Have you returned there ?

MerguezMan

Dear ESO player,

Do you remember those places you went only once and never came back to ?

I'm not talking about the regular regions, but about legacy sub-zones that are still in-game, and may be accessed only from specific travel point or during a specific quest:
- Eyevea (Mages guild)
- Earth forge (Fighters guild)
- Stirk (Main quest)
- Norg Tzel (Murkmire prologue)
- Jerall Moutains and Blackwoods borderlands (Dark brotherhood)
- Halls of colossus (Elsweyr prologue)
- Al-Danobia tomb (Thieves guild)
- East Blackreach (Greymoor prologue)
- Valley of blades (Main quest / South Elsweyr prologue)
- I may not have listed them all, there's probably more.

And I'm wondering... why are those places not used more ? Can't we have antiquities searching/thieves heist/dark bro' missions there ?
Is it just me having too much spare time, or do those places deserve more than just a one-time go ?

Sephyr

For the record, you can still visit Eastern Blackreach. At least I could on the PTS.

Edit: Quest mobs seemed to also be there as well, but not the actual 'quest' content was from what I could tell by being chased by a bunch of death hounds. I'll check next time I'm out that way and if I can remember.

VaranisArano

Can we go back to Norg Tzel? I thought that was just sitting there in the locations screen, taunting me.

MerguezMan

I'd really like to revisit the place with a new incent.

Sephyr wrote: »

For the record, you can still visit Eastern Blackreach. At least I could on the PTS.

Indeed. And you also can go back to valley of blades using that horse front of Davon's watch, but... why would you ?
At least Eyevea and Earth Forge have unique crafting stations, but the other places have... nothing except people you can talk to.

VaranisArano wrote: »

Can we go back to Norg Tzel? I thought that was just sitting there in the locations screen, taunting me.

Afaik, no. You need to be doing the prologue quest, or join someone doing it.

bearbelly

Sephyr wrote: »

For the record, you can still visit Eastern Blackreach. At least I could on the PTS.

You still can, on Live.
You can get there from both sides; from further west in Blackreach, and through the entry point in the Greymoor prologue.

And something I found out this morning... if you travel through Blackreach from Western Skyrim to the Eastern Blackreach entry point in the prologue, and enter into Eastmarch, you can't go back through that entry if you haven't yet started the Greymoor prologue on that character.
Not a Nirn-shattering discovery, since it makes sense; just a point of interest.

Sephyr

MerguezMan wrote: »

Sephyr wrote: »

For the record, you can still visit Eastern Blackreach. At least I could on the PTS.

Indeed. And you also can go back to valley of blades using that horse front of Davon's watch, but... why would you ?
At least Eyevea and Earth Forge have unique crafting stations, but the other places have... nothing except people you can talk to.

I'd say as far as the why, probably to see if the loot tables were the same in each section (because I'm a pattern hunter too) so I'm rather curious to see what would actually drop being that there's vampire mobs in a somewhat higher density than others (at least from what I remember and have explored). That and it's rather nostalgic considering it's something we travel through in TES V, so I recognized the mapping layout (even the height maps were very similar) and knew instantly where I was!

bearbelly wrote: »

Sephyr wrote: »

For the record, you can still visit Eastern Blackreach. At least I could on the PTS.

You still can, on Live.
You can get there from both sides; from further west in Blackreach, and through the entry point in the Greymoor prologue.

And something I found out this morning... if you travel through Blackreach from Western Skyrim to the Eastern Blackreach entry point in the prologue, and enter into Eastmarch, you can't go back through that entry if you haven't yet started the Greymoor prologue on that character.
Not a Nirn-shattering discovery, since it makes sense; just a point of interest.

I remember running into that too. I also remember exiting Blackreach (I can't remember if it was Eastern Blackreach though) and ending up on I think an Eastmarch cliffside? My memory's fuzzy with that one since I totally was excited that I was back in Blackreach in general. Since we're able to, that means I can play with loot tables! Thanks!

Ectheliontnacil

I'd really like to revisit the place with a new incent.

Is it possible to return to stirk? Because I remember it being really nice there. If you look past the invading Daedra.

Edit: It is not possible to return. That is a shame.

bearbelly

Sephyr wrote: »

I also remember exiting Blackreach (I can't remember if it was Eastern Blackreach though) and ending up on I think an Eastmarch cliffside? My memory's fuzzy with that one since I totally was excited that I was back in Blackreach in general. Since we're able to, that means I can play with loot tables! Thanks!

Yup. There are two exits from Blackreach into Eastern Skyrim.
One is back through the entry point from the Greymoor prologue (trying not to spoil that for people who don't [and maybe don't want to] know exactly where that is until they find it on their own), and the other puts you up on that cliffside you remember.
I don't think it's possible to get down from there, into Eastern Skyrim, unless you jump and most likely die from fall damage, or get up there from the Eastern Skyrim side (I tried this morning), but you can go back into Blackreach from there.

Major_Lag

Funny enough, it's possible to get into many of those "one off" areas even if you don't have the quest, if you port to a friend/guildie who happens to be there.

Of course that's kinda pointless since there's nothing meaningful to actually do there, other than sightseeing - or maybe farming the crafting materials, if you are so inclined.

max_only

I'd really like to revisit the place with a new incent.

I love the Jerall Mountains zone. Absolutely adore it. The whole zone should be a house or something like the Werewolf house.

Actually I’ve been back to the fighters guild earth forge many times to craft sets.

Sephyr

bearbelly wrote: »

Sephyr wrote: »

I also remember exiting Blackreach (I can't remember if it was Eastern Blackreach though) and ending up on I think an Eastmarch cliffside? My memory's fuzzy with that one since I totally was excited that I was back in Blackreach in general. Since we're able to, that means I can play with loot tables! Thanks!

Yup. There are two exits from Blackreach into Eastern Skyrim.
One is back through the entry point from the Greymoor prologue (trying not to spoil that for people who don't [and maybe don't want to] know exactly where that is until they find it on their own), and the other puts you up on that cliffside you remember.
I don't think it's possible to get down from there, into Eastern Skyrim, unless you jump and most likely die from fall damage, or get up there from the Eastern Skyrim side (I tried this morning), but you can go back into Blackreach from there.

I'm legit surprised I remember it because I was also heavily sleep deprived while exploring it all. So I wasn't crazy after all! Thanks! I'll have to see about farming some vampire stuff over there or at least try to. I doubt I'll find much, but it's the figuring out part that's the journey!

Sylvermynx

I really don't care.

I've been back to Eyevea and Earth Forge - with attunable crafting stations so I don't have to go back every time I have master writs (I get a LOT of writs for both places for some reason). And there are antiquities on Eyevea at least, according to a post here in the last couple of days (don't know firsthand, not messing with Greymoor).