Amazing! We’ll have those last sets before we know it! Thanks to all who helped make this possible. Mira was making new gear for Brenna today and it was so nice not having to run around to different zones.

So Buffy has completed her study of Group Delves. Link: http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Group_Delves There are seven of these – all in Craglorn and they are hybrids between public and group dungeons. Buffy has successfully soloed each of them as both healer and stormsorc. They are instanced, meaning only your group is inside. Trash mobs do respawn, but on a fairly slow timer. I don't think there are limits on your group size (though I've only run solo and with up to a group of three). If you die, you (like in a group dungeon) cannot self-resurrect but must be resurrected by a groupmate or wait until the fight is over (either by wipe or victory). There are one or two bosses in each and their difficulty is up there – somewhat below that of an outdoor world boss. As I’ve mentioned before, they strike me as attractive for a guild ‘fun run’.

With our next guild meeting this coming Friday, I thought it might be nice to consider a group delve (or two) should we feel up to killin’ some stuff. Lol.

I’ve discussed the idea with mALX and she is up for it with Britta the tank. Buffy the healer is also up for it. That forms a strong ‘base’ so others of any skill/experience can join in pretty safely while still having plenty of opportunity to crank out some damage. That said, both Britta and Buffy are sensitive to not ‘hogging’ their roles. mALX says that if someone else wants to tank, she is happy enough to bring Misa as a nightblade dps (since multiple tanks competing for taunts is a bad thing). Multiple healers, however, is not really a bad thing. So if someone wants to work as healer, Buffy can either back them up (as healer) or pass the healing staff completely and come as a storm sorceress (dps).

Depending on our ‘team’ size, composition and experience levels, I can make recommendations on which delve(s) to take on – as some are easier than others.

Anyway, just wanted to float this as an idea with plenty of time to discuss. If anyone has preferred or better ideas, please bring them up. Honestly, as long as Buffy gets a goblet of Tamikas and someone will play the lute for her to dance to a bit, she’s a happy elf.

Brenna or Mira would be up for this.

Fantastic, thank you so much for researching these! I am excited to do some group delving. Outstanding that Buffy and Britta are willing to provide a flexible foundation for the variety of groups we will assemble.

Since there is not yet a grown-up tank or healer in Jerric’s crew, anyone I bring along will plan on a damage role. Sorc Jerric is on a mission to clear every delve in Tamriel, so he is beside himself with glee at the thought of tackling those group delves with friends. He is polishing charging up his staff as I type.

Maz is actually interested in the Craglorn group delves! And for once, we are off from work THIS FREDAS!!

So I may bring Maz to the party, though Phae may make an appearance to provide music.

Also may I suggest that we start at the guild hall, troop to a Craglorn delve or two, and wrap up at the Bosmer Spa/Nordic Dive Spot aka Pinnacle? There may be guildies present who missed the Solstice Party . . .

Sounds good to me, that place is Party Central !!!

Khajiit’s crew is always happy to stop by Maz’s Pinnacle. Place is insanely gorgeous!

Group delves sound great. Shouldn't have to worry about builds and such so long as we have numbers.

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Awesome job folks!

As an aside, Khajiit was looking over the list of Mundus Stones and wondered if anyone else finds it amusing that the Lover Stone is for physical and spell penetration? Oh those naughty naughty devs!

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We’ll have’em in no time!

Just a reminder. Guild meeting today at 5 PM EST.

Starting location is the guild hall. For newer folks you can pull up mALX on your friends list or guild roster, right click on her and choose the option to travel to her primary residence - that will get you there. Or simply travel to any other guildie that you see is at Hundings Palatial Estate.

Yay! Jerric will be there!

WOO HOO!!! Makes me want to bring Misa, she misses her Nord friend!

I will try to join as soon as I can, but I will be late.

Wanted to say to all who participated, that was some grand adventuring! And haute has some beautiful homes!

Thank you all so much for including me!

Buffy had a wonderful time at the guild meeting yesterday! She is rather chagrined that those darn group delves in Craglorn would not let our group of seven in. Seems silly since there is no extra benefits to clearing those in terms of rewards or loot. Oh well, thanks to the quick thinking and forgiving nature of our group, we laughed it off and turned our residual pique toward a handful of world bosses and even a dolmen.

Next it was on to play ‘find the kitties’ at Phae’s jungle-ish new home. Then we got to watch Jerric practice his snow bear high diving up at Maz’s ice castle. Finally it was back indoors and time for some Tamikas and dancing.

A very fun time, and thanks to all who were able to attend. I did get a note from Gosse wishing us all well; poor thing is having real hand problems and seems like she’ll be unable to play until (hopefully) after surgery in a couple weeks. We missed her and our other guildies who were unable to make it. Hopefully next time!

Khajiit regrets he had to leave but it worked out better that way he thinks. Glad everyone had a good time!

It NEVAH works out better without your crew! We had no one puking on the bearskin rugs at Haute's party house!!! (in other words, you were missed!)

Lol, oh great, now we’re known as the puking crew

The Wrecking Crew; The Blue Man Crew; The Puking Crew ...

Khajiit’s Puking Pirates!

Looking in the Crown Store for a Guild rename token....

Bahahaha!!

Khajiit has an experiment in mind but needs help from his Guildies! Turns out that this one needs Medium armor chest, legs, and shoulders all with the Divines trait. If one of you guys would mind sending rawhide versions of these to him, Khajiit would be most appreciative.

Also, how do you get Nirnhoned items?

Divines: You mean for research or to test out on a character? If on a character; what level should we make it?

On the Nirnhoned items: The most cost effective way to do it is to farm the Nirncrux yourself; and hand the Nirncrux stones to a friend (like me) who can make the items you need = just tell them which items to make.

Otherwise you can buy the Nirncrux from Guild Traders. If you are buying the stones from a guild trader anyway, it is almost the exact same cost to just go ahead and buy the items you need from them instead of just buying the stones. Most people just charge the cost of the Nirncrux for the research items anyway.

Right now the market price on them is under 5,000 per each for the Nirnhoned armor pieces for research; or over 15,000 for weapons.

Thanks for the info on Nirnhoned items. Where do you find Nirncrux? Khajiit has never seen this around.

For the divines gear, it’s for research purposes so just the base level rawhide will work.

Khajiit, I'm in game now. I'll send you the Divines pieces.


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Oh cool! Thank you G!

I just installed the discord app. No clue how to use it yet, but I imagine I'll figure it out. It appears to use a non-WIndows style, presumably more familiar for smartphone users, which I'm not.

This one downloaded it on his PC but couldn’t figure out how to make the interface overlay with the game.

The Overlay feature doesn't work well with ESO, not sure why (but DOES work in all other games out there; so go figure!)

You can actually find it randomly on any of the "equipment" nodes in Craglorn. (Wood, Cloth, Metal nodes; and that includes animals that drop leather like Welva). The Potent Nirncrux is VERY rare; the Fortified is more readily found, but still rare enough that you can sometimes farm for days without getting a single one of either. They can (and do) show up in Surveys; so always do your Craglorn Surveys.

I usually farm Upper Craglorn for one hour per day for materials to do my Writs with. The competition for nodes up there is VERY tough; people are wearing Jailbreaker armor and using "Rapid Maneuver" to beat other people to the nodes.

(So be prepared and if someone is dogging you and taking nodes = turn around and go in the opposite direction they are - or better yet; go back to a wayshrine and restart your loop at a different place to put yourself across from them on the map so you don't keep losing nodes).

To type messages on it; double-click on the "General" tab under "Text Channels" so your avatar shows up under it.

If you have a headset with a microphone and want to talk and hear other members talking; click on the "General" tab under "Voice Channels" (so your avatar shows up under it) when someone else is in there. (So far Acadian and I have been the only ones actually talking on it; King Coin doesn't have a microphone, but if he is in there he can hear the conversations and will type his answers in the "In-game chat box."

You can also make a private "phone call" to any other member by right clicking on their name or avatar and choosing the "Call" option. When in a private call, no one else can hear your conversation; though you may be able to hear them talking if they are on your "Friend List." If that happens and they are talking over your conversation; you can right click on their name and adjust the volume of their talking; mute them; etc.

The main reason I use Discord is because it offers the text-to-speech feature that really helps mALX.

We’ve had conversations where I type to her in the Discord text channel, and she answers me back in game. I’m told it really helps her a great deal.

Of course, I’m unable to benefit from the Voice channels, being deaf and all, so Discord atm is merely there for mALX’s benefit rather than mine. But I have it set up on my iPad (which has its own keyboard) and that’s set up on the desk just in front of my computer monitor, so I see when someone is typing Discord. On my iPad, it’s set to notify me when someone is using it - even when it is asleep it will wake up and show me the notification. I really like that feature.

Another thing I like about Discord is that I can keep in touch with other players even when off line, as when ghastley and I had a brief conversation this morning while I was having breakfast.

My favorite thing about Discord? It shows when someone is typing, so I know to wait for their reply. Wish the in game chat could do that . . . Especially in whisper, group and guild chat . . .

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I started to mention this, but didn't want to overload Ghastley right off the bat = but absolutely this has been a huge help to me! I have my Discord set so that (when I have it active) it will read aloud all text typed in the channels; so I can finally keep up with the conversations for our group events; or like the other day when Haute and I were just chatting with each other. It made such a huge difference; I could hear what she was saying and just type my responses to Haute into the In-game chat box.

If I am not online, it will send me an email that lets me know if I've missed any text conversations while I was away. (It does not let you know if you missed any voice conversations though).

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Whatever will you do with yourself when you are finished putting tables in at Hunding's??

Don't worry, ZOS will just create more!

Play the game again, finally? I actually took a break from grinding for these tables during the Witches and New Life festivals = went back to trying to grind for the tables three days ago and found out that I'd forgotten how to pickpocket, lol. Misa had to hide out in the Thieves Den for 1.5 days for her bounty to get down low enough to pay, lol.

Ah, but Haute has volunteered to take over getting the tables that come after this! I think they add 6 sets per year; so just 18 tables per year. When you know they are coming, you can save up for them in advance; then just scoop them up when the DLC drops them. (4500 vouchers or about 6.5 million gold per year = piece of cake!!!)

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Tremendous progress, mALX!! Thank you so much!


I run Discord on my chromebook next to my laptop. For text it's similar to using the chat box as I have to put down the controller to type either way, which means that Jerric cannot walk and talk at the same time. Heh.

My Playstation headset doesn't work with my chromebook, but the other night I got on a voice channel and just used the built-in mic and speakers. Not something I would do when anyone else was home, but it worked for the situation.