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The 2500 crown gem question: What would you do?
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If you had 2500 crown gems, right now, and you were to buy an apex mount, would you
A) Get the current mount
Wait for blackwood to come out and see what the next apex mount might be.
A) Get the current mount
Wait for blackwood to come out and see what the next apex mount might be. 0
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✭Id either wait for new season or wait for the return of that red sencheAwake, but at what cost1 -
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✭Id probably spend it on one i like rather than " It's burning a hole in my pocket, should i spend it now or in 5 minutes?" This is a list of all the crates and what they contain. I would probably pick something i like and wait for it to pop up. Unless you buy crates regularly and have a steady stream of gems then i might would be less picky.3 -
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✭✭✭✭✭I'd never be in this situation because I don't buy crown crates so I'm never going to have that many gems, but if I did it would come down to how much I liked those specific mounts.
I haven't looked at the current ones (or any of them really) because they're only available from crates so they're irrelevant to me, so I can't comment on how these ones look. But with any cosmetic item I think the only important consideration is whether you like it and think it's worth the price. No one else is going to care which one you pick, and it's purely cosmetic so the only factor is your own preference.PC EU player | She/her/hers | PAWS (Positively Against Wrip-off Stuff) - Say No to Crown Crates!
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✭✭If I had 2500 crown gems I'd contact support and report it as an error because I should have about 0.7 -
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I actually have that many crowns, and do not know what to do myself. The 2500 crown mount is alright, but a little high for just one mount. Besides, we have quite a few yellow/gold mounts already. And I really like the 1200 one. Horses are a no-go for me, as their riding feels off.marshill88 wrote: »If you had 2500 crown gems, right now, and you were to buy an apex mount, would you
A) Get the current mount Wait for blackwood to come out and see what the next apex mount might be.
So for now I am going to wait till the wild hunt crates are here, and see if they sell those radiant apex's for crowngems. Then I will pick the one(s) I like most. Maybe even buy some wild hunt crates, and buy both the 2500 + 1200 mounts. Depending on what will be in the wild hunt crates and for how many gems.
It is really hard to decide what to do, as it is a massive amount of crowns for just one mount. Which could basically get you every mount from the crates, besides the radiant apex ones.
Choices, choices, choices!
PS: I think the radiant apex crowngem prices are fair for a radiant apex, I just feel it is a lot of gems for just one item.Edited by Sarannah on March 31, 2021 11:11AM0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭I would hold on to it, we get previews and you can then select if you want the current or the new.Grinding just make you go in circles.
Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.0 -
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✭✭I would ofc spend them on things I got them for in the first place.
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✭✭I'd hold on but if you wanted to add a radiant apex to your collection consider the wolf...it really looks pretty sweet and half the cost.0 -
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Just think of the amount of crates that had to be opened to get that amount of gems. How long did that take, and how much did you spend? If that amount of time and money for crates is a lot to you, then consider how much this "2500 gem radiant apex" mount is truly worth for you to have. Is is because you want to show it off? Is it just "another collectible"? Is it because you really want it? Are you actually going to use it long-term? Then there is that fact as you said...there will always be another, and another, and so on. If you have all of those priorities in order that make or break it for you, then make your decision and stick with it.marshill88 wrote: »If you had 2500 crown gems, right now, and you were to buy an apex mount, would you
A) Get the current mount Wait for blackwood to come out and see what the next apex mount might be.
Personally, for me, these type of things will always be a big NO. I have yet to want any radiant apex mount except a few of the original ones in ESO's early days. Not only do RA mounts come of as too effect-heavy and flashy to me for an Elder Scrolls game, but I am not going to waste my rare gems on what is yet just another reskin of the same mount model (horse, senche, etc) ...but with "prettier effects". It's numbingly silly imho. What drives me further into this is the fact that there are barely any actual earnable content for mounts in-game. I wont pay IRL money and feed the obvious bad imbalance and ridiculous double paywall system of gamble crates => gems that is built-in to ESO until if and when that changes for the better. At the end of the day, I wont gamble a chance on paying $100's or even a $1,000 or more for digital pixels that can just disappear into oblivion at any time the company pulls the plug. We aren't buying anything here for that amount of cash, we are renting it. Gamers have been conditioned to think these kinds of things are "OK" in games now because there isn't an alternative at the moment, or maybe they just haven't experienced better.
There is a good way, and there is a bad way to do things like that. What's important in a game for you?
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✭✭If I wanted the current apex mount I'd buy enough crates to get 2500 gems and buy it, then wait for blackwood and if they had another apex mount I wanted I'd buy another 2500 gems and buy that one too.2 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Honestly, "want to buy an Apex mount" is less believable than "you have 2500 gems". I really don't like any of the 'fancy' mounts they make.
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✭✭If I had a stockpile of crown gems, I would also want to use them over time rather than blow everything on a mount.
I don't like recycling mounts across characters, and spending them all here gets me exactly 1 mount.
Whereas there are many mounts that are even better looking (all opinion based) that come out continuously, and for less. Plus I sometimes like the outfits and furniture and other stuff. So I'd take variety.PC NA1 -
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✭✭For free?Kiralyn2000 wrote: »(if I had 2500 gems, I'd use it for dozens of 16-100 gem items over the next couple years. That's what I already use my gems - still left over from The Year Of Free Crates)
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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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150 to 400 crates depending on how often you buy crates and how lucky/unlucky you are.scorpius2k1 wrote: »Just think of the amount of crates that had to be opened to get that amount of gems. How long did that take, and how much did you spend?Kiralyn2000 wrote: »Honestly, "want to buy an Apex mount" is less believable than "you have 2500 gems". I really don't like any of the 'fancy' mounts they make.
(if I had 2500 gems, I'd use it for dozens of 16-100 gem items over the next couple years. That's what I already use my gems - still left over from The Year Of Free Crates)
I agree. If i didn't win it id rather own the lesser tier mounts. The radiant's aren't " fancy enough" to warrant their price tag, imo. I don't care about rarity.0 -
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Get the current top tier radiant. It's visuals are some of the best.
That said, you can always wait till the PTS and the inevitable data mine drops and we see what's next.
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✭✭✭✭✭Goregrinder wrote: »If I wanted the current apex mount I'd buy enough crates to get 2500 gems and buy it, then wait for blackwood and if they had another apex mount I wanted I'd buy another 2500 gems and buy that one too.
Thank you for funding the game (or better: filling ZOS‘ pockets)! Someone has to do it, and let me add: save the whales.PS5EUAldmeri Dominion- Khajiit Arcanist -0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭I never buy that many crates - each season I like, I buy four or five on both accounts, on both PC megaservers.
Right now, I have 425 or so gems on my main PC NA account - due to scoring a Sweet Roll a while back, and having a fair amount of duplicates from various crate seasons over the last year. I have all the mounts I really need (since I really don't even use them much) - except one to match the Cerulean Scorpion (which isn't on the account with all the gems, of course!)
Eventually, I'll probably buy a bunch of 16 and 40 gem items; I'm still considering the Ayleid Gate (100 gems) though I'm really not going to buy the Ayleid Ruin house - ruins aren't really appealing to me, and having the Lunar Hall mostly a ruin is enough already.
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Last time I got a mount I liked I tried it on all my characters but couldn't get used to them with the new mount so switched back.and then the parrot said, "must be the water mines green too."0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭UntilValhalla13 wrote: »I mean, you could've probably bought a mount in the real world (a car) with the amount of money spent to get to that point.
Lol, not hardly! I mean, a couple hundred is more than I would spend on a digital mount but I wouldn’t drive a car you could get for that price. I probably literally couldn’t as it would ‘t have automatic transmission and who knows what else... But yeah, to spend all your Gems on one thing, you’d have to love enough to not be here asking the question I think.1
