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What do you consider your biggest failure?
vibeborn
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Yeah yeah, we are heroes in this game, and we save the day (at least if we are not playing Thieves Guild or Dark Brotherhood)
But what have been your FAILURES in game?
I'll name a few of mine:
I was lured into tanking Vet Sunspire. I don't know anything about it other than it has dragons. I failed miserably, and still cannot really look at myself in the mirror
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In the quest The Unquiet Dead (spoilers) I accidently bound Calion to the flesh atronarch. That one hurt
But what have been your FAILURES in game?
I'll name a few of mine:
I was lured into tanking Vet Sunspire. I don't know anything about it other than it has dragons. I failed miserably, and still cannot really look at myself in the mirror
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In the quest The Unquiet Dead (spoilers) I accidently bound Calion to the flesh atronarch. That one hurt
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Silaf✭✭✭✭✭Well flesh atro Calion was the fun ting to do. I wonder if releasing him turn all npc around the dungeon permanently hostile.
I regret helping oter races enter Summerset. Sadly the game diden't allow me to side with the velied hineritance or complete some of summerset quests in other ways.
Oh and i regret not getting the lichsteed mount... i know crates are evil and it was nearly impossible with my luck and rng.Edited by Silaf on September 17, 2020 9:20PM4 -
Kalik_Gold✭✭✭✭✭
✭Regret doing Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood on my main (before alts). Doesn't fit his Paladin theme.Main: (PvP & PvE)PS5/NA - Ras Kalik a Redguard Templar - Daggerfall Covenant • 1550+ Champion
Ras Kalik a Redguard Templar, the Vestige
PvP:
Aurik Siet'ka a Redguard Necromancer
Cacique the Sage of Ius a Redguard Warden
Jux Blackheart a Redguard Nightblade
Goliath of Hammerfell a Redguard Dragonknight
Kaotik Von Dae'mon a Redguard* Sorcerer
PvP: (Specialty)
Tyrus Septim an Imperial Lycan Sorcerer
Tsar af-Bomba a Redguard Vampiric Nightblade
Movárth Piquine a Nord Vampiric Necromancer
Uri Ice-Heart the Twin a Nord Vampiric Warden
PvE:
Cinan Tharn an Imperial Dragonknight
Bates Vesuius of Dawnstar an Imperial Dragonknight
Herzog Zwei the Genesis an Akavari* Templar
Tav'i at-Shinji a Redguard** Warden
Lucky Hunch the Gambler - a Redguard Nightblade
Leveling...
Zenovia at-Tura a Redguard** Sorcerer
Yesi af-Kalik a Redguard Templar
Voa a Priest of Sep a Redguard* Necromancer
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Passives of another race used. (RP)
*Breton
**Imperial
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Ras Kalik the Vestige, a renown Redguard warrior; He has been blessed to save Tamriel from Molag Bal’s destructive Planemeld while reuniting the Five Companions. His further accomplishments after defeating Molag Bal, has been to stop the destruction of Morrowind, the Clockwork City, return order to the isle of Summerset and create a new king in Wrothgar and a queen in Elsywer. These events have made him a living legend and continue to lead him into new adventures throughout Tamriel, as well as into the hearts of many ladies including the Elf Queen, Aryenn. Over many years of adventurous travels, Ras Kalik had become a loner, until he re-visited his homeland of Alik'r.
Alik'r and it's cities were overrun by the undead Ra-Netu and therefore he made an allegiance with Alik'r's own Ash'abah tribe. These Ash'abah with his help, cleansed the city of Sentinel in Alik'r desert and it's surrounding areas of the undead brought to life by the Withered Hand. After rescuing Sentinel from the undead zombies, King Fahara’jad’s personal bodyguard the Goliath of Hammerfell, who was given this name by Imperials in the region; was asked to assist the tribe after learning of the defeat of the Withered Hand to the Ash'abah. Kalik promised Goliath he would task him with fighting living enemies on the battlefield if he so desired. Goliath being a Yokudan warrior wields a massive sword in respect to the Ansei, a gift given by the Imperial, Cinan Tharn. Not many soldiers are able to wield double two handed weapons, but Goliath loves to get up and personal in a fight, so he also carries a giant maul, both weapons laced with magical flames.
Jux Blackheart is a master thief that masquerades as a Bard at the Sisters of the Sands inn, with his younger sidekick Lucky Hunch for pilfering and gambling during this time. Jux was known to infiltrate any towns bank vault he came across and even delved into Ayelid ruins without detection. Kalik can vividly recall the night he met the famed thief. Jux found himself rummaging thru a slightly inebriated Kalik’s pocket for too long, on a full-mooned night and because of his greed and the glimmer of his golden armor in the moonlight. He lost his left pinky fingertip as a lesson! But in return, he gained a new friend, as it was his first time since a child being caught red-handed...
Upon arrival back in the Alik'r after many moons of adventuring, Ras Kalik ventures to Bergama. Visiting The Winking Jackal, he runs into Jux Blackheart, who introduces him to the coin game Crowns vs Forebearers (Heads vs Tails) and Golden Dwemer (RBG).... Jux constantly takes gold from the unfortunate thru theft or gambling, his biggest gambling victim is actually his partner in crime known as Lucky Hunch the Gambler. Lucky doesn't mind losing any gold coins to Jux... as Jux saved him from Altmer slavers in Summerset, by stealing a key and sending him on a boat to the mainland years prior. Lucky spent years in slavery with Khajiits in Summerset and picked up the art of subterfuge, using illusion magic disguises and stealing there.
Kaotik Von’Daemon an outcast, and a half-caste between a Breton mother and a Redguard father. Kaotik become a pariah due to his conjuration of Daedra pets. He was taught healing magic during his childhood years by his Breton mother. His father due to Redguard customs exiled him from the desert, sending him by wagon caravan to be a soldier in the war in Cyrodiil. He happened to meet Kalik while traveling from Alik'r, during this long caravan ride the caravan he was in was ambushed in Bangkorai by a group of bandits. Kalik by chance was also traveling thru this area on his Auridon Warhorse (which was bestowed to him by his friend, Darien Gautier). During this ambush, Kalik was able to rescue five hostages from the bandits. Kaotik was the first rescued, and Ras Kalik also recruited him to be in the Ash'abah tribe. These core Ash'abah tribesmen may never be seen together in travel as they partake in their own adventures but they always know what each other is doing; as they frequent a hideout in northern Bankorai. Their hideout an old Orc castle ruin, is kept watch by Nuzhimeh and she passes messages written between them, and frequently they also enjoy her company and her bed.
The other men rescued were a Dunmer banker, an Imperial mercenary and two other soldiers, an Imperial and a Breton Knight, stating proudly he was an Akavir descendent. One of the Imperials, Cinan, claimed to be related to Abnur Tharn the Battlemage of the Imperial Elder Council (One of Ras Kalik's mentors in the Five Companions). Cinan Tharn was really Abnur's drunkard treasure hunting illegitimate son. He was caught smuggling artifacts out of the Ayleid ruins in Cyrodiil and the elder of the two Imperials was Tyrus Septim a retired Imperial navy battle-mage (now a Lycan mercenary living in the city of Rimmen) and guard to the Tharn family. As much as Abnur Tharn hated his half-sister Euraxia, he dislikes his bas†ard son Cinan more. Tyrus now a ruffian and privateer had been paid by Abnur Tharn to watch over Cinan as much as possible. Cinan Tharn a drunkard, loves to drink at least a quarter barrel of Nord mead before he raids various delves and dungeons for relics to sell on the black market. Cinan also plans to one day, run an illegal gambling ring... which he thinks will net him more gold for his wares.
The Dunmer captive shackled to the Imperials looked familiar to Kalik from his time in Morrowind.... and he recognized him as Tythis Andromo a House Telvanni slave-owner and banker from Vvardenfell. During a rough interrogation to Tythis, Ras Kalik learnt why the bandits accosted him. The racist Dunmer was providing slaves as soldiers for the Three Banner War. The bandits were trying to negotiate a lucrative ransom for Andromo and the Imperials.... Kalik did not need any of this gold and he could never set Tythis free as he did with the two Imperial soldiers. His past involvement with slavery and war crimes, made Kalik's blood boil. He chose not to execute Tythis, as he figured the worse punishment for this former rich and opulent slave owner, is to now be an imprisoned servant for Ras Kalik and the tribe.
Herzog Zwei the Genesis a reknown Imperial/Akavirri battle-mage. His roots going back to Akavir through his mother’s bloodline. (His mother is descended from the Akaviri, through Versidue-Shae, and his Imperial father met her in Hakoshae, while traveling) Herzog earned the nickname "the Genesis" from his father as a child, as he was his mother's first born child, and last, as she tragically died in child-birth.
Herzog was seeking to purchase an artifact from Cinan Tharn, before their capture and was meeting Tyrus while in Rimmen, who introduced him to Cinan. This artifact being the Ayelid artifact; the sword Sinweaver. After their rescue and the exchange of gold to Cinan for the sword he decided to slip away before Ras Kalik could question who he was, and why the Akavir descendant really wanted that sword. Herzog was headed to Nagastani — An Ayleid ruin in eastern Cyrodiil. He had read in scrolls that the Sword would give him magical powers to meet his mothers spirit, if he performed an Ayleid ritual at an old shrine hidden there. Equipped with the artifact sword, he was off to start his own adventure but Ras Kalik, did indeed notice the sword however and instead sent a letter to Jux Blackheart (whom also was interested in Ayleid treasures), to attempt to find Herzog and acquire the sword. (*Azani Blackheart in Elder Scroll's Oblivion is Jux's descendant some 747 years later)
And so the Redguard, Imperial and Akaviri men parted ways ... While Ras Kalik went off to Elsweyr to encounter the latest threat to Tamriel, with Abnur Tharn and Sai Sahan - - DRAGONS!! Little did Ras Kalik know a few people were awaiting him in Senchal besides Sai. A necromancer survived his attack on the Withered Hand, while in Alik'r. The necromancer known as Auriek Siet'ka is also following him to the land of the Khajiits and Cacique the Sage of Ius a Shaman mystic who has become attuned spiritually with Tu'whacca (a Redguard God) and Ius (the Animal God), after being burned severely by the escaped dragons in Elsywer, is awaiting his arrival also. Aurik is a soldier of the Daggerfall Covenant that was introduced to necromancy while in the military, even though this magicka art is not spoken of openly by most of the Military leaders. He came to Alik'r and worked with the Withered Hand before Ras Kalik intervened on their plans. After the defeat of the Withered Hand, he aligned with the Worm Cult, and is constantly adapting and perfecting his necromantic arts.
After his journey to Rimmen, Kalik heads south to Senchal, in the southern regions of Elyswer. This new adventure will also put him on a path to meet a strange Redguard man. The stranger which was infected with an untreated Peyrite disease and also was the exiled from the Order of the New Moon cult, due to his sickness. He originally joined the cult to worship Laatvulon, the green dragon, mistakenly thinking it was the Daedric prince Peyrite. This confused and suffering cultist is known as Tsar al-Bomba and he is on a path to spread the disease. He was originally infected in Orccrest while recruiting members there. Can Ras Kalik and the shaman Cacique cure this poor soul, only time will tell. Little does Tsar al-Bomba know, that his infection is tied to Vampirism, and eventually the desire for blood will take over his mind. Senchal also offers Kalik his latest love interest... Aeliah. Whom he fondly led thru battles with the Dragonguard.
After the trek thru the heat, tropical and desert climate of Northern and Southern Elyswer, Ras Kalik heads north to the cold mountain range of Skyrim. His companion friend Lyris beckons for him with a letter sent by crow...
Movárth Piquine - a former vampire hunter (now infected), within the Fighter's Guild (and a secretive necromancer) was in Skyrim working with the Morthaal Guard. On a patrol mission he was caught in Frewien's ice curse outside of Morthaal with the frozen undead. Movárth's vampiric infection kept him from becoming an undead minion to the curse. He was able to use necromantic ice-magic to encase himself safely until he was freed with Freiwen, when the Vestige Ras Kalik broke the curse.
Uri Ice-Heart - brother of Urfon Ice-Heart. The twin sons of Atli and Oljourn Ice-Heart. The Ice-Heart family are originally from Markarth but now reside on the Jerall Mountain range near Cyrodiil, with their younger sister Araki. The twins had joined the Winterborn Reachmen while living in Markarth. Urfon pushed west to Orsinium with the Winterborn Clan, leaving his family behind. Uri stayed behind with his parents and sister to live in the family cabin for safety, avoiding the Vampire plague infiltrating the Reach. After news reaches him and he hears of Urfon's death... Uri leaves and heads home and is seeking vengeance. Meanwhile, his sister has also moved on to Windhelm to join the Fighter's guild. He will visit his sister, once before going to seek vengeance and she will craft him armor mixed with ice, called Stalhrim armor. Uri fearing death, after his brother's passing, falls victim to the convincing talk of Movárth at a Nordic tavern, and will also becomes a vampire.
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scorpius2k1✭✭✭✭✭
✭Leveling too quickly to 810 and missing so much overland content that is now ridiculously unrewarding and too easy. I have no desire to even bother with that stuff now tbh. I login to grab my daily reward and do pledges if I need transmutes which is definitely not as much fun as it used to be. Same old thing over and over. I don't do trials to farm gear anymore because well...that's a whole other topic some can probably relate to. So pretty much ESO has become a walking and exploration simulator for me until new content comes out. Definitely an alt-game if I want to burn time.
🌎 PC/NA
🐧 Linux (Arch)
🧑💻 ESO Addon Dev
⚔️ Stamplar | Magplar | Stamcro | Magsorc | Magcro Healer4 -
deevoh1991✭✭✭I really can't think of anything like that. I write stuff out as learning experience. Also I don't have an over achieving mentality as I'm too casual and laid back when it comes to video games. I see it as leisure and recreation when.it comes to dungeons and trials. I can't do vet vss and I know it's just not me. Some ppl have the mentality of push push push achieve higher dps etc .
I'm way more interested in crafting and housing. My biggest disappointment was not snagging that rare elswyer multilevel shrine recipe for 99k , and it having slipped my grip and *** back to 300k.
I regret selling like 150 culanda lawyers for a measley 225k . Coulda easily made 500
Most of the things I actually bother remembering that still feels raw are to do with making poor decisions with accumulating gold rather than beating dungeons .PSN GT : Divzor2 -
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✭I helped start a guild a couple years ago. I had mostly been a solo player up until then so it was my first real experience getting involved with this kind of thing. We never got too big, but it was a solid group of 20-30 like-minded players that was able to quickly progress through most group content. It was all going so well, we were all kicking so much butt, having a great time learning the game together, tearing up vet dlc dungeon hm's, getting into trials, all that. The best part was it seemed like there were some legit connections being made, like we could all actually tolerate each other and it was going to continue to grow and become something great. But then, sure enough, some stupid drama happened and it all went to oblivion quickly.
As one of the leaders and founders of the group, I failed to maintain order and salvage or maintain any of the connections that were established along the way.
Way worse than dying on a no-death run for sure.
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Asdara✭✭✭✭✭Rushing part of the game and not enjoying the scenery enough.Imagine a game with stackable maps, furniture bag, decon furniture4 -
Hapexamendios✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Buying a lot of houses that are just glorified way shrines. I've only fully decorated 2.5 -
kargen27✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Tried to swim around Auridon and was killed by Slaughterfish.
Tried to do a screenshot and killed myself.
Tried to jump into the ocean and missed. I died.and then the parrot said, "must be the water mines green too."7 -
faeeichenlaub✭✭✭✭Golding out soooo much early level gear"Azura give me strength, Let my voice change the world as long as I am in it."8 -
RPGplayer13579✭✭✭✭Never finishing the Imperial City story quests.My Characters.
Mike Snow - Imperial - Templar - One-Handed and Shield - Tank - Daggerfall Covenant - Commander.
Catelyn Rivers - Breton - Sorcerer - Destruction Staff - Daggerfall Covenant - Telvanni Magister.
Ashara Sand - Redguard - Warden - Two-Handed/One-Handed and Shield - Daggerfall Covenant - Heroic.
Tormund gro-Largash - Orsimer - Dragonknight - Two-Handed - Daggerfall Covenant - Furious.
Lysa Rivers - Breton - Nightblade - Bow/One-Handed and Shield - Vampire - Daggerfall Covenant - Brassy Assassin.
Jon Karstark - Nord - Dragonknight - Two-Handed - Ebonheart Pact - Drunk.
Arya Sand - Dunmer - Dragonknight - Dual Wield - Ebonheart Pact - Assassin.
Sansa Snow - Impeial - Warden - Destruction Staff/One-Handed and Shield - Ebonheart Pect - Swashbuckler.
Jojen Reed-Walker - Argonian - Templar - Restoration Staff - Healer - Ebonheart Pact - Melancholy.
Alys Karstark - Nord - Nightblade - Bow/Dual Wield - Ebonheart Pact - Minstrel.
Nymeria Woods - Bosmer - Nightblade - Bow - Aldmeri Dominion - Thief.
Brandon Wings - Altmer - Templar - Restoration Staff - Healer - Aldmeri Dominion - Scholar.
Lyanna Flowers - Altmer - Sorcerer - Sword/Destruction Staff - Aldmeri Dominion - Duchess.
Marvolo-jo Riddle - Khajiit - Necromancer - Destruction Staff - Aldmeri Dominion - Deadlands Firewalker.
Obara Woods - Bosmer - Templar - Bow - Werewolf - Aldmeri Dominion - Cheerful.1 -
MajorDavood✭✭✭Yeah yeah, we are heroes in this game, and we save the day (at least if we are not playing Thieves Guild or Dark Brotherhood)
But what have been your FAILURES in game?
[snip]
1. When I first started ESO, I paid 146 gold/ea to port all over the darn place. Soooo much gold down the drain.
2. Not joining a guild as soon as I started ESO. Before joining, gold was precious. Now, gold flows like the lava in Vvardenfell.
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✭✭✭✭I chose the wrong option doing the Manor of Masques questline in Summerset and did not get the feel-good ending with my most bleeding-heart character. I feel like I betrayed him.2 -
Fallenlords✭✭Biggest failure was two guys attacking a world boss as I happened to be passing by, thought I would help out. But didn't know what I was doing at the time, so I was getting battered by this boss. Decided to make a run for it. Pulling the world boss out of its zone and resetting the stats of the boss that these guys had almost killed. Other guys were not happy bunnies.
Be playing for ages now but still don't know what I am doing. But I think ignorance is bliss
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✭For me probably not realizing early on that instead of ignoring all the group stuff there were actually guilds around focussing on people who wanted to focus on the story side of things.
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Pauwer✭✭✭✭✭I was once in one of the cyro villages and there was one ad player and one dc player. Dc player was turning a flag and so i goes and attack and instanly realized this guy will die and oh daaamn, he's not a pvper. So he died quick and this ad player like goes to his body and is like pulling all sad and sorrow emotes and i just felt so bad. They were obviously just like exploring together. I still feel like crap about it. I wish i could go back and send the player a soul gem and maybe some flowers and stuff. If you are reading this, i'm so sorry. I never attack pve questers on purpose.
Edit:his character was like super good looking too, he had worked really hard on the toon. I just feel so bad thinking about it Edited by Pauwer on September 18, 2020 11:00AM10 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Making my first tank, thought I level up doing random dungeons learning the basic in normal.
This worked well up to level 48, came to BC2.
Group dps was hysteric low as in <10k even on groups of trash.
Learned 3 things:
BC2 has two dps checks. Keeper Indril and the daedrots on last boss. You can wipe repeatedly on both in normal.
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Another memorable one, was leveling up two alts around Morrowind, as they was around the same level they shared gear and was queuing as healer in random dungeons.
Switch to caracter, queue for random, no wait time for once. Enter dungeon but my skills was mostly grayed out.
Did not see an staff, got an bad feeling and opened inventory, as I feared I had no gear on caracter and none I could put on
Used costume and had logged on the the wrong caracter.
Sorry fake healer with no gear and left group.
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Always checking gear and bar, do not try to heal vWGT in medium sneak gear for TG and DB missions
Weak heals, always out of magic and did low damage on first boss so understood something was wrong.
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Last lost multiple leads as its no way to get summary. An addon solved this.Grinding just make you go in circles.
Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.2 -
DTStormfox✭✭✭✭✭- Walking myself to death by walking off a cliff during a fight I was winning.
- Buying a virtual house.
- Joining a Battlegrounds Deathmatch with no weapon equipped on the front bar, and not having any alternative on your character (whoops).
- Forgetting to dump Tel Var Stones at the bank after buying some IC gear, and getting killed in the Arena District with 50k Tel Var Stones on my character
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✭-Storing useless gear all the time thinking it is going to be useful some day...
-Deconstructing gear that I'm absolutely sure I'll never need but I eventually did.PC - EU - France - AD
Main character: Qojikrin - Khajiit Sorcerer Tank/Stamina DD - since March 25, 2015.
Guildmaster of Oriflamme: Focus on 4 player endgame content.
Member of Brave Cat Trade, Panda Division and Toadhuggers.
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✭✭✭Playing the main quest for the 5th or 6th time without actually reading or listening to the story. Yes, I'm one of those "SKIP SKIP SKIP OK YES SKIP SKIP" type of player. And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
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✭✭✭My biggest failures in this and almost every game are inventory management and spreading my playtime out over too many characters <sigh>. 😐2 -
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✭Greymoor. The overland is pretty, the caverns are nice, but the general atmosphere falls very short of the original.
PS : The fact that it bugged so much at the beginning left a sour taste in mouth.
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✭✭✭✭✭Making a purple quality ring for a master writ of the wrong trait. I figured I could just simply transmute it to the correct trait and..... wasted 50 crystals.... and a lot of purple materials.PC NA - Ceyanna Ashton - Breton Vampire MagDK3
