Once Daedric plate starts dropping its relatively easy to gain massive wealth in Daggerfall. My avatar's biggest ongoing expense is likely buying training sessions at Guilds and Temples. At level 23 each such session costs him 2,300 septims. Creating enchanted items is far more expensive, but those are one-time costs, provided one creates enough of them with the Repair Object enchantment.

His most recent assignment saw him track down and disposed of a Lich for the Knights of the Dragon. No Daedric loot, but a number of adamantium weapons, adamantium greaves, and one Orcish katana. Of more interest, the Lich possessed a note hinting at the existence of a clue, located in a different dungeon, detailing the whereabouts of an object of great worth. Having sold spoils, banked and trained, he is about to check that out.

ADDENDUM: My avatar aborted his search for the artifact clue. He traveled to the dungeon in question and found the contact fairly quickly. Only, she offered him a mission to earn an artifact already in his possession. It resides in his pack. No sense in getting another. I reverted to the save made immediately before talking with the contact. He teleported to the the dungeon entrance, got in a few rounds of spell practice, and returned to Daggerfall City. Since return he has guarded the Mages Guild hall and is now tasked by the Fighters Guild to kill a dragon.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Nov 6 2015, 01:12 PM

Actually, I think his character Baa has over 30 million Septim...




Editio!!

Today Thor of Valhalla managed to save the Ladyship´s eldest son from the Dark Hood of Brothers. He found him almost immediately, eliminating the need to search the entire dungeon. As compensation he got 12357 gold and I cannot for the life of me understand where the Lady got that number from

This post has been edited by mirocu: Nov 6 2015, 04:43 PM

Since creating an enchanted item which boosts his magicka pool, spell practice has become much more time efficient. In consequence he has advanced yet another rank in the Mages Guide, becoming a Warlord, authorized to summon Daedra. I don't yet know to what extent he will utilize this benefit. My hope is that he is some day able to summon Hermaeus Mora, who's reward is a one-use-only book that lets avatars distribute 30 points between their attributes. I'm gonna need to print out those dates so he won't miss 'em.

He's completed another round of quests, including an all-too-rare nobility assignment. None stand out as worthy of detailing.

He hopes to create an enchanted item combining Repair Object and Spell Reflection (to better handle those dratted Vampire Ancients) but lacks a receptacle powerful enough to hold them. (A diamond would suffice.)

He has yet to find Daedric gauntlets . . . any gauntlets better than mithril for that matter. It's almost a running joke. Not a very funny one.

No daedra found in Arena, at least I haven´t seen that word there. Did they first appear in Daggerfall?



Small dungeon crawl today. The objective was to find a mage who apparently wasn´t too nice. Immediately upon entering the dungeon I got a message saying I could sense him, so no other levels than that one. Found him within the first minute I´d say. Then I ran around looking for treasure. There were some, but not much.

It would appear that the way to find such items is to have created a character that can't use them. I have a number that took an armour restriction to leave more for other things. They all find plate armour in every chest.

My Orcs have trouble finding Orcish, but that's true for everyone. Looking for it does get you a lot of Daedric.

There's an easily exploited glitch that gets you Deadric weapons early and often, which is good for the economy, but it doesn't help with armour, and it's specific to Daedric, and useless for other materials.

My avatar visited the castle of a 'major player' and accepted a mission whose reward was to have been information about one of his two Empirical tasks. Alas, it proved to be a bit of deliberate misdirection. The traveling involved tracking down this dead end consumed so much time he feels he must do another round or two of guild / organization missions before resuming work for the Emperor. He's on one such task at the moment, for the Temple of Kynareth, searching for a lost member within a dungeon populated with Vampire Ancients. Talk about slow going! Thankfully, this one has a 23 day window.

My avatar gets a good many Daedric weapon drops, and decent armor dops, except gauntlets. Speaking of Orcish, he grabbed a beautiful fluted Orcish cuirass during his last round of guild tasks. He added it to his collection rather than sell it, Orcish being so rare.

Posting here made me fire up Daggerfall for a quick thrash. Not a good idea, as you forget so much about the control layout when you're away. My Orc got killed by a Harpy when I tied to dodge sideways with the "A" key, after playing Skyrim all the time.

I have the same issue going back to Oblivion, where the E/Space and R/F swaps get me very time.

That is so very much me! Not that I play TES I, II or III, but when I do (very rarely) try to play a different game from my primary game, my fingers go stupid and Buffy gets hurt. I'm sure that is why I get into a game and stay there for years then, when the time comes, pretty much relocate completely to another game. Such as it was with Diablo II, Baldurs Gate II, Oblivion and, now, Skyrim. Renee says I'm 'monogamous'.

That's one of the advantages of using a PC controller; I can configure movement and strafing any way I'd like. Too bad Turija doesn't post here, he'd be giving a small lecture on this topic. Seriously though, if I were to play Arena using Mouse & Keys, it would be pretty tricky, because my right hand is stuck with weapon swings, while my left would be controlling movement, jumping, weapon sheathing, etc. It'd be so awkward. I don't know how you M+K folks do it!

The PC Master Race can do anything


Seriously, I don´t have a problem with it. Since Arena gameplay is quite slow and doesn´t have the smooth action movement of later installments, I have plenty of time lining up to a foe and get ready. Of course, my character always has a shield spell active and when in dungeons or at night in towns, also a spell that absorbs magicka. So he´s in no hurry, he can take quite a lot of hits without having to worry

My avatar has undertaken a variety of assignments, many of them convoluted dungeon crawls. On one such crawl he found Orchish gauntlets! He still hopes for Daedric, but Orcish is a definite step up from what he had been wearing. Just before I left him tonight he advanced a rank in the Mages Guild. This seems to be an interim tier that offers no additional perks. Next tier gains him assess to the teleporter.

He enchanted a Daedric Kantana with Paralyze and Featherweight to work his long blade skill. He has no real need to work long blade, it being miscellaneous. But Blunt needs no further improvement so why not? Speaking of enchantments, since enchanting his Tower Shield with Reflect Spell (when cast) to better survive Vampire Ancients not one single dungeon has contained them.

When you get around to Daggerfall you'll find the controls fully configurable. Mine are set very much as they are in Oblivion and Skyrim, and Minecraft for that matter. Arena's non configurable controls would likely bug me to no end today. Back when the game was new and shiny (and I myself less mentally decrepit) they seemed par for the course.

You remind me that I was a long-time holdout for arrow-key movement. I first learned WASD for Morrowind, then converted back to arrow-keys with my return to EQ2 (or was it EQ1?). I relearned WASD for Oblivion, and have stayed with it ever since.

I think I avoided WASD as long I did because I did not teach myself to touch-type until relatively late in life. In fact MMOs were a prime cause of my deciding to learn to touch type. I needed to be able to chat with fellow group and guild members while keeping my eyes glued on the screen. Couldn't do that as a two-finger hunt-and-peck typist.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Nov 17 2015, 05:09 AM

Decrepit: yes I remember playing Everquest, which is MMO, and suddenly realizing I'd need to hook up a keyboard to my PS2. I was lucky in that I took a typing class way back in high school, one of the best classes I ever took in my life!

I had to configure Oblivion from WASD to arrows so that I could navigate menus more quickly. Tricky to explain, but if you can picture trying to navigate menus with a controller joystick ... With directional buttons this is much smoother.

Well it's good to hear DF allows more customization.

mirocu: Yes those Shield spells rock in Arena. It's interesting how they did this back then; other RPGs which featured shield spells would still allow damage while the spell was active, they'd just allow less of it.

Well, I don't have any new Arena updates for y'all but I'll be playing some this week. I think I'm getting to the end of Halls of Collussus.

My avatar has performed a number of tasks for varying organizations. None proved overly challenging survivability wise. He was at long last able to test his Spell Reflect enchanted shield against Vampire Ancients. They are indeed now easier to cope with. To be fair, that particular crawl was one in which he rapidly found his objective. The sample pool was thus not as extensive as we might have preferred.

He's currently on a mission for the Mages Guild to dispose of six mutated former guild members. It's one of those assignments where quest mobs spawn nearby during rests. It feels 'cheaty' to me to have my avatar enter a dungeon, then rest over and over at the entrance until all targets have spawned and been defeated. What he usually does, unless on a very tight time schedule, is wander the passageways and rest naturally as he needs to heal and/or replenish magicka / stamina. Only . . . this dungeon is so easy he never needs to do those. What we'll prolly do is let him practice spell casting, resting between rounds to replenish magicka loads. He can certain benefit from such practice, a number of his spell schools still being in the mid twenties. (Restoration, the only spell school that counts toward his leveling, is an exception at circa 75, with Mysticism at circa 42.)

He's still at a dead end with his primary mission. We're not sure what to do about that at the moment other than go about our mundane affairs and hope he eventually receives further instructions.

My avatar got to a puzzle-door in Halls of Collossus, and I think I know what the answer is, but I had to stop gaming for the day when I got that far. Anyways, this is probably my favorite Arena dungeon so far. We're supposed to



I like HoC because it's different than other dungeons in TES 1. I didn't expect there to be any variation at all like this.

Isn´t it great we can still have so much fun with these old games? Glad you got pleasently suprised by the dungeon, Renee

@Decrepit - Hopefully your avatar gets the info that he needs soon. In the meantime, it might be good to practice on some skills

Fredas, 9:01 AM, 18th of First Seed, 3E 392



Renee Gade the first, born in the town of Amol, in the province of Skyrim, is now in the town of Tenmar Forest, in Elsweyr. It's been a long journey for her: from Skyrim to Cyrodiil to Valenwood, and now here, in this dinky little town. The air is pleasant because it's springtime, and Renee has just emerged from a 10-day stay at the Howling Daggar. 10 days in any one place is rare for Miss Gade, but she mostly did it so she could have her adamantium longsword and Round Shield of Personality (her two favorite combat items) repaired.

As usual, she had merely discarded all the pieces of leather armor she had worn into this shop several days earlier, all over its floor. With an average of 20,000 gold, she can easily afford a brand-new set of armor, all of which are common & unenchanted. As she returns to the Elite Weaponry Shop, she sees that the armor she'd worn into the place is now hanging neatly on a floor dummy. The smith explains that as her fame has grown, and people begin to know who she is, being able to place the very armor which Renee had worn into Halls of Collossus is going to increase his business. The leather is worn and beaten, and many men would pay a small fortune to have it, but this set of armor is not for sale.

The smith also explains that her sword and magic shield are not ready yet. Drats. One more day. Back to the Howling Daggar. Rumor has it that the place she had dreamed about several days earlier, the Crystal Tower, which is supposed to contain the next piece of the Staff of Chaos, is somewhere in the Summerset Isles. Renee looks forward to this journey, as always.

This post has been edited by Renee: Nov 29 2015, 05:27 PM

Neat that the smith put her armor on display to enhance his business. But does he at least give Renee lower prices too?

Awesome that you included a pic, Renee! You are hereby required to do so in every update from here on out!

Who´s ms. Gade´s follower btw?

Nice, huh? I didn't post any Kahreem (or anybody else) this week so my creative thoughts went elsewhere.

She doesn't have a follower; that pic in the top left is a glitch. Renee rescued somebody awhile back who looked just like her, ever since then that pic has been there.

All that stuff about the smith & increased business is my overactive imagination. In case you play this game someday, it aint like that. Matter of fact, if you put items on the ground, it will respawn out of the game as soon as you leave the shop.

Arena just got insanely hard. I'm at Crystal Tower, and all the sudden there's vampires. Even if there's just one of these, it's like instant death. This game might just b34t me, instead of me b34ting it. Over half the doors are locked too. Since RG1 can't lockpick, she is forced to bash these doors with one of her weapons, which means they eventually wear out.

On the other hand, she's got some cool items I've forgotten about. Like this Ring of Far Silence, and these Bracers of Opening. Heh heh heh....



This post has been edited by Renee: Jan 17 2016, 05:04 PM