For anyone looking for the "Dance Around in Your Bones" achievement.... (it isn't actually called that- Skeleton Sacking- I believe)

Two places in Deshaan are good- Corpse Garden (delve), as Acadian noted and Forgotten Crypts (public dungeon). So you can get 2 of your gold plunder skulls, plus points toward the skelly achievement in the one province.

Sorry to hear about the keyboard, mALX. I got Mrs. Treydog a (regular layout) backlit keyboard and she loves it. The color of the lighting can be changed, which can also be useful- (or just festive). If you want, I can certainly do some research and see if there is something more suited to your needs....

I am slowly getting used to the new key positions; but without the keys being lit I can't see the little icons on them to know what they do; and they have moved some of the keys to weird places (like on top of the num pad) so I have to hunt for them. That is the worst part; I think the new fingering positions will eventually work out.

Another problem with the keyboard and mouse both is that they are not built for gaming = no speedy responses; even after fiddling with the settings in the Control Panel.

At this point; unless Best Buy will let me exchange it, I'm stuck with it. It is def going to make a difference in my combat abilities; I ran Fungal Grotto last night to test it out and had terrible response time and no ability to spam keys for combat; it is very slow responding and klunky.

Genuine randomness - I got the plan for a coffin lid from a Plunder skull last night. Those normally only come from Hew's Bane and from burglary of a specific house at that. Of course, a coffin without a lid is much more useful that a lid without a coffin, so maybe it's just poking me for not not having the coffin one.

My crew are continuing to raise their crafting ranks, which means gathering skyshards for the skill points needed. Only Floozie and Bo - the two youngest - have a deficit now. Floozie needs a couple more Enchanting ranks, and Bo needs Alchemy. They probably have enough uncollected overground shards to cover their needs, but we do at least one delve a day for the skull, so it may as well be one with a skyshard. Heading for a Public Dugeon that has one is usually enough to trigger a mini-dolmen to save the trip, and make us look elsewhere for the shard.

That all doesn't count Jewel Crafting, which is newer. Unna is getting all the jewelry to deconstruct, as it's her turn to raise that skill. Laurie is still waiting out her penultimate research, and has the piece in hand for the final one. That will take two months, as she didn't take the passive to speed it up. The others probably will do that, with a skill point re-spec taking them from the other crafts they finished. I haven't done a re-spec since they changed it - do you still get them all refunded, and have to re-allocate them all, or can you add/subtract these days?

Bo's need for easy Skyshards took her to Summerset, where she hadn't gathered any on her tour to get the first level of Psijic. We must have found at least six Psijic portals while she was collecting the above-ground shards. We did one delve for the skull, and then had to swap out to Laurie to empty the bank, by grinding up the loot.

By the end of the evening though, she'd got top rank in Alchemy and Enchanting, which was the objective. Learning the potency runes that unlocked used up our last instance of three of them. Fortunately, it also takes her level beyond where anyone needs them for their dailies. She'd also discovered that she can't handle the Lamia WB on Hew's Bane solo, or even with one other player. The boss has an attack that one-shots her every time.

And on that subject, we keep running out of mudcrab chitin. There's an alchemy writ in the rotation that wants three of them turned in, and it's not something we habitually gather. A change of habits is called for here. Now everyone is at that level, it will happen more often, and there aren't any "rich mudcrab nodes" in the surveys.

Rich Mudcrab site = Ebonheart; that shoreline around the Argonian Village on the waterfront is loaded with them. That is my go to place for Mudcrab Chitin.

Wherever I go, they drop leather, random loot - anything except chitin.

Is there a special way of hitting them that keeps the shells intact?

"Only hit them while facing left and only while the sun is directly overhead..."

I was worried that it required a necromancer-only skill. One you'd get arrested for using.

No way; lol. That Necromancer class just came out with the Northern Elsweyr launch; and people have been needing Mudcrab Chitin for Writs since the game first launched 5-6 years ago.

Speaking of mudcrabs: Why are they so friendly in this game? Their descendants (horrible little creatures that I avoid whenever I can) are always so aggressive--unless they try to buy from you and sell you stuff. I actually kind of feel bad whenever I kill the small ones in ESO, usually because I unintentionally hit them.

It might be because of this that they became more aggressive with time.

Perhaps it is the influence of Marooned Dragon?

When I get a writ that calls for mudcrab chitin or violet coprinus, I just abandon it.

All the people hunting them for their Chitin made them be on the defensive so long that they finally ended up turning feral?

I was really pleasantly surprised about that. There are quite a few non=attacking animals in this game that get hunted for their meat or Alchemical residue. I hate killing anything that doesn't attack first; but I actually do break that rule for Mudcrabs, lol.

My day in Tamriel today = Pia soloed Fungal Grotto this morning! It was a horrible experience that I never want to repeat; but ... she did it!

I normally do my (5 Gold Plunder Skull run) between 1-2 a.m. when my friend from Australia is on; but twice this week I've been late getting online. The first time CheshireKhajiit was nice enough to join me in my "Dungeon" run through Fungal Grotto for the Gold Plunder Skull; but last night no one was online! (I mean = no one that I knew).

Even the Blue Crab World Boss was empty of Players to help get that World Boss Gold Plunder Skull; but after a loooooong wait I did manage to find one person who was willing to try it.

So I was trying to decide whether to cue up the "Group Finder" to do Fungal Grotto or just to park Pia in Fungal Grotto and wait for a friend to get online and beard them (which is what I did). While I was waiting; I thought I'd just try to see how far I could get her through it solo. So that is how it started.

I knew I could solo that first Boss; but never expected to be able to solo the War Chief = and truthfully he was harder than the Final Boss last night! (The Final Boss gives you breaks where you can rest up; but the War Chief is relentless!)

The fight with the War Chief lasted so long that my hands ached and I never thought it would end because she was able to completely block his biggest attacks and so her health stayed up; but his lifeline seemed to take forever to bring down solo! He was actually the toughest fight of the whole dungeon just because he gives absolutely no break to the Player when solo (whereas all the other Bosses actually do give the Player some respite).

She died once (and on one of the easier Bosses that I really expected to be no problem at all, lol). It was that Mudcrab that usually goes down so quick and easy! (since we were speaking of Mudcrabs, lol)

Her Magicka dropped to zero without me noticing = too intent on the combat. Without Magicka she couldn't cast either Healing or combat spells; and her staff was barely spitting a little tiny jolt. When I hit my "Q" to replenish my Health and Magicka; instead of the whoosh of Restorative Potion my Merchant popped out and asked if she could help me. Grrrr.

If I ran out of his reach, the darn Mudcrab would reset his full health; and likewise if she died he would also reset his full health; so = may as well die trying rather than give up. (and I knew Pia was going to die at that point).

So I tumbled away from him and circled around trying to buy myself a few seconds time to get some Health back; then Heavy Attacked him to get at least some of my Magicka back.

That just barely worked, but it was enough to get the Templar jabby thing working again = so when he attacked again I hit into him with everything I had (or rather Pia had) using that jabby thing.

She still died; but just as the room was going dark I saw that he died a split second after she did! When she resurrected; he was able to be looted; so she did get a Purple Plunder Skull from him! WOO HOO!

But by now I'm thinking that if that easier Boss was that tough = I'd never be able to take down the Final Boss. (but again; can't just give up without even trying). By that time my friend from Australia had logged onto Teamspeak; but was busy and not going to be able to come help me for a while; but she encouraged me to just try the Final Boss for a while until she could come help me = so I did.

So after a short break (to get my nerve up + repair Pia's armor and charge her weapons + for Pia to eat something) = Pia went in and aggro'd the Final Boss. She beat it her first try, and without dying!!!

Compared to the War Chief and Mud Crab; that fight went relatively easy! She (the Final Boss) had a bigger health line; but she gave little breaks to the Player to replenish = nice!

So = WOOOOOOOT !!!! And WHEW! !!!!! As exciting as it is to actually have done it = I NEVAH EVAH want to do that again!!!! It was an AWFUL experience!!!!

'Grats to Pia, mALX. Nice job in FG1!

Well done, mALX and Pia!! Congrats on your victory!!! I love that feeling of "let's just see how far we can go" that sometimes leads you all the way through.

Of course, now we'll be reluctant to join you and spoil the sense of achievement you could get.

ROFL !!!!! Oh, I so remember that from the old forums!!!











Yes, and each victory is a cross between "HOLY COW!" and "WHEW!"

It felt really good for a few minutes; but more than anything it felt like I never wanted to go through all that ever again, lol. Last night I was SO happy my friend Aussie (from TESAlliance) was able to join me for the run again!!! Whew!!! I don't know how on Nirn Acadian and Buffy do this every day in a bunch of different dungeons!!!!!

Oh no, screw any more sense of Achievement! ... I mean: It was a half hour of horror instead of a fifteen minute romp with a friend, lol. I'll take the romp any day over that!

A thousand times yes!! I have had to scrape my fingers against the table to release the controller from my frozen clutches after Jerric drags me through hell. Blessings upon guildies, friends, and random friendlies who will group up for battles!


Jerric pointed out that there are a bunch of open character slots on my Evergreen/Valdi account, so I've created a couple of bankers. Taking wagers on how long it will be before they start to demand adventures.

YES! My hand was cramped around the mouse; and still ached the next day from it!

Ah, yes = the bank mules do eventually get their day in the sun; sometimes forcing us to make a new bank mule to accommodate them, lol.

My Britta was a former bank mule; and this year Lita (formerly known as "Grunting Calia") was rescued from a life as a bank mule by the surgical removal of her grunt via the "Race Change Tokens," lol. She is now a Player Character; though she needs to build up her skills now. (she is CP 160; but doesn't have a single combat skill = crafting is all she has ever done since I discovered the grunting).

Today in Tamriel seems the best place to post this quick story. I don't know how others approach this game. I'm approaching it as full roleplay. I don't know if a lot of others I see do this. For me, RP is all I know.

So with Ana, she does a lot of sneaking around, and I've caught at least 3 other gamers who've seemed surprised to find her lurking in some bushes or grass. They always run up to her. Pause. Then move on.

Anyway, so my story is she's been hunting all the various creatures which lurk in the Seyda Neen / Vivec area. She's a hunter. There was one moment when this warrior or knightly-looking lady came rushing through, began beating on an alik. But she was only Level 3, and was having a tough time. Ana had a perfect shot at the beast (still hiding in grass) and began helping the lady take the thing down!

After this, I got my first Friend request (from a total stranger, that is). And that felt pretty good.

I've said before in regards to other games that I am not a hardcore roleplayer, but I set some boundaries for my characters. Cincy, for example, is not going going to do the Thieves Guild or Dark Brotherhood questlines. They do not fit him. But I don't set many hard restrictions for them. More power to you, though, Renee.

Cat Man Dhou went fishing. He's done six complete zones so far, and today was Glenumbra's turn. He started at Spreads' little cottage near the shore, and di all the salt water holes first, then moved inland to the rivers, found the foul holes while looking for the lakes, and did those next. So that left the lakes to last.

We have now got Piscatory Total Stress Disorder from trying to catch the (probably extinct) Cambray Perch. We used up all our supply of minnows, caught over 350 white lake fish, 35 green, countless wet gunny sacks and bait, three furnishings (Fish, small - Fish, medium, and Fish, Trout) without ever getting the blue one. I lost count of how many circuits of all the lake holes in Glenumbra we did.

It must exist, or nobody could ever have made Master Angler, right?

Renee, I love that you are doing a full RP with Ana. It is easy for me to get caught up in player-centric mechanics and start rushing around to get things that I ‘need’ rather than just following the character.

Jerric has had a few adventures out in the world when another player’s character started talking to him as a character rather than to me as a player, which is always fun. Most of those times ended with Jerric being invited back to their home for a banquet. This is the point where Jerric realizes that his new friend is a vampire and guesses what the banquet might be. So far he has given a no-thanks and moved on. None of my other characters have been propositioned by vampires. Maybe he looks like he has a lot of extra blood.

The sneaky and slow types are fun because they get to see so much idle NPC and animal behavior. I remember seeing a snow bear stand on its hind legs to scratch its back against a rock.

Brenna’s Witches Festival Recap

She accomplished pretty much everything she wanted to. She got her witch hat and officially carries the title “Witch”. Much proud, such honor.

Now that the Witches Festival is over we will probably be taking a break from the game until the New Life Festival begins. Have fun out there folks!

Much the same here. Got Witch hat, got title, got the Glenmoril Style. More Dremora pages from the solo content than we can use, none from the group stuff (except a couple of dungeons). Hollowjack complete on one more character.

And more ugly furnishings then we're ever going to use - especially bones.

Burned out well before the end, so we went skyshard hunting to fill in the crafting gaps around the crew, and then Cat Man Dhou went fishing instead.

I avoided dumping into the Guild bank, but we have a lot of duplicate Glenmoril pages in hand we haven't destroyed yet. And we're still holding some Companion ones, for that matter, if any of the newest members are interested.

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This all overlapped with the campaign to "make Blossom a real Lady", so we were raising gold at the expense of other activities. That resulted in Laurie building up a big backlog of Master Writs for which she didn't want to buy the motif page. Now the cash can flow that way, we're trying to decide which ones to do. Our AP reserves just went on Akaviri pages, but we're still several items short of the full motif. The choice is between buying the pages that complete motifs, and boosting the rate of getting new writs (long-term benefit), against buying the ones that get the best return in vouchers (short-term).

Lol, we use all of those furnishings! Bones and all!

Wonderful to see you all posting here. Reminds me of the old Beth forums, in which we were all posting stuff about our characters almost daily.

Introduced in Skyrim as a tester for my Khajiit Hearthfire mod in this post. He's just turned four years old.

I love these kind of stories! There can be so many of them in this game; too! When they first opened up the Japanese Server into the NA Server; a lot of young Japanese boys joined the NA (meaning they had to start all new characters) and for some reason were drawn to my Misa. She has had a lot of young Japanese boys come up to her and ask her for a "present" = something to help them with their new games! So I started carrying around an extra 200 each of Lockpicks, Soul Gems, and some of the "Event" foods and drinks that are level 1 so anyone can use them. It is one of the things I love so much about this game!

That is so funny that Jerric appeals to vampires that way! (and gets invited to dinners where he is going to be the dish served up, poor Jerric!!!)

Misa also did a lot of sneaking her first couple years in ESO; lot in Oblivion; and always in the DC Wasteland in Fallout 3 = and you are right; she heard some hilarious conversations (especially by Super Mutants) and saw some amazing Daedric idle activities in Oblivion gates she was sneaking through! She still sneaks in a new area till she gets to know what enemies she will be facing; and even Pia will drop down into a sneak when approaching a known enemy site. Getting a critical hit on an enemy while in Stealth is still valid to boost the damage in this game; and some armor sets and skill lines take advantage of that and boost it even further.










Aw! We will miss you and Brenna! Thank you for helping me through Fungal Grotto last week; Brenna is an Awesome dungeon mate to travel with!






I threw all my bloody bones in the Guild Bank, you are more than welcome to them, lol.












Oh, I remember that shot! Weren't you looking for a white cover for that wagon for a while? I never realized that was the same Khajiit!!!

It was just a long delay while I worked on the texture. I had the base canvas, but the folds/stretch marks took forever to do by hand. And I recall a bunch of quirks in NifSkope/GIMP trying to stop it being shiny.

Cat Man Dhou was lucky, and got a complete mod to test. Jo'Bashi had to struggle through multiple iterations of incremental change, especially the ones to the tool-hunting quest, where he kept clearing bandit lairs. And Ma'Lishus was the one who had to kill all the hired thugs. Cat Man Dhou just cruised around in his slick ride, making sure it could negotiate all the roads. Now he owns Sleek Creek in ESO, he's hankering for a wagon to park there.

Of all your "Race-based" houses; the Khajiit was my favorite one! Some mod author put out a mod that was all camping gear - tents, fires, etc. I loved that kind of lifestyle a lot more than the houses (with Housecarls whether you wanted them or not, lol). One of my houses had a rude Nord Housecarl that was eating his head off every time I entered (and it WASN'T Jerric, so he wasn't welcome) = I think he met with an unfortunate accident one day; really not sure how he managed to disappear...Oh yeah! I remember now! I got another mod that turned all the Housecarls into beautiful women with sweet personalities! (yeah, that is the story I'm going with...)

Cat Man Dhou is now half-way through his Rivenspire fishing, and that's the last zone for the Covenant. He's done all the starter zones, and Reaper's March because that's home. We're trying to decide if he'll do Coldharbour and Cyrodiil last, or in between the other Alliances.

Hunding's has acquired a lot of additional furnishings, like seashells, kelp and most recently a piece of coral. The dozen or so fish (Bass, Salmon, Trout and generic large, medium, small) may get used at Sleek Creek in baskets by the grill, but I suspect we'll be getting a lot more, and they'll be used all over. We keep seeing a lot of small boats that we'd like to park along the shore at Hunding's but the only one available is the fishing vessel for the Master Angler achievement, so that's what we're chasing.

And the cat likes fish, so he's happy doing it.

Edit: Finished Rivenspire, finished Covenant, moved on to Coldharbour, and have two more fish to go there. We decided to fish Artaeum next, and try and get the Pickled Fish Bowl recipe to aid further fishing. Although Artaeum itself is not part of Master Angler, I think the buff will pay off.

And the Undaunted event is upon us, so I have to decide the split of time.

Had one of the best sessions today.

Apart from exploring some interesting locations, Shonta Quassan took a fight against two bosses in Deshaan. He liked it better now that the festival is over, and there are less warriors around, so fights are a bit more challenging. He first attacked the Abomination and was alone against it for quite a while. Fortunately, the Abomination was capable of "just" directly attacking Shonta, so as long as he avoided its blows and healed himself in between with a spell that also made him run faster, he was fine. It wasn't long and two more warriors arrived and together they brought it down.

The fight with the second boss, Sharpfang, was even more interesting. Shonta Quassan brought it down three times. For the first time it was with a warrior called Drizzty, first they cleared the nearby Lagomere Dolmen, then they both moved to Sharpfang, as if they arranged to do it. The battle lasted a long time and just when Sharpfang was about to die, it fatally hit Drizzty, so Shonta brought it down alone, getting compliments from Drizzty afterwards. The second time he brought it down with a help of a very experienced warrior, so the battle didn't last very long. The third time he attacked it alone, being sure that someone will show up sooner or later. He used the same technique as with the Abomination but by the time, he brought Sharpfang down to 75% of his health, no one else came by and Shonta's creator's fingers already ached. Shonta was convinced that now someone will definitely come. A lot of time must have passed and Sharpfang was now at 50% of his health, nobody came to help and Shonta's creator's fingers ached even more. When the beast was down to around 40%, some knight came around - he didn't actually join the fight, but he cast some powerful healing or protection spell on Shonta so Sharpfang was doing him barely any damage. Then it didn't take long to bring the beast down.

The day ended with finding a hidden skyshard deep in the Vale of the Ghost Snake.

P.S.
If I needed to bring Sharpfang down on my own, it'd probably last about half an hour in real time. While fighting it, I was secretly praying, that my wife won't enter the living room and need my help with something.

Nice job, Shonta.

The Abomination is pretty straightforward. Sharpfang is straightforward as well but has a very trollishly high health regeneration rate so without several players you're right - he can take awhile to bring down.

This is amazing progress! Wow, Shonta is one really tough character! Congrats on your day's combat; you earned it!

You're right, both of these beasts are capable only of inflicting damage upon touch, that's why Shonta has chances against them.


On one hand he's tough, on one hand he still gets pwn3d very easily, if some enemy hits him repeatedly, because his magicka doesn't replenish fast enough to be able to cast an armor / healing spell. He also has slim chances of surviving against a group of enemies. I know I'm being a little bit too impatient.

Heavy attacking with a Lightning staff will build your Magicka up quicker; Pia uses that all the time to keep her Magicka up in combat.

Also: you can also drink some of those free Restoration Potions that we keep getting in our "Sign On Rewards." They are tri-pots; so will boost all three stats (Health, Magicka, and Stamina).

** Argonians get a huge burst from potions; so use them whenever in combat.

Those potions have kept my characters alive MANY times! I have them set on my "Q" Hot Wheel so in combat if I see my Health or Magicka/Stamina dropping low I can just hit the "Q" key to boost myself back up.

(they have something like a 15 second cooldown period after using that you can't use another; but unless you are being swarmed that is usually just perfect timing).

Also, don't forget to use your Green Dragon Blood at least once on every "rotation" of your Skill Bars. It isn't a burst heal; it is a sustain heal = so use it early in the fight to sustain your health throughout the combat; and then again each "rotation."

If you want a burst heal; go into the Battlegrounds with Rader and boost your Alliance skill line up till you can take the "Vigor" skill. That is a powerful burst heal that also helps your Allies.

Also on your rotation = you should have Igneous Shield = that is always good to use going into a fight too; and it also helps any Allies with you fighting too.

Next = do you carry a Destruction staff on your front bar? If so, then put a Restoration staff on your second bar. Argonians are Master Healers; but you don't have to become a Healer to use the staff just for your own health.

Check your Skill Bars and see if any of your skills are Stamina based. If so, rotate them on your Skill Bar so that you alternate using Magicka and then Stamina when doing your rotations; that gives your Magicka time to replenish.

** Put your Green Dragon Blood and Igneous Shield early on your Skill Bar and throw them out coming into the fight so that you are boosted going in; and by the time the Boss gets your Health down you should be able to use that Dragon Blood again; and any time you need to between times you can drink a potion.


Also: check all your armor pieces to make sure all are enchanted with Magicka; and your jewelry should all be enchanted with either Magicka Regen (to sustain Shonta) or Spell Damage (to boost how fast you can take the enemies down.

If they are all giving you Spell Damage but you need more Sustain = change one of them to Magicka Regen.

Also, if you are dying too fast = it may be that your armor is too low for your Character's level. If your armor is ten levels below your character's level; you will die quickly. Let us make you some current armor.

Also, you can enchant your staves with either"Absorb Health" or "Absorb Magicka," and it will steal the Health or Magicka from whatever you are fighting and give it to you for an additional boost.




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Also, don't feel bad if you can't solo World Bosses; you aren't supposed to be able to! They are made for groups to take down - and don't forget that you don't have 810 Champion Points helping you, either. In order to solo World Bosses; you need a fully developed character; and even then might not be able to. (I can't; and have well over 1000 Champion Points). That just isn't something new characters are able to do; and that is okay too).

How's his equipment. I last made him some armour etc. at level 34, and he's 43 now. Does he need a new set yet?

Thanks, he's fine for now. It's just that I'm too impatient when it comes to more difficult foes, on regular quests he never gets killed.

Cat Man Dhou continues fishing, but he's run out of guts (and then minnows), so he needs to stock up before he can do lakes. So we took him on a salt-water tour of all the zones he's not completed. So now all the zones' salt water holes are done, and he still needs more guts and minnows. We're doing all the foul holes next, as we have plenty of crawlers from all the Ancestor Silk nodes.

We have hit a sort of milestone, in that he's now caught a fish in every Alliance zone. None in Cyrodiil, but Coldharbour is done completely. We'll probably go back to Artaeum, even though we already have the Pickled Fish Bowl recipe, to get the other one - Takeaway Broth. That won't help him, but it's good for Stamina DPS characters. Craglorn is a maybe, as it's not part of Master Angler, but we often do a circuit for Nirncrux, and CMD may as well fish as he goes.

Kelp, seashells, and furnishing fish are building up, but at least they stack, so that doesn't cause a problem. And the furnishing slot limit will prevent the beach at Hunding's from completely getting covered.

There are some foes in this game that he will never be able to solo; even Acadian's Buffy can't solo them all. It isn't always sheer force, either; sometimes it is the Boss's mechanics that you need to learn and figure out how to counter.

If you study the boss; sometimes you will notice they do a certain animation right before they use their worst damage (the one that kills in one hit, etc). It always pays to learn whatever each Boss's mechanics are so you can test ways to counter them when they are about to use their worst weapon.

What you do when you know something bad is coming is to either Block; Bash, or "Roll-Dodge" it.

Block: Hold down the Right Mouse key = when you have sunk Champion Points into Block; it becomes a very powerful combat tool because the boss can't hit you. In Fungal Grotto the second boss is rendered totally useless if you Block him; all you have to do is Block and DPS him down to solo him.

Bash: Press the Right Mouse key at the same time as you are pressing the Left Mouse key. You should see your character holding a semi-invisible shield and pushing it forward each time you do it = practice doing it; and when you get Champion Points put some into Bash, too. Bash can Interrupt the Boss when he is working up to use his worst weapon; and it can stun him for 3 seconds; giving you time to cast Healing on yourself; move out of his grasp; or just take advantage of his stunned state and nail the living daylights out of him. You can tell if you have stunned them; they will stagger back from the bash.


Roll-Dodge = double-tap the W, S, A, or D key to roll your character away from or out of the "red zone." The Roll-Dodge uses a lot of Stamina up; but can save your life in a bad fight. Have a triple restoration potion = one that boosts all (Health/Magicka/Stamina/and regens) on your "Q" and hit the "Q" key as soon as you start the Roll-Dodge to replenish yourself for his next attack.

Plus: Roll-Dodge keeps you in the battlegrounds so you don't reset the Boss's health line (leaving their battle grounds resets their health to full; and all your hard work getting their Health down ends up wasted).


How much Damage you can do is going to be important for bigger Bosses; but learning your enemy's tricks and avoiding them can be just what a character lower in DPS needs to accomplish that harder Boss.

Another thing you can do is to go to the Guild Hall and test out the different Mundus Stones there to see if one gives you better/higher DPS or Critical percentage.

Click on the "C" to see your character's stats and log whatever your character's stats and Mundus are now; then try the different Mundus Stones there to see if there is one that gives you better stats.

Also; test out your combat on any of the Combat Dummies at the Guild Hall to see how much DPS you are producing. After a minute or so; stop and check your Chat Box to see what your DPS reading was for the fight. (it will be printed in Gold colored type in your Chat Box).

As you try different Mundus Stones; use the Combat Dummies to test which Mundus improves your DPS the most.

Oh, and don't forget to always eat something before a big fight. This game is loaded down with free loaves of bread everywhere = pick one up and eat it; and watch how huge your health bar gets! My Tank only eats bread going into battle because it adds massive amounts of hit points to her! Then in combat she uses "Tri-Pot" potions to boost her Magicka, Stamina, and regen).

Also: always check before a battle with a big Boss to ensure your armor is repaired and your weapons are charged.


And remember; food and drink do not stack. If you eat a loaf of bread and then drink a "Drink;" the loaf of bread effects are gone; and all you have left is whatever the drink is.

But you CAN eat something and drink a Potion and get the effects of both the food and the potion; so keep that in mind when setting up your "Q" hot wheel for a big battle.

Shonta Quassan will soon leave Deshaan and move further south to Shadowfen. There are some things to do and some places to explore in Deshaan first, however. Right now he's at Shad Astula, which he finds one of the most interesting places so far. Before leaving for Deshaan, Shonta also wants to fight against Dremora Druitularg - he's already been at his altar a few times, but there weren't other warriors around, and he didn't dare to attack it alone. He found all but one skyshard, but it's out of his reach, hidden somewhere in the Forgotten Crypts, but since he didn't make it even past the first skeletons, that blocked his way, he didn't even try delving deeper.

Noticed that Shonta was online so grouped him up with Buffy to take on Druitularg - and we won, so Shonta has that completed now!

That was awesome, thanks! Shonta Quassan appreciates Buffy's help. She did most of the work, her health barely dropped. I have laughed out loud when Druitularg focused his attention on Shonta, because all we could do, was run in circles, until he focused on Buffy again.

P.S.
Sorry if you waited for me for a while. As soon as I accepted the invitation to the group, I got a message, that you're in a different version of Deshaan, so I needed to travel to your version, which took a while. I don't know why we weren't in the "same" Deshaan, but it happened the same with Renee & me on Vvardenfell.

You and Shonta sure are improving quickly, Lopov. Took me probably longer than everyone else here to hit champion level, and you seem to be almost at the doorstep. You'll be able to take on a whole bunch of new challenges soon.