eso - THE SKY FORGE2024-03-28T09:48:13Zhttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/feed/tag/esoESO Real Talk: Hardcore vs. Casual Player Conflictshttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/eso-real-talk-hardcore-vs-casual-player-conflicts2020-05-24T13:26:37.000Z2020-05-24T13:26:37.000ZAvihttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/members/Avi<div><p>Greetings, and apologies for leaving so many weeks between posts. I’ve been super busy with work. Next week, we’ll start getting into more regular posts, and talk about new stuff in the Greymoor chapter.</p>
<p>Today I just wanted to briefly address a topic that has plagued ESO for the past several years. Despite my best intentions, it’s leaked into our SkyForge community and discord as well. The topic is the unnecessary, but very real conflicts that arise between “hardcore” players and “casual” players.</p>
<p>ESO has always marketed itself as a “play how you want” game. And it is! You can play it like a PVP game and focus on precision builds designed for Cyrodiil or battlegrounds. You can play it like a high-end PVE game, maximizing your DPS or tanking or healing for 12-man trials, learn to solo Vet Maelstrom Arena, push scores on the leaderboard. You can play for the stories and just quest without worrying about the “meta.” You can focus on housing, or fishing, or crafting, or trading/wheeling dealing. You can get deep into roleplay, whether that’s with a group of people, or completely on your own without ever talking to another player.</p>
<p>It has always confused me why people get in fights about the topic of playing how you want. Just…play how you want, right? And then I started hosting this group and now I think I understand it better.</p>
<p>I’ve been playing this game for more than six years, I’ve completed all of the content, amassed an absurd fortune of fake money, I play with some of the best players in the game (I consider myself to perform at the “low end of the high end”), I am focused almost completely on performance whether it’s in PVE or PVP. I am, in other words, a “hardcore player.”</p>
<p>I would like to say I can be super helpful to new players or folks who want to play casually—and I can be, and I have been. But at times my bias and mindset still creep in. I start wanting new players to be ready for some future I assume will come, when they’ll want to perform well and have a legitimately effective build for hard content. And I just lose sight of the fact that some people DO NOT CARE about that and would rather focus on roleplay, aesthetics or anything else besides the DPS they put out or their ability to complete the latest vet dungeon or wreck face in a battleground.</p>
<p>Many hardcore players are dismissive of casual players, many casual players find hardcore players insufferable and elitist—this isn’t new to gaming. I think it hits ESO really hard, because the game is such an attractive option for both types of players, and it’s hard for them to mix effectively. It doesn’t help that this game has an abnormally huge skill gap between high-end and casual players; in most MMOs, a top player might do 2x the DPS of a novice player, in this game it is more like 5x or worse. You also get anger when the quarterly combat changes come out, and it seems like they favor one “side” or the other.</p>
<p>Anyway, all of this has led to a lot of toxicity in the broader ESO community, largely unnecessary. My entire goal with this ESO effort on the Sky Forge was to push back on that toxicity, with a group that was coming in new to the game, and show that it was a great game for any kind of player. That’s why I wrote <a href="https://theskyforge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/eso-guides-creative-character-building" target="_blank">this post</a> and <a href="https://theskyforge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/eso-guides-join-some-guilds-to-cure-your-social-distancing-blues" target="_blank">this post</a> and <a href="https://theskyforge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/eso-guides-the-right-order-for-the-story" target="_blank">this post</a>, and why I’ve spent a ton of time with lots of folks to help them get started. But there were other people doing posts in this group about “What’s your favorite class?” and “Show off your outfit”; these are totally logical posts to engage new players, but they would never have occurred to me. And in the end, we still ended up having a recent dustup in our Discord because of this hardcore vs. casual issue.</p>
<p>So, we’ll just continue to work on it. One tangible change I want to mention: I’ve asked Tae-Rai to co-host this section of the site and our ESO Discord channel. Tae has been playing for years like me, she knows the game really well. She probably has a more diverse perspective in the game than I do; in addition to being a solid PVE player in vet content, she’s also a lead in a very active roleplaying guild. She’s also just cooler than I am. We’re going to work together from now on, we’ll both do posts and talk regularly to come up with a more diverse range of things to share and discuss on the site and in Discord. To be clear, we are not representing two “factions” in the game; we’re going to be partners in helping to cover all aspects of the game. You can expect to see some fun stuff from her and from both of us in the future.</p>
<p>Sorry if this is a bit of a downer, but it really bummed me out that this argument showed up here, when my entire motivation for hosting the group was to get away from this issue. Feel free to comment, or not—I’ve said my piece and I’m looking forward to getting back to game content next time. See you in game - Avi</p></div>Our guilds in ESO: The Sky Forge invades 2nd Era Tamriel! (PC NA, Xbox NA)https://TheSkyForge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/our-guilds-in-eso-the-sky-forge-invades-2nd-era-tamriel-pc-na-xbo2020-04-13T19:44:27.000Z2020-04-13T19:44:27.000ZAvihttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/members/Avi<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/By3nuy2CUAEHiSQ.jpg" alt="The Elder Scrolls Online on Twitter: "German #ESO guild Das Netz ..." /></p><p>A few months ago, Pixel and I posted announcements about the formation of Sky Forge guilds in ESO. This is a reminder post to let you know about the guilds and to encourage you to join us!<br /><br />PC NA: The Sky Forge - Guildmaster, <a href="https://theskyforge.ning.com/members/Hantz" target="_blank">Curse</a></p><p>XBox NA: The Sky Forge - Guildmaster, <a href="https://theskyforge.ning.com/members/Pixel" target="_blank">Pixel</a></p><p>Both guilds are small but they are getting more active as more members of the community get into ESO in 2020 (seriously, what took you guys so long?). If you play on either platform and want to join up, please post a note in the comments below or on <a href="https://discord.gg/BmZ36Sf" target="_blank">our shiny new Discord server.</a> with your in-game user ID or "at-name" (i.e., "@Edgelord127") and make sure to specify your platform as PC or Xbox. We can pick you up and shoot you an invite.</p><p>Hope to see more of you in game, and in these guilds, soon! - Avi</p></div>ESO GUIDES: All the Crafting Motifs and How To Get Themhttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/eso-guides-all-the-crafting-motifs-and-how-to-get-them2020-04-11T16:24:37.000Z2020-04-11T16:24:37.000ZAvihttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/members/Avi<div><p>Greetings and salutations, and I offer my apologies for the lull in posts. The anniversary event, social distancing, a very busy work schedule and other stuff has kept me away from you all. You cannot fathom the depths of my regret.</p>
<p>Today I thought I would do a post that is short on text and deep on information. Hopefully, many of you have been actively working the Anniversary Jubilee like a speedbag and grabbing dozens or even hundreds of reward boxes from writs and other daily quests. (I also hope my prior guides to help you prep for the event were helpful!) If you have, you've probably received a good chunk of crafting motif style pages. While the pure capitalist would sock these away for sale in 5-6 months when prices readjust, you might have the desire to actually have these motifs for yourself, so you can make yourself look cute/tough/weird/creepy/sly/whatever floats your boat.</p>
<p>If so, you are VERY likely thinking "Well, damn, I'm still missing eight of these XYZ pages and the event is almost over, how do I get the rest?" I've got you covered! The table below lists all 80 motifs that are (or have been) available in the game so far, with summary instructions on how you can earn the pages. Note: If any of our admins can help me convert an Excel file into a HTML table, I would be more than happy to replace this monster of an image file.</p>
<p>A few general notes about motifs:</p>
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<li>In any situation where you can get a motif page, there is a VERY VERY rare chance of getting the entire book. Good luck! </li>
<li>Almost all of these motifs are available for sale in guild stores at varying prices. They will be available at their cheapest prices of the year over the next week or so, in the wake of this event that floods the market with motif pages. I did not list "and also you can buy them at guild stores" on each line of the table.</li>
<li>Just a random suggestion if you are fairly new to the game: Set yourself a goal of trying out some, most or all of the activities described here. Like, not even for the motif pages--this list is a really good showcase of just how much stuff there is to do and try in this game. Every activity listed is a fun thing to try out (the vet DLC dungeons will be quite hard for you if you are new, but you can do them on normal and still have a lot of fun).</li>
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<p>Remember, the beast that we all pursue in the endgame is fashion, so happy hunting - Avi</p>
<p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4392662182,RESIZE_1200x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" style="padding:10px;" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4392662182,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4392662182?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="710" /></a></p></div>ESO GUIDES: Join some guilds to cure your social distancing blues.https://TheSkyForge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/eso-guides-join-some-guilds-to-cure-your-social-distancing-blues2020-03-22T15:57:34.000Z2020-03-22T15:57:34.000ZAvihttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/members/Avi<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://geekandsundry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/the_guild.jpg" alt="Image result for the guild" width="575" height="323" /><br /> <br /> Good morning, this week's post is short and sweet. Well, at least it's short. Like everyone, I am feeling the stress and worry of the current coronavirus outbreak, and spending a lot of time indoors and away from society. This seemed like a good week to re-emphasize the central role that guilds play in an MMO experience and why you will be SO much better off joining a few terrific guilds and making the effort to get to know people in them.</p>
<p>ESO is very playable as a solo player. You can do 99.9% of the quest content on your own (it's actually 100% but a lot of people struggle with Shada's Tear in Craglorn LOL), and you can use the dungeon finder for pledges, join pickup groups for dungeons and trials and PVP, play PVP solo...et cetera.</p>
<p>HOWEVER, there are issues with this approach. The biggest tangible issue is that you are leaving the quality of players in your group to chance. We have all queued for dungeons only to be grouped with a 10k health sorc with 47 CP, calling himself a tank. You just joined a vet Cloudrest group made of random puggles in Craglorn? Good luck. TThat group you just joined in Cyrodiil by typing "lfg" is probably not going to beat a PVP guild at anything. The better you get at the game, and the more you want to pursue no death achievements, hard mode completes, speed runs, etc., the more frustrated you will be without a strong bench of dependable players that are used to playing with each other.</p>
<p>The biggest intangible is, if you will forgive my cheesiness, that you are giving up on making some great friends and joining a great community. If you are reading this and you are an active member on this site, you already belong to a guild. This site is a guild, it is a community. People help each other, they joke around, they do activities like events and contests with each other--it's a guild. That's what you get from a good guild in an MMO--the only difference is that sometimes you commit mass murder on pixelated entities. Virtual communities like guilds are always a lot of fun, and when you are locked inside 24/7, these things can be a lifeline to help cure your isolation, loneliness, stress and all the other things we're all feeling right now.</p>
<p>SO JOIN GUILDS! And when you join, really join--participate, talk to people, and so forth. That is all. Here are a few recommendations for how to fill out your five guild slots, but picking guilds is highly personal, so keep trying guilds until you find ones that really click for you.<br /> <br /> <strong>JOIN A TRADING GUILD.</strong> As you play more and more content, you'll start collecting gear, crafting materials, style motifs, recipes and all kinds of other stuff that sells for thousands of gold pieces. Play some more, your best drops will be worth tens of thousands of gold; play still more and you'll get stuff worth 100,000s of gold. Unless you want to stand around hawking your wares in zone chat (and maybe you're a khajiit and you want to sell your wares, lol), you want a good trading guild where you can just list this stuff for sale and watch the money come in. Your best bets are the guilds with spots in: Rawlkha, Wayrest, Mournhold, Grahtwood, Vivec City, Alinor, and Rimmen. Those are among the highest traffic spots in the game. Look around at the guild names and try a couple out!</p>
<p><img class="align-center" src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/universeconquest/images/c/c7/WhiteWalkersHorseback.png/revision/latest?cb=20180719144009" alt="Image result for the white walker army" /><br /> <br /> <strong>JOIN A PVE GUILD.</strong> Maybe the most common type of guild? There are many, many guilds dedicated to completing endgame content. A few of these guilds span the gamut of skill and experience levels, but most of them cater to people at a similar level--there are beginner-friendly guilds designed specifically to teach people the ropes, midrange guilds that focus on pledges, vet dungeons and some easier trials, and high-end guilds that focus on leaderboard scores for trials and have tough requirements to qualify. If you want to get better at the game's primary "challenge" content--if you want to "see some gains"--join a guild with folks you like and that forces you to stretch a bit and helps you improve. <strong>Specifically, I strongly recommend a guild that is active in PVE content, because the vast majority of the best gear in the game--and a lot of the highest-value loots like new style motifs-- is locked behind difficult vet dungeons, arenas and trials, so one way or another you're gonna want a reliable posse to help you with that gear farming.</strong><br /> <br /> <strong>JOIN A HIGHLY SOCIAL GUILD WITH FREQUENT EVENTS AND ACTIVE VOICE CHAT. MAKE FRIENDS.</strong> I can't recommend this highly enough. This suggestion may overlap with any of these other suggestions--your PVE guild, trading guild, etc., may be the guild that you end up calling your "home" in the game. For me, it's my PVP guild, Fantasia--we are a tight-knit group and we talk every day, some of us have met in real life--the scientific term is "good buddies," I believe. Jumping in voice chat for the first time can be offputting for many people, but just do it. I mean, PLEASE I SUGGEST just do it.<br /> <br /> <img class="align-center" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-33P2Zf16JKM/UDu99eqiUtI/AAAAAAAADZw/pQVctISXM-g/s1600/The-Chronicles-of-Narnia-The-Lion-the-Witch-and-the-Wardrobe4.jpg" alt="Image result for army charging" /><br /> <br /> <strong> JOIN A PVP GUILD (OPTIONAL).</strong> This is, quite obviously, only if you are interested in ramping up in PVP. There are "zerg" guilds that just soak up warm bodies to swarm the battlefield and win with numbers; there are higher-skill groups (again, varying levels of skill) that focus on doing strong work with a limited number of people in complementary builds; there are guilds that focus on setting up one-on-one duels--lots to choose from. <br /> <br /> <strong>JOIN A ROLEPLAY GUILD (OPTIONAL).</strong> Like PVP, this is another activity that is a ton of fun for some but not all people. I don't have much experience in this area. We have a real veteran here in the Sky Forge community in Tae-Rai, and our fearless leader Curse is another big supporter, they've answered a bunch of my questions recently and can help you if you're interested. If you've played tabletop games before, you'll have a sense of what RP is like in the game--there are really creative guilds out there with darker themes, paladin "smite the wicked" themes and everything in between.<br /> <br /> I think that covers the basics--I feel like I'm forgetting a big category, but if I am, I'm sure that someone will unfurl their rage at me in the comments, this is the internet after all. ;) There are other specialty categories--there are crafting-focused guilds, there are even guilds that focus on getting fishing achievements in game. If you have a specific request for a guild suggestion, post your server/region/faction/category of interest/general level of skill and experience below and we can try to make some suggestions. Have fun!</p>
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<p> </p></div>ESO GUIDES: Getting Ready for the Anniversary Eventhttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/eso-guides-getting-ready-for-the-anniversary-event2020-03-14T14:12:20.000Z2020-03-14T14:12:20.000ZAvihttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/members/Avi<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://esosslfiles-a.akamaihd.net/cms/2017/11/699c4fe06d2526dc8ceec6000ec5a00b.jpg" alt="Image result for anniversary event eso" width="595" height="292" /></p>
<p>Happy Saturday, campers. In this week’s ESO Guide I am going to focus on a very practical topic: how to get ready for the upcoming Anniversary event, so you can maximize the rewards you extract from the event’s activities. Every year, this event starts on April 4 (the game launched 4/4/14). That's just a few weeks away, so time to get cracking!</p>
<p>DISCLAIMER: The event is a little bit different every year; so far, it’s always been structurally similar and based on the same general activities and rewards. But it could very well turn out that it is completely different this year and that this advice doesn’t end up being useful. I consider that unlikely.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:18pt;"><strong>THE JUBILEE EVENT</strong></span></p>
<p>Every year so far, the Jubilee Anniversary event has been a very general celebration of the game’s core activities. Very simple: every day, when each of your characters does a daily quest activity, they get a Jubilee reward box. Do a writ, get a reward box. Do a dungeon quest, get a reward box. Do a Cyrodiil daily quest, get a reward box. For a few years, you could get rewards for all of these activities throughout the event which lasted about two weeks or so. Last year, it was a five-week event, and each week there was a different activity that provided reward boxes.</p>
<p>So far, these reward boxes have NOT been parceled out via RNG—EVERY time you completed an activity, you got a reward box.</p>
<p>There will surely be event tickets and goofy fun cosmetics to be had—I am not going to cover those here. Just get your tickets each day, save your tickets and get some hats or pets or whatever. I'll also just mention that during the entire event, we all get double XP. Great! <br /> <br /> Today's focus is on the real prizes, those Jubilee reward boxes. Those boxes can drop ANYTHING IN THE GAME—rare motifs, gold upgrade materials, even Aetheric Ciphers (these things sell for like 1.5 million gold, I got two last year)—and the event generally allows you to collect HUNDREDS of these boxes across your characters. You can make a massive jump in wealth over the course of this event—IF you are prepared.</p>
<p>Below, I’ve provided a list of activities that have been included in the Jubilee in the past, what you’ve needed to do to get a reward box, and what you need to do for your character so they are ready to do that activity on the first day of the event. Basically, ANY event in the game that is started via a BLUE quest marker (that’s the game signal for a daily repeatable quest), is fair game to drop a Jubilee reward box upon completion, during some portion of the event.</p>
<p>As I said, we don’t know the length of the event or how many days any of these activities will offer rewards, but there’s a high probability that being able to do these will offer rewards at some point.</p>
<p><strong>THE MOST IMPORTANT TAKEAWAY: </strong>In my opinion, this event is a great reason/excuse to get ramped up on creating multiple characters. If you are a purely pragmatic player, focused on loot and lucre, this is a smart move because multiple characters offer more opportunities for lucrative loot. If you are a devoted roleplayer, this is also a smart move, because multiple characters offer more opportunities to create different stories for your personal enjoyment. And for anyone, it is a great way to sample the different classes and playstyles in the game, and figure out what you like the best (or alternately, prevent you from getting bored with just one playstyle.)</p>
<p><strong>GENERAL PREPARATION NOTES:</strong></p>
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<li>Between your characters and your bank, start investing now in inventory space. If you are active in this event, you are going to be collecting a HUGE amount of rewards loot and you need a place to store it all. Because...</li>
<li>Be patient, and sock away a lot of your loot, especially rare motifs. This event traditionally has been SO generous that it literally wrecks the game economy for a few months. Prices on motifs will plummet as the event gets rolling, so save any valuable stuff that you get until at least September/October. Prices will have recovered to some extent by then.</li>
<li>Finally, start getting some gold together now! As I just said, prices plummet during this event--if there's a crafting motif or something else you want to buy, but it's too expensive for you, chances are that it will be available at a quarter of the prices by the time the event is over.</li>
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<p><strong>CRAFTING WRITS</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Task: Complete a crafting writ. That’s it.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Color Commentary: </strong>I went with this activity first because it is by far the most lucrative activity available in this event, as measured by "loot per minute of game time." A crafter character that does writs, does seven of them per day, one for each crafting skill. It takes about 3-5 minutes to do the writs. That’s 7 rewards boxes. <strong>On a prepped account with 9 characters doing writs, that’s 63 reward boxes per day. </strong>Ashamedly I have two accounts, one with 18 characters and the other with 9, I will be doing writs on 27 characters if I can bear it. 189 reward boxes per day. (NOTE: You can’t do jewelry crafting, or the associated writs, unless you own the Summerset chapter. All of this advice still applies in that case, you just get to do 6 writs a day instead of 7.)<br /> <br /> Importantly, in the past it has not mattered if your character is a master crafter or even has any skill points invested in crafting. All you need to do is be able to complete a basic low-level writ, and you’re good to go.</p>
<p><strong>The Preparation: </strong>You get nine slots for free, use them.</p>
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<li>Fill your account with your nine allotted characters. Depending on how involved you get, you can delete most of these later if you want, so don’t worry about creating the ideal heroes you love. “Pack mule #5” is fine.</li>
<li>For each character:
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<li>Level them to level 6.</li>
<li>Go to crafting writ boards in your faction’s starter town (Vulkhel Guard, Daggerfall or Davon’s Watch), accept quest.</li>
<li>Go talk to the NPCs associated with the quest (Millineth in the Fighters Guild, Danel Telleno in the Mages Guild). Each will certify you in three crafting skills, just do all of their tasks.</li>
<li>Go to Summerset (you need to own this chapter to do so), go to Alinor, head toward the crafting area, talk to a dude named Felarian near the entrance to the crafting area. Get certified in jewelry crafting.</li>
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<p>And that’s it. Getting a new character up and running, and certified in all crafting skills, might take a few hours. But once it’s certified, you don’t need to do anything else—just wait until the event is rolling, and when the event is offering reward boxes for writ completion, just do the daily writs on all of these new characters.</p>
<p>Obviously, you don't have to do this on nine characters if you don't want to. You can just get five characters prepped. Or three. Or ignore me entirely. :)</p>
<p>Another note: You are going to want to spend some time either harvesting or buying low-level materials to complete these writs if you don’t have a full craft bag. I would recommend starting today, to stock up on Jute, Rawhide, Sanded Maple, Iron Ingots and Pewter Ingots. If you want to buy them, they’re not expensive—yet (they will be more expensive during the event). If you want to harvest them, just bring a character out harvesting that DOESN’T have skill points invested in the main crafting skill (e.g., Tailoring), so that harvesting nodes will offer low-level materials.</p>
<p>For more on crafting and completing writs efficiently: <a href="https://theskyforge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/ESO-Crafting">https://theskyforge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/ESO-Crafting</a></p>
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<p><strong>DELVES AND WORLD BOSSES:</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Task: Complete daily quests to tackle Delves and World Bosses.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Color Commentary: </strong>The quests that have counted in this category in the past: Fighters Guild and Mages guild dailies; Undaunted daily quest (from Bolgrul, the dude in the back of the tent who gives a simple delve quest); DLC daily quests (in every added DLC and Chapter, there are a couple of NPCs in major towns that offer daily delve and world boss quests). Do those. IIRC, you get a reward box for every quest, on every character…there are at least 10-15 dailies you can do every day for each character..so really this one is just mostly limited by how many hours you want to spend doing dailies! You will find that some dailies are less time consuming than others.</p>
<p><strong>The Preparation: </strong>Just get those nine characters leveled up a little bit, and get them in decent gear—simple crafted sets and trash jewelry is fine. They just need to be able to complete a basic delve quest; for world boss quests, you will mostly be able to just show up and spam light attacks alongside 30 other people who are all doing the same grind that you are! Vvardenfell, Summerset and Elsweyr are great places to hang out and do these quests—each zone offers 12 repeatable quests each day that qualify under this category.</p>
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<p><strong>PVP/CYRODIIL:</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Task: Do daily quests in Cyrodiil, Imperial City, Battlegrounds.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Color Commentary: </strong>Not much to say here; to complete actual PVP quests (given at the Mission boards at your faction’s home base), you can theoretically follow your faction’s zerg around, but unless you are a leveled up character, it will probably not be very fun or efficient. However, you can complete Cyrodiil town quests each day (there are quite a few of these) and don’t need a very powerful character to do these, they’re just basic PVE quests. I would go with a group and pick a low-population campaign to do this; there are always going to be terrible people who hide in stealth and gank unsuspecting carebears (that’s you in Cyrodiil if you don’t PVP regularly lol). That’s not very common, but it happens. <br /> <br /> <strong>The Preparation: </strong>Get to level 10 so you can enter Cyrodiil. To be better prepared for PVP, you can read my short guide here. <a href="https://theskyforge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/eso-guides-pvp-an-introduction">https://theskyforge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/eso-guides-pvp-an-introduction</a></p>
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<p><strong><img class="align-center" src="https://esosslfiles-a.akamaihd.net/cms/2020/02/c3217104a16bd648afc20dcdfb5f938e.jpg" alt="Image result for unhallowed grave" width="427" height="210" /></strong></p>
<p><strong>DUNGEONS/TRIALS:</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Task: Complete daily/weekly quests for these.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Color Commentary: </strong>The last major category of daily quests is focused on the 4-man and 12-main raid content. Every day, you can get Pledge quests to complete a few 4-person dungeons. Weekly, you can get a quest to complete each of the game’s 12-person trials (AA, HRC, SO, MoL, CR, SS, AS, HoF—look ‘em up!). If you’re following this guide from a standpoint of “I have a few weeks to get a bunch of brand-new characters ready,” you really don’t have time to prep to prep more than one baby character to handle group content, unless you have REALLY nice friends that will carry you. But if you’ve leveled your Champion Points up decently and craft yourself some decent gear, you can take a level 30 character to complete Pledge quests on normal difficulty—again, you just need a group with at least one high-level and kind person that will largely carry the rest.</p>
<p><strong>The Preparation: </strong>Level your characters, gear up, have fun.</p>
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<p>So what are you waiting for? More hands make less work. Get after it!</p></div>ESO GUIDES: ADDONShttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/eso-guides-addons2020-02-22T15:25:04.000Z2020-02-22T15:25:04.000ZAvihttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/members/Avi<div><p>Good morning, time for another weekly ESO guide. Today, I am just going to do a rundown of my most valued addons. There are literally thousands of addons available for the game, I have only a small fraction of those addons and I feel like I have a lot. My choices are not necessarily a guarantee that these mods are the best at what they do, but the ones I’m listing all have a lot of users and generally great reputations. (I have a few others that I think I need to purge out before the next update, so obviously I am not listing those for you guys!)</p>
<p> <img class="align-center" src="https://altarofgaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/the-elder-scrolls-online-best-addons-craftstore.jpg" alt="Image result for eso addons" width="883" height="316" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em><strong>The Craft Store addon interface(s). This is an older version, its even better now.</strong></em></p>
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<p><strong>HOW TO ADD ON ADDONS</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>It’s really easy. <a href="https://www.minion.gg/">Go here and install Minion</a>. Don’t worry this isn’t like installing Mod Organizer for Skyrim, you literally click download, it finds your ESO directory when prompted, and you’re good to go. This client is your search engine for addons, your download tool, your updater. Incredibly intuitive.
<ul>
<li>Also: there are no load orders for addons. You don’t need to worry about that. If addons conflict, the game will tell you and you can choose which addon to keep. Conflicts are rare.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Note: the one COMPLICATED part of using addons is that each addon these days require a set of community-shared database files called “libraries” to function. It’s not really complicated, just tedious, you need to look at the description of each addon, see what libraries are required, and download them. That’s all. The libraries are all searchable and downloadable from the same interface as the addons, and will just sit in your list like another addon.
<ul>
<li>The good news is that these are community libraries shared by many mods. So once you’ve downloaded about 20 or so of these addons, you are mostly covered for most addons.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>One final note: addons do take up resources from your rig. Depending on your setup and internet connection, you may find that some addons affect your game’s performance. I don’t really have a problem but I have a strong rig and fast connection. Best way to manage this is to add a few addons at a time and make sure everything still runs smoothly, then add a few more, etc.</li>
</ul>
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<p><strong>MY ADDONS</strong></p>
<p>Here’s the list. Why no links, Avi? Because they would be useless, you are going to need to look these up in Minion and download them. Each name will work as a search term. I’ve grouped some together where it seemed logical. Try these out, let me know how it goes, do NOT ask me for tech support (!), and if you know of better options or other addons people might want to try, please let us know in the comments!</p>
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<p><strong>Alpha Gear </strong>– Super amazing addon that allows you save configurations of gear and skill loadouts, and switch to those loadouts with the push of a button. ESSENTIAL. Great for when you play your character different ways (healer for trials, DPS for PVP, etc.), and also great for advanced players who switch gear during a trial depending on the upcoming fight. Caution, only works out of combat, and if you try to swap while transitioning into out of combat, you may end up with the wrong skills or gear on your bar.</p>
<p><img class="align-center" src="https://cdn-eso.mmoui.com/preview/pvw7693.png" alt="Image result for eso alphagear" width="368" height="307" /></p>
<p><strong>Champion Point Respec</strong> – Like Alpha Gear, but for Champion Points. If you are poor, you will not love spending 3k to swap your CP around constantly, but once you’ve played for awhile, that is a tiny sum. Using Alpha Gear and CPR, I can turn my character from a PVE DPS to a PVP healer in five seconds.</p>
<p><strong>Advanced Filters</strong> – gives you more things to use to search and filter your character/bank/storage inventory.</p>
<p><strong>Craft Store Dragonhold</strong> – incredibly useful and broad addon. This lets you track all sorts of stuff across all of your characters (you can see every character while logged into just one toon). Research timers across all of your characters, learned and unlearned recipes and motifs, crafting skill levels, horse training timers, you name it. Absolutely essential addon. It even fixes the terrible crafting interfaces for several crafting skills.</p>
<p><strong>Awesome Guild Store</strong> – like the name says, gives you a much better interface for guild store shopping—better search options by far than vanilla.</p>
<p><strong>Harven’s Extended Stats</strong>—shows you more stats in your character interface. Really important ones include your spell and weapon penetration (a MAJOR determinant of damage). TBH I don’t know if this is necessary anymore; it hasn’t been updated in 2 years and it works fine and just sits in my addon folder.</p>
<p><strong>Harvens Improved Skills Window</strong>—really helpful addon, does things like show actual percentages of a current skill level (e.g., 58.47% of leveling Soul Harvest II to Soul Harvest III), showing you the root ability and both morphs when you scroll over an ability, etc.</p>
<p><strong>Combat Metrics</strong>—definitive tool for tracking your performance in any engagement. Shows you your DPS or HPS (heals per second), breaks down your average stats, average uptime on buffs, damage done by various skills, light attacks per second…everything you need to help you as you practice, see where you need work, and improve.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://cdn-eso.mmoui.com/preview/pvw6556.png" alt="Image result for eso combat metrics" width="389" height="288" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><em>Someone's Combat Metrics after-action report (not mine)</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Dustman</strong>—highly customizable addon that will automatically slot things that you pick up as junk and sell them when you vendor, or even just automatically destroy some things you can’t sell.</p>
<p><strong>Easy Travel</strong>—really great addon if you have one or several large guilds. When you open a map, there is a list of zones on the right; you can right click on any zone, and if anyone in any of your guilds is there, you will fast travel to them for free without a wayshrine.</p>
<p><strong>Fence Data</strong>—puts a widget on your UI that shows you how much of your fence and launder limits you’ve used in a given day. Really useful for thief characters or when doing justice achievements.</p>
<p><strong>Lorebooks / Skyshards / Destinations / Harvest Map / Lost Treasure / Map Pins</strong>—All six of these addons make your map far more useful by putting things you need to find on the map. There is some overlap with a few of them, but I am 99% sure each of them has a few things the others don’t. Just grab all six. You can customize most of these addons to show or hide anything.</p>
<p><strong>Hide Login Announcement</strong>—it hides the login announcement.</p>
<p><strong>Inventory Insight</strong>—Essential addon that lets you view your ENTIRE inventory at any time—all your character’s inventories, your bank inventory, storage chests, guild banks, everything.</p>
<p><strong>Itemization Browser</strong>—lets you look up any item set in the game and see where it comes from and what its specific stats and bonuses are. Specifically useful for seeing quickly which monster sets are sold by which of the three Undaunted quest givers.</p>
<p><strong>LUI Extended / Greymind QSB / Srendarr</strong> – I’ve grouped these three addons together because they are my main UI overhaul mods. This is one area where you have choices; LUI, FTC, AUI, Bandit UI and others are all options for your primary UI interface, it comes down to preference which one you want to use. Some of these mods duplicate the features of Greymind (puts a potion/consumables hotbar on screen and lets you assign hotkeys to change your consumables) and Srendarr (comprehensive buff/debuff tracker). I use these three for my setup. Try these, try other UI mods, pick your favorites. All comes down to giving you information you need, in the way you want/need to see it.</p>
<p><strong>Master Merchant / Tamriel Trade Centre</strong>—the classic and the upstart. They don’t really compete, Master Merchant tracks all store sales in all your guilds, to provide you with price and volume history to help you when buying or selling. Tamriel Trade Center has the same purpose, but it pulls from current LISTINGS (not sales) from all over Tamriel. Both are useful info for trading effectively. Tamriel Trade Center requires you to run an .exe file every couple of days to receive up to date pricing information; I think there is an option on the TTC website for Mac users who can’t run .exe files or people that just don’t want to. Master Merchant is a pretty big resource hog, so you shouldn’t run it while engaged in “big” content like trials and PVP with tons of actors and activity happening.</p>
<p><strong>No Accidental Stealing / Vampire’s Woe</strong>: Two of my favorite small mods. No Accidental Stealing lets you customize rules for letting you steal something (double click, only with a confirm prompt, only when in sneak, etc.), so no more getting a bounty by fat fingering and stealing some trash from a table. Vampire’s Woe suppresses the Vampire Feed ability with a key toggle—REALLY great when you are trying to pickpocket or assassinate NPCs, as you might imagine if you’ve tried that as a vamp.</p>
<p><strong>No Thank You</strong>—another favorite small mod. It moves lots of annoying messages from your notifications screens or from the dreaded UI error screen, into your chat window.</p>
<p><strong>Potion Maker</strong>—helps you make potions. No instructions required, just download and thank me. Another in the long line of examples proving that Bethesda should outsource UI design.</p>
<p><strong>Raid Notifier</strong>—not important at all if you are not doing trials content, essential if you are. The cues in trials for incoming attacks and mechanics are often wonky and can be very hard to see even if you know the content well; this addon just flashes simple messages to warn you when something is happening.</p>
<p><strong>Rare Fish Tracker / Votan’s Fisherman / Votan’s Fish Fillet</strong>—essential if you are going for fishing achievements, useless if you are not.</p>
<p><strong>SuperStar</strong>—great addon, you just hit a hotkey, and a full interface of your character’s information pops on screen—skills, gear, enchants, traits, CP, stats, everything. Great for sharing your build information with other people, just screenshot and post on discord or wherever.</p>
<p><strong>Urich’s Skill Point Finder</strong>—great for when you are leveling. This small-font interface displays every skill point available in the game, lets you know how many you have, and shows you each skill point you still need and where to get it.</p>
<p><strong>Votan’s Minimap</strong>—my choice for minimap. There are one or two others.</p>
<p><strong>Dolgubon’s Lazy Writ Crafter</strong>—The essential tool for anyone who does daily crafting writs. Thank the Gods for Dolgubon! You walk up to the writ quest bulletin board, it automatically accepts all the daily writ quests. You walk up to each crafting table, it automatically crafts the required items. You walk up to the turn-in station, it automatically turns in the quest and picks up your prize box, and then automatically opens up all the prize boxes without you even needing to go the inventory screen.</p>
<p><strong>Writ Worthy</strong>—Fantastic tool for those doing daily writs, and specifically for those who want to use or possibly sell Master Writs. Gives you the cost per voucher to craft the writ (my rule of thumb is never craft anything over 500g per voucher unless you are grinding to get thousands of vouchers). More importantly, lets you “queue” master writs, and if you have the skills and materials to craft them, you just need to walk up to the crafting table and it makes the thing(s) automatically.</p></div>Favorite Region in ESO?https://TheSkyForge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/favorite-region-in-eso2020-02-22T07:23:14.000Z2020-02-22T07:23:14.000ZCursehttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/members/Hantz<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3e/dc/97/3edc97176b1ed34db34a9df908ee1b4c.jpg" alt="Image result for tamriel" width="727" height="545" /></p>
<p>As the title asks, what is your favorite region in ESO and why?</p></div>ESO Guides: Cash Money Money in 2nd-Era Tamrielhttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/eso-guides-cash-money-money-in-2nd-era-tamriel2020-02-01T18:09:28.000Z2020-02-01T18:09:28.000ZAvihttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/members/Avi<div><p><strong>People of Riften, heed my words - </strong>it’s time for another weekend guide to ESO from your old Uncle Avi.</p>
<p><strong>Tamriel</strong> <strong>runs on money. </strong>Things cost money. Things sell for money. You want money. You want money? Let’s make some money. </p>
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<p>As always, this guide could go on for 50 pages or more. But it won't. Below I provide a list of the major currencies in the game, and then a list of key money-making activities with some basic tips on how to get going.</p>
<p> <span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>ESO CURRENCIES</strong></span></p>
<p>If you go to your Inventory Screen (“I”) and click the coin icon above the interface, you’ll see a list of all in-game currencies and how much you’ve got. Some of the totals are account-based, but some are just based on your current character. There’s TEN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES on the page (and at least one other not listed). What the actual ****, amirite? Don’t worry, it’s not as complicated as it seems.</p>
<p>There are multiple kinds of currencies:</p>
<p><strong>Fully liquid currencies</strong>: <strong>Gold. </strong>There’s only one. You can buy things in gold, sell things in gold, pay players directly in gold. Primary currency of the game.</p>
<p>There is a second fully liquid currency called “Key Fragments,” they are earned and used for a very limited group of Imperial City gear sets. I’m excluding them from this discussion.</p>
<p><strong>Partially liquid currencies: Alliance Points, Tel Var Stones, Writ Vouchers. </strong>You can’t trade these with players directly, but you can buy things with them and sell some or all of those items to players.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Alliance Points: </strong>earned from Cyrodiil PVP activities, some Imperial City activities, Battlegrounds</li>
<li><strong>Tel Var Stones</strong>: earned from some Imperial City Activities</li>
<li><strong>Writ Vouchers: </strong>earned from completing Master Writs, which are in turn earned from doing daily crafting writs.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Illiquid currencies: Undaunted Keys, Transmute Crystals, Event Tickets. </strong>You can’t trade these with players, nor can you trade the items you buy or create with them. Earning this currency is ENTIRELY about being able to get things for yourself. These are earned gradually through game activities at a semi-fixed pace; I won’t cover them for the most part in this guide.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Undaunted Keys: </strong>earned from completing daily Undaunted dungeon pledges. Keys are required to get the shoulder pieces of the 2-piece head-and-shoulder “Monster” armor sets. So do daily pledges, stack up keys, and then go diving into the Undaunted chests for your chance at your desired shoulder piece.</li>
<li><strong>Transmute Crystals: </strong>earned through various in-game activities like trials, pledges and PVP. 50 Crystals let you transmute a piece of gear from one trait, like Invigorating, to another trait, like Divines or Impenetrable. You can only have 200 at a time, but you can keep unlimited Transmute Geodes (not yet converted to Crystals) in your inventory, taking us an absurd amount of space. It’s AWESOME we can transmute gear now, but this currency system is a big pain in the butt. <strong>Best way to earn these: </strong>Join a 30-day PVP Cyrodiil campaign with a character, earn 25,000 AP on that character (should take no more than an hour, with some luck 5-10 minutes). At the end of the campaign, you’ll get a 50-Crystal Transmute Geode that you can keep in inventory until you need the crystals for transmuting. You can do this on multiple characters and save as many as you can hold.</li>
<li><strong>Event Tickets: </strong>earned from, you guessed it, daily activities in events. Also capped, you can only hold 12 at a time, and you use tickets to buy items at the event-specific vendor, usually costing 5 or 10 tickets. System is designed to make you log in on daily basis. If you don’t care about cosmetics like mounts, outfit styles, etc., you can essentially ignore this currency.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Monetization currencies: Crowns, Crown Gems, Outfit Change Tokens.</strong> These are essentially obtained through real-word money, and I am excluding them from this discussion.</p>
<p>Note that you can arrange to get many Crown Store items by “buying” crowns for gold—you arrange with a player to gift you a crown store item and pay them gold; the current exchange rate is around 170-200 gold per crown. HIGHLY recommend you only do this with someone you really trust, and ideally through a guild like Tamriel Crown Exchange.</p>
<p><strong>Finally, I should mention the 12<sup>th</sup> and perhaps most important currency: Raw and Refined Crafting Materials. </strong>These are essentially gold, in the form of natural resources. On my main account, I have about 27 million gold right now, my craft bag of core armor materials, alchemy ingredients, enchanting glyphs, gold upgrade materials and so on, is worth about 65 million (an addon called “Wealth Evaluator” will give you this number based on current guild-store prices).</p>
<p>If you use an addon called “Inventory Insight,” you can see all your items held in your bank, in storage chests, and on each of your characters, this goes for money as well. From left to right you'll see the four main "wealth" currencies of Gold, Tel Var, Alliance Points and Writ Vouchers. These, along with your crafting bag of materials, are the primary components of in-game wealth. And, of course, the friends you make along the way. </p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>HOW TO MAKE MONEY</strong></span></p>
<p>Now that you know the currencies you’re after, how do you earn them in vast quantities that essentially spill from the vault in your private, Cayman Islands compound?</p>
<p>I’ll break this up into things you can do immediately and things that probably require some more experience (in terms of both character strength and player skill).</p>
<p><strong>Note that an essential ingredient to making money for most activities is being in a good trading guild. </strong>Go to Rawl’kha in Reaper’s March, Mournhold in Deshaan, Wayrest in Stormhaven, Elden Root in Grahtwood, Vivec City in Vvardenfell, and Alinor in Summerset. These are debatably the most heavily trafficked trading hubs. Write down the names of all the trading guilds in these locations, start doing some research and find one that seems like a good fit for you. Unless you want to stand around for hours in cities peddling your wares in zone chat (some people do like doing that!), a good trading guild should be your new best friend.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><em><strong>Things You Can Do on Day One:</strong></em></span></p>
<p><strong>1) Just vendor the trash you pick up in your adventures.</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Leveling a new character? Running through public dungeons for skill points? 95% of what you loot is trash, but it all sells for cash at any regular game vendor. Collect it and sell it. I think if you just sell everything you pick up from a 1-50 leveling cycle, the cash from quest rewards and from vendoring comes out to about 70-80k gold.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>2) Farm for raw materials. </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Go to a place, find a circuit that takes about 3-4 minutes to complete, harvest the raw material nodes, go back to start of loop in time for the nodes to respawn. Donesies. You will pick up tons of material for six of the seven crafting skills (food ingredients come from different sources).</li>
<li>Good suggested places: Coldharbour main city for alchemy ingredients; Craglorn routes (harvesting in Craglorn gives you a small chance of looting a Potent Nirncrux, a very valuable trait item); Hew’s Bane (the Thieves’ Guild zone, very dense concentration of nodes). But honestly you can find good routes anywhere.</li>
<li><strong>Key addons: Harvest Map.</strong></li>
<li>Prerequisites: None – sort of. This activity is actually a bit difficult on Day One; material nodes are hard to see without putting skill points in the crafting passives that make the nodes glow from a distance. Get those perked out before you start trying to harvest in earnest.</li>
<li>Tips: <strong>Get a gear/race setup to sprint really fast without using your horse. </strong>Getting on and off your horse takes 3-4 seconds, which is wasted time, but luckily you can build a character that can run almost as fast as a leveled mount. One easy setup: Buy a 5-piece set of Darkstride and a 5-piece set of Coward’s Gear. You can boost this further with a bunch more money, but just those two sets will let you run extremely fast from node to node and never run out of stamina.</li>
<li>You can sell materials for good coin, but I would only do that early on if you have ZERO intention of crafting anything. This is wealth with utility, so in your first year it makes much more sense to just spend some time on this every day to slowly build up your crafting inventory. Someday when you have thousands of everything in your craft bag you will thank me!</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="align-center" src="https://cdn-eso.mmoui.com/preview/pvw4637.png" alt="Image result for harvesting node eso" width="355" height="355" /></p>
<p><strong>3) DO YOUR DAILY WRITS! LEVEL YOUR HIRELINGS!</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>This was covered in my previous guide on crafting.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Do this.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Do this.</strong></li>
<li>Seriously, roll multiple characters and do writs on them every day. Doing writs for all seven crafting skills on one character earns you about 20-25k in pure gold, plus chances at master surveys which drop tons of raw materials, chances at gold upgrade mats, chances at master writs, etc. If you were to do writs on 8 or 9 every day you would easily clear 300-400K or more in overall wealth per week. You generally need to supplement this activity with occasional purchases of stacks of refined materials at guild traders, but that cost is dwarfed by the profit from doing the writs.</li>
<li>Additionally, perk all your hirelings. It’s free stuff every day (twice a day if you log in every twelve hours), and it REALLY adds up fast in building your craft bag.</li>
<li><strong>Key Addons: Dolgubon’s Lazy Writ Crafter.</strong></li>
</ul>
<p><em><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;">Things You Can Do with Some More Experience</span>:</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>1) Steal and kill! Shadows preserve us! Hail Sithis!</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>The "Justice" system in this game is SO MUCH FUN. You can pickpocket most NPCs in the game, you can assassinate people with the Blade of Woe and loot them for "stolen" treasures--and some of the items you pick up are worth good money. You need to level up your ledgerdemain skill and your TG and DB skills to really become a master thief/assassin, and the montary profit from the activity isn't great in terms of income/hour. But again - SO MUCH FUN if you haven't tried it yet.</li>
<li>Key Addons: FenceData. Not really essential but it puts a widget on your interface that tells you how many more items you can fence or launder that day (it's limited).</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="align-center" src="https://i.redd.it/md28l1lekzgy.png" alt="Image result for blade of woe eso" width="389" height="345" /></p>
<p><strong>2) Farm for valued style motifs in Veteran DLC Dungeons and Trials. </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>When the new dungeons start dropping their motifs, the pages can sell from 50k-250k each. This is because only a small percentage of players in the game are good enough to clear this content, at least at first, and the pages are rare drops upon completion. Scarcity breeds high prices.</li>
<li>Pretty simple. If/when you get really really good at PVE, grab your other top-tier pals and grind these dungeons for profit.</li>
<li>Key Addons: Various combat addons and interfaces so you can stabby stabby real good, and so you don't go squish in your dungeon.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>3) Earn tons of AP in Cyrodiil or Battlegrounds and convert it to gold. </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>You can read other guides on how to PVP. Generally, you can expect to make anywhere from 25k-75k per hour in Cyrodiil just heading over to keeps, outposts and resources that are being taken or defended by your faction. You can earn 6-7K AP from losing in Battlegrounds badly, and more if you play well and/or win.</li>
<li>Ways to turn AP into cash: Right now, buying Dawn Prisms from the War Researcher, or Akaviri motif pages, are likely the best AP-to-cash conversion options. Dawn Prisms are probably best, they move more consistently on guild traders. The War Researcher can be found at one of the two “home base” gate locations in Cyrodiil for your faction.</li>
<li>Side note: DO PVP. IT'S GREAT. DON'T LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO GRIPE ABOUT IT; NINE TIMES OUT OF TEN THEY ARE JUST MAD THAT THEY GOT STEAMROLLED BY BETTER PLAYERS. (Full disclosure I definitely do some steamrolling but I am also quite often the steamrolled.) </li>
<li>Key Addons: Various PVP addons that you like.</li>
</ul>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em><strong>Farming potatoes at Castle Roebeck: A compelling source of revenue.</strong></em></p>
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<p><strong>4) Earn tons of Tel Var in Imperial City and convert it to gold.</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Again, read other guides or watch vids on Youtube for advice on grinding Tel Var. You can get some from killing mobs and bosses in IC. You can get a lot killing other players. You will lose half of your carried Tel Var whenever you die in IC. Go for fun when you are new-ish in the game but don’t go in with expectations of earning and keeping tons of Tel Var.</li>
<li>Convert this to gold at the vendors inside your faction’s base in the Imperial Sewers (where you appear when you enter Imperial City). By far the best option is to buy Hakeijo runes for 5,000 Tel Var each. These used to sell for 10k, then 12k, then 14k, now well over 15-16k. (These enchanting runes are needed to make tristat glyphs for armor and Oblivion-damage glyphs for weapons. They are highly valued.)</li>
<li>Key Addons: Various PVP addons that you like.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>5) Sell Master Writs, or complete them and buy rare furnishing items. </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>It is not possible to consistently do all of these at first. All of them require mastering and perking out the relevant skill at a minimum, and most of them also require you to have collected a large number of style motifs or food/drink recipes.</li>
<li>Different master writs reward you with different amounts of writ vouchers, redeemable at a few vendors for various cool items that can be used or resold. <strong>VERY GOOD TIP: If you are doing crafting research on a character, you can buy timer-reduction scrolls from the furnishing vendor. They are super cheap, 3 vouchers to cut research time in a skill by a day, with a one-day cooldown between using a scroll of each crafting type. If you do master writs consistently, you can plow those vouchers into essentially cutting your research time in half. (You can also cut research time to nothing by spending an absurd amount of real money in the Crown Store, but please don’t do that. Say No to Monetization.) </strong></li>
<li>The value of the writs in based on how many vouchers they produce and how much it costs to craft the writ in terms of materials. Hence, their sale price, and/or the wisdom of completing the master writ, is based on the “cost per voucher” of completing. Lower cost per voucher means it’s smarter to complete it and its sale price per voucher will likely be higher. And vice versa.</li>
<li>You used to be able to instantly vendor these master writs for close to 1,000 gold per voucher, but those days are long gone. Today they are difficult to sell for 300-400 gold per voucher.</li>
<li>You can also buy things like Aetherial Dust or Attunable Crafting Stations and sell them on guild traders for big bucks. Generally, the conversion ratio isn't in your favor here (in other words, you'll spend more completing the master writs and collecting vouchers than you'll earn selling the things the vouchers can buy). However, say for example you are diving into the RNG boxes for high-end Summerset or Elsweyr furnishing recipes, because you want to collect them. If and when you get duplicate recipes that you already know, you can sell them to recoup some of your costs.</li>
<li>Unless you are really going to get into furnishing, or (as I mentioned) can get high value from the vouchers for yourself by speeding up crafting research, you may want to try and sell the larger vouchers, and just save the smaller ones (e.g., 2-voucher alchemy and enchanting master writs) for a while. It’s sort of a complex system at first, and you are better off focusing on mastering other methods of making money.</li>
<li><strong>One side note: </strong>completing any master writ, small or large, gives your character a giant amount of general XP. During a double AP event, with a 150% XP booster scroll, you can level a character from 1 to 50 by doing 100 (maybe 150?) of these writs. So you may find it worth taking a monetary loss on producing some of these writs, simply to speed-level a character.</li>
<li>Key Addons: WritWorthy--essential whether you're planning to complete master writs or sell them.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p>I think that’s a good place to stop. Hopefully this information is helpful. The most important advice is to make sure you spend most of your time having fun—any repetitive action that offers monetary reward can be addictive, so don’t end up burning out on the game simply by getting tunnel vision and grinding money during all of your time in Tamriel. That being said, get out there and start building your empire!</p></div>What is your favorite ESO class, and why?https://TheSkyForge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/what-is-your-favorite-eso-class-and-why2020-01-28T14:20:25.000Z2020-01-28T14:20:25.000ZCursehttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/members/Hantz<div><p> </p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Anyone who's played ESO long enough has likely gravitated towards one class or another. So which class has come away as your favorite, and why? For me its the Nightblade class. In addition to great DPS potential and excellent sustainability, I find them to be very versatile. Want a Nightblade tank? Done. Nightblade healer? No problem. Let me know in the comments below which class is your favorite. </p></div>Show Off Your Character(s) - The ESO Fashion Cataloghttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/tell-us-about-your-character-s2020-01-16T17:24:17.000Z2020-01-16T17:24:17.000ZCursehttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/members/Hantz<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://esosslfiles-a.akamaihd.net/cms/2017/05/df947bcb06ebb5edb1e9d0d663a30e2f.jpg" alt="Image result for eso characters" /></p>
<p>Seeing as we now have this brand new ESO group up and running, people may desire a place to share their characters. So with that here's a thread dedicated to just that. </p>
<p>Although ESO is an MMO, it features countless hours of content which can be played solo, allowing us to create intricate stories for our characters if we so choose. We can play the lone wolf or join with others. We can focus on the gameplay, or immerse ourselves in our roles if that is what we prefer, or even do both. Half the fun is sharing our experiences in one form or another. It's what this site is built on, so if you have a character you particularly enjoy why not take the time to tell us about them below? Then once you're done telling us about them why not pop in every now and then to tell us about some of your favourite moments from playing them?</p>
<p>Give me a minute and I'll get us started by posting about my own. </p></div>The ESO Help Deskhttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/the-eso-help-desk2020-01-15T19:56:28.000Z2020-01-15T19:56:28.000ZCursehttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/members/Hantz<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3821187599,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3821187599,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="3821187599?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a>Here's a place for all your ESO related technical questions. Post any issues you're having with your game here and a more experienced member should be able to help you out!</p></div>Guild: The Sky Forge - XB1 NA Chapterhttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/guild-the-sky-forge-xb1-na-chapter2020-01-11T04:43:04.000Z2020-01-11T04:43:04.000ZPixelhttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/members/Pixel<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3813804277,RESIZE_1200x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3813804277,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="3813804277?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p>
<p>Just after the announcement of the new Sky Forge guild on the Elder Scrolls Online for this community on the PC North America server, in comes the Xbox One North America server chapter of the very same guild (I even managed to snag the same name, surprisingly). There is little else to announce here, other than that our current goal is 10 members so we can unlock some new guild features. </p>
<p>Please invite any and all you know who play ESO on Xbox One to join the guild and run with the Skyforge Community. Simply contact me here or on the discord with your @ username in the Elder Scrolls Online and I will inivite you in the guild. You need only accept this invitation in-game to join the Companions of the Sky Forge.</p>
<p>Ranks in this guild are the same as the PC NA chapter (Ice Brain, Companion, Circle, Harbinger). Thank you so much for tuning in and I hope to see you all in Tamriel!</p></div>ESO - Classes and Skillshttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/eso-classes-and-skills-12020-01-10T13:21:01.000Z2020-01-10T13:21:01.000ZPixelhttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/members/Pixel<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3812914867,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3812914867,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="3812914867?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p>
<p>ESO is home to a host of unique TTRPG-esque classes unlike any seen anywhere else in the Elder Scrolls universe. They are the Dragonknight, the Templar, the Noghtblade, the Sorcerer, and more recently, the Warden and the Necromancer. They developers of the game have launched new classes alongside Chapters in the storyline, so we know that new classes are a possibility.</p>
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<p>Classes arent the only thing that defines your character in ESP however. There is also a vast arsenal of abilities available to your character through individual skill lines unlocked from guilds such as the Dark Brotherhood and the Fighters guild. When new chapters release there arent always new classes, for example Summerset saw the introduction of a Psijic Order skill line that gives the player the ability to manipulate time.</p>
<p>My question for tlthis new thread is twofold: what are your favorite current classes and skills, and which ones would you like to see added into the game</p>
<p> </p></div>What is your ESO User IDhttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/groups/elder-scrolls-online/eso-discussion/what-is-your-eso-user-id2020-01-05T20:27:55.000Z2020-01-05T20:27:55.000ZCursehttps://TheSkyForge.ning.com/members/Hantz<div><p><img class="align-center" src="https://esosslfiles-a.akamaihd.net/cms/2019/03/6ad3065b83ff1a5c62aad6ba021ef556.jpg" alt="Image result for eso" width="658" height="323" /></p>
<p>I suppose the best way to kick off our ESO is to have everyone share their user names. With that said here you may post your User ID as well as what system and server you play on. </p>
<p>I'll start us off</p>
<ul><li>@CurseND</li>
<li>PC</li>
<li>NA Server</li>
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