Elder Scrolls Online release date 4-4-14

[ShintaiDK]

Not going to read this thread, but did this game exceed or met your guy's expectations?

When this game was announced, people were basically saying that this game was destined to fail.

I hope F2P will befall this game soon.

I dont see F2P coming anytime soon.

I was against ESO. Then I got a beta key from a friend and didnt have other games to play. And it grew on me from there. Only getting better the more I play.

 

[asteldian]

Yah, this is basically my current setup as well. I have a tank/solo build and now a healing build. I previously had my healing build as my AoE build. Which I swap out my AoE skills in my solo setup as I need them.

http://esocalc.com/#1-2c115250005d:113:166:14:16:12:18:13:18:140:114:118:11:211:12:11:118:12:28:24:116:11:11:14:21:12:13:21:11:11:184:15:24:113:21:21:143:279:113:11:12:15:120:122:123:39:16:13:11:11:21-411:531:13:576:99:91:503:504:506:511:99:91

Waiting for someone to put in a mod that will swap skills sets out easier

Wykdds Framework and Wykdds Outfitter does that for you. You can save gear sets and you can save skillsets. I use it for when I go into dungeons and tank, when not in dungeon use t to flip back to my solo spec.
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TechBoy, regarding Rift, I played Rift until just before it went to F2P, my Guildies and some friends stayed on and play it to this day, none of them have given up Rift yet as they enjoy their raiding, however, they have all bought and are playing ESO atm and are loving it.
So all I can tell so far is that the Rift palyers are enjoying ESO and the different style of MMO it is.

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Regarding dungeons, the change to dungeon bosses has not been impemented yet, it was on an 'upcoming patch notes' post (which also mentioned the change to chests in dungeons btw). It will either be Friday's maintenance or next Tuesday and the change basically means there is a cooldown timer on looting bosses (unknown specifics) this means standing around farming them will not be viable, but also means the spawn times can be left unchanged and therefore people actually trying to complete the dungeon are not negatively effected.

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Nativegamer, if questing is dragging you down just stop doing them - the faster (legit) lvlers to 50 all did it via main story quest only and just grinding good AOE spots, there are a few guides around for it if that is your kind of thing.
I for one actually like taking a break from quests to enjoy the dungeons (even after I have done them and get no xp) I enjoy the grouping aspect and the challenge of them, you get no real xp from them of course, but for me that is good because it means I don't outlevel the quests when I go back to it.
Just running through a zone doing bosses, delves, getting skyshards and doing anchors is a fun break too - I actually often do this before I even start questing in the area.
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Crafting I actually find very useful, I am always making myself a new set of gear - 500gp to repair or make a new armour set for free....no brainer to me. Heck I even take a downgrade to do it as it is not like I need the absolute best gear, it works fine as filler till I find better. Doing this has allowed me to reach 31k gold at lvl 22 so I can almost taste my new horse..

 

[Rhezuss]

What a nice turn of events...summer tires, didn't planned ANOTHER effing snow storm yesterday...i'm "stuck" home

Gonna play some ESO all morning!

EDIT: lol, first CTD for me a minute ago Great timing...

 

[Clemenza]

Yah they are. All have names like Zi Zang, LuLu, GAda, etc. They attack instantly and if you pull a mob near them they all turn and run to it. hehe

I ran into this last night while messing around on a low level alt. I knew when the boss would spawn because all of the bots would start casting biting jabs right before the spawn. It was tough to get a hit in on the boss before it was dead. It's pretty annoying.

 

[JamesV]

Hit VR3 last night... now I need 1.7 million exp to VR4. I'm hitting that wall of no quests left in a zone, had to finish 100k exp to get to VR3 in the VR3 zone. It's ridiculous that a regular monster gives you a whopping 50 or less experience; if I couldn't have gone to the VR3 zone, it would have taken me 2,000 kills.

Feeling the lack of AOE bigtime now too. A group of three mobs, I lead with a hidden bow attack, use CC, and usually have to go to my backup 1h/shield for the last one (unless my ult is up). That last mob killed by 1h/shield can take a while.

Then.... I see this sorcerer run past me into a group of three, and 15 seconds later after a hail of AOE spam, he loots and runs on.

I knew I wasn't going to kill super fast, and wanted the 1h/shield for tanking, but I can't even tank VR dungeons that well atm; even with racials/heavy armor skills/1h shield and 49 in health, I get mowed down if I miss one block or 'get out of the circle' thing (at the VR5 boss).

Considering rerolling an AOE based build.

 

[Clemenza]

Hit VR3 last night... now I need 1.7 million exp to VR4. I'm hitting that wall of no quests left in a zone, had to finish 100k exp to get to VR3 in the VR3 zone. It's ridiculous that a regular monster gives you a whopping 50 or less experience; if I couldn't have gone to the VR3 zone, it would have taken me 2,000 kills.

Feeling the lack of AOE bigtime now too. A group of three mobs, I lead with a hidden bow attack, use CC, and usually have to go to my backup 1h/shield for the last one (unless my ult is up). That last mob killed by 1h/shield can take a while.

Then.... I see this sorcerer run past me into a group of three, and 15 seconds later after a hail of AOE spam, he loots and runs on.

I knew I wasn't going to kill super fast, and wanted the 1h/shield for tanking, but I can't even tank VR dungeons that well atm; even with racials/heavy armor skills/1h shield and 49 in health, I get mowed down if I miss one block or 'get out of the circle' thing (at the VR5 boss).

Considering rerolling an AOE based build.

I just hit 35 and all I see is DK and Sorcs, so it looks like a lot of people had that idea!

 

[shortylickens]

4 hours a day?

Dude, thats amateur work, most of the grinding is being done by guys like me. People with no lives and not enough college to fill their days.
Even with my time at Izaak Walton and the VFW I could still do 8 hours a day online easy.
I dont like to play any game that much, but I do have the time if I wanted.

 

[gus6464]

Craglorn site is up

http://elderscrollsonline.com/en/game-guide/adventure-zones/craglorn

 

[imaheadcase]

Man PvP is really unbalanced at the moment. I'm not familer with other classes that much, but the one that does that storm teleport thing is OP. A level 1 killed me (level 18) without me so much as getting ONE hit in. rofl

 

[ShintaiDK]

Man PvP is really unbalanced at the moment. I'm not familer with other classes that much, but the one that does that storm teleport thing is OP. A level 1 killed me (level 18) without me so much as getting ONE hit in. rofl

That is a very high candidate for a nerf. Including destruction staff

Even in PvE its OP.

 

[WiseUp216]

I just found out that my girlfriend's BFF is dating a high ranking developer of Elder Scrolls Online at Zenimax. They'll be visiting us in about 6 weeks.

Anyone have any questions they want me to ask?

 

[zylander]

10 days into the 30-day free trial and I already canceled my subscription. It just didn't do it for me, its too…'MMO'.

 

[DigDog]

nothing has ever compared to DAoC so I'm not getting my hopes up too much :0

not interested then :/

 

[NoSoup4You]

Bought ESO today to see what it's all about, so far it seems pretty awesome. The graphics are outstanding, and I definitely can see myself sticking around until I reach max level which is something I've only done in one other MMO (Guild Wars 2).

Are there any settings/configurations that are off by default that I should enable? I remember in GW2 they had this "auto lock-on nearest target" enabled by default which made it impossible to use movement skills properly... anything settings like that in ESO which need to be turned on/off?

 

[Xed]

Looks like they banned a lot of innocent players in this latest wave

 

[Rhezuss]

10 days into the 30-day free trial and I already canceled my subscription. It just didn't do it for me, its too…'MMO'.

Well, it's a MMO, don't know what you were expecting

 

[Markbnj]

Well, it's a MMO, don't know what you were expecting

I was really hoping it would be like Battlechess.

 

[imaheadcase]

not interested then :/

If they get the PvP area down straight it will be something like it. I'm afraid like most MMO though they will keep focus on pve content. I got my money invested in Camelot Unchained at the moment. Im a veteran supporter of it, its made from some of the same people who made DAOC and they are going to start Alpha testing this summer which i get to be part of. wee. You can still donate to it with paypal for perks.

I enjoy the game, just lots of "what ifs" still, all depends on how they push it after release. I don't mind paying a measly $15 a month if they provide some real content/bug fixes.

PvP areas is what will hold me over in the end. Once i hit 50 I don't really care about leveling anymore.

 

[imaheadcase]

Bought ESO today to see what it's all about, so far it seems pretty awesome. The graphics are outstanding, and I definitely can see myself sticking around until I reach max level which is something I've only done in one other MMO (Guild Wars 2).

Are there any settings/configurations that are off by default that I should enable? I remember in GW2 they had this "auto lock-on nearest target" enabled by default which made it impossible to use movement skills properly... anything settings like that in ESO which need to be turned on/off?

Get addons for the game, its pretty much makes night and day difference in the gameplay.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Looks like they banned a lot of innocent players in this latest wave

Define innocent. Cheaters banned always excuse with THEY didnt cheat. Yet they somehow still reached something nobody else could.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Bought ESO today to see what it's all about, so far it seems pretty awesome. The graphics are outstanding, and I definitely can see myself sticking around until I reach max level which is something I've only done in one other MMO (Guild Wars 2).

Are there any settings/configurations that are off by default that I should enable? I remember in GW2 they had this "auto lock-on nearest target" enabled by default which made it impossible to use movement skills properly... anything settings like that in ESO which need to be turned on/off?

You might want to check this:
http://www.esoui.com/addons.php

Specially the lootdrop addon is great.

Else nothing that needs turned on/off besides pershaps combat help.

 

[KMFJD]

You might want to check this:
http://www.esoui.com/addons.php

Specially the lootdrop addon is great.

Else nothing that needs turned on/off besides pershaps combat help.

Guild Store search is a great addon

 

[ShintaiDK]

Just downloaded a bunch of addons I wanted to try. Now that the EU server is down.

I only used lootdrop before. But I would like a few things like ingame time, maybe a combat log etc. Only way is to try them out

 

[KentState]

Well the game just went off the rails for me today. I now have to abort the game since I keep getting stuck on the loading screen when changing zones. Seems to be a common issue since the last server maintenance.

 

[Genx87]

Well the game just went off the rails for me today. I now have to abort the game since I keep getting stuck on the loading screen when changing zones. Seems to be a common issue since the last server maintenance.

This happened to me a lot yesterday as well. It seems logging off and on would usually fix the issue. But once I had to submit a ticket to get moved. I was in a quest that put me in an alternate reality. When I tried to take the portal back it would just hang. Couldnt get out.