BITCHES IM A MOTHERFUCKING SWASHBUCKLER SUPREMEEEEEE
I'm capped on how many I can list so feel free to tell me your favorite returning NPC... I tried to pick mostly NPCs that haven't featured as a main character in any zone dlcs/chapters
They turned King Narilmor into a horse...
"Does it always feel that way?"
(gold road spoilers, just a little convo between Isla and Sebastien I had floating around my head after everything with Gold Road, on the inherently unsatisfying nature of being the Hero)
"Like what?" she asked, already having a feeling what this was about.
Sebastien fidgeted on the bed for a moment, tapping his fingers on the bedspread, trying to put his feelings to words. "A little... Unsatisfying. Like alright, we saved the world and everyone lived. Everything's back to normal. We even got Gadayn back! But I can't help but feel like the real winner was Mora. Getting to gloat and hold this power over us, that he Could wipe our memory of Ithelia but won't. It feels like nothing changed except we're a little worse off. And Ithelia - I can't help but feel a little bad for her, even after everything."
"Welcome to being a hero, Sebby." Isla placed a hand on his shoulder, feeling more like a mentor than a partner. She never wanted to drag another person into the heart of what being a Hero did to you, but there was nothing she could do when Sebastien stepped in to sign that contract with Mora over a year ago and kick-started this whole ordeal. "You don't always get to make the world a better place - you just have to narrowly prevent it from ending time after time. It sucks, it's unsatisfying, and someone has to do it. And unfortunately for you, it's been decided that person is me."
"Can't you just... decide not to do it?" he asked with a quiet desperation.
"I did, for a while." She took in a breath. "After... After Darien, I took all those years away to take care of Phoebe, to stop putting my friends in danger. But no matter what I do, I end up dragged back into the thick of things. There's something strange about it all. Like the world knew to take a pause when I would say no, but started up when it knew I would say yes."
She bent over herself at the edge of the bed, taking her head in her hands and looking away from him. "I can't ask you to do this again, Seb. I don't know if you have the same sort of cosmic protection I do, or if you will be the one we lose next time. But this job is dangerous. I'm happy to keep you as a friend, a partner in life, but I cannot ask you to do this with me."
"Kingston," he said, "You're not getting rid of me that easily."
little spicy asap pug db at midnight (passes out immediately after)
if ur a stage 4 vampire in pale order sitting at not-full health in the major crafting cities, i want you to know that i hate you and all that you stand for, and hope it takes the maximum number of runs to get the gear piece you need to complete your build <3
for some reason i've never posted my magdk here despite the fact she's one of my favorite ocs.
anyway here's Falvesi, she's a clockwork apostle in training who got yoinked by sotha sil to be the hero and she's never seen nirn before and she's very confused about it. she's best friends with my magplar Bel and they're adventuring buddies :3
bonus infinite archive set visual bc it looks cool and sadly gets nerfed next month :pensive:
Joined a lucent citadel hm core with some friends I raid with regularly, been making good progress on the last hardmode. But last run we started getting to the point where it's my turn on the knot and we're still pretty inconsistent with where it gets dropped.
And long story short, the guy before me dropped it on a dresser in one run and I accidentally looted the container trying to spam E to pick up the knot, and now I'm stuck picturing my arcanist raiding the pantry while everyone's frantically yelling for someone to get the knot.
West Weald Isla and Sebastien by @loustica-lucia 🥰 these two getting to be happy together after everything means so much 2 me uwu
I also love getting flashbanged by the sun there and the whole zone turning (bass boosted) ORANGE
Couple of my fav items from the datamine:
Extremely sick arms pack
Tho'at target dummy lol
Hyacinth's (from Tanlorin's questline) outfit
Furnishing pack of the alliance heroes!!! (Hi sbebby...) And molag bal I guess...
Skill style for winged twilight (so class skill styles will be a thing!!!!)
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I desperately need to find the source of this quote because oh my god. I hard predicted edgelord ex-worm cult altmer necromancer man as the companion in Q4 to go with the 10 year anniversary (and because it would be so easy to draw people in with a guy like that, hook line and sinker), and they split this man in half. Incredible. Bravo.
M's Updated New Player Guide for Elder Scrolls Online
I have to simplify a great deal of this information since the intended audience is people brand new to ESO looking to get into it for questing (not pve or pvp), so if anyone thinks bits of this are a little wrong or lacking nuance, please understand it is likely intended. Credentials: trust me.
Top 3 Important things to know before you get started
- Character creation: You pick your class during character creation and this can never be changed. Trust me, people miss this. Your race, appearance, and name can all be changed but for a cost (crowns, the in-game micro transaction currency), and little bits of your appearance can be changed with cosmetics that may or may not be free. Any class can quest just fine, some will be better at solo content than others, but don't sweat this. Some classes are also DLC (warden, necromancer, and arcanist). Make the character you want and can stick with, as you will need a Main for purposes of crafting and crafting knowledge can't transfer to other characters you may make. Also, plan for them to deal damage primarily. Supports are not needed in questing and you'll often be alone anyway - save yourself the pain of killing enemies at a snails pace and invest in damage with a smidge of survival.
- Alliances and the Main Quest: The start of the game for new players should always be the base game main quest and your respective alliance's main quest. Unless you started with the expansion that unlocks any race any alliance, your alliance will be tied to your race. Bretons, Orsimer, and Redguards: Daggerfall Covenant. Dunmer, Argonians, Nords: Ebonheart Pact. Altmer, Bosmer, and Khajiit: Aldmeri Dominion. Imperials are DLC but any alliance. This can be changed later for crowns, but only affects what alliance you fight for/against in PvP zones, minor dialogue interactions, and certain cosmetics. The starting city/zone for each alliance is as follows: DC: Daggerfall, Glenumbra. EP: Davon's Watch, Stonefalls. AD: Vulkhel Guard, Auridon. Interact with any wayshrine to port to that city (wayshrine to wayshrine travel is free). Find the Hooded Figure in your respective city and you will get the main quest starter Soul Shriven in Coldharbour, which can never be deleted and will get your started on the main quest. It's fairly easy to follow from there. Heads up that if you're reading this after November 2024, the tutorial has changed drastically since I last played it!
- DLC, Chapters, and ESO+: Depending on the version of game you got, you may be pushed to play the newest chapter (biggest story DLC released each year) first. This is a trap. ZOS advertises the game as play how you want and in any order you want, and any longtime player hates this marketing strat. Functionally, any DLC can be played at any time in ESO, but you will miss certain bits of dialogue and story by playing out of release order. Characters will remember previously meeting you if you play in order, but not out of order. They may drastically change their appearance to the point of the story making no sense if it happened in that wrong order, or even die and reappear with no acknowledgement of their death. If this is your first time playing ESO, I Highly recommend playing everything in the intended release order at least once, and then decide for yourself what stories you think work as independent stories for other characters you wish to play.
The intended order is (without listing every single dlc) the Coldharbour main quest and your alliance's main quest at the same time ➡️ Cadwell's Silver and Gold (the other two alliances' main quests) ➡️ Imperial City (PvP zone with a solo storyline, but can be skipped/played at any point) ➡️ Craglorn ➡️ all dlc in release order (including dungeons, zone dlc, and chapters). Dungeons can be done in any order (base game I and II dungeons should be done in the numeric order) up to Wrathstone, which is when year-long story arcs began and included dungeons in the plot, and more returning NPCs appear in dungeons.
The Infamous "ESO DLC flowchart" can advise you the order of when you should play certain storylines (base game and dlc), but basically it's just the release order and natural flow of the storylines. It updates too often for me to post the image here, but you can easily find it by searching those terms. Another good ESO starter guide I like is this one, that explains which story points to hit and when.
The base game alone is good and contains hundreds of hours of content. Get through the base game's main quests and decide for yourself if you like the game enough to continue on. And if you do want to continue, then the best way to play DLC is to buy the subscription ESO+. Among many other things, the main use for the sub is access to every single DLC in the game* while the sub is active. The sub also gives free crowns each month which can be used to purchase permanent access to specific DLC for if/when you end your sub. Or spend them on a cute outfit. Up to you.
*ESO+ does not give access to the newest chapter, until the next one comes out usually a year later.
ALRIGHT big stuff out of the way. More advanced stuff for once you're already in the game and playing now.
#eso#elder scrolls online#tes#the elder scrolls#m speaks#new player guide#fysh said im allowed to say this: dont be like fysh when making your first character#lovingly said. most of these bits of advice are like. dont do thing my good friend did and still deals with the consequences of akgjakfja#starting with a healer. never finishing the main quest. crafter main and antiquarian different toons. L Ratio
Old comm by my bestie @scalecallerpeak of mister breton hero, from the hit AMV "holding out for a (breton) hero" that gets a ton of notes every few months for some reason.
You guys cannot understand how hype I am to finally have a canonically nonbinary character in ESO who isn't 1) a daedra 2) a spirit or 3) dead. And as an actual companion with a real storyline? 😭
Of course you have purple hair and pronouns
Figured I should make my own post on this instead of continuing in the tags of my last reblog, but it is kinda funny knowing that at the super endgamer side of things, ESO actually has very little you can grind for. It's a legit complaint many of us have at this point in the game.
My understanding of other MMOs is that they have very rare mounts or fashion items that only have a chance to drop in their raids, and that you do actually need to do a raid dozens of times or more to get it to drop.
Meanwhile. There is exactly One cosmetic collectable reward that drops extremely rarely in endgame raids. The infamous Poly (the factotum polymorph from Asylum Sanitarium). I've Never even gotten one to drop myself. That's our equivalent. We get One Thing. And it's from fucking vAS.
(and I hate vAS)
#i dont consider motifs a grind really because they don't become worth much some time after release#and public dungeon fragments are also extremely cheap now that the drop rate went up#and the achievement rewards are a different kind of grind. thats a perfectionism grind not a Do It 100 Times grind#referring to the godslayer senche or planesbreaker mount as perfection grinds since theyre trifecta rewards#eso#elder scrolls online#m speaks
Patch notes days are always so good