Nope, got the Palomino because we bought the “Gold Edition” of the game.

Oh, Mira looked Awesome today! I couldn't stop because I was in the middle of trying to do Master Writs and kept coming up short for items needed to do them,

Lol, we were trying different armor looks (not really for Mira herself) to get an idea of how some of those early armors look mixed together. Really should’ve been working on Feng but he is getting a ton of attention right now (though Khajiit feels that Feng has been somewhat neglected overall), and hopefully he will be up to Mira and Brenna’s level when the new update drops and we start our two new combat characters.

I'm pretty sure we have a thread with images of Misa modeling all the early armors; we were going to keep up with it, but Tamriel Fashions already had them all, so we kind of stopped our thread at the first level of armors, lol.





Here is a link to it:

https://imgur.com/a/aMjZ7

Yeah Khajiit usually looks at ESO Fashion when he needs a general idea of what a motif looks like. Unfortunately, they don’t show what the individual pieces look like by themselves (though they are starting to add this for some of the motifs), so you can’t really tell where the chest piece ends and the pants begin. Not to mention it’s nice to see how parts of a motif look when mixed in with other motifs. For this, you pretty much have to model them in game.

Because I wanted to experiment with the character class, I created a new Altmer sorcerer today---

Jonas Psmith

And as my dad liked to say, "The 'P' is silent- as in 'swimming'."

Khajiit, one thing I find can help work the finer points to decide which pieces of which motif for final (CP160) armors is to make unimproved pieces of what I think I want in level CP150. The appearance is identical to CP160 but the pieces cost a fraction of the mats that 160 stuff does. Then you try on, mix/match, even see how they take dyes before you commit and make a big gurlcat set.

Yeah Khajiit usually does this with higher level armors. What he was doing the other day with Mira was looking at how lower level racial motifs (rawhide, iron, homespun), that look so radically different from their higher level versions, look when mixed with other motifs. For instance, the rawhide Bosmer chest piece mixed with various other leg pieces. This was mainly in preparation for the new update for outfits.

Loggin in today I learned that the Squad is on their final piece of research for the crafts they don't specialize in. In about a month, they'll be master crafters! ...well, motifs aside anyways. They don't even have the recent motifs for their main craft skills

Feng finished the side quest requirements in Greenshade and got the Greenshade Adventurer achievement. Now he is sitting squarely in the middle of lvl41 and still has the Dominion Campaign to finish and all of the side quests in Malabal Tor and Reaper’s March. Next stop, Malabal Tor.

Meanwhile, Razak is getting lots of stuff to grind up and research thanks to Feng’s escapades through the AD.

With the impending release of the Outfit system, we're more attentive to dyes than before. I've been looking through the potential completionist achievements that reward with dyes, and deciding what shades of mud we like, and which aren't worth the effort.

Indoril Blue was worthwhile, and Spreads would like a different shade of pink to improve the contrast on her costume. The two in use are too close. So we're looking for that. On the other hand, the baby netch blue for the Bleakrock/Bal Foyen one probably won't tempt us.

Blossom is using Unna's Red Diamond Red on her costume at present, but the brighter ones all seem to be end-game shades we won't be seeing for a long time. (Or they're crowns-only die-stamps).

Most of our meagre selection have come without conscious collection, but now we're looking for them. Does any more experienced player have any suggestions? Especially for metallics, as Unna's looking to wear plate.

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Unna has just moved into Shadowfen, but not done anything but report in, and get the first quest. Blossom has finished off Angof, but not left Glenumbra. She'll do the side-quests first. Laurie is catching up to her, and has already done many of the side-quests that Blossom hasn't as she gets caught up in them while foraging for materials. Wizwen has done the Grahtwood main line quests, and is back-filling, too. Cat Man Dhou and Spreads still have to complete their second-tier zones, but are keeping up their daily writs and riding lessons. All may be pressed into dye-earning campaigns, along with their constant hunt for furniture plans.

Laurie has started to get the minor achievements for knowing all traits of an Alchemy ingredient, but wormwood and blessed thistle keep disappearing for writs before she can use them. The wiki says the writs will want "a random reagent" by those two are in heavy rotation. We saw corn flower once, but no others.

I completely forgot to say that I want to pet his face-fur but I think that's probably more inappropriate to say to a Khajiit than a human people :v

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Anyways, I'm glad I finished my motifs a while back because trying to get some of them now will cost you about 5-10k more than they should be selling lmao (My experience with Morag Tong Boots so far, so Jo'zira can complete a writ. Probably going to give it to the crafting monkey tbh, because why would Jo'zira need the motif anyways)

Khajiit just spent 59k on Mazzatun legs D:

Need to find a way to make more gold.

I don't think Unna will be doing that!

Lol, gee this one wonders why?
The motif chapter we bought is basically a skirt across all classes of armor. Very handy.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Jan 29 2018, 11:28 PM

Mazzatun is the very last motif the Squad bought to learn themselves before I decided that RP wasn't enough of a reason to blow hundreds of thousands of gold on motifs the Crafting Monkey already learned. The Outfit system backs up my decision, as does how stupid-rare Buoyant Armiger is. Good thing that Crown Crate dropped a full motif. Still think it's the best drop I've ever had.

Also grabbed a Telvanni sword chapter for around 10k. Khajiit loves the look of this sword!

Today I also decided Xochitl and Jo'zira needed to have all the green recipes. There's at least 240 of them. They both have around half. :v

Lol, so many recipes it makes Khajiit’s head spin!

I have become convinced that ZOS's random number generator is broken. Unna now has four instances of the Ring of the Night Mother, and every heavy helm the entire crew possesses is either Reinforced, or has no trait.

She did finally get three pieces of Plague Doctor she can wear; two rings and an amulet. She also has the sash, but can't use it until she makes herself another piece of the Death's Wind set. That would be the helm, if every helm in the games wasn't Reinforced, and she could learn a second trait!

Of course, we'd have no problem making greaves...

This post has been edited by ghastley: Jan 30 2018, 05:38 AM