This weekend:

Unna decided that running around with no pants and a title of Volunteer was bit too ...

So she got a new title: Librarian. The model of Vvardenfell has been installed upstairs at Mathiisen Manor, near the library.

The crew (except for Minx, who's a lot younger) have all finished their mount training. I've already noticed that I can't remember who's done their daily crafting. They always did the two together, and I could see in Craft Store who had training in progress.

Laurie did a few more Master Writs and inched closer to the 100 that unlocks things at Faustina's. She really wants to be able to make bath tubs. That took a couple of circuits of Craglorn to find another Potent Nirncrux. We have at least a dozen Fortified, so all the writs are for weapons. Or for nine-trait sets, where she only knows eight. Or for the one trait she hasn't yet researched. I just don't understand how the RNG system finds the gaps so accurately.

Oh, and I grabbed the Bravil Retriever before the limited time expired. He doesn't have a home yet, but that won't be for long.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Sep 17 2018, 01:43 PM

Grats on your Bravil Retriever!

All seven of my gang have completed their mount training. Yup, Stefan is over six months old now. They are also at 50 in all crafts, but Phae, Do Rah and Stefan remain at the lowest tier mats for crafting.

I do the daily writs in a certain order - Argis, Alise, Maz then Julian. Argis and Julian do only consumable, while Alise and Maz do all seven crafting. Alise is still at pewter on Jewelry, while Maz just leveled up to Platinum. All four are top tier in the original six crafts. Maz is the only nine trait crafter - we just don't really have the time to farm Craglorn for the elusive nirncrux, especially the potent form.

Maz does all the surveys, and the equipment and enchanting Master Writs. Argis does the Alchemy ones, while Julian does the Provisioning ones. Both Argis and Julian give their vouchers to Maz, and she pools them all together for the vendors.

Phae is working on her Silver, and has finished Eastmarch. The Rift is next for her, and she likely will smash and slam her way through that as well. She has discovered a love for charging her foes and knocking them down with her shield (Invasion is amazing), then blowing them up with her Subterranean Assault while Thunderpaws does his own damage. Unlike my older toons, she is a bit bloodthirsty about getting all the baddies in a given area before moving on. The only thing she doesn't like tackling is a troll - they can't be knocked down, and she lacks fire. Even so, this tiny Bosmer can deal the melee damage and beat them into submission - it just takes a little longer.

I'm debating whether to continue with her Gold right away, or give her a break and let Do Rah finish Vvardenfell. The two baby boys have been patiently cooling their heels waiting their turns.

Oh, ghastley, I agree. Unna the pantless volunteer does make her sound a bit like a camp follower. Unna the pantsless librarian though, is perfect. No one ever has to worry about her trying to sneak a book out of the library in her pants.

RNG = working as intended,




ROFL !!! I was going to say something similar, but just can't top this, so quoting it!


@ Haute - the price of Nirncrux is the lowest it has been since the game has started right now; so if you don't farm it you can always buy it at the Guild Traders. I have five dedicated crafters, but only one of them researched the Nirncrux due to the cost and rarity of the drops. (Misa). The rest are all stopped (or will stop) at 8 traits.




This post has been edited by mALX: Sep 17 2018, 03:13 PM

Well, after all this time, Feng-Do finally finished all of the unique sections of the Dominion main quest. He’s currently hunting down the only delve he hasn’t cleared in Reaper’s March and then he’ll get the Reaper’s March Explorer achievement (he’s already found all of the “eyeball” locations), and the Dominion Master Explorer one. Next we’ll probably work on sweeping Coldharbour and getting his soul back.

My crew have been busy crafting, and little else, it seems. The momentum is gathering, and I now have five characters at level 50 in Smithing/Clothier/Woodworking. And Wizwen just joined them in woodworking, with the other two skills not far behind. The more they stop deconstructing their own, and start passing them down, the faster the lower level characters advance, as they're getting more items.

Laurie has only one research to finish in Woodworking, and is completing more master writs for bows and staves. Four of them last night. She's now done 94 total, so the Unsurpassed achievement is within a couple of good days' work. Then she'll be able to buy that bath tub plan, and a whole lot more. There are more 8's than 7's in her Clothier and Smithing traits, but that's going as fast as it can, too. We have a stash of items waiting for research slots to open, and then we'll get back to Nirnhoned. Potent Nirncrux get used as soon as they come in, and anyone who gets a Craglorn survey does a complete circuit of foraging to make the most of the trip.

Some of the others have gone skyshard hunting, so they can get extra research slots, and move towards earning master writs themselves. Unna and Blossom are passing theirs to Laurie, even if they can do them, as she needs to hit that 100. CMD has got a couple of woodworking ones for her, too. He wants to reach Champion level before he puts more points into the other crafts, but we haven't really done anything about that since the guild meet. He did just raise his clothier, because we ran out of Cotton!

That has left little time for dungeon-diving, but we managed to squeeze in a few Undaunted daily delves, which sometimes get us a skyshard as well. Being able to port straight back to Snugpod saves a lot of time on those.

Turns out that the Summerfall event can be completed twice per account - by creating a character on the other server and completing the achievement there as well. So this morning an ice-blonde adventurer from Jerric's favorite childhood stories set forth to explore Summerset.

No crafting, no quest arrows, untrained mount. It was so much fun. She didn't get very far due to some quest givers yelling in your ear (I guess in case you have the arrows turned off!), but I believe we have the week to finish it. After all, she wouldn't be one of Jerric's heroes if she just walked past people who "needed" help.


I sure hope we get that big bath house.

Feng has reclaimed the Amulet of Kings and is about to attend a meeting between the alliance leaders to discuss plans for an invasion of Coldharbour.

LIke Grits, I hopped over to the EU server temporarily to pick up the Pathfinder achievement there. It was an hour well spent on an extremely slow horse with an incomplete mishmash of armor and a strawberry jello horse (one of the few mounts available to my account).

So now I’ve done my part for the community, I’m going back to Phae and focus on her Gold for as long as she wants to keep pushing. Yesterday I got her the pirate outfits, perfect fashion statement for Stros M’Kai. Of course, she chose the most revealing one (the bare chested option) and is smashing her way around the island.

Laurie is expecting to spend much of the weekend foraging for Potent nirncrux. She has several master writs that are only blocked by a lack of the trait material, and she's at 97/100 for the Unsurpassed Craftsman. Unna got a Blacksmith survey last night and did a circuit of Craglorn after that, only getting one Fortidied. If it wasn't for the Alchemy and Enchanting writs, she wouldn't have made any progress.

After that, we need to get Cat Man Dhou through the last few levels to reach 50. That will probably involve completing the MQ, as it's a decent source of XP, and skill points.

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Edit: And CMD has finally reached Champion. He got his soul back at level 49.95 and had to go and do a quest on Bleackrock Isle to finish off. Now, of course, his gear is 400 levels behind him, and he need all new equipment. The whole crew is scrabbling to find Blacksmithing and Woodworking surveys, as we don't have nearly enough materials for a complete set of 160.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Sep 23 2018, 01:29 AM

Spent the bulk of the day wandering around with Cirinwe, levelling up the Psijic skill line and collecting cursed items for their vault. After that was all sorted, we popped over to Vvardenfell to get all the tomb rubbings we needed. All of that gave us 3 new housing items, which fit nicely in the museum wing of the Alinor Townhouse (our new primary residence). Almost bought a cat too, but it's 1000 crowns so I'm still hesitating - it's so cute though!

Finished off the day with Haa-Rei, looking at gear sets. Some really nifty sets out there, especially one of the monster ones. Unfortunately it requires the completion of dungeons, so it will remain a dream for now.

Last night I got on my Son's account and took the highest character (Nightblade, DW, CP 130 or something) over to Summerset to get the Psijic line done. She completed the Queen's Decree just fine = no problems; but when she was supposed to "Defeat K'Tora" = couldn't do it. She died so many times that I finally gave up and resurrected at the wayshrine and took her back to Stonefalls. There were way too many adds; too many red circles to roll-dodge free of; and too many blue balls in the air. One of his arsenal was an AoE that took her health from full to empty in a split second; and no amount of throwing potions down her throat seemed to work. This is a strictly solo quest boss; but it was throwing down like it was a Veteran level group boss.

On my account = Misa (also a DW Nightblade; though she is CP 790 or so) beat that boss without issue; so I'm wondering if in one of these patches they really upped the mechanics on that boss?

A couple people in the Zen forums said they only made it through by switching to a bow; (but she didn't have a bow on her, or a single skill point spent in bows as a weapon; so I decided to pull her out and regroup = drop back 5 yards and punt)

So = if anyone has fought it since the latest patches has any tips to get through that fight = it would be greatly appreciated! (and just saying "stay alive" like my funny friends on TeamSpeak did won't help, )







This post has been edited by mALX: Sep 23 2018, 03:54 PM

I'd imagine any trouble below 160 CP is related to gear. If not, possibly an attribute issue.

You are right about the armor; her armor level is actually lower than her level by over 30 levels; I planned making her a current set when I pulled her out of that fight = was not sure what to put her in though.

The set she is in now was Night Mother's Gaze, Hundings Rage, and two pieces of another set that gives +129 Weapon damage for a "fake monster set." (and weapon damage enchantment on her jewelry). That combination did NOT seem to work as well together as I thought it would.

Any (crafted) armor sets you could suggest for a Stam Nightblade that DW's? I'd appreciate any advice.

Her last set was 5 Night Mother's Gaze, 2 Kvatch Gladiator for the "fake monster set," 5 Twice Born Star (all Divines); Warrior and I think Thief were her Mundus stones. = that set WAY out-performed this set; and she used it from level 38 all the way up to CP 70. (but it is really hard to judge since at level 38 she was still really buffed by the game itself). I really wish they didn't buff our early characters, there is no way to know what is good or isn't during that buffing stage.



This post has been edited by mALX: Sep 23 2018, 04:31 PM

Honestly your knowledge of crafted sets will vastly outweigh my own - I haven't crafted anything for about 6 months We have a ton of gear in the guild bank though, perhaps something in there might help

This post has been edited by hazmick: Sep 23 2018, 04:34 PM

Feng is using Hundings and 5 pieces of song of Lamae for defense. Unfortunately, since we don’t have Summerset, his jewelry is all Flanking which we had plenty of and seemed to go along with his skill set. He slices and dices fairly well but if he starts to take too much damage or runs out of stamina he dies fairly quickly.

All the stuff in the guild bank is CP 160, she can't wear it yet. I was trying to get her to CP 160 without making her a new set of armor till she reached it; but I guess that bird has flown,






I remember I kept Misa in Song of Lamae and Night Mother's Gaze right up to CP 160; and my Tank wears Song of Lamae still. That is a good idea; I could give her some defense instead of pushing for so much DPS before she has the CP points to cover it.

Thank you both for all your help, it is greatly appreciated!

Lol, well Khajiit doesn’t know how much of a help he was, but you are welcome all the same. FYI: Feng is using the Lover stone as an alternate to Warrior for weapon damage. He is also using the “divines” trait on his armor, except for chest, legs, and helm on which he’s using “infused” to increase the health enchantment he’s placed on those items. Would really like to try Twice Born Star with divines traits. Khajiit bets a combo of Lover and Warrior would be pretty badass.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Sep 23 2018, 05:41 PM

If the character is at CP130, I'd suggest grabbing XP scrolls, potions etc. and trying to get past CP160 on the easier quests first. You'll only have to make more. anyway. Does the current stuff have the Training trait?