katanagirl1 wrote: »Sylvermynx wrote: »katanagirl1 wrote: »Yes, I use boats and wagons and just riding to get all my toons (regardless of alliance) to Riften to park there for crafting daily writs.
I have never asked for another player to taxi me anywhere. I can’t actually believe people ask for others to do that. Some players even ask for a taxi within the zone now!
Of all the areas to get to in the game, the Rift seems to be one of the hardest to reach because you can’t go through Stonefalls if you haven’t completed the zone quests there, you have to take at least one boat, might have been two, then ride down from Windhelm in Eastmarch.
EDIT: clarification
You can go through Stonefalls without doing any quests at all there. From Fort Virak run up along the east side of the fort by the little riverish area, kill the spider to the north, turn east, kill some more spiders (or go around them), and head northeast into The Rift. Pick up Trolhetta wayshrine after going through Fullhelm Fort, and then you can either wayshrine to the now open one at Fallowstone/Shor's Stone, or just go past the crafting area and down to Riften that way.
Now I’m curious and will have to check that out, thanks!
Though I did return to the area for one of the Old Life quests that was just to the north of Fort Virak, and I didn’t want to bother going through, and was unable to find a way around then. I used the southernmost wayshrine in the Rift to ride south and reach the shrine.
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TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »I feel ESO would be very fun without fast travel, being forced to Walk or use Carriages, Boats or Silt Striders to get around might provide a fresh experience for some people, imagine how much larger the game would feel if you could not use wayshrines.
It would be horrible. No one has time to travel like that. It takes several hours alone to do daily writs and quests
Imagine without wayshrines... let alone trying to organize groups for trials and dungeons.
If that ever happened, I'm sure it would make people quit the game for good.
I take it you have never played TES:III Morrowind?
Sylvermynx wrote: »Some of us have time to travel like that @rrimöykk - I do. I almost never ride when I'm playing, and don't hop around on wayshrines much except on my mains who are my primary survey harvesters. So they wayshrine to the zones they have surveys for.
Otherwise, my characters run from node to node as they adventure through quests zone to zone. I'm more of a "smell the flowers, then pick them" sort of player. Of course, I have nearly unlimited time to play - I'm retired after many years of filling desk jobs, so I can play all day whenever I like. Mostly I play from 7 am US MST until 3 pm; though I have been known to pull all-nighters too (not so much any more - I need my sleep at my age!)
Sylvermynx wrote: »Some of us have time to travel like that @rrimöykk - I do. I almost never ride when I'm playing, and don't hop around on wayshrines much except on my mains who are my primary survey harvesters. So they wayshrine to the zones they have surveys for.
Otherwise, my characters run from node to node as they adventure through quests zone to zone. I'm more of a "smell the flowers, then pick them" sort of player. Of course, I have nearly unlimited time to play - I'm retired after many years of filling desk jobs, so I can play all day whenever I like. Mostly I play from 7 am US MST until 3 pm; though I have been known to pull all-nighters too (not so much any more - I need my sleep at my age!)
I understand that and that's the beauty of ESO: you can play it your way.
I mainly do end game trials and dungeons as those are my passion. If I needed to manually ride to those every single time, I'd quit in an instant.
I do not want to spend time travelling as there are too many daily quests already that take so much time. I want to spend my time doing what I truly enjoy.
Sylvermynx wrote: »Sylvermynx wrote: »Some of us have time to travel like that @rrimöykk - I do. I almost never ride when I'm playing, and don't hop around on wayshrines much except on my mains who are my primary survey harvesters. So they wayshrine to the zones they have surveys for.
Otherwise, my characters run from node to node as they adventure through quests zone to zone. I'm more of a "smell the flowers, then pick them" sort of player. Of course, I have nearly unlimited time to play - I'm retired after many years of filling desk jobs, so I can play all day whenever I like. Mostly I play from 7 am US MST until 3 pm; though I have been known to pull all-nighters too (not so much any more - I need my sleep at my age!)
I understand that and that's the beauty of ESO: you can play it your way.
I mainly do end game trials and dungeons as those are my passion. If I needed to manually ride to those every single time, I'd quit in an instant.
I do not want to spend time travelling as there are too many daily quests already that take so much time. I want to spend my time doing what I truly enjoy.
I haven't any use left for endgame pve - burned out in WoW and RIFT. I'm happily putzing around with whatever. But yes, if you are heavily into endgame, having no wayshrines would be pretty awful! I would doubt it would ever happen. Those like me who take a slower calmer path do it on our own recognizance; on my mains with lots of surveys, I wouldn't like not having wayshrines either!
TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »I feel ESO would be very fun without fast travel, being forced to Walk or use Carriages, Boats or Silt Striders to get around might provide a fresh experience for some people, imagine how much larger the game would feel if you could not use wayshrines.
It would be horrible. No one has time to travel like that. It takes several hours alone to do daily writs and quests
Imagine without wayshrines... let alone trying to organize groups for trials and dungeons.
If that ever happened, I'm sure it would make people quit the game for good.
I take it you have never played TES:III Morrowind?
Sylvermynx wrote: »@katanagirl1 - just in case you need it, I screenshotted and marked the map area for you.
The curving cream line is the approximate path.