Thread for PC Users :)

UrQuan

Xendyn wrote: »

Damn and I missed it @UrQuan
Since you called it a zerg, I guess you were pugging?

Glad you had fun out there, tho. I stuck my nose into PTS but that zone is so small I don't want to do too much and spoil it.
I reset my CP on my sorc because of the changes and he ended up pretty much 2 shotting everything in his path.
They need to tone that down just a bit, I think.

Yup, I was pugging. Not nearly as efficient as the couple of times I've run with a well-organized guild group in PVP, but it was still lots of fun. Hmm, I actually won't be going to hockey tonight like I usually do on Fridays, and I think Friday Night Fights are still a thing... Maybe I'll join in!

I haven't really played around with the CP changes on the PTS yet. Just about all I've tried out so far are some tests around the sorcerer pet changes, and some tests around the templar changes. I should really check out the CP changes... I don't want to get very far into the TG quests. I'm not as worried about spoiling it for myself as I was with Orsinium, but still I'm more interested in trying out the gameplay changes on PTS rather than doing quests that I'll need/want to do again on live after the release anyway.

freespirit

wldkarde wrote: »

Silly me, you'd think I would have learned by now...

But Good Gawd! I think a drama queen convention has take over our ESO forums

Most of the time I find it all quite amusing, but if it wouldn't be too much trouble...
Could someone please let me know once the dust has settled


We may need more popcorn (and bacon)

Your wish is my command.........

With a little extra as it's the weekend!!

WldKarde

Hmm...
Bourbon Bacon Popcorn, now there's a combination I would have never thought of.

Thanks @freespirit now there's something else I didn't know existed...but now must have

*Grabs truck keys and heads to door*

WldKarde

My little Stamplar made me so proud tonight!



Had lots more fun than I figured, while getting the only title I really wanted

Almost 2 years in...and I'm still having a blast playing this game!

Keep up the good work @Zos, at this rate, you might never get rid of me

Xendyn

Grats @wldkarde

WldKarde

I realize that most of you are on the PTS...or other "real life endeavors"...So

Sending a popcorn avalanche to show ya the way home...



What's everyone been up to?

likelolwhat

I keep having to repair the launcher every time a patch comes through the PTS, so I'ma be here munching on caramel corn until I can get in. I did manage to get a screenshot of almost every costume for the UESP, modeled on both a female and a male PTS char. I swear, I'ma be broke before long with how cool some of them are... As for you, PC friends:

*Wendy Williams voice*
HOW YA DOIN'?!

Cadbury

wldkarde wrote: »

I'm sad/not sad that I know what movie that screencap comes from

Thevampirenight

This is one sexy vampire! All she needs is to show her fangs!

Samsayia

how did this thread make it to 140pgs

freespirit

Samsayia wrote: »

how did this thread make it to 140pgs

@Samsayia because we have popcorn.........



Shaped like Garfield........

Cute animal of all kinds including.............



Goats.........

Which are even found in trees........



Also it's a great place to hide when it gets scary out in forum land.

Xendyn

Yay! Tree Goats!

freespirit

Xendyn wrote: »

Yay! Tree Goats!

As opposed to ESO..........

Which has........

OR had.........



Tree Deer.

newtinmpls

Hey all!

Started new job.

Got sucked into Fallout 4.

Last night ... or was it the weekend... got back into ESO. Had a hilarious time grouping with some friends. My poor dunmer DK is now being followed by a daedrat who she calls and "go away" (not to be confused with her guar mount "stop following me").

The rest of the group decided that his name is Fluffy.. the mystery meat of pets.

And they kept feeding him. Really at this rate I'm never going to get rid of him.

WldKarde

Welcome back @newtinmpls and grats on the new job!

Hope the new pet likes popcorn

newtinmpls

I want a "feeding my pet popcorn" emote in-game!

As for the new job.... I'm a psych NP. So now I deal with crazy people all day ... err... often that's the fellow employees. In my locker I have my theme magnet

"You don't have to be crazy to work here... We'll train you."

Xendyn

newtinmpls wrote: »

I want a "feeding my pet popcorn" emote in-game!

As for the new job.... I'm a psych NP. So now I deal with crazy people all day ... err... often that's the fellow employees. In my locker I have my theme magnet

"You don't have to be crazy to work here... We'll train you."

well no wonder you like it here

Good to see you, it's been kinda lonesome.

newtinmpls

Well created a new character just in time for the servers to all go down....ah well.

I think I actually made a decent looking Nord female. Modeled her after a Breton I used to play in Morrowind. I'll post a pic at some point....

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...!