Is Shalidor's "Gift" after completing the Mage Guild quest line bugged!? <SPOILERS>

Grim13 · April 2014

I chose to not accept the book from Sheogorath... and outside, after, Shalidor offers me a gift... I levitate like I'm getting a skyshard, Shalidor does some magic, and NOTHING HAPPENS. Nothing changes!? Was I supposed to get skill points? A spell tome? WHAT!?

ArgonianAssassin · April 2014

Same here except I never levitated. I think his gift is that everything you read, you keep, like everything you read becomes a lore book that you can go back and look at it, which makes sense with what he says when you talk to him.

Zab101 · April 2014

Eidetic memory shows up in the Journal, under lore books I believe, after completion of the quest. You do not get any skill points if you decided to have Valaste cured. Only if you send her with the Mad God do you get the 2 skill points. Do the noble, morale thing and get gimped. Nice quest.

ArgonianAssassin · April 2014

Zab101 wrote: »

Eidetic memory shows up in the Journal, under lore books I believe, after completion of the quest. You do not get any skill points if you decided to have Valaste cured. Only if you send her with the Mad God do you get the 2 skill points. Do the noble, morale thing and get gimped. Nice quest.

Yeah it is kinda sh*t, isn't it?

Peacewalker · April 2014

Damn, I should have send that girl with the Mad God now I've got 2 skill points less than other players great.

poochie · April 2014

Even if ya choose the book Shalidor still gives the player that lore book ability...

Grim13 · April 2014

poochie wrote: »

Even if ya choose the book Shalidor still gives the player that lore book ability...

Damn, now I feel extra put out! Next character... she goes with Sheogorath.

sflanagan21ub17_ESO · April 2014

Zab101 wrote: »

Eidetic memory shows up in the Journal, under lore books I believe, after completion of the quest. You do not get any skill points if you decided to have Valaste cured. Only if you send her with the Mad God do you get the 2 skill points. Do the noble, morale thing and get gimped. Nice quest.

Can anyone confirm this? Man this this suck.

Talk about getting bent over by the Mad God and a jabbawack shoved up my a**.

tilolyen_ESO · April 2014

Are you friggan kidding me? I choose to save the girl and I got a crappy green staff and I am a DPS. Wow, 2 skill points I wish I can get back.

PBpsy · April 2014

Skill points are a dime a dozen If you do all the sky shards and quests for all 3 factions so I don't really see it as some major handicap. She was saved because my character refuses to be a daedric puppet even though it is clearly pointless.

The game also strongly implies that form the main quest line and the guilds the story might not be exactly over and in the future we might see some sort of consequences to our actions.

ThatHappyCat · April 2014

I think it's an awesome choice. Actually makes you think: do you want power, or do you want to do the right thing? Assuming you care about such things of course, but for those of us that do it is, IMO, very good design.

And to be honest I don't much care about those 2 skill points, I already have a bunch of spares lying around and don't see myself needing much more; while there's still like a few hundred points for me to collect.

Sergeant_Novak · April 2014

PBpsy wrote: »

Skill points are a dime a dozen If you do all the sky shards and quests for all 3 factions so I don't really see it as some major handicap. She was saved because my character refuses to be a daedric puppet even though it is clearly pointless.

The game also strongly implies that form the main quest line and the guilds the story might not be exactly over and in the future we might see some sort of consequences to our actions.

Agreed. Skill points are very valuable early on, but at the levels when you're doing quests like Mad God's bargain, you are probably swimming with unused skill points. For me I can never seem to have less than 5 spare at this point.

Kroin · April 2014

Sergeant_Novak wrote: »

PBpsy wrote: »

Skill points are a dime a dozen If you do all the sky shards and quests for all 3 factions so I don't really see it as some major handicap. She was saved because my character refuses to be a daedric puppet even though it is clearly pointless.

The game also strongly implies that form the main quest line and the guilds the story might not be exactly over and in the future we might see some sort of consequences to our actions.

Agreed. Skill points are very valuable early on, but at the levels when you're doing quests like Mad God's bargain, you are probably swimming with unused skill points. For me I can never seem to have less than 5 spare at this point.

i have 19 unused skill point right now, and i dident sent her with him.

mndfreeze · April 2014

Sounds like a typical choice coming from an ES game. Both oblivion and skyrim were full of 'screw the good guy out of loot and shiz' options. Sometimes it pays to be a power hungry evil cannibalistic daedra worshiper. =D

mndfreeze · April 2014

Oh and I would FULLY expect much later in the game after who knows how many updates and addons, etc that the choices now will have some effect later. All you have to do is look at the world map to see just how many countries (or whatever they would be called) are missing to see the amount of future content ideally planned.

bloodenragedb14_ESO · April 2014

i love uncle sheo, but im a mage, and a upstanding member of the guild, and the guild needs Valaste. im hoping my choice to keep her will positively effect future expansions.

Mddnick · April 2014

Valaste is cool and totally worth saving. I'm hoping she helps me find lorebooks later or something.

As for the reward, if you press j and go to the books section you're character now memorizes EVERYTHING they have ever read. And it shows you how many more books you have left to find. Its kind of a neat thing for us completionists and lorewhores.

Malediktus · April 2014

The eidetic memory is bugged to uselessness. Its supposed to do what you just explained, but its all bugged:
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/81050/eidetic-memory-bugged-to-uselessness-gamebreaking-possible-spoilers

Frail_Old_Man · April 2014

Ahh, so happy I never do the right thing and always go for the personal gain.
Makes me so happy. I feel sorry for you upstanding goody peoples.

Pyatra · April 2014

I enjoyed the hard decision.

Singular · April 2014

Zab101 wrote: »

Eidetic memory shows up in the Journal, under lore books I believe, after completion of the quest. You do not get any skill points if you decided to have Valaste cured. Only if you send her with the Mad God do you get the 2 skill points. Do the noble, morale thing and get gimped. Nice quest.

I knew this, and sent her with the mad god, and did not get the skill points. I'm kind of annoyed

Vashta_Nera42 · July 2014

You have to read the book from your inventory to get the skill points.

kewl · July 2014

I heartlessly slaughtered Uncle Sheo's entire family in The Chateau of the Ravenous Rodent. Giving him Valaste was the least I could do. It had noting to do with the skill points.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · August 2014

I saved Valaste. There are enough quests that make me arbitrarily screw over an NPC without adding to the total. My only concern is that she's going to end up working herself to death again, and dragging her on an epic bar crawl afterwards to get her to relax and socialize wasn't an option.