stusser
4849
Lootboxes are on their way out, they’re regarded as gambling in too many locales. Zenimax (or I guess, Microsoft) should recognize reality and adapt to it.
'cause, you know, they’re gambling. :P
Well, they’d certainly get money out of me if they just let me buy the cool mount for cash, but they probably make far more from the whales. Also, I guess they don’t want the rare mounts to be too common.
stusser
4852
Naw, it’s just straight-up monetizing skinner boxes.
Getting back into this a bit in preparation for getting my very own Lydia next month.
You used to have to slot a PvP skill and keep pressing it for a 30% mountspeed buff-- now that’s passive so you get it all the time. Combined with the 50% less aggro passive while mounted from Dark Brotherhood it’s pretty sweet!
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Continuous_Attack
Edit: The mount with +60% from training and +30% from that passive is insanely fast sprinting. By far the fastest ground mount I’ve ever used in a MMO. You can get enough alliance points to pick up the passive by doing the Cyrodil intro quests and the battleground intro quest.
habibi
4854
It is insane. I also find that the Ring of Wild Hunt which let me run equally fast - for those moment when you need to sprint through enemies in Delve.
My understanding is:
100% Normal runspeed
+30% Running while sprinting
+45% Ring of the Wild Hunt out of combat
== 175% of normal runspeed
130% Normal mount speed
+60% from training
+30% Mount sprinting
+30% from that PvP passive
== 250% of normal runspeed
So running while sprinting with the ring is faster than a fully trained mount, but not a fully trained mount sprinting or with the PvP passive. My numbers may be a bit off if they’re multiplicative but the mount is still vastly faster.
There are champion points for run and mountspeed too, I think.
I always sprint through any fight I’m not specifically required to do for whatever it is I’m doing. Delves take maybe 3 minutes.
ESO started a surprise event yesterday, a week of double-everything (XP, Gold, Harvesting). Good time to duck back in!
Razgon
4858
Yup - this will be me tomorrow!
I’ve been hitting it pretty hard for the past week or so. Got my ring of the pale order, which is ridonkulous.
It restores health when you do damage. I was able to solo some dungeons with it on one of my characters.
DeepT
4862
When I am done with the new Subnautica, I was thinking of giving ESO a try again. I played this years ago and played some kind of dragon night.
Anyway, in Skyrim I like playing a stealth mage, mostly because of all the utility. Things like casting frenzy, summoning minions, invisibility, explosive traps, and even casting fireballs.
Is there any kind of class with a lot of utility in it in ESO? I do plan on playing a solo character who will be very casual. Any recommendations? It seems that a magic bases sorcerer is considered one of the best solo classes. Anyone have thoughts on this?
Also is crafting really worth it? I remember liking at first because I could make myself better gear than I could find, but then at some point my crafting lagged behind the gear I was finding and so it seemed to become pointless after a while.
The key to that ring is it has no cooldown. So if you have 5 DoTs running every single tick on each of them will heal you. So you’re basically unkillable unless you get stunlocked or one-shot. I main a magsorc so I’m really unkillable.
You can get away without crafting, but it’ll be very expensive and your gear will never keep up. You really do need to research traits, because you can just create items out of thin air once they bind to your account in your “sticker book” but can only make them with traits you’ve researched. The whole crafting thing is one of my primary complaints about ESO. It’s opaque and annoying and I wish I didn’t have to do it.
The other half is the actual combat mechanics. Switching weapons all the time sucks balls. Light attack weaving is terrible and leads to carpal tunnel to boot. They should fix both of these things.
Also mount training needs to be account-wide.
DeepT
4864
Do all classes need to do this? I can’t deal with that kind of thing.
Yes they do. Well you can skip it, but you lose a ton of damage.
@DeepT If you ask three people to name the best solo class you’ll probably get 4 or 5 answers! Mag Sorc will almost certainly be one of those answers. The skills you want are damage dealing, self healing, and some kind of mitigation. Many classes provide those three in one form or another. Plenty of guides are available on the Internet with more details.
I personally enjoyed crafting in ESO but it will add a lot to your playing time while you gather resources and level up the professions. Leveling crafting requires points that would otherwise go into your combat skill lines so I spread out crafting over several alts. Some people probably try to do it all on one character. Since you are playing casually you shouldn’t out level your ability to use crafted gear if you stick with it. IIRC you won’t be making raid level gear, but most casuals aren’t going to be raiding anyway. You should be able to make good enough gear to do the story line and regular dungeons.
Any class can solo well. You are safe to pick based on flavor. I will say that the simplest classes are sorcs and templars, and the most complex are nightblades and necros. The gap isn’t very wide, though, so you needn’t pick or avoid anything based on that.
One hint if you’re uncertain about what to play: Pick Dark Elf or Khajit as your race. Those two can be optimal for any DPS spec, whether stamina or magicka based. Every class has stamina and magicka builds, and having the flexibility to switch easily can help hedge your bets.
That said, the gap between best race and worst race for a particular class is less than 10%, so pick what appeals.
I’ve seen one bar guides on Youtube that looked viable to me although you can get better results with two weapons once you get the hang of it. Light attack weaving can also boost your damage if you are good at it, but I’ve never been twitchy enough to get good at it. My results on the practice dummy were marginally better to the point where most of the time I just didn’t bother with it and I had no trouble with most PvE content.
