*looks at trait charts* I am deeply, deeply impressed by all of your organisational skills

@Grits and @Acadian - I've had the random grouping happen before and it's definitely fun! I'm not yet at the point of being able to adapt my strategy, really (or having much of a strategy beyond AAH KILL IT WITH FIRE) but it's always fun to see how I and another player mesh and there have been a few battles I only won because someone else wandered in at just the right time.

Just now, I had a beautifully, perfectly Adryn moment...

As I mentioned in the screenshot thread, the primary conceit of Adryn is that she doesn't fight. Anything. Ever. I'm leaning VERY heavily on stealth to get by; the furthest I'm willing to stretch on combat skills is the Nightblade stun skill since it's handy for getting stuff next to lone enemies and doesn't do enough damage to kill anything.

So I'm wandering Stonefalls, testing how well this works, grabbing mats and very definitely ignoring any quest marker that pops up since "does not fight" makes most quests pretty impossible. It's working quite well, there's a bunch of areas where the only wildlife seem to be neutral guar, I've given a wide berth to the Sulfur Pools area which is crawling with shalk, I'm just passing an Argonian with a quest marker...

Then I hear said Argonian say, in a deep and mournful tone, "All my guar... gone."

And suddenly I find myself walking back towards him.

At this point, you may imagine that Adryn and I had the following conversation:



We did, in fact, manage to rescue all of Pathetic Argonian's guar, but there was a significant amount of running away screaming involved, including one chase scene where trying to escape from a shalk somehow made me end up with two alits on my tail. I have to say that Adryn's antics are a lot more fun when I'm in control of the plot and not the hapless Dunmer in question.

Next time, I'll have to remind her that I totally have another character wandering Stonefalls, one who is full of chivalry and heroic derring-do and always delighted to go round up random guar for pathetic Argonians, and who can also actually kill things.

Same here; but mine are written out in words = otherwise I'd be struggling to figure out what those symbols stood for every day,










BWAAHAA!!! Kills me that HE can't go out and rescue his own guar, but wants a helpless little girl to do it, lol. But I did love that quest, and frequently visit that little "town" for mats, too!






This post has been edited by mALX: Mar 15 2017, 08:47 PM

Heh, that strikes me all the time when Buffy gets, "I'm no fighter, but you look like you can handle yourself and get my worthless relic back from the clan of vampires who stole it. . . . ' That the questgiver is often a guy with biceps bigger than Buffy's waist just emphasizes the point.

Had a wonderful visit at Haa-Rei's house with Jerric and Argis the Bulwark today. We all played in the water while pretending to give Haa-Rei decorating advice. He has a beautiful place near Arenthia.

Buffy had an adventure this morning that she's quite proud of. She discovered a dolmen and wanted to close it. But no one was around to help. As a healer, she has found soloing a dolmen beyond her ability. She has taken out the original cultists solo before but has always had others join her before she got squashed. Not so today. After she took out the cultists, she then took out a couple daedra - with quite a bit of running at the fringes trying not to get swarmed. Lots of running and gunning and whirling of Aedric spears under powerful auras later, the dolmen was closed. And she was still completely by herself so a legit solo dolmen closing. I don't think it is such a 'By Azura!' accomplishment for a solid damage fighter but given that most of Buffy's slotted skills are healing/support abilities, she was justifiably proud of herself. She'll never deliver huge damage but her secret is healing (herself in this case) faster than foes can hurt her while delivering reasonable damage.

@hazmick - Yeah, I did the same back when I was still researching traits. (lol, more on that in a bit) I did have an addon to keep track of them, but I found it was much more useful as a timer. It tended to be less than accurate when it came to recently learned traits and what was available for research in the bank.

That said, I recently started researching traits on new and existing characters so, yeah...

As far as dumb questgivers go, I often thought it was the way one carried themselves that gave away the "everything in front of me dies" impression and they generally don't judge based on first appearances. After all, a dude with big biceps might be better at manual labor than using them for smashing things, but a soft cat with the voice of a ten year old can give the impression that he knows how to turn himself into an electric mass of death incarnate, and it'd be correct.

On the other, playing Ruben has me going "nope, you're wrong" whenever someone says he looks capable. What I'm saying is that they need to get better at reading people. Learn how to pick out the walking death machines from the babies. They save money and are less likely to be disappointed that way. And get people killed I guess.

Anyways, the pack mule finally mastered Equipment crafting so he's finally useful for another teeny tiny chance at master writs. On the subject, they really need to change the way they calculate the worth in Vouchers, if they do it at all. Mercenary-style Twice-Born Star equipment should be worth more than 7 vouchers.

Oh, and Eolan got the Ebony motif book, too.

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: Mar 15 2017, 10:29 PM

WOW! I haven't been able to solo a Dolman since One Tamriel! (Before that I could, but not since).

Congrats Buffy !!!






Agreed on the "random" calculations used for Voucher distribution.

Oh, I really need to buy that Ebony motif book; I keep spending everything on the Hlaalu plans, lol. (Hlaalu monkey on my back, ).

Congratulations to Buffy on soloing that dolmen! Determination wins the day!

Kazaera, I’m delighted that Adryn is able to be Adryn in a killing-focused environment. I love that she helped the Argonian gather up his guar. Even with running and screaming.

monkey, congrats on the motif and equipment skill progress! Jerric has found two Ra Gada chapters in treasure chests and both times felt like he won the lottery. It must be a great feeling to complete the rare books.


Jerric spent a lovely afternoon strolling around Craglorn, completely unarmed. He did not plan to do this. In fact he did not plan to do anything but drop off his Provisioning writ at the Belkarth location, but it was a nice day so he decided to go for a walk. When set upon by jackals he discovered that after the waterfall party at Haa-Rei and friends’ house, he had never re-equipped his weapons. Instead he had accidentally dumped them in the bank along with the rest of the day’s haul, and Elke had most likely ground them up in her crafting efforts.

But he was carrying a staff that she had made for him to use once he hit the next level, and he still had his fists. So rather than head back to town and request another weapon from Elke, he wandered Craglorn punching things to death (and using his spells) until he got two more CP and could equip the new staff.

It was mostly empty of players probably due to the Thieves Guild event, but one guy took an interest. He kept coming back to watch Jerric fight. So if you hear tales of some idiot Nord all by himself in the desert starting fistfights with orcs, wasps, and welwas, you will know who it was!

That sounds like a totally Jerric afternoon!

Oh, I love that screenshot of the month you have now. Jerric with Ulfe in such a majestic setting.

Oh geeze, I missed it but congrats to Buffy for soloing a Dolmen!

@mALX - I really want to get started buying the Hlaalu plans again, but I still need the Ebony motifs on Hates and Jo and at least 3 Attuneable stations (preferably 9, for all 3 IC sets). And the gold furniture recipes, too. Less worried about the Ambrosia recipe, since I no longer need to level and provisioning writs don't give out many vouchers to begin with. Toot toot!

@Grits - My bad luck with finding Ra Gada motifs is precisely why I just bought a full set for the crafting monkey. :V It seems everyone but me is finding them, given what they go for in stores. I just got sick of finding Ancient Sandstone. I'm taking a break on my usual (and insane) new motif farming this time around.

I'm just loving how everyone's tenacity, tbh. I, for one, am in full support of Jerrick beating animals to death. It's how my mule crafter got his start.

HOLY COW!!!! That happened to Misa once after an afternoon swim with Buffy, and ONE SKEEVER and a mage killed Misa! And that was in a much lower level area than Craglorn !!!!

Misa most definitely wishes she had seen Jerric's fights!!!!

One of the Guilds I'm a member of is getting all the Attuneable Stations under one roof for the use of all the members (the Daggerfall Castle house) = they also started with the Imperial City stations; and already have Armor Master and Redistributer set up there. When they finish the IC ones, they are doing that really bad one in Hews Bane next (Clever Alchemist?) that you have to fight through a walled city full of enemies to reach, lol.

Anyone in the Guild is welcome to use them - comes in handy for doing the Master Writs. If anyone here wants an invite to that Guild to access those hard to get to crafting stations, let me know and I'll send you an invite.

Haa-Rei finished questing in Craglorn yesterday, and began the Dominion today. We're just going to work through slowly and casually, since it has only been a couple of weeks since Cirinwe did it all. It'll be a good opportunity to gather crafting mats too.

Tsarakiri continues with the dark Brotherhood. We only have a couple of quests left there, but that's still lots of assassin contracts in between.

Glad to hear Haa-Rei is taking it leisurely through the Dominion. Buffy's doing exactly that with her Silver (DF). Then she'll probably leisurely move on to Gold (AD) but might consider Wrothgar and/or Craglorn on the way.

I found my progress through zones I've done to be the opposite. By the time the squad got to their respective Cadwell's Gold I pretty much plowed through everything (actually, I started with Silver, since I wanted to grind out Veteran levels. Those were dark times)

But congrats for getting though Craglorn. My feelings on the zone are...complicated to say the least. (Although playing through the questline reminded me of the positive things)

For the first time Ruben's hike to King's Guard in search of Blessed Thistle didn't end with him almost dying. He's getting better at learning where massive bands of bandits patrol so there's that. If only he could amass a decent amount of Thistle so his hikes aren't as frequent. Considering he's a sorcerer, maybe Jo'zira will teach him how to use those skills for self defense. He's only at level 8 and almost has all of Glenumbra's skyshards so that's unlikely.

Not really "today" (as with most of my posts, tbh), but I was really close to dropping the extra crafting mule and then this is what he got from the daily writs.



...but then they're only 5 vouchers each. Since I can't keep up with the daily demand for materials and Eolan's supply of Rubedite has dropped to a single flipping stack I'm going to drop him anyways. At least from equipment writs.

Anyways, Hates and Eolan finished the Thieves Guild motif, and the entire squad bought up Outlaw while they were still cheap. I hope the special boxes that sometimes drop motifs are kept for the live version of the Jester's Festival. Still kinda sorta farming Abah's Watch and to a lesser extent, Draugr.

Funny thing is while Eolan's supply of equipment materials are quickly dropping, he's the richest of all 3 of them, while the other two easily have 1k Ruby Ash/Ancestor Silk/Rubedo Leather but are hopelessly broke.

Has Eolan been selling materials behind my back? ??? ???????

Jerric’s first festival quest pushed him over CP100. He got his new costume in the mail while standing at the party tent. It was clearly a sign from the gods, or at least from a being of power who has a sense of humor. Jerric is attending the Jesters Festival attired as Mannimarco.


monkey, my PS4 group has run through their massive supply of ruby-stuff. I’m guilty of letting them do Master writs but then spending my adventure time with the PC crew.

The festival is so fun! Haa-Rei did all 3 quests today and got the crown - now he can focus on getting all the achievements to unlock the jester tree for purchase at the furnisher.

The achievement with the pig will be the tricky one, but I have some ideas.

A friend of mine got on his horse and used "Rapid Maneuvers" = shot through town and didn't stop till he got to the other side of that bridge out of town. Princess was right behind him!







Holy Cow, Craglorn!!! Awesome, Congrats !!!








*mALX faints*

Lucky You !!! Congrats on getting all those Master Writs !!!

I got another one today. It was worth 7!

Anyways, I haven't done much of the Jester's Festival and I already feel burnt out. :V It could also be that I'm playing Tales of Berseria and I'm really invested in that.
I dunno what it is but asside from piggy theft, the quests aren't as engaging as the other festivals'. Also piggy theft guarantees a bounty so...yeah, I don't find much of a fun factor aside from playing with new toys.

That said, I found that taking the pig without being spotted is pretty easy. As soon as you leave the Argonian district, just sneak. If you don't rush you'll be able to avoid the butcher.

Good thing the toys seem to have a high droprate. I'm only doing these quests with Jo'zira, tbh. He's going to have so may poppers and flower crown beams! Dear god, I think I'm going to destroy the extra runeboxes I get this time around, tbh.

I also remembered that the magical boxes full of completely good stuff is for the Anniversary event (that I forgot was coming after this one) so I can at least look forward to that.

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: Mar 24 2017, 01:59 AM

I have been enjoying throwing cherry blossoms on everyone (since I got the branch in my first grab-box, lol) - and absolutely LOVE seeing people doing the Jester emotes and wearing the hats!

But, yeah = not as much fun or variety of things to do.

And which one was it that we are supposed to get gift boxes in our writ rewards? I remember getting them on the PTS, but can't remember which upcoming festival that was for!





Oh! Here is the answer to my question:


http://imgur.com/a/iC7v2

Jerric’s misspent youth is paying off with the Princess rescues. Poor Elke spent a long time huddled under the bridge hiding from guards today. Jerric’s prank was again flawless. He doesn’t even sneak when he takes the apples. He just strolls in, shrugs at the bounty, goes fishing, and then absconds with the pork. I mean, with the pig.

I love the flower petal thingy. So does Jerric. He touched off a round of tar-and-feather in Vulkhel Guard using the mud balls and flower branch. (The petals don't really stick to the mud, but it's fun to try.) Great to see people enjoying the festival!