Is this in Bal Foyen? If so, I love that one! It has an adorable little yard!

@hazmick - Is that anywhere near Esqoo? Say hi to Esqoo and his guar for me. :V

Today I get to delete the Emergency Skeleton Storage, since the implementation of stackable recipes and motifs means that my Shaggy Bookkeeper can do the job alone. I have 2 character slots open now! But still, I've been waiting on that feature for a while now and i'm glad we have it now.

Recently, before the update, I've been getting a lot of purple drops from random enemies but absolutely no Yokudan motifs or a spare Draugr motif while slowly grinding Eolan's undaunted skill line. At the very least the coffer given to you by the "little goat" Orc is blue now. Didn't mean squat for me today, but at least it means a better chance now. Good thing, too, that quest is really long for a solo quest.

Wow, Writ Vouchers can’t be pooled between characters? That is a stunningly bad decision. And the nail in the Master Writ coffin for me. Too bad the useful housing items are tied to this crappy system. It could be great.

It is nice to be able to sit in some chairs. The Crown Store furnished houses seem like a better deal than the unfurnished ones, if you plan to use Crowns.

I think my crew will save up gold for Sleek Creek and see what they find to furnish it in the meantime. So far Pog can make a Hanging Beet whenever someone finds 3 decorative wax to make it. But it will also take 5 nickel, 20 flour, and 2 beets to make one beet, so I doubt that he will. No one wants to look at a beet that much!

Jerric got his apartment, but everything else took so long today that the other two only got to start their quests. I haven’t checked out the furnishings merchant since he got the apartment. I heard that she has more on her shelves once you finish the quest.

I was wondering about that, if we have characters in each Alliance, can we end up with 3 free rooms? On the PTS, they had us buy the other two rooms for 3000 gold each, so I wasn't sure. If we can get three free ones, I'm doing it! I got the one in Ebonheart already, but right now it is just filling up with junk I wanted out of the Hunding place.

That's the one! Really cute house/yard and a really nice location.





Yeah, him and his guar are nearby. Oddly enough, it's one of the Shadowfen houses that has a description by Esqoo. Not sure if it's a bug.

I love that place! And totally fell in love with that courtyard!

* Yeah, I noticed that Esqoo thing too; and wondered if I was missing something. Glad it isn't just me that thought it was odd.

Early morning (Eastern Time) is busy in PS4 Daggerfall as folks crank out their crafting writs before going to work. Today an impromptu CraftervCrafter tournament broke out. It was hilarious. Always fun to see people having a good time and not taking themselves too seriously.

Because I have no self control, I'm getting the squad to start researching for crafts that they won't use. Because I want those Master Writs. They'll still have a much lower chance of getting them, since I'm not spending money on more motifs, but it's something.

I'm also going to go ahead and buy Strident Springs Demense. idk

Oooh, that place is huge! Another guild I'm in bought it for their Guild Hall!

You don't need to spend gold or Crowns on motifs, just dive in Dwemer and undead ruins - you will have rare motifs coming out of your ears and be having to sell them after your whole crew has read them.

The upside of that too = you will also be farming furniture plans while in there; not to mention racial style stones for the mats you will need to craft the furniture = killing three birds with one stone.









That is one of the things I've found so fascinating and fun about this game - because it is the very first MMO of any kind (I've ever played, I never even played on XBox Live) - you never know what inventive ways to have fun someone else might come up with!

The weekends in capital cities is hilarious; I've seen "horses on clotheslines rearing up" contests - I guess to see who will not fall the longest, lol.

"So who won the tournament?"

"The Crafter!"


Bwaahaa!!!




This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 9 2017, 01:25 AM

Had a successful day in Tamriel today.

Ciri finished up her business in Greenshade while Haa-Rei finished exploring the Alik'r Desert. I really want to push forward with Haa-Rei to clear Bangkorai and finish Cadwell's Silver. Not sure if our Argonian is going to bother with the Dominion stuff since Ciri is doing it, but we'll wait and see.

As for Tsarakiri, she's still on with the Thieves Guild. Progress is slow since she keeps getting distracted by locked doors and people with full pockets. Once she's done here it'll be off to the Gold Coast, then...I'm not sure. She refuses to go anywhere that isn't warm and sunny, which limits her options quite significantly.

So glad you and yours had a good day, hazmick!

Buffy started Silver a few days ago (Daggerfall Covenant for her) and fell in love with Stros M'Kai. She turned over every rock and thoroughly enjoyed herself. She's now in Beatnik with the orks doing orky things.

She doesn't do writs so I love the simplicity of her daily 'chores':
1. Train Superian.
2. Close a Shadowfen dolmen 3 times farming for purple Robes of the Hist jewelry - she's up to 1 purple and 2 blue pieces.

I just got a blue quality ring (CH 160) for that set; can you use it?

I had a great time with Grits and Haute today fighting the "Matron" - darn, I forgot to get a screenshot!

monkey, I have been researching traits with non-crafters as well, just in case. Congrats on the Strident Springs decision! I think that the three separate bedrooms make that layout perfect for a group. And of course the rest of that place is just awesome.

hazmick, glad you had a good day. Haa-Rei has made impressive progress! Wow! I hope that some day Tsarakiri will be able to pillage Bravil and Leyawiin in sun-drenched comfort. (Or possibly rain-drenched, but at least it will be warm.)

Acadian, Stros M’Kai remains Jerric’s favorite sunny spot to relax. After pretty much every heartbreaking quest situation, he goes to Stros M’Kai.

mALX, thank you and Misa for coming to the crab buffet! So much fun they had to do it twice. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the sight of those spiny blue legs coming up on the screen behind Jerric and the borders going red while he was busy chatting.

Thanks much for the kind offer, mALX. But no, Buffy's wearing one purple and two blue already. She'll gradually find another couple purples I'm sure.

Wow, sounds like Grits, Rider and mALX had fun whomping a world boss - crab for dinner?

Tasted like chicken,

And yeah, I had my head down typing and suddenly the edges of my screen were bright red and I saw feeler-like legs waving around, Freaked me right out till Jerric taunted him away from me! Between Jerric's tanking and Haute's healing, I didn't have any trouble at all in those fights - and that was Misa's first fight since her respec, so I really had no idea what she would be capable of. Something still isn't feeling right about her, I think it is in her CH point distribution.

Well, is anyone else collecting Robe of the Hist? (as in: My parents went to Shadowfen, and all I got was this lousy blue ring!) Just let me know if you want it, I'll send it to your in game mail box.

If no one wants it, I'll probably just sell it to a vendor, I don't think blue quality sells at the champion level in the Guild stores; but a lot of people use blue while waiting for the purple to drop (like Acadian is doing).




This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 9 2017, 02:51 PM

@mALX - The Squad has every single motif up to Dwemer, back when it was the only multiple-chapter motif. That's as far as they're going to get outside of their chosen crafting skill. Hates will get especially expensive, since she only has to worry about 3 pieces per motif.

Although I guess it is true I'll have to get trait stones anyways. Ugh. Toot-toot~ it's the Glass Motif/Ambrosia grind all over again! At least I already got their crafting skills up to 50 a long time ago.

@Grits - The 3-room thing was one of the reasons I went for it! It's also why I sort of had an eye on Gardner Manor, although I didn't like that it was deep inside Wayrest.

They really did a good job of beefing up world boss encounters. Before the ones that gave me trouble were Storm Atronach bosses. Now...well it's mostly Rats that has trouble with them, honestly. For Jo and especially Eolan, they're just huge damage sponges that take forever to kill.

Eolan got a Master Blacksmith Writ today. He was grumbling something about trying to get away from the terrible and petty Breton noble houses and wondering how he ended up forging a dagger for one of their duels. Then he was told to suck it up because 86 vouchers! He automatically has more than any of the others.

Jo got another Enchanter writ, leaving him with 4, and yesterday he got a Clothier writ he couldn't finish because he can't access the Earth Forge. I put it up for sale but if no one takes it I guess Dravean can have it. It's only 7 vouchers. :/

Urgh - joining you in that groan. I discovered to decorate the Hunding house the way I want with Crowns would cost upwards of 15,000 crowns - buying the Ebonheart Chateau would be cheaper and I could just rifle what I needed for Hunding house from that place.

So I realized the only way to afford this is to go piece by piece crafting it.

Well, after spending a huge amount of gold buying the "Plans" I needed (and don't have all I need yet) - I discovered that the Heartwood drop rate on this server is so low (not to mention the ridiculous number of racial style stones required per piece of furniture) that I would have to grind like a monkey to get even one piece crafted per day - and almost everything requires Heartwood, for some reason! Why does food items require it?

There can only be one answer to that question = Zenimax wants us to give up and buy through the Crown Store for our furniture, Urgh.

On the PTS server, the drop rate for all this stuff was much higher; not to mention they handed you 2000 of each stone required for crafting. It lulled us into a false sense of security about how fun housing was going to be. The truth is, it will either be an outrageous grind or the Crown Store is going to be supplying what we need. I see me getting sick of grinding after just two days spent trying to get 10 Heartwood to make two pieces - and that ten Heartwood I needed was added to the stock of them I had built up!



But I will say this = they did listen to the complaints about voucher distribution we gave them over those Master Writs! Thank goodness for that at least !!!

So I'm going to be pooping out a piece of furniture a day and spending the rest of the day grinding the living heck out of Tamriel for the next six months, I guess!




How many Writs did you turn in to get your fist Master Writ? I haven't gotten one yet, and Misa knows numerous styles!

By the way ... I wonder how they tied in "How many racial styles you know will effect drop rate of Master Writs" (?) - Oh yeah, so people will buy all those racial motif sets from the Crown Store! Follow the money trail ...

The thing is, I don't begrudge Zenimax from needing to make an income from this, especially since they only have 10% in paid memberships - they have to have an income to keep going, it isn't free to run those servers and crank out the awesome content they do. They are constantly developing more content and maintaining the game, and deserve to make something from it - and if they don't, they will end up folding. I hope that never happens!

Bought the face markings pack from the crown store today for 500 crowns. Khajiit can't wait to create his raven haired Reachwitch! Many savage looking options available!

Your characters are like Monkeys = such interesting background stories!!!