Xanmeer Crates Opinions?

SupaSane

To me personally and others I've talked to about this, the mounts look terrible. The other items also are not appealing at all. Thoughts?

Atallanta

Not a fan of apex mounts, but I like the skins and I find this time blue and purple tier items look decent.

Reignleif

All items are ugly, i really dont like this reptile/maya aesthetic.

The good thing is that i didnt waist 1 crown on these crap.

HappyLittleTree

I like the mounts (too bad i didn't get one). got me both skins and i'm happy.

StormChaser3000

Awful ugly apex and boring other stuff.

I grabbed 30 storm atrounach crates instead and not regretting.

Danikat

I like the mounts. I agree they look weird if you look at the full set together, because then it's more obvious they're reskins of the existing mounts. But on their own I think they look good, especially the bear, wolf and senche.

The other stuff is the usual mix, there's some nice things, some things which are ok but I wouldn't buy them if they were sold directly and wouldn't be especially happy to get them from a crate and some things I wouldn't want at all. I can't remember anything in particular which stands out to me, and I can't log in at the moment to check because the server is still offline.

But it's largely irrelevant to me anyway because I never buy crates and we haven't gotten any free Xanmeer crates, so everything in them may as well not exist for me. It's a shame, I'd buy at least one of the mounts if I could, and probably some other stuff too, but I guess ZOS doesn't want my money when they have a chance at getting more from someone else.

ValorieW

Loved and totally would have purchased the housing trap items... but not when they’re ONLY Available in loot boxes. Wtf.

frostz417

Garbage

Vermethys

I thought only the Bright-Throat body paints were worth it, and maybe the radiant apex mounts. Otherwise, terrible season.

CrisXD

The crown crates go with the theme of Murkmire so yes, the items are going to look a little “different”...but...those mounts...oh hell no! The horse lizard is by far, one of the ugliest looking things I've ever seen. The bear is probably the best one because it looks more like a triceratops than a lizard. ZOS have produced some pretty majestic mounts and non-combat pets over the years but these don’t quite make that list in my opinion😐

Atallanta

I like the guar though

ascan7

Honestly i like almost all the legendary mounts, the house plants and the skin.
Also there is the hist guar.
But everything cost 100 or more... the cheap stuff is really horrible

wnights

They could have added some cool costumes / hairstyles for argonians, but instead we got 2 skins ( that look best on argonians) and 5 colours of the same paint. Overall I was not impressed with the items.

whitecrow

I'm not interested in the mounts at all. I think the two tribal skins look pretty nice on my Bosmer, and am still considering getting them with gems. Will I use them that often though, is the question.

Argon9

As mainly argonian player, this is something ive been looking for. tho the skins does not combind with the tattoos that comes with the crate. and i am certainly i have seen some of the argonians from murkmire with the skin + tattoos. Hopes its something they consider to fix.

idk

Zos seems to be lacking creativity with what they have been putting into the crates and crown store. The "new" mounts that have been added recently are rather boring.

bluebird

Just a reminder: Apex mounts have a 'special' skill with visual effects.

When pressing jump on a stationary mount, the regular ones will do something basic (lions will roar, wolves will howl, etc), but apex mounts have their special animations. The Psijic mounts will do a burst of sparkles and leave a trail of magic behind them, the Storm Atro mounts will get a flash of lightning and trail lightning particles, etc.

So while the Xanmeer mounts can look a bit boring, their special animations covers them in hist sap and makes them glow yellow which actually looks good on their green scales! Now, I can understand if a lizard-camel covered in its own glowing yellow sap-spit isn't particularly your cup of tea, just saying that the mounts do improve a bit (But yeah, I didn't get any of the mounts this season even though I have the gems for it.)

eso_nya

Read their descriptions and tell me they r not making fun of <insert term for ppl blessed with minor intelligence> who pay for a cheap, lorebreaking reskin.

B0SSzombie

I liked it. The Apex mounts had unique models, instead of just a slight reskin like the Psijic or Hollowjack mounts, and the theme was well suited for the content that came out at the same time AND offered some nice stuff to Argonian themed players.

One of the better themed Crate Seasons in my opinion, which I can now say thanks to the recent re-release of Storm Atronach, which was the only Crate Season I had not seen since I started!

Atallanta

Tastes differ

Forvet

I absolutely LOVED the mounts. Seriously, I was giggling over the Lizard-Senche ever since I saw it in Murkmire. I bought Crown Crates specifically to get enough gems to unlock it.

One thing I was disappointed in, however, was the lack of a true motif in the crates. I didn't like that at all. I always look forward to motifs.

Aelthwyn

yeah..... I'm sure they fit some people's tastes, but personally I think the apex mounts are really awkward looking, and there isn't really anything else I'm interested in except the riverwood chicken. *shrug*

Ertosi

For the apexes, it's the odd and ugly hist-sap burst effect they have when they first become visible that's the deal breaker for me. It makes them look simply awful. Had they been done more like natural beasts without the gaudy particle effects, they would have been ok.

Paazhahdrimaak

I have a few Argonians so this season has been good to me, I enjoy both skins, im gonna use the deadwater skin for my future Necromancer, made my waden healer rock the bright throat skin.

As usual 30+ crates and did not receive a mount or any Voriplasm gear, bought the staff with gems though. Everyone ive asked has not received the Voriplasm weapons from crates only gems.

But i do feel there was not as much available in these crates.
I also wish that a lot of the cosmetics from this crate were only useable by argonians. They've gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to cosmetics, being unusable by them.

All the new stuff looks so bad on human/elf/khajiit players. It hurts seeing a bright throat khajiit. Please let these only be useable by argonians

Starlock

Given we just came off from what I consider a lore-breaking crate season, this was a breath of fresh air. In spite of not having a proper argonian character rolled out of my head yet and into the game, I really like the lore-grounded theme of the season and didn't hesitate to get my usual pack of 15. From the looks of things, the next few seasons will have lore appropriate themes and items as well.

Seraphayel

Worst Crown Crate season ever. The mounts are awful and the other stuff is underwhelming as well.

Jayne_Doe

Starlock wrote: »

Given we just came off from what I consider a lore-breaking crate season, this was a breath of fresh air. In spite of not having a proper argonian character rolled out of my head yet and into the game, I really like the lore-grounded theme of the season and didn't hesitate to get my usual pack of 15. From the looks of things, the next few seasons will have lore appropriate themes and items as well.

Lol...and lizard horses and camels aren't lore-breaking? Granted, there is a lizard bear monster, so the lizard bear works ok. But, c'mon...all the mounts are just lazy reskins (and no, not unique models, as someone previously posted). And the guar? It's already reptilian. So to have a lizard-guar? WTF!? If they had created proper and unique lizard mounts, and not just put a lizard skin on a horse, it would have been much better.

No, this was by far the worst season and so I didn't care AT ALL that we didn't get any free crates. Wouldn't have wanted any of that crap in my collections, even if it was free. The only exceptions were the costumes, which I had purchased previously. I guess I wouldn't have minded getting any of the tattoos, though I would never use them. It is also a rip-off that they are just recolors of the same tattoo.

ETA: I forgot about the Hist Guar. I wouldn't have minded getting that, but it was previously in the Crown Store, so it's why it was better than the crap they created specifically for this season.

redspecter23

The mounts and the weapon styles were both horrible in my opinion so I had little interest in that season. I'm not a fan of the lizard style skins on the mounts and have no intention of adding snot to my weapons.

bluebird

Jayne_Doe wrote: »

Starlock wrote: »

Given we just came off from what I consider a lore-breaking crate season, this was a breath of fresh air. In spite of not having a proper argonian character rolled out of my head yet and into the game, I really like the lore-grounded theme of the season and didn't hesitate to get my usual pack of 15. From the looks of things, the next few seasons will have lore appropriate themes and items as well.

Lol...and lizard horses and camels aren't lore-breaking? Granted, there is a lizard bear monster, so the lizard bear works ok. But, c'mon...all the mounts are just lazy reskins (and no, not unique models, as someone previously posted). And the guar? It's already reptilian. So to have a lizard-guar? WTF!? If they had created proper and unique lizard mounts, and not just put a lizard skin on a horse, it would have been much better.

I agree that most crate mounts - with the exception of the Frostbane ones perhaps - tend to be lore-breaking (or at least, pushing what's possible in Tamriel on the verge of being gimmicky).

But lizard-like creatures similar to other animal types that are intertwined with Hist sap is still a lot more believable than a horse that randomly takes off my head, replaces it with a glowing pumpkin in my hand, then puts it back on as if nothing had happened. The whole concept of halloween pumpkins is lore-breaking in the first place, because at least the New Life festival attempted to justify itself with some ingame cultural celebrations, Hallowjack is just... Halloween. In Tamriel. With pumpkin-head-mounts.

So to me, the lizard doesn't stand out as one of the crazy ones That said, they (and most items from the Xanmeer season) are super boring and useless unless someone plays a hardcore Argonian or an obsessed swamp-delver that wants to ride a lizard covered in its own yellow spit.

Keldheir

I like some of the facial and body markings, because they go surprisingly well with my armour-colour combination.
The plants look neat enough but don't entice me to buy crates. Nothing else this season piques my interest.

rexagamemnon

The mounts are just reskins of old previous mounts, nothing special or unique about them. That coupled with the crates that are themed around a race that has nothing interesting aside from good racial passives, made for a very boring crown crate season