Ayleid Crown Crates furniture

bluebird · March 2021

Hi all, here's a small showcase of the 3 new furniture that are included in the Ayleid Crown Crates.

- Ayleid Gate, Large:
Legendary, 100 gems. Traditional furnishing. Is interactable, has a closed and open door version. Is about 1.7x taller than the Ayleid Grate, Tall so it doesn't line up very well with the other Ayleid furnishings already ingame. Wish I could test it in the upcoming Ayleid house and see how it fits into the doorways there, but alas that's not available for purchase yet.

- Comet, Aetherial:
Legendary, 100 gems. Special furnishing. Smaller than you might think, for a comet

Significantly smaller than the Nimbus Cloud from the earlier crates, but this one also has pretty animated effects. And it has a faint magical-whooshing-humming sound when you stand close, but it's barely audible so it wouldn't be too intrusive if you don't like it.

- Ayleid Relief, Blessed Life-Tree:
Epic, 40 gems. Traditional furnishing. Both sides have the same pattern. Turned it slightly to the side so you ca see that it's a bit thick, so bear in mind if you were planning to use it on a thinner wall.

Hopefully this will give you an idea of sizes and other considerations so you can decide whether you want them or not.
Do you like one in particular? Got any plans to use them in a house?

Vehlir · March 2021

Thanks for these previews, helps seeing those frames for context!

Really like the comet, I think we'll see that used in many unexpected creative ways in the future. Gates are quite nice as well, if not a bit big 😅. Some careful placement sinking into the floor/walls if some homes might be able to work nicely though.

Aptonoth · March 2021

Vehlir wrote: »

Thanks for these previews, helps seeing those frames for context!

Really like the comet, I think we'll see that used in many unexpected creative ways in the future. Gates are quite nice as well, if not a bit big 😅. Some careful placement sinking into the floor/walls if some homes might be able to work nicely though.

Right off the bat yo could make a walkway to them like a path of garden lights except the ones they use in football I don't know the name of lol. I'm so tempted to put the comet under the sand to make it look like a firework now lol. However I used it as a comet in my Shalidor home sky and it looks like it was made for it. I used some in my psijic villa interior and it now looks super mystical and finally I might use a single one with my dwarven exterior but I don't know on that.

Keep up the cool sky particle effects we need a huuuge patch of grey but not raining thunder clouds and a huuuge patch of raining thunder clouds.

We also have the cool energy effect thing from last year but we need the same thing but red for bad guy homes.

Araneae6537 · March 2021

@bluebird Thank you so much for the info and pictures!

I wish that the gate had been in a lower tier than 100 Gems (or really, a Crown item rather than crate) since it’s something one could well use more than one of, rather than a unique special effect like the Nimbus Cloud from a few seasons back.

Wildberryjack · March 2021

Yeah I want it all. And more than one of the comet for sure. TY for the pics, getting excited for this house and these furnishings. Been wanting Alyeid for quite a while.

NotaDaedraWorshipper · March 2021

So annoying they keep adding furniture in crates. Even worse, they are almost always in the high tiers and cost a lot of gems.

tsaescishoeshiner · March 2021

None of these should be locked behind Crown Crates, especially not for 100 gems each. The other 100 gem rewards are one-time unlockables, but these all are something players would want multiple of. It's a nice perk for people fishing for a 1-in-400 Radiant Apex drop, but a huge waste to the majority of the playerbase.

Vinterskald · March 2021

Suuuper disappointed they added them in the crates instead of just putting them into the regular crown furnishing store, or, even better, as craftable furnishings with Blackwood.

katanagirl1 · March 2021

I agree, things like this aren’t like mounts that you only need to get one, so they definitely shouldn’t require crown gems to purchase.

Regardless, since this is the only way to get them other than buying crates, I want to use my small number of crown gems to get a few of the gates and reliefs, but like you said there is no way to even preview the Ayleid house to see how many you might need!

Why do they make these items available so far in advance?

They would sell more if they made them available at the same time as the house, duh.

FluffyDoom · March 2021

I would have loved to use several of the gates in various houses, however I just can't justify more than 1 of each item at the 100 gem price.

Also: @katanagirl1 - I was able to go to the Ayleid house on PC and preview it (unfurnished only) today - I wanted to see where I might use any of the new furnishings. Not sure it' works on PS4, but I just rode up to the north of Knightsgrave in the Gold Coast, across the Brena River on the Hammerfell side of the border, and the icon for a house appeared on my map. Crossed a river and there was the door and I was able to preview the house. Hope this helps!

Pssst also if you haven't checked yet, you can buy the new ayleid chandeliers with the crystals now from the housing editor although they are 730 crowns each.

I am very disappointed by the high pricing of some of the housing items. *sigh*

Araneae6537 · March 2021

katanagirl1 wrote: »

I agree, things like this aren’t like mounts that you only need to get one, so they definitely shouldn’t require crown gems to purchase.

Regardless, since this is the only way to get them other than buying crates, I want to use my small number of crown gems to get a few of the gates and reliefs, but like you said there is no way to even preview the Ayleid house to see how many you might need!

Why do they make these items available so far in advance?

They would sell more if they made them available at the same time as the house, duh.

Hopefully the Ayleid property will be released during this crate season! But totally agree about furnishings in crates. I mean, I would rather EVERYTHING be available for direct purchase, one time unlock to get through convoluted means is worse, and then something you want many of — and so expensive relatively! The Celestial Nimbus was 100 gems but at least that was a centerpiece type of thing! These gates absolutely should have been released to the Crown store like the grate/fence pieces.

Well, this was the first season I bought crates, and happily got some of the trees and bought one gate for gems, just because I’ve been wanting more Ayleid furnishings for so long. I’m sure I would have bought more if they were Crown.

katanagirl1 · March 2021

FluffyDoom wrote: »

I would have loved to use several of the gates in various houses, however I just can't justify more than 1 of each item at the 100 gem price.

Also: @katanagirl1 - I was able to go to the Ayleid house on PC and preview it (unfurnished only) today - I wanted to see where I might use any of the new furnishings. Not sure it' works on PS4, but I just rode up to the north of Knightsgrave in the Gold Coast, across the Brena River on the Hammerfell side of the border, and the icon for a house appeared on my map. Crossed a river and there was the door and I was able to preview the house. Hope this helps!

Pssst also if you haven't checked yet, you can buy the new ayleid chandeliers with the crystals now from the housing editor although they are 730 crowns each.

I am very disappointed by the high pricing of some of the housing items. *sigh*

OK, I’ll try that. I checked the Crown store and of course it wasn’t listed there. Thanks

Wildberryjack · March 2021

I ended up with five of those huge gates LOL. I wonder how long after launch they're going to put the Alyeid house up for sale?

KMarble · March 2021

FluffyDoom wrote: »

I was able to go to the Ayleid house on PC and preview it (unfurnished only) today

Out of curiosity, was there an option to see the furnished version?

Araneae6537 · March 2021

KMarble wrote: »

FluffyDoom wrote: »

I was able to go to the Ayleid house on PC and preview it (unfurnished only) today

Out of curiosity, was there an option to see the furnished version?

Not when it’s not available, no. I tried this in Tel Galen (where is my Tel Galen??!) and there is no furnished preview when the house is unavailable for purchase. From what I’ve heard, the furnished option for the Ayleid property mostly adds Imperial furnishings, oddly enough.

katanagirl1 · March 2021

Yeah I was able to ride up to the house and enter through the front door to preview.

So the Ayleid relief tree looks like it might fit into the two arched areas on stairways in the Ayleid house. I hope, lol. Not sure where to put the gates, though.

I mean, they look really nice, but still I can’t tell how they will fit in a house that is not available...am I going to use crown gems to buy them?

What is that saying about timing is everything? By the time the house is available these crown store items will be gone.

Lady_Galadhiel · March 2021

Where is the Ayleid house located? I could preview the new house in Morrowind but I fail to see a question mark in Gold Coast?

seecodenotgames · March 2021

Lady_Galadhiel wrote: »

Where is the Ayleid house located? I could preview the new house in Morrowind but I fail to see a question mark in Gold Coast?

In in the north west, near the river mouth or Knightsgave.

Lady_Galadhiel · March 2021

seecodenotgames wrote: »

Lady_Galadhiel wrote: »

Where is the Ayleid house located? I could preview the new house in Morrowind but I fail to see a question mark in Gold Coast?

In in the north west, near the river mouth or Knightsgave.

Thank you

Will need to check it out.

KMarble · March 2021

Araneae6537 wrote: »

KMarble wrote: »

FluffyDoom wrote: »

I was able to go to the Ayleid house on PC and preview it (unfurnished only) today

Out of curiosity, was there an option to see the furnished version?

Not when it’s not available, no. I tried this in Tel Galen (where is my Tel Galen??!) and there is no furnished preview when the house is unavailable for purchase. From what I’ve heard, the furnished option for the Ayleid property mostly adds Imperial furnishings, oddly enough.

Thank you. I'd forgotten about that (unavailable houses can't be previewed furnished).

I "bought" this house on PTS before the last update but didn't pay much attention to the furnishings. Yes, most of the furnishings are either Imperial or Breton (I couldn't tell, because I didn't spend much time in there. I just used it to put down crafting stations so I could play with the new CP).

bluebird · April 2021

For those wondering how the Ayleid furniture will fit into the Ayleid house, the answer is not very well.

For the Relief, it's surprisingly not designed for those frames that we can see all over the house, because it is larger than them. You can still sink it into the frame of course, it will just look a bit small and more crowded. For size, you can also see below how it measures up to the alcove in the large main room, if you wanted the relief to be on a free wall rather than in those framed sockets. I think I'll prefer a placement that won't cut off the tree awkwardly like the frames, and may have to build a custom wall to show it off best.

For the Gate, it is either too large or too small, but in all cases it is too short. Most doorways in the house are arches, so you'd have to use some fence of platform to wall off the space above the door, as it clearly won't reach the height of Ayleid architecture. Not sure why we got a rectangular doorframe in an Ayleid style which tends to be taller and archier, but oh well. Below you can see how the door measures up to the interior archways, outside archways, and the main entrance.

Also, regarding the Ayleid Bundle (added to the Crown Store as a furnishing pack for 4k Crowns) a noteworthy mention may be the 6 Welkynd Stones, Glowing inlcluded in it (they are also purchasable directly though the editor). By putting the stone into the holders and unlit braziers we can sort of emulate the welkynd lights that we see in delves that I know @katanagirl1 was interested in for example! The stones have an on and off setting, and when turned on they will pulse with a light cycle that goes from dim to bright and vice versa, so they are a nice enchanted light to use in the house.

Oh, and the Aetherial Well utility furnishing, which is a new individual purchase, will allow you to recharge your health, resources and ultimates after using it (it has an animation similar to when you use a Skyshard). However, note that it is a rather small item. So if you were planning on using it as decoration, here is a comparison to some other furniture so you can see its size. Just so you don't expect an epic well or anything.

So, hope that was helpful for anybody who's looking to make an informed choice about these items! And hope you all have fun building your dream Ayleid homes!

katanagirl1 · April 2021

I was completely caught off guard when I saw the house went on sale yersterday!

After dragging their heels on the Markarth house for weeks they turn around and make this available so soon! Well I guess I shouldn’t complain, lol!

I picked up two reliefs and two gates before the house went on sale. I really feel that for a crown gem item that the reliefs should have some (or more, I can’t really see much of anything) of a lighting effect for the tree outline. Otherwise, they should have been included with the house purchase price.

The gates were much smaller than I envisioned. I found a place to put them, but really had wanted to place them on the ledge of the upper floor but that didn’t work.

Am I the only one who has no idea what scale is used for those tiles in the furnishing preview? I keep thinking it’s in feet but no one outside of the US uses those units anymore. Meters seems too large for the tile size. Without a legend showing the scale that screen is not very helpful for gauging how big the item will be.

I guess I will miss out on the Welkynd Stones in the crown pack. This house became available before my sub got renewed so I only got enough crowns to get the house. Thanks for the detailed write-up and photos, though.

katanagirl1 · April 2021

I was able to find someone to gift me the Ayleid furnishing pack for gold so I now have these items. Yay!

The Welkynd stones are awesome! The default is “inactive” for some reason, so it’s a bit of a pain to place somewhere close by, turn on, then click again to use precision editor and reposition where you want them, but whatever. I could have used twice as many, lol!

The quality of the Ayleid bookcases and the books are really poor though, super low resolution. I don’t have the furnishing plans though so it’s good to have something.

It would be great if these assets could be reworked at some point.

Araneae6537 · April 2021

The Ayleid gate is a bit of a disappointment for me as it doesn’t fit anywhere in the Ayleid ruin (not that that is it’s only use of course, but I thought it reasonable to expect it to work there as I’m told the Solitude doors do in certain houses) and the gate is completely silent upon opening and I would have expected at least a subtle sound of a metal gate opening.

I do like the tree reliefs, although it is odd that the arched reliefs weren’t sized to better accommodate them, as @bluebird pints out.

I didn’t buy the Ayleid furnishing bundle for two reasons:
1) Several of those furnishings I already have the crafted version of and I rather hate having to juggle bound and unbound versions of the same item.
2) The sole unique item, the open book, is horribly low resolution.

I do highly recommend the Welkyn Stones, Glowing, however! I love the organic vacillation of their light and they are especially beautiful in the small grates along the wall, as are in the upper room. They don’t cast shadows through the grate but I think they look great and really add to the atmosphere. The Ayleid chandelier is great for casting interesting shadows.

katanagirl1 · April 2021

There really needs to be some way to connect the Ayleid switch to the gate to open it.

I don’t know why we have a switch that doesn’t do anything. You can place the switch on the wall next to the gate for decorative purposes.

Ha ha, I guess the switches don’t even work in the game because the door doesn’t open and the fade out/fade in places your character magically outside the door. I just thought of that.

Araneae6537 · April 2021

katanagirl1 wrote: »

There really needs to be some way to connect the Ayleid switch to the gate to open it.

I don’t know why we have a switch that doesn’t do anything. You can place the switch on the wall next to the gate for decorative purposes.

Ha ha, I guess the switches don’t even work in the game because the door doesn’t open and the fade out/fade in places your character magically outside the door. I just thought of that.

It would be awesome to be able to connect switches to things that have toggles — doors, lights, etc. — so that the work by switch instead of normal interaction!

I think I am going to place my Ayleid switches just to imply a purpose they once had. 🤔