Time to hit the road...

geonsocal · July 2017

for the last six to eight months or so i've kept all my characters parked in Rawl'kha - super convenient services all located a short distance apart from each other...

unfortunately with the recent onset of overwhelming laggy moments - i've come to the conclusion - rawl'kha is no longer a viable staging area for all my characters...things can get really "choppy" at times, as well as frequently long loading screens...

it's a really popular place...

my current plan is to complete the velyn harbor quest on all 10 characters (haven't done it so far with any characters - right now i like going there to just kill and steal at times

) and set up shop for all my characters there...

as attractive as velyn harbor is - just wondering if any one has any "secret" (and convenient) alternative quiet spots for staging their characters that they may want to share?

Malamar1229 · July 2017

damn was hoping to ask if i could haz your stuffs

IcyDeadPeople · July 2017

Shornhelm is pretty convenient, all crafting stations right next to bank and wayshrine. If they ever add housing NPC with guild store access, however, you can just stay home.

vyndral13preub18_ESO · July 2017

geonsocal wrote: »

for the last year or six to eight months or so i've kept all my characters parked in Rawl'kha - super convenient services all located a short distance apart from each other...

unfortunately with the recent onset of overwhelming laggy moments - i've come to the conclusion - rawl'kha is no longer a viable staging area for all my characters...things can get really "choppy" at times, as well as frequently long loading screens...

it's a really popular place...

my current plan is to complete the velyn harbor quest on all 10 characters (haven't done it so far with any characters - right now i like going there to just kill and steal at times ) and set up shop for all my characters there...

as attractive as velyn harbor is - just wondering if any one has any "secret" (and convenient) alternative quiet spots for staging their characters that they may want to share?

Don't give out our secret hiding spot!

#SavetheHarbor!

rootimus · July 2017

Great picture; have an awesome. Depending on what you need from your staging area, you can now log off in your house without the silly timer. Belkarth, still not so much.

Donari · July 2017

Riften is almost perfect. The stables are a longish run from the main area, and the wayshrine needs some serpentine over bridges to reach, but the bank and crafting stations and outlaw's refuge are all in close proximity. The dye station too, though you must drop down a dock level and enter an instanced shop to use it.

geonsocal · July 2017

Malamar1229 wrote: »

damn was hoping to ask if i could haz your stuffs

that's okay - you can have my dozens and dozens of superior set jewelry that I have no idea what to do with (I'm too embarrassed of it to even donate the stuff to my guild banks - seems like it could be useful for someone

)...

Thogard · July 2017

I'm a big fan of Vvardenfell. Most of the instance load is from people outside of the city, so you don't get massive lag or FPS issues. All the resources are there and if you do BGs the BG quest giver is there.

geonsocal · July 2017

Donari wrote: »

Riften is almost perfect. The stables are a longish run from the main area, and the wayshrine needs some serpentine over bridges to reach, but the bank and crafting stations and outlaw's refuge are all in close proximity. The dye station too, though you must drop down a dock level and enter an instanced shop to use it.

spent some time last night checking out riften as a potential landing spot...the "duelers" kinda turned me off...a little too popular of a choice...

Potenza · July 2017

Donkey abuse! Reported!

geonsocal · July 2017

Potenza wrote: »

Donkey abuse! Reported!

ugh, i seem to have accumulated quite a bit a crap in my time in tamriel...

Rey · July 2017

10/10

Rainwhisper · July 2017

I find Mournhold in Deshaan to be the most convenient. I picked up the Ebony Flask room for that reason.

Writs and crafting stations are all right there, and all three guild HQ are there for getting and turning in quests.

Dhalmora in Bal Foyen has the most convenient crafting area, easily accessed from Humblemud. All the crafting stations, a dye station, and a full banker all under one roof, with a wayshrine nearby. Unfortunately, there are no writ boards, and no stablemaster. Add those, and it would be perfect.

Spacemonkey · July 2017

#MakeArenthiaGreatAgain

lolz, we need a Rawl'ka #2 ; add crafting stations, refuge and bank, theres already traders, stables, wayshrines and guilds
+Arenthia is awesome and would make silent string demesne most awesome house.

geonsocal · July 2017

Rainwhisper wrote: »

I find Mournhold in Deshaan to be the most convenient. I picked up the Ebony Flask room for that reason.

Writs and crafting stations are all right there, and all three guild HQ are there for getting and turning in quests.

Dhalmora in Bal Foyen has the most convenient crafting area, easily accessed from Humblemud. All the crafting stations, a dye station, and a full banker all under one roof, with a wayshrine nearby. Unfortunately, there are no writ boards, and no stablemaster. Add those, and it would be perfect.

I'm looking to leave the crowds (and lag!!!) behind...Dhalmora sounds worth checking out a little more closely...thanks

s7732425ub17_ESO · July 2017

The main city in Shadowfen is fantastic. The only downside is that the stables are not next to the bank.

geonsocal · July 2017

Spacemonkey wrote: »

#MakeArenthiaGreatAgain

lolz, we need a Rawl'ka #2 ; add crafting stations, refuge and bank, theres already traders, stables, wayshrines and guilds
+Arenthia is awesome and would make silent string demesne most awesome house.

I like that it's access is blocked by a quest - I'm pretty sure I myself have never been there...

pretty place...

Takes-No-Prisoner · July 2017

rootimus wrote: »

Great picture; have an awesome. Depending on what you need from your staging area, you can now log off in your house without the silly timer. Belkarth, still not so much.

I pretty much park all of my characters in my house if I can

Flynch · July 2017

Craglorn seems to fit most bills imo.

Zvorgin · July 2017

s7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »

The main city in Shadowfen is fantastic. The only downside is that the stables are not next to the bank.

But the stable is right next to the wayshribe and crafting stations are an arrow shot from the bank.

geonsocal · July 2017

Takes-No-Prisoner wrote: »

rootimus wrote: »

Great picture; have an awesome. Depending on what you need from your staging area, you can now log off in your house without the silly timer. Belkarth, still not so much.

I pretty much park all of my characters in my house if I can

the only housing i have is that little spot at the rosy lion...it can barely fit my bosmer - no way is my orc squeezing in there

geonsocal · July 2017

Flynch wrote: »

Craglorn seems to fit most bills imo.

as much as I love having lots of players around me in cyrodiil - for the rest of tamriel - less is definitely more

Destyran · July 2017

I park all my toons in my house but before that it was bal foyen. You have all crafting tables and banker merchants close to way shrine. I like it alor

Megabear · July 2017

IcyDeadPeople wrote: »

Shornhelm is pretty convenient, all crafting stations right next to bank and wayshrine. If they ever add housing NPC with guild store access, however, you can just stay home.

Oh my god, you're right. It has the stable nearby too. I'm MOVING!!!

Megabear · July 2017

Thogard wrote: »

I'm a big fan of Vvardenfell. Most of the instance load is from people outside of the city, so you don't get massive lag or FPS issues. All the resources are there and if you do BGs the BG quest giver is there.

My only problem with Vvardenfell is that the stable is a bit far.

Eleusian · July 2017

Craglorn is about the only choice if your doing top end writs. I was parked at Velyn Harbor for a year or so but got tired of the load screens to turn in my writs. I wish the would put a large home or better there , homes on the water front are very few in this game.

geonsocal · July 2017

Megabear wrote: »

IcyDeadPeople wrote: »

Shornhelm is pretty convenient, all crafting stations right next to bank and wayshrine. If they ever add housing NPC with guild store access, however, you can just stay home.

Oh my god, you're right. It has the stable nearby too. I'm MOVING!!!

you can usually find some really good bargains also at the shornhelm guild traders...

xerikos · July 2017

Rainwhisper wrote: »

Dhalmora in Bal Foyen has the most convenient crafting area, easily accessed from Humblemud. All the crafting stations, a dye station, and a full banker all under one roof, with a wayshrine nearby. Unfortunately, there are no writ boards, and no stablemaster. Add those, and it would be perfect.

Lately, Dhalmora has become my favorite "place to be", even though it doesn't have a stablemaster, and I think it also lacks a provisioning station (and the wayshrine is not so close, but not so far either). Other than that, everything is under a single roof (add to that Humblemud, a pretty cheap house next to the market).

Yet, I would +1 Shornhelm, in Rivenspire: small town, everything relatively close together, not so may people around, rarely duelists harassing everyone else... It's only missing an apartment

, which I hope could be added in the near future.

Erris · July 2017

Lol, I saw this picture years ago with the caption "How to know if your ass is too small"... It still makes me laugh!

On another note, that's what my inventory here feels like all the time! :-/

Amadis001 · July 2017

If you want a vibrant market in chat for crafting materials and products, especially for bulk sales, then Craglorn is the place for you. If a constant stream of people offering goods and requesting goods in chat to the exclusion of all other human interaction is annoying to you, then you had best find another crafting hub to settle in to.

Oh, and Craglorn is full of scammers. If you're new to Belkarth, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't let strangers rob you. There are two basic flavors of con artists: (1) People offering legitimate trades at outrageous prices trying to take advantage of noobs who don't know that they could get 10X more for their items than is being offered, and (2) the serious scammers who will try to scam you, either through in-person trade or COD mail, to take your gold in exchange for truly worthless junk, or nothing at all, if you're not careful.

LadyLethalla · July 2017

I believe Bleakrock is also a good place, so long as you haven't done the quest... can't remember if it has stables though.