toe back into ESO soon, so if anyone needs any 9 trait stuff let me know. My motifs are about 2 years out of date though.
