Anyone hear anything on the addition of Daedric Artifacts?

Daedgaming · January 2016

Just curious if anyone has heard anything? I picture them being like the legendary weapons in World of Warcraft where you have to grind a ton.

TX12001rwb17_ESO · January 2016

There are daedric artifacts in the game which you use in various quests such as the wabbajack which you use in the mage's guild quests and the Dawnbreaker which you use with the fighters guild ultimate.

Also the ebony blade is also ingame wielded by an Ayleid Lich deep within the Crypt of Hearts.

Daedgaming · January 2016

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

There are daedric artifacts in the game which you use in various quests such as the wabbajack which you use in the mage's guild quests and the Dawnbreaker which you use with the fighters guild ultimate.

Also the ebony blade is also ingame wielded by an Ayleid Lich deep within the Crypt of Hearts.

I mean a max level usable artifact, in the single player games all of the Daedric Artifacts were extremely useful at any level.

Yolokin_Swagonborn · January 2016

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Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

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Mojmir · January 2016

Daedgaming wrote: »

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

There are daedric artifacts in the game which you use in various quests such as the wabbajack which you use in the mage's guild quests and the Dawnbreaker which you use with the fighters guild ultimate.

Also the ebony blade is also ingame wielded by an Ayleid Lich deep within the Crypt of Hearts.

I mean a max level usable artifact, in the single player games all of the Daedric Artifacts were extremely useful at any level.

Yea single player,not gonna happen in multi

Daedgaming · January 2016

Mojmir wrote: »

Daedgaming wrote: »

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

There are daedric artifacts in the game which you use in various quests such as the wabbajack which you use in the mage's guild quests and the Dawnbreaker which you use with the fighters guild ultimate.

Also the ebony blade is also ingame wielded by an Ayleid Lich deep within the Crypt of Hearts.

I mean a max level usable artifact, in the single player games all of the Daedric Artifacts were extremely useful at any level.

Yea single player,not gonna happen in multi

I just want non set bonus unique weapons which are extremely powerful and hard to grind for or drop. Ah well.

TX12001rwb17_ESO · January 2016

Daedgaming wrote: »

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

There are daedric artifacts in the game which you use in various quests such as the wabbajack which you use in the mage's guild quests and the Dawnbreaker which you use with the fighters guild ultimate.

Also the ebony blade is also ingame wielded by an Ayleid Lich deep within the Crypt of Hearts.

I mean a max level usable artifact, in the single player games all of the Daedric Artifacts were extremely useful at any level.

There already is one its called the Fighter's guild ultimate, also this is an MMO not a single player game.

revonine · January 2016

If they do get implemented they'll most likely be ultimates like Dawnbreaker. Making them actual weapons would cause some crazy balance issues. Imagine the fun I would have with Mehrune's Razor in PvP lmao.

Sharee · January 2016

revonine wrote: »

Imagine the fun I would have with Mehrune's Razor in PvP lmao.

Not much fun, because everyone would be wielding it

Abeille · January 2016

Sharee wrote: »

revonine wrote: »

Imagine the fun I would have with Mehrune's Razor in PvP lmao.

Not much fun, because everyone would be wielding it

Imagine lots of people summoning random daedra all over the place with the Sanguine Rose. Or casting random spells and transforming each other into random cratures with the Wabbajack.

Wouldn't mind giving my Bosmer the Ring of Namira, though. The girl gotta eat too.

dday3six · January 2016

Daedgaming wrote: »

Mojmir wrote: »

Daedgaming wrote: »

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

There are daedric artifacts in the game which you use in various quests such as the wabbajack which you use in the mage's guild quests and the Dawnbreaker which you use with the fighters guild ultimate.

Also the ebony blade is also ingame wielded by an Ayleid Lich deep within the Crypt of Hearts.

I mean a max level usable artifact, in the single player games all of the Daedric Artifacts were extremely useful at any level.

Yea single player,not gonna happen in multi

I just want non set bonus unique weapons which are extremely powerful and hard to grind for or drop. Ah well.

That would be Maelstrom and Master's weapons.

Vaoh · January 2016

This image comes out much clearer on my Iphone when I save it and view it from my gallery. Anyway, find the "Artifact" list, and you will see there are TONS of artifacts from previous Elder Scrolls titles. They are present in the game already but not obtainable yet. :-(

@Mojmir
Remember when someone found Trueflame by fishing?

I'm willing to bet that all of the artifacts are ready for use but are waiting for future DLC for us to get them (new trial?) Hopefully they are part of powerful sets, or they act like master weapons.

Mojmir · January 2016

Doncellius wrote: »

This image comes out much clearer on my Iphone when I save it and view it from my gallery. Anyway, find the "Artifact" list, and you will see there are TONS of artifacts from previous Elder Scrolls titles. They are present in the game already but not obtainable yet. :-(

@Mojmir
Remember when someone found Trueflame by fishing?

I'm willing to bet that all of the artifacts are ready for use but are waiting for future DLC for us to get them (new trial?) Hopefully they are part of powerful sets, or they act like master weapons.

I'm all for naming wepa btw and possibly crafting uniques,but existing arties in old teso games is highly unlikely

revonine · January 2016

Sharee wrote: »

revonine wrote: »

Imagine the fun I would have with Mehrune's Razor in PvP lmao.

Not much fun, because everyone would be wielding it

Not if Spell breaker works on it xD

leepalmer95 · January 2016

Be cool if when you complete the thief guild dlc you get the skeleton key and get unlimited lock picks on that chara, character bound of course.

Mettaricana · January 2016

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Is it just me or did he seem a lil tweaked during last eso live. He jumped on answers with no eta so fast like he had a nose full of coke and a gun to his head...

starkerealm · January 2016

Doncellius wrote: »

This image comes out much clearer on my Iphone when I save it and view it from my gallery. Anyway, find the "Artifact" list, and you will see there are TONS of artifacts from previous Elder Scrolls titles. They are present in the game already but not obtainable yet. :-(

Slight mistake there. They are present in the game, but no longer obtainable.

You could get daedric artifacts back during the betas as rewards for some quests. IIRC they would default to purple or gold quality. These got stripped out of the game before release though, and my impression has always been that they were a neat little bragging rights privilege for beta testers.

Prabooo · January 2016

Maelstrom weapons

DaniAngione · January 2016

As for the "everyone would have one" concern most here have brought up (and I also have it...)
It's an incredibly valid concern. I mean... I used to love Warcraft lore (the single player games) and seeing things like EVERYONE running around with the skull of Gul'dan or the blades of Azzinoth was ridiculous to say the least... I would have vomited if I played WoW.

BUT
Fear not, for I have another one of my crazy ideas!

What if we had.... unique, legendary artifacts from the TES games that are unique to their Cyrodiil campaigns? Like being empreror or the scrolls themselves?

So the alliances could run special challenges to get one of these and it would be a weapon/armor someone can wield during the campaign. Being killed while using it will "transfer" it to the person who killed you - and when the campaign ends, they 'go back' to their native positions.

Items could be randomized every campaign to make it fun/for variety's sake... So, let's say there are 10 legendary items, only 3 would appear per campaign, having a different set of items to be hunt and worn into battle every time. They could provide group bonuses, just like scrolls provide faction bonuses, becoming important instruments of battle (and, of course, having to risk losing them to the enemies to be able to make use of their power)

Just an idea.

Mojmir · January 2016

Mettaricana wrote: »

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Is it just me or did he seem a lil tweaked during last eso live. He jumped on answers with no eta so fast like he had a nose full of coke and a gun to his head...

im actually starting to feel sorry for matt, he has that look like he really honestly cares and is a humble guy. im not down with personal attacks.

DaveMoeDee · January 2016

Mojmir wrote: »

Mettaricana wrote: »

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Is it just me or did he seem a lil tweaked during last eso live. He jumped on answers with no eta so fast like he had a nose full of coke and a gun to his head...

im actually starting to feel sorry for matt, he has that look like he really honestly cares and is a humble guy. im not down with personal attacks.

The posts here really have been juvenile.

Forestd16b14_ESO · January 2016

@Daedgaming Threads like this have popped up before and all end the same. No.

Now if must have a reason adding a daedric artifact into the game for a single player to use will break what little balancing the game has left and would cause endless rage. Example think it be fair if 1 player out of the 1000s to 100,000 to what ever is next for that 1 player to have Merus Razor or that 1 player to have the Wabbajack. Yea be totally fair and balancing for just 1 player to have both a item that can 1 shot kill and turn players into a walrus or chicken.

So please stop with these "add daedric artifacts" threads already cause it will never happen.

Forestd16b14_ESO · January 2016

DaniAngione wrote: »

As for the "everyone would have one" concern most here have brought up (and I also have it...)
It's an incredibly valid concern. I mean... I used to love Warcraft lore (the single player games) and seeing things like EVERYONE running around with the skull of Gul'dan or the blades of Azzinoth was ridiculous to say the least... I would have vomited if I played WoW.

BUT
Fear not, for I have another one of my crazy ideas!

What if we had.... unique, legendary artifacts from the TES games that are unique to their Cyrodiil campaigns? Like being empreror or the scrolls themselves?

So the alliances could run special challenges to get one of these and it would be a weapon/armor someone can wield during the campaign. Being killed while using it will "transfer" it to the person who killed you - and when the campaign ends, they 'go back' to their native positions.

Items could be randomized every campaign to make it fun/for variety's sake... So, let's say there are 10 legendary items, only 3 would appear per campaign, having a different set of items to be hunt and worn into battle every time. They could provide group bonuses, just like scrolls provide faction bonuses, becoming important instruments of battle (and, of course, having to risk losing them to the enemies to be able to make use of their power)

Just an idea.

No. Just no. You're pretty much saying to give more power to the dominate faction of the campaign AKA more power to zergs. No

Vaoh · January 2016

@starkerealm I didn't know that. Only started playing since console launch so thanks for letting me know.

That said, I look forward to the possibility of mounting artifacts on a weapon rack in my player house one day. It may take year(s) but these weapons will definitely become obtainable, part of very hard (grind) to obtain sets.

The Ebon Armory set is listed in the "Artifact" category yet it drops from Vet dungeons. Let's hope that is proof enough that ZOS will put this stuff in with future dungeons. I bet they were just teasing a few of them in beta to appeal to Elder Scrolls fans more.

Vaoh · January 2016

@Forestd16b14_ESO Just in case you didn't know, artifacts don't necessarily have be super overpowered.

There is a Daedric Crescent (called Volar's Crescent Dagger) which looks awesome but does nothing special. According to the lore and Morrowind, it would break your armor and paralyze you, yet it does none of these things. Mehrunes Razor basically has a chance to instakill in past games. In ESO, it would probably deal unresistable damage.

starkerealm · January 2016

Doncellius wrote: »

@Forestd16b14_ESO Just in case you didn't know, artifacts don't necessarily have be super overpowered.

There is a Daedric Crescent (called Volar's Crescent Dagger) which looks awesome but does nothing special. According to the lore and Morrowind, it would break your armor and paralyze you, yet it does none of these things. Mehrunes Razor basically has a chance to instakill in past games. In ESO, it would probably deal unresistable damage.

The Crescent in Morrowind actually had damage armor and paralyze as on strike enchantments.

Doncellius wrote: »

@starkerealm I didn't know that. Only started playing since console launch so thanks for letting me know.

That said, I look forward to the possibility of mounting artifacts on a weapon rack in my player house one day. It may take year(s) but these weapons will definitely become obtainable, part of very hard (grind) to obtain sets.

The Ebon Armory set is listed in the "Artifact" category yet it drops from Vet dungeons. Let's hope that is proof enough that ZOS will put this stuff in with future dungeons. I bet they were just teasing a few of them in beta to appeal to Elder Scrolls fans more.

The Ebon Armory isn't an artifact, or at least if it is, it's not one I've heard of before. You're probably thinking of the Ebony Mail, which is a daedric artifact. The Ebon Armory set shares some aesthetic similarities to Skyrim's version of the Ebony Mail, and also Skyrim's version of Ebony armor, but it's not the same item.

Vaoh · January 2016

@starkerealm I remember using the Daedric Crescent in Morrowind. I was trying to point out how one of these crazy overpowered weapons is in ESO but doesn't have the overpowered effects. Because of this, other artifacts could become obtainable without ruining balance. You don't see everyone running around with a Crescent dagger now do you?

If you have Volar's Crescent Dagger (very rare) then it serves mostly as a collectable. Same would go for swords like Hopesfire and Trueflame, part of a set which would never get used because it wouldn't be good enough. This is why I can see ZOS eventually making them available.

As for Ebon Armory, it's the only armor set in the game that is in the Ebony style which is coincidentally labeled as part of the Artifact motif. You're right though, probably serves as a reference. Ebony Mail does look similar yet worked very differently from this set.

Recremen · January 2016

Haven't heard anything yet, but it would be pretty cool to integrate into PvP. Kind of like how Emperor can be obtained by a single person at once per campaign, it would be neat if Daedric artifacts were awarded somehow for a period of time. Something like Most Killing Blows gets Mehrun's Razor, Most Damage Blocked gets Spell Breaker, most attacks from Stealth gets you the Ring Of Khajiit, etc. Obviously not those specific metrics, but you get the idea. There would need to be similar mechanics to crowning and dethroning for Emperor, though, so that it could drive the alliance war more.

starkerealm · January 2016

Doncellius wrote: »

@starkerealm I remember using the Daedric Crescent in Morrowind. I was trying to point out how one of these crazy overpowered weapons is in ESO but doesn't have the overpowered effects. Because of this, other artifacts could become obtainable without ruining balance. You don't see everyone running around with a Crescent dagger now do you?

It's probably worth pointing out the Crescent isn't actually a daedric artifact. It's listed in the book of artifacts because it's the last surviving example of that weapon. Nothing (aside from the absence of a move set for it) precludes the Crescent being added in ESO as dungeon loot or somewhere else. At this point they're not even the last of their kind. That won't happen until after the Imperial Battlespire is destroyed.

Vaoh · January 2016

@starkerealm This is pretty obvious since the last Deadric Crescent in Morrowind was a giant two handed longblade , while we find a dagger-sized version in ESO. Although not a true one-of-a-kind daedric artifact, it is still awesome/very rare. Favorite pic of it:
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You seem to be great with the lore and have played the past games a lot (like myself). It's be nice if you could go through that "Artifact" icon list I posted and see if you can name all of them. I'm thinking about putting a list together myself eventually.