Do You Remember...?

JD2013

I remember all my life
Raining down as cold as ice
A shadow of a man A face through a window
Crying in the night
The night goes into
Morning, just another day
Happy people pass my way Looking in their eyes
I see a memory I never realized ...

Oh wait, no. Wrong memory probably.

Carry on!

VDoom1

SunnyBunny wrote: »

VDoom1 wrote: »

I remember tip toeing around The Rift because it was a lvl 40 area and I was lvl 30. One troll could kill me. Kind of a rush running for your life from higher lvl enemies. xD

HAHAHA this reminds me of an instance where i was in the Rift on an alt (I still dislike this zone) and had sort of teamed up with an argonian player. We were both lvl 10/11 something like that. Those dang Trolls were chasing us and a mammoth and Im pretty sure a troll and we were hauling ass trying to get out of there with our plants. I still laugh cry when I think about it...

Hahahaha lols. Need plants for a profession or quest? Sure no problem, Im just going to have to sneak past some trolls that can practically do an insta kill. Then the giants and their mammoths. I will try not to anger the mammoths but those guys are just very moody. So just look away when you see one poor fella being chased by a herd of mammoths and an entire clan of giants. All to deliver one plant to a farmer for 10 gold or make one potion.

Lots of fun mini adventures just doing one quest. It feels like it was more of a challenge back in the day. Lots of running around, being chased. I mean sure we could quest where we are supposed to but screw that. If I wanna quest in The Rift or Bangkorai I will. xD

Glaiceana

VDoom1 wrote: »

I remember tip toeing around The Rift because it was a lvl 40 area and I was lvl 30. One troll could kill me. Kind of a rush running for your life from higher lvl enemies. xD

Ha, I did the same VDoom! I rushed to The Rift a little ahead of my level in order to get my first werewolf bite as soon as possible

AnnieBeGood

Yes.... I remember.

Making vet 12 (?) finally and my guild giving me a set of Martial Knowledge which I was so delighted with and touched by their generosity.

Walking from Stonefalls into the Rift by mistake and in chat seeing 'Hey! whats that noob doing here?'
And truly being afraid going into Craglorn.

Finally having enough gold to buy a horse.... which I still ride, the midnight black one.

Mostly the absolute joy of achieving stuff which was hard.... killing Aurig alone (took some desperate kiting tho).

VDoom1

Glaiceana wrote: »

VDoom1 wrote: »

I remember tip toeing around The Rift because it was a lvl 40 area and I was lvl 30. One troll could kill me. Kind of a rush running for your life from higher lvl enemies. xD

Ha, I did the same VDoom! I rushed to The Rift a little ahead of my level in order to get my first werewolf bite as soon as possible

Lols me to! But back then it was on my Ebonheart alt. I was very careful around the lvl 40 trolls and my poor lvl 10 alt.

Ulfgarde

I remember:

• There was no Battle Spirit
• There were deers in Cyrodiil
• There was a blinding ability in place of jesus beam
• There was also a blinding ability in place of blade cloak
• Raids would all use Immovable (the ability)
• Dragonknights used to fully spec into bash damage
• DKs could root spam people into Standard, pretty much ensuring death
• Templars were a joke
• Vamp DKs could stand indefinitely by stacking ultimate for Bat Swarm
• There was a temporary bug where you would be totally invisible with infinite bat swarm, making you untargetable
• Snipe was a 3s cast
• V10 was the maximum level before Craglorn came out
• Before Craglorn came out, everyone was in Riften / Rawl'kha. Everyone.
• Trials were extremely profitable for farming Martial Knowledge / Warlock
• Stamina classes were nearly non-existent
• Impulse Trains
• Steel Tornado Trains
• The animations were awkward as hell
• Everything only dropped 1 gold.

SunnyBunny

VDoom1 wrote: »

SunnyBunny wrote: »

VDoom1 wrote: »

I remember tip toeing around The Rift because it was a lvl 40 area and I was lvl 30. One troll could kill me. Kind of a rush running for your life from higher lvl enemies. xD

HAHAHA this reminds me of an instance where i was in the Rift on an alt (I still dislike this zone) and had sort of teamed up with an argonian player. We were both lvl 10/11 something like that. Those dang Trolls were chasing us and a mammoth and Im pretty sure a troll and we were hauling ass trying to get out of there with our plants. I still laugh cry when I think about it...

Hahahaha lols. Need plants for a profession or quest? Sure no problem, Im just going to have to sneak past some trolls that can practically do an insta kill. Then the giants and their mammoths. I will try not to anger the mammoths but those guys are just very moody. So just look away when you see one poor fella being chased by a herd of mammoths and an entire clan of giants. All to deliver one plant to a farmer for 10 gold or make one potion.

Lots of fun mini adventures just doing one quest. It feels like it was more of a challenge back in the day. Lots of running around, being chased. I mean sure we could quest where we are supposed to but screw that. If I wanna quest in The Rift or Bangkorai I will. xD

To be honest for some reason I just figured the mammoths were like back ground animals. Like it didn't even cross my mind that we would aggro them. I mean I SAW the bar over them, but I figured Oh if I attack them this is how powerful they are. But NOPE.....

Yeah mini adventures were always fun. It was a challenge and that was the point. I was always looking for new zones and new areas to explore and uhh die in. Or teaming up with a bunch of low lvl players and light attacking things WAYYYYYYYY bigger and stronger then us. That slight anxiety rush going into a delve/dungeon that you wander into and have NO idea what you're going to face or even if you do know you tell yourself THIS TIME i'm going to make it to the 2nd room or the 3rd room.
Or a classic well now I'm dead how far in can I run before I respawn - can I JUST get past these guys? LOL

THWIP71

SunnyBunny wrote: »

I member when my Templar was a baby lvl 16. Word at the wayshire was there was mats that sold well in the higher zones and you could ONLY get them in higher zones. SO I started off to Rawl'kha - had to hitch a ride (you know in zone chat sticking out my virtual thumb), being told by said ride to NOT leave the town that it was dangerous for such a low level.
Buying potions, food and soul gems. Setting out - and getting killed A LOT.
BUT finding my first ever Master chest (only had 5 lock picks, had to ask in zone for some and got 10 sent to me - instead of 2k of them). I was so excited and giddy, my first days haul was not great and I think I made a 50 gold profit for my troubles. It was glorious and exciting.
Attempted Craglorn a few weeks after that - it was sad and funny at the same time. I learned a lot at that time - which ways to go where is was sudo safe and that the higher lvl players were really concerned I was lost, but sometimes taking me along like a younger sibling. I think that's one of the reasons all these years i'm STILL finding stuff I've never seen before. GOOD TIMES GOOOOOOD TIMES

I remember....when you posted this the FIRST time.

SunnyBunny

Yes @THWIP71 that was me talking about my Templar, and this other post is about one of my alt toons (which I did mention). I am sure people have many stories - especially if they have more then one character.
I am simply sharing things I remember that give me a chuckle and if others smile from it, all the better.


*EDIT* Ohhhhhhhhh wait I see the issue...it double posted. Hmmm let me see if I can fix that. I apologize as I didn't realize that happened.

Ch4mpTW

Ulfgarde wrote: »

I remember:

• There was no Battle Spirit
• There were deers in Cyrodiil
• There was a blinding ability in place of jesus beam
• There was also a blinding ability in place of blade cloak
• Raids would all use Immovable (the ability)
• Dragonknights used to fully spec into bash damage
• DKs could root spam people into Standard, pretty much ensuring death
• Templars were a joke
• Vamp DKs could stand indefinitely by stacking ultimate for Bat Swarm
• There was a temporary bug where you would be totally invisible with infinite bat swarm, making you untargetable
• Snipe was a 3s cast
• V10 was the maximum level before Craglorn came out
• Before Craglorn came out, everyone was in Riften / Rawl'kha. Everyone.
• Trials were extremely profitable for farming Martial Knowledge / Warlock
• Stamina classes were nearly non-existent
• Impulse Trains
• Steel Tornado Trains
• The animations were awkward as hell
• Everything only dropped 1 gold.

Ah... The good ole’ days... I in a sense feel bad for new players, as they won’t get the chance to experience a lot of this. They’ll have missed out on so many amazing moments in ESO’s history.

I’m happy I made this thread. And it’s so comforting in seeing people just like me who remember the days of old.

jlboozer

I can guarantee you that Pepperidge Farm remembers...

Myyth

Remember doing the vampire quest before leveling scaling?

After watching a video(linked below), I did it at level 3 with a bow. The enemies were level 38 so you had to use a set of stairs to repeatedly go up, down and around kiting the enemy with nothing but one bow skill and lights attacks until it slowly died. And it wasn't just one enemy you had to kill. You had to kill 10 enemies, one at a time, kiting them each up and down the stairs 10 times. Took about a half hour with many deaths before I killed all 10 and completed the quest with my new level 3 vampire!

Vampires these days have it so easy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v4KWKoQXM8

Alexandrious

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

OutLaw_Nynx wrote: »

Remember the pig farm

Ah, yes... Back when damn near everyone was exploiting, and no 1 really judged you for it. Why? Because everyone was profiting/winning from it... Except of course folks who had to rush to clean their Cadwells to unlock the DC side of things. Lol.

It’s funny you bring that up, as I’m curious if that’s why to this day certain people have so many millions of gold and stacks of Dreugh Wax laying about. On PS4-NA, stacks of wax were selling for 5k at 1 point. No exaggeration. It really got that low. Right in Grahtwood, Elden Root you could pick-up a stack for that. And tons upon tons of Elegant Lining for dirt cheap. I’m talking 500g the cheapest per stack. It was bananas when everyone finally found out about it. Clothing upgrades held truly no value at all at the time damn near. And it was an amazing time to a light armor or medium armor wearer. Because you could just gold out your gear for peanuts.

As for the lag side of things... Oh man. Lol. You used to couldn’t even pass by the door of that damn farm without blue screening. It used to be that jam packed. And certain guilds even started trying to capitalize off of it. They’d charge a fee to let you farm mats in there, and if you called yourself refusing to pay up, they’d spam AoE skills were you were to crash your game. And this could continue over and over again, until you paid the fee to be left alone (which I think was 5k or 10k).

Oh yea I member! Member when players with better pcs and knew how to tweak would crash them in return, give them a ascii macro of flippin the bird and laughed as they farmed without payin? I member!

Member when pvp didnt lag? Member when pvp didnt infinite load or crash? I member!

Ffastyl

I 'member soloing craglorn because groups always meant no time for lore. Then I came to crave it for its challenge. It was some of the most fun I had in PvE here... Do miss it, I do.

I think if ZOS did a better job implementing a difficulty curve, they'd never have needed to meet the lowest common potato denominator.

pod88kk

I remember single node drops from runestones and non tradeable dungeon gear #OriginalGrinder

mocap

I start playin later, but at the beginning there was somekind of duplication glitch, allows you to create ton of any resources. Wonder, if some users still have it in their "black bank" )

SFDB

I remember flying and teleporting bots that would steal nodes from you just as you were running up.

pdebie64b16_ESO

I remember normal DSA was a challenge.

MissBizz

Harvesters used to give me nightmares.

GrigorijMalahevich

if I remember correctly I had martial knowledge on my magsorc and I was killing stuff in Imperial Sewers to get those materials to craft magnus/seducer dual swords v16

Those funny moments when you drop a meteor on DK and he reflects it, but you have s&b on back bar and boom goes the unblockable meteor... animation of doble reflected meteor was just awesome...

20 sec shields...

First try in vMA... Funny that I first played normal MA and thought - "well, this is nothing special, I must be really good" and then came the vMA and first clear took me probably 8 hours sharp bow...

phileunderx2

20 second shields . Still not enough protection for the craglorn wasps.

Loralai_907

Back in the day, it took me forever to finish my first character. I remember most zones being more and more empty as I progressed. But the time I was "ready" for Craglorn, no one went there anymore, so I still haven't got around to finishing that zone. That's one thing that I actually like about "now" - if you need other people to do a thing, you can find them really easily. I've ran through the required content enough that I skip anything that I can. But the things that you "should" do are not as difficult as they once were. Nobody dies in important fights anymore. Which is kind of a bummer. How does fighting a wet noodle make you feel like your character is doing well? Some things should be challenging and they are not anymore.

I also love my tiger mount. I miss things like that, appreciation for sticking things out.

generalmyrick

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

Do you remember the times of old...?

Do you remember when poison resist and flame resist glyphs were applied on jewelry, if you were a vampire or werewolf? Do you remember when the world bosses would snap you up, if you weren’t at a certain level (Stonefalls saint and Greenshade lightning atronach come to mind)? Do you remember when you wouldn’t dare venture alone in Craglorn, out of fear of the mages and wasps? Even though you could’ve been 2 or 3 veteran ranks stronger than them? Do you remember Martial Knowledge was the set to be farmed, as well as Nirncrux being the go-to trait for damn near everything...? Or even better. When Daedric and Ancient Elf motifs were 80k to 100k each. And selling Daedra Hearts was as profitable as selling Dreugh Wax and all that jazz.

I actually loved the feeling of being able to solo a lot of the craglorn mobs and being proud if it. Nowadays...get off my lawn!!!!

Shadow-Fighter

Crafted weapons and armor was valuable

Cartasiand00

Remember when you could pin daedric, ww and vampyr on the ground with the Silver Bolts. I miss these Van Helsing build.

Ch4mpTW

So many positive vibes in this thread... If only I could hug you all.

Vanthras79

Remember when it seemed like this game had immense potential? Then stuff just happened and quarterly DLCs just have 10+ hours of gameplay with new motif grinds.

I kinda want more fun and interesting dailys to be added to the mix ZOS

AbysmalGhul

1. Mud crab massacres
2. Being poor
3. Vampire cliques hanging out in the shrine area
4. Werewolf cliques hanging out in the shrine area
5. Being able to max the werewolf skill line in the werewolf quest
6. When pulsar reduced health by 50% instead of 10%
7. Endless pulsar and streak spamming
8. Being a clueless noob and loving it

FakeFox

20 minute fights against Keeper Imiril...

...now she goes down in 30 seconds.

FakeFox

altemriel wrote: »

do you remember when you could easily kill any world boss just by yourself? farming was a lot easier. now they require 2 or more people...usually more than 2....

Well...that's new to me. Guess it's a question of perspective.