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Cadwell's Silver...

Miszou
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Ok, so I just finished the game and now I get to do it all again in a different alliance - expect that I've already done this alliance on an old alt.

About an hour ago, I was really excited to be getting to the end.... I had all my crafting laid out, I had a plan to be the bestest PvE tank evar, and then all of a sudden... I'm sitting in a deserted town and I'm supposed to feel motivated to run through this whole thing again? For what?

I suppose I could do Orsinium, but after that, what is there? Daily pledges? Gear grind? I'm kinda wondering what the point is... not that these types of games really have a point, other than to suck your life out through your eyeballs. And I have little to no interest in PvP - I'm a magicka-based Argonian DK, and I went in there once (for the skyshards) and it was tragic.

Meanwhile, my unopened copy of The Witcher 3 I got for Christmas is sitting right here...
  • tinythinker
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    Guess it depends on what you want to do. I gotta say, though, after doing it five times, I might wait a while to do Cadwell's Silver and Gold again myself. Those AD zone... :neutral: By this time next year there will be much more scalable content and many more PvE zones to do with all of the DLC coming out.
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  • Drakilian
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    Well, there's never any point to any MMO. Personally I find that the only real satisfaction I ever get out of this game is in PvP, because there's actually some sort of competition against other people to motivate us there. There's the pretense of it being a contest of skills and the knowledge that you're fighting against other living, breathing opponents. If all you're in for it is the PvE then i'll have to agree, there's basically nothing.

    I mean, I do everything: The crafting, the pledges, I run dungeons every once in a while, I try to finish all the zones on my main, I trade for gold, but ultimately everything I do is with the explicit goal of making my characters stronger so I can just wreck more in PvP. Priorities, you know? Everyone gets a different sort of satisfaction out of an MMO, i'd suggest finding out what that is or just giving up and cutting your losses. Plenty of other things to do, you know?
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  • ADarklore
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    Funny that I've run the AD quests through Coldharbour probably about 10+ times before I ever found a character I wanted to continue with... since then I've run almost all EP quests on Silver (and enjoyed them a lot), but decided I wanted to try my hand at a Magicka Nightblade, who I'm loving atm.

    So clearly, some people don't like repetition while others do. I also work at a factory, so I'm quite used to repetition in real life too. ;)
    Edited by ADarklore on December 31, 2015 2:02PM
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  • Oldmanlawlor
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    It's kinda silly how we have to pay for "any race, any alliance" even tho we actually get to play any race any alliance... Technically.
  • ADarklore
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    It's kinda silly how we have to pay for "any race, any alliance" even tho we actually get to play any race any alliance... Technically.

    That all depends on if you PvP... which is really where the initial alliance selection aspect comes more into play.
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  • Xellos77
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    Miszou wrote: »
    Ok, so I just finished the game and now I get to do it all again in a different alliance - expect that I've already done this alliance on an old alt.

    About an hour ago, I was really excited to be getting to the end.... I had all my crafting laid out, I had a plan to be the bestest PvE tank evar, and then all of a sudden... I'm sitting in a deserted town and I'm supposed to feel motivated to run through this whole thing again? For what?

    I suppose I could do Orsinium, but after that, what is there? Daily pledges? Gear grind? I'm kinda wondering what the point is... not that these types of games really have a point, other than to suck your life out through your eyeballs. And I have little to no interest in PvP - I'm a magicka-based Argonian DK, and I went in there once (for the skyshards) and it was tragic.

    Meanwhile, my unopened copy of The Witcher 3 I got for Christmas is sitting right here...

    Play Witcher 3. Probably one of the best, if not THE best, games I've ever played. ESO is lacking in end game content and the concept "the grind is the destination" may not work for everyone. After bringing 6 characters in VR levels, I asked myself the same question.

    The game is more of a single player RPG, with hints of MMO. It's not enough though. Unless you like RNG and some dungeons (if not into PvP), there is little else to do, sadly.
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  • Lightninvash
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    Miszou wrote: »
    Ok, so I just finished the game and now I get to do it all again in a different alliance - expect that I've already done this alliance on an old alt.

    About an hour ago, I was really excited to be getting to the end.... I had all my crafting laid out, I had a plan to be the bestest PvE tank evar, and then all of a sudden... I'm sitting in a deserted town and I'm supposed to feel motivated to run through this whole thing again? For what?

    I suppose I could do Orsinium, but after that, what is there? Daily pledges? Gear grind? I'm kinda wondering what the point is... not that these types of games really have a point, other than to suck your life out through your eyeballs. And I have little to no interest in PvP - I'm a magicka-based Argonian DK, and I went in there once (for the skyshards) and it was tragic.

    Meanwhile, my unopened copy of The Witcher 3 I got for Christmas is sitting right here...

    see I feel like the pvp in this game is a fun aspect in it and I do pve to get levels cp and gear to better myself in pvp. that being said if pvp isn't your thing, as you stated, dungeon runs are what a lot of what people do and trials. I myself have yet to do trials but I hear they are fun. What I do is skip content that I do not want in Caldwell silver/gold. being said I grind from vet1-5 then run through the main story lines in a day and move on to the gold zone and see what that is like. if you made one in every faction you know and can repeat the process if you like to try trials.

    EDIT: See my first char was my Templar healer. I never got in crafting because the guild I was in would make me my gear due to how much I donated to it. I ended up becoming a high ranking officer so I helped even more and vet gear was crafted food xp pots ect. So when I started my new recent DK after the guild leadership leaving the game it was like a brand new game. Full of crafting researching making my own stuff ect, and ofc a new play style. all of these refreshed my look on how the game is played so another thing is try all the crafting things it can be somewhat fun. Or some people in MMOs like to be a trader of sorts. Buy large quantities of x item for low and sell high making money flipping it to buy whatever crafting or armor needs you like.
    Edited by Lightninvash on December 31, 2015 5:13PM
  • Enodoc
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    Yeah it really depends on what you want to do. If you only play one character, then Cadwell's Silver (and later, Cadwell's Gold) is great, because you get to play the whole content of the game with one character. But if you've been playing alts as you go, then Cadwell's is mostly pointless if you don't want to do it again. And then you feel forced through it if you want to get to Craglorn, as that's designed around VR11 groups (Cadwell's in theory gets you from VR1 to VR10). Once Veteran ranks are removed though, the "forced" feeling should no longer be there.
    If you enjoyed the story, then Orsinium is probably the way to go to start with. Once that's over, then yes, there's daily pledges, the delve dailies and world boss dailies in Wrothgar, Craglorn has group dailies, and there's PvE dailies in the PvP zone of Cyrodiil.
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  • TheShadowScout
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    Enodoc wrote: »
    (Cadwell's in theory gets you from VR1 to VR10)
    Used to. Before the recent veteran rank cost reduction. Nowadays you are more likely to end up at VR 14 at the end if you do all the questing... add to that the two veteran ranks worth of XP hiding in wrothgar, and you can breeze to max level without ever running out of quests, something I very much approve of.

    Of course... soon enough it will not be the veteran ranks, it will be the champion points that count. I for one will still play through cadwells with every alt, because its not just the expees, its also the skill points you get through quest rewards, the skyshards and the mages guild books you will find "en passant" while questing through it...
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