Gaming Elder Scrolls Online | PS4 Guild on ESO:TU recruiting members (Aldmeri Dominion) - currently at 31

Levelling is too slow for my liking. I'm not a hardcore player and it takes fecking ages. I do actually enjoy the questing, exploring and crafting though so it's not too much of a grind.
 
Turns out Moyes is shit at pvp.

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Can you play this single player?

Is there an offline mode, or way of avoiding other players?
 
There is no offline mode, no. It's designed for multiplayer. That said, you don't have to interact with others any more than you want to - but you might find that you enjoy the odd group or party. That's how I always play my MMOs: soloing most of the content in my own time, but I do enjoy grouping with other people sometimes. You can meet some very nice people that way; it's not like CoD or a game like that where everyone is a dick 100% of the time.
 
Count Orduck said:
There is no offline mode, no. It's designed for multiplayer. That said, you don't have to interact with others any more than you want to - but you might find that you enjoy the odd group or party. That's how I always play my MMOs: soloing most of the content in my own time, but I do enjoy grouping with other people sometimes. You can meet some very nice people that way; it's not like CoD or a game like that where everyone is a dick 100% of the time.
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Ah okay. Cheers man.
 
This game is dreadful. Properly dreadful. It can't decide if it wants to be an Elder Scrolls game or an MMO, so it does a half-arsed job of both.

Shame I wasted money on it, but at least I got it cheap.
 
Why? I like the style it's gone for, It's actually put the RPG back into MMO's. It feels like a single player game but with real players in the same world instead of NPC's. The questing is easily among the best in any MMO iv played and early reviews of the PvP are mainly positive.

I tried the beta and hated it, I bought the game out of boredom to be honest but when I realized its not WoW or trying to be a similar MMO to WoW I got into it quite fast. Im still debating playing beyond the free 30 days, Ill see what the vet levels are like but there's a new PvE zone on its way in a month or so, that's going to be worth checking out at least.
 
Count Orduck said:
This game is dreadful. Properly dreadful. It can't decide if it wants to be an Elder Scrolls game or an MMO, so it does a half-arsed job of both.

Shame I wasted money on it, but at least I got it cheap.
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Disagree completely. MMO that's drawn me in the most to date and I've played loads.
 
Perhaps dreadful was too strong a word, but I've not enjoyed it at all. The combat feels clunky and unresponsive, for one thing. It's trying too hard to be Skyrim, and that sort of single-player RPG doesn't work with an MMO. So far, it would actually have been a better game were it offline - at least that way I wouldn't have had gold sellers spamming the crap out of my chat, or a million identikit Bosmer archers ruining the immersion by swarming all over the ruined, abandoned temple I've supposedly been the first to enter in decades.

It's not a bad game, but I think it's trying too hard to be like Skyrim, except with myriad technical limitations imposed upon it by virtue of being an MMO. Which just makes it feel weird. Also, some of the animations are appalling!
 
I think it does pretty well on the MMO side. Feels a lot like the older UO stlye somehow. The thing really holding it back is the pandering to console peasants. The current UI and interface is woefully inadequate for an MMO (or any PC game really), but I'm sure enough people will complain that it'll get changed. There's already addons that go a long way to fix it.

If you want immersion though an mmo won't do it for you.
 
I'm sort of in the middle, it's good but it doesn't have me looked which means I probably won't be playing it long term. It doesn't make me want to keep going and going like the DAOC's, WoW's and SWTOR's did, instead I log on for an hour or two, do some quests (which are mostly enjoyable) and then want to play/do something else.

Tbf, I'm still only level 9 though, and it has possibly one of the slowest paths to level ten ever. Maybe I'll get more hooked later on.
 
When you get to 10 and PVP properly it might change it for you.

The add ons are great. I have one that automatically sells junk when I speak to a vendor, and one that shows me all the skyshards on the map and another that actually displays in the chat window what I loot so I don't have to keep checking invent.

The only thing I wish they'd change, which to me just seems retarded for an MMO is the 5 skill slot bar. 5? Five?

I mean sure you can use weapon swap to semi fix it but it's retarded. SWTOR had about 30 slots to fill.
 
Zarlak said:
When you get to 10 and PVP properly it might change it for you.

The add ons are great. I have one that automatically sells junk when I speak to a vendor, and one that shows me all the skyshards on the map and another that actually displays in the chat window what I loot so I don't have to keep checking invent.

The only thing I wish they'd change, which to me just seems retarded for an MMO is the 5 skill slot bar. 5? Five?

I mean sure you can use weapon swap to semi fix it but it's retarded. SWTOR had about 30 slots to fill.
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Yeah that's what I'm hoping, the PvP does look great.

The addons are a lovely edition, some great ones out there already, although I feel like I'm cheating a bit with the skyshard one, but meh.

Agreed on the 5 quickbar items, it's crazy, limits things so much, although I always thought SWTOR went overkill was the amount of abilities you had.
 
The 5 skill slot thing is so that console folk can handle it, I think. Otherwise it'd be a completely different game for them. Plus it lets them make out that there's so many more combinations of skills available instead of just letting you have them all out at once. Bit irritating I suppose.
 
Heh, when I used to raid in WoW as a healy shaman, the entire lower half of my screen was covered in abilities and various macros. Only having five skills active at a time is actually quite nice.
 
yeah I just see no point in limiting it to 5. Why not let us decide what rotation to use ourselves and whether it's best to stick with 4-5 core attacks or having varying attacks depending on who we face. it really limits PvP imo.
 
i'm mildly enjoying it, but it's definitely not the game for me long term. having to constantly mash the mouse button and hold it down just isn't the way an MMO should be imo, especially for extremely long boss battles where it starts to hurt the fingers and get really monotonous. Call me old fashioned but having a large ability bar just works better, and (sorry to keep mentioning it) WildStar has it as well as new elements like aiming and dodging.
 
Cina said:
i'm mildly enjoying it, but it's definitely not the game for me long term. having to constantly mash the mouse button and hold it down just isn't the way an MMO should be imo, especially for extremely long boss battles where it starts to hurt the fingers and get really monotonous. Call me old fashioned but having a large ability bar just works better, and (sorry to keep mentioning it) WildStar has it as well as new elements like aiming and dodging.
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Indeed, I'm only playing this to fill the gaps until WildStar comes out. That said, I think my girlfriend would really like this, even if just the levelling experience (she adored Skyrim beyond words), so I might just pass my account onto her to play with once WS comes out.
 
It does feel pretty casual at the moment. I've yet to come across any situation where there's any sense of tactics or anything. It's just swinging away like a nutter while 3 other people also do that and all of you try really hard not to die. Still, that's pretty fun.
 
So.... how is this game now, after the initial 'enthusiasm' has worn off... still great?
 
I'm still enjoying it. It's pretty fun and the pvp can be genius. Pve group stuff is a bit lacklustre at the moment though. It's fun but it's not what you want from an MMO really. If you're a TES fan it definitely scratches that itch, probably not so great if you're looking for a new mmo to sink into. Group stuff is still fun with mates to piss about but there's less of the planning and tactics involved.
 
Ryan's Beard said:
@Zarlak you're levelling like a machine. What drugs are you on?
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It's really good this one, it's called 'lack of sleep'.

I spent 10k just to respec so I can have a proper rotation now with no wasted skills now I'm approaching 40 and soon the end game. I'll level a nightblade as soon as I finish my sorc for more PVP but I'm enjoying the PVP so much that this game will have plenty of replay value for me.
 
Sorc is god-tier in PvP, I'm levelling one for that, my NB's just for fun really. Seriously though, mass aoe and that ludicrous bolt escape makes you unstoppable in pvp.
 
Who do I mail ingame for Guild invite? And does faction allegiance prohibit entry? Like, because my main is Daggerfall Covenant does that mean I can't enter guilds based in other factions?
 
Ryan's Beard said:
Sorc is god-tier in PvP, I'm levelling one for that, my NB's just for fun really. Seriously though, mass aoe and that ludicrous bolt escape makes you unstoppable in pvp.
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I don't have that spell yet but I'm looking forward to it.

With critical surge and inner light from the mages guild tree and the 10% spell crit from the restoration staff tree active my spell crit goes up to around 48% at level 50 which is just ridiculous. Crystral fragments then does ridiculous damage and knocks people down and the bolt escape will be fun.

I don't need to use a weapon attack ever. I just need to activate inner light, then curse people and fire off crystral fragments. When the instacast procs it's even better.
 
me (@SwoopingLion) or zarlak (@Zarlak) can invite you. Guilds are cross faction so you can join, even from the filthy blue side.

Ah shite sorry for the tag...
 
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