Morrowind expansion discussion, Spoilerific discussion of the new Morrowind content Options

[Acadian]

Going through the patch notes regarding CP changes introduced with the MW expansion today. I’ve no doubt tweaks will come, but for now and to help me with initial CP reallocation, I took some notes:

New CP cap is 630.

Health, stamina, magicak CP gains are now capped at CP300 with +20% vs the old cap of 20% at CP600.

Gains are on a diminishing returns curve. Generally, 50 points = about 75% of the benefit.


100 points = +15%:
Hardy, Elemenal Defender, Quick Recovery, Siphoner, Mooncalf, Arcanist, Health, Tenacity, Tumbling, Blessed, Elemental Expert, Mighty.

100 points = +25%:
Ironclad, Thickskin, Bastion, Warlord, Shadowward, Elfbain, Shattering blows, Master at Arms, Thaumatage, Precise Strikes.

100 points = +35%:
Expert Defender, Sprinter, Bashing focus, Shade, Physical Weapons Expert, Staff Expert.

100 points = +55%: Befoul.

100 points = +5280:
Spell shield, Light armor focus, Medium armor focus, Heavy armor focus. Spell erosion, Piercing.

100 points = +1650: Resistant.

Edit: Oops. When I moved this post from another thread to here, somehow it made me the thread originator. I can't delete it to fix since that would delete the thread. Oh well. My intent was simply to add this post to hazmick's excellent new thread.

This post has been edited by Acadian: May 22 2017, 04:43 PM

[hazmick]

Incoming screenie dump, excuse the PTS watermarks:

A familiar sight

Some great armour designs

Buoyant Armiger

Telvanni guard

Militant Ordinator

New bugs

New...birds?

Silt strider

Vivec city

Vivec interior

Telvanni towers

Telvanni interior

Telvanni furniture

Ashlanders

Ashlands

Old new friend

This post has been edited by hazmick: May 22 2017, 06:15 PM

[mALX]

Incoming screenie dump, excuse the PTS watermarks:

A familiar sight

Some great armour designs

Buoyant Armiger

Telvanni guard

Militant Ordinator

New bugs

New...birds?

Silt strider

Vivec city

Vivec interior

Telvanni towers

Telvanni interior

Telvanni furniture

Ashlanders

Ashlands

Old new friend

Ooh, you got Divayth Fyr !!! I just met him yesterday for the first time, not sure how I missed him on the PTS, because I did that trial - I think because he looked so young that it never occurred to me that it was Divayth, so didn't notice his name, lol.

Oh so now the game starts in Morrowind? What about the Coldharbour stuff?

By starting in Morrowind, you don't "officially" become Soul Shriven until you set foot on the mainland and take the quest--kickstarting the beginning in Coldharbour without the tutorial bits. The game still functions as if you were though, lmao. I didn't get to see it myself, but apparently they put the intro cutscene back into the game that was removed with Tamriel Unlimited. The one where you get to watch the PC get sacrificed.

Anyways, I didn't get too far into the Morrowind storyline while in Beta, but I did explore a bit. My opinion of it was between "this is great!" and "this is too empty." It was advertised that exploration would be rewarding so I expect more than what you can find in vanilla (and you can find some neat things in out of the way locations), but then again I didn't explore too thoroughly.

Also, they decided to keep the rancid female Dunmer outfits, which is even worse because practically everything else fits Morrowind's aesthetic. It isn't as bad as the concept art, but jesus are the designs jarringly out of place. who greenlit this? Why weren't they limited to the mainland, where it would make more sense (especially if you take it as an imitation of Almalexia's...outfit....) A better alternative, IMO Like I said, the male outfits are basically what's displayed there. :T

Anyways, that rant aside, I figure I can share what I'm going for with my Warden once I decide to buy the expansion.

1, 2

The name was just a placeholder (that was taken, I ultimately went with Nord in Development) I'm mostly concerned about the hair and face. I guess I can ultimately go with that but idk. I got time to work on it I guess. Personality-wise, he's supposed to be a blend of Jo'zira and Eolan (there is a very good reason for this). As for Backstory...eh, gotta work on that too.

Great looking Warden!

I kind of agree with you on the main questline - almost too easy, but fun! I was hoping for it to be a bit harder; more involved from the sound of the build up Zen gave it. It ended too quickly, in my (humble) opinion.

Aw man. No Cephalopod helm for Telvanni guards?

Not yet? I'm sure they'll find a way to profit from adding it later.

Best addition so far has to be the new songs added to the lute emote. Haa-Rei has been rocking out in the Sadrith Mora town square.

Speaking of Sadrith Mora - the Telvanni house isn't yet purchasable but it's listed as a 'notable' home so it's likely going to be reeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaally expensive.

Yes, the outside of it looked Awesome, but I wasn't very impressed with the size or look of the interior. I think the only draw inside would be the transporter.

Datamining has been done and tbh, two of the hairs caught my eye.

This one's for maybe replicating one of my Skyrim characters in ESO now that there's a frost/healing class. (maybe...oh, hey!
I completely forgot that until recently he was my avatar here!)

This one probably for my warden, since in my mind he always had Eolan's hair and I didn't want to repeat it on another character.

Wait, THAT is your avatar here? I ... Uh ... your avatar looks like a baby alligator hatching from its egg, am I ... huh?

Second: Did you say those characters are from Skyrim? That game does not look like Skyrim to me, Wow !!! I think I need a quick trip to the eye doctor here!!!

[monkeyemoness]

Datamining has been done and tbh, two of the hairs caught my eye.

This one's for maybe replicating one of my Skyrim characters in ESO now that there's a frost/healing class. (maybe...oh, hey!
I completely forgot that until recently he was my avatar here!)

This one probably for my warden, since in my mind he always had Eolan's hair and I didn't want to repeat it on another character.

Wait, THAT is your avatar here? I ... Uh ... your avatar looks like a baby alligator hatching from its egg, am I ... huh?

Second: Did you say those characters are from Skyrim? That game does not look like Skyrim to me, Wow !!! I think I need a quick trip to the eye doctor here!!!

Oh, my current avatar is from this comic. I recently changed it to that.

The avatar I had before was of my Skyrim character, which wasn't supposed to stay as long as it did.

I'm guessing these hairs are coming with the Dwemer Crown Crate rewards and once I get access to Wardens, I'm shooting for both hairs so I can use one of them to recreate one of my Skyrim characters. He Approve


Anyways, as far as the Clockwork City goes, they said that this isn't supposed to be THE Clockwork City, but just a small section of it. A preview, in some ways. We're still getting that Clockwork City DLC, Morrowind just sort of leads into it a little more.

It's not like the plot progress hasn't been drip fed to us for longer than it should have, though. :V

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: May 26 2017, 12:04 AM

[mALX]

Datamining has been done and tbh, two of the hairs caught my eye.

This one's for maybe replicating one of my Skyrim characters in ESO now that there's a frost/healing class. (maybe...oh, hey!
I completely forgot that until recently he was my avatar here!)

This one probably for my warden, since in my mind he always had Eolan's hair and I didn't want to repeat it on another character.

Wait, THAT is your avatar here? I ... Uh ... your avatar looks like a baby alligator hatching from its egg, am I ... huh?

Second: Did you say those characters are from Skyrim? That game does not look like Skyrim to me, Wow !!! I think I need a quick trip to the eye doctor here!!!

Oh, my current avatar is from this comic. I recently changed it to that.

The avatar I had before was of my Skyrim character, which wasn't supposed to stay as long as it did.

I'm guessing these hairs are coming with the Dwemer Crown Crate rewards and once I get access to Wardens, I'm shooting for both hairs so I can use one of them to recreate one of my Skyrim characters. He Approve


Anyways, as far as the Clockwork City goes, they said that this isn't supposed to be THE Clockwork City, but just a small section of it. A preview, in some ways. We're still getting that Clockwork City DLC, Morrowind just sort of leads into it a little more.

It's not like the plot progress hasn't been drip fed to us for longer than it should have, though. :V

Oh, I DO remember that avatar !!!! That comic you posted = !!!!