What would you suggest people do during the free weekend?

Vifen · November 2016

Since the free weekend is coming soon, I'll have some of my friends get into the game. What do you guys think we should do to enjoy the most out of eso during this period?

raglau · November 2016

Vifen wrote: »

Since the free weekend is coming soon, I'll have some of my friends get into the game. What do you guys think we should do to enjoy the most out of eso during this period?

If it's anything like last weeked, what they'll do is spend 50% of it doing something else while ESO suffers an outage for an alleged 'urgent fix'.

DeadlyRecluse · November 2016

Quest/explore to level 15 or so, with barswap, then get some gear (make them some newbie stuff, take it up to blue quality). Then try out dungeons and PvP and whatnot.

Honestly try whatever, but make them some basic gear, at least 1 5piece, so they don't feel completely useless (new scaling+no CP means they will be a little underpowered).

Valen_Byte · November 2016

Just try not to let them come in contact with people like pibbles there.

Other than that, just let them lead you around. Help when they have questions, and back off when they dont.

vamp_emily · November 2016

If I had friends

I would do this:

Platform: PC

- Join DC alliance.
- Have them all create a DragonKnight with a 2 hander
- Quest/grind till around level 20, making sure they are all leveling Draconic Power Skill Line, and the 2 hander skills
- Unlock Dragon Leap as soon as you get it ( Morph to 'Take Flight' if you can )
- Go to PvP ( BwB )

Sneak around PvP and when you see a large group of AD have all your friends take flight ( Dragon Leap Ulitimate ) on them at the same time, and then smash their face with the 2 hander.

Lashiing · November 2016

yes, please bring them into pvp

VinyParsley2016 · November 2016

Vifen wrote: »

Since the free weekend is coming soon, I'll have some of my friends get into the game. What do you guys think we should do to enjoy the most out of eso during this period?

I can sell your friends some low level green gears. I can give them 20% off

Calboy · November 2016

VMA

Runs · November 2016

I can tell you what not to do...

Don't bother creating an all free weekend people guild, it will end up disbanded. I forget what the support email said exactly but that was what happened to my 10 man guild made up of me and 9 free players. I wasn't actually expecting that considering it had been given as advice by a few people who did it the previous free weekend.

KingMagaw · November 2016

Vifen wrote: »

Since the free weekend is coming soon, I'll have some of my friends get into the game. What do you guys think we should do to enjoy the most out of eso during this period?

Don't think it really matters regarding getting a comprehensive experience from ESO.

A new player wont even recognize all the cheating and exploiting going on at the minute, even if you did get some play time in from Saturday maintenance and increasing downtime in ESO. Increase of botting. increase of multi boxing. Decrease of ESO addressing or even responding to these issues on forums.

Best advice from me, read 3rd party reviews as the forums here are under extreme censorship where threads and posts that share any other experience other than ESO is great are deleted very swiftly.

Valen_Byte · November 2016

On second thought, do exactly what @vamp_emily suggested. Ill be there on my AD to show them around.

vamp_emily · November 2016

Valen_Byte wrote: »

On second thought, do exactly what @vamp_emily suggested. Ill be there on my AD to show them around.

I hope he/she has a lot of friends

OP if your friends get annoying, just send them to TF ( lag city ) and then log off

tonemd · November 2016

Grind to 15
then
run some dungeons/pledges
then
do craglorn questline
then
go to cyrodiil/IC

Rosveen · November 2016

Valen_Byte wrote: »

Just try not to let them come in contact with people like pibbles there.

I disagree. While I don't think we should actively discourage people from buying ESO, I do believe it's only fair to inform them about both good and bad sides of the game - and frequent long unplanned maintenances are something I'd like to know about if I was jumping into a new MMO.

Valen_Byte · November 2016

Rosveen wrote: »

Valen_Byte wrote: »

Just try not to let them come in contact with people like pibbles there.

I disagree. While I don't think we should actively discourage people from buying ESO, I do believe it's only fair to inform them about both good and bad sides of the game - and frequent long unplanned maintenances are something I'd like to know about if I was jumping into a new MMO.

Agree, however, overexagerating something like the hot fix down time is not apropriate. Servers were not down 50% of the weekend. It was a few hours in th e early morning.

kevlarto_ESO · November 2016

play another game, when the lag gets to bad to enjoy the game

raglau · November 2016

Valen_Byte wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

Valen_Byte wrote: »

Just try not to let them come in contact with people like pibbles there.

I disagree. While I don't think we should actively discourage people from buying ESO, I do believe it's only fair to inform them about both good and bad sides of the game - and frequent long unplanned maintenances are something I'd like to know about if I was jumping into a new MMO.

Agree, however, overexagerating something like the hot fix down time is not apropriate. Servers were not down 50% of the weekend. It was a few hours in th e early morning.

I did think the tone in my post was suitably sardonic as to convey a measure of apocrypha to an audience well versed in the matter.

That said, in gaming terms, for many people it would have been a wipeout of a Saturday session due to the hours of the outage.

Bandit1215 · November 2016

kevlarto_ESO wrote: »

play another game, when the lag gets to bad to enjoy the game

Stop whining about pvp performance and enjoy the buttload of actually good content this game has to offer

Rosveen · November 2016

Valen_Byte wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

Valen_Byte wrote: »

Just try not to let them come in contact with people like pibbles there.

I disagree. While I don't think we should actively discourage people from buying ESO, I do believe it's only fair to inform them about both good and bad sides of the game - and frequent long unplanned maintenances are something I'd like to know about if I was jumping into a new MMO.

Agree, however, overexagerating something like the hot fix down time is not apropriate. Servers were not down 50% of the weekend. It was a few hours in th e early morning.

Let me guess: you're NA PC? Add 6 hours to your "early morning" for Europe and it turns out you lose most of the Saturday - or all of it if you planned another activity in the evening. Xbox was out for over 12 hours (only partially ZOS's fault, but still). We also had multiple unplanned maintenances in August and September, including two times I couldn't play for 3 days straight. There's no reason to downplay the problem.

Valen_Byte · November 2016

Rosveen wrote: »

Valen_Byte wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

Valen_Byte wrote: »

Just try not to let them come in contact with people like pibbles there.

I disagree. While I don't think we should actively discourage people from buying ESO, I do believe it's only fair to inform them about both good and bad sides of the game - and frequent long unplanned maintenances are something I'd like to know about if I was jumping into a new MMO.

Agree, however, overexagerating something like the hot fix down time is not apropriate. Servers were not down 50% of the weekend. It was a few hours in th e early morning.

Let me guess: you're NA PC? Add 6 hours to your "early morning" for Europe and it turns out you lose most of the Saturday - or all of it if you planned another activity in the evening. Xbox was out for over 12 hours (only partially ZOS's fault, but still). We also had multiple unplanned maintenances in August and September, including two times I couldn't play for 3 days straight. There's no reason to downplay the problem.

Well, I guess its all how you look at it. Would you prefer no patches or fixes?

SirAndy · November 2016

Not sure about your friends but i know what i'll be doing ...

Rosveen · November 2016

Valen_Byte wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

Valen_Byte wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

Valen_Byte wrote: »

Just try not to let them come in contact with people like pibbles there.

I disagree. While I don't think we should actively discourage people from buying ESO, I do believe it's only fair to inform them about both good and bad sides of the game - and frequent long unplanned maintenances are something I'd like to know about if I was jumping into a new MMO.

Agree, however, overexagerating something like the hot fix down time is not apropriate. Servers were not down 50% of the weekend. It was a few hours in th e early morning.

Let me guess: you're NA PC? Add 6 hours to your "early morning" for Europe and it turns out you lose most of the Saturday - or all of it if you planned another activity in the evening. Xbox was out for over 12 hours (only partially ZOS's fault, but still). We also had multiple unplanned maintenances in August and September, including two times I couldn't play for 3 days straight. There's no reason to downplay the problem.

Well, I guess its all how you look at it. Would you prefer no patches or fixes?

I would prefer a stable, predictable service.

DeadlyRecluse · November 2016

Boy this thread ended up in a different place than intended, I'd guess.

In all seriousness, if you are bringing friends into the game, make them some food (the wrothgahr health+mag or stam regen are good, because you can give them a bunch and they won't outlevel it) ahead of time. Make them gear--enchant it too. And make it look dope, because Fashion Scrolls is the true endgame.

The power curve in low level PvE is in an odd place and this will reduce all sorts of headaches.

Teach them the BASICS of builds--make all your main damage abilities Magicka or Stamina, CC and utility can use off resource.

SickDuck · November 2016

Get them to lvl 10 fast so they can start doing random runs where people can kick and insult them. That's the most state-of-the-art ESO experience you can get in a weekend.

Vifen · November 2016

Alright got your advices thank you all so far. I have a good crafter ready to make some gear, food and drinks of all kinds so that won't be a problem.

Damn shame the double xp from the witche's festival expired, would've made the leveling a bit faster to lvl15, but it won't be too much bothersome I hope.

One question though : there won't be a maintenance on the weekend during the free weekend now, will there?

catsgomeow · November 2016

take them to see some of the different maps, show them some world boss fights and some dungeons and delves, take them to some dolmens, point them in the direction of some of the main quests and pop into cyro and find a siege to watch.

disintegr8 · November 2016

SickDuck wrote: »

Get them to lvl 10 fast so they can start doing random runs where people can kick and insult them. That's the most state-of-the-art ESO experience you can get in a weekend.

Yes, make sure they stay away from group finder so they will not be abused and told to L2P.

Keep them away from PVP where they will get ganked and killed before they reach any action, suffer incredibly frustrating lag and die while their screen is frozen for 2 seconds.

Keep them away from guild stores so they won't see the ridiculous prices for items they may want or need one day while only having a measly 200 gold in their inventory.

Stay away from major towns and their wayshrines so they don't get harassed for duels every 2 minutes (and suffer the aforementioned lag).

Keep them away from area voice and text chat so they do not get bombarded by the constant sales pitches, bitchiness and harassment that goes on all day.

If you manage all of the above they may enjoy it and be happy enough to buy the game.

Note: the above may only be issues on PS4 NA so if you are on another platform, enjoy.

Kram8ion · November 2016

I'd be happy to be a guide for newbies coming in as saying the teso is a wonderful place where the community often comes together in chat groups and exchange gifts and important information and even a few tips about how to improve your time while exploring vast diversity of landscapes and townships and of course killing the little beasties that threaten our livelihood
Then after we sit down and have a cup of tea with the blacksmith who can whip them up an outfit of their choosing I'll send them off with a whisper in their ear "no grinding here" ta ta

Khaos_Bane · November 2016

Welcome the new players in, answer their questions, help them explore if they need it, DO NOT be an ASS in Dungeon groups and give them advice instead.

Galwylin · November 2016

I would suggest current player simply go to the beginner zones and meet them. Group with them and rerun their content. Offer advice as you watch them handle things. Be supportive and informative to them. They don't have to be friends to do nice things with them. It doesn't take that long to level up so get them off to a good start. Its just one weekend after all.

Oreyn_Bearclaw · November 2016

Last free weekend, I made about 40 sets of lvl 10 armor in either Hundings or Julianos and passed them out in stonefalls. Might try to do something like that again. Also not a bad idea to get 2-3 solid players and carry noobs through some dungeons.