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[Grits]

Oh, neat! These look like they will answer a number of my RP wants. Thank you for pointing them out!

[Acadian]

Jester's Fest up next from Mar 31 - Apr 7. 100% xp bonus for two hours if you eat the pie. Same daily quests as normal plus a new one. Three tix for the first daily Jester quest per day.

More info here: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/61849

[Acadian]

And back-to-back with the Jester event is the Anniversary Jubilee Event. Apr 7-19. First slice of cake you eat per day = 3 tix. Gift boxes from any/all game dailies (even writs). Impresario offers first 2 frags for a quasigriff mount morph (and all three frags for another soulfire dragon illusion pet).

Full details.

[ghastley]

I have been playing on the PTS checking out the new companions.

Ember has shown a dislike for fishing, so Cat Man Dhou is disappointed. She is likely to be a decent magic dps companion for his tank apart from that.

Isobel comes with heavy gear, and Templar skills, the inverse of Bastian. Clark is trying her in light as a healer.

Quests are buggy, and there is one mob, faun, that is invisible and not targetable to the player. You need a companion to handle them. I am sure this is not intended.

And the most important news - female Bosmer walk like they should again!

This post has been edited by ghastley: Apr 22 2022, 05:48 PM

[Acadian]

Thanks for the update!

[ghastley]

PTS stuff:

Clark has raised Isobel's rapport enough to get her first personal quest. It takes you to Stros M'kai, Vvardenfell, Stormhaven, and Craglorn, before returning to High Isle. Another reason they've given everyone Morrowind. Isobel rapport comes from Undaunted dailies (in case you were missing Bolgrul) and High Isle WB dailies.

Cat Man Dhou hasn't got that far with Ember, although she should be easier to build rapport with, having three dailies that give +125. However, one of those is Thieves Guild Heists, so CMD will only get +250/day, by doing Mages Guild and High Isle delve dailies. She's at 1250, now, so tomorrow should do it.

There's no indication of Bastian getting another +125 daily, so he has just one, while Ember has three. Strange.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Apr 26 2022, 05:08 PM

[Acadian]

Thanks for the update, ghastley. I don't do the PTS, but I get the impression from the official forums that player feedback during the PTS cycle is not too relevant and what PTS starts as pretty much equals the finished product. They don't really seem nimble enough to adjust during the PTS run but sometimes, good things come a cycle or two later. . . . I guess during the creation of Ember and Isobel, they listened to the desire to speed up rapport, but didn't retro-apply that to Mirri & Bastion.

Is High Isles pretty and medievally looking? I miss the feel of such zones as Auridon and Glenumbra in that regard.

[ghastley]

Is High Isles pretty and medievally looking? I miss the feel of such zones as Auridon and Glenumbra in that regard.

It has a nicely consistent style, that is less gaudy than Summerset/Auridon, and on a par with Genumbra, but distinct from it. Limestone, rather than granite, but of the same period. High Isle is rocky, with sparse trees, and Amenos, the other island, is covered in jungle. So a nice contrast, if a bit unrealistic that they'd be side-by-side like that.

Town planning is a bit off, with cargo docks having no ramp access only stairs, and other silly mistakes. A lot of unrealistic maze-like pathing, just to make places seem larger than they are, but you expect that by now. My pet peeve is moored boats with full sails, but they've always had that issue. It's just more common in the island context, and done with larger ships.

Castle Navire has a jousting arena, but nobody (yet?) using it. Since you can't fight while mounted, I'm surprised they're reminding us of that.

[Acadian]

Nice! Thanks.

[ghastley]

CMD just raised Ember’s rapport enough to get her first personal quest. It starts in Skywatch, but is then all on Vvardenfell.

[Acadian]

Something of very short duration here but one of today's endeavors is to kill 5 stone atronachs. Conventional wisdom is they can be found in one of the trials. Ugh. Some clever poster on the official forum, however, discovered that the stone totems summoned by Walks Like Thunder (Echoing Hollow WB in Murkmire) count. Well Buffy popped over there and they sure do. Easy to get the endeavor in one go and there are plenty of players learning about this there to help.

This post has been edited by Acadian: Apr 28 2022, 03:47 PM

[treydog]

So after playing at around 7:30 a.m. (EDT) on May 6, I sat down to do some crafting and skysharding at 7:00 p.m. same day.

To my surprise I got "This computer is not authorized." Well grumble. Sure- send me a code. Check email- no code. Try to login to account on the web. "Bad username or password." Um- no, it isn't. Same as I have been using forever.

Submit a ticket- which has the helpful (REQUIRED) field "The email address associated with this account". Oh- you mean the one you all are NOT sending notifications to, and have not done since March 14?

Well- yes, but hey... Here's your ticket number! So have fun with that.

[Acadian]

Gosh, treydog, I hope that gets sorted out soon!

I recently had and resolved a show-stopping problem. I got brave and installed Reshade - and it broke the game. Launcher would send me to login but the login screen was black. Could hear the music but black screen so couldn't do anything. I very nervously uninstalled and reinstalled the game. Took just over an hour and Buffy came up perfectly. Even her addons were perfect. My gut told me the problem with Reshade was that it didn't like my GEForce Experience. So I did some research and learned about GEForce Experience (a Nvidia thing) and how it has its own graphics enhancing stuff. Hmm, I've always used GEForce Experience to help keep my graphics card updated but didn't really look into its other abilities. More research, and learned how to use it. Works very nicely and I've been able to enhance our graphics very nicely. All in all, a good adventure.

[treydog]

Great news! After 3 days of explaining (and explaining) the issue to the support folks, they were able to restore my access.

As it turns out, the issue was that the ESO account was associated with an old email address which I cannot get into any more, and have not been able to sign in to for YEARS.

Once I was able to convince them that I was really me (by letting them know that the email "forgetful goof@isp.com" was incommunicado) I got in tonight.

At that point, I IMMEDIATELY changed to a DIFFERENT email account, one that I CAN get into.

HUGE sigh of relief...

[Acadian]

Whew, sigh of relief is right!

[Grits]

Whew! Glad you got your access back, treydog!

[ghastley]

The implication is that if your isp for email changes its name, as companies often do, your ESO account becomes invalid? That seems as bad as Valve controlling your access to Skyrim, which you bought from Bethesda.

[ghastley]

From the PTS: the new Companions in their houseguest outfits.

Ember is smaller than Isobel, but not that much. Tje preview picks its own zoom and I didn't notice they were different.

[Acadian]

Thanks, ghastley! I figured as much on the size and could sort of verify it by also looking at the size of the squares they're standing on for scale.

[Acadian]

New event coming up. Zeal of Zenithar June 30 - July 12. Here's the details: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/62349

One of the ways to earn rewards is to do selected activities while grouped with members of a player guild. That sounds like something we could look at for our early July guild meetings.