Official Discussion Thread for "Discover the Next Chapter for ESO"

Dominoid

Wow four new maintenance window added? This is getting bigger.

• ESO Website for maintenance – January 31, 10:00AM EST (15:00 GMT)
• ESO Store and Account System for maintenance – January 31, 11:00AM EST (16:00 GMT)
• North American and European Xbox One megaservers for maintenance – February 1, 6:00AM EST (11:00 GMT)
• North American and European PlayStation®4 megaservers for maintenance – February 1, 6:00AM EST (11:00 GMT)

Oompuh

Dominoid wrote: »

Wow four new maintenance window added? This is getting bigger.

• ESO Website for maintenance – January 31, 10:00AM EST (15:00 GMT)
• ESO Store and Account System for maintenance – January 31, 11:00AM EST (16:00 GMT)
• North American and European Xbox One megaservers for maintenance – February 1, 6:00AM EST (11:00 GMT)
• North American and European PlayStation®4 megaservers for maintenance – February 1, 6:00AM EST (11:00 GMT)

Hmmmm, might be console related? that is interesting

VerboseQuips

My imagination is already going in so many directions!

I guess Vvardenfell is pretty safe, but what else? Clockwork city? A new item cap? A new class, Warden or Necromancer? New weapons, like spears, halberds, flails, crossbows, one-handed scepters, slings? Weapon dyes? New content for werewolves and vampires? Ability to join the Hidden Armigers, the Eyes of the Queen or the Ring of Daggers? Some news about Spellcrafting, introduced with the Great House Telvanni? Will we meet Divayth Fyr?

New creatures? Like a Lava Troll? Or cliffracers and stilt riders? Clockwork Dreughs? Skylamps? Malak-orcs?

Will Molag Bal still be a player in this? Will we learn more about his relationship with the Dreugh? And about the Coldharbour Compact that is so many times mentioned in the game?
I still have a theory that next to the Mind Shriven and the Soul Shriven, there must also be some Body Shriven, ghost-like ethereal people who have consciousness and free will, but whose body is retained by Molag Bal, alive but enslaved, somewhere in Coldharbour. Such bodies could be used as incubators. Molag Bal would use them to brew some kind of new Mortal/Daedric hybrids for his armies, by using forbidden Dreugh magic.
The Pomegranate Banquet is a precedent. It is said that a beheaded Vivec was once married to Molag Bal for 88 days. The missing head might be a metaphor for Vivec's soul and mind, free to go on Nirn and teach the Hortator while his/her body was used by Molag Bal. From their union, a "race that is no more" was born and ravaged the region now known as Molag Amur in Vvardenfell, before Vivec decided to kill her/his own children. The spawns of Daedric/Mortal hybridization could be potent new foes to fight.

Will some Group Dungeon Storylines be continued? Will we witness the beginning of the Daedric war prophetised so long ago? Will we learn Darien and Naryu's fates? Will the Fate Bearers be involved between some brotherly discord between Hermaeus Mora and Mephala?

And think about all the new crafting styles! Great House Hlaalu, Great House Redoran, Great House Telvanni, Great House Dres, Great House Indoril, Great House Dagoth, Late House Sotha, Morag Tong, Fate Bearers, Bal Molagmer, Ashlanders, Ancient Velothi, Chimer, Tribunal Temple, Bonemold, Aundae, Berne, Quarra, Kamali (they invaded not so long ago),...
Will we get a smurf Telvanni mushroom house?

Gosh, even the fishing trophies will be interesting, as they will provide the Skywind team with new source materials!

So many possibilities! So many questions! So much hyyyyype! Can't... wait... for... gaaAaAahhhhh

*Verbose starts to run around in circles, arms up in the air, emitting strange loud sounds that barely bear any resemblance to human language*

VerboseQuips

Dominoid wrote: »

Wow four new maintenance window added? This is getting bigger.

• ESO Website for maintenance – January 31, 10:00AM EST (15:00 GMT)
• ESO Store and Account System for maintenance – January 31, 11:00AM EST (16:00 GMT)
• North American and European Xbox One megaservers for maintenance – February 1, 6:00AM EST (11:00 GMT)
• North American and European PlayStation®4 megaservers for maintenance – February 1, 6:00AM EST (11:00 GMT)

Maybe they don't have anything to maintain, and just want us to be in front of Twitch instead of playing.

This is going to be BIG!

WhiteCoatSyndrome

VerboseQuips wrote: »

Ability to join the Hidden Armigers, the Eyes of the Queen or the Ring of Daggers?

I hate to break it to you, @VerboseQuips , but you can already join the Eyes of the Queen. You do so as part of the Aldmeri Dominion questline.

VerboseQuips

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

VerboseQuips wrote: »

Ability to join the Hidden Armigers, the Eyes of the Queen or the Ring of Daggers?

I hate to break it to you, @VerboseQuips , but you can already join the Eyes of the Queen. You do so as part of the Aldmeri Dominion questline.

Well, I meant, as a full faction with its skill line. It'd be a nice new way to PvP. Imagine, for example, having to sneak your way to secret documents before an adversarial team gets there or get them out of a Fortress. Or extracting a covert agent before he gets discovered, while the opposite team gather clues in order to discover who he is. It would open many new small-scale PvP possibilities.

But true, you're right. I expressed myself very badly. And now, I'm going to express myself even worse before sleep. Ghaaaahh!!!

scorpiodog

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

This is the official discussion thread for the blog article Discover the Next Chapter for ESO. Be sure to join us tomorrow, January 31st at 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST / 7:00pm GMT on twitch.tv/bethesda to discover the next chapter for The Elder Scrolls Online. We'll be unveiling a bunch of new, exciting information that you definitely won't want to miss!

These always seem to be timed for people who do not have regular jobs (or University students for that matter).

Is it your intention to make it impossible for the majority of your customers to not be able to view these?

Elsonso

So, clearly an aerial picture of Red Mountain erupting. My problem is that a Vvardenfell ESO thing is not big enough, even with Clockwork City tossed in. Hines already said no remaster of Morrowind. Are they just making excitement for something not that big?

Dominoid

scorpiodog wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

This is the official discussion thread for the blog article Discover the Next Chapter for ESO. Be sure to join us tomorrow, January 31st at 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST / 7:00pm GMT on twitch.tv/bethesda to discover the next chapter for The Elder Scrolls Online. We'll be unveiling a bunch of new, exciting information that you definitely won't want to miss!

These always seem to be timed for people who do not have regular jobs (or University students for that matter).

Is it your intention to make it impossible for the majority of your customers to not be able to view these?

Gotta happen at some time. Replay is available immediately afterwards.

Kuroinu

Celas_Dranacea wrote: »

Tyrion87 wrote: »

Now announcing our next expansion... THE BUTTCRACK OF DOOM

City of Ash III confirmed.

Abeille

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

VerboseQuips wrote: »

Ability to join the Hidden Armigers, the Eyes of the Queen or the Ring of Daggers?

I hate to break it to you, @VerboseQuips , but you can already join the Eyes of the Queen. You do so as part of the Aldmeri Dominion questline.

It's not enough. It will only be enough once Raz tells me the story about the time when he rode a Guar naked into an Argonian temple.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Abeille wrote: »

It's not enough. It will only be enough once Raz tells me the story about the time when he rode a Guar naked into an Argonian temple.

I dunno, I want to hear the story about the schoolmarm and the purple velvet dress, myself.

Hookgrin

Wasn't the last time that a Bethesda suit was involved was when they announced they were dropping subs and going B2P....

6K Crown motif...

10K Crown Houses...

F2P?


(OK probably not but that 10K Manor is $73 real US dollars! If the largest manor furnished was say 15K Crowns, that's $109. How much is the Cavern or the Island going to cost? 20K Crowns is $145!!!)

tinythinker

The hype seems a bit overblown, but the next chapter phrasing is definitely good speculation bait. I wonder how clear it will really be after tomorrow...

thomas1970b16_ESO

Paulington wrote: »

The next chapter makes it sound like something more than a DLC, could we be seeing the first expansion? .

Can't wait for tomorrow, should be amazing.

I can imagine "next chapter" meaning next chapter as far as storytelling goes.

trav2609rwb17_ESO

Hopes some skooma is included as think there going to be some major headaches after all this hard thinking :>

Thealteregoroman

scorpiodog wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

This is the official discussion thread for the blog article Discover the Next Chapter for ESO. Be sure to join us tomorrow, January 31st at 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST / 7:00pm GMT on twitch.tv/bethesda to discover the next chapter for The Elder Scrolls Online. We'll be unveiling a bunch of new, exciting information that you definitely won't want to miss!

These always seem to be timed for people who do not have regular jobs (or University students for that matter).

Is it your intention to make it impossible for the majority of your customers to not be able to view these?

You are assuming you know the demography of this games player base. THEY have all the data, not us.

czar

scorpiodog wrote: »

These always seem to be timed for people who do not have regular jobs (or University students for that matter).

Is it your intention to make it impossible for the majority of your customers to not be able to view these?

I believe they set the time so that people who aren't from the US also get the news the same day.

jluchau

lordrichter wrote: »

Speaking of which, what is the "blue" background painting on the age gate page? I don't recall seeing this one, before.

the image file is called ickeyart2.jpg sounds like an imperial city asset.

kewl

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The_Saint

Dont know whats the reason to hype new things before homestead reach live server. This is something you do after normally... But maybe the critics about homestead are to big and the hypetrain shall choo choo the critics down...

Hope they dont change everything again and again, before just fixing the base...

Vvradenfell announcement i think.
Also a new classe
And gearcap rising with a new loot balancing, because class balancing was so perfect in homestead

Turelus

scorpiodog wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

This is the official discussion thread for the blog article Discover the Next Chapter for ESO. Be sure to join us tomorrow, January 31st at 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST / 7:00pm GMT on twitch.tv/bethesda to discover the next chapter for The Elder Scrolls Online. We'll be unveiling a bunch of new, exciting information that you definitely won't want to miss!

These always seem to be timed for people who do not have regular jobs (or University students for that matter).

Is it your intention to make it impossible for the majority of your customers to not be able to view these?

Well anything which is non-work hours for the US would be late for most of Europe.
If they wanted to be inclusive to any many as possible it would have to be about this time but also on a weekend.

Mercutio

Rosveen

scorpiodog wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

This is the official discussion thread for the blog article Discover the Next Chapter for ESO. Be sure to join us tomorrow, January 31st at 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST / 7:00pm GMT on twitch.tv/bethesda to discover the next chapter for The Elder Scrolls Online. We'll be unveiling a bunch of new, exciting information that you definitely won't want to miss!

These always seem to be timed for people who do not have regular jobs (or University students for that matter).

Is it your intention to make it impossible for the majority of your customers to not be able to view these?

Please show data that the majority of their customers live in the Americas. I have a regular job and I'm home at 8pm when it happens. That said, maybe do it on a weekend next time so more people have a chance to watch live?

iBreatheBullets

Okay this has hardly anything to do with the current speculation i'm just throwing in a neat idea i've been cooking for a while now. Imagine a new class to freshen up the options, called Naturalist. The three skill lines are called Druidism, Shamanism, and... I dont have a word for it but something.. Monk-like?

Druidism will have new ways to utilise battle pets that don't suck, Shamanism will be.. well just imagine the badass attack animations of the Minotaur Shamans in the Gold Coast. The monky subclass will focus on martial knowledge (maybe call it martialism then?) and focus on passives and actives that CHANGE and scale different depending on your equipped armour weight and weapon type.

I imagine something like this could be done, albeit with much more skill and finesse than it took me to detail it just now.

Turelus

This is a very long day at work... 7 hours 43mins left until the show.

Niaver

Website, store, account and both consoles maintenance?

First thing which comes to mind is cross-platform, but i don't even...

Elsonso

Niaver wrote: »

Website, store, account and both consoles maintenance?

First thing which comes to mind is cross-platform, but i don't even...

Console maintenance was probably "regularly scheduled" but they forgot to put it on the list. It would not be the first time that they did this on a Monday. They could have also added it to "clear the pipes" if people have been having problems.

As for the ESO Store and Account system, this is down so much for maintenance that it is impossible to say. It apparently has to go down every time they sneeze. I suspect an architectural bottleneck in their backend server design.

Website is an outlier, and is probably to prep stuff for the announcement today.

lucky_Sage

range frost DD coming in 2017 in either new class or skill line or spellcrafting and told in what form

Tonnopesce

Yay F2P incoming...



Vvardenfell even but don't expect too much, is just a zone with 10 chain quest.

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