ESO (Elder Scrolls Online)

Ranualf · April 02, 2014, 10:14:01 PM

yea i think its the pre order perk, although you get the imperial as a extra..
On that note, they dont have soul magic, and as such have to buy full soul gems (or have them given)..

Soul gems are used for resurrecting self, or others after death.. kinda like a lock soul shard for all players, but they are also used for powering up enchantments for weapons.. use the weapon, drain the charge.. so it can be expensive unless you have a good friend who can soul drain mobs for you.

Servers shut down (again) for maintenance..seems they really have some annoying issues with the key starting ares quest lines for the AD- dont know about the other factions yet.. as i like the AD currently.

PVP wise

Cyrodiil is HUGE!

having a horse doesnt make that much of a difference.. yet, but the pvp aspect is imense fun, and the gear you buys is just PVE kit, no pvp specific stuff, it works for everything, which is kinda cool, and i can see their point or not having pvp stuff.

I did about 6 hours of pvp yesterday and racked up about 90k of currency, used some for armour, wepaons, trinkets, rest on offensive weapons and repair kits for the keep.
Yes, you have to repair you new beat up fort, once you have evicted the previous occupants.. or they just stroll in through the gap you have made.. saw a few examples of that where player just moved on, we walked it, killed a few guards, and claimed it as ours

Game is fun so far, and, yes i have a healer (Templar lvl 11), yes healing is painful, you go oom in about 4-5 spell casts which means about 10 secs of fighting, after that.. its err hold on give me mana..
Tanking is the same as beta- fight around the healer, let healer die- mobs run wild..

I`d recommend you go with either a very well geared group, or slightly over leveled group for the dungeons, as the healing is a major drawback.
With lots of complaints about how much mana is used for the spells, and how little healing you can really do, as the spell are percentage based, so having thousands of mana, doesnt really benift you, as the spell just cost x% of your total mana..hmm An issue blixxard has had to deal with for mana years, lets hope Zenimax get it into gear very quickly.

Overall the game is damn fun (still some very annoying bugs) but i`ve not had that much time in game, about 15 hours or so.

Ranualf · April 08, 2014, 02:52:28 AM

log in error- FUN and games!

Apparently the latest patch was.. for a better word- broken.. hmm yeeees...

there seems to be a cluster feck of issues, from deleting all characters
refusing to let you log in
letting you log in, but then booting you after 20 mins- then resetting your account, which required a email to re set.. and yes, you guessed it, no emails...

having a corupted route to log in- thus simply timing out.. the dn flush seemed to work for some people, but. then they got booted...

Well lets just say Zenimax has got their hand full of a lot of irate players... to put it mildly!

Glad i was out doing other stuff tonight

smilodon · April 09, 2014, 06:04:53 PM

Glad I decided to boycott the game launch entirely. EA's track record is abysmal. If and when this game settles down and bugs/issues that should never have made it to final release (plus the new ones they seem to have added post launch!) are fixed I'll look again. The Elder Scrolls world is amazing and I'd so love to enjoy it through an MMORPG. Here's hoping.

Sneakytiger · April 09, 2014, 06:45:31 PM

smilo ESO has nothing to do with EA.

smilodon · April 09, 2014, 09:32:15 PM

Doh, there's me confusing it with Titanfall

Sad how any comment about a less than problem free game launch makes me immediately think of EA!

Ranualf · April 12, 2014, 06:09:32 PM

Well i had no problems with titanfall, worked perfectly for me, although i got the game code free- some one i know works in the industry

Still ESO is good fun, some of the lvl 20-23 dungeons are challenging.. aka you`ll got you ass handed to you, without a smile..

Tanking is a issue for the party- as a lot of the tanks want to leeroy off and die.. why no heal- no mana... nuff said!

Mana regen is passive, and only by chugging pots can you boost it (also some food), thus you stuck to what ever you mana regen rate is- both IN and Out of combat.. not like the 4x regen rate wow has out of combat, so be aware.

My healer is coming along nicely- 24 atm, and having great fun.

If you have the game, the sky shard addon is great (lots of free skills), but the directory from curse IS NOT THE ONE TO USE, use the one in "my documents- eso, liveEU, Addon" (make a Addon folder if you dont have one). just as a helping hand, it had me scratching my head, wondering why it didnt work...

Gorion · January 21, 2015, 05:27:00 PM

ESO dropping subscriptions from March 2015. Going GW2 style, buy the game, play for free.

Source

I'm guessing this sort of info is fine with a thread resurrection.

Chaosphere · January 21, 2015, 06:13:13 PM

Didn't this game already 'fail'?

That isn't a comment on you bringing us the news, of course, just at Bethesda trying to claw more out of an already dead game...

Not sure this will make any difference!

TeaLeaf · January 21, 2015, 06:13:29 PM

Quote from: Gorion;394044I'm guessing this sort of info is fine with a thread resurrection.

Absolutely, no problem with it at all as it is good info.

Twyst · January 22, 2015, 03:10:20 PM

Quote from: Chaosphere;394047Didn't this game already 'fail'?

How do you define failure?

QuoteThat isn't a comment on you bringing us the news, of course, just at Bethesda trying to claw more out of an already dead game...

Not sure this will make any difference!

Made all the difference to SWTOR - F2P and still going stronger than ever!
The big difference here is that ESO has a much superior engine than any other game (albeit huge PvP bugs relating to scale of battles - unsure if that's been fixed since I left).

smilodon · January 22, 2015, 05:21:23 PM

The reviews I read mentioned repetitive boring quest lines, uninspired dialogue and a very average MMO experience. If the game is rubbish then I'm still not going to buy it, even if it is subscription free.

Chaosphere · January 22, 2015, 06:36:53 PM

Quote from: Twisted;394127How do you define failure?

I read basically nothing but bad things about the game (with a few rare exceptions), and had 'heard' that the player base significantly dropped off within a few months.

I know I am not providing any evidence, I can't really be arsed to look! Just my opinion / thoughts on it then, from what I 'heard' online.

Stuff like this -

Quote from: smilodon;394139The reviews I read mentioned repetitive boring quest lines, uninspired dialogue and a very average MMO experience. If the game is rubbish then I'm still not going to buy it, even if it is subscription free.

Tutonic · January 23, 2015, 08:53:51 AM

I played the beta, and it pretty much confirmed all of the criticism you've heard.

I was not impressed.

smilodon · January 23, 2015, 11:27:18 AM

Not forgetting it's Â£50 for the game or Â£70 if you go insane and pay an additional Â£20 to get access the worst race in the game. Â£50 seems about Â£25 too expensive for a desperate restart. If Bethesda wants to turn ESO into SWTOR or LotRO rather than into Warhammer Online or Rift, then it needs to think again.

Sconn · March 15, 2015, 12:42:38 PM

I bought it when it came out and played on and off for my free month, but as I was playing WoW at the time I didn't want another sub to pay, so just left it. I don't think its a bad game really, but it certainly doesn't shine like it could have. I will have another crack at it in a couple of days when its FTP.
I think the problem with SWTOR's FTP play model is the restrictions. I think its a good game, but got annoyed with not receiving quest rewards just cos I wasn't a subscriber. Another game I bought at release that ended up shelved! Its gained a lot of player so is obviously working for EA/Bioware.