What have you been up to in your first week of Necrom, PC Players?

Crimsonorion

Dodge rolling so I can loot things
Re-applying food buffs cause leaving a zone will randomly remove them
Leveling my Arcanist/Companions
Completing High Isle on my main [Yea I'm behind]

Looking forward to playing Necrom though, probably gonna wait for the "conclusion" DLC or at least a patch to fix the first 2 items listed

Soarora

Grinding up and playing around with arcanist support (tank & healer) and clearing vSE.

aaisoaho

Levelling up arcanist and getting my hands on the Velothi-Ur's amulet. I am saving the questing part for later, so that the quests and questing areas are less busy. Today I will have my first run in vSE. Sadly I haven't had a day off from work to play, so my hours have been rather limited.

Now I did manage to get the amulet and get the arcanist to level 50 with maxed out fighter's guild. I still have Undaunted pledges to do and some lorebooks to collect before I start practicing with the dummy. After those are done, I will look into doing some trials eith him.

Dreaders123

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Dreaders123 wrote: »

Feeling miserable because my playtime has been seriously reduced thanks to migraines and nausea caused by Arcanist effects implementation. And then increasingly angry because we aren't hearing anything about it, even a recognition of how serious it is. It's not feedback, it's a game-breaker and a health issue for a lot of the ZoS player base. Just being honest.

Just wanted to note here, we have passed on multiple examples of how the Arcanist VFX are impacting some players to the dev team. We have also noted this in several threads on the forum. The team is working to address this and when we have more info to share, we’ll post an update. We also have it tagged on the dev tracker.

Thank you @ZOS_Kevin ! I should have called out the immediate reaction of you representatives on here - you actioned it really fast. It was highly welcome and to be praised so apologies for not calling that out.

I suppose given the nature I feel there should be a return statement. You are right, we do know that you have highlighted it, it would be great to know they understand this should be a number one priority. There's no maintenance next week, so we have at least another week - probably longer. But it is absolutely miserable for those affected and the longer it goes on, the harder it is not to get increasingly angry about this, particularly given the history in PTS where it was raised but nothing happened and on Streams where it was being asked, but it wasn't responded too. It would help a lot if we saw a strong reaction from those with the power to resolve it.

But yes, the one saving grace right now is community support and the actions of you on here.

Recent

Hi kevin,
It's great that you are interested in our adventures. I must say I was and still am overwhelmed by how amazing Necrom is, it's phenomenal. The beauty of the realm is astounding. Ive always been a huge fan of TES Morrowind so this aesthetic is both nostalgic for me but also excitingly new.
I have been immersed in the main storyline and tye side quests on my main character aswell as levelling my Arcanist.
My main struggle is my inability to solo the Heralds seekers so i can get my daedric ichors for bastion nymic.
I struggle to find groups in zone chat but dont struggle with dungeon groups in other zones. I enjoyed the ease of being able to join in the dragon groups in elsweyr, the volcanic vents in high isle and the geysers in greymoor...you could just show up or wait and some players would be there soon enough.
Kevin Ive been playing since TES games and I just wish that it was easier to group up for things like bastian nymic, easily like dungeon finder helps us solo players join in group content.
I adore this game so much that I cant express how much im enjoying Necrom...zos have outdone themselves trully.
Thanks for being here for us Kevin. 😊

runa_gate

1) deconning Intricates from my other 18 characters' writs for my 2 new arcanists, and keeping research timers up via add-ons

2) leveling guild skill lines for necessary things like Psijiic Accelerate, Dark Brotherhood Shadowy Rider and Shadowy Supplier, Undaunted

3) doing the dailies that the new Companions want for Rapport which will help them get leveled

4) traveling randomly to guildmates and friends to get wayshrines (and exploration xp)

5) trying to take resources and repairing walls with Delve boss and Torte AP bonuses to get mount speed boost, Alliance Rank skill points and vigor/war horn and get a couple more Tier 3 rewards since the 18 characters' end of campaign rewards I achieved for the "last" campaign got "extended" (stolen) and now I don't have the transmutes I earned to make new gear for my 2 new arcanists once they hit level 50 - the slow mounts are intolerable but PvP passive + CP makes it almost acceptable (odd that I have dozens of research timer scrolls but 1/5th as many riding lessons from daily login rewards)

6) trying to level Scrying enough to take advantage of all the purple and gold leads from new content to bootstrap leveling to keen eye for treasure chests 2 (definitely the most painful chore to do on new characters)

7) trying to kill those new scary WB-like mobs in Apocrypha, forgot their names

8) decorating new toons, choosing matching mounts and pets and costumes and cosmetics (still only 2 redguard lady hairstyles, sadly)

9) just finally started the main Necrom storyline quests today and I am duly impressed

10) pondering bastion nymics which I've heard mentioned but not heard a word about what is in them, aside from something about farming the too-tough WB-like things, and soon will take a break to do the new trial

LalMirchi

I'm taking it very slowly as there's a years wait until the next chapter. I'm levelling my new arcanist and yesterday my main got Sharp-as-Night Companion, today another fully levelled character will do Azandar Al-Cybiades intro quest.

Jaraal

Enjoying fishing in Apocrypha! Nice to see the welcome changes and the achievements are fun.

Did a few Bastion Nymics, but spending over an hour grinding keys and killings hundreds of trash packs for sometimes just blue decon jewelry leaves a bad taste in ones mouth. Probably leave that one alone until the minimum rewards are improved.

Haven't made an Arcanist yet, but I'm enjoying killing them in Cyrodiil! Finally a class that's not OP on release, like before. However, I'm still trying to figure out why you guys are denying us our jewelry and transmutes earned for the month of May, and wondering why there are two Whitestake's Mayhems in a single campaign. The whole thing just seems.... wrong. And no explanation for the reasoning, either.

RaddlemanNumber7

Tried playing a new Arcanist character for a couple of days. Didn't find much new. Annoying that crux management is not optional. Had trouble controlling my character while using Fate Carver (mostly because I can only play with one hannd). And the opportunity cost of using a new, level zero character was just too painful. So, I've parked him outside the stables. Maybe I'll try again during the next +xp event.

Started doing Necrom quests on an old character. OK so far.

Levelling Azandar. Got him to lvl 10, and done all of his companion quests. I can relate to all the old man noises. Glad my attacks of nostalgia are not as bad as his.

tohopka_eso

Learning arcanist but as I always do with a new character I start with the original quests and work my way up. Still unsure of the path I want to take though by that I mean hybrid, magika, or stamina.
Overall though I am having fun.

Sarannah

The first 3 days I started with unlocking both new companions for all my characters, and all previous companions on my new arcanists. Right now I have done all side quests in the new zones, and am working on the main quest.

At the same time I am also slowly leveling my arcanists, companions levels, and companion rapport. My azandar is level 1 still, sharp is level 12. Leveling companions is really slow on lower level characters. My azandar will be a healer, while sharp is a sword/shield tank.
My arcanists are level 2x and 3x right now, one is tanking a dungeon once a day while the other is the one I am doing storycontent on. So one is tank, the other is DPS.

Once I am done with all the new storycontent, I am going to start leveling antiquities on my new arcanists, while at the same time exploring the new zones. I'm not in a hurry with anything, so nothing is going really fast.

So far I've loved basically everything about this expansion, good job ZOS!

Some notes/suggestions:

1: Except for the looting bug(fixed with dodge roll), this was a really smooth launch. (Note: This bug was already in-game but was mostly affecting me while tanking, due to the arcanists having so many channeling abilities this is now also happening to them)
2: Change the necrom group daily, and make it soloable. Due to this being group content, this leaves us with less overland content than other expansions had. As those did include solo world events. And in my opinion a daily should never require a group. (skipped this quest)
3: Have also noticed something with crux and arcanist channeling. Many monsters in-game keep using stuns, interrupts, trappings, knock downs, etc. Which means when I build up three crux on my arcanists and start attacking, there is a very high chance I am going to be interrupted practically right away. Losing the importance of what crux adds to attacks(and other skills). My suggestion would be to change crux to make it much less important, and to make all arcanist abilities do more base damage.
4: I have found the changes to companion rapport now make companion's rapport go up too fast, especially when compared to their regular leveling. While before it was kind of balanced, where these things both hit their maximum at around the same time.
5: Just because I click agree on the EULA without reading it, does not mean I am going to enter in a daedric contract with Hermeaus Mora without reading it. Was really disappointed I could not read the contract before I signed it. Did I sell my firstborn or soul to someone, did I agree to let Hermeaus Mora kill me over and over for fun... I'll never know!

Hurbster

Levelling Dark Brotherhood,rolled an Arcanist to have a go but am not going to look at it again if there is no class change token, too much time invested in my main. Also made me feel nauseous, and that crux management thing is all sorts of intrusive, what's wrong with a meter?

bmnoble

Killed the new zones world bosses, felt they had a noticeable difficulty spike from the High isle ones especially with all the AOE damage a lot of them do, the lurker boss and the nightmare boss in particular took me awhile.

Done the new zones delves, killed there bosses got their skyshards done their quests and the daily quests while levelling rapport with Azandar, just did his final quest.

Sharpe's got one quest to go, will take me a little longer to unlock since I can't be stuffed doing world boss dailies for his rapport, sticking with the Ashlander hunt daily.

Started levelling one of my Arcanists, hit the mid level thirties and decided on a break, other one is level 5, holding off on doing any more on them till I max out there riding speed at the very least.

Mapped out the new zones just need to find the last 2 skyshards and complete 9 more points of interest to have everything other that the main quest in the zone guide done.

Have held off on the side quests and main zone quest line for now.

Been levelling up the 2 new companions guild skill lines, Azandar needs 2 more of each daily to be done, Sharpe will need another 8 only been doing it on my main can't be stuffed unlocking the 2 of them on multiple characters.

Just need to do Sharpes last quest and then level both companions to 20 and max their rapport to finish their achievements. Azandar is at level 12 Sharpe about level 6 at the moment.

Tried out that Telvanni Efficency set really bugs out if your companion already has a full set of quickened gear, they get obsessed with those, skills that require you or them to be under 75% health and just keep healing and stop taking other actions during world boss fights, had to change out the skill load outs when using them with the set to exclude a lot of those skills that give priority to heals.

Other than that getting real sick of that UI bug with the buffs, with my existing characters the buffs appear and reappear but on my Arcanists they stay gone, despite being in the same situations that cause them to reappear on the other classes, the XP buffs are still active but I feel like the food buffs are deleting themselves altogether on the Arcanists, since the stat bonuses don't apply at all when they are still applying in the same situations on the other classes even when the buff vanishes.

RevJJ

Did the main story, for which the ending was spoilered by having one of the new companions out who makes a comment on it before it happens due to what seems like a bug.

I do all content in this game but I mainly play it for the stories, and having the ending of the only story we’ll get this year revealed by a bug that was reported on the PTS (in this thread: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/631609/pts-update-38-bug-reports-for-necrom-zone-quests-etc) is… well I have words for it but they’d be snipped. Let’s say it’s incredibly off-putting and if I were part of the story team I would be incredibly pissed off that another team managed to ruin the work. Yes, I’m serious. I absolutely despise spoilers for any story. This needs to be hotfixed before it hits console and asap on PC as well so that players who have not done the story can still enjoy the ending.

Lugaldu

I created a vampire Arcanist on day one, started leveling him and picked up Sharp-as-Night, then connected with Azandar with my Main and digged for all pieces for the alchemy station. That's all. In addition to the "daily monotony" like crafting with several characters.

calitrumanb14_ESO

acastanza_ESO wrote: »

I can't play the story. My quest progression in the Telvanni Peninsula is completely broken.
I posted in Bug Reports and opened tickets but haven't heard anything back yet.

Done a couple runs of vet Sanity's Edge though. It's great! Some really incredible environments there and the encounters are fun too (love the random miniboss mechanic)

I, too, cannot play the story on my Arcanist, as one of the quests is broken and will not allow progress. I also submitted a ticket and was told to hope for a bug fix and to try again in the future.

Djennku

Farming urns for furnishing plans on 18 toons everyday, leveling up companions, hunting leads, more urn farming, some questing, farming urns, stealing, fishing, and generally doing random stuff. Did I mention urn farming? Went a bit nuts with that XD

FayJolyn

I'm taking things slow this time. Just made an Argonian Arcanist and went off to meet his future boyfriend Sharp-as-Night. I tested Sharp quite a lot during the PTS cycle so I have no haste to power level him up. I didn't really focus on Necrom yet. Just doing whatever I felt like. Spending my days in the Ravenwatch campaign with my vamp main and sneaking upon new Arcanists.

Jestir

Trying to get my new arcanist character to the point of my old main/all around usability, not questing wise as that is hundreds of hours of time but one day if I don't burn out before then

Currently my entire day is doing dailies for companion rapport, leveling leggydeerman and trying to gather enough skill points to be functional. 50+ hours in and I still have a long way until my I can even think of PvP, but its in a solid spot group PvE wise.

One day I will actually make some progress that matters

ZOS_Kevin

Dreaders123 wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Dreaders123 wrote: »

Feeling miserable because my playtime has been seriously reduced thanks to migraines and nausea caused by Arcanist effects implementation. And then increasingly angry because we aren't hearing anything about it, even a recognition of how serious it is. It's not feedback, it's a game-breaker and a health issue for a lot of the ZoS player base. Just being honest.

Just wanted to note here, we have passed on multiple examples of how the Arcanist VFX are impacting some players to the dev team. We have also noted this in several threads on the forum. The team is working to address this and when we have more info to share, we’ll post an update. We also have it tagged on the dev tracker.

Thank you @ZOS_Kevin ! I should have called out the immediate reaction of you representatives on here - you actioned it really fast. It was highly welcome and to be praised so apologies for not calling that out.

I suppose given the nature I feel there should be a return statement. You are right, we do know that you have highlighted it, it would be great to know they understand this should be a number one priority. There's no maintenance next week, so we have at least another week - probably longer. But it is absolutely miserable for those affected and the longer it goes on, the harder it is not to get increasingly angry about this, particularly given the history in PTS where it was raised but nothing happened and on Streams where it was being asked, but it wasn't responded too. It would help a lot if we saw a strong reaction from those with the power to resolve it.

But yes, the one saving grace right now is community support and the actions of you on here.

Totally hear you. This is one of the top items the team is working on right now. Both for short-term and long-term solutions. One thing to keep in mind when approaching this is working out a solution without a significant shift to existing gameplay. Easier said than done, but the team needs the time to work toward that goal. When we have more to share regarding Arcanist visual changes to help combat motion sickness impact, we'll be sure to follow up.

ZOS_Kevin

Recent wrote: »

Hi kevin,
It's great that you are interested in our adventures. I must say I was and still am overwhelmed by how amazing Necrom is, it's phenomenal. The beauty of the realm is astounding. Ive always been a huge fan of TES Morrowind so this aesthetic is both nostalgic for me but also excitingly new.
I have been immersed in the main storyline and tye side quests on my main character aswell as levelling my Arcanist.
My main struggle is my inability to solo the Heralds seekers so i can get my daedric ichors for bastion nymic.
I struggle to find groups in zone chat but dont struggle with dungeon groups in other zones. I enjoyed the ease of being able to join in the dragon groups in elsweyr, the volcanic vents in high isle and the geysers in greymoor...you could just show up or wait and some players would be there soon enough.
Kevin Ive been playing since TES games and I just wish that it was easier to group up for things like bastian nymic, easily like dungeon finder helps us solo players join in group content.
I adore this game so much that I cant express how much im enjoying Necrom...zos have outdone themselves trully.
Thanks for being here for us Kevin. 😊

Thanks for the feedback here! Just to note, we have passed on feedback on Bastion Nymic and the various issues players are having. Also, glad to hear you're enjoying your time in Necrom! Appreciate the kind words there. I'll be sure to pass those on to the team as well.

Dreaders123

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Dreaders123 wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Dreaders123 wrote: »

Feeling miserable because my playtime has been seriously reduced thanks to migraines and nausea caused by Arcanist effects implementation. And then increasingly angry because we aren't hearing anything about it, even a recognition of how serious it is. It's not feedback, it's a game-breaker and a health issue for a lot of the ZoS player base. Just being honest.

Just wanted to note here, we have passed on multiple examples of how the Arcanist VFX are impacting some players to the dev team. We have also noted this in several threads on the forum. The team is working to address this and when we have more info to share, we’ll post an update. We also have it tagged on the dev tracker.

Thank you @ZOS_Kevin ! I should have called out the immediate reaction of you representatives on here - you actioned it really fast. It was highly welcome and to be praised so apologies for not calling that out.

I suppose given the nature I feel there should be a return statement. You are right, we do know that you have highlighted it, it would be great to know they understand this should be a number one priority. There's no maintenance next week, so we have at least another week - probably longer. But it is absolutely miserable for those affected and the longer it goes on, the harder it is not to get increasingly angry about this, particularly given the history in PTS where it was raised but nothing happened and on Streams where it was being asked, but it wasn't responded too. It would help a lot if we saw a strong reaction from those with the power to resolve it.

But yes, the one saving grace right now is community support and the actions of you on here.

Totally hear you. This is one of the top items the team is working on right now. Both for short-term and long-term solutions. One thing to keep in mind when approaching this is working out a solution without a significant shift to existing gameplay. Easier said than done, but the team needs the time to work toward that goal. When we have more to share regarding Arcanist visual changes to help combat motion sickness impact, we'll be sure to follow up.

Thank you, this is exactly what I was after. I'll stop moaning

ZOS_Kevin

@Dreaders123 lol, no worries. We understand this is impacting players, so you're all good. Just means we need to communicate a bit more efficiently.

ZOS_Kevin

@runa_gate you got quite the list going!

ZOS_Kevin

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

finished all side quests and majority of the antiquity leads for the mythics, still working on other antiquities and main story

Oh wow! GG on finishing all of the side quests!

SilverBride

I've approached Necrom very differently than I normally do with new chapters. Rather than play through the story and zone on my already completed characters first (those that have completed all previous zones), I jumped right in with a new Arcanist. I'm still not sure how much I will be able to play her because of the effects but am really enjoying it so far.

Roxxsmom

Still leveling my new arcanist and also doing some of the new content and the companion quests with my two favorite older characters.

mickeyx

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

PC Players! It's been a week since Necrom launched! Still shocked by how fast time flies. What has everyone been up to so far? Have you been playing through the main quest? Grouping up for some Sanity's Edge runs? Running around Cyrodiil as an Arcanist? Upping your fashion game?

Just trying to get a gauge on where everyone is to relay to teams.

Wondering where everyone is. Because they are definitely not in Necrom zones.

TaSheen

Yesterday (today was a long day in town) I couldn't get AWAY from the mobs. Don't know why you're not seeing them, but I certainly was yesterday.

Ek1

As it is start of sailing season, sailing. Lets see about that videogaming after the sea freezes again.
For the two days i got time to test necro, it felt like the same best level experience since last seen at base game.