Datamined "Chapter III" - The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr

Sailor_Palutena

Good things we will have dragons. Next chapter need to be about Paarthunax calling Dragonborns all around the world to learn the Th'umm

Dark_Lord_Kuro

Callous2208 wrote: »

Fata1moose wrote: »

I wondering if there's only one dragon and it's the trial. Would make more sense to have it be one or to dragons in isolation.

That would make sense yes buuuuuuuuut...you really think they're gonna save something as big as a dragon encounter for a trial that 99% of these people will never set foot in? No way.

Just do it like the sload
1 in trial
1 in mainquest
1 world boss
1 in public dongeon

Apherius

Callous2208 wrote: »

Fata1moose wrote: »

I wondering if there's only one dragon and it's the trial. Would make more sense to have it be one or to dragons in isolation.

That would make sense yes buuuuuuuuut...you really think they're gonna save something as big as a dragon encounter for a trial that 99% of these people will never set foot in? No way.

Nha, they're gonna save this big dragon encouter for a Quest, 150K hp, 2 sec fight :P

The_Drop_Bear

ZigoSid wrote: »

Cool to finally see Elsweyr and I hope that we'll finally have more explanations and retcons about the Khaajit breeds. That's the only part of lore I always hated and want to be changed, having a little alfiq breeding a giant senche-raht or an Ohmes only because "olol the moons say so" is too much "WTFesque" for me ...

You want them to get rid of the most interesting part of khajiit culture.

If they do this then the game is officially dead to anyone who even remotely cares about TES.

Dark_Lord_Kuro

dogman wrote: »

MornaBaine wrote: »

ZOS @ZOS_GinaBruno . Okay, yes, many of us are excited about necromancers. HOWEVER if you intend to give necromancers UNDEAD MINIONS (aka pets, zombies, skeletons, etc) for the love of all that is holy MAKE THE GUARDS ATTACK THEM IN CITIES!!! Please, please, PLEASE do NOT allow them to just casually shamble through without anyone noticing anything. In fact ALSO have the townie NPCs attack OR run away in fear, raising the alarm AND have merchants refuse to deal with the necromancer. Have entering a town with minions up INCUR AN INSTANT KOS BOUNTY. Seriously. Don't destroy what little semblance of logic this game actually has.

OK, deal, but Sorc pets get the same treatment. And if your bear gets too close to a shop keeper, him too. Also, your skeletal pet? Yeah, bounty too.

how the hell do you guys not see the irony?

And while were at it have merchant fleeing so nobody can speak with them
It will be the anarchy

SydneyGrey

Seraphayel wrote: »

SydneyGrey wrote: »

Grumblestiltskin wrote: »

The only thing I care about coming in 2019 is...



I will be one step closer to creating my Ten Loon Bowling Alley.

I know, right. Although I want that AND the pig. "Princess" needs a farmyard buddy.

Princess needs a stick to be roasted above a campfire. Pretty sure some Dragons in Elsweyr are willing to help me out on that.

Yummy bacon and a bottle of Skooma.

Nooooooooooo!!!!!!! Don't eat Princess! I already saved her from the butcher once!

Lapin_Logic

Ertosi wrote: »

DMuehlhausen wrote: »

Data mining is pathetic.

People do it for internet points. Crap like this was so much more exciting when you got clues, and people talked about it and rumors would come and go.

it's the same the people that blitz to the end of a game when it releases the whine there is nothing to do. Wait for them to release the information and be excited over it.

I think ZoS should just start naming stuff incorrectly to throw people off.

This is my last hope for Necromancers being introduced as a skill rather than a class. There's no way a magic subschool specialist deserves an entire Class named after it. It's best introduced as a Skill Line. Illusionists, Alterers, and Conjurers would deserve to be added as Classes before Necromancers as those at least represent full schools of magic.

2017 brought us the Housing system
2018 brought us the Outfitting system and Jewelry crafting
2019 so far has no indication of any new game mechanics that all characters can make use of.

A new class doesn't benefit my well-seasoned 15 toons. A boss by a different name is still just a boss, so dragons do nothing for me. As much as I'd to see Elsweyr, a new region isn't enough for me to buy a new Chapter. So far, it all sounds like name-dropping without any real substance. This year is ESO's 5 yr anniversary and they said it was going to be amazing... Well get to see soon if there is any truth to that on the 15th during the sneak peak but so far, I've not seen anything to get me to buy into the hype.


If they really want to Wow me, they need to bring a massive new feature that all classes can benefit from. Spellcrafting is the most asked for and most logical choice. Spellcrafting would include everything people have been asking for. It would include Necromancy as its just a subschool of Conjuration. Best case scenario for everyone would be if they've been secretly working on introducing Spellcrafting and announce it during their reveal on the 15th, then explain that Necromancy will be a part of it as one of the new magical Skill Trees. If a new class were introduced with that, it would be best done as one that gets great synergy with the Conjuration and Necromancy skill trees. Without that, there just wouldn't be enough reason to introduce yet another spell casting class... it would step on sorc's toes far too much making neither class unique.

":'( we are 8 days into 2019 and 7 days before the first livestream of the year and ZOS has done nothing to benefit my 15 old toons, they really need to skip a quality of life feature and give me spell crafting to make my OP PVP Gank even more OP"

Housing was not combat related, outfits was not combat related, what on gods green earth makes you think spell crafting is comparable to an Outfit, even jewlery crafting was only minor because wearing Hunding's rings does not change a builds power.

dovakiin5574

StormChaser3000 wrote: »

According to the Russian datamine article this is going to be a pre-order reward mount:

I FIGURED IT OUT GUYS!!! DRO'MATHRA NECROMANCERS BRINGING BACK THE DRAGONS

Dark_Lord_Kuro

Seraphayel wrote: »

LonePirate wrote: »

So does this mean we have a DLC sized zone coming for Q1? It would be kind of difficult to start this story without some new DLC type of content. A dungeon DLC could not properly kick off a year long story but I guess it could. I suppose they might just throw in a couple of long quests like the intro to Murkmire quests and the Jee Lar dailies. I guess we will know when the PTS is updated.

Their initial plan was:

Q1: feature DLC
Q2: Chapter
Q3: dungeon DLC
Q4: zone DLC

If I remember correctly. Last year we got another dungeon DLC in Q1 instead of a feature DLC so who knows.

Actually they never sais q1 was feature dlc people just assumed it due to homestead but the did say the new release schedule would start with morrowind wich make homesead not a part of the new dlc planification
So it can be anyting

Reistr_the_Unbroken

StormChaser3000 wrote: »

According to the Russian datamine article this is going to be a pre-order reward mount:

Saving my money for the pre-order

p00tx

So...is anyone else intrigued by the "LargeStorageTrunk", and hoping it means more in-home storage spaces?

I have so much stuff (so many things!!) that needs storing...

Seraphayel

Dark_Lord_Kuro wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

LonePirate wrote: »

So does this mean we have a DLC sized zone coming for Q1? It would be kind of difficult to start this story without some new DLC type of content. A dungeon DLC could not properly kick off a year long story but I guess it could. I suppose they might just throw in a couple of long quests like the intro to Murkmire quests and the Jee Lar dailies. I guess we will know when the PTS is updated.

Their initial plan was:

Q1: feature DLC
Q2: Chapter
Q3: dungeon DLC
Q4: zone DLC

If I remember correctly. Last year we got another dungeon DLC in Q1 instead of a feature DLC so who knows.

Actually they never sais q1 was feature dlc people just assumed it due to homestead but the did say the new release schedule would start with morrowind wich make homesead not a part of the new dlc planification
So it can be anyting

That's indeed true, although Q3 was planned as the "dungeon DLC quarter".

Dark_Lord_Kuro

starkerealm wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Wait, wait, wait, what?

Tiger Senche?

What?

I get this is a datamine, but that's getting very close to something we were assured would never go into the crown store.

This one look brown to me so its differant
I don't recall them saying variation wouldn't it the store, i could be wrong though

megasurge93

This is all cool and all, but I also really hope that this year they give a nice buff to Vampires like they did last year with Werewolves! Now that would be sweet!

Aerius_Sygale

Cinbri wrote: »

Sounds like worst Chapter possible.

There is no pleasing you people... You take things too seriously, like REAL life history is being defiled or something. Can you not just drop the Lore obsession, and enjoy the content for what it is on its own merit, regardless of what happens or not in OTHER Elder Scrolls games? It would seem you cannot...

Elsonso

Seraphayel wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

Revokus wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

Revokus wrote: »

Faulgor wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Honestly, in their Creative Director's Letter it sounded like 2019 is going to be a very special year for ESO. Not just because of the 5 year anniversary, it sounded like they planned quite some exciting stuff. That's at least the vibes I got from that letter.

They won't achieve this with another Chapter in the style of Morrowind or Summerset. A new class is great, Elsweyr sounds promising and the dragon involvement sounds cool. But if it's just the same copy and paste scheme of their usual zones with new stories and landscapes it won't work. ZOS has to step up their game when it comes to features and development and that's what I expect. If 2019 will be identical to 2018 it will be very disappointing... and lame.

I think the season-long story arc revolving around dragons is what they were refering to. I wouldn't get my hopes up about anything else.
Unless Elsweyr is absolutely massive - and I expect many impassible areas again - it will be pretty much like Summerset. It's also telling that they are listing "dragons" as a feature, when Morrowind at least had battlegrounds to go with the new class. For that reason I also assume Elsweyr will be at Summerset's price point instead of Morrowind's.

TBH, right now I'm much more curious about the Q1 update, which we know absolutely nothing about and should be available much sooner.

I think the Q1 update is the chapter that’s why it’s late.

It's the second week of January. This hardly constitutes as "late"

Well it’s late cause Rob said a couple of weeks for the pts. Last year it dropped first week of january.

We don’t even know the name of the update yet and we knew what the update would be called last year in december so.. and there is a big announcement on the 15th. And Alcast seems to think they will start with the chapter this year too in his most recent video.

Schedules vary from year to year. If they put it on PTS this month, it is not "late".

Last year Summerset was announced end of March, 2.5 months later than Elsweyr's announcement. Morrowind was announced January 31st.

So something seems to be a bit off or at least different. Why is there such a need to "hurry" the announcement this time?

Hard to say, for sure. This might be the year they scale back ESO to do only two DLC.

Threemoons

p00tx wrote: »

So...is anyone else intrigued by the "LargeStorageTrunk", and hoping it means more in-home storage spaces?

I have so much stuff (so many things!!) that needs storing...

I know, right? I need All the Storage for All the Furnishings and Things...

Threemoons

I also hope that they bring back the Pyandonean (sp??) motif for a limited time; never got the whole set when it was up for Crown Store Gems.

Elsonso

Reistr_the_Unbroken wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Updated the first page with two new images (see Update 2 at the bottom).

And it seems like more streamers got the tablet:

https://twitter.com/Tianlein_/status/1082256106058121216

Guess: the tablet will be the "statue" of this year's collector edition and come with a handy stand.

All I want is that letter.

Good luck, unless you happen to be a streamer. They don't send stuff like that to people on the forum.

Reistr_the_Unbroken

lordrichter wrote: »

Reistr_the_Unbroken wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Updated the first page with two new images (see Update 2 at the bottom).

And it seems like more streamers got the tablet:

https://twitter.com/Tianlein_/status/1082256106058121216

Guess: the tablet will be the "statue" of this year's collector edition and come with a handy stand.

All I want is that letter.

Good luck, unless you happen to be a streamer. They don't send stuff like that to people on the forum.

Well I bought just the Molag bal statue off amazon bc people were selling it, maybe people would sell it on amazon

Alphastaire

Aerius_Sygale wrote: »

Cinbri wrote: »

Sounds like worst Chapter possible.

There is no pleasing you people... You take things too seriously, like REAL life history is being defiled or something. Can you not just drop the Lore obsession, and enjoy the content for what it is on its own merit, regardless of what happens or not in OTHER Elder Scrolls games? It would seem you cannot...

You're assuming he's even disappointed about the lore. He could simply be disinterested in the location and the strange combination of Dragons. I do think some people do obsess over the lore too much, but there's a difference between being complacent with the game's condition (this applies to lore) and wanting to point out flaws because they love the game and would like to see it improve.

Personally, I don't have an issue with the findings of the third Chapter so far, it just seems... odd so far, and the concern of throwing in Dragons just because they "want to draw in Skyrim fans" could certainly be valid. There are many people who like the lore and just want to give constructive criticism, regardless of how harsh it can come off as. Although, you definitely shouldn't let that overtake the enjoyment of the rest of the game.

Seraphayel

lordrichter wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

Revokus wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

Revokus wrote: »

Faulgor wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Honestly, in their Creative Director's Letter it sounded like 2019 is going to be a very special year for ESO. Not just because of the 5 year anniversary, it sounded like they planned quite some exciting stuff. That's at least the vibes I got from that letter.

They won't achieve this with another Chapter in the style of Morrowind or Summerset. A new class is great, Elsweyr sounds promising and the dragon involvement sounds cool. But if it's just the same copy and paste scheme of their usual zones with new stories and landscapes it won't work. ZOS has to step up their game when it comes to features and development and that's what I expect. If 2019 will be identical to 2018 it will be very disappointing... and lame.

I think the season-long story arc revolving around dragons is what they were refering to. I wouldn't get my hopes up about anything else.
Unless Elsweyr is absolutely massive - and I expect many impassible areas again - it will be pretty much like Summerset. It's also telling that they are listing "dragons" as a feature, when Morrowind at least had battlegrounds to go with the new class. For that reason I also assume Elsweyr will be at Summerset's price point instead of Morrowind's.

TBH, right now I'm much more curious about the Q1 update, which we know absolutely nothing about and should be available much sooner.

I think the Q1 update is the chapter that’s why it’s late.

It's the second week of January. This hardly constitutes as "late"

Well it’s late cause Rob said a couple of weeks for the pts. Last year it dropped first week of january.

We don’t even know the name of the update yet and we knew what the update would be called last year in december so.. and there is a big announcement on the 15th. And Alcast seems to think they will start with the chapter this year too in his most recent video.

Schedules vary from year to year. If they put it on PTS this month, it is not "late".

Last year Summerset was announced end of March, 2.5 months later than Elsweyr's announcement. Morrowind was announced January 31st.

So something seems to be a bit off or at least different. Why is there such a need to "hurry" the announcement this time?

Hard to say, for sure. This might be the year they scale back ESO to do only two DLC.

Was speculating about different things in that regard as well, but the datamine mentions four quarterly releases and I'm pretty confident in the datamined stuff so... unless it's four quarterly releases stretched over two or more years. *lol*

Elsonso

Seraphayel wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

Revokus wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

Revokus wrote: »

Faulgor wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Honestly, in their Creative Director's Letter it sounded like 2019 is going to be a very special year for ESO. Not just because of the 5 year anniversary, it sounded like they planned quite some exciting stuff. That's at least the vibes I got from that letter.

They won't achieve this with another Chapter in the style of Morrowind or Summerset. A new class is great, Elsweyr sounds promising and the dragon involvement sounds cool. But if it's just the same copy and paste scheme of their usual zones with new stories and landscapes it won't work. ZOS has to step up their game when it comes to features and development and that's what I expect. If 2019 will be identical to 2018 it will be very disappointing... and lame.

I think the season-long story arc revolving around dragons is what they were refering to. I wouldn't get my hopes up about anything else.
Unless Elsweyr is absolutely massive - and I expect many impassible areas again - it will be pretty much like Summerset. It's also telling that they are listing "dragons" as a feature, when Morrowind at least had battlegrounds to go with the new class. For that reason I also assume Elsweyr will be at Summerset's price point instead of Morrowind's.

TBH, right now I'm much more curious about the Q1 update, which we know absolutely nothing about and should be available much sooner.

I think the Q1 update is the chapter that’s why it’s late.

It's the second week of January. This hardly constitutes as "late"

Well it’s late cause Rob said a couple of weeks for the pts. Last year it dropped first week of january.

We don’t even know the name of the update yet and we knew what the update would be called last year in december so.. and there is a big announcement on the 15th. And Alcast seems to think they will start with the chapter this year too in his most recent video.

Schedules vary from year to year. If they put it on PTS this month, it is not "late".

Last year Summerset was announced end of March, 2.5 months later than Elsweyr's announcement. Morrowind was announced January 31st.

So something seems to be a bit off or at least different. Why is there such a need to "hurry" the announcement this time?

Hard to say, for sure. This might be the year they scale back ESO to do only two DLC.

Was speculating about different things in that regard as well, but the datamine mentions four quarterly releases and I'm pretty confident in the datamined stuff so... unless it's four quarterly releases stretched over two or more years. *lol*

I believe they will have 3 DLC and a Chapter. Whenever I make statements like that, ZOS usually steps in and shows me to be wrong.

I don't believe that we are seeing a significant delay, or that the 1Q DLC is late. If Update 21 it is running behind the other 1Q Updates it is because of the Combat Team's work with sets and race. They have until the middle of March, another 9 weeks, to release it. While they only need half of that for PTS, I do think we will see it on PTS in the next two weeks.

Michaelkeir

MornaBaine wrote: »

ZOS @ZOS_GinaBruno . Okay, yes, many of us are excited about necromancers. HOWEVER if you intend to give necromancers UNDEAD MINIONS (aka pets, zombies, skeletons, etc) for the love of all that is holy MAKE THE GUARDS ATTACK THEM IN CITIES!!! Please, please, PLEASE do NOT allow them to just casually shamble through without anyone noticing anything. In fact ALSO have the townie NPCs attack OR run away in fear, raising the alarm AND have merchants refuse to deal with the necromancer. Have entering a town with minions up INCUR AN INSTANT KOS BOUNTY. Seriously. Don't destroy what little semblance of logic this game actually has.

If we going that route, have the guards attack werewolves in town. Lets throw vampires into that mix as well since they are easily noticed with their pale skin and strange eyes. They are undead (very similar to zombies) after all.

If you are complaining about zombies blocking your screen near crafting tables or preventing you from turning in quest to npc by blocking the way like those ****flying sorc pets....then I understand your frustration.

Faulgor

https://twitter.com/TESOnline/status/1083018059768610816

There's something happening on twitch right now. Seems the tablet might be more significant than I thought?

Seraphayel

Okay, the tablet is supposedly a "Wrathstone" - does somebody know what that is in ES lore?

Faulgor

Seraphayel wrote: »

Okay, the tablet is supposedly a "Wrathstone" - does somebody know what that is in ES lore?

Doesn't mean anything to me. Where did you get that from?
Edit: I see it says something like that in a tweet. Not sure if that refers to the same tablet though.

Seraphayel

Faulgor wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

Okay, the tablet is supposedly a "Wrathstone" - does somebody know what that is in ES lore?

Doesn't mean anything to me. Where did you get that from?
Edit: I see it says something like that in a tweet. Not sure if that refers to the same tablet though.

Well yeah, that's just me assuming that the tablet shown in the picture is called like that. Would fit imho and something like that as a giveaway would be great.

Alex_Lex

Tell me it's not a reference to 2 khajiit moons on the tablet.

We are definetly going elsweyr!

Elsonso

I thought it was determined that the tablet had the image of a sigil in it. Not specific to Elsweyr.