Has your duel-wielder taken any of the skills from the duel wield skill line? Man, that Whirlwind/steel tornado thing (or as it is affectionately known: "Spin-To-Win") will flat clear a crowd of enemies jumping on you!

Grits, thanks much for that encouragement about a no-melee magitemplar with staves! I'm so pleased that Lil is finally coming into her own as a no-melee NB; I know you were concerned there for awhile and Buffy (as a NB) got discouraged by level 5.

I had a bad fall early this morning and twisted my foot quite badly. That meant I had to call out from work (can't work if my leg feels like it's going to buckle again). So I spent the day with Julian - we had fun finishing up in Stormhaven. She is now Level 24 and getting much more comfortable about taking on the bosses. She is still cautious, and still sneaks a lot, but no longer panics when she sees two enemies together. Her Siphoning skills are quite powerful. She also picked up a neat set of Argonian greaves that really show a lot of her legs, and a cuirass that is stronger than her Death's Wind set that mALX made for her. It's kind of a mishmash right now, but Mazul has promised to craft a better set once she gets the traits researched.

I'm heading back to Glenumbra tonight to bring Mazul through the last of the Glenumbra quests. She has Cath Bedraud and Crosswych left to do. She is at Level 14, about ready to level up.

I love Crosswych. It's one of my favorite spots. Aninah went through there recently, but the pictures turned out foggy and too grey. If I could live in Tamriel, Crosswych would be a strong contender. Enjoy!

I hope your foot heals quickly with no long-term repercussions. (the cake of swift healing, lol)

Mazul is Level 15 and halfway to 16. We just recovered the Skyshard from Ebon Crypt (though we didn't clear it). I think she will come back after she levels up a little more to wipe out the cultists from this place. On the way to Ebon Crypt, we got asked for the second time how we walk. Level 21 player this time.

For Julian and me, it's Wind's Keep in Stormhaven, though Crosswych is a wonderful place too. We loved the quests there!

Ciri arrived in Shadowfen this evening, ready to explore Haa-Rei's homeland. I was planning on posting screenies but OneDrive is not playing ball tonight.

We also accepted an invite to a guild, though it has only just started and thus has no guild trader or anything yet. Hopefully it develops and I get a chance to sell some of the motifs I have in the bank. I haven't been in a guild since the game first came out, and all those guilds died off pretty soon after that.

So sorry to hear about your fall! I hope you are feeling better today!

To top it all off, Saturday our washing machine broke in the middle of my mom's laundry.

Tried to get it working again (it wasn't draining the water, and I figured how to drain it manually and clean the drain filter) - no dice. Suspect the drain motor is out. It's a 10 year old machine so Mom and I have been back and forth all weekend on whether to repair it or replace it.

Chatted online with the machine's support and turns out that it is indeed at the end of its service life, so now we're going to shop around for a good deal and try to get it replaced within the week. We'll see how things go . . .

But at least the foot is getting better and I'll be returning to work later today.

Lildereth is showing me her wild side on the golden plains of Reaper's March. She is barefoot and browning in the sun with not a single worry in her head. And she's staying well-hydrated in the warm rivers and falls of course. She has been traveling here for a while to drop off completed writs, and now she can finally explore.

My crew has given up questing until the next update, and it is a blast. I might even get Darnand outside to roam around a little. He has about two dozen alchemy and enchanter survey reports stuffed down in the bottom of his satchel. This could be a good time to go gather some more stuff.



haute, good luck with the washer hunt! Glad you're up on your foot again.

haute, you didn't injure your foot kicking the recalcitrant machine, did you?

I finally forced myself to complete Coldharbour and face down Molag Bal - have been dreading it for too long, and wanted it out of the way before "One Tamriel" happens. Now Misa is starting into the Daggerfall Covenant via "Cadwell's Silver" questline.

I found out that Misa is only missing 12 skyshards of what she is capable of getting without buying Orsinium or the IC DLC. That is/equals 4 more skill points. So I'm seriously hoping that she will be able to find some skill points in the quests up ahead in the Silver and Gold; because there is so many more things I was hoping to do with her skill trees, lol. Urk.

Rider, I hope something else gets hurt (but not badly) so you can stay home and play. Okay, just kidding!

Grits, Lil being a wood elf. . .

mALX, Congrats again to SuperMisa the Champion!

No, ghastley, I hurt my foot before the machine broke down!

It's better, though throbbing a bit tonight after working (and closing) in the store today. I think I will stay home tomorrow morning (I volunteer Tuesday mornings at a local therapeutic riding stable).

Mazul and I are finishing up a few things before entering Crosswych tonight. I'm not sure how much we'll get done in Crosswych, but we are still enjoying ourselves and exploring the final corner of Glenumbra.

Jerric is finally wearing his starter set of Pelinal's Aptitude gear, and it's pretty neat. His weapon damage dropped due to giving up an Agility set piece and swapping some medium armor for heavy since those are the only Pelinal's pieces that anyone on Team Jerric can craft right now, but his spell damage went up to meet it. It was truly awesome to feel like a battlemage for the first time in ESO.

Lildereth is still many months away from being able to craft five pieces in medium armor, so in the meantime he's asked her to go find a Hunding's Rage station and make him five try-me pieces (so as not to waste the rubedo leather) of that. He'll have to decide between Morihaus and Hunding's to pair with the Pelinal's. This will not be easy. He loves to roll through a crowd and knock them down like bowling pins, which is the fun feature of the Morihaus set. But the Hunding's should make a noticeable difference in both sword and spells.

Best thing, so far it seems that his favorite buff Major Brutality (increase weapon damage 20%) also works on spell damage with Pelinal's equipped. Oh my gosh, folks. He needs to play with it for much longer before he commits the materials to make his level gear, but it looks like this is everything I'd hoped it would be for him. Battlemage! Woo!!

That is wonderfully encouraging news, Grits. I imagine the challenges Jerric faces trying to balance magicka and stamina (and, oh yeah, hitpoints).

I am dying to see a vid of Jerric rolling through crowds and knocking them down "like bowling pins,"

Good to hear, Grits. Once Cirinwe hits level 50 and gains access to the Champion Point pool I'll have to start looking at magicka gear and whatnot too.


Haa-Rei continues his quest for traits. So far for medium armour we have 5 slots with 6 traits and 2 slots with 5 traits. Ciri keeps sending him any medium armour she finds so it's progressing quickly. Except Nirnhoned of course.

Haa-Rei got his first Minotaur motif today! Bought it from a guild trader in Wrothgar for 20,000 gold.

I've noticed that prices have been dropping veeeeeeery slowly for motifs, so I'm hoping to see more Minotaur stuff at similar prices.

As I type this Haa-Rei is lurking around Tribune's Folly, waiting for more players to show up to help with Limenauruus. It's been 10 minutes so far - I knew I should have done the daily quests earlier in the day!

I paid 20,000 for an Imperial motif for Misa and almost as soon as she read it (I mean like the next day) she found one in an urn!