4971

You will start out near Vivec City in Morrowind after you escape from that prison island.

4972

Last I heard you always start in the most recent expansion you own. No, this isn’t a good idea.

4973

Thanks for the quick replies! I guess I’ll find out soon enough. Maybe I’ll make a Nightblade then. I remember they were like the only class that could straight up go invisible. They also made Cyrodil a nightmare. Not planning on PvP but they did have a bunch of Skyshards there.

4974

I’m not completionist enough to go for those. As is, I have like 80 skill points lying around with nothing much to spend them on that matters to me at all. (I’m not skill capped on everything but I don’t have any desire to level combat trees I’m not using, I’ve maxed all the crafting I actually care about, and the secondary skills like Legerdemain and Dark Brotherhood and the Antiquities ones I’m just not really getting XP for very quickly.) With at least three zones left and a ton of dungeon quests.

4975

This should help.

4976

That is internet gold right there! Exactly what I was looking for.

4977

Everyone, regardless of expansions owned, starts in the same place now - the Isle of Balfiera, a small island within the Iliac Bay .
At the end of the small intro, you get to choose a series of portals, which you will have your choice off, depending on your purchased expansions. Each portal leads to a specific starting area.

4978

I have started playing this again. I have the version up to Elsweyr. I skipped the Tutorial and started a Stamina Warden, seems at the end of the tutorial you can choose your zone (I think) I missed this and was put in Elsweyr. Anyways I am lvl 12 in Elsweyr but should I be doing the Big main quest or just keep ticking along here or does it not really matter.

Any beginner advice.

4979

You can do it in any order you like - So, the short answer is that it doesn’t really matter. It all kinda depends on prefernce, since I doubt you’ll get around to all the zones!
The main areas quests always gives pretty decent rewards, with skill points on top of them. I always do all the quests these days, since they’ve pruned them quite a bit so its more easily attainable to do an entire zone.

4980

Is there still a big main quest lol? I was playing recently too, resumed my character at around L13, also in Elsweyr. I’m focused on finishing the zone and I’m not even sure I have triggered the main quest yet.

I thought it worked a little differently these days, not sure - but in the past it used to dole the quest steps out when you hit certain levels, so I wonder what happens if I start the whole chain now, given I’m overleveled.

Probably just get a bunch in a row I guess.

4981

Yes, the release main quest still exists and you should do it at some point. Lots of skill points. The beauty of ESO is you can pretty much go where you want and do what you want. Everything is completely open.

4982

You can do the whole main quest whenever you want, pretty much. (In order, obviously.)

4983

I think I still have a good quantity of crowns in my account, but I don’t really intend to go back to ESO. Anyone know of a good way of liquidating them?

4984

Turning them into actual cash you mean? No. You can sell them for gold inside ESO, but if you aren’t playing that probably isn’t attractive to you. Anyway if you want to gift me crown store stuff, my character is a hot brunette Breton!

4985

So, these Companions that were added. I understand they take up a party slot. Does that mean if a friend and I were playing, we would be able to do the 4-person dungeons ourselves with our two companions? Or are they pretty ineffective and that’s not going to work?

4986

You can bring them into a dungeon, yes. They’re pretty good healers, mediocre ranged DPS, and terrible tanks.

4987

New patch yesterday adds multithreaded rendering. Like many older games ESO was highly CPU bound; before the patch it would often dip to 80 fps on my 5950X/3080 PC with only like 30% of the GPU being used. After the patch it locks pretty close to 144fps with ~55% of my GPU in use-- and actually uses ~30% of my CPU; since I have 32 vcores that means it’s scaling to maybe 10 cores!

4988

Yeah, the multi-core rendering update greatly improves the framerate for me and many others based on what I see in the forums. I didn’t do any formal testing, but there’s an area in the game where I get around 40 FPS on average; with the new update it’s locked at 60 with vsync turned on.

4989

Guild Wars 2 desperately needs something like that, from what I can tell.

4990

Yes, very common with old games and more evident in MMOs because they often have greatly variable performance with tons of players milling around.