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[ghastley]

Three extra does seem hard to account for. There was a single crate log-in reward in the middle of this month (and will be three more on consecutive days at the end), but the end of June had a five-at-once grand prize. I'll have to see what I get this evening when I get home. I'd only expect the six.

[mALX]

Okay, I got three extra crates too, and I did get my (5) from the daily rewards already! So whatever it is about, they def gave three surprise crates with the six.

I got a Nocturnal banner (!) WOO HOO!

There were some dumb face tattoos and masks I didn't want but got stuck with anyway. Other than that I got a bunch of junk that I turned in for gems. While I was doing that I messed up bad:

I had gotten two boot motifs and one swords = Yeah! I needed the boot motif; but already had the sword motif and was pretty sure these would be bound to my account and unsellable since they came from the Crown store; so like an idiot (instead of reading the motif I needed first) I went to turn one of the boot motifs and the sword one in for gems while I was doing the junk stuff. Well, when I went to go read the boot motif, the only one motif left was the swords that I didn't need! Grrrrr. I know what I was clicking on, the swords should have been deleted; not the boots! Grrrrr. I tried to reverse the sale and couldn't figure out how to do that, so just turned in the swords for gems too.

So with all my hundred plus gems I had to buy the motif back for 25 gems that they only gave me 5 for, grrrrr. I was so mad that I didn't get the boots, got shoulders, gloves, dagger, and shields instead. I have 20 gems left; but didn't feel like looking at the other stuff for sale right now. I may hang onto them to buy more motifs with gems.

[monkeyemoness]

IIRC the Ouroboros crates don't have anything special in them, just consumables, so don't feel bad about it. (Unless you got either the one pet or the mount exclusive to those crates--these are the Twitch crates)

They handed those out for the screw up with the daily login early this month and it's good cause now i have more gems

[monkeyemoness]

After a soul-draining session of farming Abyssal Geysers since at least this weekend, I FINALLY got the Squad to master Jewelry Crafting. Those last ten levels are a pain.

I'd be focusing on Ruben instead, given that he's supposed to be the Squad's official Jeweler, but he's only at level 29-ish so he'd end up losing a lot of materials through deconstruction if I gave him Platinum jewelry. So I'll be leveling his skill the old-fashioned way, too. At the very least, only one character drawing from a single material won't be as terrible as 3 a day. (Ruben's crafting with Silver as of today)

So things are going well. I'm free from having to pay attention to zone lol

[ghastley]

IIRC the Ouroboros crates don't have anything special in them, just consumables, so don't feel bad about it.

And that was also true of my Psijic Crates this time. I started to think I'd got all Ouroboros ones, but there were a few chapters of Pyandonean to prove me wrong. Suprisingly, in six crates, there weren't duplicates.

Still, that was a reasonable number of gems for later, if the Crown Store ever gets something worth having. (White bear without saddle, please, ZOS).

[haute ecole rider]

Yeah, I opened mine yesterday (six Psijic, three Ouroboros) and didn't get anything worth getting excited over.

Did get the pyandonean sword, so giving that to Maz to add to her motif collection

Argis is still working on his Stormhaven fishing achievement; that last blue (lake) is proving to be extremely elusive. And because we HATE killing animals indiscriminately, it's hard to keep the level of guts (lake bait) up.

Why oh why can't it be river? We have no problem gathering bugs.

We are not paying much attention to our jewelry crafting. Maz is deconning all the jewelry, but is not too focused on researching yet. Waiting for prices to drop so we can buy research pieces or the mats for 'em.

She also needs to go sky shard hunting for skill points

[ghastley]

She also needs to go sky shard hunting for skill points

That's rapidly becoming a priority for mine too. Cat Man Dhou has hit level 50 in woodworking, but he's crafting at rank 4 because he doesn't have the skill points to move up. He's close to the same situation for Blacksmithing, and Clothier as well. Fixing that will more than double his skyshards!

Unna's the same with Clothier, but she's not really intending to be a crafter. She's sunk all her skyshard points into combat skills instead.

We'd probably spend more time doing that if we weren't chasing down housing things: plans, materials, etc.

[mALX]

I have some characters that need skyshards too; maybe we could have some guild fun-runs to skyshard hunt together as a group?

[Acadian]

Here's where Buffy stands on jewelry researching.

The Arcane, Robust and Healthy were super easy to find of course.

Next was Harmony - got both ring and necklace from Pledge reward boxes.

Then Infused from Psijic Portals (I think that's where she got them) is being researched now.

And just recently completing the Summerset MQ and Psijic MQ, she has both pieces for Protective next in her research queue. That will bring her to six traits.

Once she stops farming the mid level jewelry mats, she'll put in the points to craft with platinum and start doing master writs until she (hopefully) gets Swift.

Whew. When all that is done, she'll look to buy Triune (Cyrodiil) and Bloodthirsty (Trials). By then, hopefully the prices will be pretty reasonable.

She figures there's no big rush because it will take time to have enough purples to improve a full set anyway. And she still hasn't made definite plans on what jewelry set she might want to craft.

[haute ecole rider]

Jewelry's actually a pretty low priority for my gang.

They've always been happy with whatever they can pick up. And a friend has been helpful in locating somewhat relevant sets for us. So really, Maz's only interest is to level up enough to a)improve what we have (mostly purple, be nice to get them up to gold), and to be able to craft some of the nicer Summerset knickknacks so we can add pretty clutter to our homes.

In the meantime, the gang's up on the three basic jewelry traits, and Maz has the protective traits (Julian gave her the Summerset and Psijic rewards), so we are looking for the others as well. But no hurry!

Julian made some progress on her Three Banners Conservatory (a botanical garden along the same organizational lines as our Three Banners Library). What with the TV stones and AP's we are picking up through the daily log in rewards, it looks promising that we'll be able to pick up larger versions of the Alliance banners from Cyrodiil.

And some day Maz will have to make a trek through Cyrodiil for those skyshards.

[ghastley]

I have some characters that need skyshards too; maybe we could have some guild fun-runs to skyshard hunt together as a group?

Mine need hundreds. How long a run can we do?

[mALX]

I have some characters that need skyshards too; maybe we could have some guild fun-runs to skyshard hunt together as a group?

Mine need hundreds. How long a run can we do?

Maybe we can pick the Province the majority of us need the most skyshards in for each run; and only do one Province per run so we are just tied up for a few hours per run? I have an add-on that shows where the skyshards are.

When "One Tamriel" first opened up the other Provinces to all characters; Acadian and Buffy teamed up with my younger characters to do skyshard runs one Province at a time (per run). It worked really well, since we both needed them in the new Provinces opened up to us by One Tamriel. (and just doing one Province at at time works well because it only takes a few hours each run that way; so your whole day isn't taken over by it).

[ghastley]

Cat Man Dhou has only found about 30 so far, because he's only done his starter zones before concentrating on crafting. And he only got crafting duty so he could move up a rank to avoid competing with all the other "youngsters" for Jute etc. Then the others maxed out and stopped needing the inspiration from deconstruction, so he got all those Intricate pieces. Now he's starting to approach (and reach) level 50 in the crafts.

That means he can go almost anywhere and get shards. We'll want to allocate all those CP first, so he doesn't get too killed, as all his skill points went into craft lines.

I have not yet decided if I want to level him up to Champion in the process. The delves, group dungeons etc. will get him experience, so it will inevitably go in that direction. My plans were to raise up Wizwen as a healer next, as Unna and Blssom do DPS, and Laurie does Tank. CMD is currently rather tanky (Heavy, mace and shield).

But since it has to happen at some point, why not now?

[mALX]

Yeah, skyshard hunting will def level a character up. But that is the exact same reason why my younger characters don't have any skill points or fighting skills, they are all crafting mules so all their skill points went there instead of into combat skills.

[monkeyemoness]

Yooooooooooo

I didn't really covet these but they're great to have, lol, considering Fjotreid is the Psijic of the group. (So is Jo'zira, sort of, but still)

[mALX]

Yooooooooooo

I didn't really covet these but they're great to have, lol, considering Fjotreid is the Psijic of the group. (So is Jo'zira, sort of, but still)

I saw those in the "Gems" section = are they just for looks (like an outfit)? Are they a motif or an actual pair of gauntlets with armor factor? Are they enchanted with some cool abilities? I didn't want to spend my gems to find out, but was intrigued (wondering about it).






This post has been edited by mALX: Jul 20 2018, 01:59 AM

[monkeyemoness]

It's an Outfit piece, like the one you get in one of the main questlines in Summerset, only themed around Frost instead of The Green.

[mALX]

It's an Outfit piece, like the one you get in one of the main questlines in Summerset, only themed around Frost instead of The Green.

Hmm, I don't remember getting an outfit piece for doing the main quest in Summerset! I'll have to check out my collections?

[ghastley]

Yooooooooooo

I didn't really covet these but they're great to have, lol, considering Fjotreid is the Psijic of the group. (So is Jo'zira, sort of, but still)

You actually wanted the Nasal Rods???

I don't mind those, because now they're gems, which could be useful down the line. I've actually been lucky in getting mostly Pyandonean chapters and gems, with very little that I don't want, but can't trade in. Probably just jinxed myself for the next two crates ...

This post has been edited by ghastley: Jul 20 2018, 03:01 PM

[mALX]

Tonight Britta got invited to Tank the Undaunted Pledges on Veteran Hard Mode = and went! We got through Wayrest Sewers and Blessed Crucible; but on the second to the last boss in Bloodroot forge we gave up. The group was nice enough to back out and come back in on Normal mode so Britta could get that achievement - on Normal mode she breezed through it! Not only that, but the first two dungeons she got the achievement for no deaths and speed run!!! WOO HOO!!!!