Today in Tamriel the PTS and PC NA server databases got mixed up and they had to take everything down with no notice, and they're probably going to roll everything back a day.

I'm a wee bit annoyed.

A day is the worst case, if they just restore the database to when it was copied over.

If there's any journalling, they can roll forward from that, maybe to the point they brought up the PTS and started overwriting stuff. I doubt they could roll backward, as the updates would be on two journal files, and conflict.

From what I picked up, they do their backups every 20m on characters, based on the issues in cyrodiil they had.

Hopefully we only lose a few hours tops. PTS had been up for 20m when everything went offline.

Hope nobody here is affected by the temporary account locks from yesterday's PTS/ NA server problems!

I was lucky. I attempted to log in to the PTS just as they shut it down, so did not actually connect. As a result, my NA account is back to normal, and I did not lose anything. EU was not expected to have any effect, but I confirmed that was good, out of paranoia.

I note that they are talking about “rolling back” affected accounts, so it appears that no global restore to an earlier backup was done. Only accounts that used PTS during the overlap would be affected, and it is possible the damage to NA could be reversed. Those players are being locked out until the work is done, and I assume the timescale stated is worst case, which is why any compensation will wait until the real losses are accounted.

Your EU would have been locked, too. They're not separate accounts. Gina or Kevin clarified it, because folks that played EU were locked and were questioning why.

Daily login rewards for next month...



Free house. In a location I like too. Impressed.

That house also opens a path from Alik'r to Bangkorai as it has two entrances. I'll take it just for that aspect. Of course one end is in enemy territory, unless you can clear Satakalaam. I'm not sure if they keep respawning there.

As a house it has major issues, like the two sealed towers taking up space, and the living space all underground and dark. It comes with about 40 lights and is still dark inside. I imagine a lot of folks will build above ground and seal off the pit somehow.

Oh heck no, I'm going to decorate the pit. That thing is why I wanted it.

Gonna make a lush underground forest maybe. Can light it up with cleverly placed Beacon of Tower Zeroes.

Okay so, if anyone needs the Party Planner achieve for having a bunch of people in their houxse for the houseguest furnishings, let us know.

We can do an impromptu get together to get them for folks before it expires if we need to. but we do have the guild meetup in a few days. We''ll figure it out.

I have them, but I’ll be someone else’s unruly mob if needed.

Good thinking, Saki, on the party planner achievement. Buffy has it but the event runs till May 31 so we can make a point of helping anyone at this month's guild meeting (May 6 for EU, May 7 for NA) who needs it.

Yeah I got it with you guys too, but I deffo want to help folks needing it.

Today in Tamriel:

On the EU server, my Nightblade finally completed Cadwell's Gold. Seriously doubt I'll ever have the energy to do that with another character

So, after almost 2,000 hours, finally heading to Craglorn.

Big game. Big, big game...

Fabulous, Burnt! I quite enjoy the main alliance original quest lines.

Grats! I'm starting them only for the skill points. I'm also missing 14 skyshards and I'll have all 543.

Had an odd experience today. I went to the Reach to attune a set of stations, and it would not let me do so. I checked my account, and this is the day my ESO+ renews. It appears that the DLC use has a gap between expiry and auto-renewal that they don’t tell you about.

I may go to the next chapter zone, and come back to the Reach later. I’m going to check if any other ESO+ things have turned off first, and maybe send in a tticket about the lack of continuity.

How odd! I'd think trying to dye a costume would be a good check for ESO+?

I can dye a costume. Deconstructing an item puts the mats in the Craft Bag. I can use the stations at the DLC craft area, and make set items there.

I checked the other crafting areas in the Reach, and they all behave the same way. I would go check another DLC craft area such as one in the Deadlands, but don't want to succeed there!

Tried again today after renewal confirmed. Same result.

I moved over to one of the stations, close enough to use it, and then it let me attune. I may have been in a dead spot in the middle the first time. So I attuned each from using distance, and problem solved for now. I suspect I will re-encounter this at the next one, but hopefully the same ‘fix’ will work again.

I suspect the radius in which you can attune is lower that intended, and all stations in the zone having the same issue makes some sense, as they were probably all added at the same time by the same person.

How odd! Glad you got it working for now.

Meh. Logged off. Lag is literally making the game unplayable at the minute. Saw an AMA thread on Reddit with one of the Dev's saying they'd "Had a rough few weeks, with DDOS attacks and other things", so hope they manage to find a resolution to this before the new chapter releases next week. :/

Chapter release is gonna be like every other game expansion release, an unmitigated disaster. I am prepared.

Oh, I didn't know it had a second exit!!! Er ... where is it?








Huh? The Achievement expires? I don't know anything about this, details please?









Gaaaah, what Event is running?








Lol, Misa is my only character so far that ever made both Silver and Gold in their entirety; and when done it felt like I needed a vacation, lol.









Holy Cow, I never knew about that!








I had some severe lag issues all week; thought it was just my PC or something.

Party planner achievement. Have four people in your house. Let's you buy a free house guest off the crown store.

Achievement doesn't expire but the offer for houseguest does. Today is last full day I think.

Aw heck, I missed it!

I discovered that you can get from any wayshrine to the Scholarium by selecting The Aurbis, then the Eyevea circle link on the left, and the Scholarium link is at the bottom of that map, as another circle link. Three links, but faster than going to Skingrad and running through town.

Thanks! Good to know.

Completed the scribing questlines on both EU and NA. Mixed feelings about the questline in general. The lore, the books, some of the individual quests were excellent, leading up to a very nice resolution. My enthusiasm was tempered slightly by some of the most painful, repetitive fetch quests I've ever experienced, which gave me the sensation of them just being there to pad things out. Which I don't think was needed, as the scribing story was strong enough without that. But, hey ho...

I don't currently have enough luminous ink to actually start experimenting with the skills themselves yet, but a couple do look like they could be quite useful, though a little dubious about the 2 second cast time both of those skills have. Time (and more ink) will tell.

Buffy completed the questline also. She enjoyed it. Normally we hate puzzles but these were easy enough and Buffy had enough help from Nahlia that she was able to work it all out. My only concern about the length of the questline is the sinking feeling I get if I contemplate going through it again on one (or more) of Buffy's other variants. Each character that goes through the full questline gets 16 inks though. . . .

So far, I've yet to see or visualize any scribing skill that endangers what she currently slots. We tested the skill she made during the questline (breach and lingering damage) and it does not compare favorably with Elemental Susceptibility from the destro staff skill line. EleSus is longer, cheaper and does a touch more damage.

Blue Vigor is cool though.

I have not yet discovered how to track what scripts have been collected. Grimoires show in a new tab of the skills dialog, and ink is in the craft bag in its own misc category, but where do I see scripts? They need to be “used” for curation, but then they’re no longer in inventory. Where do they go?

The scraps that add up to the Class script are counted under Achievements/Gold Road/Scribing. There’s a Class achievement ther that shows the running count, and completes at 50 for the character. But then that Script will be somewhere else.

My newest character is still doing Undaunted dailies, so she gets a guaranteed Affix script from it. Going to the Scholarium, I can see them in the available list, but that’s not the most convenient way to find out.

Open your skills menu and select the grimoire icon. Then left (I think) click on one and it will bring up the appropirate sub scripts that can be used for that grimoire. Gosse showed me that and it is better than nothing but still not very helpful. UESP wiki is slowly catching up on scribing and is already fairly helpful so worth checking out. Buffy the templar has been doing two West Weald dailies and one each MG, FG, undaunted delve dailies each day and each of them seems to provide her a new script each day so far.

Still a mystery but even reviewing what the 'big kids' (Alcast, Deltia, Hack, etc) say, I don't see any scribed skill in the running to replace anything Buffy already has slotted. The pretty colors are nice though - yay for blue vigor!

I get the impression that Scribing will be used to fill in some gaps, such as a class not having access to a buff/debuff via normal skills. I am looking at the possibilities of tanking with weapons other than sword and board or staff. Taunt and Pull focus scripts with an AoE Grimoire adds something new, too.

I was intrigued that the spell Buffy scribed as part of the questline provided major breach. As a templar she gets that from the Night Mother Gaze set so it wouldn't be terrible to get it via a skill. But as an Oakensoul mage, skill slots are at a premium and any skill she slots has to be a great one to earn a slot. The wardens get major breach from shalks which a great skill so no concern there. As a magsorc, she gets her major breach from Elemental Susceptibility. So the magsorc compared EleSus to the scripted skill from the questline. EleSus is cheaper, lasts twice as long, does a tiny bit more damage and costs nothing - so EleSus wins on that one.

She also runs a constant HoT on herself and her companion to proc spell power cure and keep the companion healthy. So she could be interested in crafting a good HoT - but I really can't see any of the scripting possibilities beating Vigor on that count with its radius of 15M and duration of 15 seconds.

This is a huge help, thank you so much!!! I am still doing the quests in there; has anyone gotten the horse yet?




Ditto on the repetition. That was really dragging them out and was already a source of irritation before the Indirik questline ended, lol. (like, "we got the picture ZOS; now can we get on with the quest?")

I didn't realize the spells were actually costing me anything and was switching back and forth between the damage and the healing one to test them out = ran out of ink suddenly and couldn't get out of the healing one, lol. So now I have "Crushing Shock" back on there till I can get more ink.

Does anyone know = will there be other things added to our book over time? And how will we find/add them?

I am always fascinated by how adept you are at juggling so many Buffy variants and knowing what each can do to either inflict the most damage or heal the greatest possible = running constant HoT to proc Spell Power Cure is a totally inspired and amazing idea; that was Awesome to read!!!! I wonder how many Healers don't think of that; because I used to run with a Healer that wore that armor and he didn't think of doing that (his armor would have proc'd more if he did).

WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


https://imgur.com/a/jw7jyFk

Congrats on your new scribing limo horse!

"Thank you; thank you very much..." (obviously said in Elvis's voice, lol).

And ESO+ subscribers get a free fire breathing camel mount from the Crown Store in case anyone hadn't noticed, which is available for the next few days.

Because. Well. Why wouldn't a camel breathe fire? Maybe nice for roleplaying a Redguard DK?

It appears to be permanently on fire, so breathing flames just comes along for the ride.

On another topic, has anyone noticed that Master Writs seem to be dropping less since the Zeal of Zenithar event started? I was getting about 100 vouchers worth from ten complete rounds of daily writs on EU before, now we are lucky to see ten. The sporadic gold writ still appears to skew the stats, but the base flow seems restricted. Laurie has done her seven MWs a day from the NA backlog of saved-up ones to get the reward boxes, but Fleur is lucky to do more than two types. She’s chasing the set tables, rather than the event stuff, so does everything that comes in.

Some things are starting to fall in place. Petal (and her NA brother Fiorello) did the Morrowind story quest and got some blue dyes. Then Petal got the matching hairstyle - Rotmeth Hangover Bed-Head - from a crate. So this is probably her permanent look.

Nice coloring how her top and shoulders match her hair.

And her hair matches her dog! She looks great!

Total weirdness!

Both Petal and Fiorello got nothing but Necklaces of the Veiled Heritance while they were running the Auridon dolmens at levels 33 and 34. Twenty in a row on each server. They ranged in quality, but there were no rings, and no other sets until they reached level 35, when it went back to normal.

At least the XP wasn't stuck, and character and FG levels went up normally.

Petal and Fiorello are now at CP110 or so, and the guild meetings are in a week. I'm hoping to get them up to CP160 in time, and get them decent equipment. I can't gather Ruby level mats until we hit CP150, but then we can run around Stros M'kai and do any surveys we've gathered, so hopefully that's just a day's work. That leaves the 110-150 gap, and I'm hoping we still have enough public dungeons to get us that part. If not, it will be Spellscar time, but that doesn't come with skyshards and group event skill points.

We probably won't be able to make our own sets, as research can't be sped up, and craft levels are a bit short, but I'm hopeful we'll have the materials ahead of the meeting, so making them can be done ahead, too.

Ghastley, so glad it seems like you have ESO up and running.

Buffy and I should be at the NA meeting on Tuesday Sep 3.

Well, there will be any number of people on NA more qualified than me to help with Fiorello, but what type of build/type of sets are you contemplating running for Petal on EU?

Petal (now at CP127) is my usual Orc axe-murderer, 2H/bow. I expect she'll start off using Order's Wrath and Spriggan's Thorns, as the Bow for Spriggan's is a guaranteed drop, and the dolmens aren't too hard to reach for the jewels. The Spriggan's Wolf-Jaw battleaxe is fairly easy to get, too.

Likewise Fiorello will grab the Mother's Sorrow lightning staff, and run the dolmens for the jewelry. Is Julianos still the best pick for crafted, or did one of the Gold Road crafted sets replace it?

Without ESO+, DLC dungeon sets are out of reach, so a crafted set and an overland set is the target. The crafted one should let them gather their own overland.

Order's Wrath is still the strongest craftable set (at least for damage). Best bet might be to get a 2 piece base game monster set (ie Stormfist from Tempest Island), with Order's and Mother's Sorrow. Or there's the 12 piece craftable set Shattered Fate, which is just a boost for all important stats, but no proc:

Shattered Fate:
5 items: Adds 184-7918 Offensive Penetration
10 items: Adds 15-687 Weapon and Spell Damage
12 items: Adds 35-1528 Critical Chance