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[Grits]

Today I went to upgrade my Tome and saw that it is a cash transaction from within the game. That made me wonder if the upgrade would carry across to the other server or need to be purchased twice per account if you play on EU and NA. So I tried it out. The upgrade I purchased on NA is also good for EU. Whew!

[mALX]

Today I went to upgrade my Tome and saw that it is a cash transaction from within the game. That made me wonder if the upgrade would carry across to the other server or need to be purchased twice per account if you play on EU and NA. So I tried it out. The upgrade I purchased on NA is also good for EU. Whew!

I wondered that too, so thank you for answering!!!

[Burnt Sierra]

Today I went to upgrade my Tome and saw that it is a cash transaction from within the game. That made me wonder if the upgrade would carry across to the other server or need to be purchased twice per account if you play on EU and NA. So I tried it out. The upgrade I purchased on NA is also good for EU. Whew!

I'd also wondered that. My yearly sub renewed last month, so I got 13 cache thingys and 13 premium thingys (extreme technical terms), so I used the 12 premium to upgrade straight away for this season so i could see the difference, and worked on both servers for me too. I'd saved all my crafting writs for all six characters on both servers from yesterday, so i could get double the amount of Anniversary boxes today, so I've just spent the last 5 hours doing writs and opening boxes

Good news is I've gotten 2,000 tome points already just from doing that. Bad news is I never want to see another crafting writ as long as I live (Until tomorrow, but I won't be doing anywhere near as many.)

Initial thoughts on this new system is it looks quite promising. The rewards in the Season pass are quite good. The rewards in the Gold Coast Bazaar aren't really to my taste if I'm honest, but that's been true of 90% of events I've done so far too (Earthbone Ayleid excepted, which I'm still wearing even now - and both Guild Banks are overflowing with that now too!) On that, I did a little bit of stacking in both Guild Banks. NA in particular is getting very full.

[mALX]

Today I went to upgrade my Tome and saw that it is a cash transaction from within the game. That made me wonder if the upgrade would carry across to the other server or need to be purchased twice per account if you play on EU and NA. So I tried it out. The upgrade I purchased on NA is also good for EU. Whew!

I'd also wondered that. My yearly sub renewed last month, so I got 13 cache thingys and 13 premium thingys (extreme technical terms), so I used the 12 premium to upgrade straight away for this season so i could see the difference, and worked on both servers for me too. I'd saved all my crafting writs for all six characters on both servers from yesterday, so i could get double the amount of Anniversary boxes today, so I've just spent the last 5 hours doing writs and opening boxes

Good news is I've gotten 2,000 tome points already just from doing that. Bad news is I never want to see another crafting writ as long as I live (Until tomorrow, but I won't be doing anywhere near as many.)

Initial thoughts on this new system is it looks quite promising. The rewards in the Season pass are quite good. The rewards in the Gold Coast Bazaar aren't really to my taste if I'm honest, but that's been true of 90% of events I've done so far too (Earthbone Ayleid excepted, which I'm still wearing even now - and both Guild Banks are overflowing with that now too!) On that, I did a little bit of stacking in both Guild Banks. NA in particular is getting very full.

Uh ... can you be a little more technical on what thingies you bought and how; and how they worked for you? How do you know if your annual membership gave you thingies or not? Because I paid mine last year, so should I even bother looking?

What exactly are premium and cache thingies and why do you need 13 of them? What are they and what do they do? How do you use them? Is there a link anyone can post that spells it out for dummies?






This post has been edited by mALX: Yesterday, 11:51 PM

[Burnt Sierra]

What, thingys wasn't technical enough?

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/guides/tamrieltomes

Scroll down to ESO+ bonuses.

One Cache of Tome Points (containing 2,000) per month of membership. These are the same tome points you get for doing the weekly and seasonal challenges that have gone live today. Just gives you a few more.

IMPORTANT: at the end of the Season you can only carry 2,000 tome points across to the next season. Reddit is going nuts with people who have opened all of their extras straight away, bought basically everything they wanted, and are going to lose a lot of those points in 3 months time. Almost as if trying to buy 3 months worth of things in the first 3 hours was a bad idea. Who'd have thought?

One Premium Tome Token per month of membership
12 tokens grant a free Premium + Bonuses Tamriel Tome

Because I paid yearly, I got the full amount of 12 Premium tome tokens, so i was able to upgrade to the Premium + Bonuses package immediately (which Grits went and bought with money). Later on in the year, When Grits then has 12 tokens, she'll be able to claim a season upgrade for free and I'll have to pay. Basically, with ESO+, one of the four seasons per year we'll be able to claim for free. I just did it straight away.

[mALX]

What, thingys wasn't technical enough?

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/guides/tamrieltomes

Scroll down to ESO+ bonuses.

One Cache of Tome Points (containing 2,000) per month of membership. These are the same tome points you get for doing the weekly and seasonal challenges that have gone live today. Just gives you a few more.

IMPORTANT: at the end of the Season you can only carry 2,000 tome points across to the next season. Reddit is going nuts with people who have opened all of their extras straight away, bought basically everything they wanted, and are going to lose a lot of those points in 3 months time. Almost as if trying to buy 3 months worth of things in the first 3 hours was a bad idea. Who'd have thought?

One Premium Tome Token per month of membership
12 tokens grant a free Premium + Bonuses Tamriel Tome

Because I paid yearly, I got the full amount of 12 Premium tome tokens, so i was able to upgrade to the Premium + Bonuses package immediately (which Grits went and bought with money). Later on in the year, When Grits then has 12 tokens, she'll be able to claim a season upgrade for free and I'll have to pay. Basically, with ESO+, one of the four seasons per year we'll be able to claim for free. I just did it straight away.

I pay by year too, but paid last in June 2025 or possibly November 2025 = can't remember. (It used to be November, but I think I moved it up to June so it wouldn't interfere with my Christmas spending and cold weather heat spending = can't remember if I got it done or not).

So is it possible I might have some of that stuff too? How do I find out?

Also, what does that "Open Cache" button do?






This post has been edited by mALX: Today, 12:03 AM

[Burnt Sierra]

On your character sheet, look under currencies. It'll tell you how many you have of each.

The open cache button opens one of the cache's of tome points. I'd hold off on doing that for now. Unopened caches can be carried across seasons. Once they're opened, you can only carry 2000 across to the next season.

[Acadian]

I think the open cache button opens one of your caches, instantly giving you 2000 tome points. I think. {Edit: Oops, Burnt beat me to it.}

I think the system is very confusing and has a significant learning curve. I spend a good part of the day simply figuring out some of the interface. I stumbled around a lot trying to figure out how to reroll a task and how to claim a completed reward. I am beginning to figure things out and the more I figure out how it works, the more I like it. So I am optimistic that with some learning time to figure out how to optimize it, the new tomes system will be a nice replacement for daily logins and endeavors - much more complex but also much more flexible.

As far as the Anniversary event, Buffy's a happy elf - daily quests and killing bosses are very high on her enjoy list.



This post has been edited by Acadian: Today, 12:16 AM