Anyone hear anything on the addition of Daedric Artifacts?

Daedgaming · January 2016

Part of me misses the unique weapons from other games like World of Warcraft, and I think TESO could really benefit if the Daedric Artifacts were added. Of course it should be close to impossible to get them and they should be overpowered; but thats what makes mmo's fun. Fighting people who spent hours and hours grinding to get a weapon that can kill you really fast. Obviously many of you will disagree with me, but as a true pvper; I love the challenge.

starkerealm · January 2016

Doncellius wrote: »

@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:

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.

The thing about the "artifact" icon list is... it's not all artifacts. I can identify about 50% to 60%. Some of them, "it's a sword?" But, as with some other entries on that list, just because it exists in the game data doesn't mean it's supposed to ever be player accessible. The devs haven't been shy about giving themselves some of these. There was an IC video where one of the devs had Sai Sahan's armor equipped, for example.

Hopesfire was created for the game, because Almalexia is in the game. There's only one Hopesfire, and she is carrying it. On the backend for the developers creating an icon for her weapon to ease equipping it and derping around with her inventory is about convenience. It's the same reason there's icons for unique characters and dragon priest masks. It's not that we'll be collecting those at some point in the future, it's that dragon priests are in the game, and so the developers need their masks.

Also, some of those aren't artifacts. The Worm Cult gear is on that line, which, I don't think anyone is arguing that the Worm Cult equipped each member with rare artifact armor. It's probably a file name decision.

All of this said, as I mentioned, the Daedric Artifacts were once obtainable. I'm not sure which ones. I used to even have the item code for Aurel's Bow around, so I could link it in chat and mess with people.

So, the part where hopesfire and trueflame were obtainable from fishing in Stonefalls? That was a bug. Honestly, a bug.

Because of the context, I suspect any daedric artifact we get our hands on in the future will be under roughly the same circumstances as the ones we've already obtained. Temporary during a quest, and not something we can take with us for later.

Daedgaming · January 2016

starkerealm wrote: »

Doncellius wrote: »

@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:

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.

The thing about the "artifact" icon list is... it's not all artifacts. I can identify about 50% to 60%. Some of them, "it's a sword?" But, as with some other entries on that list, just because it exists in the game data doesn't mean it's supposed to ever be player accessible. The devs haven't been shy about giving themselves some of these. There was an IC video where one of the devs had Sai Sahan's armor equipped, for example.

Hopesfire was created for the game, because Almalexia is in the game. There's only one Hopesfire, and she is carrying it. On the backend for the developers creating an icon for her weapon to ease equipping it and derping around with her inventory is about convenience. It's the same reason there's icons for unique characters and dragon priest masks. It's not that we'll be collecting those at some point in the future, it's that dragon priests are in the game, and so the developers need their masks.

Also, some of those aren't artifacts. The Worm Cult gear is on that line, which, I don't think anyone is arguing that the Worm Cult equipped each member with rare artifact armor. It's probably a file name decision.

All of this said, as I mentioned, the Daedric Artifacts were once obtainable. I'm not sure which ones. I used to even have the item code for Aurel's Bow around, so I could link it in chat and mess with people.

So, the part where hopesfire and trueflame were obtainable from fishing in Stonefalls? That was a bug. Honestly, a bug.

Because of the context, I suspect any daedric artifact we get our hands on in the future will be under roughly the same circumstances as the ones we've already obtained. Temporary during a quest, and not something we can take with us for later.

Do you guys think they will ever add a unique Legendary weapon or piece of armor though?

Leon119 · January 2016

I know daedric artifacts existed in the beta but apparently they removed them from the actual game.
Was watching a few videos from someone from Mostly Harmless NA guild during beta when i was waiting for the game and he had volendrung. Upon closer inspection it was a set piece and im pretty sure it got renamed into the ebon sledge from 2h set from the first 6 vet dungeons

Daedgaming · January 2016

Leon119 wrote: »

I know daedric artifacts existed in the beta but apparently they removed them from the actual game.
Was watching a few videos from someone from Mostly Harmless NA guild during beta when i was waiting for the game and he had volendrung. Upon closer inspection it was a set piece and im pretty sure it got renamed into the ebon sledge from 2h set from the first 6 vet dungeons

I saw the same video, I also witnessed it in the beta. Yet I want a non set bonus daedric artifact that has significantly more stats then crafted weapons or drops. A true Legendary weapon.

bertenburnyb16_ESO · January 2016

Hey why not cuz *** lore

No seriously, there is only one of each, If that were to implementatie these and U der 100's of playrs with the same artifact...... -_-

Daedgaming · January 2016

bertenburnyb16_ESO wrote: »

Hey why not cuz *** lore

No seriously, there is only one of each, If that were to implementatie these and U der 100's of playrs with the same artifact...... -_-

The grind to get one of these artifacts should be extremely long and hard and require the help of more then one person.