Pariah's Pinnacle - a missed opportunity

ynimma

I was happy to learn we'll have an Orc home in Wrothgar, I love that area and was waiting for something coming up there - maybe a quiet corner in Orsinium or a hut with some rocks around in the wild.
Now just had a walk around Pariah's Pinnacle and however I'd like to like it, I somehow can not.
The setting is nice, up in the rocks, show is blowing in but I don't really get that place at all. Notable but the majority of space looks overall useless (long corridors with a lot of unnecessary stairs), the ground is so uneven that I wouldn't be able to put any rugs or carpets down, literally any furniture without messing up the texture with contact points. The walls are just boringly repetitive and also hardly can be decorated without that buzz killing contact issues (either leaving a terrible big gap or losing out the content in merging textures).
Nothing homey for me, even for interior designers it would give no chance to win this.

I like the waterfall though and that broken arch above but that'd be very expensive for whateverthousand crowns.
Missed opportunity, at least I sorely miss a genuine Wrothgar property

duendology

I guess it's a good "residence" for an entire guild..
There should be an option for a guild to purchase a house...then it would make sense

lordhakai

Falkreath hall is a better guild house than this one

Izaki

lordhakai wrote: »

Falkreath hall is a better guild house than this one

The Island or the Cave is even better.

Hymzir

I was gonna get Pariahs Pinnacle - spent quite some time testing different ideas for it on the PTS. But ultimately decided not to. The place has it's share of small issues, like the uneven floors and overly huge stairs compared to the over all floor space. But it also offered ton of cool ideas, and building opportunities.

Was going to create a crystal cave in there, and to make the entrance of the main hall opening in the outside space more cavern like. Was going to build a path up to the top of the water fall and then build a large mediation and arcane experiments type of workshop there. (There is a rather large amount of space up there.)

But then two things happened... One was the fact that it became evident that it's a Crowns only place. I was still sortta tempted, and it would've given me a good new long term project and a reason to keep on playing. But 13k Crowns is way too much. Way, way too much. Maybe if there had been a crown sale on Black Friday...

However, the really big issue I have with the place, is that there really aren't that many furnishings one can use with it. I can decorate the interior, but anything I place in the outside area will stick out as a sore thumb, since they wont have snow on them. There are plenty of art assets in the game that would fit the snowy look of the place, - just walk around Orsinimum to see some of them. Most orc pieces have a frosted versions available, and there are iced over dwemer pieces in the game too. But there are not frosted pieces available for crafting. And that makes the place unappealing to me.

If it was available for gold, I might buy it as a really really long term project The kind were I would wait and hope for winter themed luxury items appearing for sale, so that I could eventually furnish the place with properly icy pieces of decor. But there is no way I am going to drop 13k crowns worth of real life currency to get a place that I might never be able to furnish properly.

WaterBearer

ynimma wrote: »

I was happy to learn we'll have an Orc home in Wrothgar, I love that area and was waiting for something coming up there - maybe a quiet corner in Orsinium or a hut with some rocks around in the wild.
Now just had a walk around Pariah's Pinnacle and however I'd like to like it, I somehow can not.
The setting is nice, up in the rocks, show is blowing in but I don't really get that place at all. Notable but the majority of space looks overall useless (long corridors with a lot of unnecessary stairs), the ground is so uneven that I wouldn't be able to put any rugs or carpets down, literally any furniture without messing up the texture with contact points. The walls are just boringly repetitive and also hardly can be decorated without that buzz killing contact issues (either leaving a terrible big gap or losing out the content in merging textures).
Nothing homey for me, even for interior designers it would give no chance to win this.

I like the waterfall though and that broken arch above but that'd be very expensive for whateverthousand crowns.
Missed opportunity, at least I sorely miss a genuine Wrothgar property

I have this set as my primary and have been slowly adding to it for some time since it was released, but that was my major issue with it: the floor indentations. It makes it so if you want to add anything and have it look somewhat realistic you have to put it in the central square of the floor hexagons. But even then when you walk over it it's clear to see your feet go through the carpet where the indent is lower. And I don't want to have to buy a bunch of rock formation to try and make the ground even. I'm kind of sad bc I put a lot of time into my primary residence, but now I think I'm going to move it to Linchal. LOVE the idea of Pariah, a secluded palace in the far north eastern mountains of Wrothgar, but it's very hard to decorate. It's almost like they didn't want you to put hardly anything on the floor or walls.

Vicarra

It's actually not that bad tbh. I blocked off the main big chamber, because I figured with 3 halls leading off it, it would get hella draughty. So it's now a shared bedchamber. The corridor leading to the lower terrace is now a forge/armourcrafting area, while the other corridor (leading to the lake) is a food and drink storage/treasure area.

Where the broken pillars sit, you can join them up with planks or something else and make little sheltered cubby holes. Outside on the back terrace (overlooking the lake) I blocked off two of the exits and left just the middle one, to make a kitchen area inside one of them and a dining area in the other. On the terrace itself, I have some reachman and orcish tents set up for visiting traders.

With regards to not having enough snowy furniture, remember that things are only going to be snow covered if they're not in use. If it's something that gets used, it doesn't need to be a snowy version of that something to make it make sense in the setting. Snow-covered trees quickly dump their snow on the ground as soon as the load becomes too heavy, so it's perfectly normal to have regular looking fir and spruce type trees without snow on them, in a snowy setting. Homes in snowy places often have steep roofs so that the snow falls off them. Things you can easily carry, like buckets and so on, won't have snow on them because you'd knock the snow off before you use it.

I'll agree the floors are a bit of a problem, but only in the sense that they look untidy. If you really don't like them, you can get some of those giant rocks from (e.g.) coldharbour, flip them upside down and place them around the floor to even it out. A lot of the newer rock/boulder items are flat on one side, which makes it easier to use them for floor coverings. I haven't done that myself, I just used rugs and enjoy the geometric patterns that the middle squares make. I know the feet sink into the floor, but sometimes if you get a really, really nice rug your feet will do that anyway.

Baconlad

Ice walls...They take up a bunch of slots, and at 100 crowns each they can get rather expensive...But they add an incredible feel to the space. I've closed in the opened space to the left as you spawn in all the way down the stairs and both rooms.

I've walled off all the opening in the main hall toward the outdoor space. I am now working on lining the main hall floor with ice.
My idea is to build a lair for my nord vampire...kinda like the volkahir (could be wrong on spelling). So far it looks really neat. Maybe I'll show some pics when it's more complete, showcasing the capability to close things off a bit. Pariahs is too open to be a true "home" and it's more of a grand hall for a group of players to use..Still love it, even more than assassin's guild cave that was just released

PS I think I'll have used ~50 ice walls to accomplish the closing off of the home

Katahdin

The uneven floor is stupid. Makes it very hard to place furniture and not have it tilted funny or have chairs be not usable.

It needs to be fixed!