Wait, I thought that extra box before the hot bar (as seen in the Misty Forest screenshot above) indicated the second hot bar so you could just click on it to switch weapons - what is it for then?

I noticed it on Bubba's game, he is the only one to get a second hot bar so far; but haven't had a chance to try using it since getting it - wanted to practice switching between the healing staff and duel wield before he gets into a combat situation.

But on the PC game you don't get the second hot bar till level 15; do you get it at level 10 on the console? (if so, Grrrrr!!!!)


By the way, thank you so much for the great advice about doing the crafting writs, I had no idea how much gold they gave you for those writs! And the supplies - I actually got one temper that turns something legendary (just need 4 more now, lol).

But the Alts I have been using for inventory slot space have now begun performing crafting writs every day, and each character is raking in about 1000 gold daily from them. Everyone got backpack upgrades and the bank is over 100 slots already, lol. Thank you!

I got some screenshots when I played last, but my internet has been down a few days; I'll upload them once I catch up on all the posts I missed.

That's the healing potion hotkey. Still level 15 to get the second hot bar on consoles, don't worry

Yep, what hazmick said. The number 2 in the left box indicates she had two potions in the hotkeyed stack. The empty box on the far right means she has no Ultimate skill yet, since that’s where it will go when she has one. That bar is not usually visible. Maybe something was targeting her when I hit the screenshot button.

I think there’s an issue with my game and the crafting writs. Jerric got a bunch of them before he moved up a level, but Darnand and Lil each got only one before they started getting them with the next tier materials.

Here’s a shot from Darnand’s game: Captain who? Are you sure that’s how he spells it?

Whenever I see someone mention those Ultimate skills, I can think of is The Ultimate Warrior

I see Jerric got a promotion! Does that mean he has a ship too?

Nice! I’m imagining Lil’s reaction when she gets her first Ultimate skill and that theme song blares out for her.

I wish the ultimate skills gave us this much power, lol.







Jerric is going incognito? Lol.










Oh, how convenient! Oh, I will have to put some items in the Q and see if it works in my game, because so far I've not ever been able to access my potions in combat !!!

Thank you so much for the reply, I had no idea what that was for in Bubba's game, but since he had reached level 15 I assumed it was for the second hot bar - Thank you so much for the correction !!!!

mALX, bear in mind when you’re looking at screenshots that your PC interface could be different from my console interface, especially if you use a mod. For example I swap weapons with the same button that sheaths the equipped weapon, it’s just a short or long press. There’s nothing on the screen for me to click. You probably have two different keys for those functions.

Definitely try out your Quickslot! That’s the only way I know to use a potion during combat. Unfortunately I hit that button by accident pretty often while strolling around the countryside. In those cases the potion-used sound is quickly followed by me swearing out loud.

Added: Here’s Lildereth in Elden Root. She’s wearing the new dress that she made in her signature shades of green. Lil likes to get out of her trail gear when she’s in town, even when “in town” means in a tree.

And here are a few from Dragonknight Jerric:

Hairy Jerric looking deranged in Coldharbor

Swimming in Stros M’Kai

Getting no love from a pair of cute wood elves (When he approached them he thought they both were girls. Oops.)

Jerric ditched that GQ hair? I rather like this new look!

Grits, I saw your original post but, thanks to dear Rider, just now saw the screens you edited in. And, wow, I’m glad I saw them! Lil looks spectacular in her greens – both the outfit and in the jungleforest.

Love Jerric’s new look as well! He does indeed look more. . . Jerric with slightly less coiffed hair than his previous style.

Hee! Had the pair of woodsters been Lil and Buf, I expect Jerric’s reception would have been much more welcoming.

Aha! So you did post the hairy Jerric! I'll have to look at those tomorrow, I have run out of steam tonight! Just wanted to post this set of Bubba in Stros M'Kai :



http://imgur.com/a/LlkLq








I couldn't wait, had to peek, lol. HOLY COW! Jerric most def looks like he has a bit of the Barbaric Nord in him here! Nice tattoo!

I LOVE Lildereth's dress, that is awesome! And very Wood Elfy green!

I personally didn't do well with the Dragon Knight, but that was a female - Jerric looks like he could handle it much better, lol.

I played with a Dragon Knight guy the other day, and he was kicking some butt with his character! I shelved mine and turned her into an Alt to give me inventory slots, but since you taught me about crafting writs she has been earning her keep too.

Stos M'Kai looks so neat! Thanks for the shots mALX. I note how big and open all the spaces seem to be - perhaps that is to accommodate lots of players - regardless, it looks very neat. I love the dog and horses roaming around. And Bubba has himself a horse!

Lildereth is looking good as always, she seems even more determined.

Whoa, Jerric looks a real barbarian in that pic. It suits him, though. And I see that he bears some new tattoos. Are body tattoos available by default?

The swimming pic makes me long for sea and beaches, great shot.

Thank you for the kind remarks, folks! It’s a little unsettling when old friends get new looks, and your warm support means a lot. Both wooly Jerric and GQ Jerric are equally savage in combat, lol. I guess you can’t comb that out! There are many other Nords who look a lot like GQ Jerric in his Ebonheart Pact game, but I haven’t seen many tattooed hairy Nords wandering around among the elves with hairy Jerric in Auridon.

Lopov, the body tattoos are available in the basic game. GQ Jerric got some body scars, but they don’t really show up in the pictures.

I was surprised that Lil chose that hairstyle pulled back so severely from her face. I thought she would go for one of the softer, ‘pretty’ looks, but she went almost feral on me. I love it even more since it’s not quite how I imagined but somehow even closer to her.

mALX, those are fabulous pictures of Bubba in Stros M’Kai! The water looks so inviting. Is that Misa in Mistral? She looks great! I recognize the Khajiiti bard. Lil liked to hang out there, too. I forget his name, but it made me laugh. Eye-Candy or something.

Here’s a picture of Darnand looking around Wayrest. It is a big place. He can’t step far away from the wall without waking up at a wayshrine. Even the little mudcrabs are twice his level and then some.

Is the Khajiit ones from the Aldmeri? Oops, I didn't realize that - thought Bubba was just taking screenshots of some woman with big boobs!

Well, if it is the Aldmeri, then that must be Calia - my Imperial Nightblade that is playing the Aldmeri. She is the one that is running around pantless with that Sentinel bow this past month, and has been taking down Dark Anchors that way (including the no greaves so you can see her panties below the cuirass).

Several people took note of her attire (or lack thereof), and this past couple weeks I've noticed other females in the Aldmeri going around in just cuirasses and no greaves, so it seems she started a fad, lol.


Bubba must have just missed Darnand, he just left Wayrest the other day. Darnand looks just like I always imagined him!

Thanks Acadian & Grits! Here is Calia on an Aldmeri beach:



http://imgur.com/a/UQFhu

How pretty Calia is - I love her hair! And what a nice looking beach. Looks like she had a wonderful day! And no mudcrabs!

Wow, Calia is really pretty, and what a nice beach. Looks like she had a good time.

I love how the water looks, and how it splashed up by her feet in that one pic. I also noted that the Altmer were much better-looking in the 2nd Age!

Thank you all so much!





The water splashing surprised me, which is what spurred that photo shoot, lol.

Calia in the beach pictures is my (fairly new) Imperial girl; she is a Nightblade - I replaced Caria the Altmer Sorcerer with Calia because I was having a LOT of trouble playing the Sorcerer Class.


Caria the Altmer Sorcerer is still in my game; she has been working crafting writs and is the keeper of all the armor and weapon making supplies. Here is a screen of her. The angle of the shot hides her pointed ears, but she has them, lol:


http://i.imgur.com/eHInEx9.png

Wow, Caria's gorgeous too! Again, I love her hair.

I wouldn't kick Caria out of bed for eating crackers, that is for sure!

I know I have said it before, but I really like how the characters look in this game. Bethesda could learn a lot on that score, instead of going out of their way to make our characters ugly with blocky textures and green tints on their Redguard's skin.

Thanks, Acadian! Bless her heart, she is the one that had the guard tell her that her face would curdle milk, but she really is pretty I think, lol.

I have been getting tips from other Players of Sorcerers so maybe one day I'll bring her back out of the city and play her again, but for right now i'm just really enjoying my Nightblade characters - they are a blast to play, even more fun than the Templar, which is saying a Lot!

Calia (the Imperial in the bathing suit on the beach pictures above) - she is the one setting fashion in the Aldmeri by wearing no greaves in combat, here is a picture of her in her version of combat attire:



http://i.imgur.com/xEl4TDf.png








Agreed 100% - I have trouble playing if everything around me is ugly. Skyrim was such a turn off to me until you helped me with the beautification of the females in it. That made a HUGE difference to me, I could never thank you enough for that!

ESO has the ability to make your character pretty vanilla (or ugly if you want them to be, but it is your choice - Or you can play as a skeleton or goblin if you want).


Some of the female NPC voices are stunning too; I would love to have access to the voice files of one of them, and all I've heard her say so far is: "Hail!"

I like Calia's pantsless look! Besides, she's a trendsetter.

She started a fad of going pants-less in the Aldmeri, lol. It looks so good on her that I have bypassed a few pairs of greaves she could have worn and deconstructed them instead, lol.

Thanks so much for your comments (everyone) !!!

This is not my screenshot; but it was such a good example of the cats in ESO that I wanted to post it. They are everywhere, laying on beds like they own the place, sitting in doorways licking their paws. There is one that lives in the bank at Davon's Watch that I heard meowing when I was in there and then finally hunted down where the sound was coming from, lol.

And if you accidentally step on one, you hear them just like you would a real cat "MEOWWWWW!"

I am in love with the cats in ESO! And now you can get your own cat from the Crown Store, and I think they are essential because I've never seen a dead cat in ESO (thank goodness!).

Here is the shot:


https://account.elderscrollsonline.com/asse...at_RAW6_lrg.png


I've got screens of a Siamese cat that hangs out outside the bank in Daggerfall:



http://i.imgur.com/SMKUQGx.png


It is walking away from the spot it just squatted; and afterwards acted like it was covering up something it left there (right under the Billboard for writs that we have to stand at to grab our writs, thank you very much!)


And if you don't believe me, I also caught that on film:


http://i.imgur.com/UKmDOiC.png



Okay, so he was just licking his paws there. But it looked the other way to me when I first started snapping the film,

MALX, you're right - the cats look great! So the jobs board doubles as a litter box?

Haa-Rei is still on the island of Khenarthi's Roost. It's a strange place, with tiny sheep. I want to go back to the mainland.

I loved those islands, didn't want to leave them (but ran out of skyshards and quests, lol).

Bleakrock Isle:


http://i.imgur.com/35Lu1ec.png



Oblivion world dungeon:


http://i.imgur.com/Y04zedg.png





Calia returns from a Dark Anchor battle:



http://i.imgur.com/xEl4TDf.png





Misa the Templar:



http://i.imgur.com/50ySMW1.png






Davon's Watch:



http://i.imgur.com/kMs8Ngv.png





A cave under the sea:


http://i.imgur.com/dmFYRE5.png






Ashlander:



http://i.imgur.com/BMAUAxb.png




http://i.imgur.com/mOGv0l7.png

MALX, beautiful characters in a beautiful world! Thanks for sharing your adventures - ESO looks great. I confess I quite like Calia. . . a blonde with a bow and no pants - what's not to like?

Calia does look great. Her kneepads seem to be floating in the air! Love Misa's red hair though.

Misa and Calia look great, mALX! I love that cave with the orange coral formations. It really looks like it's from a magical world.

Thank you all very much!

I love Misa's hair color too, and was really disappointed that I couldn't get the same color on Calia. That strawberry blonde color on Calia is the reddest they will let your character's hair get for Imperials, not sure why. I guess they think only Nords can be wild redheads, lol.

That Imperial race has its own set of voices too; different choices than the Nord female voices had. The Altmer voice choices were the best, imho. Very pleasant sounding voice.

Calia's knee pads must be part of the boot is all I can figure, lol. That looks odd, but I didn't want her going barefoot into battle against the Daedra, so left her in her boots despite the floating knee pads,

@ Grits - that place was gorgeous, you are delving into the depths of a coral reef; that coral glows and lights the passages through the ground to the core where all the channels meet (and you meet the big boss enemy); it felt both magical and mystical in that cave, really awesome!


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I appreciate your (ya'll's) kind words a lot!

Misa just turned level 30 now, she has really developed nicely in her combat skills!

I started a new toon last night - the twin of Calia, also a Nightblade like Calia is; but this one lives in Daggerfall with Bubba. I needed the inventory slots badly, lol.

That makes 7 characters, and I can't imagine throwing a single one of them away, so no matter how tight my inventory gets I refuse to use up my 8th character until I'm absolutely positive that is what I am wanting to do, lol.

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Misa Learning to Fish


http://i.imgur.com/gLuxUDW.png





Misa fishing for the first time:



http://i.imgur.com/uo2hSwt.png




Calia swimming:


http://i.imgur.com/UvLsQDN.png


http://i.imgur.com/7gNnePZ.png




Misa Camping:



http://i.imgur.com/XSXR7iV.png




Misa's trophy fishing spot:



http://i.imgur.com/I2LAC4Y.png




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Wonderful shots of Misa fishing & camping and of Calia swimming. Calia went swimming with a little more clothing than she needed, but I guess you never know when she might get attacked and I'm sure she doesn't want to fight naked.

Yeah, I think I took these shots right before she stripped down for the other screens of her swimming at this spot that I posted on an earlier date:



http://i.imgur.com/MzmVCz1.png

Aww, that looks much more comfy!

The swimmin' hole! She has legs that go all the way to High Hrothgar...

Yes, they do. I spent a long time creating her in tweaking the length of her legs, hips, butt, etc. (till they looked as perfect as I could get them, lol). She is a pleasure to watch as I'm playing, and I have to like what I'm seeing to enjoy a game, lol.

She also has the best voice files of any of my characters, she sounds cute in combat, in urging her horse on, etc. (and you know how picky I am over the voice files, )

Thank you both so much for your comments, I appreciate them! These screens are all older, I have taken some new ones but have to transfer them from the PC to the laptop to upload them, and haven't gotten around to it yet.

I know where Misa is camping – Jerric’s favorite fishing spot where the Dark Anchor kept opening behind him is right near there. I love that part of Stonefalls.

Misa and Calia look great! I’m glad you’re having so much fun with them.

That's the spot! Misa caught several trophy fish there, though some were duplicates. Thanks Grits !!

The fishing pic is really nice and "warm". Did she catch anything good?

Calia looks stunning as do her surroundings.

Sleeping Misa -> is this pic taken in Morrowind? The scenery is somewhat similar.

Thank you so much, Lopov!

Sleeping Misa - yes, the Ebonheart Pact covers Morrowind and Vvardenfell area, and the Black Marsh, and parts of Skyrim. They did an excellent job of keeping the look and feel of the regions in ESO, it really FEELS like Morrowind there; and there is a strong dedication and worship of the Tribunal.

Misa has met, done several favors for, and fallen in love with Almalexia, she is Awesome! So far she has done one favor for Vivec, but has not met him. I can't wait for that! She also did one favor for Sotha Sil.

How Oblivion realms look in ESO:


http://imgur.com/a/PE1Cn


You genuinely have to leap from one formed magma island to another; it is not easy to navigate in this realm at all!

Acadian, I know you like flame atronachs: not sure if you can see in the first screen - in the background that is a flame atronach - they are very cute in this realm; they dance! They are very fluid, kind of do fluid flips in the air like a real flame might. (but they are still deadly in combat, lol).


Halfway through on the ground - the dead man is the ancestor of Count Indoril from Cheydinhal. Indoril befriended Misa early in the game, and she helped him several times - they were very close friends at the time of his death, it was a very sad moment in the game.


The last three are a Forge in the center of the realm that makes very unique armor and weapons. (Misa has a set of them!)

MALX. thanks for sharing! The ESO Oblivion realms look familiar but. . . better. Wow, I see the flame dancer and she looks great. I do love how they pirouette and dance around in Skyrim.

Wow. Each time I get here I want to play ESO so bad. The Oblivion realms look good, and very very hot.

Thank you! Yeah, they kind of feel much more like the realm of a Daedric Prince here, to me at least.

Oh, I just added one of a Clannfear, since you asked a while back about them. It is about the 5th in from the end.

MALX, thanks! I went and looked at the clannfear. Do they have a spiky thing on their tail now?

It was amazing, and SO felt like a Daedric realm to me. It was scary! And very hard to get around. The major battle was with a being the size of Mehrune's Dagon in Oblivion, I wish I'd gotten screenshots of the battle, but was too busy fighting for my life, lol. (can't freeze time in this game, unfortunately).

Thanks, DE!!!







I didn't think so, but can't remember exactly. I thought it was just curling in that screen, but looking up close it really does look spiked! They do whip their tails around to do some serious damage, they charge and do devastating damage, and their bite is really bad too. I normally don't have time to check their tails out, but I will look next time, I'm sorry I didn't know the answer.