Today In Tamriel, ESO Character Updates and Stories Options

[ghastley]

NA guild invitation sent.

[Grits]

Whoop, so glad you're having fun with ESO, Burnt Sierra!! Yay!!!

[mALX]

EU Guild invite sent and accepted. We have a new member.

You can create characters on the North America server, too. Several of us play on both.

So, just set up a new character on the NA server - I'd been doubtful about it thinking the ping might be terrible. Glad to say I'm not really noticing much of a difference! Except.... the NA server is SO MUCH BUSIER! So many people! Kinda shocked after how much quieter the EU server is.

Yeah; Japan was added to the NA server a few years back and it really upped the population on it. Many people prefer the quiet of the EU server over the bustle of the NA, lol.

I remember my first time entering Mournhold on the NA server = it was so vividly packed with Players that it actually FELT like being in a large bustling city IRL. It has actually toned down a lot since then; but that first impression was flooring!

[Sakiri]

They added JP to NA?

Also the ping isn't terribly noticeable unless you have an addon constantly updating stuff like master merchant or tamriel trade center.

[Acadian]

It appears so - since 2016. Here's a couple bits I pulled from a google search:

There is a JP client, not a server. All players on the JP client default to the NA mega server (in Dallas) and can choose the EU server instead (Germany). There are no Asia/Oceanic eso servers.

The Japanese client is hosted on the North American megaserver and does not have a separate server. The Japanese game client is in Japanese, except in some areas of the game.

[Sakiri]

Interesting. I had no idea, explains the Japanese guild recruitment ads in zone chat.

Might have to add some of those to my chat filter. The ads take up the entire freaking chat window.

[Acadian]

Yeah, I find just too much drivel on zone chat. So I disable zone chat. I still monitor whisper, say, yell, guild chats though and that cuts down so much junk.

I also quite dislike the 'so and so logged on', 'so and so logged off' that comes with a friends list and can't be filtered out. So I keep my friends list at zero friends. Lol. I also don't really want to push my own presence in game onto others. Those who matter can readily see if I'm in game by checking the guild roster in game.

[Sakiri]

I find ffxiv has no friends login announcements, but there are for guilds. It drives me up a wall that I gotta keep checking constantly to see if someone logged in.

I got three friends. One I've known for 12 years from wow, Arieal (can't spell that) from Haven, and a guy I ran some dungeons with.

[haute ecole rider]

With a couple of exceptions, the only friends I have in my ESO friends list are those who aren’t also in my guilds. Easier that way.

[Sakiri]

I share a guild (two actually) with one friend, but ones a 499 member trade guild that usually has 50-80+ on at any given time, and the other is a 360ish member trials guild. Finding him on the roster would be a pain.

Besides, he's been on it since 2014.

The others I don't share guilds with.

[Acadian]

Oh, that's a good point. My two guilds are both small so I can see their whole rosters on one screen.

[ghastley]

The Passion Dancer costume fragments are finally back at the Impressario, and we got it on EU so far. Need one more ticket on NA.

Nadja the Naked Nord did the Snow Bear Plunge, as usual.

[Acadian]

ghastley, do your bare bear riders like the new sortabear morphomount?

[ghastley]

ghastley, do your bare bear riders like the new sortabear morphomount?

I don’t really like anything that uses that skeleton and animations. So none of the “heavyweights”. Unna et al. will continue riding regular bears, and lions, and wolves.

I do have one character using the Nagahide Welwa Ravager, which bears no resemblance to any real creature, so it gets a free pass, but I still think its run is somehow wrong. The elbows-out stance wouldn’t really work very well. But watching a real crocodile has almost the same issue, which is why they’re primarily aquatic.

[ghastley]

I finally managed to persuade Vicuña to put some clothes on, but now she can wear them, she wants better sets. We tried going to Falkreath Hold for some more pieces of Pillar of Nirn, but it looks like she needs them to be able to get them, so we gave up after one boss (who didn't drop anything useful). We'll have to tune her stats, too, as she's health-heavy for tanking, and could use more stamina for solo runs.

And she wants Turning Tide for her tanking, which will most likely replace her Torug's, although the Ebon Armory whirlies annoy her, too. A monster set is now a possibility, which it wasn't before.

[Burnt Sierra]

Happy to do some runs of Shipwright's and Falkreath with you, so you can get the set pieces

[Sakiri]

I can help too. I saw you in falkreath before. I have the Nirn pieces I want (I use daggers and jewelry) so I can trade whatever you need, and can probably get someone else to help too. I two manned this place on normal quite a bit.

What monster sets you after?

[ghastley]

Burnt and I did a few runs in Falkreath and got her enough Pillar of Nirn for her solo build, as seen here.



Then we turned our attention to Turning Tide for her tank build, and got a real mix of armor, shield, two-handed weapons, and a ring that fell way short of a five-piece combo. At that point, overheating, connections issues, or whatever happened, cut the session short. Since it was lunch-time/supper-time anyway, we quit for the day.

So Shipwright's is on the agenda for another run or several at some point, but I've been spending my NA time getting her dual-wield skill up, as you I can't DPS well with sword and board. Well, that and crafting writs on EU, of course.

Unsure what others sets we'll get for the tank role. We have a large collection of shoulders from grabbing random ones for our keys back when that was the only option. It's likely she'll just watch the Golden for opportunities.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Mar 11 2024, 04:06 PM

[Sakiri]

If you want to level skills quickly, put stuff on your bar, even if the weapons don't match them, and head out to spellscar in craglorn. There's usually groups you can follow around or join up with grinding the mobs there. I'll probably be there at some point with my buddy Paralyse post patch to get skills I haven't used yet leveled, can feel free to tag along, or if before like 7 or 8 central I can do it. I can solo the place quite easily.

Can also help with shipwrights regret.

This post has been edited by Sakiri: Mar 11 2024, 02:39 PM

[ghastley]

We are doing fine with Public Dungeons for the dense mobs, but may run through Craglorn and collect Nirncrux as well.

She got a set of Master sword and board from Dragonstar, so they just need improving (Laurie will do that), and she can decide on other sets once we see what Shipwrights drops we get.

And then the other 15 NA characters will want their turn at an upgrade.