Thanks mALX! It's really two different looks though. Lord Gharesh-ri has a more wild, savage look, whereas Feng is meant to look more regal like a Chinese Emperor. Both end up looking very noble though. Khajiit hopes Feng will run into Gharesh-ri again. Awesome guy!

Mira told Khajiit to tell you that she really didn't care about Wuuthrad; it was the Worm Cult that posed the threat so her only thought was to take out its agent. That was her practical Imperial side taking charge, lol

Same thing with Misa except it was her Nord side charging in to stop those worm cultists. But being a Nord = those fragments were a really important part of her heritage. I don't understand why they made that one a choice, there was no reason those quests should be tied to each other as an either/or that way. I wrote a hateful /bug report on it when it happened, was steaming over it, lol.

Well Khajiit is guessing that their thought was that the Nords would hold more of a cultural importance on collecting the fragments and other races would want to stop the Thane/Cultist ASAP. Honestly though, when Mira was doing that quest, Khajiit's thought was "stop the cultist, go back and collect the fragments so maybe we'll get a bad ass axe!". Obviously that's not the way that played out. Feathered-Snake will be doing his Pact quests soon and honestly I don't see him caring about Wuuthrad either.

When Hates did the quest she chased down the Housecarl because there was no way she'd let him get away without several stab wounds. Who cares if an unpopular Jarl immolates himself, she was going to gut a pig. :V

Good thing is, though, you don't actually miss out on anything aside from getting sweet, sweet vengeance or saving someone I guess. You get the shard of Wuuthrad regardless, since IIRC it was left behind at the estate (though I can't remember if that was made clear or not). Better to have two people dead than none.
Unfortunately, that "kill everything urgently to get to the baby killer" thing didn't work out so well in Shadowfen. She's since gotten better about this, probably because of that.

Anyways, I still maintain that Khajiit in this game are probably the best-looking ones so far.

Oh they are down right sexy! Skyrim' are a close second, and Morrowind's (yes Morrowind's) are probably a distant third in this one's book. Oblivion's are just fugly.

To be fair, Oblivion was pretty bad across all races except...Imperials? Bretons and Redguards looked okay, I guess. Everyone else was baaaad. (Okay, Argonians looked pretty neat imo) But yeah, I liked the concept of Khajiit when I played Oblivion but it wasn't until Skyrim that I actually played as one.

Anyways, content.

Uh....

Oh! Turns out I overlooked a very important detail on the Squad. Hates is doing more damage than she's ever done but GEEZE is resource management terrible. I was right about Fjotreid's troubles being more because of the new changes. I had Hates do the public dungeons on Vvardenfell and found that even after using up all the CP, she still needs to stop and rest for her stamina to recover before taking on another mob. And it recovers slowly :U Next I'll have to try with a drink instead of food and see how she does.

Then again, playing a totally new character might motivate me to actually work on my characters' builds again. I'm saving a War Maiden set for when Fjotreid reaches level 50 and might get one for Jo, too. Hates might get the medium set, but tbh I'm really attached to Briarheart. I'll try it out when I get a full set.

Honestly Khajiit thought all of the characters in Oblivion looked pretty bad, regardless of race. Orcs seemed to be the worst to this one, with Argos looking the best. There has always been a Cheshire Khajiit in some form or another, however, Feng being the most recent incarnation. He just focuses on stamina instead of magicka, because of the way ESO puts so much emphasis on how much stamina affects the damage of your pointy objects.

Because just about everybody in vanilla Oblivion looks like a potato. Even my precious Marsh-folk. I tried to do what I could with my Champion of Cyrodiil, but even he looks doofy.


Anyways, Cincinnatus gave Sinmur a walloping last night. Unfortunately that was all he had time for, but the next order of business is to travel with Sai Sahan to the Valley of Blades. Looks like Pact business is finished up for now.

I like how my Akaviri Dragonguard set looks (it's what I wore at our guild meeting last month), but I'm leveling too far past it now so I'm starting to replace that set. Shame. Oh well. Hopefully I like the entire next set as well, which looks like it'll be the Draugr's Heritage set.

Congrats to Cinnci for completing his Pact tour of duty. Mira also finished Pact stuff first and then finished the MQ.

Feng wants access to the Akaviri style gear really badly! In combination with his own Khajiit style or maybe Orc style, it would be perfect for him (he has an ancient Chinese theme about him and while a full set of Akaviri gear looks like Samurai armor, this one believes that if certain pieces of it were replaced with Khajiit style pieces then it would have the desired Chinese-ish look.).

*mALX turns green, grows to giant proportions...*






* insert sad vanilla Oblivion Khajiit *

Sorry mALX. This one just likes Oblivion's Khajiit less than the other games.

Aww, thanks for posting that, mALX! The original Maxical looks every bit as adorable as I remember her!

So how hard is it to get the Abah's Watch Motif chapters?

Not that hard! Just follow these simple steps:

1. Die inside. The most important step. Applies to all Motif farming.
   
2. Do a few repeatable jobs so that you have a decent supply of laundered goods (If you already have some, skip this step)
   
3. Repeatedly activate the job board until you get a Covetous Countess job. Take the job.
   
4. Travel to the Countess and deliver the item, then go back to the hideout to claim your reward. You may use guildmates in the delivery location to accomplish this instead of riding all the way to the wayshrine.
   
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you get a motif or you hate yourself.
   
6. Repeat step 5 until you have all the desired motifs.

The drop rate is actually decent compared to other motifs locked behind dailies, tbh.

Lol, thanks for the good (and humorous!) information!

Back when I was farming them I had a system: limit it to 10 repeatable per day. If I didn't get a motif after 10, I'd stop. Usually I'd get one by the 5th, and sometimes on the first! Also, the quality of the laundered goods you give the countess don't affect anything, so if you get any green-level ones from the reward boxes, vendor them for more than you'd get from the quest turn-in and just use the white/gray level ones.

Anyways Today in Tamriel: I remember who flIPPING INCREDIBLE IT IS TO PLAY JO'ZIRA. Especially after struggling a bit with Fjotreid. Essentially he just turned himself into a violent mass of lightning and mowed down everything in his way, only stopping to scoop up a few treasures along the way. and waiting for bosses to spawn

I had some trouble assigning all the CP in the trees, since he's a more focused character compared to the rest. After a certain amount of points are invested into a single star, it isn't really worth it continuously wasting more on it. Even without those extra points I forgot to assign, he was still a speeding death machine. I'm a little sad that Fjotreid probably won't ever attain that level of destruction, but at least he'll be sturdier like Eolan? ??? (Jo'zira has a damage shield, so he still has him beat in that regard...)

Ugh, speaking of Eolan, I don't think I'll feel as much of a rush clearing the dungeons with him tomorrow.

Way to make me feel bad about what I said about Oblivion potato faces too, mALX.

Jo is a sorc? This one recently played through the Bleakrock Pact intro with Feathered Snake (Argo Sorc), and was amazed at how powerful he was right out of the gate.

Yep, Jo's a pure magicka Electrokitty. Lots of AoE makes destroying things a breeze, though part of that may come from the destruction staff line. Still, he's better at multiple targets than a single one, which I guess is one downside. :V

Also, as I was getting ready to gear up Fjotreid with a secondary weapon, I thought that I might end up stretching him too thin, unlike Jo'zira who is firmly in Magicka with a bit of Health (and one (1) stupid point in Stamina for some reason). I put 3 points into Fjotreid's stamina and worried that he would't be that great at physical attacks. Then I noticed his magic and weapon damage is the same. Gotta love Nord passives, I guess.

He'll probably end up like Eolan (minimal Magicka boosted by racial passives) in that minimal investment in stamina will be enough to get by, so he could focus most of it in Magicka and the rest in Health. I still haven't decided if he'll go mace and shield or a 2-hander.
Anyways,
i wanted to get the hang of drawing Fjotreid and drew him with his new, intimidating Cube Dad.

Yeah Brenna is doing something similar with her attributes. She's putting the vast majority of them into Magicka but every 10th level she's putting the extras into Stamina so she can use a sword too. Thinking about doing the dual wield sword thing with her.

Also experimenting with a Redguard Dragonknight to see how well doing a 50/50 split between Mag and Stam does.

Monkey, what a wonderful talent you have with your drawings. Thanks for sharing them with us!

Yes, a well put together electro sorc is literally a deadly storm of destruction.

Edit: Oh, for attributes, Buffy the magplar and Buffy the magsorc are both 100% magicka.

Khajiit should probably respec Mira to be more tanky.

I think Alcast has some totally current builds up on his site - including tanks that factor in all the MW changes. mALX has also been working very hard with Britta (Imperial DK tank) and has a great guild training her.


Buffy was in her magsorc aura with her healer (twilight matriarch named Drusilla) and tank (clannfear named Spike) in tow. They jumped that well-known big blue mudcrab world boss in stonefalls and took him down solo (well, just the three of them). Buffy and Dru took exactly zero damage during the whole fight. Spike took a beating but between Dru's heals and Buffy's magic shielding, he held up really well for being right in the boss's face. Buffy did remember to use her ultimate this time and that helped some. What she forgot was to pop a potion so she could cast more and heavy attack less (for magicka sustain). I know that would really help if she can just remember to do it. Lol.

About 3/4 of the way through the fight, our peripheral vision noted another player who stopped briefly, watched a few moments then continued on his way. Actually I'm glad he didn't join the fight as we really were going for a solo run and doing well.

The magsorc is quite set up to kill stuff solo so it is not surprising that she is better suited for boss killing than when sporting her magplar healer aura. As a magplar healer she can still solo that boss too but it is way less. . . elegant. Lol.

/snip/

Does Buffy have both summons on both of her ability bars? Haa-Rei would love to use his summons, but I can't help but feel like having 2 slots for 1 ability is a bit of a waste.

Feathered Snake also chose to morph the familiar into a Clanfear. Does any one choose to keep the little scamp or whatever it is?

The VF is a superb dps tool - his special ability is extremely solid damage. He is also very group friendly. The clannfear is hands down a way better tank but does little damage. Running a twilight matriarch and clannfear is a fantastic arrangement for running solo or with a friend or two. The clannfear, however, is somewhere between no help and an actual liability in a formal solid group (tank, healer and 2xdps).

For me, the matriarch & clannfear combo is perfect for a solo player who wants to bring along their own little 'group' of dps (sorc), healer (matriarch) and tank (clannfear).

That all said, VF is the overwhelming choice of the 'big kids' who run sorc pet builds in veteran dungeons, trials, etc.

Wow really? Khajiit rarely sees the volatile familiar.

Your drawings are amazing! You have an Awesome talent!!!!

Thanks for the comments on the scribbles, guys. :V
I'm actually thinking of starting a thread for those to stop cluttering this place up, but I'm not sure how active it'll be. :T I guess it might be a good idea to house the small Anniversary thing I'm thinking of doing there, but I guess I'll figure it out when i get there. (Speaking of, here's a quick unfinished sketch of the Squad's First Meeting in Coldharbour since I still don't know if i'll go through with it)

Anyways, me sticking to having the Shaggy Bookkeeper do writs is paying off because I am now very, VERY close to having all the IC attunable stations in my home. The Crafting Monkey's left with around 60 Vouchers, Hates has 120 ish and Eolan has over 150. With only one attunable left, I can see being done by the end of the week (considering I still have some Writs in the bank).

LET'S GO

Also I hate how the game's been throwing Noble's Conquest writs non-stop, as if to mock me. They're not very good either so I was thinking of selling them. (Since they ask for Aldmeri Dominion style, yeesh)

Monkey, a new thread for your drawings is a fine idea. If you wanted it to just be ESO drawings, this section of the forum would be perfect. If you think you might ever want to branch out to other games or have a bit more flexibility, our 'Fan Art' section of the forums would be a great choice.

Wow! Even your unfinished sketches are awesome! Khajiit = totes jelly of your skill!

After helping to cement Queen Ayrenn's position in Ghratwood, Feng went to on a thieving spree in the other alliances territories.

Question about Champ points:

How come Khajiit's character select screen says he has 21 champ points but when he goes into Mira's champ menu, she has zero champ points to distribute?

Aaaaand I have no talent in drawing.


I still haven't come up with an entirely fleshed out backstory for Cincinnatus yet, but if anyone is interested (maybe no one is, I don't know) here are the basic reasons for why the uncommon name for an Argonian.

Out-of-game/"meta" reasons:
1) The name is just rad as [censored] and I like it
2) Short history lesson: it is the name of an historical figure whose name is Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, often shortened to Cincinnatus. He is a very interesting figure to me because he was chosen to be Roman dictator (back in Ancient Roman times a dictator was actually chosen to the position) and, upon quickly fulfilling the duties tasked to him, immediately and willingly resigned from power. (To be fair, this is according to historical records that are possibly embellished and may not be very reliable.) George Washington (first President of the U.S., in case anybody here is not American and does not know) is often compared to him due to relinquishing of power as chief of the Continental Army and his voluntary retirement after two terms as President (back then there was no codified limit to how long a President could be in office).

In-universe reasons
3) In Arena, Argonians actually had Roman-naming conventions. So it is a sort of reference/call-back to that game, and I like to give Arena a bit of a shout-out.
4) I chose Lilmoth as Cincinnatus's home that he hails from because of a couple reasons. One, I like the location of Lilmoth. Something about cities on the corners and edges of a continent looking out into a vast ocean just appeals to me. Two, there was a lot of Imperial influence in the city even before it was colonized by the Imperials. I want to incorporate that in some fashion to Cincinnatus's backstory.
5) I mostly chose "Cincinnatus of Lilmoth" just to distinguish the fact that he is actually an Argonian, instead of an Imperial as the name suggests, and to shed a little light on his backstory.

Yeah Cincinnatus was a pretty interesting figure! The writers of the movie Gladiator based General Maximus at least partially on the idea of Cincinnatus (in the movie Emperor Marcus Aurelius wanted him to take power after his death in order to give it back to the Senate).

Could you have already distributed them some night after a few drinks and don't remember doing it?







I thought the Fan Art covered all games anyway; doesn't it have Fallout; TES; Pillars of Eternity; Star Wars; (etc.) already anyway?

Lol! No, Khajiit doesn't usually drink enough to forget.

Oooooh, Khajiit needs to check his other characters and see if he can apply the champ points to them! This one thought they had to be lvl50 before they could use champ points!

"I drink to forget but I always remember..."

Anyways, yeah, CP carries over to non 50 characters too. It's like a NG+, which is great. (Only characters at level 50 can earn CP though)


But yea, if I were to start a thread, it'd be in the fan art section cause even though my main game is ESO right now, I'd probably branch out eventually. (I also play Oblivion from time to time right now so)


That aside, today I was confronted with the fact that there's another huge pile of furniture plans to collect in Vvardenfell and yearn for a Daily Writ thing for furniture, too. So we could have a reliable source to get those plans. Cause not only are the documents from the Master Writ merchant too expensive and RNG based to bother with, they don't include Morrowind's furniture.

Ugh.

Granted, I don't really want them that badly, since I already got 99% of the furniture I wanted (and the ones left I can honestly do without). Just the completionist in me crying out in pain.





Honestly, with how much ESO loves to reference Arena, the name fits right in. Especially given the background.

Yeah, I appreciate ESO's acknowledgement of the game that started it all. The historical references to previous games are one of my favorite things about TES and something I think is very underrated, but poor ol' Arena seems to almost always be forgotten. I like that ESO has stuff like more of the Tharn lineage, Selene's Web, and the Crypt of Hearts, as just a few examples. Obviously most of the changes in TES since Arena have been for the best, but I still think that game has some more to offer for the rest of the series. I want to see some Lizard Men again!

(Although to be honest, I think Sheogorath's line about the Staff of Chaos and rebuilding Numidium during the Mages' Guild questline was a bit ham-fisted.)

Uggggh got "booted from the server". Troubleshooting says to wait a while before trying again.

Khajiit, there is a thread on the official forum with some folks complaining of rather the same thing you describe. Here: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/di...t-hotfix#latest

After yesterday's update, my game kept crashing to desktop from the launcher when I hit Play, giving me an 'error 11'. I looked it up on the official site and followed their troubleshooting procedures (basically moving a file and using the game's 'repair' feature). Happily that worked and no probs so far today.

Thanks A. Khajiit is done playing for today (about to go to work), but if it continues giving me a problem tomorrow this one will try what you suggest.

Right? The best part is how ESO likes working into the current lore and even plays with some of the content that never made it in to begin with. (Specifically, the Blackcasters of Elinhir. IIRC the Battlegrounds also have bits of old Arena lore)

I honestly disliked Sheogorath's involvement in general, but then Shivering Isles sort of ruined him for me. *shrug* Either way, I guess that part's supposed to emphasize Daedric Princes' weird nature? Maybe? ??? (I actually never finished Daggerfall so learning that Sheo was involved in the last part of the Main Quest was interesting, tbh)



Anyways, I learned one of my guildies has the Noble's Conquest set in his house (and that's it) so I went and did those writs for a few vouchers. "Yes, hi, I'm here to use your crafting stations to have vouchers to get these exact same crafting stations."

I wonder what I'll do after this is all done. Aside from levelling Fjotreid. I still have the new motifs to collect, though I'm about halfway done with Ashlander. I'll have to buy Militant Ordinator (and pay much more than Silken Ring/Mazzatun, most 'ikely, ugh) and somehow get a set of Buoyant Armiger.

...and yet I don't feel an overwhelming desire to get them. Huh.

I have been listening to a friend online talk about how many Master Writs she gets every day. She has 12 characters, all of them doing the highest level writs and bringing in - not only a steady flow of Master Writs, but Psijiic Ambrosia recipes, Glass Fragments, etc.

This is not a girl who exaggerates EVER, so following her lead I have started taking my bank mules out one at a time and gathering skyshards with them (to build up enough skill points to sink into the crafting). (Their skill lines levels in crafting have all been at 50 for over a year, they just never left the bank so never had any skill points to spend).

I finished the first one (Calia) 3 days ago, and have already tripled the number of Master Writs I normally get; and got that number twice as often as I was bringing them in before.

So now I'm excited! Started the second bank mule (Mia) and have been skyshard hunting with her for a couple days now. She had much fewer skill points than Calia had; so it will take longer with her than it did with Calia; but she is getting there.

After that: Urgh...Grunting Calia. It will kill me to hear her grunting her way to every skyshard, but to get more Master Writs ... may be worth it.

What to do with all these Master Writs coming in?

I am hoping we will be able to get the Mundus stones for Master Writs (not just buying them with Crowns); but would also like to get some attunable tables for our Guild Hall too one day. (instead of just decorations like I've been getting, kind of make the place more useful to us).

mALX-
As always, your efforts to make your home a functional guildhall for us is very much appreciated!
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Feng is still having a lot of fun practicing his thieving skills.

It's been a fairly eventful week for Cincinnatus. He came across a couple soldiers a few days ago who told me a story about how their comrades had been captured by witches while going to pray at a shrine to Kyne in Kynesgrove. As he uncovered, it turned out that the Keepers of the Grove themselves were the witches, and the head Keeper Ormi was the chief culprit.

Now normally in this kind of situation, Cincinnatus would be ready to simply dole out swift, violent justice, but the option to talk to Ormi's son popped up it occurred to him that maybe trying to find Ormi's son would get her to come to her senses and lead the Keepers to stop killing/bewitching people. He couldn't explain such an impulse, but it was a hunch he followed and he located Ormi's son. When the son wouldn't come initially, Cincinnatus trekked back over raring to cave some heads in. But before he could strike a final blow against Ormi in Hagraven form her son finally showed up, prayed to Kyne, and Ormi became normal again. Luckily, she changed her ways and ordered the other witches to spare the rest of the soldiers.

With that wrapped up, Cincinnatus decided to head over to Mournhold and meet up with his waifu old pal Naryu Virian. He has dealt a serious blow to the Maulborn in Mournhold, and next up is Magistrix Vox herself. Unfortunately for him, though, along the way he had to pray to the Tribunal and had to suck it up talking to Almalexia (little did he know that a descendant of his would eventually slay the "Sacred Lady"). Of course he won't make it widely known, but Cincinnatus isn't very fond of the Tribunal.

Khajiit, glad it seems you got your game running okay again. And thieving away, is it? Buffy, in her magsorc mode has quite taken to the fun, thrill and provisioning help of stealing tomatoes and millet when she finds it and thinks she can do so. Then she launders it so Buffy (in her magplar mode) can use in their primary food recipe that boosts magicka and health. The templar won't steal anything though - she is too afraid to risk becoming a fallen paladin. Lol.

Rader, very fun to hear of your adventures and impressions!

At this point the two Buffys (magplar and magsorc) are closely matched in progress as they each leisurely continue their Gold and Silver in Auridon and Stonefalls respectively at the moment. I don't know exactly how she does it, but Buffy can flip from templar to wizard as easily as she changes her hairstyle or outfits.

It's the shoes! It's gotta be the shoes!

Oh, by Azura you are right! One thing Buffy has taught me well is that it is quite simply not possible for a woman to have too many shoes.