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]

So now that the initial shock of a new game has worn off, I’m finding it’s possible to roleplay in this game after all. The breakthrough moment was in the inventory screen, funnily enough. Jerric had picked up some spoiled food somewhere, and the description of the item indicated clearly that it was disgusting, spoiled food. So Jerric ate it. And promptly threw up while still in the inventory screen. It was hilarious, and only Jerric would have actually eaten that spoiled food. I wonder if the other people who were milling around saw him barf or if it just looked like he was digging through his backpack.

Also Jerric figured out how to cook the fish that he caught. First you ‘use’ them in the inventory menu to clean them into the ‘fish’ ingredient, then you can cook them if you know a recipe. This is important to Jerric because the only things he knows how to cook are corn, some drink with comberries, and fishy sticks. It was killing him to have all of this fish in his bag yet still not available to him. Now he’s going to spend all of his time digging for worms and fishing.

Provisioning (cooking) and alchemy are the only crafts that Jerric is interested in, which is not surprising. When he saw that he could buy glyphs for enchanting he sold every bit of enchanting material he had gathered. He held on to some stuff to make clothing (light armor), but he is not spending any time studying the craft. Same thing with blacksmithing. He made a sword because he couldn’t find one, but somehow it’s too high a level for him to actually use. So he flung it into storage and kept his clunky mace. (Which is frost-enchanted and looks mistily cool I might mention, but he’s a bit sour on the subject of weapons right now so I won’t.)

In other news, the dye station started working, woo! I wonder if there’s a level requirement or if it just didn’t quite make the PS4 release date. Either way Jerric is happy that his gauntlets are no longer bright green. He might buy that ugly green shirt back and dye it a different color (grey) now that he knows how. He liked it because it was plain apart from the bright color, and most of the stuff he finds has fur sticking out all over. Jerric has enough of that going on without adding it to the clothing.

[mALX]

So now that the initial shock of a new game has worn off, I’m finding it’s possible to roleplay in this game after all. The breakthrough moment was in the inventory screen, funnily enough. Jerric had picked up some spoiled food somewhere, and the description of the item indicated clearly that it was disgusting, spoiled food. So Jerric ate it. And promptly threw up while still in the inventory screen. It was hilarious, and only Jerric would have actually eaten that spoiled food. I wonder if the other people who were milling around saw him barf or if it just looked like he was digging through his backpack.

Also Jerric figured out how to cook the fish that he caught. First you ‘use’ them in the inventory menu to clean them into the ‘fish’ ingredient, then you can cook them if you know a recipe. This is important to Jerric because the only things he knows how to cook are corn, some drink with comberries, and fishy sticks. It was killing him to have all of this fish in his bag yet still not available to him. Now he’s going to spend all of his time digging for worms and fishing.

Provisioning (cooking) and alchemy are the only crafts that Jerric is interested in, which is not surprising. When he saw that he could buy glyphs for enchanting he sold every bit of enchanting material he had gathered. He held on to some stuff to make clothing (light armor), but he is not spending any time studying the craft. Same thing with blacksmithing. He made a sword because he couldn’t find one, but somehow it’s too high a level for him to actually use. So he flung it into storage and kept his clunky mace. (Which is frost-enchanted and looks mistily cool I might mention, but he’s a bit sour on the subject of weapons right now so I won’t.)

In other news, the dye station started working, woo! I wonder if there’s a level requirement or if it just didn’t quite make the PS4 release date. Either way Jerric is happy that his gauntlets are no longer bright green. He might buy that ugly green shirt back and dye it a different color (grey) now that he knows how. He liked it because it was plain apart from the bright color, and most of the stuff he finds has fur sticking out all over. Jerric has enough of that going on without adding it to the clothing.

This is fascinating! I haven't fished or crafted any food yet; but have at least a dozen recipes. I got duplicates of some and put them into the bank in case my son or I start a new character.

(you were right about the bank being per Player, not per Character; because I went into the bank and found a bunch of awesome stuff I didn't stick in there, my son did).

So I pulled all the food and beverage making stuff out of the bank and sold it, because I've got no room to carry anything;


I'm amazed Jerric's first sword was so far over his level, and that makes me want to get into crafting weapons and armor a lot quicker than I had planned - if nothing else, to sell them for income. But also, to put them in the bank for later.

I just got a bunch of level 7 equipment and have no enchanting glyphs left, so put the equipment in the bank till I can gather the runes to enchant them, then I'll swap out what I'm wearing; which is all level 2-3 stuff.

I've also been keeping any good weapons I come across in the bank for a possible future character to have a good store ready and waiting.

I saw the dying station, and passed it by, I like the pretty green greaves on Misa, lol. But I'm really excited about how much crafting Jerric is doing! If you have any tips on how to do any of these things, I'm all ears. I haven't crafted anything but the enchanting so far.

I tried with the alchemy, and didn't get far at all - and I have a bunch of stuff that says "Traits," didn't know what it was for, so socked it into the bank.

Haa-Rei has several tea recipes, but inventory space is incredibly limited due to clothing and woodworking supplies. Need to find a merchant who can expand the inventory.

Then he wants to save up for a horse, just so he has one for an emergency. He doesn't want to be one of those people who gallops through towns and rushes around all the time - you know the type.

Had some issues with lag, as expected, and with invisible NPC's, but there was an update yesterday which apparently fixed it so everywhere is full of people again.

Used a dying station before, but most of the dyes were locked behind achievements which Haa Rei needs to go out and achieve. He just wants some nice green highlights for his fancy hide armor - is that too much to ask?

If you select each recipe in your inventory and activate it; your character "learns" the recipe and it disappears from your inventory, freeing up those slots. It won't let you "learn" the same recipe twice; so if it stops you because you already know it, then you can sell it or trade it with another Player.

I had to buy a backpack yesterday, the first one is just 400 gold, and it is an extra 10 slots.

[Grits]

I tried with the alchemy, and didn't get far at all - and I have a bunch of stuff that says "Traits," didn't know what it was for, so socked it into the bank.

Traits are an optional aspect of the clothier, woodworking, and blacksmithing crafts that in my opinion separate the folks who just want a new shirt (Jerric) from the true artisan characters. You know how you need a style material item to create something in those three crafts? Well to add a trait (which is not an enchantment though it sounds like one) to an item you’re creating you first need to have learned that trait by ‘researching’ on the craft bench that specific trait for that specific type of item plus have a trait material to use when you make the item. Researching traits takes time and destroys the item that you’re using to research the trait. At this point Jerric says Oh HELLS no and sells all of his trait materials. He might sell his style materials as well, since if he finds a style book to learn a not-Nord style he can just buy a piece of the style material if he wants to make something new to wear around town.

I do kind of want to make a master crafter character. It would be hard to keep them alive doing quests and leveling up enough to get skill points to put into their craft trees, though.

I’m curious if the level 8 sword that Jerric made a while ago and still can’t use will be any good compared to the things he finds when he actually gets to level 8. The level requirement for gear is a new thing for me. He’s level 6 now so time will tell. I have not tried to improve anything with tempering or whatever they call it, and Jerric has no skill points in any craft. He will put a few into alchemy so that he gets the passive that makes potions last longer, but other than that we’ll have to see.