ESO 2020 Discussion - The Dark Heart of Skyrim Options

[RaderOfTheLostArk]

Alright, people. We've finally gotten a look at and quite a bit of information about the season-long story for ESO this year: The Dark Heart of Skyrim. This specific thread will be for discussion about it. What do you think about what ZOS had to say regarding this year's content during the live reveal? What confirmed content excites you the most? What are you hoping for or predicting will come out in terms of locations, monsters, dungeons, etc.? So on and so on.

And...discuss!

[ghastley]

I'm a bit confused if the Blackreach in ESO is supposed to be the same cavern we had in TES V: Skyrim, or the latter was just part of a larger underground realm, cut off by that time. So ESO gets the potential for it to spread under other provinces?

I also haven't quite caught whether the vampires are in Blackreach, or somewhere else in the new zone. At least they're going to be consistent with the single-player versions. Morrowind had competing vampire clans, so they don't even need to be on the same side for consistency with that.

Reachfolk could be multiple factions too. In Skyrim, Madanach's group were friendly after you aided his escape, but all the others still attacked you. They're sort of just a sub-race of Breton.

[mALX]

I'm a bit confused if the Blackreach in ESO is supposed to be the same cavern we had in TES V: Skyrim, or the latter was just part of a larger underground realm, cut off by that time. So ESO gets the potential for it to spread under other provinces?

I also haven't quite caught whether the vampires are in Blackreach, or somewhere else in the new zone. At least they're going to be consistent with the single-player versions. Morrowind had competing vampire clans, so they don't even need to be on the same side for consistency with that.

Reachfolk could be multiple factions too. In Skyrim, Madanach's group were friendly after you aided his escape, but all the others still attacked you. They're sort of just a sub-race of Breton.

They showed those vampire attacks on the surface (actually in daylight) before they showed us the parts about Blackreach; so = probably will be both above and below ground.

I really hoped when they did the vampire fixes that they would reinstate the "Not in Daylight" thing like they had in Oblivion.

Oh, and kind of on topic: I was wondering how well they handled the changes they made in the Werewolf skill line a little over a year ago; does anyone know? And did they keep those changes or nerf them down shortly after making them?

That might be an indication on how they will be doing the changes for the vampires.

And: (other than what Gina said; that they will be reversing how they have it now as far as feeding making you a stronger vampire or weaker one) = does anyone have any idea what the new skills will be? Because that vampire in the vid was moving VERY fast; and turning into a raven.