Jakarn>Darien

Darien Gautier is my personal slave or rather my b#$%^...

I wish I knew that the Imperial motif sells for considerably more than any of the other player race motifs. I found the Imperial motif at level 15 or so, and sold it for 850 gold. I think I could have gotten 40 000 gold or so for it.

Evergnar wrote: »

There's such a huge desparity between vet and non vet not to mention vet1 vs vet12. The gap is too great imo and I want to see a large number of players being able to be competitive in Cyrodiil.

If there wasn't a gap, people would complain that you got no real advantage for leveling up.

Competitive? With whom? The game which a new player is 'competitive' with a senior player is certainly one which gives nothing for the investment of time.

SFBryan18 wrote: »

1. 3 factions = / = 3 characters. One character eventually goes to all three. As much as I hate it, it's important to know this so you don't waste time.

Once my Nord has explored all EP areas, completed all EP quests, and obtained all the achievements related to this, I'll put him on hold and start a new character in a new faction. When I do the AD and DC quests for the first time, I want it to be from the right perspective; not as a member of the EP, as that would ruin my immersion. So in my case, three factions = three characters.

Aeradon wrote: »

You've got a long way to go.

Ok, I haven't read up on all the achievements yet, so I spoke too quickly. I assume there's some which are so demanding that I'll leave them for later, after having played through my other faction characters.

What ?! Darien Gautier is fabulous !

Rodario wrote: »

Woogawoman wrote: »

Nestor wrote: »

Don't assume that because you are standing in front of a wayshrine looking at your map, that travel to the next wayshrine is free

I hate when I do that. D'oh.

Also re: Darien Gautier. I found him charming, but maybe that's because I'm an actual female.

Female? *Grunts and sniffs* Someone said female? I thought they were myths, existed only in stories... *straightens back and composes himself*

Yes, I too am fond of Darien Gautier

...and I wonder what happened to him/if we're gonna see him again

There are actually quite a few of us genuine female players playing females in game. Makes you think, doesn't it?

SFBryan18 wrote: »

Eirikur wrote: »

SFBryan18 wrote: »

1. 3 factions = / = 3 characters. One character eventually goes to all three. As much as I hate it, it's important to know this so you don't waste time.

Once my Nord has explored all EP areas, completed all EP quests, and obtained all the achievements related to this, I'll put him on hold and start a new character in a new faction. When I do the AD and DC quests for the first time, I want it to be from the right perspective; not as a member of the EP, as that would ruin my immersion. So in my case, three factions = three characters.

I've actually been considering this too. I'm still on my first character, male Breton Sorcerer in DC. I'll probably make a female Imperial Templar for EP, and then a male Khajiit Nightblade for AD. I think it will be more fun from new perspectives and with new abilities.

I'm doing this too- sending two new characters from different classes/races through the two different factions. I look forward to trying new abilities and playing through those factions with characters who are "from" there.

The one thing I would have done differently is not put so many points into crafting on my main - I wish I had brought up a couple of crafting alts at the same time.

I will need to respec Slurg - but after 1.3 comes out - to be more competitive in Veteran content. But I'd probably want to anyway with all the upcoming changes so it's fine.

zhevon wrote: »

Generally good hints - a couple of comments/questions -
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Nestor wrote: »

Have a Ranged Weapon in mind or right from the start, killing from afar is no reason to be ashamed, always be sneaking for your first shot.

During open beta - I recall - using a bow would pop me out of sneak so you would never get a crit and the range was so limited that you the the mob your shot or his pals would be on top of you. Has this improved?

Nestor wrote: »

If you can, get or make armor that has Training Traits. A full set of Green Tempered will give you 49% boost, enough to have your armor skill at 50 by character level 30 or 35 just by questing.

Might not be appropriate for all play styles. I am perpetually overlevelled without the using training or really going to any extremes; just exploring and questing. In fact I won't play seriously until this weekend so I can do one of the public dungeons without being being overlevelled.

You get popped out of Sneak after you shoot, yes (in PvE at least)*. But, the enemy is stunned for about 2 seconds, 4 with the right passive, so you can get off some more shots before they can do anything. There are also passives that increase damage on stunned enemies. I have been able to get back into sneak and shoot off another critical at the stunned enemy. If you get this timing down, the enemy never approaches you. I also use this to incapacitate those pesky healers.

For the Armor Training, I use it on my first two sets (I make a set every 4 levels for my characters) With LA or MA, this can get the protection up to a reasonable level in my mind quickly. Once I get into the Teens, I tend to use other traits on my armor, usually Infused as I enchant everything I make.



*Kind of makes sense to me. While I have not shot that many bows in my life, doing so from a crouched position does not seem like it would be all that effective. In the game, your character actually stands up just as they shoot which seems to me to be the way to get the most power in the shot. Not saying that you can't shoot a bow from a crouched position, but a standing person I would imagine would have more power and better accuracy.

Forget Darien Gautier. Rigurt the Brash is MY type of guy.

Well, if my static duo partner and I had known that they would nerf the VR faction zones down to easy-mode, we would never have started ESO. That feature is one of the reasons we embarked on this game.

We saw the developer and streamer videos of how challenging and group oriented the VR1-VR10 content would be. What a disappointment, and we feel to some degree, a betrayal of the promise made.

It is quite likely that once we finish with Molag Bal, we will just leave the game. Doing another two full faction's zones worth of easy-mode content is not looking very attractive to us right now.

wish i new that majicka reined supreme so I could make my DK a Dunmer and not an imperial. Oh well c`est la vie.

SirAndy wrote: »

zwolfe21_ESO wrote: »

Are you implying in a 1 on 1 encounter they have as much a chance?

Chance? Sure ... I've managed to take out 50+ players with a level 10/15.
But that's not the point.

Keep battles are rarely composed of 1v1. A level 10 can be very helpful in taking a keep or resource.
;-)

PS: I'm playing 3 main characters, one in each faction and each of them went to Cyrodiil at level 10. Plenty of fun to be had...

lol don't misunderstand, Cyrodiil is fun to me. My first experience, which i'm not entirely basing my opinion on here, was me and 3 others trying to hold a lumber camp against several mages. With myself as a melee templar, one of those mages would just turn and spit two spells and down i'd go lol. I did manage a few interrupts but generally I was fodder.

Still had fun. Just a point to level up. However, I certainly didn't feel useful lol. Using the NPCs though we did manage to hold it. I've recently boosted my Restoring light line and boosting armor and spell resist, I wanna go back and try playing a more heal/support role and see how I fare in that.