Post your Greymoor Exploration Experiences here. What WOWED you?

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First "wow" moment, Horker rolling on its back (I don't recall seeing them do that in Wrothgar, although they were on my last visit). I also love the Elk rubbing antlers on trees and of course the bears (which I do remember from Wrothgar).

In my guild, we have also commented on how the Moths are attracted the lights in Blackreach, adorable little detail. I also really enjoyed that other than mushrooms/nirnroot there aren't any growing plants in Blackreach and you get the same nodes as CWC for wood, cloth, other alch plants.

I guess things that "wow" me are usually the smaller details that could have been left out and we wouldn't have missed them but including them enriches the world so much.

Also, strange things, like the boat in the boss room in Scraps lol or the bookshelf full of sweetrolls in Dragonhome in a hallway (no near the living space of the cultists).

Gythral

How everywhere is 3hrs away for everwhere else & 200 loading screens later too!

tomofhyrule

The environments are always looking great.

Veinblood1965

tomofhyrule wrote: »

The environments are always looking great.

I noticed that also, didn't look up for the first week or so duh, then I think I saw two planets or moons? Someone had to design that and then get it coded, quite talented whoever they are.

Well last night I finally completed exploring the outdoor portion of the map, and the public dungeon I think it was Labyrinthian? Some little town in the center which had a wayshrine next to it was really cool. Managed to pick up a yellow Lead out of the dungeon which was for some boots which have decent stats, I don't expect to be able to get them anytime soon but that's what's cool about the new skill line, although as some say it's a grind the fun for me is just going about my normal daily business and picking up a sweet lead. Not something that can be acquired overnight. There is some nord town in the middle right portion of the map I forget the name which was the last place I explored, was very well done. The interiors actually felt lived in by local folk lol. Reminded me of a town in Skyrim.

Well next stop is Blackreach looking forward to that.

Raudgrani

Was kind of "WOW'ed" in several way. The new content - as intended - is very nice. I really loved the rewards for the main quest line for example, and I actually use some of it on my main character (I usually don't).

The new furniture is very nice, the Vampiric ones are very easy to get hold of, grinding Harrowstorms and looting Labytinthian and the dwemer public dungeon in Blackreach (won't even try to write the name out of memory). The solitude furnishing plans seems a lot harder to find, found like 5-6 different ones, most very crude, ugly and simple (like log benches and camping pots etc.). But I guess I might buy them off guild traders once the prices begin to drop, or from that master writ vendors if they appear there.
Quite a few of the Solitude style items are actually based on real viking/iron age archaeological finds, I'm a bit impressed they put this amount of effort into that. Not just making ugly "fantasy viking" inspired junk. Great work there!

The new trial is pretty cool, only done it on normal so far, and really have no idea about mechanics. We've just "Tallyhoed" is so far, with mixed results. I will need to get a place in a veteran run, because I need that skin, and need to be able of buying that ship furnishing.

Harrowstorms are very fun, but probably not as rewarding as hunting dragons, but absolutely more fun. Pretty challenging too, if it's not completely overcrowded. A dragon rarely turn on you specifically, while these champions have a big chance of doing so. However, the overland harrowstorms are very often glitched, and can be so for hours - which truly sucks to be honest.
One type of "champion" that needs some tuning is the "Shrieke" or whatever it's called. It turns on you and oneshots you from miles away, without any obvious warning. Not cool at al. Either make it more obvious, or like cut its damage by 50%. Oneshot mechanics like these shouldn't be in the game. You should have some chance of realizing what's going on.

I was also "WOW'ed" bu the fact that fencing doesn't work, in a bad way. And my main and my khajiit thief has like 100 blue and purple items to get rid of, and are currently very law abiding citizens because of this. This truly sucked too.
I saw that a possibility to gain abnormal amounts of XP from dwemer spiders was "hotfixed", but not the glitched harrowstorms and broken fencing? Why this priority? Truly, WOW....

I won't even mention Cyrodiil, as I haven't been there for like 2 months. But I've heard it's "worse than ever", as per usual when there's been an update. Very sad, can't say anything else. I have a vampire necromancer build I want to try out, but I guess there's no idea whatsoever to even try right now.

The mythic items. Kind of fun, but the GRIND for leads from bosses needs to go, or at least make the drop rate a lot better. I've been running Blackheart Haven like +20 times chasing that lead, but I've simply given up. It's not worth it, as I really don't need that particular item either. I don't mind hardcore grinding things like fishing or getting leads out of chests or nodes, but doing the same old dungeon/worldboss over and over and OVER again? Common, it's simply stupid, nothing else. Not fun in any kinds of way, at all.

I've kind of tried out the Snow Threaders and the Wild Hunt ring, and they are probably useful. The Threaders are great for soloing some world bosses, and the ring probably has a lot of use - all from "speedruns" in trials etc., running scrolls in Cyrodiil, as well as for farming mats etc.
Tried the Thrassian Stranglers out too, on a vampire magblade. And there again, just "wow"... It's absolutely silly. What were these guys thinking? It's absolute nuclear bombing, what about that thing with "power creep" and such? This is just so broken. Nice set for us of course, but I mean... Too much so perhaps? And as if the gap between magicka and stamina DD's wasn't big enough already? Well. We'll see...

A pretty mixed bag to be fair. As I said, most things that was intended is nice, but as usual it's filled with glitches and a bit of mindless/frustrating grinding, which takes away a bit of the joy. But in general. Pretty great.

Kingpindragon

The Antiquities system.

I thought I would hate it and I did until I got Scrying and Excavation to level 7-ish. After that, every Lead I received felt exciting. It gave me a reason to just do random stuff I already do.

I got a gold Lead from just picking a mushroom, searching drawers, and I picked one up that was literally just lying around on top of the king's table.

I'm not specifically hunting for leads anymore, so there is no pressure to grind.