Significant: "create custom jewelry for the current crafted item sets"

This tells me that they haven't made this for new sets only, but adds confusion about attuned stations. Will every jewelry station make any piece? More to the point, how many do we need at Hunding's Hall? I don't believe they'll pass up the chance to sell at least one, but greed has been known in the past.

And no mention of Outfit system changes. Unna is miffed.

[censored]. Guess Khajiit will have to buy this chapter. Really sucks they are holding jewelry crafting ransom.

At least Khajiit could try it on PTS before handing over the moolah. Assuming the pre-purchase offer doesn't expire before PTS availablility.

Are they that mean?

I'd assume the last part is just for dramatic effect, like how Dark Anchors are pulling Tamriel into Coldharbour or whatever.

^Probably. Without it, these sound 100% like the Craglorn portals so it was probably to make them seem different lol




They could end up doing something completely different this year, but you had to have gotten special permission to try it out on the PTS whether you bought it or not. That said, for Morrowind the pre-purchase offer persisted after the Early Access period (I know because I got mine on June before the "official" release and still got the bonuses).

I was forgetting that your PTS access mirrors your live as far as Chapters and DLC go. Yes, you'd have to buy it before you could use it on PTS, too.

The exception that led me off in the wrong direction is the Crown Store, where you can buy almost anything they want you to try for a single crown, and the template characters get a big supply for free. I was busy trial-furnishing over there just before they recopied over the top of it. Ditto with Outfits slots, before they released.

Let Crafting Hell Commence!

Anniversary Event runs from Wednesday, April 4th to Monday, April 16th. New quest must be completed for a new cake with three tiers in order to get the EXP bonus.

The rewards from the Anniversary Gift Boxes are the same as last year, with a rare chance to get the newer motifs and an even rarer chance to get the Worm Cult motif. Hm....I can see this is going to be an issue. Personally, I would have preferred Worm Cult to be a separate drop from the Motif/Rare Craftng Material Drop but whatever.

Reminder that only Daily Quests count for an Anniversary Gift Box drop (as in the kind that only reset by the next day), not those infinitely repeatables like the Thieves Guild board quests.

And of course the whining has already begun on the forums.

The general gist is that the entitled want the new motif to be easy to get for them, but hard for everyone else, so they can make a lot of gold. If it's not like that, then it's not fair!

Does anyone actually wear stuff using the rare motifs, or are they just part of the Master Writ economy? Should I be trading in Worm Cult Futures?

Yeah, the whining was inevitable regardless of what they did. Personally I think it works out for the general population. It's great that there's a sort of catch-up event for people that don't religiously collect motifs (like I do), especially now that we have Outfits to use these motifs on as well as Master Writs. People seem to forget that this is a game.

I love this festival because there's a chance I'll get a rare motif page that I otherwise can't afford to buy, plus I love the crafting goodies. Crafting bag means it will just be there when Elke needs it. Without the crafting bag I would probably sit this one out!

Thank you for the news!

Now the NDA's are coming off for Summerset, I'm happy to note that two-handed weapons are becoming two parts of a set, so Unna's no longer at a double disadvantage. I didn't notice any mention of "hide pants", but I'm still hoping.

Of course, if we need to buy the Chapter to get that, then we're not so happy.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Apr 3 2018, 04:54 PM

Some of the best news, tbh.

Additional note:

• Artaeum is a separate zone the size of a DLC zone, just as the datamining found. Alinor is slightly smaller than Vvardenfell.
• Jewelry traits are found in a similar fashion to Nirnhoned gear, in that you need to do quests in Summerset to find them. The trait stones are restricted to certain activities, with specific stones locked to specific activities. (One in Trial rewards, one in Cyrodiil, one in Summerset dailies, etc.) Old jewelry can't be deconstructed, but it can be re-traited.
• The Abyssal Geysers are basically Dolmen, lol

April Crown Store Showcase

Nothing particularly interesting to Khajiit, but the Argo selections might be nice for Argo magicka characters.

Coming Soon: Battlegrounds for All & Morrowind Moving to Crown Store & ESO Plus!

Huh.

Starting with Summerset's launch, Morrowind can be bought from the Crown Store as a DLC if you haven't upgraded yet, and bundled with new accounts by default. The Warden class will be a separate Crown Store purchase. Battlegrounds also become part of the base game without an additional purchase.

You can also get the stuff bundled with the collector's pack as separate items? Like, just the stuff, the DLC isn't included in it???? That's...actually kinda neat. You'd think they'd dump those into the Crown Crates.

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: Apr 6 2018, 09:12 PM

This makes it way more likely that Khajiit is going to wait on Summerset, tbh.

Makes me glad I didn't opt for the Morrowind edition when I joined. My ESO+ will cover that now.

Well from a business standpoint, it seems ill timed. It sends the message that you can not waste your money buying the chapter now and get it for free later. Khajiit would still buy Morrowind, knowing what he knows now, because with that you got a new class. Summerset gives you... jewelry crafting with a limitation that you can only find jewelry stuff in Summerset? No thanks, Khajiit will wait for it to be free.

Weeeeell, you can only find some of the TRAIT STONES in Summerset, as well as jewelry used for research. You can find the basic materials everywhere, even without the Chapter, and I get the feeling the largest draw of Jewelry crafting will be improving and possibly re-traiting existing Jewelry.

They said that it's not supposed to shake up the meta too much, but I find that unlikely, and I'm sure a lot of people feel the same way whether or not it ends up being true. It's like the Warden all over again.

Then you have the people that don't want to wait and will buy it regardless, whether it's for the story content, the new zone to explore, because they like Altmer (even with the amount of detractors given how un-Altmeri everything looks--and I agree with them), and just new things in general.

Now that they've shown that they can turn chapters into DLCs, they can get people that didn't go for it the first time.

I was concerned about Morrowind, with all the sales going on and the early access, but this year I'm less concerned. I think they know exactly what they're doing here.

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: Apr 7 2018, 09:08 PM

One Extra Week of the Anniversary Event

Time to plan that out and distribute materials I guess...

Oh nice!