If you need to get through to the skyshard in Forgotten Crypts; just let me know when I'm online and I'll bring Pia over there to help you get to that Skyshard.








That happens a lot; even if you are grouped with someone you have to use "Travel to Player" to travel around the map with them and stay in the same instance. One of you should go first; (usually the "Leader" of the group) then the rest "Travel to" that person.

Shad Astula is one of the most fun questlines in the game; I loved it!!!!

Yeah, I'm like that, when I'm "in love" with some new game, I play it a lot, then I go through phases when I don't touch some game for years, for instance, I don't remember when I played Oblivion for the last time, it must have been years. Morrowind, even more. I must say that ESO is very addicting, as most of you already know.


Thanks, I might do this today or tomorrow, because I notice we're often online at the same time. But just FYI, Pia will probably need to do most of the work in the Forgotten Crypts, seeing that starting skeletons dispatched of Shonta so easy, like he was a common mudcrab.


I completed quests there yesterday, too bad there aren't any more. I was positively surprised that the game recognized deeds from before, so despite the Maulborn were threatening Shad Astula, Shonta had an option to tell the Arch-Mage that Vox is already dead.

The final part, when other members wait for you at the pier to bid you farewell, was nicely done.

Good to see Shonta making steady progress. Don't get too far ahead of the rest of us!

Cat Man Dhou is making progress with his fishing. Since a shortage of guts meant he couldn't do everything in one zone at a time, he switched tactics to doing all the salt water, then all the foul, etc. leaving lakes to last, so he has a chance to gather the bait.

Last night he caught the last foul fish he needs (outside of Cyrodiil, anyway) and he's already done all the salt. We'll be moving on to the river fish next.

When he stopped doing complete zones, he'd completed all of the Covenant, and two zones of Pact, plus his home zone of Reaper's March. So 60 fish to go!

Yes, I hated leaving that school; that whole thing was so well done with the enjoyable NPC characters! And it was very touching how they came to see you off!

Not sure if they fixed the staff they give you as a reward; but that girl that kept messing up the spells gives you a "Staff of Finding" or something (it will be in your "Mementos" under your "Collections" Icon) = when the game first came out; if you used it on a friendly animal (for example, a horse) = the horse would skyrocket into the air. For months after it came out you would see horses flying through the air as you went through the game, it was hilarious! It was supposed to turn a large animal you were fighting into a small animal to fight; but never worked as intended = but was so much more fun!

I haven't played with mine in years; and since then they have added a "Justice System" to the game; so it may be considered an assault on a horse now if you do it = I wouldn't try it near a town, just in case, lol.

I might have to look up the WIKI on that staff to see what it does now, lol.

Holy Cow, Ghastley! That is amazing progress on your fishing Master Achievement! I hope we will all get an invite to see your new boat when you get it!!!

A few new developments to report from Cincy's travels, and I have probably forgotten a few more:

1) He is now a full-fledged Psijic Mage, at least as far as the game lets you go. Imbue Weapon and Meditate and HUGELY helpful abilities to have. We've morphed them and almost maxed them out.

2) Going back to Craglorn yesterday and the day before, Cincy and I discovered a couple of things. One, we are quite capable of handling group delves on our own. Two, we are indeed able to take on WBs there on our own too, at least the Anomalies. If you kill enough spellfiends and atronachs in your battle, they will stop spawning.

3) Several WBs from elsewhere have also met their end at Cincy's hands. We had already developed a very successful strategy for dealing with WBs and group areas, and now it's been fine-tuned a bit. Great success!


I feel that Cincy can take on almost anything that's out there. Soloing WBs from DLC areas might be a bit out of reach, and I'm sure there are a bunch of group dungeons that couldn't be soloed yet either (although I have not attempted any yet). We also still have a long way to go before we have even a chance at the cream of the crop in PvP. But I'm quite pleased with our progress.

Holy Cow, this is Awesome!!! Great job! That Psijic line isn't an easy one to get; you did really good to make it through that questline!

If you want to test yourself on soloing a Group Dungeon = Fungal Grotto is the easiest Group Dungeon in the game; it is what Bethesda used to call "Baby's First Dungeon."

54 more fish and grinding on.

Looking for furnishing ideas that use a lot of kelp.

Cat Man Dhou may well take up Buffy's offer of guts, as he's not finding herds of bunnies in the rivers he's fishing at the moment. For that matter, where did all the frogs go?

And we left Cyrodiil to last, so that may be another story.

I haven't done Cyrodiil yet either; but like you = was holding it out for last. (and I'm WAY further back than you are to being close to the end = more like at the beginning, lol).

Oh god, Khajiit can only imagine how annoying trying to fish in Cyrodiil would be.

Everyone I know that has done it has had good experiences with it overall. The veteran PvP'ers usually bypass someone fishing as "not a threat." One guy from the DC even came and dropped his fishing line next to a friend of mine who was EP. The issues they may have are from gank mobs when fishing near roads; skyshards; Dolmen; or Keeps.

Ghastley, it takes guts to become a master angler! Check for an in game PM with some attached.

Hmm, perhaps being a fisher person might be a good cover for infiltration?

Yep, some people are actually quite cool about it. I was clearing a dolmen on my own and a Dominion player came into view. I was getting ready for him to come after me, but he was actually cool about it and left me alone since I only cared about taking out the dolmen.

But I imagine other players are not so cool about it and will try to go for what they think are "easy pickins.'"

Cat Man Dhou was sad that so many bunnies bought it, but at least a thousand frogs didn't have to croak.

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Current standing: 33 to go. 10 lake fish in Dominion, 11 lake fish in Pact, and the 12 (all waters) in Cyrodiil.

Huge shout-out to mALX for yesterday for covering for my dumb self. I bit off more than I could chew as Cincy tried to solo Shada's Tear in Craglorn. I'm a giant goober, and got a bit cocky (which never works well for me) thinking I could do it after soloing some of the other places in Craglorn. Cincy got pretty far too, but he wasn't going to be able to complete it without assistance because it was really tough and he had already died a few times. So we called on mALX and her trusty Pia Khan for reinforcements, but even that was not going to be enough. So mALX called on her own reinforcement from a friend who goes by "Aussie."

Both mALX and I had some technical difficulties. Suddenly my headphones were uncooperative and I got kicked out of the game due to a crash, and once again trying to log-in gave me the error message "This account is already logged in." Thus, I had to exit Steam totally and load back in. And mALX had some odd issues with the quest not being exactly where I was when I shared it with her and not progressing quite the same way. But we overcame it, and the two of us and Aussie fought our way to the final boss, the Nereid Shada. Even the 3 of us had trouble with it though, and we all died once despite Cincy being able to revive his companions a couple times. (If he didn't build up so much health, there is no way he could've completed that dungeon.) But the second time around was much more successful, and we eliminated Shada.

So that's the short of it. I learned my lesson. Next time I will be absolutely sure to not take on something like that by myself unless I am absolutely sure that I can solo it, or I will just use the group finder. Thank you to mALX for being a good sport and going out of her way to help me out. On the bright side, that was the last of the "points of interest" to clear that are so-labeled on the zone map. Still, I will be...less enthusiastic about taking on such challenges.

In other news, late last night and earlier today saw the beginning of a World Boss run by Cincy that we have left in the Alliance zones. It has gone very well so far, as we finished off Shadowfen, Deshaan, and The Rift. The only Pact WBs left are two in Eastmarch.

I was stunned by how far you got in that dungeon solo; and I got to see your character in action while Pia lay dead a lot = HOLY COW! I would love to see your character's build: Attributes; Champion Points; Armor Sets; Class; Race; etc. That is one tough character!!!

But that said = yeah; start out trying to solo easier group dungeons than that next time,


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For my news: Something Lopov said inspired me to create a new character yesterday. The newest member of my "team" = Dagoth-Malan was "born" yesterday. He is a High Elf Sorc. I had a lot of fun trying to learn how to play a Sorc last night; and so far really enjoying it! I don't have a screenshot yet; but will get one soon.

He reached level 10 last night; so Rader = if you are in a group that ganks in Cyrodiil; I really want to get him up to at least level 6 for the Purge and Vigor skills. I'd like to join up. He just finished his Siege weapon training at 5 this morning; and he is Ebonheart Pact.

Looks like mALX lend a hand to more of us yesterday, Pia Khan also helped Shonta Quassan find the remaining skyshard in the Forgotten Crypts, which he couldn't reach on his own.



Nice! I'm glad I mentioned him during our conversation.

I'm glad you did too; I had a blast last night playing him through all the beginning stuff = was up til 5 this morning playing!

Ohmagawd you’re playing as a Dagoth?! Awesome! Are you playing that the character is a Chimer since you are playing as a high elf?

Yes, he is supposedly a Chimer. I started off trying to make him a very light colored Dark Elf; but it just didn't have the look I wanted.

What I was going for was the facial features from the below image of of Vivec (from the original/actual game Morrowind) because he was the only image of Chimer I've seen in the games so far. Dagoth-Ur was behind that big mask; so you couldn't see him. Here is the face I was trying for:



https://giantbomb1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/s...ature_vivec.jpg



The problem was = my game crashes if I go in and out of it; so I was working from my crappy memory on Vivec's face in the character creation. (not the half and half coloring; but the facial features and ears).

I couldn't remember the ears; so unfortunately got them wrong; and couldn't really remember the brow. I'll post a pic of him in the Screenshot thread; I took a few last night = and I think I have some pics of him that I made in my Oblivion game too; I'll try to find them.

Nice! Reminds me of my Dwemer master craftsman, Razak Mezalf (the game recognizes him as Dunmer but he’s actually a Dwemer cursed with vampirism).

Dagoth-Malan will eventually be cursed with Vampirism too; though whether it happens in ESO may be another story. In his future; he ends up being the anonymous author of the Lorebook "Immortal Blood."


https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Immortal_Blood


In other words; he draws blood from all the most powerful vampires in Morrowind and makes a cocktail blend of their blood and a sample of Dagoth-Ur's (immortal) blood = injects himself with it to make himself the most powerful vampire in Tamriel.

Of course; this is just the beginning of the Second Era; so all that is in his future.

Oooo was he a character in TES3?

Technically; yes. He was a "Cut" character. He was supposed to be an Ascended Sleeper in Morrowind; but never made it to the game for some reason. So I kind of usurped his skills and attributes; but in his story he escapes becoming an Ascended Sleeper. Instead, my version of his story:

Dagoth-Ur planned to make Malan an Ascended Sleeper; but Dagoth Malan learned of the plan and fled before it could happen. Before fleeing, he crept into Dagoth-Ur's chambers and tried to steal his immortal blood. Dagoth-Ur woke up and caught him; but Dagoth-Malan escaped before he could be captured = taking with him just a small amount of Dagoth-Ur's blood in a vial.

He escaped to the Crystal Tower; where he devised the plan to turn himself into the most powerful (and immortal) vampire in Tamriel.

His plan was to create as many vampires of his line that he could = who would then infiltrate the major cities of Cyrodiil; and slowly have their numbers grow through various secret attacks on the citizens in which they would be turned; not killed. Then on his command; he would have a full army of unkill-able immortal vampires ready to take over all of Cyrodiil; while he and his Elite Guard would take over the White Gold Tower; kill the Emperor currently seated there; and he would rule Tamriel.

If you read Immortal Blood you would know that the Cyrodiilic vampires can disguise their vampire features (like Seridur in the Imperial City was able to) = well, Malan's vampires all stayed hidden in plain view by disguising their vampire features; so no one could get an accurate count of the size of Malan's army.

Unfortunately Malan made an error in actually mixing Ur's blood into the Cocktail; so he is NOT immortal; (as he discovered when his wife [who he had turned into a vampire] died). Not only was he devastated by losing his wife; but that meant his whole plan to take over Cyrodiil (that relied on them not being able to kill his vampires) = would not work unless he could find out the error and correct it somehow.

So he locked himself back into the Crystal Tower and tried to find the error. It took another 50 years; but he finally discovered that to make himself immortal he would have had to inject Ur's blood first; (waited three days for it to fully replace the blood in his bloodstream) = then inject the cocktail of vampire blood in order to become a fully immortal vampire.

So now he had to figure out a way to make his armies immortal. And that is how he began studying necromancy under Mannimarco = so if nothing else; he could raise up his vampires to keep fighting in the battlefields (and also to be able to bring his wife back to life).

But that wouldn't help HIM (Malan) rule Tamriel; which was his entire original plan. So he had to figure out a way to make himself immortal too; and Mannimarco could also be able to help him with that.

It was too late to make himself immortal IN THIS BODY; so he planned to infect a young handsome man with the few drops remaining of Ur's blood and then use his own blood after three days = to make an immortal clone of his vampire nature in the other man's body; then use Necromancy to "trade bodies" with the man; moving his own soul into that man's body and take it over; and do the same with his wife's soul (using a beautiful woman's body).

Of course; none of this has happened yet; but that is Dagoth-Malan's back story will be later on in the 2nd Era, lol.

Interesting! So where did he contract vampirism? Was it one of the 3 Vvardenfell strains or was it the Cyrodiilic strain that you mentioned? Also, Khajiit would imagine that having Dagoth Ur’s blood might have worked... up until the Nerevarine severed Ur’s connection to divinity, aka the Heart of Lorkhan.

This all happened long before Ur was killed; so at the time the blood was drawn the immortality factor was there in the blood. Since Malan was never made immortal; it wouldn't have effected him = only the one who he made later to switch bodies with.

(Since destroying the Heart of Lorkhan doesn't happen until the very end of the 2nd Era; and what is happening right now is at the very beginning of the 2nd Era = no way of knowing whether it will change the immortality of the one he will eventually make = none of that has happened yet; he isn't even a vampire at this point).


** As for the vampirism = If you read Immortal Blood: The anonymous author used some of all those vampire lines to create a whole new vampire with the abilities of all those different "Clans."

So the Cyrodiilic abilites to hide his vampire features would def be a part of his repertoire. Unfortunately; if I make him a vampire in ESO; I won't be able to mod his vampirism to do what I want it to; so he may or may not ever become a vampire in this game.

(I used parts of three mods combined for him in my Oblivion game) = he could change into a large bird; a bat; and a wolf. He could hide his vampire features or show them when he chose. He could hypnotize Guards and manipulate minds. He could drink blood from NPC's while standing up either behind them or in front of them if they were hypnotized = it was very cool. When he was in his bird or bat form; he would actually fly places! When he made minions; they would follow him and fight for him.

I also had a similar (three mods pieced together) mod for Werewolfism in Oblivion; it was amazing; you could create packs of werewolves to follow you and fight for you!

You’ve really put a lot of thought into this! Very neat!

Now that Cat Man Dhou has finished his project, we're looking for the next one.

So I rolled a new character on the PTS to roughly this Alcast spec.

He's an Imperial called Clark of Gweden, and I have him in the Hunding's/spriggan's/Chudan combo, under a Noble suit outfit dyed blue/gold to resemble his Oblivion/SI finery. Lover Mundus, of course, as the build calls for it. He has Stone Giant on his bar, instead of the Power Slam, but has the skill points to enable several other choices.

I only got as far as completing his construction last night, and haven't yet taken him out to see how it works. If he's viable against a few WB's, then he may make it across to live, where it will take a while to build him up.

Dagoth-Malan has been a part of my games for over a decade; and through many games. He is never a good character; and if there is any evil afoot it is usually centered around him, lol.












CLARK HAS FINALLY COME TO TAMRIEL!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOT !!!! I can't wait to see him!!! Oddly enough; I never pictured him as a Dragon Knight; but that build is really interesting!!! Alcast has some really great build foundations; then you tweak them to your own preferences and usually can't go wrong.

Wow, mALX, what a backstory! I'm glad you created him in ESO.

Thanks, Lopov! I don't know how much havoc he will be able to reap in this game; (since I can't use mods on him here, lol) = but so far he is very fun to play!

He's only come to the other Tamriel so far. I just did a quick run against the Abomination, and he got past that OK. (And on the PTS, you don't see any help). However, I then discovered that I hadn't installed Combat Metrics on PTS, so I didn't really know how well he'd done.

After installing it, we tried again, against Sharpfang, the troll at the Dire Bramblepatch. Clark was only doing about 12k but I don't have his skills very well sorted out yet. We gave up, as the troll can regenerate almost that fast. But the sustain was reasonable, and it does look like I can adjust from there - and maybe learn to play him.

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How's the Dagon-Malan shaping up? I assume he's still grinding his way up to full strength, as you just started him. Second bar yet?

I don't think you can use Combat Metrics on the PTS, can you? They have add-ons blocked (or used to have them blocked; I haven't tried recently).

I had to work for SneakyBo on Sunday; (every Sunday) so didn't get to play Dagoth-Malan at all yesterday (or yet today) = but the last time I played him he had just broken level 25; so he has his second bar now. I put a Restoration bar on it because that is all I was picking up along the way, lol.

He is very fun to play so far!

Add-ons do work on PTS, and CMX is very useful there, as you can test against WB's without any help.

I did roll a Clark on live, but he's only reached level 10 so far, and hasn't got many skills to choose between. He still needs to join FG, MG and Undaunted, and we have to decide when he does BG's for the Vigor. That will be after a training visit to Cyrodiil, as you get a couple of levels for doing nothing. I'm trying not to give him CP until he earns it by reaching L50, so I'll learn to use his skills together naturally.

And now I have to get back into the habit of letting the new one do all the deconstruction, and remember about mount training, again.


In other news, Laurie has finally started her final JC research, so in a few months, she'll be at a full 9 traits.

A big day for the tiny Argonian.

Shonta Quassan managed to venture through Sanguine's Demesne in Shadowfen on his own. He completed both associated quests and killed three out of six bosses on his own. The other three he didn't meet. It was enough to get some achievements and the place is no longer blackened on the map. He died 3-4 times in between but it was clear to me, that compared to the Forgotten Crypts, he stands chances in this dungeon, we just needed to change some tactics, that's why he kept coming back and back. And back and back. We hit Level 49 after the adventure was over.

Oh, that is good news! I hope to meet Clark, or at least see some screens of him on here!!!

Oh, I'm really glad to hear that we can use add-ons on PTS now! They always shut them off before; it will be so much better with them on!

I know exactly what you are saying; Dagoth-Malan has been doing all deconstructing since his creation. Since he has no skill points to spend in crafting; that means I'm not getting the most return on materials that I could be getting; so = really hoping he levels up fast; it is killing me to see some of those expensive materials from Elsweyr NOT showing up from deconning those items, lol.







WOO HOO!!! Congrats on beating Sanguine's Demesne - and on almost making it to Champion Level!!!

Later on I figured out by the map hints, that we missed the skyshard somewhere. So going back today.

'Grats to Shonta! I like Sanguine's Demesne. Where else can you talk to dremora, get yourself a drink from a bartender who can repair your gear, go bowling for ogres and generally have such a fun time?

Nice. You are on the cusp of CP if you haven't hit it yet. Make sure you take some sort of health boost when you venture into public dungeons until Shonta starts to really get beefed up. I did my first public dungeons roughly around the same level as you did, and it was very tough.

Time for some updates on good ol' Cincy. But first, as I mentioned in the General Discussion thread, I now have two other characters on my roster: Evelona Mathieu, a Breton sorceress, and Mariah the Honey-Voiced, a Redguard Templar. I don't really care about roleplaying for them. I just want to see what I can do with those two classes and to explore certain things I won't/didn't do with Cincy (e.g. Thieves Guild questline). Also, spending more time on them allows for enlightenment to build up a lot for Cincy. And I didn't realize that you could already use CPs on your new characters even if they aren't level 50 yet, so I put in the points for Evelona.


Now, onto Cincy! Some of the recent highlights:

1) In my last excursion into Cyrodiil, I went into the Alliance War - No CP campaign. This was last week, I think. A high level-700s Khajiit player jumped me out of nowhere and thought me easy pickings. I came close to dying a couple times but healed myself thanks to the Restoration Staff Ultimate morph I have. And then I almost got her a couple times. We fought each other to a standstill, and when she realized she wasn't getting anywhere she booked it. I couldn't really keep up, so I just had to let it go. If CP were enabled though, I probably would have been killed.

2)The Alliance Zone World Boss tour is over! Cincy cut a bloody swath through all of them, dispatching most of them on his own. There were a bunch that he could've finished on his own, but players sometimes joined in later in the battle. A bit disappointing, but it worked out. (And Cincy didn't die on any of them, except that BS instance last night where the game severely lagged for like 20 seconds and I had died when it finally resumed.)

There were, however, a couple that may have been a bit too much for Cincy to solo, and fortunately a couple other players joined in. The hardest one was definitely Menhir Stoneskin in Rivenspire. That freak hit HARD. And sporadically, his stone humanoid buddies would band together to attack, which meant a lot of switching to heal. The first group of those were straight up warriors, but after that came some mages that had about 70K-80K health AND could heal Menhir, and by the time I was able to get rid of them they had healed him for 200K health! Sometime shortly after was when a couple of other players came in.

3) Last night I ran one round of Battlegrounds with Cincy, and it may have been my proudest moment teamwise. It was Deathmatch. For those who don't know, each kill in Deathmatch is 15 points for the team that gets it, and the first team to 500 wins (individual scores have a whole bunch of things to account for). My team got off to a quick lead but eventually fell a good ways behind. The Storm Lords got to 480 or 495 and my team, the Pit Daemons at the time, were down about 120 or 135 points. And time was close to running out the full 15 minutes (which had never happened to me yet). We made a furious rally and tied it at 495 with less than 15 seconds left. Then, with only a handful of seconds left, we got the last kill! WE WON! It was a comeback for the ages! And I made a friend out of it, so that was pretty cool.

We came out of Sanguine's Demesne for the second time. Shonta Quassan found the skyshard and killed two more bosses, so 5/6 bosses down. The final one he couldn't bring down, because he's accompanied by two more fighters. If he were alone and if Shonta's health pool were bigger, we could maybe bring him down on our own.

Indeed! Both quests were fun too. Those Ogrims aren't tough at all, even when they attack in groups. The other groups, usually a combination of Dremora warriors and mages, were more challenging.

Exactly, it's Health where Shonta's lacking, because he can get roasted if he's hit by 2-3 subsequent heavy blows and doesn't heal himself on time - when hit by bosses, I mean. Magicka isn't a problem, because he has 50 points in there.

Cincy's rocking down in Cyrodiil. Aren't players down there scaled to be of the same level? I read something like this a while back.

Cincy is SO reminiscent of Buffy in her early years! I was always so fascinated and excited to hear her war stories = and mostly amazed at what she could accomplish solo!!! (and still am!) Cincy is beginning to floor me too, with all he is able to do!!!

2nd = LOVE your detailed descriptions of the battle with that World Boss! It was like being there with you and watching!!!!

VERY exciting Deathmatch! It was always one of my favorite BG games; but it wasn't the one I was best at.

Congrats on the World Boss Tour being completed!!!

My Pia is a magicka character too; and she is also a bit squishy. She used to carry a healing staff on her back (2nd) skill bar; but now she keeps a destruction staff on both bars = but being a Templar; she has healing as part of her Class skills.

Food will help your health pool. Believe it or not; those loaves of bread you see everywhere in game give your health pool a massive boost of at least 5000. It is free, and very easy to get (I think even the Guild Bank has a bunch that Acadian's Buffy donated) = all my characters eat it before going into battle. It lasts 35 (game time) minutes; but is so easy to get that I eat a loaf before each big Boss battle when going through a dungeon. PLUS: you can take potions while food is active without losing the effects of the food. So eat the bread and drink whatever potions you want to sustain your Magicka or spell power; or maybe enchant your jewelry with health recovery or spell power.

I use those "Crown Tri-Pot" potions on my "Q" hot wheel and hit the "Q" when needed in battle to replenish the character's health/magicka/and stamina instantly when needed.

Also; put your Green Dragon Blood on at the beginning of your rotation and your best shield = put them on before going into battle; and hit them again in 15 seconds if the battle hasn't ended.

The Green Dragon Blood is not a burst heal; it is a sustain heal = you still need a burst heal to save yourself if you don't travel with a Healer. The only burst heal you can get as a Dragon Knight is Vigor = you have to go to either Cyrodiil or the Battlegrounds for Vigor.

The Battlegrounds = you don't even have to win to gain Alliance Points; making it the quickest and easiest way for a young character to buy Vigor. You have to reach Alliance ranking of 6 to get the tools you need from the Alliance skill line:

Vigor (burst healing)

Purge (removes damage over time off you)

War Horn (an Ultimate that boosts all three stats instantly = Health, Magicka, Stamina)

Barrier (an Ultimate that gives you the strongest shield in the game; that will also heal you while it shields you)

Caltrops (an Area of Effect Damage Over Time you can throw down between you and enemies to damage them while they run toward you before the battle begins or if a whole mob is attacking you).


Most of the other Alliance skills only benefit you if you are down in Cyrodiil; but those skills I listed above can help you anywhere; and as soon as you reach Level 6 in the Alliance skill line = you can get all of them.

My Britta is a Dragon Knight Tank; and she uses All of the above skills except the Caltrops; (because she isn't a DPS character; she doesn't need them).

The burst heal of Vigor can pull you from death if you have just enough Stamina in your pool to cast it.

When you are setting up your skill bars; put the healing skills on your back skill bar and your damaging skills on your front skill bar.

That way; if you see your health bar going down in combat = flip to your back bar and heal quickly; use your shield; then flip back to your front bar and go back to damaging.

Another trick for Dragon Knights: Alternate your skills on your skill bars so when you do your rotation in combat you are alternating between Magicka skills and stamina skills; that way both your Magicka and Stamina pools are sustained; and you only have to worry about your health bar.

Green Dragon Blood is a Magicka skill; and Vigor is a Stamina skill. So they can be placed side by side; and if they are a part of your rotation then your health should sustain; but in an emergency you can just flip bars and hit that Vigor to keep from dying.

Also; when you start adding Champion Points; there is a whole tree that will help you with healing and shielding; and that will round Shonta out so he is able to sustain better. He is still a young teenager right now as far as game skills goes.

Thanks about that regarding food and potion being used at the same time, you told me this already, but I forgot, so I never used them alongside.

ATM the Obsidian Shard works better for Shonta than the Dragon Blood or its morph Coagulating Blood - it costs slightly less magicka and restores more of his health, while also dealing some damage to the targeted enemy. The health recovery isn't as important for him right now, because his health pool is low so if he's being hit repeatedly, he can't recover in any case.

One of these days Shonta will return to the Crow's Wood, I wonder if he can now take the Crow's Mother down on his own, because for the first time it was Cincy the Champion of Cyrodiil who helped him. He'll also try out other bosses.

Maybe you could enchant one or two of your large pieces of armor with health instead of magicka? (Large pieces = head, chest, legs, and shield if you carry one).

And try eating the bread; it really increases your health pool.

You are doing really good to use those two healing skills; it sounds like you are doing right!

** Are you putting skill points into your passives for those skill lines?



I was wondering if you wanted to go after the Vigor and wanted company in either the Battlegrounds or Cyrodiil. I was going to ask Rader if he wanted to join my new character for the Battlegrounds; maybe the three of us could go together.

I am not going to enhance the group though; I'm terrible at PvP. Fortunately; you don't have to be good at PvP in the Battlegrounds to get your Alliance skill line up; (just have to participate). We could go in as a group; and it would be more fun because we'd know our teammates.

(if you want; and if Rader wants).

Clark would be up for that idea, too.

I'd suggest going to Cyrodiil just for the training. No combat, and gets you up to around rank 3, with a skill point or two thrown in. Then the Battlegrounds to take you up to 5 or 6 in Assault for Vigor, and/or Caltrops. I forget what rank gets you Purge, on the other side, but it's similar. Clark already did that, once he hit level 10, and got the invitation.

Oh, that would be Awesome if it was the four of us as a group! (as long as no one minds that I suck at PvP, lol).

Malan has already finished his Siege training and got all those easy skill points too. But if Lopov wants to go; we can bring him down and walk through it with him if he wants; especially since the quest markers are not easy to see down there for anyone not used to doing the training before.

Shonta Quassan returned to the Crow's Wood yesterday. He brought one of the bosses down on his own, shortly afterwards another player invited him into a group and within a few more minutes there were 4 of us in the group. It was a short run through the woods, but we brought all the bosses down together.

Later on Shonta attacked the giant crocodile boss of Shadowfen on his own. So far, this boss has been the easiest of all he encountered. He's extremely slow and when he prepares for a power attack, you have all the time on Tamriel to move out of his way. Shonta brought it down to 60% health, by then another player joined the fight, then it went quicker.



Regarding passives - yes, most of Shonta's passives of his main skills are already maxed out.

I just hit the Champion levels yesterday, so I wouldn't go to Cyrodiil just yet, I want to get a feel of the CP first. I stopped gaming as soon as we reached Lvl 50 because it was already close to midnight and I was too sleepy to explore the new leveling system. Also I haven't been to Cyrodiil or Battlegrouns at all yet. But this isn't the main reason, the main reason is that I have a family around when I'm gaming, so I can't dedicate 100% to gaming only, if someone / something interrupts me, I stop gaming, and these breaks can get unpredictable. This might be a problem if traveling within a group for a long time and if there's combat involved.