I lost 1500 Tel Stones...

Waffennacht

And I'm absolutely fine with it lol. A few days ago I aquired the IC DLC. Though not quite what I expected, I rather enjoy it. First I was disgruntled a bit at my difficulty soloing a flag boss but once I was informed of how difficult that truly was I didn't feel so bad.

The responses I had read about IC were pretty right on. To me the IC feels like a PvE area with PvP enabled. Which I do enjoy. The only thing about the PvP aspect is I feel like I'm the only player carrying stones. Ive killed man players and have earned essentially zero stones through it.

I hope the player that got 1500 stones from my corpse was excited! To me the stone's true value is buying mats, and 15 mats isn't really anything to get upset about infact since I started just two days ago I have acquired roughly 250 mat peices, im glad that I can't have the best armor in just a few days but its not nearly the grind players have made it out to be.

Just wanted to say I am glad I got the IC and I am extremely looking forward to Orsinium.

Stonesthrow

That's the spirit!

Minno

Waffennacht wrote: »

And I'm absolutely fine with it lol. A few days ago I aquired the IC DLC. Though not quite what I expected, I rather enjoy it. First I was disgruntled a bit at my difficulty soloing a flag boss but once I was informed of how difficult that truly was I didn't feel so bad.

The responses I had read about IC were pretty right on. To me the IC feels like a PvE area with PvP enabled. Which I do enjoy. The only thing about the PvP aspect is I feel like I'm the only player carrying stones. Ive killed man players and have earned essentially zero stones through it.

I hope the player that got 1500 stones from my corpse was excited! To me the stone's true value is buying mats, and 15 mats isn't really anything to get upset about infact since I started just two days ago I have acquired roughly 250 mat peices, im glad that I can't have the best armor in just a few days but its not nearly the grind players have made it out to be.

Just wanted to say I am glad I got the IC and I am extremely looking forward to Orsinium.

Tel var is no longer a good currency. Right now delving in orsinum and mob grinding in IC for items to decon is the best way to get vr15-16 mats. Not to mention the new mat spawn rates in orsinum are decent!

I would get the new dlc asap, zone chat is filled with praise about its level of detail. Also new dwemer mob!!!!!

Ezareth

Waffennacht wrote: »

To me the stone's true value is buying mats, and 15 mats isn't really anything to get upset about infact since I started just two days ago I have acquired roughly 250 mat peices, im glad that I can't have the best armor in just a few days but its not nearly the grind players have made it out to be.

Just wanted to say I am glad I got the IC and I am extremely looking forward to Orsinium.

It's actually 30 mats now :P~

And the grind is far far easier now that IC is deserted than it was at the launch of IC when the sewers were full of roaming zergs of 30 players and you had to turn in every 1000 stones you made or risk losing them .

Prabooo

soloing a banner? sounds cool...

olsborg

1500 stones isnt anything to cry about. Ive killed people and gotten 6-7k of their stones:)

Waffennacht

Minno wrote: »

Waffennacht wrote: »

And I'm absolutely fine with it lol. A few days ago I aquired the IC DLC. Though not quite what I expected, I rather enjoy it. First I was disgruntled a bit at my difficulty soloing a flag boss but once I was informed of how difficult that truly was I didn't feel so bad.

The responses I had read about IC were pretty right on. To me the IC feels like a PvE area with PvP enabled. Which I do enjoy. The only thing about the PvP aspect is I feel like I'm the only player carrying stones. Ive killed man players and have earned essentially zero stones through it.

I hope the player that got 1500 stones from my corpse was excited! To me the stone's true value is buying mats, and 15 mats isn't really anything to get upset about infact since I started just two days ago I have acquired roughly 250 mat peices, im glad that I can't have the best armor in just a few days but its not nearly the grind players have made it out to be.

Just wanted to say I am glad I got the IC and I am extremely looking forward to Orsinium.

Tel var is no longer a good currency. Right now delving in orsinum and mob grinding in IC for items to decon is the best way to get vr15-16 mats. Not to mention the new mat spawn rates in orsinum are decent!

I would get the new dlc asap, zone chat is filled with praise about its level of detail. Also new dwemer mob!!!!!

Thanks for the info! Even more excited about Orsinium once I get some mula.

Ezareth wrote: »

Waffennacht wrote: »

To me the stone's true value is buying mats, and 15 mats isn't really anything to get upset about infact since I started just two days ago I have acquired roughly 250 mat peices, im glad that I can't have the best armor in just a few days but its not nearly the grind players have made it out to be.

Just wanted to say I am glad I got the IC and I am extremely looking forward to Orsinium.

It's actually 30 mats now :P~

And the grind is far far easier now that IC is deserted than it was at the launch of IC when the sewers were full of roaming zergs of 30 players and you had to turn in every 1000 stones you made or risk losing them .

Lol I have noticed the lack of players, and Im ok with that, either allies (some amazing) killing everything in my room, or an enemy (that always seems to know right when im low of magicka) That thought of goin into a fully poped campaign... uh oh.

Prabooo wrote: »

soloing a banner? sounds cool...

Yeah it does, I had no idea what they were at first, thinking they were like any typical world boss, I jumped head first. Got close but stupid small NPCs just get in the darn way.

olsborg wrote: »

1500 stones isnt anything to cry about. Ive killed people and gotten 6-7k of their stones:)

Eep! Man that would put a damper in my mood! o_O; Lol, truthfully for the first day I thought the stones Only got the armor sets themselves and had zero care in them. Really glad I noticed that merchant

Stonesthrow wrote: »

That's the spirit!

Thanks a bunch!

gilbegger

I never leave the starting area with less than 3k on me. The x3 buff is just too much to pass on.

stekspade321

I always leave start zone with 10k for 4x but that time i got killed i couldnt stop laughing . I Was thinking what that dc player must have been thinking. But hey he deserved em ☺

Alucardo

I feel like I can safely walk around IC with 11k stones in my backpack because the place is literally dead. If I do happen to come across a line of dead daedra on the ground not done by my hand, I'll generally go around the other way xD
The fact it's a ghost town in there now somewhat takes away the fear you used to get when carrying stones. When it was busy I'd always be thinking about going back and banking them ASAP, but now I just keep on farming.

Waffennacht

@Alucardo

That's exactly how I felt. Then was killed lol. Im always attacked when Im in the midst of fighting a mob. Its not common enough to change anything but it happens.

If I had killed a guy and made 10000 stones, Id promptly spend them all and regale the story to all my friends!

Cathexis

The only time I get angry about losing stones is when you get banked on a load screen. Supposedly that's been fixed though I've heard. Haven't been down to IC lately.

BigTone

I love the risk/reward of tel var stones. When I hop into overworld Cyrodil I get frustrated when I kill someone and don't get any stones . The most I've lost in a single shot was 5k, but that was right after me and a buddy wiped a group of 6 that had a ton on them. A lot of people have complained about the IC DLC but I've thoroughly enjoyed it.

Waffennacht

I enjoy it. I did get really frustrated last night.

Not because of NPCs, not because I died, not the stones...

But my freakin allies. Not even the low leve ones. This group invites my bud and I and we join. We start killin everything gettin stuff etc...

Mistake one I can live with, they aggro the two flag boss. This causes the group to scatter.
Mistake two I can deal with, they didn't inform me of the NBs they had been killed by
Mistake three I can live with, I start defending the lower levels and killing the NBs...

Now Mistake four I can't stand. I get the NB half way dead, he keeps cloakin and I streak, this is semi effective (my overload bar needs adjusting for this kind of skill level) but he does manage to get a decent gap between us while retreating. I know he isn't gonna just run away and let us be but will try and kill us later, I give chase.

The NB, super weak, is in the tunnel running. I see the group leader running directly toward him from the exact opposite direction. I think, "Yes! The NB is drained and my fellow Vet16 can at least slow him down enough for me to kill him."

The group leader promptly runs right by him not even using one ability...

I yell, "Wtf are you doing?! He is weak now and if we don't finish him we are all dead!" As the leader runs away he states, "he has killed me three times already!"

As I respond with, "I wasn't here then, now that we are here it should be easy..." I lose the NB and aggro the next freakin room lookin for him. After a bit he attacks, fully restored while Im weak from the mob. I die, lose 500 stones and facepalm. The chat froze and I went to bed.

That truly was enraging, a group "leader" running like a coward when we have the advantage. Didn't even try, just left the group to be killed by players and bosses...

I think im goin back solo

OrphanHelgen

Largest stones I got from kills was 2k from a single player (a ganking nightblade, I dont feel bad)
and from a group of 5 I ganked, I got 5k. (dont feel bad here either since they was 5 vr16 against one)

Abob

Last week I got 7k from one guy

solynar

Yesterday I got 8.1k from one guy.

JDar

Basically if you didn't like IC you are a pleb and only want cookie cutter PvE expansions and new pledge dungeons

IC was a daring, dynamic and challenging DLC. Orsinium is more popular but aside from the horribly unfair and unbalanced Veteran Maelstron arena, it is a cakewalk.

The massive QQ fest about IC will probably kill any hope of ZoS ever thinking about going out on a limb with new content. Thanks QQ'ers.

Rosveen

JDar wrote: »

Basically if you didn't like IC you are a pleb and only want cookie cutter PvE expansions and new pledge dungeons

IC was a daring, dynamic and challenging DLC. Orsinium is more popular but aside from the horribly unfair and unbalanced Veteran Maelstron arena, it is a cakewalk.

The massive QQ fest about IC will probably kill any hope of ZoS ever thinking about going out on a limb with new content. Thanks QQ'ers.

Wrothgar is fun. It offers new stories, insight into Orcish culture and politics, beautiful open environments. I run around for hours and I don't get bored. I can do things casually, at my own pace or I can call my friends to deal with bosses together. If I don't feel like exerting myself, I can go fishing or farming. If I want a challenge, I can do Maelstrom Arena. I'm looking forward to doing the content multiple times with different characters.

The Imperial City is a hamster wheel. Running in circles and slaughtering daedra is fun only for so long. On a bad day it's empty and dead, on a worse day it's filled with enemy trains obliterating me in 0.5 s. The Tower and the Prison offer an interesting challenge, though.

I learned to enjoy PvP earlier this year, so I think I would like to take my PvP char to the Imperial City for some thrilling, meaningful PvP - but there isn't any. There is no structure and no objectives. People I kill respawn 10 meters away and immediately attack me again. It's the heart of Cyrodiil, the coveted prize, but my actions within have no impact on the province outside and vice versa.

It's very atmospheric and I think the design team did a great work, but the IC will most likely end up being considered one of the weakest released DLC.

LBxFinalDeath

Losing Tel Var imo isn't what everyone is angry about in of itself.

People are angry about people who have 0 Tel Var getting 1K or so Tel Var with absolutely no negatives, they can try endlessly.

0 tel var ganking is all reward no risk.

You should be forced to have an equivalent amount of tel var in order to get tel var from other players.

Example: You need at least 1500 tel var on you in order to get any tel var from a guy with 2K etc.

imo anyway

Jbugz97

i actually dont mind losing stone. but the other day i did get very upset about losing my stones.

so i started with 1k stones like i always do grind for about 30 min got to about 3.5k
then i saw 4 EP up ahead so i said let me get out of here since my gear are just about finish.
so what pissed me of is i went to a corner to use my teleport scroll thing.

so i used it and as your hand start to move around you know right before you use it
my character came out of stealth and at that moment i felt like those VINE videos (and these is when he f*** up moment) because i soon as i went out of stealth that EP crit rush me and all 4 EP were on top of me and took all the stones.

Inig0

BigTone wrote: »

I love the risk/reward of tel var stones. When I hop into overworld Cyrodil I get frustrated when I kill someone and don't get any stones . The most I've lost in a single shot was 5k, but that was right after me and a buddy wiped a group of 6 that had a ton on them. A lot of people have complained about the IC DLC but I've thoroughly enjoyed it.

big tone
big honor
big toe

fin

ThePonzzz

I'd hardly call Wrothgar a cakewalk. WB battles are engaging, delves are interesting, and the combat is closer to VR before the big nerf (just not quite as difficult). As for IC and losing Tel Var stones, I definitely feel like I'm the only one losing stones as well. I chain killed like 6 guys and got a grand total of like 80 stones. The issue is, there are a lot of people just entering the sewers and camping hot spots with little to no stones. There is hardly any one-on-one toward the center, so it's either a 12-person group or a zerg.

Helgi_Skotina

Most i got was 6k from a single player and about 8k from a 4-mrn group. Sometimes i also loose all the ganke stones - i dont care avout them, i just want to kill enemies.

Wreuntzylla

I've gotten so many stones from killing multiples that I messaged them to give them back. They surprisingly declined.

I do think they should reduce the % loss a bit. It would be nice to see people venture farther out than the first loop of their faction's area, where they band together in mini zergs to avoid losing their stones. Maybe 60%. Would provide for more small numbers PvP.