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FrancisCrawford

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

Easy source for skeletons : burial tombs, northeast of Glenumbra. Wayshrine included.

If you mean the non-delve cave where DC characters first encounter Lady Laurent, that's in fact what I used, after discovering I had been wrong about draugr.

FrancisCrawford

Today's daily endeavors are mainly of kinds discussed above:

• Craft 4 Items with the Clothier skill. Automatic if you do a couple of daily clothier crafting writs.
• Launder 8 Items at Fences. If you steal from one of the ships at the Daggerfall docks, you'll get plenty of items (mainly provisioning ingredients) that are better laundered than sold. Really, this true in most places where you'd steal from containers.
• Kill 10 Bestial Daedra. Bestial daedra are common in a large fraction of the places that daedra are common in general.
• Escape from Guards 1 time. I covered this in Post 91 above, and added a step-by-step method in Post 94.
• Complete 1 Duel. If you like that sort of thing, it's the sort of thing that you would like.

oterWitz

Killing, or assisting in killing, sorcerer pets in PvP instances counts toward Bestial Daedra endeavors. It's a dream come true!

FrancisCrawford

Once again, I found the Escape 1 Guard endeavor to be super-easy when I started it by stealing something from the Vivec City writ turn-in depot.

To be clear, this endeavor requires you to be arrested and then choose the Flee option.

DarcyMardin

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

Once again, I found the Escape 1 Guard endeavor to be super-easy when I started it by stealing something from the Vivec City writ turn-in depot.

To be clear, this endeavor requires you to be arrested and then choose the Flee option.

Yeah this set of endeavors was quick & easy — steal stuff in Vivec City, let someone see me steal the last thing to get a small bounty and walk near a guard who’s near the water. Get arrested, flee, jump into water and easily escape. Swim to the Vivec City thieves refuge and launder the items. Then do a couple of writs and voila, done.

FrancisCrawford

Notes on today's daily endeavors include:

• Pick 3 Locks requires you to pick, not bash them. Note that the number is so low you can satisfy it in a single heist.
• Complete 1 Heist. Straightforward if you've done a bit of Thieves Guild.
• Kill 10 Humanoid Foes. Lots of things aren't "humanoids" (e.g. undead, daedra). But many are. There can be no shortage of targets for this one. If you absolutely want an instanced source of victims, any of Elden Hollow 1, Wayrest Sewers 1, or Darkshade Caverns 1 should serve. I don't know whether the goblins in Fungal Grotto 1 would too.
• Afflict 15 Enemies with Weapon Poisons. Easy: Equip poisons on one or both of your weapon bars and go forth and kill. And surely you have poisons lying around from daily log-in rewards. Or you could buy back some of the Cloudy poisons you sell to merchants. Or you could craft some poisons. Etc.
• Kill 2 Dangerous Foes. This is very likely to be satisfied in a single dolmen.

FrancisCrawford

So anyway:

• Kill 2 Dangerous Foes was satisfied at the first dolmen I did, as expected.
• Kill 10 Humanoid Foes advanced by 6 per dolmen (i.e., it was satisfied at the second one), because the "blood sacrifices" right at the start are human(oid), and I was there early enough to get all 6.
• Afflict 15 Enemies With Weapon Poisons took me 2 dolmens and a few more kills, which is embarrassing. Not coincidentally, Combat Metrics tells me I was light attack weaving really badly this morning.

FrancisCrawford

One of this week's weekly endeavors is really easy: Steal 90 Items from the environment. I'll post a step-by-step guide below. The other two are:

• Complete 5 Public Dungeon Group Events. This is easy, but can be a bit time-consuming waiting for respawns. Note that these can be group events you've completed on the same character before.
• Complete 5 Battleground Matches.

FrancisCrawford

Four of today's daily endeavors are of kinds already discussed in this this thread:

• Kill 10 Foes with Class Abilities. Just take a build that focuses on class skills, and go forth and kill a few dozen things.
• Craft 4 Items with the Alchemy skill. Just add to a stack of pots that you take in combat or turn in for crafting writs.
• Earn 150 Tel Var Stones Through Kills. These can be of players or tougher NPCs in Imperial City. You don't need to kill actual bosses; Xivkyn and so on usually suffice.
• Escape from Guards 1 Time. There's a step-by-step guide above.

The fifth is Kill 5 Insects or Arachnids. Examples include hoarvors, kwama, and spiders. Wasps would obviously count as well.

1. Spiders can be found right from the start in Spindleclutch 1. (The very first trash pack satisfies the endeavor.)
2. You have to kill kwama to spawn the group event in Forgotten Crypts.
3. There are lots of kwama in Darkshade Caverns 1, but you have to cut through some humanoids to get to them.

anitajoneb17_ESO

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

The fifth is Kill 5 Insects or Arachnids. Examples include hoarvors, kwama, and spiders. Wasps would obviously count as well.

1. Spiders can be found right from the start in Spindleclutch 1. (The very first trash pack satisfies the endeavor.)
2. You have to kill kwama to spawn the group event in Forgotten Crypts.
3. There are lots of kwama in Darkshade Caverns 1, but you have to cut through some humanoids to get to them.

Assassin beetles count too. Tons of them in Alik'r Desert, Rain Catchers Fields, just south of the Sentinel wayshrine.

FrancisCrawford

My current approach to stealing (to grind Legerdemain and/or satisfy endeavors) goes like this:

• First, clear some inventory space.
• Travel to the docks at the northwest end of Daggerfall.
• Board the ship on the right (The Hotspur).
• Steal everything. Crouching is not necessary, since with one minor exception there's nobody on the ship who objects.
• Return to land. Curve to the right around the first building (an open-air warehouse) and continue left past the stables right behind it. That takes me to an entrance to the local Outlaw Refuge. Go in.
• Talk to the fence and sell and/or launder the stolen goods as makes sense.

LiteEmUp

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

[*] Complete 5 Public Dungeon Group Events. This is easy, but can be a bit time-consuming waiting for respawns. Note that these can be group events you've completed on the same character before.

if i get this correctly, all i have to do is go to public dungeon and kill all bosses?? or just kill final boss?? this was somewhat confusing me lol..

Sephyr

LiteEmUp wrote: »

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

[*] Complete 5 Public Dungeon Group Events. This is easy, but can be a bit time-consuming waiting for respawns. Note that these can be group events you've completed on the same character before.

if i get this correctly, all i have to do is go to public dungeon and kill all bosses?? or just kill final boss?? this was somewhat confusing me lol..

Group events are just the bosses that provide skill points of the dungeon. So for instance Bad Man's Hollow, it's the giant snake tucked in the back.

anitajoneb17_ESO

LiteEmUp wrote: »

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

[*] Complete 5 Public Dungeon Group Events. This is easy, but can be a bit time-consuming waiting for respawns. Note that these can be group events you've completed on the same character before.

if i get this correctly, all i have to do is go to public dungeon and kill all bosses?? or just kill final boss?? this was somewhat confusing me lol..

In each public group dungeon (1 in each base game zone, 2 in each chapter zone), there is only one boss that counts as "group event". It's the one that grants a skill point after completion. In spite of their denomination as "group event", they can be easily solo'ed with a full-blown character or with a companion. They're slightly more difficult than a regular group dungeon boss, and their spawn is usually triggered by eliminating small groups of foes around the spawn point.
If you don't know where they are or which is which, just take the mages' guild dailies : their all lead you to one of those "group event bosses".

FrancisCrawford

LiteEmUp wrote: »

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

[*] Complete 5 Public Dungeon Group Events. This is easy, but can be a bit time-consuming waiting for respawns. Note that these can be group events you've completed on the same character before.

if i get this correctly, all i have to do is go to public dungeon and kill all bosses?? or just kill final boss?? this was somewhat confusing me lol..

Just what I call the "skill point boss".

Each public dungeon has one or two native quests, but I can't think of a single case in which the "skill point boss" is also the boss for one of those quests.

However, as noted above, the 15 alliance-zone public dungeons can each be the objective for the repeatable Mages Guild quests, and in those cases the location you have to go to do the quest is exactly where the skill point boss spawns.

Lugaldu

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

[*] Complete 5 Public Dungeon Group Events. This is easy, but can be a bit time-consuming waiting for respawns. Note that these can be group events you've completed on the same character before.

Has anyone tried whether it also counts if you kill the same boss 5 times?

FrancisCrawford

Lugaldu wrote: »

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

[*] Complete 5 Public Dungeon Group Events. This is easy, but can be a bit time-consuming waiting for respawns. Note that these can be group events you've completed on the same character before.

Has anyone tried whether it also counts if you kill the same boss 5 times?

That should be fine.

anitajoneb17_ESO

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

Steal 90 Items from the environment.[/b]

Beware : pickpocketing does not work.
However, killing a citizen with the blade of woe (or another method) and looting his body does count.
(Strange behaviour from the game, in my opinion, but still).
Don't forget to unsummon your companions before killing citizens. They hate it. :-)

EDIT : The Khenarti Roost sheep method DOES work. Ultimate super-quick way to get this endeavor done. Got it in less than 5 minutes.

FrancisCrawford

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

Steal 90 Items from the environment.[/b]

Beware : pickpocketing does not work.
However, killing a citizen with the blade of woe (or another method) and looting his body does count.
(Strange behaviour from the game, in my opinion, but still).
Don't forget to unsummon your companions before killing citizens. They hate it. :-)

EDIT : The Khenarti Roost sheep method DOES work. That's would be the ultimate super-quick way to get this endeavour done.

Ahh. Corpses are probably treated like containers for the purpose of this endeavor.

Edit: I should have clarified that I was referring to the corpses of crime victims.

bridgetrose

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

Steal 90 Items from the environment.[/b]

Beware : pickpocketing does not work.
However, killing a citizen with the blade of woe (or another method) and looting his body does count.
(Strange behaviour from the game, in my opinion, but still).
Don't forget to unsummon your companions before killing citizens. They hate it. :-)

EDIT : The Khenarti Roost sheep method DOES work. That's would be the ultimate super-quick way to get this endeavour done.

Ahh. Corpses are probably treated like containers for the purpose of this endeavor.

Robbing the dead hasn't worked for me at all. Not humans not anyone or anything.

anitajoneb17_ESO

bridgetrose wrote: »

Robbing the dead hasn't worked for me at all. Not humans not anyone or anything.

They have to be citizens or cattle. Usual mobs don't provide "pickpocketing" loot.

oterWitz

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

EDIT : The Khenarti Roost sheep method DOES work. Ultimate super-quick way to get this endeavor done. Got it in less than 5 minutes.

Thank you, I was wondering. Also went and confirmed it

FrancisCrawford

Today's daily endeavors are:

• Pick 2 locks. Recall that forcing doesn't count as picking.
• Harvest 8 Resources from the World. That means you should hit 8 nodes.
• Deconstruct 8 Items at a Blacksmithing table. Boring. Easy.
• Dig Up 1 Chest from Treasure Maps. I didn't test whether CE maps work, but I'd be shocked if they didn't.
• Kill 10 Beasts.

Notes on the Beasts endeavor include:

• I presume "beasts" basically include non-humanoid mammals. I haven't checked much for exceptions.
• Wolves count.
• Senche Tigers count.
• Mudcrabs do not count. Neither do dreugh.
• My idea of finding beasts in City of Ash 2 works, but is a bit overwrought even so. Yes, they're there. But they have 68, 763 health each. And after the first pack of 4, which you encounter immediately on entering, they're not THAT easy to find, and indeed are mixed in with mobs of other kinds.

PeacefulAnarchy

Trolls, Alit and Cliff Striders are not beasts apparently. I killed some wolves in Betnikh.

FrancisCrawford

PeacefulAnarchy wrote: »

Trolls, Alit and Cliff Striders are not beasts apparently. I killed some wolves in Betnikh.

Interesting about the birds. That's one of the possibilities I was wondering about.

I bet skeever are beasts, however. And come to think of it, the first fight in Wayrest Sewers 1 is with skeevers.

FrancisCrawford

Two of today's endeavors can be satisfied just by doing a couple of daily crafting writs:

• Complete 2 Quests.
• Craft 2 Items with the Jewelry Crafting skill.[/b
  

If for any reason you aren't certified yet in jewelry crafting, the certification quest giver is right outside the main crafting area in Alinor, Summerset.

A third was discussed in detail a few posts before this one: Launder 10 Items at Fences. Presumably, you can get these in any illegal way -- theft from containers/safeboxes/Thieves Troves or pickpocketing/murder.

The other two are:

• Complete 1 Battleground Match.
• Complete 1 Quest for Cheydinhal in Cyrodiil.

FrancisCrawford

Today's list of daily endeavors is a mixed bag.

• Kill 15 Foes with Weapon Abilities is easy. Just taken a weapon-skill oriented build out and kill a few dozen enemies. (For example, most of my easy/content XP grinding builds basically spam Unstable Wall of Elements.)
• Pickpocket 6 Items is no big deal if you're OK with being a criminal. But doing it with no danger of getting caught presupposes that you've spent some skill points on the Light Fingers passive, and also that you're willing to take a few extra minutes to pick the easiest marks.
• Kill 2 World Bosses has been discussed to death (as it were). But it certainly can take a few minutes just waiting for bosses to spawn.
• Complete 1 Dungeon also takes a number of minutes even under ideal circumstances. (Fastest is probably just to solo Fungal Grotto 1.) You can do the Weapon Ability one as a byproduct of this one, if you choose.
• Defeat 1 Patrolling Horror in the Imperial City Districts depends on the kindness (or absence) of PvPers. Also, they're comparable to world bosses even if the PvPers leave you alone.

bridgetrose

The 15 foes doesn't work for my sorcerer at all. I've killed every kind of thing with my weapon only and zip-o

driosketch

bridgetrose wrote: »

The 15 foes doesn't work for my sorcerer at all. I've killed every kind of thing with my weapon only and zip-o

Weapon or weapon skills?

bridgetrose

driosketch wrote: »

bridgetrose wrote: »

The 15 foes doesn't work for my sorcerer at all. I've killed every kind of thing with my weapon only and zip-o

Weapon or weapon skills?

Weapon, a staff.....what's the difference?