stusser
4991
There’s a reason why ESO is so popular these days. It’s a player friendly game.
habibi
4992
Oh man! I can finally get the damn Maelstrom inferno staff!
stusser
4993
This actually opens up a potential avenue for farming and then reselling. You simply loot and bind all the items you don’t want, and then you’re guaranteed to loot that inferno staff every time. So I would expect prices to plummet.
The beauty of ESO is that the devs know that and don’t care. They aren’t trying to get you to login every day for months on end. They only want us to play when it’s fun, when there’s content we want to explore and enjoy.
Removing random loot drops in a MMO-- that is a hugely ballsy move.
habibi
4994
Yeah… now is the time to sell those weapons and armors that I’m hoarding, lol!
Does it apply to Motifs though? I have also been farming for that Minotaur chest for the longest time too.
stusser
4995
I believe they’re in the collection system so I would assume so.
stusser
4996
As of today, if you own Blackwood you have 14 days to claim the Deadlands DLC free as part of a promotion. You also get a ton of other free stuff the community unlocked.
Thanks for the heads-up!
Man, when will I find time to play this? You know your backlog is bad when it starts to include MMOs.
stusser
4998
I catch-up every couple of years, and there’s a bunch of new zones with fully voiced dialogue and cutscenes and whatnot to explore. Beauty of a B2P MMO.
More on the update that will revamp the loot system.
With Update 32, in most cases, when an item set drops from a monster, the system will try to give you something that you don’t already own. This change greatly reduces the randomness of your rewards, with each subsequent drop further reducing the potential variation until you’ve collected every piece within a set.
“The goal was to reduce pain associated with chasing specific items, but not to completely trivialize those efforts. The loot tables themselves have not been altered, so items are still acquired from the same sources as before. It’s always been possible, for example, for randomly appearing chests in a dungeon to drop set items normally looted from bosses in that dungeon. We don’t curate the drops from those chests because the required effort to open them is minimal relative to defeating a boss. Reward chests from arenas and incursions (World Events), however, are directly tied to defeating bosses, so those drops are curated based on your collections.”
stusser
5001
Don’t know why they call that a gameplay trailer when it’s all cinematics. Anyway, the Deadlands patch is out today. I haven’t checked out the new areas yet, but I did play around with DLSS/DLAA and the armory, good stuff.
The Morrowind DLC is now free to own for all players.
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/61935
Starting right now and for the foreseeable future, your ESO account has access to the Morrowind DLC upon logging into the game. Note that if your account does not appear to have access to the DLC, you can pick it up from the DLC section of the in-game Crown Store at no cost.
This change gives you permanent access to the Vvardenfell zone and storyline, including access to the Halls of Fabrication Trial and the upcoming High Isle Prologue questline (more on that in the future). Note that this does not give you access to the Warden class.
I believe they bundled it with every new purchase for, like, 5 years so that makes sense.
New expansion is out today.
Seeing the release had me thinking I might come back to ESO after about 18 months off. It’s probably been my favorite MMO over the years. I “think” Blackwood would be part of an ESO Plus sub now so that would give me new content to explore. I’m usually a year behind the chapters anyway so waiting on High Isle would be no big deal. The thought of having to respec 5 level 50’s for skills and champion points is a bit daunting, but there is no rush on doing it I guess. Decisions, decisions…
Yes, blackwood should be on ESO+ now. You also get companions there, which are a huge deal.
I’ve never played ESO, created an account years ago that I just got reset, but not sure which version of High Isle I should buy since you guys make it sound like a lot of the previous expansions are free in the in-game store. Also, can you start in High Isle with a new toon or do you have to level up in some starter area first?
Resubbed this this on my Series X last week so I’m looking forward to companions, though I’ll prob grab High Isle soon anyway. Once I get in a groove this game is just sweetness. The story is fine, prob not FF14 levels, but the world is much more open than FF14 which I enjoy.
@John_Reynolds, like @stusser said all DLC is free to subs except the most recent. I think you get questlines to the different DLC hubs, but I’m not sure honestly. Or maybe you can jump to the various hubs via the beginning tutorial too. Seems like that works, but I haven’t done one in a while.
Right, the old expansions are free if you subscribe, if you’re free2play you simply purchase them. Best way to do that is actually to subscribe for a couple of months, as you get a bunch of the premium currency every month you sub.
