WOO HOO!!!! Congrats on Jerric's release from that darn prison ESO had him locked up in!

*Misa sends him a keg of Mead for the party she guesses he will want to have now!*

So as I work on another TES related project, I started thinking about my stance on how Summerset was the end of the original 3's arcs and realized how stupid and wrong I was.

I guess the focus will shift a bit, but they're not done.

Aw,

Unna has been resisting a trip to Cyrodill for Vigor/Caltrops, so we tried Battlegrounds as an alternative. It seems to work. She runs around like a headless chicken for five minutes and gets 7k AP for being on the losing team. She doesn't even use up her soul gems to get resurrected, which is good, as she averages about 9 deaths per round. We'll stop at Caltrops; nothing else in that line is needed. Then, it's back to Undaunted dailies, or maybe even pledges with the new tools in the box.

Everyone else is just doing their crafting research, but they all need the same sorts of skill additions that will take some grind and leaving their comfort zones. Minx still has to finish the main quest and reach level 50, but she's almost completed her mount training.

Trey let Jerric carry him in his backpack on a run through the first part of Fungal Grotto. Buffy provided her usual stellar support- so Trey managed to avoid dying. He might have swatted a mudcrab or two along the way...

Many thanks to Grits and Acadian for an excellent session!

All credit to Buffy, she is a host unto herself! Jerric loved that dungeon run with friends. He is still picking crab meat out of his teeth.

Holy Crap I Did It Ruben's a real boy now.

He was my first official Bank Mule, as evidenced by the fact that he has a real name. He was then made into a "backup" crafter that I played on and off again.

With Jewelry crafting added, he's now the official Jeweler, and it's ALL he crafts. Prolly won't use him for anything but crafting, but at least he can get his own surveys now.

I have Battleground Burn-out. Unna, Blossom and Taminwe have all picked up their Vigor and Caltrops, and Laurie and Cat Man Dhou have got their Warhorns. Minx did the starter one, but she's gone back to the MQ for now.

The Sorcs look like they can do without any, but I'm sure they have their own grind to do.

I hear the song playing in the background! ("I'm a big kid now!")







Wow, you've really gotten a lot accomplished! So...do you have any tips or advice for a new player going into the Battlegrounds? I've only gone in them once during the Midyear Mayhem a few years ago (to get the achievement). I had to keep going in till I got a team that could win, but they sure didn't have my help doing it, lol. Britta spent all her time dead or resurrecting, lol. And the worst part about that is = she is my toughest character,

Grats to Ruben!

Like mALX, I've been following ghastley's progress with battlegrounds since I've never done one. The variations of Buffy that carry bow/bow have gotten Vigror & Caltrops by joining keep capture groups in Cyrodiil, stacking on the crown and shooting from the middle of the pack. It has worked okay but am intrigued by ghastley's progress. I've also seen others recommending battlegrounds on the official forums. Fortunately, when Buffy is carrying staff/staff there is not really anything in the Alliance skills she wants so she can forego PvP completely.

Just that it's exactly the way to play it. You get the 7k AP for coming last with zero points, so it just doesn't matter what happens. Since it's a timed mini-game, your progress rate is guaranteed. Go whack away and die often, but have fun! My team did get zero points twice in a row! I'm sort of proud of that.

I noticed that most of my deaths were to proc sets I couldn't get yet, or even the Caltrops etc. I was there to get. There are obviously players who specialize in BG, and you can't beat those.

FWIW, I did get a few wins, with Kamikaze tactics. Whenever my team got the chaos ball, or another team's relic, I would just leap into attacking the pursuit group, to slow them down. That often was enough to let my team get the extra points we needed by reaching base, or adding to our possession time.

Laurie and Cat Man Dhou even manage to carry the chaos ball a couple of times, as that's an appropriate tank role. Just run and hide, as you get points for time of possession. I think some didn't realise that you don't take it home, like the relic game.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Dec 3 2018, 04:17 PM

That is exactly what I did in trying to get that achievement for Britta = I just kept PUG'ing her in until she chanced on a team that was good enough to carry her (she was absolutely their worst member). Her armor worked well in PvP in Cyrodiil; but in those Battlegrounds its Proc'ing didn't seem to affect the Players at all.

When I'm going to Cyrodiil a lot with a character; I do change their CP points around so it is optimized for PvP; but if you get the AP points without winning in the Battlegrounds = no need to go through all that; which is another bonus!

The Cyrodiil PvP seemed to be a lot easier; and a lot more fun for me (I love doing the Alliance War) = but it does take a lot longer to raise your levels in Cyrodiil.




Ooh, these are great tips! Thank you so much!

Congrats to Ruben! He's had quite a journey.

And congratulations to ghastley's BG crew! Thank you very much for the tips. I have a couple who would like those skills, but are not Cyrodiil ready.

I think a few times there were players on the team who made zero effort. You get the 7k AP for getting killed and just lying dead until the game is over, and some appeared to be using that tactic.

Their poor team mates, lol.

I know I spent a lot of time lying dead in BG

Fortunately, I always regenerated and jumped back into the fray

Julian ended up going back to Cyrodiil - it seemed she got the points needed to unlock Vigor and Caltrops much faster that way - of course, joining a nice PVP guild helped . . .

Britta had a blast in Cyrodiil; I loved that Alliance War! Taking and defending the Keeps; repairing them after a battle; spying on the enemies in those scouting missions; taking the enemy's Elder Scrolls and trying to get them back to your Alliance before they catch you = that Alliance war is Awesome fun!

Unfortunately; I think my PC was getting too worn out to handle the combat down there ever since that patch they put in during Midyear Mayhem two years ago. It started freezing up and making a loud beeping noise through the headset every time I got into combat down there = even combat with the NPC's! I've only gone back for the skyshards since then; or to the Imperial City Sewers and districts (where the computer didn't freeze up in combat).







This post has been edited by mALX: Dec 3 2018, 06:34 PM

I suspect Cyrodiil is faster if you don't die often, but BG provides a minumum rate of AP. One scouting quest in Cyro takes as long as a BG game, and gets 500, and only if you don't die on the way there. You need support to get AP in Cyro, but in BG you don't. So for players without guild help, BG seems to be the faster.

Well I'm going to try it! Is the AP what gives you the skill ups in the Alliance War lines? And if so, then why don't we get skill- ups from the AP we've been getting in our daily rewards these past few months?

Also, if we get the skill ups from the AP = and we can bank AP; why can't we just have the characters pull the AP from the bank and get the skill up from it (then put it back in the bank and have the next character take it?).

I guess what I'm asking is = how does it work?

It's the character that accepts the log-in reward that gets credit for acquiring the AP, and it does count towards skill-ups. However, one level takes 30,000, 60,000, or 90,000 (for levels 4, 5 and six, where you get Warhorn, Vigor, and Caltrops) so the 2,000 at a time doesn't go far. It's 1/4 of one BG round, and it's for one character maximum, on the days it happens. We haven't received enough AP in total for one level-up in Alliance, even if we carefully took them all on one character.

Transfers between characters don't acquire any more AP for the account, so do nothing. You can't transfer between players, only one player's characters via the bank. Banking your AP doesn't lose your skill-up record, as it only counts it coming in from outside.

The only "currency" you can send to another player is gold. You can also send items as gifts, that may or may not be tradable for other stuff, but AP seems account-locked until you spend it on stuff and the reverse transactions can't get back AP. Just like you can't trade things for writ vouchers, or event tickets. All the things you get with the secondary currencies can only be sold for gold.