I bought the Imperial Edition game a few years ago; but a lot of people bought the base game and then the Imperial Upgrade and got the same thing I did.

I pay for the ESO Plus membership every 6 months; which gives me 9000 Crowns to spend every time it renews. With ESO plus you have free access to all the DLC; so I can play each and decide if I want to buy it or not. What I have been doing is playing each for one year; and on its anniversary they usually mark them down to at least half price = then buy them if I want them.

So far I have gone ahead and purchased Orsinium; Dark Brotherhood; Thieves Guild; Imperial City; and plan to buy Clockwork City when it goes on sale for its anniversary.

I don't have any plans to buy Shadows of the Hist or Horns of the Reach because both of those are just hard mode Veteran dungeons for groups only; neither offer any skyshards and only one skill point per dungeon = not worth the cost of the DLC.

When the Morrowind expansion came out; I bought it right away since it would not be free with the Plus membership = not sorry at all, I love it!

I would absolutely do it the same way. The Plus membership is WELL worth it for all you get; and it gives you the opportunity to test run all the DLC to determine if you even want them before spending money on them.

Of course, I didn't need to buy any of the DLC; but I did want to own it just in case I ever dropped my Plus membership or couldn't pay it anymore; and this way I was able to choose when I bought = and in waiting for the sales I ended up owning them for half price or better. (Orsinium was 75% off the regular price on its anniversary both years since its release).

ESO almost always marks DLC down to half price on their anniversary; and a couple times a year they have Crown store sales where you can get Crowns for very low prices. Always worth waiting for those sales and then buying a bunch of Crowns up in advance to spend throughout the year.






Yes, they almost always have a bear mount available; and you can usually buy matching cubs that roll around at your feet and play with butterflies (with Crowns). I love the cubs!








This post has been edited by mALX: Dec 7 2017, 01:59 AM

The other thing I need to research before committing myself is how close I can get to this.

Bear: check - but the white one may have to come along later
Blond Nord: check
Separate cuirass and greaves: almost - looks like some lower body bits get included in top.
Wield weapon while mounted: check
Eyepatch: check
Bastard sword with shield: ??? (but couldn't do that in Oblivion or Skyrim, either)

This post has been edited by ghastley: Dec 7 2017, 06:10 PM

You can get pretty close to that. The biggest problem you are going to have is no mounted combat so your sword will be on your hip and your shield will be on your back while riding. There are some one handed swords that have longer hilts that would accommodate two handed use (Breton style swords come to mind immediately). Tassets (hip flappers) are indeed included in the upper body part of the armor (for some reason; probably to avoid clipping issues), the leg armor for most styles is little more that a pair of pants.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Dec 7 2017, 08:27 PM

There are wonderful costumes you can wear to hide your armor. That permits loads of appearance options without impact to the actual armor you may be wearing underneath.

The mounted combat was out in Oblivion too. Realistically, the rider wants to get off, to let the bear fight, so I don't consider that a negative. However, Oblivion also hid the weapon while mounted, which was kind of silly. In both the single-player games, I had to add the bear mounts myself, and in Oblivion, I could only get it to work when galloping. The walk animation had weird glitches that made it unusable.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Dec 7 2017, 08:11 PM

Khajiit added some to the post you quoted. May want to take another look.

Sword and shield is a check; but I don't think mounted combat is. The second combat starts; your mount usually runs to safety (leaving you there to fight alone!) You can get your mount to take a few hits by building up their stamina; but the second you pull out your weapon that bear/horse/etc is going to head for the hills. It literally rears up and dumps your butt on the ground (like a real horse would, lol).

On the outfit = you can wear the lowest level Bosmer cuirass for that top; just dye it the color you want. For the bottoms go pantsless and you'll have your bikini bottom.

A friend of mine said they are coming out with a bikini costume in the near future; I plan to get it if they do.

Here is an image of the lowest level Bosmer Cuirass (those shorts are the lowest level Argonian guards = both bottom and top are medium armor). Just because I liked them in the natural color they come in; I didn't dye them at all. You can make them closer to that silver color in the screenshot by dying)


https://i.imgur.com/a5huTii.png


Oh, and you can do this top without those pointy shoulder pieces, those are her (armor) arm cops; just don't equip any arm cops for more of a sexy "top" look.


** Using the panties as your bottoms instead of armor: Here is my Aldmeri girl "Pantsless Calia" showing off how she played the game without any armor from the chest down:


https://i.imgur.com/c97LJV9.png



She actually started a fad going around Auridon that way; for a while there I was seeing people playing pantsless everywhere;









This post has been edited by mALX: Dec 8 2017, 05:44 AM

The problem is going to be when he gets into the 4th tier when the gear drastically changes appearance. As far as Khajiit has seen, there aren’t many middrift bearing armors, Mazzatun being the most notable. Definitely no “metal bikini’s”, lol

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Dec 8 2017, 05:51 AM

Well, they DO have the metal bra; but it comes with its own bottom that can't be separated:



https://i.imgur.com/o3JVKBC.png


https://i.imgur.com/xWZIrXi.png



Here is "Pantsless" Calia wearing pants for a change; but going topless to dance on stage with Buffy...



https://i.imgur.com/uHUd8FR.png

The Dark Seducer armor might work for him. It’s so... Daedric, though, lol

Ghastley Loves Daedric style! Dig through pictures of his mods some time!!!

Ooh! Khajiit forgot about Draugr medium style! It would be almost perfect.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Dec 8 2017, 06:50 AM

The basic rule I set myself in the Bear Rider lore was that the bears don't like armour next to their fur. Bare midriff is not a requirement, just fallout from style. So even steel plate panties were out, but cloth pants would actually be OK. Just don't pluck the fur, by catching in chain, or between plates.

The "weapons while mounted" was more about Oblivion actually hiding any equipped weapons, and not necessarily being able to wave them.

Well Khajiit has no doubt you can create a character you will be fairly happy with. Start with getting the Cave Bear (since it’s always available) until they release the Snow Bear in the Crown Store, and maybe go with the Bosmer medium cuirass to start with. Breton sword, maybe a Redguard shield. Rest of the armor should probably be Nord. Khajiit will be happy to make you starting gear (as this one is sure others here would be happy to do too) in a set so you’ll be better off than using found gear.

Can you give another player furnishings? For instance, this one got a Khajiit style lantern in a New Life box but knows it would look good in one of you folks’ Khajiit style home.

I don't know about the stuff from the gift boxes; see if it says "Bound" on it on the upper right corner. I know anything from the Crown store and Achievement furnishings are all bound; but don't know about stuff like rewards unless it specifically says it is bound.

If it says bound in the upper right corner of its description, then no. If it does not say bound, then yes.

Edit: Oops, slower than mALX.

Ok I’ll have to check it later.

So for the purposes of the Master-at-Arms perk in the Atronach Constellation of the champion menu, what counts as “direct damage attack”?

I don't know - except to appreciate that such things are almost never 'simple' in ESO. I'm sure I've seen this question asked on the official forums before but don't recall the details and couldn't quickly find a thread on it.

Though the gazillions of posters on the official forums can sometimes often be less than gracious there is a ton of really smart folks there and some of them likely know. I'd ask over there.