Soundzen Daily Questions

VaranisArano · December 2019

soundzen_PT wrote: »

@VaranisArano, thank you for details, im sure to collect them and keep them to see if i can unlock skills even without going to battle... it always boosts my CP right?

Not exactly.
Champion Points are gained through regular experience gain.

Alliance Points are not the same as regular experience gain, though confusingly, they function like experience for the Alliance War ranks and skill line unlocking only. Once unlocked, your Alliance War skills will gain levels via regular experience just like every other skill.

If you PVP, you'll see that you gain both experience points and Alliance Points for the PVP activity, though not the same amount. In the daily rewards that give AP, you only gain Alliance Points. So that daily reward will count towards unlocking higher Alliance ranks and your Alliance War skill line, but it will not contribute to your Champion Points.

If you want to focus on Champion Points through daily rewards, you'll use the Crown Experience Scrolls that get handed out like candy instead.

soundzen_PT · December 2019

wth of nightmare in 1 hour - OMG, i just came out of cyrodill underground sewers because i got letter from imperial city and i accepted blindly thinking it was just a quest in a dwelve !!!

i hated it, got my biggest scare with that blade banner guy walking the corridors and killing me on the spot... somehow i went above ground to imperial city under siege and it was another nightmare, going stealth and crouching trough enemy lines to get 6 skyshards in total.

then i had clostrophobic panic mment because i couldnt find my way out of sewers under cyrodil AKA i couldnt find the correct rope-stairs to climb out, bringing me back to battlefield - arghhhh

after dying 4 times, i finally found the sewers wood EXIT door to bring me back to peaceful above ground map !!!

NEVER AGAIN... too bad because i wanted to roam open air cyrodill for those shards but i get aatacked by enemies as fast, when i aproach their are and camp defending their scrolls.

soundzen_PT · December 2019

the sewers center arena --> https://imgur.com/N20vocq

the imperial city arena --> https://imgur.com/5vfCI61

VaranisArano · December 2019

soundzen_PT wrote: »

wth of nightmare in 1 hour - OMG, i just came out of cyrodill underground sewers because i got letter from imperial city and i accepted blindly thinking it was just a quest in a dwelve !!!

i hated it, got my biggest scare with that blade banner guy walking the corridors and killing me on the spot... somehow i went above ground to imperial city under siege and it was another nightmare, going stealth and crouching trough enemy lines to get 6 skyshards in total.

then i had clostrophobic panic mment because i couldnt find my way out of sewers under cyrodil AKA i couldnt find the correct rope-stairs to climb out, bringing me back to battlefield - arghhhh

after dying 4 times, i finally found the sewers wood EXIT door to bring me back to peaceful above ground map !!!

NEVER AGAIN... too bad because i wanted to roam open air cyrodill for those shards but i get aatacked by enemies as fast, when i aproach their are and camp defending their scrolls.

Imperial City is something!

Its got a fantastic Main quest, IMO, so if you do decide to go back, here's some tips on how to get back to your home base or leave Imperial City when you are ready to get out without having to trek through the sewers each time.

Item: Sigil of Imperial Retreat
You can buy this from a vendor in your home base for 10k AP. On use, it will transport you back to your home base, consuming the item.

Free method: open the Alliance War tab and switch to a different Campaign. This will remove you from Imperial City to your home base in that campaign. Then if you want to return to your home base in IC, just requeue for IC.

Cyrodiil Scroll Skyshards - you won't be able to pass the gates to get to those 4 skyshards unless your alliance has captured the keeps nearest the gate. This will often happen during a scroll push when your alliance or the enemy tries to capture a scroll from someone's temple.

When you look at a map of Cyrodiil, you see how the three keeps nearest the gates form a triangle? Those are the tri-keeps and they control access to the scroll gates. Take EP for example. In order to open the gate to the scroll of Ghartok and its skyshards, the enemy has to hold Arrius keep and Farragut Keep. In order to open the gate to the scroll of Chim and its skyshard, the enemy has to hold Arrius Keep and Kingscrest Keep. When both are held, you'll see the gate symbol change to open. Note that the NPC guards and players will still attack you and that passing through the gate will dismount you, so be prepared to run.

soundzen_PT · December 2019

thanks for input @VaranisArano - you sound excited about that place, i hated it LOL (yes i did see gate blue glow change and couldnt enter after killing guards)

hated the sewers to tight, to packed, to long and no wayshrine to revive "here", while getting 2 skyshards ... as for imperial city, i went 20mins around the main center plaza (where they are burning book) killing guards and sorcerers and i manage to get 4 skyshards in the building rubbles... then i got the hell out of there ASAP.

i did enjoy far more, the above ground open-air Cyrodill map, where i was first introduced to this region trough a single wayshrine on the top right snowy battlefield camp (trying out weaponery quest) then i roamed the land for 1/3 of skyshards, until i got to close to enemy camp and RIP... just cant remember how to teleport there???

SeaGtGruff · December 2019

Type L for Alliance War, then you can choose whether to go to Cyrodiil or Imperial City.

If you go to Imperial City and get lost in the sewers, or just want a quick escape, type L again and go to Cyrodiil.

Cyrodiil and Imperial City are fun, but I haven't tried to get into PvP yet. If they seem scary or too tough at first, just keep going back and don't worry about getting killed-- although you should get into the habit of banking your Tel Var stones as often as possible, because if you get killed while carrying Tel Var stones you'll lose half of them to whoever killed you.

VaranisArano · December 2019

soundzen_PT wrote: »

thanks for input @VaranisArano - you sound excited about that place, i hated it LOL (yes i did see gate blue glow change and couldnt enter after killing guards)

hated the sewers to tight, to packed, to long and no wayshrine to revive "here", while getting 2 skyshards ... as for imperial city, i went 20mins around the main center plaza (where they are burning book) killing guards and sorcerers and i manage to get 4 skyshards in the building rubbles... then i got the hell out of there ASAP.

i did enjoy far more, the above ground open-air Cyrodill map, where i was first introduced to this region trough a single wayshrine on the top right snowy battlefield camp (trying out weaponery quest) then i roamed the land for 1/3 of skyshards, until i got to close to enemy camp and RIP... just cant remember how to teleport there???

Imperial City is not everyone's cup of tea. I didn't like it much at first, but it does get easier with experience.

In Cyrodiil, you can't teleport normally. There are a couple options.

The home bases have transitus shrines. Each keep, town, and outpost your alliance owns also has a transitus shrine that will allow you to teleport to any other keep/outpost your alliance owns, provided your aliance owns at least one resource, the keep/outpost is connected to others you own, and it's not under immediate attack. So most of the time, your best option is to ride to the nearest keep you own and transit from there.

If you die, you can likewise respawn to any keep, town, or outpost your alliance owns. You can do this deliberately as a "deathport" to get to a different location as well as when you die in the course of adventuring. So if you are deep in enemy territory and want to head home, running to the nearest resource and suiciding to guards is a quick deathport home if you want to avoid the long ride back to your keeps.

Like in IC, there's an item for sale by Alliance Vendors for 20k AP that will let you teleport back to any home keep, outpost, town as long as you use it out in the field away from the other keeps.

Using the /stuck command will bring you back to your home base, but only works once an hour.

Queuing up for a different Cyrodiil or IC campaign also works to get you out of Cyrodiil by bringing you to the IC home base or Cyrodiil home base, where you can leave to the regular zones.

As you can probably guess, it helps to have a fast mount in Cyrodiil,since there's a lot of ground to cover and not too many options for teleportation.

soundzen_PT · December 2019

thanks guys for so much detail but i wont do imperial city again for sure , so thats off the list, but theres something i dont understand in campaign menu about Cyrodill. From the next image, there are like 4 campaign choices and i can only enter 2 of them, since im LV50 CP330 (above 50 and with CP):

Standard Campaign --> drop point: Vaatvulon
Alliance Locked Campaign --> drop point: Kaagrontiid

https://imgur.com/048nRuf

So i would say, Standard sounds the least dangerous one, because the word Alliance sounds like i will be doing some battlefield war for my team (which i dont have as solo, i have no one for a 4 players squad)... i managed to explore the top right corner, on friendly turf and get skyshards and dwelves, so i want to try my luck beyond enemy lines

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QUESTION #14:

- how do i know where locations "Vaatvulon + Kaagrontiid" send me off too / above ground or underground? ... i dont want to end in the sewers again, since i dont want to die midway and restart my quest from only wayshrine there is underground, then be locked down there for 1H, looking for 4 remaining skyshards.

- i do want to go above ground in open-air map from that red wayshrine and work my way towards unexplored zones, as shown on map below, to finish my quest / point interests / skyshards checklist (left menu), in order to win the zone guide rewards "cyrodil adventurer / cyrodil conqueror"

https://imgur.com/NDXBbBv

soundzen_PT · December 2019

***damn you alex... just spent another 20$ on crowns and got myself 2000 crows spent at ESO store on potions and scrolls and starter packs... now none left for crates***

i have 150.000 coins i dont spend - can i trade them for crowns? or gems for that matter with another player???

***need to get that Werewolf bite to be strong like them - unstoppable in dwelves against bosses but i just cant stay up late for american midnight hour on my EU server Zzzzzz, just to go to special forest and look for a wolf***

VaranisArano · December 2019

Question 14
1. All of the Cyrodiil campaigns will take you to your Alliance Home base. Each version of Cyrodiil is geographically identical.

The only way to return to the sewers is to queue for the Imperial City campaigns. So if you want to avoid the sewers, just don't queue for IC.

2. Campaign types by ruleset
In all of the campaigns you can expect to fight players on the enemy alliances.
Alliance-locked CP- Kaalgrontiid. CP is enabled, the campaign will be locked to whichever alliance you stay there for 5 minutes on. So if you go there with an EP character, you will only be able to play EP characters there until the campaign ends.

Alliance-locked No CP - Bahlokdaan. Your CP passive will be disabled, but you can still play in this campaign. Alliance locks the same way as Kaalgrontiid.

Standard - Laatvulon. CP is enabled. No alliance lock, so you can play with any of your characters.

For exploration purposes, you generally want the least populated campaign. At the moment, that's Standard Laatvulon.

soundzen_PT · December 2019

QUESTION #15 (ragnthar)

Im in Alik desert and one of point interest to visit is RAGNTHAR as show in left side list here

--> https://imgur.com/NgE76Cx

Just googled out that Ragnthar is in Malabal Tor region, which i already visited in LV40 as show in this map

--> https://imgur.com/SZKR3lT

...is there a portal or a storyline connecting the 2 ??? are there 2 Ragnthar??? how do i find the NPC whereabouts?

soundzen_PT · December 2019

@VaranisArano thank you my friend, im to weak for Alliance
goodbye IC and Sewers - Laatvulon skyshards here i come...

kringled_1 · December 2019

soundzen_PT wrote: »

QUESTION #15 (ragnthar)

Im in Alik desert and one of point interest to visit is RAGNTHAR as show in left side list here

--> https://imgur.com/NgE76Cx

Just googled out that Ragnthar is in Malabal Tor region, which i already visited in LV40 as show in this map

--> https://imgur.com/SZKR3lT

...is there a portal or a storyline connecting the 2 ??? are there 2 Ragnthar??? how do i find the NPC whereabouts?

Ragnthar is part of the fighter's guild quest line. As such you can find a portal to it in the two locations you've noted and I think also one in Eastmarch. These were designed back when characters were stuck in the territory of their alliance until the main quest was done.

Starlock · December 2019

kringled_1 wrote: »

soundzen_PT wrote: »

QUESTION #15 (ragnthar)

Im in Alik desert and one of point interest to visit is RAGNTHAR as show in left side list here

--> https://imgur.com/NgE76Cx

Just googled out that Ragnthar is in Malabal Tor region, which i already visited in LV40 as show in this map

--> https://imgur.com/SZKR3lT

...is there a portal or a storyline connecting the 2 ??? are there 2 Ragnthar??? how do i find the NPC whereabouts?

Ragnthar is part of the fighter's guild quest line. As such you can find a portal to it in the two locations you've noted and I think also one in Eastmarch. These were designed back when characters were stuck in the territory of their alliance until the main quest was done.

It's more than that. There's also some lore that I won't spoil because it's more fun to discover for oneself.

soundzen_PT · December 2019

i see... so i must find a portal inside one of figther guild houses (3 regions i believe), to take me to Ragnarth???

i did see a portal to a strange island for mage guilds where theres only merchants, with huge bridges, waterfalls, coast line surrounded by lavish landscape... LOL and a friendly dino crocodile running about with his scamp budy - eyevae.something

Sidenote: twice in the game, i was directed to a city transportation (conce a cart / once a boat) by the quest i was on, and i had to abandon both, because it needed a DLC region i didnt have and wont buy, so those quest took long time to discover and concluded abruptly

Varana · December 2019

soundzen_PT wrote: »

@VaranisArano thank you my friend, im to weak for Alliance
goodbye IC and Sewers - Laatvulon skyshards here i come...

The important bit of that campaign description is not the "alliance" but "alliance locked" - i.e. 5 minutes after you've entered the campaign, it becomes locked to that character's alliance (Ebonheart Pact, or the losers ;D , i.e. Aldmeri Dominion or Daggerfall Covenant), and you can only enter with characters from that alliance.
The "alliance vs alliance vs alliance" theme is the same in all versions of Cyrodiil.

You're not automatically part of an actual team when you enter, though, it just regulates who is friendly and who is hostile. The players from the same alliance as you are friendly, and you can use your alliance's castles as jump points. Players from the other alliances are hostile, as are the NPC guards in their castles, towns, and resource buildings.

But you can totally run around Cyrodiil solo. It might not be the best idea to get too close to points held by the other alliances without being ready to fight - there are guards around, and often hostile players - but Cyrodiil is HUGE, and mostly empty away from where the main PvP action happens to be at the moment.

Varana · December 2019

soundzen_PT wrote: »

i see... so i must find a portal inside one of figther guild houses (3 regions i believe), to take me to Ragnarth???

You need to do the quest line in the Fighters' Guild, i.e. the one that starts in the Fighters' Guild in the starting town of your alliance (Davon's Watch, Vulkhel Guard, or Daggerfall). During those quests, you'll find Ragnthar.

soundzen_PT · December 2019

i know @varana, it seems suicide to go solo but i dont have buddy list to ask players help and im not pro to fight in melee for a damn scroll - so ill try to sneak and dodge by enemies just to get to skyshards, while i visit dwelves too

soundzen_PT · December 2019

DOLMEN MASSACRE !!! --> https://imgur.com/cZ9HMg9

this gathering of dozen players made me LMAO last night... bosses had no chance after 5 seconds of being bombarded by spells and swords, me included !!! It fell damn good to end it under 1 minute and not getting hit once, MUAHAHAHAH

Varana · December 2019

Ah yes, the Alik'r dolmen train. It's going 7 days a week, 24 hours.

At this point, it's like the sun rising. If the Alik'r dolmen train stops, the end of the world is nigh.

soundzen_PT · December 2019

RAGNTHAR update...

1) went to Malabal town of Vulkenwasten and no NPC nor Portal at guild place, only Jornik diary book, mentioning Ragnthar

2) went back to Ragnthar Cave itself @Malabal and faced a closed blue-spell door --> https://imgur.com/W2TqGsu which a similar blue glowing gem is waiting over at Jornik house @Alik desert, hmmm !!!

3) googled Alik desert then saw this youtube with a map, pointing to Ragnarth dwelve, which i already did last week... im going in circles here LOL

soundzen_PT · December 2019

Varana wrote: »

You need to do the quest line in the Fighters' Guild, the one in the Fighters' Guild in the starting town of your alliance (Davon's Watch, Vulkhel Guard, or Daggerfall). During those quests, you'll find Ragnthar.

so sorry @Varana i didnt see your post, im going to visit those 3 town today, thank you

JKorr · December 2019

soundzen_PT wrote: »

***damn you alex... just spent another 20$ on crowns and got myself 2000 crows spent at ESO store on potions and scrolls and starter packs... now none left for crates***

i have 150.000 coins i dont spend - can i trade them for crowns? or gems for that matter with another player???

***need to get that Werewolf bite to be strong like them - unstoppable in dwelves against bosses but i just cant stay up late for american midnight hour on my EU server Zzzzzz, just to go to special forest and look for a wolf***

If you want a ww bite, ask in your guild(s). Or ask in normal/outside of cyrodiil zone chat. I'm not the only player who gives free ww bites when someone asks.

soundzen_PT · December 2019

thanks for offer @JKorr, i thought i only had to go to a special forest in a designated region at midnight... my bad.
im indeed in a tamriel guild but from the players list how do i know who has the WW bite? i ask 45 players on chat box?
as for 100.000 coins i dont need, can someone at guild trade me for crowns or gems ESO store currency?

soundzen_PT · December 2019

my first ever grinding, yesss!!! - snakes and jackals in Alik desert ---> https://imgur.com/JDwPyvb

soundzen_PT · December 2019

SOUNDZEN RIG - my xmas present from me to me !!! new GPU this week:

my actual one ---> https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GTX-1050-Ti-AERO-ITX-4G-OC/Specification
the upgrade one ---> https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N166SIXOC-6GD#kf

i always had compact pc cases for space reasons + transportation, thats why the GPU must be mini-ITX
my latest unfinished mod ---> http://community.coolermaster.com/topic/24268-soundzen-elite-110/

soundzen_PT · December 2019

OMG just witnessed a ESO miracle, because what happened makes no sense for past 2 days
just logged in for my daily reward and i was at my yesterday grinding valley (red) then POP:

on my map RAGNARTH eye-icon appears near my area and gps bar for first time
--> https://imgur.com/4qWHRky

couldnt believe it, so i set my target and went there to find Ragnarth magic door
--> https://imgur.com/pe2Okfz

dont care for quest no more at this point, because i finally got PATHFINDER award
--> https://imgur.com/f5cnxym

JKorr · December 2019

You went close enough to trigger the map.

If you want to get in the place, do the Fighter's Guild quests. You will get to enter that door as part of the questline.

soundzen_PT · December 2019

well the thrill is gone... im reaching CP350 and i did all the quests, wayshrines, dwelves, dungeons, got the pathfinder awards, adventurer awards and collected skyshards in all regions from my globe (none are DLC)

i only left out all the Bosses (need 4-6 players to win but it wont give me an award so i dont need them) and the fishing award (i dislike it and its time consuming) so besides ramdom 4P dungeons twice a day, i got lots of coins, potions, food, weapons & armors from normal questline (weaker in defense and spells, than my usual setup) rarely none of those items i collect are recomended to hold on to (small bag max 76), for my breton / stamina / bow + 2H sword character, so im wearing same 6-pieces Oblivion armor, since CP200.

although i still have Cyrodill above ground to explore skyshards + the dreaded Coldharbour "city-must-fall" quest, im going nowhere and i do not want to repeat the same quests with my secondary character high-elf LV12... i cant seem to find the right combo of weapon/skill, because killing enemies are getting harder and i lose lifes when +3 attack me.

i was told it takes years to reach CP800, but i dont have 3~5 years... i gave 6 months to get here, now i need this xmas break
MERRY XMAS EVERYONE

soundzen_PT · December 2019

hope your xmas was excelent... lot of ESO presents under the tree. As for the awesome ESO trailer, im excited:

QUESTION #16 (ESO trailer 1)

after the epic battle scene down below and the sky circle off death is destroyed and all crumbles, we fast forward to the white tower scene where the breton in blue ribbon gets possessed and turned evil, we see him fight the nord but gets killed as the nord goes inside building... then comes elf lady with her green magic and gives breton coup de grace, liberating the guy from spell as he final death - then she goes inside building also where the nord is fighting the sorcerer... last image we see the elf alone top building tossing the nord helmet off cliff - SO I CONCLUDE that the elf won over the nord but i dont know is shes possessed too, by spell of sorcerer ??? whats her next city target ???