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You've Never Done This Before - Why Now?
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Toanis✭✭✭✭✭Not the most important thing I know, but I really don't like the precedent you are trying to set ZOS.
This needs correcting, or at the least a guarantee you won't do this again.
They've done this before. What they mean is just "Earn skill ranks 10 times" not "Earn 10 ranks in one skill line".
Just make a new character, skip the tutorial and you automatically train 4 skill lines. Exit, delete and repeat 2 times.
Takes 5 minutes max, unless you're like me and let your inner 12 years old create a burly nord mommy just to find out that all variants of the name Snu Snu are already taken
Edited by Toanis on March 6, 2026 6:03AM1 -
Tobyja✭✭✭✭✭Sorry, but no, they don't have done this before. Checked my 150 gb of screenshots and i'm pretty sure that op is right.They've never had a sub-reward that required a low level or new character.
(german version, added the orig names of the golden pursuits into screenshots; all red markers are at "earn x ranks in a skill line")no sub-reward found.
Also i'm with the op: it's not the most important thing
But
All the "doesn't affect many players"-statements sounds very strange to me.
The only interesting thing is always, what's happening, when a problem occurs. Not, when things are working.
You'd almost think these opinions could be the reason for some "everlasting" bugs too... "no problem for most players - no action necessary..."
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Arunei✭✭✭✭✭
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They've literally done this one at least once before. It wasn't even all that long ago. I very clearly remember doing it. And iirc it wasn't a problem last time. This time it's a problem because...an exp scroll is tied to it? An item we've been getting droves of for years via login rewards?Sorry, but no, they don't have done this before. Checked my 150 gb of screenshots and i'm pretty sure that op is right.They've never had a sub-reward that required a low level or new character.
(german version, added the orig names of the golden pursuits into screenshots; all red markers are at "earn x ranks in a skill line")no sub-reward found.
Also i'm with the op: it's not the most important thing
But
All the "doesn't affect many players"-statements sounds very strange to me.
The only interesting thing is always, what's happening, when a problem occurs. Not, when things are working.
You'd almost think these opinions could be the reason for some "everlasting" bugs too... "no problem for most players - no action necessary..."
Bugs are a completely different things from this, it's not a comparable thing at all. Bugs actually impact your ability to do things. This one single task in a GP that gives you 27 to do and only needs 20 DOES NOT prevent you from doing anything OTHER than that one task. It doesn't stop you from completing the GP overall. It is one single thing that a VAST majorirty of the player base will be able to do, even if it takes some time.
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ganzaeso✭✭✭✭✭As a player who has leveled 2 accounts to cp 3600, I really do not like it when rewards seem exclusive. They really should change this one to earn 100,000 XP or something more basic(Math before coffee, except after 3, is not for me)3 -
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✭✭It doesn't require a new or low-level character.
It requires a character that doesn't have all skill lines maxed.
Players can bore themselves to permadeath with the Psijic skill line if an experience scroll is worth that sacrifice.
Or go murderhobo in the Dark Brotherhood.
Or do Thieves Guild, one of the really good quest lines (padded by annoying dailies).
Or do the main quest.
Or turn one character into a wolf furry or glorified mosquito and get those up to max.
Or bore themselves even more than Psijic (horribile dictu) and level Antiquities.
Or find a crafting skill to level.
If you're at max characters and have done all the guild quests and have levelled all the World skills and have no multiclassing or crafting skills left, and still hunger for that tantalising experience scroll as if it were the best thing since sliced sweetrolls, then... excuse me while I'm slowly backing off.
It sets a precident that should not exist. The reward is inconsequential ... this time.
No it doesn't. That (was) endeavours.
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Gabriel_H✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Unless every single one of your characters has every single Skill Line and Class Skill Line via Subclassing at level 50, then no, this doesn't require a new or low-level character at all. And just to put into perspective all the Skill Lines there are:
It does have everything maxed. /shrug
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✭✭✭✭✭I know a solution to this problem: Removing sub-rewards. Nothing for anyone = equality for all!@Syldras | PC | EU
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