4608

I wasn’t sure where to post this…
I really like these in depth analysis videos.

4609

Nice house and wolf @draxen ! I only have the smallest of rooms at a few inns, but I enjoy unlocking recpies for crafting furniture and stuff. I love how I get to play a bit of The Sims inside ESO… =)

By the way, what is the UFO-thingie that keeps appearing in Glenumbra? There’s always this ominous sound, and a UFO-looking thing is in the sky, spinning around with… chains? I’ll try to post a screen tonight if no one knows what I’m talking about

4610

Those are Dolmens: https://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Dark+Anchors

4611

Whenever a dolmen appears you should head towards it. They start a short event that consists of a number of waves of creatures. At the end is a boss-like creature, and if you defeat that one, you get a chest.

There’s 3(?) dolmens in each zone. In Summerset they’re called geysers and look different, but they work the same way.

As you’re leveling you can beat one of these with three or four players. I’ve done it with one other person, and some builds can do it by themselves when they have good gear.

There are zones where players go from dolmen to dolmen, endlessly farming them - Alik’r Desert is the main one (because all 3 dolmens in that zone are really close to waypoints). People in that zone use a mod that automatically invites anyone to their group if they type a certain character in zone chat - it’s often x, or y or z. That’s why, if you go to Alik’r, you see people saying those characters in zone chat.

One reason this is popular is that the mobs in dolmens give Fighter Guild reputation. One way to max out your Fighter Guild reputation is to do the entire FG questline, and then farm dolmens in Alik’r.

4612

Darn, missed that one, was before I got back into the game. Draxen’s wolf looks to be the super rare one with the particle effects though. And as we’ve seen from TF2, the acquisition of particle effects is the true endgame.

4613

Oh, thanks @Charlatan and @Ironsight !
I only do dungeons and beasts (or whatever the skull with bones behind is called) if I’m near it and see a lot of other players around, so I guess it’ll be the same for Dolmens then.
Really just luck, it seems, how many other players are around for me. I have this quest back in Vvardenfell where I have to kill a beast, and I’ve been hanging around that cave for maybe 30 minutes without anyone ever approaching, while suddenly in other areas like Glenumbra, I just stumble upon 20 other players on one and we finish it off in 20 seconds.
Really wish they had something like a group finder for some quests, like in the Division.

4614

The “beasts” are called world bosses.

And FWIW, with a decent build you should be able to solo “Delves” (the torch icon) - I used to wait for another player or two to come along to tackle the bosses in those and then realized I didn’t need the support. Public dungeons, though (there’s usually maybe one of those on a given map) are designed as group content the way the instanced dungeons are.

4615

The previous patch broke one of the weapons I was relying on in battlegrounds (fixed now), so I’ve been playing in Cyrodiil in the past week. Not sure if the imperial city event is siphoning some of the ball groups underground in NA Vivec, but it has been a very pleasant experience. Minimal lag, and a very tight race between the 3 factions.

4616

Wow, great so far. I agree with the author that Daggerfall is the series at its height.

4617

So there was an event where if X number of people complete a Summerset achievement, everyone who owns Summerset will get a pet/mount/house. It was likely guaranteed to begin with, but still generated a lot of participation. Anyway, login before Oct 7th if you have Summerset to get the freebies.

4618

“The 100% completion goal on the Summerfall Event progress meter is a goal-post we set when designing this event that we believe our players have a high likelihood of reaching. We want our players to have fun with this event and successfully earn all three event rewards, and we chose a goal with that in mind.”

So, yeah. Still, a fun little bonus.

4619

I own the base game…what do I need to buy to have EVERYTHING?

4620

They also didn’t cheap out on the house. It’s huge, beautiful, and empty, So empty. Luckily there are some $30 furniture packs coming up!

To be fair though, you can also buy furniture with in game gold (matching Alinor furniture is expensive though), and this type of vanity monetization is probably the best type of monetization.

4621

This collection, forty bucks. That gets you all the major expansions including Summerset.

https://account.elderscrollsonline.com/store/product/eso_collection

That doesn’t include Clockwork City, which is a large DLC with an entire zone. That will cost another $16 in “crowns”.

It also doesn’t include three of the dungeon packs, with 2 dungeons apiece, but they don’t have any open-world content so you can skip 'em. I wouldn’t skip Clockwork City, but you can delay buying it for a long-ass time with the content in that collection.

4622

If you want the “freebies” from this event, just need to buy Summerset and login before Oct 7th.

4623

If anyone does decide to rejoin ESO then come join us in the Quarter To Three guild. Myself, Charlatan and Pagan are feeling kind of lonely :)

4624

That ESO collection looks like a hell of a deal. If you’re only missing Summerset, or want to jump in to Morrowind before dropping some more coin, Fanatical is running a few “best price ever” deals today.

4625

That’s only Morrowind, so you’re also missing the 4 big DLCs, two of which I consider absolutely essential; the Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild.

4626

Just a heads up for everyone, but the newest DLC is Murkmire and although it’s available for 2000 Crowns (or about $20 in real money) it’s also in the Daily Reward list for this month. It’s on the 24th slot, so if you log in each day and claim your reward, you should still have enough days to get the DLC for free this way.

4627

Man, this was my last hope. I’ve always been an MMO guy but ESO broke me after 2 days. Other than the fact that I can’t seem to hit an enemy if they are on terrain a foot higher or lower than me, it’s just not grabbing me at all. I picked up the whole kit and kaboodle for $40, so it’s not a horrible loss, but I simply can’t grasp why I don’t like it. (Besides the guy that was chasing me around telling me he was a teenage girl and deserves free things…no really, he’s a teenage girl.) Whatever, I’ve been around the block too much.

That might be why it’s not grabbing me, in the past I’ve played, alphabetically…

A Tale in the Desert, Aion, ArcheAge, Black Desert, Blade and Soul, Champions Online, DC Universe, EVE, Fallen Earth, Final Fantasy XIV, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Lord of the Rings Online (for a long time), Mabinogi, The Matrix Online, Neverwinter, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Rift, Star Trek Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Star Wars Galaxies (for a long time), TERA, Uncharted Waters Online, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft (for a very long time), Wurm and WWII Online.

And now Elder Scrolls Online. Perhaps I’ve just seen too much. I would have thought with my love for the lore of Oblivion and Skyrim that ESO would have been perfect to just fool around reading things and listening to NPC’s and fighting baddies, but the fighting is so bad. So bad. There are worse fighting systems in a lot of the above list but this is still pretty lousy.

I wasn’t a huge fan of how it dropped me in Summerset as a new character, but I get it, everything scales, etc etc. I figured out a way to get to my ‘home’ city and started the game hanging out with Dumbledore, it’s fine. It throws waaaaay too many quest markers at you at one time, it doesn’t do a great job of explaining combat, crafting, or anything important to you, so I had to read about them. I’m tired of reading about how to play something.

I think this is finally the real end of my MMO time. Still have 28 days of ESO+ going if anyone cares to even attempt to get me to see it differently.