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SBFord
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The Adventure Begins a Columns at MMORPG.com
My life in The Elder Scrolls Online didn't start too well. After logging into my character - who transpires to be a level 15 night elf - I accidentally shot a guard with my bow. Entirely unintentional as I tried to discover how to turn my HUD on, I'd only be in Daggerfall for 60 seconds and already had a bounty on my head.
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That's the cue of me stop reading. Also the part about the bounty...
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ESO seems to be one of the few games that are always worth giving a try and don't cause you too much trouble even if you are late to the party.
I liked the article, as i generally like it when people share their newbie-experiences with any game.
About time to fix the animations, so that i can have my newbie experience, too!
I played it for 2,5 years, and I don't reccomend t if you want to play an MMO game. It's not a real MMO, it's solo questing park zone with no end-game (well, you have trials, hightly unbalanced pieces of crap). BUT, if you like to run around solo or with friend, then give it a try. Otherwise, don't.
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What's wrong with the animations? (Curious)
So far, I'm happy to say that I still have my subscription
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Couldn't disagree more. In fact, I think ESO has become the best playing TES game of the series. More content, more story, freedom, better crafting, multiplayer, soon housing. It's like 3-4 TES single player games wrapped in one.
But that's just IMO.
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That is a nice thing to say but the pvp sucks and the game is dead.
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In the beta, i found them to be rather wodden/stiff/clunky and just not well rounded altogether. The character's overall posture looked awkward to me. This played into combat as well and made fights feel like everything was not really "connected" too well.
2H combat and greatsword swinging looked like the sword had no weight to it. My nightblade used the same animation for a variety of attacks and it seemed like there was a lack of variation in animations in general. It's like everything shares the same handful of moves. Walking, strafing, bow shooting...it all looked like in a title of rather low quality.
Zenimax seem to have the same bad luck in this department as Bethesda previously had with Fallout or Skyrim.
Other than that, there was alot that i liked about the game, esp. the immersive environment and character building. Not sure if it lead up to cookie cutter/FOTM builds anyway, but in beta i had the impression that the game provides a huge diversity in builds and very interesting possibilities.
I don't think its quite as alive feeling or as beautiful as Skyrim, but I agree that the game brings a lot more to the table than the single player games. Despite some of the posts here making it sound like its all solo or only play with a friend, its as solo as you want it to be. There are plenty of activities that require playing in groups. If the world felt just a little bit more random with a pinch of more aliveness to it, I would still be playing now..but NOTHING can take me away from the Witcher 3 right now, including my Oculus Rift lol.
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Do I need to sub yet? I am just doing the zone I left off in only level 16 as of now
also is there a MMORPG guild around?
Since you're asking for advice, I'll happily offer you some. I have been playing ESO since it went buy-to-play.
1. Spend some time in your Settings menu. Particularly, read all the setting possibilities in the Gameplay, Interface, and Nameplates subcategories. There, you'll find settings to always have your skill bar visible, show floating incoming/outgoing damage/healing, show player names and health bars overhead, or not, auto-loot, there's even a setting that prevents you from attacking innocent npcs (so you don't have to worry about accidentally shooting anyone again).
2. For build help, check out Deltia and Alcast. If you Google their names, their sites will pop right up. They both make lots of build videos for all the classes in ESO. Deltia is a little more new-player friendly, but either way, if you get a vision of what you want your endgame build to look like you can be working towards that as you level.
3. If you're on PC, there are indeed LOTS of worthwhile addons. I play with 23 on! Your best bet is to download the Minion addon manager from esoui.com. You can search addons by popularity or most recently updated. Some addons just make life easier, like "Skyshards" which shows all Skyshard locations on your map, so you don't have to guess at the cryptic hints given in on the achievements page (of course, some people like hunting for them like that, in which case, don't get that addon). Others can give you more info in your UI, like FTC and Srendarr. This can take you out of the immersion a bit though, so it's a trade-off. Most effects in combat have visual cues that you will learn just by watching your character or enemies, but it's nice to have something like Srendarr or Buff Timers to show you when your buffs/debuffs or long duration attacks are about to fall off so you can be ready to apply them quickly. I believe ZOS is working on developing a buff timer option for all platforms, but it will be a while before they release it.
4. Combat in ESO uses a global cool-down system based on character animations. Skills themselves don't have a cool-down, but if you fire one skill and then immediately try to fire another, the second won't start until the animation for the first one is over. You can perform "animation cancelling" by blocking, bar swapping, or roll dodging, and this can help you to fire skills slightly faster. It does take some practice to get your timing right, but after a while you learn the pace at which you can reliably fire abilities. You can also "weave" your regular weapon attacks between your skills. By hitting your left mouse button just before using a skill, you get an attack in that will hit almost at the same time as the skill, increasing your overall damage output over just hitting skills alone. One of the attractions of the ESO combat system is there actually is some player skill involved in learning these timing and action combinations, and it really does amount to a pretty sigificant difference in damage.
5. Join some guilds ASAP. You can be in up to five player guilds at once, and there is no reason not to get in some right away. Just say you're looking to join a guild in zone chat, particularly in the capitol city zones (Grahtwood, Deshaan, and Stormhaven) and you're bound to get some invitations. This will give you access to guild traders to sell items to other players and a guild-specific chat channel. People are usually more likely to help you out (like making you armor, etc.) if you ask in guild chat as opposed to zone chat, though (as you found) there are plenty of helpful people in zone chat as well.
Hopefully you'll find some of these tips helpful in your journey. Happy adventuring!
Yes... It held your attention and you got 2.5 years of enjoyment, but wouldn't recommend it. This made me laugh.
ESO is the best AAA MMO on the market. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
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In my experience it is the most polished MMORPG on the market, and quite possibly of all time.
To date (this could change) the cash shop has been brilliantly executed.
For $15 a month you get access to all the DLC and the Craft Bag. The craft bag alone is worth it if you are a hoarder/ into crafting.
Even if you simply buy the game and never spend another penny, the base game will easily entertain all but the most ravenous of content devourers for 2 or 3 months.
I wish more online games were this good. TESO shines a light on how malnourished the genre truly is.
I criticized it in the past because it wasn't Skyrim Online.
I still think they could have done a much better job if they made a Sandbox rather than a Themepark, but to me that's the best Themepark at the moment and with One Tamriel (Mobs Scaling) the game got much better.
The Cash Shop is absolutely spot on, and if you subscribe you don't need the cash shop at all (You get 1500 free crown monthly anyway if you want to buy extras).
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