I've never felt so stupid in a game

leeux · March 2017

MasterSpatula wrote: »

<snip>And I'm fairly certain Oblivion had nothing like that.

Oblivion had the amber/madness stuff in Shivering Isles, where you could find raw ore and give it to the master smith to get a nice suit of Amber or Madness armor.

EDIT: clarification

SydneyGrey · March 2017

My first week in ESO, I was wondering where people got fishing poles and arrows. LOL.

zaria · March 2017

In WOW I thought the boats was just for decoration in weeks as I was unable to catch any, then I notice other players coming off. Also tough the train station was an dungeon.
No epic one in ESO I remember, outside of avoiding public dungeons but they was much harder in the start and I did not how to handle groups.

Sausage · March 2017

I was stupid once but then I figured Im not.

Enslaved · March 2017

CountEdmondDantes wrote: »

As that moment when - after playing for a few days - I finally get the nerve to ask in zone:

"Hey, where do you find the picks and axes to harvest the ore and wood?"

All that ore I left behind ...

I won't even be rude.

AntMan100673 · March 2017

I remember hearing that TA were worth a fortune and thinking I was loaded because I had a full stack I could sell... it took me a good while before I realised they were talking about TA and not ta.

Hafgar_W · March 2017

I still remember the beta. I used nothing more than light attacks and DoTs on Doshia and Gutsripper.

Don't feel bad, OP. We learn new things every day.

zaria · March 2017

Hafgar_W wrote: »

I still remember the beta. I used nothing more than light attacks and DoTs on Doshia and Gutsripper.

Don't feel bad, OP. We learn new things every day.

Lots of people had problems with them, people did not know to play mostly and was confused that they could not group on Doshia, many AoE attacks make harvesters an joke.
Was one guy who demonstrated how to beat her using an restoration staff and only light attacks by interrupting her.

Remember Gutsripper fell down in an hole beside the stairs making him easy to kill

Zer0_CooL · March 2017

My luck there was no zone chat on console 2 years ago

Huyen · March 2017

WoW had the same thing: needing several tools for crafting and harvesting. Takes some time to get used to.

jedtb16_ESO · March 2017

MasterSpatula wrote: »

Oh, and hey OP, I tried wearing a full set of Intricate gear when deconstructing during the open beta weekend. We were all noobs once.

^this.....

did it for several weeks...

doh!

Titansteele · March 2017

Lets do a social experiment ...... lets come up with other questions which make you say "Doh" once you have figured it out/got the answer and ask it in zone to see what the funniest reply is!

WuffyCerulei · March 2017

ESO was (and still is) my first MMO, so I wasn't familiar with the various abbreviations people use. For a good while, I didn't know what AFK or WTS meant. After meerly googling them, I felt pretty darn stupid.

adriant1978 · March 2017

There is actually a quest in Stormhaven which requires you to obtain a pickaxe, either by looting one or intimidating a guy into giving you his. Every time I do that quest I just think to myself "why can't I use the same pickaxe I've been mining half the zone with already?".

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Zyrudin · March 2017

CountEdmondDantes wrote: »

As that moment when - after playing for a few days - I finally get the nerve to ask in zone:

"Hey, where do you find the picks and axes to harvest the ore and wood?"

All that ore I left behind ...

The LOL button has to make a come back

It does show that a proper complete tutorial is missing in ESO and not just for combat mechanics.

Hafgar_W · March 2017

zaria wrote: »

Hafgar_W wrote: »

I still remember the beta. I used nothing more than light attacks and DoTs on Doshia and Gutsripper.

Don't feel bad, OP. We learn new things every day.

Lots of people had problems with them, people did not know to play mostly and was confused that they could not group on Doshia, many AoE attacks make harvesters an joke.
Was one guy who demonstrated how to beat her using an restoration staff and only light attacks by interrupting her.

Remember Gutsripper fell down in an hole beside the stairs making him easy to kill

Yep, someone even asked me to group up with him for killing Gutsripper. I told him I would see how hard it was to solo first and he answered something along the lines of "It's your funeral." That was reassuring but I managed to kill the thing without Silver Bolts or bugs. As for Doshia, I certainly didn't have any AoEs back then. Had to kill the orbs one by one each time. Then they got nerfed to the ground

EDIT: It wasn't on the first attempt, I'll give you that.

Danikat · March 2017

I did the same thing. Not only Skyrim but every other MMO I've played required you to have gathering tools to collect crafting materials so I just assumed it was the same here.

I was so confused the first time I clicked on a log by accident and my character pulled an axe out of nowhere and started chopping. I then went searching through her inventory trying to find where this axe was (I didn't even have any of the weapons) and wondering how I'd missed picking it up...then someone finally explained.

adriant1978 wrote: »

There is actually a quest in Stormhaven which requires you to obtain a pickaxe, either by looting one or intimidating a guy into giving you his. Every time I do that quest I just think to myself "why can't I use the same pickaxe I've been mining half the zone with already?".

I thought the exact same thing. It seemed so random that after all this time pulling out whatever gathering tools I needed from no where all of a sudden I actually had to go and find a pickaxe.

Enemy-of-Coldharbour · March 2017

Don't feel too bad. I still see people in zone chat asking where to get fishing rods.

Spacemonkey · March 2017

I remember back in beta when World Bosses (skulls on your map) were actually 'elite' zones where ALL the mobs in the area were elite, and the 'boss' was just an even stronger elite.

It was hard to even GET to the boss. But boy did it take me a while to figure out the signification of those extra gizmos on the health bars. ('Why the @#%* is this skeleton so tough???!)

DurzoBlint13 · March 2017

CountEdmondDantes wrote: »

As that moment when - after playing for a few days - I finally get the nerve to ask in zone:

"Hey, where do you find the picks and axes to harvest the ore and wood?"

All that ore I left behind ...

I did the same thing the week after console release. I thought 'surely the mechanics are similar to Skyrim'. I had a big eye-opening shortly after that! Lol

UrQuan · March 2017

zaria wrote: »

Hafgar_W wrote: »

I still remember the beta. I used nothing more than light attacks and DoTs on Doshia and Gutsripper.

Don't feel bad, OP. We learn new things every day.

Lots of people had problems with them, people did not know to play mostly and was confused that they could not group on Doshia, many AoE attacks make harvesters an joke.
Was one guy who demonstrated how to beat her using an restoration staff and only light attacks by interrupting her.

Remember Gutsripper fell down in an hole beside the stairs making him easy to kill

I remember waiting just inside the instance with Doshia for someone else to come along so we could take her out together...

For some reason, while Doshia gave me fits, and so did some of the other early quest bosses (including the Bloodthorn leader who tries to kill King Casimir - I think I tried to kill him about a dozen times before giving up, going away and leveling a bunch before coming back and finishing the quest), I never had any problems with Gutsripper. Killed him easily the very first time, even though I was lower level than I should have been for the quest. I think somehow by random chance my playstyle at the time (such as it was) just happened to work well in that particular fight, even though it worked poorly in most other fights.

HereKittehKitteh · March 2017

ArchMikem wrote: »

Everyone was stupid their first weeks into this game. For the longest time i hd no idea about armor passives and set bonuses. I used to be a dual wielding heavy arnor magicka sorcerer with all my attribute points into magic but using stamina attacks.

Oh god! me too

I even got to VR6 with like 900 SD and using steel tornado before I realised *face palms*

kmsbug1231 · March 2017

Every now and then I'll take a break from eso and play skyrim, and every time I go back to eso I try using B on Xbox to open my menu and end up getting bounties from using steel tornado in a packed city.

luen79rwb17_ESO · March 2017

ESO zone chat is helpful and friendly 80% of the time. There's always 1 or 2 trolls here and there mostly on what used to be low level zones (stonefalls, glenunbra).

dpr999 · March 2017

What I want to know is where are the arrows.

MasterSpatula · March 2017

leeux wrote: »

MasterSpatula wrote: »

<snip>And I'm fairly certain Oblivion had nothing like that.

Oblivion had the amber/madness stuff in Shivering Isles, where you could find raw ore and give it to the master smith to get a nice suit of Amber or Madness armor.

EDIT: clarification

Totally spaced on that. Shivering Isles honestly never really grabbed me like Tribunal, Bloodmoon, and Knights of the Nine did.

Most_Awesome · March 2017

CountEdmondDantes wrote: »

As that moment when - after playing for a few days - I finally get the nerve to ask in zone:

"Hey, where do you find the picks and axes to harvest the ore and wood?"

All that ore I left behind ...

OH my God your so stupid

*Cough I never did this

Paha_Vaatturi · March 2017

I had been playing for months before realised that you can move camera further from the character by holding D-pad down while moving analogue stick up or down..

Kram8ion · March 2017

Yes I thought arrow crafting was going to be Pita early on so didn't go bow for a long time