DIY Lit Fireplace

RawBrightSilver

For those who don't want to pay real $ to get the lit fireplace look, you can combine two items to get the following effect:


First thing you will need is to craft an "Orcish Brazier, Smouldering". Place that in your fireplace area.

Then, go out to any Home Furnisher and purchase "Rough Firewood, Fireplace" for 100 gold. Place that on top of the Orcish Brazier, and voila! Instant fireplace!

bluebird

Yeah, sadly this isn't the first time that $ makes housing easier, and non-paying players are punished arbitrarily.

You can craft some boxes of fruits for example, but if you want several boxes of fruit in 1 slot, that's Crowns only. You can get individual books from Mages Guild achievements, but if you want a pile of books in 1 slot, it's Crowns only. So the lit fireplace is actually pretty forgiving. Can you imagine how many slots people have to waste if they want to furnish their bookshelves with individual books, just because they don't want to pay real money for this?

And that's on top of the outrageous issue of non-ESO+ players having half the furnishing limits. The people least likely to have excess Crowns to spend on slot-saving exclusive furniture are also punished for no good reason by making their houses that they paid the same price for hold only 50% of the item limit.

It's one thing that Crown-exclusive houses are added, or that houses and furnishing packs cost too much, but some aspects of housing seem to be explicitly scummy on purpose , seemingly designed just to punish people for not paying $$$ which is honestly the part that I find most infuriating. And that's coming from someone who has an ESO+ and several Crown-exclusive homes btw.

worrallj

I'm ok with the ESO + perks- it's a business and they gotta charge money.

But I HATE the cash shop model. It's immersion breaking and also just ugly having to think about irl finances while trying to play an escapist rpg.

RawBrightSilver

bluebird wrote: »

YThe people least likely to have excess Crowns to spend on slot-saving exclusive furniture are also punished for no good reason by making their houses that they paid the same price for hold only 50% of the item limit.

I wasn't aware of that!

And this despite the fact that I spend real $$$ on purchasing crowns and DLC, like Greymoor.

bluebird

RawBrightSilver wrote: »

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bluebird wrote: »

YThe people least likely to have excess Crowns to spend on slot-saving exclusive furniture are also punished for no good reason by making their houses that they paid the same price for hold only 50% of the item limit.

I wasn't aware of that!

And this despite the fact that I spend real $$$ on purchasing crowns and DLC, like Greymoor.

Yep. You can buy Greymoor with irl money, you can buy a large Crown-exclusive manor with Crowns which you bought with irl money, and you'll still get 50% less than an ESO+ sub player, even though you both paid the same price for said Chapter and house. Then you can also spend irl money on Crown-exclusive furnishings, especially if you want to furnish your halved furniture limit with a book row in 1 slot rather than having to spend 8 slots on individual books.

The non-ESO+ furniture limit is incredibly scummy. With bank slots, everyone had the same limit and then ESO+ got it doubled as a bonus. But with housing, they determined a max furniture limit - which is still too low for most homes - and halved that for non-ESO+ as a punishment, even if they pay the same Crown price for it. Ain't nobody gonna tell me that 350 slots is the baseline for Thieves' Oasis and 700 the bonus, when even 700 baseline is too few slots! The ESO+ limit is the normal one and the half non-ESO+ limit is clearly just a punishment to force housing fans to sub which really shouldn't exist, but at least not for Crown-bought homes.

Anyway, don't want to get offtopic, your solution to avoid Crown-bought furniture is very nice! It's just frustrating to know that the item slot and Crown-exclusive furnishing issue combined affect some players so much more than others.

Tigerseye

bluebird wrote: »

Yeah, sadly this isn't the first time that $ makes housing easier, and non-paying players are punished arbitrarily.

You can craft some boxes of fruits for example, but if you want several boxes of fruit in 1 slot, that's Crowns only. You can get individual books from Mages Guild achievements, but if you want a pile of books in 1 slot, it's Crowns only. So the lit fireplace is actually pretty forgiving. Can you imagine how many slots people have to waste if they want to furnish their bookshelves with individual books, just because they don't want to pay real money for this?

And that's on top of the outrageous issue of non-ESO+ players having half the furnishing limits. The people least likely to have excess Crowns to spend on slot-saving exclusive furniture are also punished for no good reason by making their houses that they paid the same price for hold only 50% of the item limit.

It's one thing that Crown-exclusive houses are added, or that houses and furnishing packs cost too much, but some aspects of housing seem to be explicitly scummy on purpose , seemingly designed just to punish people for not paying $$$ which is honestly the part that I find most infuriating. And that's coming from someone who has an ESO+ and several Crown-exclusive homes btw.

This is somewhat true (and totally true re. the fruit crates), but there are also some (craftable) filled/partially filled bookcases.

So, it's not necessarily manditory to spend Crowns on rows of books and even if you do, it will still not be as slot-efficient as using a pre-filled bookcase.

Re. the fire: you can also use other braziers, sunk into the ground, if you want one with flames, rather than a glowing effect.

I tend to buy the pre-made ones, as they are pretty inexpensive (relatively speaking) and have a grate, but the logs + brazier look pretty good, too and I have also used that trick in the oven of the Hew's Bane palace kitchen.