It sucks liking fantasy games and being a biologist at the same time, some creature designs are either too cartoony or miss small things (proportion/detail-wise) that would make a huge difference, immersion speaking. But that's just me I guess. I've already told my feedback, I hope it's heard. Werewolves don't always need to have "Monsters Design Tropes".

Zerith was gloriously written. After the trajectory that ESO's writing has been on, it's nice to see that there are still some lines that they can knock it out of the park.

I actually have an entire character idea specifically because Zerith got me interested in that part of the lore.

Garrus Sharp is still my ride-or-die, and Basti is my bro back home, but it felt really good to bring Zerith along. I hope that the next set of Companions we get (pls new Classes!) will be much more along the Zerith side in terms of story as opposed to the Tanlorin side.

Erickson9610 wrote: »

I'm going to compare the werewolf puns in this article to the werewolf puns made in the Update 42 patch notes. Maybe I'll make a tier list ranking the best ones.

I may update this when we get the full Update 50 patch notes, but going off of the Update 42 Patch Notes and the Werewolf Update thread for Update 50, here is my current ranking of the werewolf puns. I chose 7 puns from each, so see if you can recognize which comes from where!

Overall, I'm lycan these puns a lot. I maul for them. I know that I was a bit bitter about them during Update 42, especially the joke about Terrified helping you mark your prey (when it actually has no visual indicator in-game), but I'm glad the devs are having fun with these. Howl about that!

And while it may be a Criminal Act to become a Werewolf, rumor has it that lycanthropy can be spread with just claws, fangfully. I hope this infectious humor will have you all howling!

@ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_Erin @ZOS_GinaBruno

Yeah not going to get worked up over pixels in a video game that primarily revolves around *killing pixels*. There are quests that tell us to kill and outright murder people. Savage werewolfs slaughtering villagers. Vampires draining their victims of blood. Torture. Slavery. Theft. Crazed cults sucking our souls out. An *ongoing war* that we are encouraged to directly participate in.

Not to mention, the game has numerous provisioning items and furnishing items *made of* parts of critters. Some of the armor our characters wear is made of their fur.

Livestock and hunting and fishing and the like are... pretty normal things in a medieval fantasy world. If one doesn't want to kill critters, one can certainly avoid doing so.

Personally I'll continue to play the game my way (where every one of my characters has a story and different motivations and acts differently - one is a vegan bosmer, another is a sneaky hunter, another is a noble paladin who tries to do no harm, one is an evil vampire, while another is a thief - it's fantasy folks. I am actually none of these things in real life.) and try to save my moral outrage for actual issues IRL.

I will say that it's unfortunate that zos introduced this task in a bugged state and I'm looking forward to it being fixed so folks can move into some of the instanced areas and the overland slaughter can calm down a bit (but this will also happen naturally as the I MUST FINISH THIS TASK RIGHT NOW crowd starts to finish).

Praying Dibella and not Sheogorath helps the Vestige with their pickup lines for the new flirts.

argyro wrote: »

i'm glad the team is taking feedback on the visuals into account and are making changes and so far they do look better, but if we're going for a big model upgrade, i feel like the face still just doesn't read as a were-wolf. i think adding a little extra fluff around the upper cheeks would go a LONG way to give it that signature square face shape wolves have, especially if we're keeping the mohawk hair on top. something kind of like this (just a quick edit to kind of show what i mean, maybe not this intense but just for the sake of getting a visual), which would also make it look a bit more similar to the cinematic werewolves we're all huge fans of while not having too big an impact on the runtime.

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The fluff on the side of the face definitely does make the fluff on top of the head look better and less like a mohawk.

I have to agree with most posters here, that haircut is very particular. It takes away from the sleek predator aesthetic. The grain of the hair should be following the direction of motion, not stand at an angle to it. Except if Hircine is also the Prince of hair spray, I didn't check up on the lore there.

Having pvp and pve not separated is slowly killing this game from the inside out.

This game just cannot keep nerfing things in pve just because it's too much in pvp. Or ruining pvp to support more players being able to do the end game content.

Keeping two such fundamentally different play styles and skill requirements linked makes zero sense.