Intimidate and Persuade?

METALPUNKS · April 2014

What exaclty do these do? Do you miss entire parts of a quest by using them? Do you save gold by not having to pay off quest npc's?

I guess ny main question, is it worth the skill points? Also i dont want to miss any of the story or any side quest, does using these skills make you skip stuff even if its not that important ?

Sihnfahl · April 2014

Intimidate and persuade are more 'shortcuts' than anything else. While they aren't NECESSARY, they do open up conversation options you would not otherwise have ... and solutions to a situation that go better for you.

In some quests, you can intimidate folks, so you don't have to fight them; they just get cowed and give up. In other quests, a bit of persuasion means they'll give you information you'd otherwise have to run around and find...

Nightblade · April 2014

They can also save you a spot of gold on the odd occasion

LandoMoonHunter · April 2014

Yup

Bushranger · April 2014

@Sihnfahl has it right. The Intimidate and Persuade skills are essentially Elder Scrolls Online's Speechcraft/Charisma skills.

LandoMoonHunter · April 2014

Yes sir indeed

Frail_Old_Man · April 2014

They're worth it. So much easier to get some quests done.

Alyrn_Grey · April 2014

I had my first prompt for them from the level 15 prophet quest. There you ask towns folk about someone strange and you and persuade one and intimidate the other for more information.

Darka · April 2014

How do you gain those abilities?
I had no idea they existed until i saw it and found out i couldnt click

Terminus · April 2014

Darka wrote: »

How do you gain those abilities?
I had no idea they existed until i saw it and found out i couldnt click

@Darka,
These abilities are the first unlocked from the Mage's and Fighter's Guild.
It really is worth investing in at least ONE of these passive abilities,
I put my skillpoints in them as soon as I had 2 available.

It's unbelievable how much time and energy they can save you!
They need to be worth it if you spend a skillpoint in them!

zamiel · April 2014

Frail_Old_Man wrote: »

They're worth it. So much easier to get some quests done.

That's the reason why they're absolutely not worth it.
You miss out a ton of xp and some quests for using these 'shortcuts'. So yeah, go ahead, but in the long run you're shafting only yourself.

If there were quests that cannot be completed/started without them they would worth it, but currently you are only locking yourself out from loot/xp and exploration.

Jonplummer99b14_ESO · April 2014

Both of these abilities are well worth the points..

PBpsy · April 2014

They save gold sometimes or save you the trouble of doing some pretty stupid fetch me 5 piles of guar manure type quest steps. For two points I think it it was worth it. From a RP point of view it is interesting to have them . There were a couple of times when I chose to not be an ass and in intimidate the poor ***.

Draconiuos · April 2014

zamiel wrote: »

Frail_Old_Man wrote: »

They're worth it. So much easier to get some quests done.

That's the reason why they're absolutely not worth it.
You miss out a ton of xp and some quests for using these 'shortcuts'. So yeah, go ahead, but in the long run you're shafting only yourself.

If there were quests that cannot be completed/started without them they would worth it, but currently you are only locking yourself out from loot/xp and exploration.

Yes, because the random green that is more common than white loot , and maybe 100xp is so worth my 5 minutes+ it might take to do the odd side quest to get info. By having these skills I have saved close to 250+ gold, not a lot but more than the odd green I might have gotten from a pointless side quest.

ceera_rayhne · January 2017

Well if you have pursuasion in Lesser of two evils,

you don't have to kill Rana when she eats the Thrall.

Dawnblade · January 2017

The only thing that annoys me about these passives are the quests where not having them means you MUST fork over more gold to progress the quest than the quest will reward.

Otherwise I could care less, a couple of characters with more skill points than they will ever need have them unlocked, others don't, and it doesn't really seem matter other than at times a quest may take a bit longer to finish.

ZOS_CoriJ · January 2017

We're closing this thread as it's pretty old and outdated. Since the subject matter itself is still relevant, we have left the most recent comments. You are welcome to make a new thread on this topic if you would like to continue discussion.