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The Environment Can Be Your Armor
I found something interesting in a dragon fight. The dragon landed on top of a tower -high ground- fire everywhere, chaos like always. Most players would stay back or try to outlast the damage.
Instead, I found a tree. I stood just behind it and kept firing. The dragon attacked – fire, flame and everything – but it never touched me.
Not because I was stronger.
Not because I had better gear.
Because the tree was between us. That’s when it hit me.… the environment isn’t just something you fight in.
It’s something you fight with. One step to the side, and I would’ve been burned. One step behind cover and I could attack freely.
Same fight.
Different outcome.
I didn’t change my build.
I changed my position.
And that changed everything.
- AshenArcanist
4/17/2026
Instead, I found a tree. I stood just behind it and kept firing. The dragon attacked – fire, flame and everything – but it never touched me.
Not because I was stronger.
Not because I had better gear.
Because the tree was between us. That’s when it hit me.… the environment isn’t just something you fight in.
It’s something you fight with. One step to the side, and I would’ve been burned. One step behind cover and I could attack freely.
Same fight.
Different outcome.
I didn’t change my build.
I changed my position.
And that changed everything.
- AshenArcanist
4/17/2026
Re: The Silence On Antiquity Leads Is Defeaning!
I've literally progged hardmodes/trifectas in less time than it's taken me to get a lead I've actively been chasing. This feels very backwards and the system needs to change. Nobody is asking for things to be handed to them, what we want is a proper sense of progression and to get a fair reward for time/effort spent. I would love to see some sort of pity system or alternative ways to get a lead we want to work towards. I have tried for the bastion nymic lead 2-3x a day almost every day for over a year and still have not gotten it. This kind of rng is just unfun and frustrating, especially for leads you cannot farm alone (dungeons, trials, etc).
My 2nd iteration of Glyphic Secrets took me over 100 Bastian Nymics to drop from the reward coffers, after finidng all other leads.
From my own observations, leads from coffers typically have a much higher chance once you've dug up associated leads. Nymics (one of the dullest pieces of content in the game) seems to be the exception.
I'm not looking forward to grinding another 100, once I've finished grinding The Cataloger (Coming up on 4 dozen kills).
Re: Sheogorath as a one-dimensional character
6 quests it was, I think? How long did the questline take? 3 hours or more?
Yeah, 6 quests. I didn’t time how long it took me but it was doable in one sitting even with listening to almost all the dialogue. Story DLC and Chapter main quests historically took me 2-3 days.
Soarora
4
Re: Can we please have some "down time"?
the seasonal challenges are not required to do immediately, you have the whole season for most of them.
only exception is the Jubilee challenge, but still we had 14 days for that one.
only exception is the Jubilee challenge, but still we had 14 days for that one.
Re: Can we please have some "down time"?
tomofhyrule wrote: »So… why did you have to get all 1000 kills and 100 bosses immediately?
You have literally three months for those. Those are going to be active until a month after the next update releases. There is the opposite of a rush for those things.
You had all of that time to just play, but you chose to grind it out ASAP. There’s a difference.
The reason they’re doing a short Pursuit is that this is the “get hyped for the Night Market” one, and then we’ll get another Pursuit then dealing with the Night Market. That one will last the entire length of the Night Market, until June 17.
So if you don’t want to grind it out immediately, then don’t. You have seven weeks.
... because running around just killing things is not my normal gameplay. If I don't do it when it comes out, it won't get done.
Sorry to be inconvenient.
Re: Can we please have some "down time"?
Umbracat449 wrote: »But, you think zos IS telling you how to play?
Yes. I run a trading guild - that means 30 sets of daily writs across 2 accounts to barely have enough gold to run my guild.
I'd like to note that none of the Tome Challenges reward daily crafting writs.
I'd also love to be doing housing more - again not rewarded by any current "challenge".
I'd love to have more officers in my guild to help out - but no one is even willing to give 1 hour a week to the guild. I've been asking for years. While my current officers are leaving the game.
So yes, ZOS IS telling me how to play. The Tomes and Pursuits funnel your play to certain activities - this is one way all MMOs direct play.
Don't tell me to re-roll Tome Challenges - I do, and get the same or similar challenges 3-5x IN A ROW. Good for you people who get different things, I do not, on either account.
Re: PSA for those unhappy with "forced grouping" GP -->
Chilly-McFreeze wrote: »Doesn't having a companion out counts as grouped anymore?
In this specific case it doesn't. It specifically states "grouped with at least 1 other player".
Just tested it out
"defeat x world bosses while grouped" works with companions even if it states "with another player"
"complete x dungeons while grouped" & "kill x foes while grouped" don't work with a companion.
However, I can't tell if "grouped" or "with another player" is somehow affected by other players in joining the combat encounter. I highly doubt it and think it's just inconsistent wording.
Re: Challenge not complete error message.
Does this still occur with add-ons diabled? Do you perhaps accidentally have both the 'Auto-Claim Tome Points' and 'Tomes Tracker' add-ons trying to claim the same Challenge at the same time? I think that's what let to the message for me.
I didn't think about addons because I never installed any addons related with challenges. In fact I don't add new addons for ages. But if what's happening in my game isn't normal, then most likely, some of my old addons got updated and forced this thing without my knowledge. Since a few days ago the challenges started to be auto-colaimed. But I don't like it and I didn't install anything to do that.
NeoniKa
1
Re: Challenge not complete error message.
Does this still occur with add-ons diabled? Do you perhaps accidentally have both the 'Auto-Claim Tome Points' and 'Tomes Tracker' add-ons trying to claim the same Challenge at the same time? I think that's what let to the message for me.
JeroenB
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Re: why make subclassing if passives work only with pure class?
Just remember that zos has been saying we need vengeance and must streamline skills and combat as a whole for performance. Then immediately after, we see them add new layers of power creep and effects to calculate on the server.
No wonder we need a mini cyrodil so they can cut the max pvp population in half again. If zos has to cut faction sizes down from 100, it is probably going to be 60 players or 48 players a faction.............Guys this used to be a usual pvp guild group size back in the day.......At a certain point we will start seeing pve overland zones lag just as bad.
No wonder we need a mini cyrodil so they can cut the max pvp population in half again. If zos has to cut faction sizes down from 100, it is probably going to be 60 players or 48 players a faction.............Guys this used to be a usual pvp guild group size back in the day.......At a certain point we will start seeing pve overland zones lag just as bad.
