What were your noobie mistakes?

WitchyKiki · December 2022

I was thinking about the things I did when I was a noobie at the game and here are some of my silliest:

1. I used to think the psijic patron removed the whole card from the opponents deck
2. I thought hlaalu didn't eat the card, it just put it on cooldown. (lol right?)
3. Bewilderment cards didnt count towards Orgnum
4. The first to reach 40 prestige won, imagine my disbelief and irritation when I went on to my first race to 80

I have to say, I have grown a lot with TOT. A lot of the cards that I used to think were weak and useless are actually my most powerful cards to win games. I dont underestimate them anymore.

axi · December 2022

Buying preorder.

Personofsecrets · December 2022

A mistake that I made often and still do from time to time was refusing to buy cards from the tavern out of bias. Time Mastery and Legion's Arrival are a couple of the big ones. I almost always buy them now, but it took a number of games where I saw an opponent successfully drafting these cards for me to figure out that they must be worth buying.

SeaGtGruff · December 2022

Not taking the Rahjin deck seriously enough, especially the agents.

Thinking I was good enough to start playing against other players.

Thinking that the Pelin deck was the best.

spartaxoxo · December 2022

I thought taunt was only good for protecting another agent, didn't realize it also prevented power conversion.

I immediately forgot how to use treasury after doing the tutorial and couldn't understand how the NPCs could buy cards so much easier than me.

Thinking it was imperative to buy a card every turn, regardless of how good it was for my deck.

SeaGtGruff · December 2022

Not understanding the differences between agents, agents with taunt, contract agents, and contract agents with taunt.

sekou_trayvond · December 2022

Early on I treated this game waaaaay too much like Pokemon- u gotta collect them all. You will see marked improvement when you realize you shouldn't be buying whatever's in the Tavern simply cuz u have enough coin for the card(s).

SeaGtGruff · December 2022

Calling on the Crow patron much too early during matches.

Going on a spending spree with a large amount of Money later in the game when I should have just called on the Crow patron.

amig186 · December 2022

Buying too many cards and bloating the deck. Or the opposite, getting rid of too many coins early on rather than converting them to writs. Underestimating Druid King agents, what a nightmare they can be. Also not paying attention to the patrons, if you are both above 40 prestige then the game won't warn you that your opponent is about to win with patrons.

DragonRacer · December 2022

Thinking the Red Eagle deck was largely useless because who wants to destroy their own cards? LOL

dark_nick · December 2022

after 4 days of bot eso players matches and levelled my rank to veteran, i tell to myself "ready to compete on ranked ones"
first matches:
- 10 matches lost for all-patrons win (bot NEVER use this)
- 10 matches lost for rajhin (bot NEVER use this)

Now after a week passed on ranked and reached rubedite rank, my hint is only one: if want to master tales of tribute play ranked players AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, and learn strategies from each defeat (and at beginning will be a lot, be assured

SeaGtGruff · December 2022

dark_nick wrote: »

after 4 days of bot eso players matches and levelled my rank to veteran, i tell to myself "ready to compete on ranked ones"
first matches:
- 10 matches lost for all-patrons win (bot NEVER use this)
- 10 matches lost for rajhin (bot NEVER use this)

Now after a week passed on ranked and reached rubedite rank, my hint is only one: if want to master tales of tribute play ranked players AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, and learn strategies from each defeat (and at beginning will be a lot, be assured

The only comment I have about playing against ranked players ASAP is to not take it too hard when your opponents wipe the table with you. No matter how badly you lose and how often, just get right back up on that horse or you'll never learn to ride.

Of course, this is coming from someone who played against other players for about only one week, and who currently plays exclusively against the NPCs, so I guess I'm not very good at following my own advice! I mean, I'm not interested in trying to work my way up the ranks, and I haven't been very eager to earn a lot of Transmute Crystals because it's been a pain to store them as gear for my mule alts to hold onto. But now that I've pretty much decided to just try to convert my excess Transmute Crystals to Potent Nirncrux or rare Jewelry trait materials-- and with my matches against the NPCs being far too easy most of the time-- I might start playing against other players again.

SeaGtGruff · December 2022

Another of my noob mistakes was underestimating the Hlaalu card that lets you acquire cards that cost up to 5 coins. Many were the matches where I left those cards sitting in the Tavern, only to have the NPC buy them and use them to good effect. Now I'm not so reluctant to buy those cards when they come up.

kloverleaf · December 2022

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Calling on the Crow patron much too early during matches.

Going on a spending spree with a large amount of Money later in the game when I should have just called on the Crow patron.

Yup, exactly this.

WitchyKiki · December 2022

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

dark_nick wrote: »

after 4 days of bot eso players matches and levelled my rank to veteran, i tell to myself "ready to compete on ranked ones"
first matches:
- 10 matches lost for all-patrons win (bot NEVER use this)
- 10 matches lost for rajhin (bot NEVER use this)

Now after a week passed on ranked and reached rubedite rank, my hint is only one: if want to master tales of tribute play ranked players AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, and learn strategies from each defeat (and at beginning will be a lot, be assured

The only comment I have about playing against ranked players ASAP is to not take it too hard when your opponents wipe the table with you. No matter how badly you lose and how often, just get right back up on that horse or you'll never learn to ride.

Of course, this is coming from someone who played against other players for about only one week, and who currently plays exclusively against the NPCs, so I guess I'm not very good at following my own advice! I mean, I'm not interested in trying to work my way up the ranks, and I haven't been very eager to earn a lot of Transmute Crystals because it's been a pain to store them as gear for my mule alts to hold onto. But now that I've pretty much decided to just try to convert my excess Transmute Crystals to Potent Nirncrux or rare Jewelry trait materials-- and with my matches against the NPCs being far too easy most of the time-- I might start playing against other players again.

I know I've been playing on and off, but how do you turn transmutes into nirn or other trait materials? or do you just mean changing the trait on a piece of equipment?

Necrotech_Master · December 2022

WitchyKiki wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

dark_nick wrote: »

after 4 days of bot eso players matches and levelled my rank to veteran, i tell to myself "ready to compete on ranked ones"
first matches:
- 10 matches lost for all-patrons win (bot NEVER use this)
- 10 matches lost for rajhin (bot NEVER use this)

Now after a week passed on ranked and reached rubedite rank, my hint is only one: if want to master tales of tribute play ranked players AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, and learn strategies from each defeat (and at beginning will be a lot, be assured

The only comment I have about playing against ranked players ASAP is to not take it too hard when your opponents wipe the table with you. No matter how badly you lose and how often, just get right back up on that horse or you'll never learn to ride.

Of course, this is coming from someone who played against other players for about only one week, and who currently plays exclusively against the NPCs, so I guess I'm not very good at following my own advice! I mean, I'm not interested in trying to work my way up the ranks, and I haven't been very eager to earn a lot of Transmute Crystals because it's been a pain to store them as gear for my mule alts to hold onto. But now that I've pretty much decided to just try to convert my excess Transmute Crystals to Potent Nirncrux or rare Jewelry trait materials-- and with my matches against the NPCs being far too easy most of the time-- I might start playing against other players again.

I know I've been playing on and off, but how do you turn transmutes into nirn or other trait materials? or do you just mean changing the trait on a piece of equipment?

make level 1 weapon, transmute to nirnhoned, decon

if you have all the passives and cp to maximize your chance to get materials, you will most likely get the nirncrux out of the decon

same principle can work for jewelry, but far far less efficiently (because when you decon jewelry, you only get 1 "grain" of the trait material and need 10 of those to make a useable jewelry trait material)

WitchyKiki · December 2022

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

WitchyKiki wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

dark_nick wrote: »

after 4 days of bot eso players matches and levelled my rank to veteran, i tell to myself "ready to compete on ranked ones"
first matches:
- 10 matches lost for all-patrons win (bot NEVER use this)
- 10 matches lost for rajhin (bot NEVER use this)

Now after a week passed on ranked and reached rubedite rank, my hint is only one: if want to master tales of tribute play ranked players AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, and learn strategies from each defeat (and at beginning will be a lot, be assured

The only comment I have about playing against ranked players ASAP is to not take it too hard when your opponents wipe the table with you. No matter how badly you lose and how often, just get right back up on that horse or you'll never learn to ride.

Of course, this is coming from someone who played against other players for about only one week, and who currently plays exclusively against the NPCs, so I guess I'm not very good at following my own advice! I mean, I'm not interested in trying to work my way up the ranks, and I haven't been very eager to earn a lot of Transmute Crystals because it's been a pain to store them as gear for my mule alts to hold onto. But now that I've pretty much decided to just try to convert my excess Transmute Crystals to Potent Nirncrux or rare Jewelry trait materials-- and with my matches against the NPCs being far too easy most of the time-- I might start playing against other players again.

I know I've been playing on and off, but how do you turn transmutes into nirn or other trait materials? or do you just mean changing the trait on a piece of equipment?

make level 1 weapon, transmute to nirnhoned, decon

if you have all the passives and cp to maximize your chance to get materials, you will most likely get the nirncrux out of the decon

same principle can work for jewelry, but far far less efficiently (because when you decon jewelry, you only get 1 "grain" of the trait material and need 10 of those to make a useable jewelry trait material)

looool I feel so silly now ._. thank you

SeaGtGruff · January 2023

Not exactly a noobie mistake, because I'm not sure I ever did it early on whereas I do it a lot now, is to miss making a potential move because I'm rushing and not paying enough attention.

The most common case is probably when I play the Hlaalu card that lets you call on an extra patron but forget to sacrifice another card or call on one of the other patrons before hitting the timer to end my turn.

I was less likely to be rushing through my turns early on because I was taking my time to look at things more closely, so this has become more common now that I'm much more familiar with the patrons and their dufferent cards and don't feel the need to examine each one when deciding what to do.

Necrotech_Master · January 2023

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Not exactly a noobie mistake, because I'm not sure I ever did it early on whereas I do it a lot now, is to miss making a potential move because I'm rushing and not paying enough attention.

The most common case is probably when I play the Hlaalu card that lets you call on an extra patron but forget to sacrifice another card or call on one of the other patrons before hitting the timer to end my turn.

I was less likely to be rushing through my turns early on because I was taking my time to look at things more closely, so this has become more common now that I'm much more familiar with the patrons and their dufferent cards and don't feel the need to examine each one when deciding what to do.

sometimes i intentionally dont use extra patrons, especially if its not the right timing

should or should not use crow?
do or do not have a card worth sacrificing to hlaalu in that hand?
do or do not need to use treasury?

etc

the only ones that i would usually always say "yes" to would be rahjin, orgnum, and the reach as there is really no "downside" to them outside of not having enough coin for rahjin or orgnum, or not enough power for reach

beenbadder · January 2023

Thinking that it would be good game when it is just boring rubbish that is not needed in any form.