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The First MMO to make In-Game Currency a Crypto Currency is going to make a fortune.....
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Give ZOS some love, and some money!
First and foremost, Thankyou ZOS! I love to play ESO.
I've seen alot of hate directed toward the folks who keep the game running, ZOS.
I've written the following paragraphs to hopefully bring some perspective to those who feel that ZOS shouldn't be hungry for money.
On pay-to-win: I feel that one can view certain aspects of the game as Pay to Win, but I also feel that it is a very fine line. The imperial racial passives are unique and highly advantageous for a stamina-weapon=fighter build. A lowest level of pay player (the initial cost of their ESO account) can play for years and never have access to the content. Pay-to-win. The Warden Class is another example (and I argue the only other example) of pay-to-win.
Crown Scrolls and Crown motifs do not = pay-to-win. Crown Scrolls: Scrolls reduce the amount of grinding, necessarily the amount of time necessary to obtain EXP. Grinding is not a skill, it is not a unique ability; it is a highly repetitive task that is done to achieve a repetitive goal. The person who buys Crown scrolls is still grinding, they are only using hours they spent working in place of hours they spent playing. No unfair advantage is present.
'Some people don't have excess cashflow thus making it unfair to those who do not'. Some people don't have internet; every person with internet is inherently being unfair to those who do not have internet by applying this argument.
If you have access to a computer which can handle the graphics requirements for ESO and you have an internet connection that can handle the latency requirements for ESO, then, in my opinion, you are not in a situation where you are financially impaired. You may want something in-game that costs crowns, and not want to spend money on the crowns, but that does not equal "I can't buy crowns". What it says to me is "I will not budget to buy crowns".
SIDE NOTE: If you are a dependent, I.E. your folks are paying for your tech and your internet, I'm sorry kid. I begged my parents for spending money and occasionally got it; also I bought candy from Costco and Sams at discounted rates and sold it at school to get spending money. If you want money, there is (usually) an honest way to get it; just keep your eyes open.
On ZOS needing money: We enjoy a massive online game which necessitates heavy wear and tear on servers, constantly connected to the web, heavily monitored and protected from malicious attacks (hackers). Is ZOS Greedy? Sure. Would we be able to enjoy ESO as it is today if ZOS was not greedy? Certainly not. Greed is not a bad word.
I feel that ZOS could learn a lesson in profit by volume vs profit by unit, but at the end of the day, I understand and feel that the community should work harder to understand why ZOS charges so much for SWAG and tokens.
It is worth pointing out that ZOS does not offer buying instant level ups; they put thought into what they allow to be purchased by money instead of effort. I feel that ZOS should continue to innovate and expand upon what crowns can get a player.
As a gamer who is past his gaming prime, I appreciate the pay-for-fun aspects. Buying exp scrolls helps me regain the time I do not have to spend grinding for levels. I'm a working-person, and I can not achieve meaningful results from grinding alone (I buy exp scrolls). I have a family of 3 dependents who will not eat if I don't earn; to game is a luxury. I love ZOS for allowing me to continue enjoying the MMO scene even though I can't devote near as much time to it as I used to.
On that note, I believe ZOS would see an increase in spending on crown scrolls, motifs and tokens if they decreased the price of these items. I also believe that further inovation is necessary on what crowns can do for players.
I've seen alot of hate directed toward the folks who keep the game running, ZOS.
I've written the following paragraphs to hopefully bring some perspective to those who feel that ZOS shouldn't be hungry for money.
On pay-to-win: I feel that one can view certain aspects of the game as Pay to Win, but I also feel that it is a very fine line. The imperial racial passives are unique and highly advantageous for a stamina-weapon=fighter build. A lowest level of pay player (the initial cost of their ESO account) can play for years and never have access to the content. Pay-to-win. The Warden Class is another example (and I argue the only other example) of pay-to-win.
Crown Scrolls and Crown motifs do not = pay-to-win. Crown Scrolls: Scrolls reduce the amount of grinding, necessarily the amount of time necessary to obtain EXP. Grinding is not a skill, it is not a unique ability; it is a highly repetitive task that is done to achieve a repetitive goal. The person who buys Crown scrolls is still grinding, they are only using hours they spent working in place of hours they spent playing. No unfair advantage is present.
'Some people don't have excess cashflow thus making it unfair to those who do not'. Some people don't have internet; every person with internet is inherently being unfair to those who do not have internet by applying this argument.
If you have access to a computer which can handle the graphics requirements for ESO and you have an internet connection that can handle the latency requirements for ESO, then, in my opinion, you are not in a situation where you are financially impaired. You may want something in-game that costs crowns, and not want to spend money on the crowns, but that does not equal "I can't buy crowns". What it says to me is "I will not budget to buy crowns".
SIDE NOTE: If you are a dependent, I.E. your folks are paying for your tech and your internet, I'm sorry kid. I begged my parents for spending money and occasionally got it; also I bought candy from Costco and Sams at discounted rates and sold it at school to get spending money. If you want money, there is (usually) an honest way to get it; just keep your eyes open.
On ZOS needing money: We enjoy a massive online game which necessitates heavy wear and tear on servers, constantly connected to the web, heavily monitored and protected from malicious attacks (hackers). Is ZOS Greedy? Sure. Would we be able to enjoy ESO as it is today if ZOS was not greedy? Certainly not. Greed is not a bad word.
I feel that ZOS could learn a lesson in profit by volume vs profit by unit, but at the end of the day, I understand and feel that the community should work harder to understand why ZOS charges so much for SWAG and tokens.
It is worth pointing out that ZOS does not offer buying instant level ups; they put thought into what they allow to be purchased by money instead of effort. I feel that ZOS should continue to innovate and expand upon what crowns can get a player.
As a gamer who is past his gaming prime, I appreciate the pay-for-fun aspects. Buying exp scrolls helps me regain the time I do not have to spend grinding for levels. I'm a working-person, and I can not achieve meaningful results from grinding alone (I buy exp scrolls). I have a family of 3 dependents who will not eat if I don't earn; to game is a luxury. I love ZOS for allowing me to continue enjoying the MMO scene even though I can't devote near as much time to it as I used to.
On that note, I believe ZOS would see an increase in spending on crown scrolls, motifs and tokens if they decreased the price of these items. I also believe that further inovation is necessary on what crowns can do for players.
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Official Discussion Thread for "New Battlegrounds Await in Update 17"
This is the official discussion thread for the blog article New Battlegrounds Await in Update 17. Mor Khazgur and Deeping Drome arrive as part of the Update 17 base game patch and free for all ESO: Morrowind owners. Learn everything you need to know about these new 4v4v4 arenas in our latest article!
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Switching from hard disc copy to digital copy of the game
I have the eso Ultimate Edition (PS4 disc) that came out before the one Tamriel update and I want to switch to a digital copy (now Morrowind base game not the dlc) but I want to make sure I don't lose any of the benefits like upgrading to the Imperial Armor (or any others I can't remember) is it possible? (the customer support section has been less than helpful)
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I Wanted a Dungeon
I wanted a dungeon, not a progression trial. 'Fix' Scalecaller's Hard Mode. Doing vet is fine. But I highly suggest making the spawn locations of mechanics for the Hard Mode version consistent instead of RNGed
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ESO crashing my computer on load
Not even making it to the character screen. This started on Friday. I was able to log in just fine on Thursday and played the new update for a few hours.
On Friday, I wanted to play a bit and that's when the crashing started. Managed to fill out a support ticket. Also e-mailed bethesda. No word whatsoever. Was having account login problems on the website, too. Apparently, last time I logged on, my e-mail address worked fine as my username but at some point that changed and it no longer worked. FINALLY got an invitation to the forums today so I could report my problems here.
Went through some of the steps of the troubleshooter, but since each failure results in a hard reboot with a disk check thrown in for good measure, it's not a pleasant or efficient process. Skipping some steps now and uninstalling ESO.
3 days without access, and I'm paying for ESO+. Frankly, I should get an account credit for this, or at least a stack of crowns or something. Sounds like a lot of people should get something like that, too, since I'm far from the only person with trouble. ZOS probably won't do anything, of course.
On Friday, I wanted to play a bit and that's when the crashing started. Managed to fill out a support ticket. Also e-mailed bethesda. No word whatsoever. Was having account login problems on the website, too. Apparently, last time I logged on, my e-mail address worked fine as my username but at some point that changed and it no longer worked. FINALLY got an invitation to the forums today so I could report my problems here.
Went through some of the steps of the troubleshooter, but since each failure results in a hard reboot with a disk check thrown in for good measure, it's not a pleasant or efficient process. Skipping some steps now and uninstalling ESO.
3 days without access, and I'm paying for ESO+. Frankly, I should get an account credit for this, or at least a stack of crowns or something. Sounds like a lot of people should get something like that, too, since I'm far from the only person with trouble. ZOS probably won't do anything, of course.
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MAGBLADE pvp theorycrafting
Alright, with my lack of experience and very small amount of time since i started playing this game i realised somethigns about magblade pvp (bare with my noobness):
(oh and im talking about 1v1 (open world) 1 vs x and SMALL scale pvp, none of that skilless laggy no brain activity requires zerg mode(which by the way its closer to PVE then pvp since youa re just aoe'ing a see of red healthbars)
So, we do have the damage, and we can build for even more damage and burst, but with a unreliable cloak and image our defenses are poor! I tried some gank builds liek Daniels Torugs build and a variation of it with elegant/spinners for HA ganks, They work, but if the gank fails and you fail to cloak ur dead..so its funny for the first 10 ganks then it gets boring.
Im trying to build for sustain survivability and killing/bursting potential (even if within a window)
I always try both melee and destro/resto builds
So far i tried some variations with Shaklebreaker (seems the best overall option) :
-With spinners, your damage is pretty good (swallow soul tooltip is about 9k unbuffed), but u migth need to sacrifice some SP for mag regen.
-with necro, well, kinda fun to have 50k+ magika, but for some reason it doesnt seem to work well.
-with wizards reposte you become more tanky, but it seems that the lack of penetration really messes your burst capability forcing you into more sustain/regen.
So far a few things i dont udnerstand:
What crit resistance i should go for? iw as playing with 1700 and it sucks...then i got up to 2500 and it felt liek a diferent game even though on paper the numbers werent that diferent.
what penetration should i go for? getting it from CP seems crappy since its not % based, i always try to be above 10k but without spinners get very hard.
I always play with Light armor for the passives, and i do think its needed, but, would heavy armro really cut our damage and regen that much? cuz the hp and tankyness gain woudl be great.
What mag regen should i go for? i feel like that if ur under 1600 u need to play with leeching strikes and/or elemental drain, what is the sweet spot?1800?2k+ ?
Melee vs destro- love both, diferent playstyles , cant really tell if one is better then the other (even though the stuns and proximity for fears on a melee playstyle seem to suit betetr the magblade...but destor is so badass!)
Things i noticed:
Health pool really seems to matter on magblade, i changed to argonian form dark elf (ty @KenaPKK for the advice on youtube ), and my health now its always between 24-27k and i feel like anythign under 24k for a magblade REALLY sucks.
Thinking about trying wizards repost/spinners (one for each bar) with skoria/groth/bloodspawn?!..mag would go down, tnakiness and *** would go up, what do you guys think?
(oh and im talking about 1v1 (open world) 1 vs x and SMALL scale pvp, none of that skilless laggy no brain activity requires zerg mode(which by the way its closer to PVE then pvp since youa re just aoe'ing a see of red healthbars)
So, we do have the damage, and we can build for even more damage and burst, but with a unreliable cloak and image our defenses are poor! I tried some gank builds liek Daniels Torugs build and a variation of it with elegant/spinners for HA ganks, They work, but if the gank fails and you fail to cloak ur dead..so its funny for the first 10 ganks then it gets boring.
Im trying to build for sustain survivability and killing/bursting potential (even if within a window)
I always try both melee and destro/resto builds
So far i tried some variations with Shaklebreaker (seems the best overall option) :
-With spinners, your damage is pretty good (swallow soul tooltip is about 9k unbuffed), but u migth need to sacrifice some SP for mag regen.
-with necro, well, kinda fun to have 50k+ magika, but for some reason it doesnt seem to work well.
-with wizards reposte you become more tanky, but it seems that the lack of penetration really messes your burst capability forcing you into more sustain/regen.
So far a few things i dont udnerstand:
What crit resistance i should go for? iw as playing with 1700 and it sucks...then i got up to 2500 and it felt liek a diferent game even though on paper the numbers werent that diferent.
what penetration should i go for? getting it from CP seems crappy since its not % based, i always try to be above 10k but without spinners get very hard.
I always play with Light armor for the passives, and i do think its needed, but, would heavy armro really cut our damage and regen that much? cuz the hp and tankyness gain woudl be great.
What mag regen should i go for? i feel like that if ur under 1600 u need to play with leeching strikes and/or elemental drain, what is the sweet spot?1800?2k+ ?
Melee vs destro- love both, diferent playstyles , cant really tell if one is better then the other (even though the stuns and proximity for fears on a melee playstyle seem to suit betetr the magblade...but destor is so badass!)
Things i noticed:
Health pool really seems to matter on magblade, i changed to argonian form dark elf (ty @KenaPKK for the advice on youtube ), and my health now its always between 24-27k and i feel like anythign under 24k for a magblade REALLY sucks.
Thinking about trying wizards repost/spinners (one for each bar) with skoria/groth/bloodspawn?!..mag would go down, tnakiness and *** would go up, what do you guys think?
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Most often 2 allience team ups
Just a curious, random question from seeing everyone complain about two factions teaming up on one. In your opinion what is the most common team up?
Note that before- oh it already happened, well anyway, before anymore of you assume my opinion on the matter, I don't really have one because I don't really PVP, the question just came to mind because people keep whining about it.
Note that before- oh it already happened, well anyway, before anymore of you assume my opinion on the matter, I don't really have one because I don't really PVP, the question just came to mind because people keep whining about it.
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Would you like to customize your Banker or Merchant?
The Banker and Merchant NPC's that you can purchase in the crown store, would you like to be able to apply costumes you own to them, to give them a unique look?
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PvP ridiculous
I am a constantly returning player, and whenever I attempt to dabble in PvP I'm just backhanded right out of it. (under 50 PvP) Absolutely ridiculous matchups. For one I can't do anything to anybody ever. They can kill me in seconds though. Damage abilities don't do anything at all ever. This is supposed to be under 50, I don't think anybody who actually plays under 50 pvp is truly under 50. I can see why no other actual noobies to PvP ever bother.
How do I even make it playable?
How do I even make it playable?
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Dyes: "Coldharbour Ash Black" and "Legate's Black"
Guys,
Those of you who own these two dyes, what is the difference between these: "Coldharbour Ash Black" and "Legate's Black"?
On UESOP they look pretty much the same.. but from my experience you can't trust the colour until you see it on armor.
Those of you who own these two dyes, what is the difference between these: "Coldharbour Ash Black" and "Legate's Black"?
On UESOP they look pretty much the same.. but from my experience you can't trust the colour until you see it on armor.
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⭐TRON-OCE/ASIA based guild- Memetastic Family⭐
To join , please post here with your IGN
Our discord Shenanigans:
Disclaimer:
We are 18+ and our discord can be very "lively" .We curse like sailors, enjoy questionable jokes .We have people of many races/religions/gender preferences, people in the guild often joke about these things between each other in good fun If you are a person who is easily offended then please look elsewhere
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pvp incentives
what thing could zos ad to make people want to pvp
costumes for certain ranks a mount for grand overlord
how to make unpopulated campaigns worth going into
costumes for certain ranks a mount for grand overlord
how to make unpopulated campaigns worth going into
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Actual World Bosses
I would really like to see world bosses that require more than just 1 person to complete. I played other MMO's coming in to this game (Aion) and something I really enjoyed from them was having bosses to fight that required a really large amount of people to complete (100+). These bosses could be alliance dependent maybe in a PvPvE setting, battling it out to compete for rare rewards. Anything like that I think would be really fun here. Minus the lag, gathering the entire server together for content would be really enjoyable.
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Zos get rid of bound on pick up.
I havent been playing that long and I just found out theres items locked behind vet dungeons and trials im not interested in doing and I cant even buy it at guild traders.
Ive been doing the work to try to master all crafts in hopes of being able to get enough gold to buy the items I want from the content I do not want to bother with. Apparently there was a time when it wasnt bound on pick up.
Zos stop trying to force people to do things they dont want to do. No wonder theres posts about fake tanks/healers/dps.
Except I dont want to be a jerk and ruin other peoples time by bringing my pvp character into a vet dungeon. Im not wasting gold to respec CP and morphs to pve.
And Im sure people who dont like pvp dont want to be forced to go to cyrodill or BG just to get any significant amount of transmutation crystals.
I doubt master crafters like the economy being nerfed because of bound on pick up.
People can decide for themselves how and what they want to play, they dont need a nanny state to ram content down their throats that theyre not interested in.
Ive been doing the work to try to master all crafts in hopes of being able to get enough gold to buy the items I want from the content I do not want to bother with. Apparently there was a time when it wasnt bound on pick up.
Zos stop trying to force people to do things they dont want to do. No wonder theres posts about fake tanks/healers/dps.
Except I dont want to be a jerk and ruin other peoples time by bringing my pvp character into a vet dungeon. Im not wasting gold to respec CP and morphs to pve.
And Im sure people who dont like pvp dont want to be forced to go to cyrodill or BG just to get any significant amount of transmutation crystals.
I doubt master crafters like the economy being nerfed because of bound on pick up.
People can decide for themselves how and what they want to play, they dont need a nanny state to ram content down their throats that theyre not interested in.
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[NA][PvX, Casual social, Free Trader, Trials]League of Assassins, now on Discord!
Credit for logo goes to Hydro_hammers, aka @Einiona!
Guild Master: Shadelon
Alliance Faction: All Alliances
Focuses: PvX, Dungeon Raids, Crafting, Exploration, Social.
Play Style: Casual
Primary Location: North America
Primary Timezone: Pacific
Language: English
Platform: PS4
Recruitment: Open
Date Founded: March 2014
We are a PS4 casual social guild. Our goal is to help our guild-mates achieve their personal goals, be it reaching level 50, conquering Cyrodiil, obtaining that hard-to-find gear, crafting the best armour or weapon, or just having fun. We accept anyone who is respectful and abides by our Creed (our guild rules). Our ultimate goal is to have fun in the game, and to help others do so as well.
What we look for:
* Mature minded individuals, 18 years or older.
* Any race.
* Any alliance
* PS4 Owners (Or soon to be).
* keyboard recommended, as text is the primary communication of the guild. (WARNING: VOICE CHANNELS RARELY USED)
* We are looking for people to fill the Sorcerer and Templar Specialist roles within our League Workshop program, a mentorship program designed to further help people 1 on 1 with build advice with these classes, as they need it. To apply for these roles, must be cp600 and have leveled at least 2 roles within that class.
What we offer:
* A casual social community with mature members and officers always willing to give a hand to those in need of it.
* A full website, PSN community, Discord, and Facebook group. All events are posted on the Discord and may sometimes be announced in the MOTD ingame. Highly recommended to join our discord!
* Weekly events, including normal trials weekly on fridays.
* A full guild island, including dummy, banker and merchant, and all crafting stations including now a transmute station!
* A new mentorship program designed to further help our members with class/roles when they need it!
* Free trader when we can get one. We have no fees and accept donations for getting a trader.
* We have now opened our official discord server!
Check out our website at www.leagueofassassins-ps4.guildlaunch.com
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to post them here or message me on PSN. To join, either go to our website to apply or post her/message me on PSN to request an invite.
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1500 crowns per outfit slot (1 slot) just under $1200 for every slot
so over 13k crowns for all 9
or $100 at the most efficient crown bundle
fyi it was like 350 per slot on the test server
or more expensive then over 2 chapters (so do you want 2 eso chapters or 9 cosmetic slots?)
seems a little bit insane.
btw slots are per character as confirmed in this thread so its actually $100 PER CHARACTER
so 12 characters total x 13,500 crowns per character plus 1500 crowns for the 4 character slots above base 8 in the first place (6k crowns total) is a grand total of. . .
one hundred and sixty eight thousand crowns 168,000
at the most efficient crown bundle (21,000 crowns for $149.99) that's just under $1200 before tax
or $100 at the most efficient crown bundle
fyi it was like 350 per slot on the test server
or more expensive then over 2 chapters (so do you want 2 eso chapters or 9 cosmetic slots?)
seems a little bit insane.
btw slots are per character as confirmed in this thread so its actually $100 PER CHARACTER
so 12 characters total x 13,500 crowns per character plus 1500 crowns for the 4 character slots above base 8 in the first place (6k crowns total) is a grand total of. . .
one hundred and sixty eight thousand crowns 168,000
at the most efficient crown bundle (21,000 crowns for $149.99) that's just under $1200 before tax
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Necroed Threads
Why do people necro threads? Like I understand you put a comment on a thread that's maybe 3 months (at max) old, but why do people comment on threads that are 6 months to several years old? Are they just so bored that they go diving through the forums? I'm genuinely curious about this.
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From a Lore or RP perspective how would a Breton fit into Ebonheart Pact?
I suppose the question might be could he or her fit? How do the Nords view them, the Dunmer, and the Argonians?
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Marriage
Does marrying someone in game only boost level experience or does it advance skill experience such as the dark brotherhood skill line
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