Normally you would expect the previous expansion to be folded into the base game purchase, but ESO is handling expansions in a very non-traditional way, like Guild Wars 2. So that might not be the case-- if you want to play ESO in the near future, the free Morrowind deal shouldn’t be missed.
robc04
4485
Depending on the laptop we get I may not be able to play for 7 months.
Oh, screw it then. We could all be dead in 7 months.
What gear are you wearing Vic? In the past I played mostly templar/sorc in PvP. I’ll be using my magblade in Summerset so I’ll probably take him to PvP as well. Thinking 2 piece monster, spinners and maybe shacklebreaker? And switch out shacklebreaker for Vicious Death if I want to try bombing.
Zaan looks good but I don’t have the Dragon Bones DLC. I refuse to buy crowns unless it’s on sale!
I’m a magicka nb. I’m wearing head, shoulder Zaan. 5 piece sloads, 5 piece spinners.
I took an almost year long break right before morrowind with only a toe dab around the dragon bones dlc. I just need to get my ISP situation improved or it might be their servers. I’m really not sure. I used to get 120 ms ping to the eso servers but since the summerset came out it is more like 145 ms and Cryrodiil is now bad for me even druing off peak times. That part has been disappointing.
It’s still a load of fun though.
Thanks for that link, this guy has some pretty neat builds, I particularly like this one:
I thought I’d put my own spin on the high mobility idea and maybe do pelinals + prisoner’s for sustain. I’d have to get rid of werewolf for mistform, which removes one of the main uses of pelinals for stamplar, so better if it’s just automaton + prisoners. Then I realized I probably don’t need that much magicka sustain for just mistform and ritual, and so bone pirate is probably better. So automaton + bone pirate, which is the original build in the video.
I like hybrids and the idea of the prisoners set, so maybe I could pair it with pelinals for my stamsorc, who has better use for magicka abilities. Then I found out that pelinals+prisoners+stamsorc+werewolf is already a known thing. So much for originality.
Regardless, infused jewellery + weapon damage glyphs looks like a nice buff for a pelinals build. Now to level up my jeweller…
This will be painfully grindy I think. Don’t forget to change up your CP if you do decide to do this so that you get that 20% inspiration boost in one of the green trees. I’ve got it to 30 after blowing through some AP that I have banked to buy jewelry for deconstructing. Then, I remembered the CP inspiration star thingie. Oh well. It would have been 3k gold well spent. Not that it matters. The mats for jewelry crafting are apparently really hard to come by. I guess in a few months it will probably settle down. That’s fine by me.
Oghier
4491
Grind dolmens, deconstruct the loot. Every dolmen drops an accessory, making this the second-fastest way.
The fastest way involves spending about 7 million Alliance Points. Nope.
Yeah. I haven’t really worked at it, but my guy’s at level 4 right now. Going to be a long grind. Luckily, for the builds I have in mind I mostly need to learn the traits, and then transmute.
Ah! That’s why there were so many people at the dolmens. I almost felt bad for Molag Bal and his sad posturing. Dolmen daedras have the worst job.
Hansey
4493
Al’Akir has always been the go to zone for dolmen grinding. You can pretty much go there anytime and there’s several groups just running the circuit. I think that zone works pretty well because all three dolmens there are pretty close to wayshrines. There’s basically zero downtime - the group goes straight from one to the next and it’s always ready. Just show up and type ‘x’ in chat and you’ll almost certainly get auto-invited to the group.
I was there earlier doing a circuit until my inventory was full. Some guy in my group kept begging everyone to give him jewelry, because if everyone gave him one piece he could go up two levels. Yeah, dude, as if half the people here aren’t here for jewelcrafting mats.
So I finally made August Palatine. But I’m taking a break from Cyrodiil until they fix the lag. I watched some twitch streamers and it was pretty clear that it wasn’t my isp but rather the new update that did this. Just watched a guy playing a sorc rage quit his stream after spiking into the 200’s and not having his skills go off. Same experience that I have been having. Hope they figure it in the next couple of weeks. I’ve been playing since the last beta and it’s pretty bad. I just got geared up with the new sets from Dragonbones and Summerset so it is disappointing.
Luckily I still have the Morrowind expansion to catch up on.
Oghier
4495
Congrats… that’s an astounding amount of AP! Did you get most of it solo, in small groups or organized AoE Murderballs? :)
As for the lag… I’ve had none in Cyrodiil since the Summerset update. None. I know that’s unusual, and perhaps different CPU’s have or have not taken relative advantage of the changes (8700k here, fwiw). Lag in big fights was what drove me from the game a year ago, and I’m very happy to see it fixed (at least, for some of us).
Oghier
4496
It has been, but it shouldn’t be. I see two issues with Al Akir grinding: 1) The loot is bad and 2) You get almost no experience from the mobs. There are faster, more profitable rotations.
Take a look at Auridon, for example. The travel times from Wayshrine - Dolmen are also very short, and the crowds tend to be much smaller. That means you actually tag most of the critters, and you’ll get far more XP per dolmen. Some of the gear dropped there is also valuable, if you’re CP 160 and get purples. Also, try Deshaan. There, the travel times are slightly longer, but there are two quite valuable sets you can get (Mother’s Sorrow and Plague Doctor).
All solo. My playstyle is really unreliable for group play small or large since I basically permacloak until I find the right target and then try and hit hard and get out quickly because I am ultra squishy. Any stand up fight I will lose.
About the lag though, are you playing NA Vivec? I came back in March or so playing here and there and I was getting my typical 120 ms and even 110ms on occasions. But now since summerset it is 140’s or weirdly 136ms at the best and mostly in the 160s to 180’s with spikes into the red 250ms+ occasionally. I’ve been watching some twitch streamers now and when you can see their latency counter it looks similiar to mine.
The big problem is that good ping is crucial in this game for pvp. I would put it before skills and your build. But who knows, it could just be me. Still getting some CTD’s that I hadn’t experienced for years so I’m suspicious. No addons running. I turned off everything and still same lag and weird CTD’s usually when using a fast travel portal.
But like I said, I bet they will get this fixed and in the mean time I have a lot of CP to catch up on. :)
Oghier
4498
That’s lot of ganking. Stamblade?
My play has been 40% Kyne, 40% Shor and 20% Vivec. I have definitely been in some gigantic blob vs gigantic blob fights on Vivec, though – those are the reasons I guest there. My pings are usually 110’s to 130’s. Not ideal, but I haven’t seen those ugly, multi-second spikes that I remember from a year+ ago.
Many are getting CTD’s since Summerset, though, including me. ZOS has acknowledged it and said they’re working on it.
Not all ganking. Lot’s of hanging around the edges of the zergs as the run back and forth between outposts and keeps.
I used to play melee magick nb. I gave up the dual wield swords finally and went destro/restro. I also just said f**k it and embraced the proc set meta. So I am running Zaans, Caluurians and Mother’s Sorrow. If there is no lag it works pretty well because I can get in somebody’s face and do a lot of damage if they aren’t impen’d to high heaven. The lag has been really bad for me lately since the new expansion. And I mean the baseline lag in off peak hours too. Can’t land a light attack from my destro staff sometimes.
The last 2 years since Dark Brotherhood I honestly haven’t played that much. I try it out every now and then for a few weeks. I skipped Morrowind. Came back recently after a 9 month break. It’s a great game when it isn’t lagging. Something went off the rails though. They were talking about server side processing improvements and using multiple cores for the new update but from my perspective things are much worse than just this last march and April when I started playing again.
Oghier
4502
If you’re a typical newish player with one or two level 50’s (or maybe none), then gathering is probably best. Gather, then sell the raw resources at a guild trader (you need to find a ‘trade guild’). Any class will do.
Grinding packs of mobs with AoE spells is the fastest way to level. However, fast leveling can be a trap if it’s your first character, as you will be bottlnecked by skillpoints. Instead, I recommend just following the primary questlines (the Coldharbour stuff, and your main faction storyline.) That is also a fast way to level, and it will give you enough skill points to avoid being crippled.
In short: Do lots of questing. Pick up every piece of wood, ore, cloth or herb you see and sell it. You’ll level fairly quickly and pile up gold.
Daagar
4503
Sounds like a plot to make you subscribe for the infinite craft mat bag!
So mid-year madness is on (double PvP rewards) and I tried battlegrounds for the first time last night. It was actually a lot of fun. Probably a good time to dip into PvP if anyone hasn’t done so. I’m not a huge fan of the PvE endgame in ESO (trials are too long and tedious IMO, though I haven’t tried any of the new ones) but PvP can be really great when there’s not too much lag.
I’ve been slowly leveling up a Magden since I got back in the game. There are a lot of complaints about how the Magden is underpowered on the official forums, and I can see how that’s true in PvE. In pre-level 50 PvP though, it’s been a blast to play and an absolute terror in battlegrounds. Most people in sub-level 50 PvP are not prepared for the amount of snares/immobilizes that a magden can put down. Running pretty suboptimal gear myself (blue training traited seducer’s + Kags) though that’s probably better than 80% of players in those BGs. I know I’m mostly picking on newbies but for once I can 1vX like people do on streams and videos.
