Bonus items

Ranadicus · March 2014

Bonus items like the vanity pet and the Pledge of Mara can only be used on a single character? Really? You do understand we play more than one character right? I mean, you do understand a MMO is a dynamic world and subject to change right?

In WoW I made a Paladin as my main but eventually my guild ended up needing DPS in end game so I wound up playing a Hunter instead. If they gave us one time use bonus items they would have been wasted.

Honestly this is just plain stupid, why would you restrict the bonus items like this?

TyarVaroo · March 2014

I agree. Only being able to use the items once in your entire profile, not just per character really bums me out as well. As well as the fact that I haven't received all my CE items yet, not the early-access bonuses.

I'm not sure if there's something wrong as in a bug yet, but I do feel a bit cheated out.

Hope there'll be some sort of a fix for this later on.

donheyb16_ESO · March 2014

All of your characters share the same bank account. Items that can be stored there can be accessed by all of your characters. Mailing items to yourself might work too.

TheBusStop · March 2014

I really don't like it, partially because I deleted my char with my monkey, who is now lost forever, there wasn't even a warning anywhere that it was a once use thing

Mopar63 · March 2014

I agree the standard in the industry is the bonus items are available once per character. Now I understand what they are striving for to make these items unique in game and IF they never put them in the store then I will appreciate their position more. However I would like to see them giving notice and making them items appear in a joint bank so they can be used on the character you want easily.

TyarVaroo · March 2014

Mopar63 wrote: »

I agree the standard in the industry is the bonus items are available once per character. Now I understand what they are striving for to make these items unique in game and IF they never put them in the store then I will appreciate their position more. However I would like to see them giving notice and making them items appear in a joint bank so they can be used on the character you want easily.

I have to say, I actually don't agree on you there. I've payed extra money for some CE items to use on my characters. I won't be playing just one character the entire time, I'll have multiple. So when I want to use some items I've received for paying extra for them, I feel like I don't need to do some trading between characters OR pay again in an in-game store for something I already paid for.

I loved the beta of this game for the freedom, now I feel restricted and have to check everything twice before I do something. To make sure I won't do anything stupid by accident.

Indoril_Daemion · March 2014

Couldn't agree more with the OP, and made a poll to see if we can show Zenimax Online how we feel about it. If we get enough support, maybe they'll change how the item works.

Here's the link to the poll: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/62406/should-the-pledge-of-mara-item-have-unlimited-uses-restricted-to-once-per-character

Tiyamel · March 2014

i agree, i made my 1st character as a mule/alt not realising it would lock my bonus items to that character only, oh well guess i'll make it my main lol

Falmie · March 2014

I agree. I want to delete my character because I made a mistake and didn't notice until now. But I already used the Pledge of Mara and if I delete this character I can't get another. u.u

Tinfey · March 2014

This problem gets even worse given the BUG that you (at least me) were not able to zoom in your character on first time creation. A lot of people were very unhappy when zooming ingame for the first time and deleted their char and now all the bonus items are gone as well.

tibersep · March 2014

they should be granted to every alt you have - like every other game every created does

hackedwowb16_ESO · March 2014

bonus items are not locked to the toon that gets them - just bank them and retrieve with another toon BUT the rings / pledge of mara is afaik a ONE time item for one toon only so u have to be careful who u use that on the pets and maps can all be banked and swapped around - but as said u gotta make sure u do not delete said char b4 banking things, and i did notice 'early' this morning that zen had put a warning on the log in screen saying double check and deposit any collector items before deleting so they do know about this, but tbh its a learning curve and something new means again we as a player have to think instead of going mindless grind / drones

Kyosji · March 2014

They had this posted for a while, both on the launch screen, and a few other places. Granted, not right away, but it was up rather quick afterwards:

Please ensure that you do not delete a character that has retrieved Imperial Edition or Standard Edition items out of the mail until you put the items in the bank. If you have accidentally deleted your Imperial Edition or Standard Edition items, please contact support: https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/ask

Sarajlija · March 2014

Tinfey wrote: »

This problem gets even worse given the BUG that you (at least me) were not able to zoom in your character on first time creation. A lot of people were very unhappy when zooming ingame for the first time and deleted their char and now all the bonus items are gone as well.

Got that problem too, couldn't zoom in the face and edit it as I wanted. So I just picked some random face.