The Elder Scrolls Online

[Avellion]

Whoa, werewolves! Could this game kick any more ass?

There are vampires too.

We can reenact the greatest novel series in the history of litterature.

 

[Bubbles]

Whoa, werewolves! Could this game kick any more ass?

There are vampires too.

We can reenact the greatest novel series in the history of litterature.

The Southern Vampire Mysteries? The Vampire Diaries? Tales of the Werewolf Clan? Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter? The Saga of Darren Shan? Kitty Norville? Discworld? Women of the Otherworld? Tolkien's Middle-Earth? Necroscope?

 

[Avellion]

Whoa, werewolves! Could this game kick any more ass?

There are vampires too.

We can reenact the greatest novel series in the history of litterature.

The Southern Vampire Mysteries? The Vampire Diaries? Tales of the Werewolf Clan? Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter? The Saga of Darren Shan? Kitty Norville? Discworld? Women of the Otherworld? Tolkien's Middle-Earth? Necroscope?

Twilight. Volourn can be Bella Swan and Prosper can be Edward Cullen.

 

[Bubbles]

Wait, nobody bothered to live post today's AMA? What's this forum coming to?

Launch

- 5 days early access starts on 7:00 AM EDT, Sunday March 30th.

- Characters will be wiped for early access/launch, you will be using the same login info/client as beta so don’t uninstall the game.

- EU megaserver will be hosted on US initially and then moved to its permanent home in EU.

Cashshop/Subscription

- Cashshop will just have a name change server and some vanity pets in the future. No plans for anything else after that.

- Playing any race in any alliance is a pre-order perk and we have no plans to offer this bonus in any other way.

- Discount for buying multi-month subscriptions.

Starter Islands

- Decision to make starter island optional was due to feedback about the game being too much on rails. The quest NPCs that leads to them will be much easier to find on live.

- The next update puts a questgiver right outside the front door the house/boat you appear in after leaving coldharbour. This questgiver will explicitly show you how to get to the island, should you want to go there.

- We also are tweaking the tutorial to offer more explicit weapon types to choose from. Our goal is that through weapon drops, lootable chests, and this choice you should be able to find any weapon you want by the time you exit Coldharbour.

Post Launch Plans/Future Content / Планынабудущее

- Development post launch will be on Craglorn, our first adventure zone. More info on that very soon.

- No plans for speech bubbles.

- Expansion in the future, no concrete plans.

- Good sized content expansions at a regular cadence.

- Looking at adding in more options in the future for player customization.

- No cloaks in the near future.

- More likely to see new skill lines in the future than expanding existing skill lines.

- No plans to increase terrain draw distance anytime soon due to tech restrictions.

- More info on console release after PC/mac launch.

Abilities & Traits / Возможности и трейты

- We are leveling out cost reduction enchants in veteran rank.

- Partial charged stealth attacks dealing more damage than fully charged ones is a bug that will be fixed soon.

- Dunmer fire talent passive is having some bugs cleaned up, and going to +2%/4%/6% fire damage. The Altmer elemental talent is going to +2%/3%/4% damage with all elements.

- We are actively looking at balancing the racial abilities.

- Armor and spell penetration are not working properly on traits at the moment. The desired effect is that when I have 10% armor penetration, I ignore 10% of the target’s armor value. Fix should be with either launch or shortly after.

- Racial passives will work with the enchantments on jewelry. There is a cool down on procs, or a rate of proc if you prefer. Individual proc rate (cooldown.).

- Looking into Templar and their magicka regeneration after changes to Restoring Spirit.

- We are currently building several new skills for release in future patches, and while I can’t confirm the specifics, many new healing and support spells will be included.

- No plans for unarmed skill line.

- Over 300 skill points are available to obtain.

- More skills to be added to vampires/werewolves, but won’t come immediately after launch.

RP / Ролеплей

- Working on something to allow RP players to tag themselves as such, no promises.

- Maybe more costumes and a way to trade them.

Mods / Моды

- API in beta exposed certain functions that made macro programs much easier to abuse and there were functions which were exposed that let the API display information not readily available to the normal game client, thus making some players feel they would be forced to use add-ons to remain competitive.

- While we are very aware this was going to hurt some add-ons, we felt these decisions were necessary. We certainly tried to keep in things which would still allow for damage numbers to be seen, and what was happening to your character to be seen. As we get deeper into launch, we can always re-evaluate what is available and what isn’t.

Crafting / Ремесла

- Found items will have unique properties not available to crafters, but crafters will be able to enhance those items.

- Poisons to be part of alchemy in the near future.

Guild / Гильдия

- Tabardsand in signias will be in a future update to allow you to represent your guild.

- Guild stores will be our ingame market, no plans for a global auction house.

- Plans for more guild ranks.

- 10% "housecut” whenusingguildstorestosellisagoldsinkwedesigned.

- Working on fixing guild bank to make items stack properly and more easily searchable.

- Ability to blacklist player accounts from a guild is something we are discussing.

- Maximum guild size is 500, you can be a member of up to 5 guilds.

Experience nerf / Урезаниеопыта

- Nerfed experience from mob kills to keep it in line with experience gain from questing. It was far more efficient in beta to level in public dungeons than questing.

Bug / Баги

- Random dismount is a bug we are looking to fix.

- We found the problem causing a lot of the quests on the beta weekends to bug out. Fix will be there for launch.

- Weapon swapping lag/unresponsiveness is something we are working on to fix.

Grouping/Mentoring / Объединение в группы, помощь в прокачке

- Working on something to make it easier to stay together with your group members.

- Mentoring: No guarantees, but we are looking at the total system and what separates players.

- Working on something to make party leader identification more noticeable.

Misc / Разное

- You can turn on healthbars of enemies to be always on in the options to make it easier to identity them as enemies due to the lack of nameplates.

Remember, the game launches Sunday next week for premium pre-orders

 

[Drax]

So, is this still a thing?

 

[Metro]

- Expansion in the future, no concrete plans.

- Good sized content expansions at a regular cadence.

lol wut

 

[Xenich]

Dis gam best eva!!!

(places a 1/4 pound C4 into earlobe and recites marketing mantra!)

 

[SerratedBiz]

Why is Bubbles acting like such a plant?

 

[imweasel]

Why is Bubbles acting like such a plant?

In summary he is saying that TESO is awesome and we should all give Bethesda our monies, and that Wildstar is a piece of shit game. Repeatedly. Like a broken record.

He must be Pete Hines. Or one of Pete's lackeys.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

Why is Bubbles acting like such a plant?

because he is.

 

[Broseph]

Bubbles is a troll, being a plant for shitty games is part of his shtick.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Bubbles is a troll, being a plant for shitty games is part of his shtick.

If by plant you mean Venus Flytrap, then yeah.

 

[Lhynn]

Probably because hes having fun with friends, and he mistakenly thinks that makes the game good.

 

[Bubbles]

Why is Bubbles acting like such a plant?

In summary he is saying that TESO is awesome and we should all give Bethesda our monies, and that Wildstar is a piece of shit game. Repeatedly. Like a broken record.

He must be Pete Hines. Or one of Pete's lackeys.

You can pre-order Wildstar right now if you want.

 

[Dwemer Puzzle Box]

SUP TESOPHILES!!!

COMING DOWN TO ESO
GONNA HAVE MYSELF A TIME

BORING QUESTING EVERYWHERE
CRAPPY LOOT WITHOUT SALVATION

GOING DOWN TO ESO
REPRESENT EMPIRE NOW

GLOWING TEXTURES DAY OR NIGHT
SHITTY STARTING BORING DUNGEON

HEADING ON TO ESO
GONNA HAVE A MONKEY NOW

HI, BILLY MAYS HERE WITH A BOMB!

DO YOU KNOW FUCK-ALL ABOUT TES UNIVERSE BUT STILL WANT TO PLAY ONE? WELL LOOK NO FURTHER, BECAUSE WE BRING YOU TES: ONLINE, SHIT THAT MAKES CRIMINAL SCUM STOP RIGHT THERE!

IN A FEW MINUTES THERE WILL BE A GODDAMN NUMBER SHOWN UPON YOUR SCREEN. CALL NOW AND BUY TEN BOXES OF HIGH ADVENTURE IN EPIC SETTING! BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! CALL RIGHT NOW AND YOU'LL RECEIVE...

THAT'S RIGHT, A FUCKING MONKEY!

WHAT'S THAT, YOU SAY? CYRODIIL LOOKS LIKE PISS-POOR COPY OF MIDDLE AGED FRANKFURT? ELVES LOOK AND BEHAVE NOTHING LIKE THE ELVES FROM PRE-ESTABLISHED LORE? WHERE ARE THE AKAVIRI INVADERS?

...

WELL FUCK YOU, CLEARLY YOU DON'T GET THE IDEA OF HIGH ADVENTURE!

SO CALL NOW (301) 926-8300 AND TELL THEM BILLY MAYS SENT YOU!

THAT'S RIGHT, THREE-O-ONE NINE-TWO-SIX-EIGHT-THREE-O-O!

CALL NOW!

 

[DraQ]

Judging from that text, Mauloch is just a cover name for Malacath.

Actually Mauloch is preexisting lore so no pr

There's a temple of chim. If you steal the elder scroll of chim from the temple of chim, you get a 5% attack/defence bonus for your alliance.

You are kidding, right?
RIGHT??

I wish I was.

Spoiler

...

 

[Angthoron]

SUP TESOPHILES!!!

COMING DOWN TO ESO
GONNA HAVE MYSELF A TIME

BORING QUESTING EVERYWHERE
CRAPPY LOOT WITHOUT SALVATION

GOING DOWN TO ESO
REPRESENT EMPIRE NOW

GLOWING TEXTURES DAY OR NIGHT
SHITTY STARTING BORING DUNGEON

HEADING ON TO ESO
GONNA HAVE A MONKEY NOW

HI, BILLY MAYS HERE WITH A BOMB!

DO YOU KNOW FUCK-ALL ABOUT TES UNIVERSE BUT STILL WANT TO PLAY ONE? WELL LOOK NO FURTHER, BECAUSE WE BRING YOU TES: ONLINE, SHIT THAT MAKES CRIMINAL SCUM STOP RIGHT THERE!

IN A FEW MINUTES THERE WILL BE A GODDAMN NUMBER SHOWN UPON YOUR SCREEN. CALL NOW AND BUY TEN BOXES OF HIGH ADVENTURE IN EPIC SETTING! BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! CALL RIGHT NOW AND YOU'LL RECEIVE...

THAT'S RIGHT, A FUCKING MONKEY!

WHAT'S THAT, YOU SAY? CYRODIIL LOOKS LIKE PISS-POOR COPY OF MIDDLE AGED FRANKFURT? ELVES LOOK AND BEHAVE NOTHING LIKE THE ELVES FROM PRE-ESTABLISHED LORE? WHERE ARE THE AKAVIRI INVADERS?

...

WELL FUCK YOU, CLEARLY YOU DON'T GET THE IDEA OF HIGH ADVENTURE!

SO CALL NOW (301) 926-8300 AND TELL THEM BILLY MAYS SENT YOU!

THAT'S RIGHT, THREE-O-ONE NINE-TWO-SIX-EIGHT-THREE-O-O!

CALL NOW!

EVEN BEAR GRYLLZ STOPS DRINKING HIS OWN PISS WHEN HE PLAYS TESO!!!

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

Still going to play this with my brother, any european like minded codexers want to form a guild? if so...

Spoiler

fuck you mainlanders

It's your funeral.

Remember, you can always give this money to me. Or to children in Africa. They would kill to play some TESO.

 

[Bubbles]

A sneek peak at Dwemer architecture:

Spoiler

Asymmetrical? Brr, spooky as shit.

Four more days!

 

[imweasel]

Four more days!

Great!

I can hardly wait for the butthurt. I will really enjoy watching TESO miserably fail.

 

[Stokowski]

There's a temple of chim. If you steal the elder scroll of chim from the temple of chim, you get a 5% attack/defence bonus for your alliance.

You are kidding, right?
RIGHT??

I wish I was.

Bizarrely enough, that actually makes sense in lore. As such, I suspect it was an inadvertant mistake on the devs' part.

 

[John_Blazze]

A sneek peak at Dwemer architecture:

Spoiler

Asymmetrical? Brr, spooky as shit.

Four more days!

Not yellow enough.

 

[Angthoron]

Not a bad set of design, I guess, but how is it spooky?

 

[Dwemer Puzzle Box]

A sneek peak at Dwemer architecture:

Spoiler

By refreshing my memory with "Divine Metaphysics," I believe I can explain. The Dwemer were not unified in their thinking. Zenimax and it's tonal architects, among them Lawrence Schick, believed they could improve the Dwemer race. Others argued that the attempt would be too great a risk. The war with Morrowindfags and the oldfags may have led Zenimax to carry out his experiments prematurely. Although this book argues that nothing disastrous could result, the disappearance of my race argues otherwise.

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

Four more days!

To what?