Most fun discovery thread...

Lalai · April 2014

nerevarine1138 wrote: »

I've only run into him in Coldharbour so far, but based on that alone, I believe you.

I mean, he's never going to beat Raz, but that's impossible.

I did AD for a bit in beta. I do miss Raz a lot. Haven't gotten into the AD content yet since release. Wonder if Ebonheart has any memorable characters I should keep an eye out for. Stibbons is more side questy stuff, but still oh so loveable.

nerevarine1138 · April 2014

M'aiq just gave me my favorite line of his ever. Something along the lines of "M'aiq does not like being in groups of people. Also, M'aiq is always lonely. M'aiq does not think these are related."

I assume M'aiq has been reading the forums.

Locnaar · April 2014

M'aiq need to get into these forums, they are awesome. I am a firm believer of the NPC who says "I like to crush skulls and eat Sweetrolls, and I've no more sweetrolls"

Sue_D_Nim · April 2014

A Bosmer leading a walking tour throughout Grahtwood for a group of Altmer and Khajiit immigrants/tourists.

nudel · May 2014

I've been following this thread and waiting for someone to find my favorite discovery so that I wouldn't spoil it. It has not happened yet so...

My favorite place in the whole game thus far has to be the Baandari Caravan in Kozanset in Alik'r. Speak to the Baandari there as they each have amusing things to say. One of them in particular has a unique interaction that I have not seen anywhere else and which I will not describe b/c I don't want to spoil the fun.

Csub · May 2014

I was walking around in East March in a camp when one of the guards said:
"So tell me, are Argonian maids really... You know?"

Also, I was walking on the road (also in East March), when I saw 2 people at a camp talking and one of them said "we are going to need more kindle for this fire" (The fire was already out, it was just smoke).
I couldn`t interact with the people but I could use the campfire. I thought the cooking interface would come up but I was wrong: I lit the campfire on fire, the 2 NPC thanked me and sat down besides it (I still couldn`t talk to them). I also received a buff named Firelight for half an hour, increasing my max stamina by 5%.

Got to love these little things!

Edit: I also just noticed today in one of the dungeons that if a dungeon has an outdoor part, its time of day changes according to the rest of Tamriel. In most games I got used to them being static, here I noticed even those change!

Iago · May 2014

These two standing by the Daggerfall bank have some interesting things to say

she says

He says

frozenchicken · May 2014

ron.spark79_ESO wrote: »

I have found him in a few places. To my knowledge he is the oldest living being in the Elder Scrolls Universe. In Skyrim he mentions he was named after his father or some such nonsense but I don't believe him.

Popular lore-based theory is that he's a particular Khajiit deity. I can't recall which one off the top of my head. Also, in terms of acknowledged lifespan, it's quite possible Divayth Fyr is older. He was 4000 years old at the time of Morrowind, which is longer than the biggest gap between any two ES games.

Anyway, my two top moments are technically bugs, but I enjoyed them so much I had to mention them. First was a quest line where I encountered the Ehlnofey. 'Elemental beings from the dawn of Mundus, whose existence helped shape reality itself? Cool! And of course their words were incomphrehensible, as is befitting such ancient beings!

....Hang on, that's german they're speaking.'

Next was the end of the questline to thwart Vaermina (beware spoilers, obviously). She's all ticked off and says that I will never escape her realm, no matter how hard I try. Multiple exit mirrors show up around me, and I take a random one and end up back in Wayrest. I complete the questline, sell my loot, and then I'm randomly and inexplicably logged out. I reload and I'm back in Quagmire, surrounded by the mirrors. How devious! I manage to escape again, and complete the quest another time, all the while wondering if I will once more wake up in her realm, stuck in this torturously never-ending nightmare!

...It turns out Wayrest had a random rollback bug. I prefer my interpretation.

Selstad · May 2014

Got my raw materials with this message:

Lalai · May 2014

I think Pacrooti is my favorite hireling. He sent me a message the other day about how he tried mudcrab because people kept saying it was good. He doesn't see why though, because no matter how long he cooked it, it was still hard as a rock.

The horse one though I hadn't got yet, that's hilarious.

Edited to add: Here's mine from today

Liquid_Time · May 2014

+1 On the forum. Had fun reading most of these.

Csub · May 2014

I wanted to post the picture Lalai just posted, I got that mail today too!

But I did find something else. Okay, it is nothing big or funny, it is just interesting: I was in a separate, instanced small area in a quest in Eastmarch and I checked the map, only to notice the world map has changed. If I zoomed out, it went back to the normal one but this one popped up if I closed and opened it again. Has anyone seen this design before?

I wonder if this was supposed to be the map originally but got changed or it is just a bug or something. But it does not show the Skyshards I have already acquired. I found it interesting!

frozenchicken · May 2014

I did an interesting quest just a little while ago. A woman asked me to help hunt down a old criminal for (among other things) killing the girlfriend of her organisation's leader. You hunt the guy down and he pleads his repentance, begging you to let him escape. If you do, the person he meets up with who helps him escape is the 'dead' girlfriend.

nerevarine1138 · May 2014

frozenchicken wrote: »

I did an interesting quest just a little while ago. A woman asked me to help hunt down a old criminal for (among other things) killing the girlfriend of her organisation's leader. You hunt the guy down and he pleads his repentance, begging you to let him escape. If you do, the person he meets up with who helps him escape is the 'dead' girlfriend.

That actually reminds me of another quest (although you can see a lot of people you help out later on in the story):

A Bosmer woman asks you to find her Khajiit husband, who's gone on a moon sugar binge. When you do find him, he asks to have his moon sugar back. After the quest, you'll run into the happy couple at the inn. Since I gave him the moon sugar, he was huddled in the corner tripping, and his wife refused to speak to me.

Mortuum · May 2014

Not really in-game thing, but very funny:
While on character selection screen, try to spin any of your character left or right(Keep LMB pressed and move mouse left or right).
If character spin fast/long enough, will start doing emotes like /crazy or /facepalm, indicating that having this kind of fun is not really ok for her/him

I have seen taunt emote, crazy, facepalm, and about 10 others;p
Thank you devs for little things like that.

BooWitchkraft · May 2014

yeah, i noticed that mortuum and I even did a recording of that

Mortuum · May 2014

hehe yea small thing but so much...''fun'' ;p
Need to stop doing it, or my templar may 1 day refuse to use healing skills for some reasons ;p

stabbykitteh · May 2014

Had to be the hungover Nord in Deshaan blaming his axe-less and pants-less state on a scheming witch. Nice Morrowind reference there

Gatlan · May 2014

I thought it was cool that my horse has saddlebags now after upgrading carrying capacity enough times.

Lazarus_Long · May 2014

A new quote from M'aiq has made my list:

"M'aiq learned too late that Ash Pits are home to dark elf ancestors. He, erm...hopes they don't mind the rain."

poodlemasterb16_ESO · May 2014

Can't find a garnet to save my life, it's been a week so I sent my level 16 DK to the north tip of Rivenspire looking for mats and especially garnets. You finally get to this amazing place:

http://carnagepro.com/eso/Screen Shots/Screenshot_20140504_015437.jpg

Sidney · May 2014

I wandered into a level 45ish zone at level 17ish. I knew full well it was not where I should be, but I was also aware of a Mundus stone that gives me speed. That was all I needed to know, and off I went to explore this high level land.

During the trip I discovered

Giants and mammoths

just like in Skyrim! I was excited to say the least. That just made my day right there. Of course, now that I know they are there, I can plot accordingly to bring them down. I died to them a lot in Skyrim. I plan to take it out on them. A lot.

Edit: We should also probably use spoiler tags, oops.

Foxhunt · May 2014

Well I think this would qualify as a discovery but.. In Cyrodiil this past weekend I was alone running through the hills on my way to turn in a quest (nearby keeps controlled by my alliance) when suddenly someone from stealth jumps out and attacks me, throwing me from my horse. I attempt to fight back but before I could, at least 8 others (EP) also come out of stealth and transform into werewolves and kill me. I got jumped by a pack of angry werewolves who then fed on my body before chasing down an unsuspecting ally of mine who also happened to be going by.

TL;DR I discovered there are werewolf packs wandering Cyrodiil. I thought for sure everyone would be jumping on the vampire band wagon. I had a good chuckle when I saw them all transform.

Stormbow · May 2014

This guy was my favorite find in ESO, so far.

Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time...

AreoHotah · May 2014

Trying 50 times to kill molag bal as a nightblade and after hours and thousands of gold spent for repairs i used STRAFE. never went below 90% health. W T F...

nerevarine1138 · May 2014

crai7er_boy_4lif3b16_ESO wrote: »

Trying 50 times to kill molag bal as a nightblade and after hours and thousands of gold spent for repairs i used STRAFE. never went below 90% health. W T F...

That's nice, but not really related to the topic...

Knovah · May 2014

I ran into a town, well what I thought was a town and realized it was full of bandits. I never moused over them to see if they were players or mobs and ran my tush straight into the middle of the little village (opps need to save it first).

I noticed all the red glowy agro( whatever it is called when they notice you), I did that OHHH crap face and scared my poor puppy when I was yelling to no one but myself, RUN RUN RUN…they started chasseing me. I ran over to the ledge of a cliff about to jump to my death. I even did the little suck intake of breath, shook my fist at the computer and squealed as I fell, knowing I was going to die a crumbled head at the bottom. Luckily I had just a small amount of life left that I did not die. After the sigh of relief and a little giggle, I noticed I fell almost right on top of a chest. Drat it was a master and after 3 attempts and two broken picks I was rewarded with a nice blue upgrade weapon and gold.

AreoHotah · May 2014

nerevarine1138 wrote: »

crai7er_boy_4lif3b16_ESO wrote: »

Trying 50 times to kill molag bal as a nightblade and after hours and thousands of gold spent for repairs i used STRAFE. never went below 90% health. W T F...

That's nice, but not really related to the topic...

Yes it is. after 50 tries i discovered how to beat him so jokes on you

Mortuum · May 2014

They told us to explore...Could at least put few trees then

Lazy world builders.

Out of map in Bangkorai.

More serious question now to devs/mods/those who could know:
Is doing things like that, i mean going out of map, dangerous for character data in any way? I remember discussion about that on LOTRO forums, when one of devs stated that it can permanently corrupt character data, and make it unplayable.
Lazy answer(my guess) or it is true guys?

Csub · May 2014

I heard a guard telling off another guard:
"I can`t drink from the lake water anymore! Not after what you did last time, you drunkard!"