Any idea if it changes the quests down the line at all?

I'm curious to know if people who chose to keep the relic were presented with a follow-up where the orcs of Betnikh are joining the Daggerfall Covenant, or if they get an alternate (or no) follow-up.

The one that I got for destroying the relic gave me a follow-up that led to a single low-value turn-in at Daggerfall. It was a little bit of exp and gold, but nothing major.

lol. pondered on this for ages in the beta and am having the same problem all over again anyone tried taking the orb but giving it to the elf ?

Holycannoli wrote: »

I don't want to think that a choice the quest's dialogue makes you think is very significant is actually completely insignificant.

I understand this sentiment, but at the same time, I really, really hate it when you end up irrevocably impacting what can be done later on. A quick example from Skyrim, the Dawnguard expansion. You can actually get the totally-not-a-bad-guy vampire that you're forced into helping (No, I'm not bitter, why do you ask?) to stop being a vampire, only if you didn't ask her about it before completing the quest line.

So I think my point is, while I do understand that you want your choices to be meaningful, I'm much happier knowing that I won't be re-rolling my main at level 47 because it turns out that I should have given the orb to the Redguard king back at level 6.

trinta wrote: »

I understand this sentiment, but at the same time, I really, really hate it when you end up irrevocably impacting what can be done later on. A quick example from Skyrim, the Dawnguard expansion. You can actually get the totally-not-a-bad-guy vampire that you're forced into helping (No, I'm not bitter, why do you ask?) to stop being a vampire, only if you didn't ask her about it before completing the quest line.

So I think my point is, while I do understand that you want your choices to be meaningful, I'm much happier knowing that I won't be re-rolling my main at level 47 because it turns out that I should have given the orb to the Redguard king back at level 6.

I understand that too. For me the decision would be based on what the end reward would be. I played another MMO with branching quests with different rewards and you really needed to read the wiki to see which path to choose (for example one path rewards a ship item the other a pistol) The good thing was that some quest rewards you could easily swap for the other reward an an NPC if you weren't happy with your choice. I'm not sure I want to see that in ESO but it would be nice to have the option to choose the other reward if it turns out we made the wrong choice.

kstauthamerb16_ESO wrote: »

All i know is that sometimes different decisions lead to different objectives (baelborne child)
Im bummed out that they took out the obligatory heist quest though, its pretty funny how those people keep showing up ^^

They didn't take it out. You can still go back and do it. You just don't start there anymore. I still think that it is far more confusing to start in Daggerfall and then have to make your way to Stros M'Kai than the reverse, and you aren't the first person who has not realized that the Stros M'Kai content still exists. But it's all there.

I destroyed it in beta, and my Breton isn't quite up to it yet, but I expect she'll also destroy it. For me, even if these choices are meaningless in terms of future gameplay, they are valuable in terms of RP character development and immersion.

I chose based on which characters I'd like to see again during later quests. For me, it was a choice between the ladies or the gents, not the relic.

I played through this on an alt last night with the intention of keeping it this time, but when I got to the decision, I just couldn't justify how my character could remotely think it was a good idea.

If there are any consequences to keeping it, I guess I'll never see them.

I destroyed it because it seemed like the choice was alliance with Orcs or cheap artifact that was 50/50 chance of being abused. Probably in the long run the orc alliance would be more valuable. The fact that if you betray the orcs they end up joining anyway is irrelevant to the decision since you dont know that at the time.

This wasn't a hard choice at all for me. I'm not going to enslave thousands of souls to gain a few cheap victories. Kaleen's, Nicolene's, and Lerisa's justifications for keeping it pale in the face of the sheer evil that object represents.

CelticMarauder wrote: »

This wasn't a hard choice at all for me. I'm not going to enslave thousands of souls to gain a few cheap victories. Kaleen's, Nicolene's, and Lerisa's justifications for keeping it pale in the face of the sheer evil that object represents.

That was my call too, killing people is bad enough but destroying their souls (Breton King's Ghost told you it devours souls) that is unacceptable.

gurluasb16_ESO wrote: »

It annoys me how much Nicolene is a b*tch and blames me for everything bad that happened, and she keeps doing it even as late as in Alik'r desert, where she even bluntly tells me to go talk to a wall.

Oh sure, excuse me for not wanting to use the cursed soul-eating artifact
Captain Kaleen at least came around. >_>

Also she keeps blaming me for the death of her brothers.
I don't recall killing them, unless they were cultists.

I know...she's such a [snip]...and her ideas were like that she is from elementry school


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I kept the orb.

The only good orc is a dead orc.

Nuff said