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Meanma

Reached maximum level in Provisioning on my first character and did so at level fifteen. Wohooo! All ingredients and recipes were gathered by myself. Love cooking both in and out of games. Always the first profession I choose, followed by alchemy.

babylon

Xendyn

Meanma wrote: »

Reached maximum level in Provisioning on my first character and did so at level fifteen. Wohooo! All ingredients and recipes were gathered by myself. Love cooking both in and out of games. Always the first profession I choose, followed by alchemy.

Grats on that

babylon wrote: »

Sup dude.

I hate maint days. Not even Natch Potes to look forward to.
Bleh

JD2013

Good lord, I thought this thread had disappeared into Oblivion!

Hello all! Hope you're well! been busy with work and levelling my Imperial NB (hit V1 last night) in time for Thieves Guild.

Xendyn

JD2013 wrote: »

Good lord, I thought this thread had disappeared into Oblivion!

Hello all! Hope you're well! been busy with work and levelling my Imperial NB (hit V1 last night) in time for Thieves Guild.

Ha! I've been doing the same. My Khajiit is heading toward V14.
(I want to PLAY NOW!)

freespirit

JD2013

Xendyn wrote: »

JD2013 wrote: »

Good lord, I thought this thread had disappeared into Oblivion!

Hello all! Hope you're well! been busy with work and levelling my Imperial NB (hit V1 last night) in time for Thieves Guild.

Ha! I've been doing the same. My Khajiit is heading toward V14.
(I want to PLAY NOW!)

Wow that's awesome! Grats on nearly V14! (It just didn't feel right having my sorcerer being a member of the Thieves Guild haha)

Yeah, maintenance is taking a long time. I assume it has to do with Thieves Guild next week.

UrQuan

Being super ridiculously swamped at work over the last few weeks put me on a forced forum break... But work has now gotten back to normal, so I'm back to annoy you all once more! Bwa ha ha!

So, bit of a fun story from last night. I was running a guild group dungeons event. We initially had 7 people turn out for it, so we decided we'd split into 2 groups to do the silver pledge: 1 group of 4 that would scale up to VR16 using the group finder (that group included 1 VR16, and the others were lower level, including one who was non-vet), and 1 group of 3 that included myself, another VR16 and a VR15.

As it turned out, the group of 3 happened to be 3 people who enjoy screwing around, taking our time to explore everything, looting everything, joking around a lot, and generally not being hardcore (although we're not bad players or anything - just none of us takes it very seriously). Part way through another guildie piped up in guild chat that she was disappointed that she had forgotten about the event. Knowing that she is also the type to screw around like we were doing, and given that we hadn't gotten very far in the dungeon yet (because of all the screwing around and joking - not because it was giving us any trouble), we invited her and suddenly we were a 4-man group of fun-loving idiots screwing around.

So we got through the silver pledge in anything but record time (again though, not because it was giving us trouble, just because we were having fun). So what were we going to do next? Well, the gold pledge was vet City of Ash. Out of the 4 of us, I was the only one who had ever done vCoA before - and I think I've only completed it twice. We decided why not go for it?

Yeah, we had difficulties for sure. We failed more times than I care to admit on the big bad daedroth boss while trying the stack-up in the corner technique (to be fair, most of the failed attempts on that boss failed because we weren't very good at keeping him from resetting), and twice while screwing around between attempts we had group members fall into the lava and not be able to get back up. When we switched to the way you're actually supposed to fight that boss (out in the middle of the room, tank holding the boss, and everyone burning down the adds when they spawn and focusing on the boss when they're down) we did much better and it only took a few attempts to get past it.

The bridge of ever-spawning mobs gave us some trouble because I couldn't remember what we needed to do to get them to stop spawning, so we kept on getting overwhelmed until we stumbled on the answer and got through it.

The Ash Titan. Hoo boy. I can't count the number of times we got him below 25% health before wiping. I know we got him below 5% at least 3 times. We kept switching things up, trying different skills, tactics, and gear. Once when he had just hit 5% 3 of us were killed, leaving the lowest level amongst us (VR14) to run around desperately keeping up Hardened Ward and kiting the boss and 2 air atronachs while throwing whatever attacks she could whenever she could. She managed to stay alive doing that for so long that we were cheering her and we were sure she was going to finish him off. I believe he was just under 2% health when he finally killed her, and we had to start over.

In the end, we ran out of time. We kept making attempts right up until we got the 1 minute warning that the servers were going to come down. We may not have succeeded at completing the dungeon, but holy crap we had a ton of fun. Having a group with good attitudes makes all the difference in the world. Even near the end when we had wiped so many times and we were all getting tired, we were still having a blast and joking around.

One of the most fun gaming sessions I've had.

Shunravi

UrQuan wrote: »

Being super ridiculously swamped at work over the last few weeks put me on a forced forum break... But work has now gotten back to normal, so I'm back to annoy you all once more! Bwa ha ha!

So, bit of a fun story from last night. I was running a guild group dungeons event. We initially had 7 people turn out for it, so we decided we'd split into 2 groups to do the silver pledge: 1 group of 4 that would scale up to VR16 using the group finder (that group included 1 VR16, and the others were lower level, including one who was non-vet), and 1 group of 3 that included myself, another VR16 and a VR15.

As it turned out, the group of 3 happened to be 3 people who enjoy screwing around, taking our time to explore everything, looting everything, joking around a lot, and generally not being hardcore (although we're not bad players or anything - just none of us takes it very seriously). Part way through another guildie piped up in guild chat that she was disappointed that she had forgotten about the event. Knowing that she is also the type to screw around like we were doing, and given that we hadn't gotten very far in the dungeon yet (because of all the screwing around and joking - not because it was giving us any trouble), we invited her and suddenly we were a 4-man group of fun-loving idiots screwing around.

So we got through the silver pledge in anything but record time (again though, not because it was giving us trouble, just because we were having fun). So what were we going to do next? Well, the gold pledge was vet City of Ash. Out of the 4 of us, I was the only one who had ever done vCoA before - and I think I've only completed it twice. We decided why not go for it?

Yeah, we had difficulties for sure. We failed more times than I care to admit on the big bad daedroth boss while trying the stack-up in the corner technique (to be fair, most of the failed attempts on that boss failed because we weren't very good at keeping him from resetting), and twice while screwing around between attempts we had group members fall into the lava and not be able to get back up. When we switched to the way you're actually supposed to fight that boss (out in the middle of the room, tank holding the boss, and everyone burning down the adds when they spawn and focusing on the boss when they're down) we did much better and it only took a few attempts to get past it.

im pretty sure everyone uses the middle method these days... Haven't used the corner in a long long time....

The bridge of ever-spawning mobs gave us some trouble because I couldn't remember what we needed to do to get them to stop spawning, so we kept on getting overwhelmed until we stumbled on the answer and got through it.

just keep swimming... Just keep swimming.... Just keep swimming swimming swimming...

The Ash Titan. Hoo boy. I can't count the number of times we got him below 25% health before wiping. I know we got him below 5% at least 3 times. We kept switching things up, trying different skills, tactics, and gear. Once when he had just hit 5% 3 of us were killed, leaving the lowest level amongst us (VR14) to run around desperately keeping up Hardened Ward and kiting the boss and 2 air atronachs while throwing whatever attacks she could whenever she could. She managed to stay alive doing that for so long that we were cheering her and we were sure she was going to finish him off. I believe he was just under 2% health when he finally killed her, and we had to start over.

yea... Hes a pain in my ash!!












When in doubt, do what heroofnone do! Kite like a boss.

In the end, we ran out of time. We kept making attempts right up until we got the 1 minute warning that the servers were going to come down. We may not have succeeded at completing the dungeon, but holy crap we had a ton of fun. Having a group with good attitudes makes all the difference in the world. Even near the end when we had wiped so many times and we were all getting tired, we were still having a blast and joking around.

One of the most fun gaming sessions I've had.

Good to hear it.

UrQuan

Shunravi wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

Being super ridiculously swamped at work over the last few weeks put me on a forced forum break... But work has now gotten back to normal, so I'm back to annoy you all once more! Bwa ha ha!

So, bit of a fun story from last night. I was running a guild group dungeons event. We initially had 7 people turn out for it, so we decided we'd split into 2 groups to do the silver pledge: 1 group of 4 that would scale up to VR16 using the group finder (that group included 1 VR16, and the others were lower level, including one who was non-vet), and 1 group of 3 that included myself, another VR16 and a VR15.

As it turned out, the group of 3 happened to be 3 people who enjoy screwing around, taking our time to explore everything, looting everything, joking around a lot, and generally not being hardcore (although we're not bad players or anything - just none of us takes it very seriously). Part way through another guildie piped up in guild chat that she was disappointed that she had forgotten about the event. Knowing that she is also the type to screw around like we were doing, and given that we hadn't gotten very far in the dungeon yet (because of all the screwing around and joking - not because it was giving us any trouble), we invited her and suddenly we were a 4-man group of fun-loving idiots screwing around.

So we got through the silver pledge in anything but record time (again though, not because it was giving us trouble, just because we were having fun). So what were we going to do next? Well, the gold pledge was vet City of Ash. Out of the 4 of us, I was the only one who had ever done vCoA before - and I think I've only completed it twice. We decided why not go for it?

Yeah, we had difficulties for sure. We failed more times than I care to admit on the big bad daedroth boss while trying the stack-up in the corner technique (to be fair, most of the failed attempts on that boss failed because we weren't very good at keeping him from resetting), and twice while screwing around between attempts we had group members fall into the lava and not be able to get back up. When we switched to the way you're actually supposed to fight that boss (out in the middle of the room, tank holding the boss, and everyone burning down the adds when they spawn and focusing on the boss when they're down) we did much better and it only took a few attempts to get past it.

im pretty sure everyone uses the middle method these days... Haven't used the corner in a long long time....

I can see why. In my admittedly limited experience I've never had the corner method work, and the going out in the middle and fighting method has always worked after a handful of attempts. Do you know if there's something that changed that made the corner method no longer viable, or was it just never actually as effective as doing the fight the way you're kind of supposed to?

Shunravi wrote: »

The bridge of ever-spawning mobs gave us some trouble because I couldn't remember what we needed to do to get them to stop spawning, so we kept on getting overwhelmed until we stumbled on the answer and got through it.

just keep swimming... Just keep swimming.... Just keep swimming swimming swimming...

The real problem we had here was that we ran past them all instead of fighting our way through them and thinning their numbers as we went, and there are a couple on the other mobs on the far side of the bridge that keep spawning until you kill the bone colossus there. When we got overwhelmed by the mobs who followed us (and who we hadn't whittled down) and we all died, as soon as we weren't ghosts anymore the respawning mobs on the far side of the bridge would attack, and that got all of the mobs on the bridge to swarm us again. As soon as we went after the bone colossus we were able to take the swarm of mobs down.

Shunravi wrote: »

The Ash Titan. Hoo boy. I can't count the number of times we got him below 25% health before wiping. I know we got him below 5% at least 3 times. We kept switching things up, trying different skills, tactics, and gear. Once when he had just hit 5% 3 of us were killed, leaving the lowest level amongst us (VR14) to run around desperately keeping up Hardened Ward and kiting the boss and 2 air atronachs while throwing whatever attacks she could whenever she could. She managed to stay alive doing that for so long that we were cheering her and we were sure she was going to finish him off. I believe he was just under 2% health when he finally killed her, and we had to start over.

yea... Hes a pain in my ash!!












When in doubt, do what heroofnone do! Kite like a boss.

lol that's what @Daraugh was doing... She almost managed to pull it off and take him down after the rest of us were all dead too! It was highly entertaining to watch.

Shunravi wrote: »

In the end, we ran out of time. We kept making attempts right up until we got the 1 minute warning that the servers were going to come down. We may not have succeeded at completing the dungeon, but holy crap we had a ton of fun. Having a group with good attitudes makes all the difference in the world. Even near the end when we had wiped so many times and we were all getting tired, we were still having a blast and joking around.

One of the most fun gaming sessions I've had.

Good to hear it.

It was a blast And when you get down to it, that's what keeps me playing this game: when I get to play with cool people with good attitudes and we just have fun. One reason I like hanging out in this particular thread is because there are a bunch of folks who post here who I've had similar gaming experiences with That helps to make this thread a happy place.

Shunravi

@UrQuan (avoiding long broken up response train ) the biggest benifit of the corner method was to give the dps (weird forum threads compel me to clarify thats dps as its used across many geanres not just mmos as 'one who deals dps') and the healer free reign over more of the room without having to worry about the frontal aoe, and to have more time and space to avoid the ground line shocks. One negative of it is that one wave of adds jumps right in to whatever corner you are at. This can get particularly tricky if the tank agros them and cant block them all, tries to agro them at the same time as keep the boss in place, and either of those two mixed with dps and heals trying to stick with the strategy strength and not getting close enough to aoe. Honestly I'm not sure I remember why it even was a go to strat.

Ash titan is tricky with all those aoe going down. All I can say as advice is move and keep everyone you can in sight....


But as long as you are having fun, that's all that really matters in the end

newtinmpls

Shunravi wrote: »

But as long as you are having fun, that's all that really matters in the end

Quoted for awesomeness...!

JD2013

Can't believe the Thieves Guild drops next week. How time flies.

Then it'll be a couple of months and they'll start talking about the Dark Brotherhood. Can not wait to join them and rack up assassination contracts! And there's talk that poison crafting will be coming with them . . . Much excitement.

But for now I'll settle for stealing all the things.

newtinmpls

@UrQuan sounds like you play like I do - much more for fun than for DPS (so to speak).

Funny that you mentioned the severs going down. I had just got home from work, and was dinking around in an EU account trying to make a cute nord, was having a ton of trouble, and finally I got it in my head to use the approach "make her look like a Breton" ... which somehow ended up working.

I decided (for once) to skip the intro, bopped out into the world and there is the "Server going down in 1 min". Guess I got her done just under the wirel

UrQuan

newtinmpls wrote: »

Shunravi wrote: »

But as long as you are having fun, that's all that really matters in the end

Quoted for awesomeness...!

And for truth...

JD2013 wrote: »

Can't believe the Thieves Guild drops next week. How time flies.

Then it'll be a couple of months and they'll start talking about the Dark Brotherhood. Can not wait to join them and rack up assassination contracts! And there's talk that poison crafting will be coming with them . . . Much excitement.

But for now I'll settle for stealing all the things.

Me:

newtinmpls wrote: »

@UrQuan sounds like you play like I do - much more for fun than for DPS (so to speak).

Oh very much so. The 2 things don't have to be different: sometimes it's fun to actually get together with some competitive players (I consider myself a decent player, but I'm definitely not a competitive player) and try to go all-out with the best, most efficient run, powering your way through things as quickly as possible. Most of the time that's not how I want to play though. Most of the time I have more fun by screwing around with other people who aren't top competitive players, and just not taking things too seriously.

newtinmpls wrote: »

Funny that you mentioned the severs going down. I had just got home from work, and was dinking around in an EU account trying to make a cute nord, was having a ton of trouble, and finally I got it in my head to use the approach "make her look like a Breton" ... which somehow ended up working.

I decided (for once) to skip the intro, bopped out into the world and there is the "Server going down in 1 min". Guess I got her done just under the wirel

lol that was close!

newtinmpls

UrQuan wrote: »

sometimes it's fun to actually get together with some competitive players (I consider myself a decent player, but I'm definitely not a competitive player) and try to go all-out with the best, most efficient run, powering your way through things as quickly as possible.

Only ever done that by accident (LOL); I have a semi-regular "group" I play with, myself, hubby and a couple we know in Colorado. One night just out of happenstance we gathered to run a few Undaunted as we are occasionally wont to do - and by chance the characters we "felt like" playing happened to be a combo of pretty much all DPS-powerhouses; that also (not planned) happened to have skills that very much synergized.

It was the most ridiculously easy plow-through-the-opposition-like-candyfloss night I've ever had. fun. Weird. and overall, I don't think I'd want to do that often.

I'd really like to see the DPS/Timer "wall" removed from most of the dungeons; I think that playing a longer game and lasting out the baddies should be a viable option, and mostly the deck is way stacked against it.

Shunravi

newtinmpls wrote: »

Shunravi wrote: »

But as long as you are having fun, that's all that really matters in the end

Quoted for awesomeness...!

Well... The truth is awesome sometimes.

newtinmpls wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

sometimes it's fun to actually get together with some competitive players (I consider myself a decent player, but I'm definitely not a competitive player) and try to go all-out with the best, most efficient run, powering your way through things as quickly as possible.

Only ever done that by accident (LOL); I have a semi-regular "group" I play with, myself, hubby and a couple we know in Colorado. One night just out of happenstance we gathered to run a few Undaunted as we are occasionally wont to do - and by chance the characters we "felt like" playing happened to be a combo of pretty much all DPS-powerhouses; that also (not planned) happened to have skills that very much synergized.

It was the most ridiculously easy plow-through-the-opposition-like-candyfloss night I've ever had. fun. Weird. and overall, I don't think I'd want to do that often.

I'd really like to see the DPS/Timer "wall" removed from most of the dungeons; I think that playing a longer game and lasting out the baddies should be a viable option, and mostly the deck is way stacked against it.

It's funny, I can burn through dungeons with no deaths in minutes if I want to (and after running the dungeons hundreds of times I often do), but some of my favorite runs have been the slowest, most resource burning, and not even completed runs I've ever done. But they were fun.

WldKarde

Happy Friday all!

Been having a little fun of late with the whole "Templar House" thing on the forums, so I thought I'd share my vision of what my main's house will look like come Monday...



My guess is that by Tuesday, most players will be re-rolling to Templars after seeing the true potential of the "Templar House".

I of course realize that ZOS will be nerfing my house in the first incremental patch because bacon is way too OP

WalkingLegacy

Oculus Rift:
Anyone have the chance to try this yet?

Debating on preordering one instead of dropping 800 Washington's on a monitor.

Xendyn

wldkarde wrote: »

Happy Friday all!

Been having a little fun of late with the whole "Templar House" thing on the forums, so I thought I'd share my vision of what my main's house will look like come Monday...



My guess is that by Tuesday, most players will be re-rolling to Templars after seeing the true potential of the "Templar House".

I of course realize that ZOS will be nerfing my house in the first incremental patch because bacon is way too OP

I'd live in that house.
At least until I ate all of it

freespirit

wldkarde wrote: »

Happy Friday all!

Been having a little fun of late with the whole "Templar House" thing on the forums, so I thought I'd share my vision of what my main's house will look like come Monday...



My guess is that by Tuesday, most players will be re-rolling to Templars after seeing the true potential of the "Templar House".

I of course realize that ZOS will be nerfing my house in the first incremental patch because bacon is way too OP

Shunravi

wldkarde wrote: »

Happy Friday all!

Been having a little fun of late with the whole "Templar House" thing on the forums, so I thought I'd share my vision of what my main's house will look like come Monday...



My guess is that by Tuesday, most players will be re-rolling to Templars after seeing the true potential of the "Templar House".

I of course realize that ZOS will be nerfing my house in the first incremental patch because bacon is way too OP

Mmmmmmmm.... Bacon

UrQuan

wldkarde wrote: »

Happy Friday all!

Been having a little fun of late with the whole "Templar House" thing on the forums, so I thought I'd share my vision of what my main's house will look like come Monday...



My guess is that by Tuesday, most players will be re-rolling to Templars after seeing the true potential of the "Templar House".

I of course realize that ZOS will be nerfing my house in the first incremental patch because bacon is way too OP

If that's the kind of Templar House I can look forward to, count me in!

Not that I'd be giving up on my Templars anyway...

Xendyn

WalkingLegacy wrote: »

Oculus Rift:
Anyone have the chance to try this yet?

Debating on preordering one instead of dropping 800 Washington's on a monitor.

Not interested at this point. Don't want you to feel ignored here, tho
As a rule, I never buy any new tech (be it pc, car or whatever) until it's proven in actual use, has the bugs worked out and is something I feel I need.

WalkingLegacy

Xendyn wrote: »

WalkingLegacy wrote: »

Oculus Rift:
Anyone have the chance to try this yet?

Debating on preordering one instead of dropping 800 Washington's on a monitor.

Not interested at this point. Don't want you to feel ignored here, tho
As a rule, I never buy any new tech (be it pc, car or whatever) until it's proven in actual use, has the bugs worked out and is something I feel I need.

Thanks for the reply. That is exactly how I feel. Just curious if anyone may have had the chance to try one out. They're suppose to be touring around with a demo.

Would hate to drop 800 on a monitor though and the Rift works and functions with better specs as a monitor you wear for 200 less.

Meanma

While getting into the criminal spirit of the upcoming expansion, I've finished leveling my other profession. Now this Argonian sneak-thief is both a chef and an alchemist. Hopefully she won't mix up the two and produce plates of poison cakes or vials of poultry essence.

Xendyn

Meanma wrote: »

While getting into the criminal spirit of the upcoming expansion, I've finished leveling my other profession. Now this Argonian sneak-thief is both a chef and an alchemist. Hopefully she won't mix up the two and produce plates of poison cakes or vials of poultry essence.

Not sure what poultry essence would be but I don't think I want any
The poison cakes tho, she should be perfecting for DB. They've hinted that Snakeblood will actually be useful...

newtinmpls

Poultry essence.... sounds like an overpriced way to say "broth"

newtinmpls

So.... I was sucked into Fallout 4 for the longest time. Then a bit ago, the couple my hubby and I team up with in ESO insisted on an afternoon/evening of undaunted runs, and I got hooked back into Tamriel.

So here is the latest of Goblin Girl (Broken Branch Toothmaul) in action. Last night she met a town of statutes and some very strange bears.





Then I went back to play around with one of the few Imperials I've rolled up (long story short - my husband rolled up an Imperial named Quintus Solaris and I decided he needed a sister).

So here is Hexia Solaris, telling herself to calm down first, and THEN kill the bandits.

WldKarde

Haha, my Imperial main approves!

Plus as a Templar she can't wait to move into her new house tomorrow!

Yah right, oh course that's what a stamplar is gonna do