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Oreyn_Bearclaw

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

dazza1033 wrote: »

Still here. I miss the old days when it was almost impossible solo a dolmen and accidently hitting a mudcrab resulted in your death.

especially when you were in a zone that was "above" your level lol

One of my earliest memories was going to The Rift when I was like level 25 with a buddy. This is probably a week or two after launch. We went because we heard there was a place that you could get a Vamp Bite, and that once you had one, you could get rich selling them. The whole time I was like, I dont think we are supposed to be here. We ended up getting absolutely wrecked by a couple of level 42 tigers. LOL Never did find that vamp bite...

fizl101

My little beta monkey is stuck on PC as I missed the migration to playstation. I only log on occasionally on pc, but i kept raisins as my pet

TechMaybeHic

Yeah, I have the monkey, the tiger, Mask of Cheerful Slaughter. I've put them on characters that just go do crafting writs from time to time.

I remember first starting and the early Fighters Guild and Mage Guild boss fights being tough and in a few different iterations and all I wanted to do was get to level after server wipes to get in to Cyrodiil which was all shiny and new.

Holycannoli

TechMaybeHic wrote: »

Yeah, I have the monkey, the tiger, Mask of Cheerful Slaughter. I've put them on characters that just go do crafting writs from time to time.

I remember first starting and the early Fighters Guild and Mage Guild boss fights being tough and in a few different iterations and all I wanted to do was get to level after server wipes to get in to Cyrodiil which was all shiny and new.

The first boss you fight, I think a wispmother was it? (it was a harvester, I had to google it). So difficult people were posting guides on how to defeat it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC6y9dE3PoQ

And that clannfear. (Gutsripper)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgsO0kE2a1o

Those fights were legitimately difficult. It must be impossible for any newer players to picture how difficult it was to defeat those very early boss fights. I much prefer it this way to be honest lol. That kind of difficulty can just lead to frustration.

Wolfshade

Monkey still jumps around.

Holycannoli wrote: »

Those fights were legitimately difficult.

Damn, i remember that Doshia as first "Bossfight" and i will neverever forget that. Didnt count the trie`s, even i didnt count the scorpions to hit toplevel

Czeri

I still half expect to get stuck on Bethnikh like I did in beta, when the main quest got bugged and aspects of terror failed to spawn. As that was the only way off the island at that time, I just ended up exploring Stros M'Kai in great detail. That didn't get old, it's still one of my favourite places in the game...

gw2only1b14_ESO

Still here as well just dont hit the forums like i did

Saint-Ange

still here and remembering how good an experience the overworld was at that time.
1 mob: ok
2 mob: think quick
3 mobs: run for your life
and this was in the second map, right after the starting zone.
gotta nerf those brains by all mean.

Necrotech_Master

Holycannoli wrote: »

Those fights were legitimately difficult. It must be impossible for any newer players to picture how difficult it was to defeat those very early boss fights. I much prefer it this way to be honest lol. That kind of difficulty can just lead to frustration.

i have gone back and replayed those over time, and they are a pale version of what they once were (mainly due to one tamriel and power creep lol)

doshia is barely a speedbump now lol

SeaGtGruff

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

Holycannoli wrote: »

Those fights were legitimately difficult. It must be impossible for any newer players to picture how difficult it was to defeat those very early boss fights. I much prefer it this way to be honest lol. That kind of difficulty can just lead to frustration.

i have gone back and replayed those over time, and they are a pale version of what they once were (mainly due to one tamriel and power creep lol)

doshia is barely a speedbump now lol

I wasn't here then, so I don't know how things were. But when I started out in Vvardenfell in One Tamriel, I found things to be plenty difficult, even impossible. To be clear, I'm not talking about world bosses; I mean the enemies I had to fight in the zone quests. And to be fair, much of that difficulty was my own fault for not buying and slotting any skills as I leveled up, so I was using simple light and heavy attacks-- not because I wanted to make overland more challenging (although that is a legitimate way to do so), but because I wasn't sure which skills I wanted to buy, and how many total Skill Points I could collect, so I held off on buying any skills until I figured out what I was doing.

Necrotech_Master

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

Holycannoli wrote: »

Those fights were legitimately difficult. It must be impossible for any newer players to picture how difficult it was to defeat those very early boss fights. I much prefer it this way to be honest lol. That kind of difficulty can just lead to frustration.

i have gone back and replayed those over time, and they are a pale version of what they once were (mainly due to one tamriel and power creep lol)

doshia is barely a speedbump now lol

I wasn't here then, so I don't know how things were. But when I started out in Vvardenfell in One Tamriel, I found things to be plenty difficult, even impossible. To be clear, I'm not talking about world bosses; I mean the enemies I had to fight in the zone quests. And to be fair, much of that difficulty was my own fault for not buying and slotting any skills as I leveled up, so I was using simple light and heavy attacks-- not because I wanted to make overland more challenging (although that is a legitimate way to do so), but because I wasn't sure which skills I wanted to buy, and how many total Skill Points I could collect, so I held off on buying any skills until I figured out what I was doing.

just after one tamriel came out, the most noticeable difference was that all zones still had value (because before when you outleveled a zone, enemies would stop giving you drops or XP)

i believe character wise everything was still about the same pre-post one tamriel, it wasnt for another 6-12 months roughly after one tamriel when they decided to overhaul the entire game (or as i like to call it inflating numbers just because lol)

a high health tank in the early days was like 3000-4000 hp, then after the scaling changes, a tank was in the 30k-40k range (personally im still not necessarily a fan of them doing this, i dont need gigantic numbers if everything is the same apart from the magnitude lol)

SeaGtGruff

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

Holycannoli wrote: »

Those fights were legitimately difficult. It must be impossible for any newer players to picture how difficult it was to defeat those very early boss fights. I much prefer it this way to be honest lol. That kind of difficulty can just lead to frustration.

i have gone back and replayed those over time, and they are a pale version of what they once were (mainly due to one tamriel and power creep lol)

doshia is barely a speedbump now lol

I wasn't here then, so I don't know how things were. But when I started out in Vvardenfell in One Tamriel, I found things to be plenty difficult, even impossible. To be clear, I'm not talking about world bosses; I mean the enemies I had to fight in the zone quests. And to be fair, much of that difficulty was my own fault for not buying and slotting any skills as I leveled up, so I was using simple light and heavy attacks-- not because I wanted to make overland more challenging (although that is a legitimate way to do so), but because I wasn't sure which skills I wanted to buy, and how many total Skill Points I could collect, so I held off on buying any skills until I figured out what I was doing.

just after one tamriel came out, the most noticeable difference was that all zones still had value (because before when you outleveled a zone, enemies would stop giving you drops or XP)

i believe character wise everything was still about the same pre-post one tamriel, it wasnt for another 6-12 months roughly after one tamriel when they decided to overhaul the entire game (or as i like to call it inflating numbers just because lol)

a high health tank in the early days was like 3000-4000 hp, then after the scaling changes, a tank was in the 30k-40k range (personally im still not necessarily a fan of them doing this, i dont need gigantic numbers if everything is the same apart from the magnitude lol)

I joined a few months after the Morrowind chapter and shortly before the Clockwork City DLC, so I was getting the snot beat out of me in the "inflated numbers just because" game environment.

Necrotech_Master

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

Holycannoli wrote: »

Those fights were legitimately difficult. It must be impossible for any newer players to picture how difficult it was to defeat those very early boss fights. I much prefer it this way to be honest lol. That kind of difficulty can just lead to frustration.

i have gone back and replayed those over time, and they are a pale version of what they once were (mainly due to one tamriel and power creep lol)

doshia is barely a speedbump now lol

I wasn't here then, so I don't know how things were. But when I started out in Vvardenfell in One Tamriel, I found things to be plenty difficult, even impossible. To be clear, I'm not talking about world bosses; I mean the enemies I had to fight in the zone quests. And to be fair, much of that difficulty was my own fault for not buying and slotting any skills as I leveled up, so I was using simple light and heavy attacks-- not because I wanted to make overland more challenging (although that is a legitimate way to do so), but because I wasn't sure which skills I wanted to buy, and how many total Skill Points I could collect, so I held off on buying any skills until I figured out what I was doing.

just after one tamriel came out, the most noticeable difference was that all zones still had value (because before when you outleveled a zone, enemies would stop giving you drops or XP)

i believe character wise everything was still about the same pre-post one tamriel, it wasnt for another 6-12 months roughly after one tamriel when they decided to overhaul the entire game (or as i like to call it inflating numbers just because lol)

a high health tank in the early days was like 3000-4000 hp, then after the scaling changes, a tank was in the 30k-40k range (personally im still not necessarily a fan of them doing this, i dont need gigantic numbers if everything is the same apart from the magnitude lol)

I joined a few months after the Morrowind chapter and shortly before the Clockwork City DLC, so I was getting the snot beat out of me in the "inflated numbers just because" game environment.

lol, it was quite a different experience doing the OG vet dungeons (what are currently the "2" dungeons) back in 2014 before the stat scaling, or even one tamriel scaling (though everyone in the group was the same level at the time lol)

OtarTheMad

Beta was so fun but at the same time so broken lol. I still remember using my Sorc to carry scrolls across Cyrodiil because I could use Streak.

Tyrion87

WiseSky wrote: »

Whoever answers here gets an Awesome from me

Came here for that free Awesome

Oh, and I have a monkey too

Lumsdenml

Danikat wrote: »

Still here.

I might be a bit of an anomaly because I played several betas then didn't buy the game, it took until February 2015 for me to get it. (I was waiting for something to convince me it was worth paying a subscription for, instead they switched to buy-to-play which removed the problem entirely.) But I've pretty much been here ever since, I miss days or weeks or months here and there for various reasons, but always come back.

Oh, man, I have almost the exact same story. Played the beta, but didn't buy at launch. There was a sale on the game on 1/1/15 and I ended up just buying it then. Been playing as my main game ever since with no real breaks (though Hogwarts as eaten into that time a bit lately)

Lumsdenml

WiseSky wrote: »

Whoever answers here gets an Awesome from me

Now I'm just going to awesome farm.....

Aelorin

Hello OP and welcome back

As you, I'm a beta player. I left the game 2 times when I got a bit bored (latest was after the launch of the Reach DLC).

But I came back since last year High Isle, and I'm probably having the best time ever in this game, found some good guilds, find a few friends to play with. I wanted to get better, and that"s exactly what I did, so doing trials now, having full sets of trial gear, aiming for dungeon trifecta's. Levelled tanks, healers and DPS, decorated houses, did some PvP and a lot of questing.

Still so much to do and so little time.

There are times I avoid the forums because of the negativity, so my advice is play and enjoy.
And if you don't enjoy, it's time to take a break!

Anyway,
Have a nice day!

majulook

Still here, Still playing, Still using the best pet ever!

JD2013

Still here

Paralyse

Still here, still playing daily
Mephala's & Sanguine's Tester

Monkey, striped senche, mask, etc.

KnightsWalker

Off and on for years. Came a long way since playing on an old laptop in highschool

jmacclureb14_ESO

still alive, still playing ESO off and on.

phairdon

Found this today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwuXtEh-GOw

Kendaric

Still here (and of course with my monkey). I took a couple of breaks, though I still always return.

Though the game has changed a lot over the years and in many cases for the worse, e.g. AwA, changes to the racial passives and hybridization, it's still my favorite MMORPG.

BlueRaven wrote: »

In case anyone was wondering what the monkey looks like. Here is "Raisins" next to the first character I created when the game went live.

What armor is that?

Gadamlub14_ESO

I still have the ancient Beta username on the forums.

In all honesty, im not a fan of how the monetization of Zen/Beth has gone starting with ESO. I worry greatly for ES6.

Amphithoe

Still here. Still looking for Mai'q.

ShadowPaladin

Also still here and playing. Even still with my 1st char, a dunmer magi sorc (time played around 100+ days on that char, out of 11 chars) .

Best regards
Shadow

Wing

always have the monkey out ^_^ he and my khajiit have been through so much together.


perma bats in og pvp, DK's with nothing on their bar that did damage but swarm and players running in fear of clouds of bats.

mbeetley_ESO

Still here, still going, still glad that me and my monkey got nothin' to hide. Don't remember when I started on the beta as I had to change email accounts, but I know it was sometime in 2013. Even was able to get my wife in on the beta the last few months , and we do a fair bit together, especially during certain events.

Fondly remember the madness of dozens of people running around starter islands on those beta weekends. And the late night dance parties before downtime. Don't so fondly remember the login queues and terrible load times in the early months after launch, but I'm still glad I was part of it.