Ok, Mira just finished God of Schemes. That was fun!! Man, Mira was owning fools left and right! Got some good pics too!

Also, that Coldharbour Ash Black looks good on the highlights of her armor!

"Back in the day" you pretty much HAD to do Silver and Gold to survive in Craglorn. (Which was at about level v10 minimum, never mind the group requirement) This was also before Wrothgar, so there wasn't any other option when it came to leveling through quests. :V

These days there isn't much of an incentive to do the Silver and Gold zones IMO, outside of the Motif (since it's bound to your account there's no other way to get one) and Collectible (if you don't have it yet). Primal, Barbaric, Ancient Elf and Daedric motifs and style material can be found everywhere now, and 50% of provisioning recipe drops are based on your level, as are material nodes.

I guess you can also experience the other alliances if you haven't played through them, but I made one character per alliance from the start so it didn't really matter much to me, outside of seeing different outcomes to quests based on the character's choices. By Gold I was skipping dialogue, though. Whoops.

I enjoyed the Silver since it was my first exposure to the Daggerfall Covenant. It was also a nice excuse/framework to gather all the skyshards in the DC areas. And it also netted from skill points from the DC Alliance quests as well.

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As you recall, I have multiple versions of Buffy. The primary of these are the magplar healer and the magsorc dps. The magsorc is going through the Coldharbour questlines now and she has always felt rather skittish to me since she relies on pets, magic shielding and lightning. Well, she was poking around a world boss's area (Dwemer centurian) and accidently aggro'd his minions. As she started running away she realized both summons remained and were fully engaged. Well, she is just too devoted and nurturing to abandon them so she went back to see Spike (clannfear) and Drusilla (winged matriarch) holding their own vs the minions (boss not involved yet). So Buffy helped them out. As soon as the minions were gone, the boss came to life!

Well, Spike charged into him so what could Buffy do? She buffed all three of them with magic shielding, debuffed the boss, and started pouring on the thunder and lightning. Playing careful attention to make sure that Spike's shielding was up that Drusilla was healing him while Buffy was pouring out damage the fight actually settled into something that looked like it just might work. It all relied on Spike's ability to tank.

Sure enough, it took Buffy some time to carve through 2 million hp but Spike gave her the safety to do exactly that. When that big metal man fell, I can't describe how much self-confidence it gave Buffy. Not to mention deep appreciation for her steadfast helpers, Spike and Dru.

The significance of this fight is that it really (in my mind) puts magsorc Buffy up in the same league as her healing magplar version. In fact, this was a fight that the magplar likely could not have won.

Sure, I'll send you some this morning.


EDIT: Whoops, maintenance. So I'll send you some when the server comes back up!

Magsorcs are a one-mage army and those pets are what got Jo'zira through Craglorn the first time around. They're great.

TIL that pickpocketing mages can net you Soul Gems as decorations. And I mean actual soul gems that you can pick up in the world, not the crappy "soul gems" that you can buy from achievement vendors. Jo has a Lesser Soul gem in his Sleek Creek house where his enchanting station will be now. I also learned you have to launder things before you can place them in your home. Gross.

OMG, I didn't know about this! Awesome !!!!! I think that is so cool, kind of like fishing can net you items to place in homes too!

WOW, Acadian! I'm duly impressed by Buffy soloing a World Boss O.o

I need to get Tasrin-jo out a bit more - she's going magsorc, and I recently saw one of those destroy a dolmen. Ervesa is fun for stealthing but not exactly optimal for fighting - I may have to look up a Nightblade build at some point instead of just muddling through, as she's started having trouble with dungeon bosses. :/ Downside of the scaling system - in most other games I could manage a nonoptimal build by just overlevelling, here I get the impression she's getting steadily weaker as time goes on.

In the meantime, Adryn has fallen back into her old habits and joined the Thieves' Guild at Abah's Landing. I'm crossing my fingers that I can do that questline without, y'know, killing anything. Getting Adryn levelled has proven to be a real headache due to her restrictions, and I am 100% taking tips on ways to get XP without killing anything.

Congrats to Mira on finishing her Coldharbour business! I enjoy that part of the questline very much.

Congrats to Buffy on her world boss victory! That must have been a grueling battle, but she is a determined elf. A magsorc with team in full fury is a sight to behold!

Kazaera, I have the same issues with Lildereth (stamina-Nightblade-bow) doing the Thieves Guild questline. She took a break and worked on her stealth, which helped a lot. To level she spent some time with groups at dolmens. It was pretty awful, but better for her than all of the various quests which would eventually put her toe-to-toe with a boss. It’s good to have other characters to spend time with for a break when things get frustrating. Now she enjoys the thief dailies, but it was rough until we got the hang of it.


Some random thoughts from Jerric’s world. I may have mentioned it before, but I adore the scholar personality on Darnand. I gave him one of the slightly tousled hairstyles, so now with his nose always in a book it looks as if his hair has just fallen into his eyes. I thought that running with the book would look silly, but on him it’s endearing. He likes to travel with Tythis. The two of them crack me up with all of their note-taking.

Another thing, I think they “fixed” the Markarth Bear Dog’s annoying bark by removing it. Hopefully that was not a mistake. Jerric loves that dog, but if the bark comes back I’m sending him on vacation. (The dog. Not the Nord.)

The puffy shirt costume looks ridiculous. It is a favorite of Jerric’s. I have even dyed it a dark color, but then he just looks like a flavored marshmallow man instead of a regular one. I think it’s the boots that he likes so much. Now I have a reason to anticipate the next month’s costume offerings. Fingers crossed for cool boots with a shirt that doesn’t hurt my eyes.

@Kaza - I distinctly remember a combat part halfway through the questline but I could be wrong. Khajiit is right about the beginning though.

I wasn't too happy with the Breton outfits, either. I tried them out on Eolan and...eech. Those sleeves. Loose cloth outfits have always been like this since they started being released and tbh I really don't like it. I'd say Eolan doesn't either but that's his default expression so. :V Maybe the high Breton outfit will look better on him, even if it isn't his thing. I was really hoping the mid one would be his outfit even if he looked like a Daggerfall shopkeeper.

Anyways, since I was low on Heartwood and Eolan still hasn't hit the 10k harvested nodes mark, I decided to take him out to gather materials and ended up in Craglorn. I got 5 Fortified and 1 Potent Nirncrux out of it but not as much Heartwood as I wanted.

If anyone has any heavy helms with any traits besides "Reinforced" to spare, Mira could really use them for the researches.

I can send you whatever you need! PM me in game what pieces you want, I'd be happy to send them!

On those occasions when Buffy the healer simply heals the fighters, she gets xp. I know Adryn is not a healer but if she picked up a resto staff and stood in the background at busy dolmens healing those who fight, she should get xp for the dolmen close. The first resto ability (grand healing) only requires level 2 in resto staves and would do nicely. Not sure if that suits her nature though.

Congrats to Champion Mira!

Sorry, can't really help regarding Undaunted pledges.

This is the most expensive Motif I have ever completed since Akaviri.

And I still have Silken Ring to finish. Hopefully it becomes cheaper down the road.

Welp, Mira Cervantii is now Champion Mira Cervantii!!

So I'm still hurting over the Jubilee-induced motif crash but next week I'll start selling some of the motifs that go pretty cheaply anyways just so I can get money into my bank for things.

I decided that instead of saving up 200k on each squad member I'd just have them each dump 100k into the bank. I don't have them do much shopping anymore so may as well. :T I only have Master Merchant enabled on one character since it's been so unstable since the last update and it hasn't updated for months, so I just have one character do the shopping tbh.


I also spent over 20k for Hearwood I'm not sorry.

That is Awesome! Congratulations!

Noticed a character today named Iguana Jones. Any guess what race this intrepid adventurer was? Made me smile and think of dear Haa-Rei.

Hm, torn between Picnic Ham Kjellingsson and Standing Rib Roast of Kvatch.

tbh Cheesy Gordita Crunch has been haunting me since I saw him. I was caught off guard and I still love it. Yesterday's "Banana and Kale Chips" was almost as good. That one was running Dolmen groups in Auridon last night. I wonder if it's all the same person or if it's an in-joke of some kind.

Anyways, in my search for soul gems I ended up getting a Human Skull. Three of them. In a row. The same thing happened with Wanted Criminal sheets (I got a male Colovian one then a male Imperial one...aren't they both Imperial? Is the "Imperial" one Nibenese? ????)

Thievery has never been so lucrative.

Can you set out those Wanted Criminal Sheets that you pick pocket? Because those sheets in household furnishings are costing a fortune at the Guild Stores!

Yes, but I sorta want to keep them. As a reminder of what could have been had they kept the planned justice system PvP. I might end up selling them anyways though. I only really want a female Argonian one for Hates because I love "Tales of" references. Though right now Jo'zira is the one with the 12k bounty due to constantly terrorizing the pockets of the denizens of Vulkhel Guard.


I sacrificed vouchers I could have used to buy the poison cabinet blueprint to get Hlaalu Furnishing Documents. The better of the two options I think, what with the x2.5 price increase next month and the fact that I did get some nice things out of it. I'm not sure if I want to give the duplicates I got to the Squad, though.

On one hand the devs did mention that furnishing plans may or may not factor into Master Writ drops sometime in the future, but on the other, half of the motifs they know aren't complete so it wouldn't be that big of a jump anyways. idk, I need gold so (or I can wait for the price increase on the documents, though maybe it'll just make buying the documents pointless??)

idk mang, before housing dropped I was thinking I would be taking it easier now that i didn't have a huge goal to save money for. It just got harder, since getting the house was just the first step.

So, who again has a PS4? I bought one today and finally I'm going to begin ES: Online again.

I know you guys are higher level but I'd be great to adventure or visit your houses. I'll be in the Daggerfall Covenant.

EDIT: Gathering all the furnishing plans will be the absolute most disgusting thing I will ever do in ESO if I stayed completely self-sufficient. At least Provisioning recipes could be earned from crafting writs, with a specific tier drop depending on the writ level. 1k+ plans from a single loot list, with the only saving grace being that you're more likely to find a specific racial style based on location. More likely, but not by much. This...this is a mess. A mess I will participate in regardless but my interest will wane considerably once I get all the ones I want.

Bummer!! Thanks guys.

And Acadian, I'll be sure to post a few screenshots.

Sandor went fishing today

I'll be able to do some adventuring all day on Tuesday. Hope to save up for a nice house I've been hearing about lately. So many to choose from.

I was reminded why I don't group with strangers today.

Haa-Rei arrived at the Minotaur world boss in the Gold Coast, as part of our regular grind, and jumped straight in. We've solo'd it plenty of times before so I wasn't concerned.

After the boss got down to about 75% health, another player arrived and asked to group. "Why not?" Thought Haa-Rei, and accepted the invite. At first our new comrade did nothing, which didn't really bother me, but then he set foot into the boss's aggression zone, and the Minotaur turned to attack the newcomer.

Our comrade then promptly turned tail and ran out of the room, thus resetting the boss's aggression and health bar. This happened three times. THREE TIMES. Haa-Rei couldn't open up the menu to leave the group since we were in combat, so we were stuck in a groundhog day loop of fighting a giant minotaur and his ghost mobs.

Eventually two more players arrived and our cowardly comrade felt confident enough to stay in the room long enough to kill the boss.

So, who again has a PS4? I bought one today and finally I'm going to begin ES: Online again.

I know you guys are higher level but I'd be great to adventure or visit your houses. I'll be in the Daggerfall Covenant.

DE, I still have a PS4 account. Let me know what you need, happy to help out.