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Kane

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The emperor on the biggest EU campaign is a 20-hours-a-day-since-Early-Access

How do you kill that which has no life?
more importantly, where are these people getting all the money from??

Parents.
bat-phoning parents in case of own failure is another privilege of the rich.

i'll send mine working the coal mines at 9.
 

logrus

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I'll also say the game does get quite difficult. I'm a level 11 Khajiit nightblade now, focusing on dual-wielding and I'm having a tough time with a lot of quests. Mostly I do fine if I go up against solo enemies, but groups of enemies fuck me up good. It might be because I'm struggling to stay on top with my gear. I never seem to be able to afford everything I need and most quests give me either staffs, light armor or heavy armor. I haven't received medium armor or a one handed weapon as a quest reward in quite a while.

So, you are playing excactly the toon I'm building. Some advice from the perspective of 21 Khajiit Nightblade:

- Try to mix armor types - get some heavy and light too to build the skill lines. I plan to wear 5 medium/2 heavy in the end, to get most of the benefits from 5-piece set and get additional protection (heavy in chest/leg slots to maximize protection). I think that wearing 7 medium is not optimal (unless you go all for crit/weapon attacks). And anti-CC skill which is available when you reach 22 in heavy armor looks like a must for PvP. Also, beyond level 20 I discovered that it's no longer possible to just use weapon attacks, in dungeons you must use various class skills to survive, which use magicka (and suddenly using some light armor + passives looks like a viable option).

- Get the Whirlwind (requires 14 in dual wield), it's a must have AoE skill for our build. If you have enough stamina (I suggest using two rings with -stamina cost), go Lotus Fan from stealth -> 3-4x Whirlwind and shit dies as flies. Groups up to 4 are not a problem, unless there are healers. Then go stealth -> veiled strike on healer, finish him with 1-2 light attack -> 3-4x Whirlwind and shit dies as flies. Later on morphed Whirlwind after using Drain Power should be even moar deadly.

- Invest in crafting - clothing for medium armor and Blacksmithing for daggers. Plus buy some vendor enchants for 100-200g, this should allow you to be independent in the gear area, even crafted, enchanted on-level white gear with good traits is a life-saver. And repair your armor, it's a must to keep gear in the good shape. Also, look for the crafting stations in the wilds, you can craft your own gear sets with 3-piece or 5-piece bonuses, some are really useful for Nightblades. For example
* Night Silence: (3 items) While Hidden, increase Health Regeneration by 40%
* Torug's Pact: (3 Items) Adds 100 Armor, (5 Items) Reduce weapon enchantments internal cooldown by 1 second.
* Vampire Kiss: (3 Items) Killing an opponent increases your health regeneration by 50% for 8 seconds
* Hunding's Rage: (3 Items) Adds 11 Stamina Recovery (5 Items) Increase weapon damage by 5% when using weapon abilities.
* (3 Items) Critical attacks also reduce the targets armor by 20% for 5 seconds!!! <- this is awesome for Khajiit crit-build, combined with assassination passive, at least 5 medium armor, +5% crit chance passive for dual wield daggers, and Shadow mundus stone (increased crit damage)
Please have in mind that crafting set requires that you have to know defined amount of traits for each piece, between 2 and 8, so you have to invest some time in trait research.
 

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To be honest, he doesn't really like MMOs in the first place. At least not based on the overall impression I got from AngryJoe so far. Not EPIC enough for him.
 

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To be honest, he doesn't really like MMOs in the first place. At least not based on the overall impression I got from AngryJoe so far. Not EPIC enough for him.

He really loved GW2, at least from what I saw in the first few minutes of his review before I gagged and had to stop the video. Then again, GW2 inspires rabid fanaticism in a lot of people. Everyone was heralding it as the revolution the MMO genre needed, despite the fact that it was neither revolutionary, nor particularly good.

Either way, I'm enjoying ESO a lot more than I thought I would. So much, in fact, that I've apparently put in 30 hours since Wednesday. :/

I decided to ditch my Nightblade for now and rather go with a tanky character seeing as there doesn't seem to be enough tanks or healers going around at the moment. I was also a bit bored of the Aldmeri Dominion campaign, because it seems very uninspired. I rolled an Orc Dragon Knight using two handed weapons and heavy armor. I would have preferred to play the Ebonheart Pact, but the races in the Daggerfall Covenant seem more suited to tanky builds. With this character, I'm practically breezing through most of the content. It's just the Corruption spirit in the Wyrd tree that I haven't been able to take down yet.

So far, if they can release large chunks of good quality content on a regular basis, I'll leave my subscription running.
 
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FYI, pop distribution between alliances is about

40% Pact
33% Dominion
27% Covenant

Most major guilds went Pact because of the Skyrim factor. This doesn't really matter if you don't PvP though.

I've also heard that Covenant has the worst quest design by far, but I guess that's a matter of personal preference.
 

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The emperor on the biggest EU campaign is a 20-hours-a-day-since-Early-Access

How do you kill that which has no life?
more importantly, where are these people getting all the money from?
oh to be born rich, derping your day away in some shitty MMORPG... could there be any better way of life?
MMORPGS is actually one of the cheapest forms of entertainment per hour, so you get a lot of welfare clients among the hardcore players. They have tons of free time, and not enough money to do something more interesting with it.
 
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its also one of the crappiest. you get what you pay for.

What an angry little bitch you are. Just because YOU have no friends or life does not mean other people aren't enjoy MMOs with groups, raiding and soloing.
But of course One shitty little Codex bitch named raw's wuss ass opinion is just so much more better and superior than the millions upon millions that engage in online MMOs year after year. Your avatar is so appropriate, your just an angry douchebag spewing your bile in random farts in between your porn jerk off sessions while you herd brofists up your ass like an Afghan kid being broken in by Afghan military officers.
Now that's the fucking news ya' butthurt forum troll fag.
 

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its also one of the crappiest. you get what you pay for.

What an angry little bitch you are. Just because YOU have no friends or life does not mean other people aren't enjoy MMOs with groups, raiding and soloing.
But of course One shitty little Codex bitch named raw's wuss ass opinion is just so much more better and superior than the millions upon millions that engage in online MMOs year after year. Your avatar is so appropriate, your just an angry douchebag spewing your bile in random farts in between your porn jerk off sessions while you herd brofists up your ass like an Afghan kid being broken in by Afghan military officers.
Now that's the fucking news ya' butthurt forum troll fag.

:nocountryforshitposters: yup.
 

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its also one of the crappiest. you get what you pay for.

What an angry little bitch you are. Just because YOU have no friends or life does not mean other people aren't enjoy MMOs with groups, raiding and soloing.
But of course One shitty little Codex bitch named raw's wuss ass opinion is just so much more better and superior than the millions upon millions that engage in online MMOs year after year. Your avatar is so appropriate, your just an angry douchebag spewing your bile in random farts in between your porn jerk off sessions while you herd brofists up your ass like an Afghan kid being broken in by Afghan military officers.
Now that's the fucking news ya' butthurt forum troll fag.


MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE EAT AT MCDONALD'S AND BUY BRITNEY SPEARS AND JUSTIN BIEBER'S ALBUMS, THEY MUST BE GREAT PRODUCTS
 

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its also one of the crappiest. you get what you pay for.

What an angry little bitch you are. Just because YOU have no friends or life does not mean other people aren't enjoy MMOs with groups, raiding and soloing.
But of course One shitty little Codex bitch named raw's wuss ass opinion is just so much more better and superior than the millions upon millions that engage in online MMOs year after year. Your avatar is so appropriate, your just an angry douchebag spewing your bile in random farts in between your porn jerk off sessions while you herd brofists up your ass like an Afghan kid being broken in by Afghan military officers.
Now that's the fucking news ya' butthurt forum troll fag.

not enjoying MMOs = no friends. ladies and gentlemen, an MMO fanboi.

your're right on the superior opinion part tho
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its also one of the crappiest. you get what you pay for.

What a mad salty lil biiiatch yo ass is. Just cuz YOU have no playaz or game do not mean other playas aren't trip off MMOs wit groups, raidin n' soloing.
But of course One shitty lil Codex biiiatch named rawz wuss ass opinion is just so much mo' mo' betta n' superior than tha millions upon millions dat engage up in online MMOs year afta year. Shiiit, dis aint no joke. Yo crazy-ass avatar is so appropriate, yo' just a mad salty douchebag spewin yo' bile up in random farts up in between yo' porn jerk off sessions while you herd brofists up yo' ass like a Afghan kid bein fucked up in by Afghan military fools.
Now thatz tha fuckin shizzle ya' butthurt forum troll fag.
The newfag is strong in you, young padawan.

:salute:
 

Kane

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Hey, something positive! Everyone eat a happy cookie!

solo play is the new massive multiplayer online experience, all glory to TESO.

being able to play an MMO solo = flawed design. people like that guy is the cancer that is killing MMOs. this is also why i repeatedly said that todays MMOs aren't MMOs and just exist as marketing deparment fabrications. we need to butcher those that mock MMOs. kill all single players! Multiplayer games to the multiplayer ... players!
 
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