Let's Talk About Characters Options

[Grits]

Ever since I saw the first character gen video I've had my heart set on a pot-bellied Argonian mage with blue feathers called He-Knows. Or maybe Picks-His-Nose. Either way he will have narrow shoulders, ample thighs, and a mead gut. I haven't read enough about classes and whatnot to predict anything else.

What are your ideas? What characters have you already made?

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This post has been edited by Grits: Sep 15 2016, 11:37 PM

[Grits]

Thank you very much, mALX! This is a treasure trove of useful information.

I still like the Nightblade class for my Redguard ranger. There is probably some overlap with the bow skill line/tree/whatever they’re calling it, so I need to do some more reading. I think I saw somewhere that you can reallocate points if you change your mind, but I don’t remember the cost or the mechanism.

The Backlash ability from the Templar class Dawn’s Wrath skill line finally got Jerric’s attention. A quote from this page:

“Backlash is Templar’s ability that can be learned in Dawn’s Wrath school. When a Templar activates the spell all damage he receives stores up. After the effect ends enemies takes additional damage.

The ability works great when you get attacked by several opponents. You should try to receive more damage in order to return received damage to enemies. It may seem a little crazy, but your goal after casting Backslash is to take as many damage as you can. Just don’t forget to restore health.”

Underlined part: Ha ha ha ha . Just add a Frost destruction staff, SubRosa thank you very much for that link, and hope for some summoning option (maybe from the Mages Guild quests) that I haven’t discovered yet, and he’s starting to sound familiar.

The thing I don't like is that from what I have read, once you have created your character, you can never go back and change their appearance. Not even their hairstyle or lipstick. Given that in every video game ever made your characters never look the same in the game as they do in the character generation, this is really annoying. I have already ranted about having to restart my Mass Effect 1 character dozens of times and sit through that game's interminable opening cinematics. So if you do not like how your character looks you will have to delete the character and start over from scratch.

Here’s where the three character deletions per day comes in. You get three tries and then you have to wait before you can try again.

I like how the women look, but I’m not a big fan of any of the ESO males I’ve seen so far. Their faces look a bit plastic to me, and the beards are hilarious. On the plus side at least the Nord men are hairy.