Mira just spent the last couple of hours looking for treasure in Reaper's March. It was infuriatingly hard to find but she finally found the dig spot the map showed and collected her spoils. Ahhh. Victory!

BWAAHAA! I've got an Add-on that puts a big red X on the game map where the treasure chest is, and still have trouble finding it - especially the ones in Coldharbour, lol.

mALX, this list is brilliant! Much more helpful than the printout of emotes I was using. Thank you!

Some of them are the same emote with different commands to trigger it - like kiss/blowkiss = the same thing. There are others too; I have a list somewhere of which ones so someone can decide which command is the easiest to type, lol.

That's awesome. If she walked through the fortress while he was there, she couldn't have missed seeing him! Next time she should hit him up for a drink and a dance.

Thank you for the list of emotes! That is so handy.

I may have turned my characters' lives into a sitcom. You're all wonderful, thanks. It might be expensive as hell, but I long for the day that Bank and Backpack space is expanded. So I can hoard more stuff.


Whoah, neat! Much better than the dinky list I have.

I didn't make that list, just found it on the internet. But it is the most comprehensive one I've found so far!


I think you should start your cartoons of your character in its own thread and make an ongoing series of it!!!!


*Cue puppy dog eyes*












I did see a naked blonde Nord in one of those towels, but if I'm not mistaken it was drinking in Davon's Watch.

Tempting, but I already have another TES-related disaster I'm involved in.

It may be just luck, but I think the World Bosses drop the Blue trophies more often than other mobs. Might have Eolan grind a few to get the trophies he doesn't have yet. Beats constantly killing atronachs in Reapers March, at least.

Buffy's New Life Festival objectives are complete! She's gotten her do-all-quests blue dye color, an embroidered hood from mALX, a towel costume from Jerric and a plain hood from a reward box.

She also, late yesterday, got a second towel costume that, given the kindness others at Chorrol have shown her would like to gift to anyone who needs one. So - one towel costume free to a good home! Just ask.

I've got like a billion mudball pouches if anyone needs one too, lol.

Khajiit may need one. He will try doing more until the 4th and if he doesn't get some by then he may hit you up for the towel.

Julian just hit Level 50 today . . .

Khajiit - sure thing.

Rider - Congrats to Julian!

Woot! Congrats!

Congratulations to Julian!

WOO HOO!!! Champion Julian!!!!

Champion Points incoming.
New Game+ ensues.

Can you only do so many New Life quests a day? Also are the gift boxes contents random?

Yes (only one cycle per day, I think it is 9 quests per cycle. And yes, the contents are random.

Mira found a runebox with a Colovian fur hood in it today. Now we just need a Towel and a filigreed fur hood. And the remaining Skinchanger gear.

Yep, we've got till the 4th to finish packing it in, lol.

I spent some splendid adventure time with the lovely Aninah today. That towel looks fantastic on an Altmeri lass. Aninah wandered to the nearly deserted Gold Coast where she watched in awe as a Dragonknight took on Limenauruus by himself. (Aninah was there too, but she somehow ignored that fact in her admiration of the Dragonknight.) I have to guess that the guy was a tank, because he was unkillable and made Limenauruus stand still for long periods of time while Aninah whittled away at him and took out the various helpers that he spawned. It was pretty neat. Aninah decided that he might be an Orsimer due to his awesomeness matching her thing for orcs. She skipped away afterward to finish her assignment completely discounting her efforts throughout the very long fight. Sigh. Anyway, tanks!

Neat story, Grits. Buffy similarly loves the idea of a big steel tank in front of her.

Buffy did experience a somewhat similar scene some time ago. She came across one of those skull&crossbones sites and there was a character soloing the world boss. She ran to help but as she got closer the primary thing she was looking for (the engaged character's health bar) was happily bouncing between 95-100% full. The character was a CP561 and seemed to be doing fine. Just taking a long time. Standing ready to heal or even toss dps if needed, she watched for a time to see if she could determine what class the character was. Before long, it became clear it was a templar. Eventually, Buffy did toss in some shards, curses and buffs but decided mostly keeping out of his way was perhaps best.

After the templar's 99% solo kill of the boss, Buffy was a little surprised and guilty that the corpse was lootable by her - apparently her support was sufficient to trigger whatever it takes. She has happily learned that the game clearly counts the support/heal/debuff/buff work of healers as counting toward getting credit for kills, not just damage (if any).

I think if you get one hit in it *may* give you credit. Feng shot an arrow to help a character battling a wasp for the Behtnik holiday quest and even though the other player did most of the damage it was still lootable by us.

DragonKnights have some kind of reflect damage pose that makes them totally unkillable, all they have to do is hold that pose and everything done to them reflects onto the sender. Don't know if it is magicka or stamina based or if it is a passive, I've heard about it via PvP complainers, lol.

@ Acadian - one of the people I play with that plays a Templar said that they went up against Molag Bal with just their healing bar spells and beat him!







Hits or healing, as long as you contribute to the battle in some way. Standing there swishing your sword and missing every enemy as they mill around you won't get you a thing though, as poor Mia found out at a Dolman, lol.

I'm pretty sure that there have been fights where Buffy's total contribution has been healing/buffing the damage dealers, yet she gets loads of lootable corpses after and the 'killing foes' XP counter is ticking away.

I do think I recall a thread on the Zen forums confirming that support contributions count. Like a tank who only blocks or healer who only heals. It is bit hard to test without being careful since several of the skills Buffy uses to curse/heal/buff/debuff/cc cause damage as well.

Re: Reflect damage
Mira has a helpful reflect damage ability called Defensive Posture (?) that will reflect spells and what not. Not sure if it reflects physical damage.

I'm pretty sure that is the name of it I'll try to find the conversation where they guy was griping about not being able to beat the other player and link it, lol.






I know for a fact in the Alliance War that healers also gain Alliance Points in the Cyrodiil war for healing there even if they do nothing else in battle. Healing is recommended as the best way to gain Alliance Points without actually getting into the combat - or just run around resurrecting players if you are like Misa and can't heal another player.

Oh, silly me. Just realized a much cleaner example of only healing getting credit. At Breda's FestQuest tent there are many players beating up the poor local bandits. Buffy will often 'support' by tossing healing only spells without any dps unless someone seems to be in real trouble. And we're routinely surprised that the baddies her 'patients' have killed are often yellow lootable corpses.

Back when Haa-Rei did some PvP he would get alliance points simply for being in the vicinity when his alliance captured/defended a fort or resource point. I'm not sure if this is still the case, but it meant that he could get rewarded even for minimal participation.

Someone else said that too, that you could go invisible and hide in the keep while it is being defended and gain Alliance Points - but like you, don't know if they changed that or not, (because I've only done Scouting so far).

I am with you, Grits, in enjoying having a tank with me.

In fact, the friend I often adventure with - Bear - often rolls tanks. Maz is awed by the fact that his toons take so much abuse without detectable shrinkage to their blue bars.

Speaking of Maz, she made Champion yesterday. Just one day behind Julian.

Too bad I was feeling too sick to truly rejoice. Yup, woke up sick yesterday.

Feng got us a Runebox with a filigreed hood last night! We also have an extra runebox mudball pouch if by the cruel joke of some Daedric Prince one of you haven't found one.

I've got a bunch of them extra too.

I saw some folks trying to sell them, but they seem rather common.

The hoods and towel, they are hats and costumes, right? Not pieces of gear?

Mira in her Towel and Filigreed Hood

Yay for Mira and her joining the towel and hood club!

Correct.







D'Aaawwww!!!

My experience in tanking with Eolan is one of long, drawn-out fights when you're alone. Then again, he's a Stamina Templar. Either way, the fact that even early on he was impervious to damage, especially magic, made him a lot more fun to play. Can't say he's able to take on DLC World Bosses on his own, though, but then I haven't exactly tried.

Having someone else tank for you, on the other hand, is marvelous when you're a glass cannon.

Took long enough, lol

Mira asked this one earlier if he thought the Towel made her look fat. He said, "Of course not!".

Right answer.

Wise Khajiit.

Today in Tamriel, I am free from the New Life Festival. I finally got one last Hissmir Fish-Eye Rye for safekeeping. As well as three (3) more Nordic Bathing Towels and other junk that make me burst into tears thinking about. (But now I wanna get one more for a friend who can't participate. I wonder if he got it already.)

But yes, the squad is back to searching for extra Yokudan motifs. I already got a full set but welp.

Khajiit still needs to try like hell to find several pieces of the skinchanger motif, but will be satisfied if he gets headgear.

I'd be interested in hearing more about your build, like when you say Stamina build do you mean every attribute point is in Stamina? How did you make him impervious to damage and magic damage? Was that via enchantments or part of his build?

Hautee, congrats to Campion Mazul!

Khajiit, Mira looks great in her festival outfit.

monkey, congrats on hanging up the Nordic festival towel. The extra stuff makes me feel a bit frantic. I wonder how big the pile will be before my crew is ready to be done. Fast leveling from the quests has them all hooked.


Today Elke of Green River had the privilege of meeting Buffy! Elke needed to get into Grahtwood without walking across the continent, and Buffy kindly brought her there. Elke felt quite bashful and more than a little like a big white war horse next to Buffy's petite elven beauty. The War Orphan's Sojourn was Elke's last New Life Festival quest. She may continue to party, but now that she has tried all of the cultural offerings she will stick to her favorites.

Yes, it was great fun to meet Elke today! Perhaps it will make her feel better to know that Buffy felt equally lacking in the presence of Elke's statuesque height and strong, curvy physique as Elke's Nordic towel showed off all that lovely creamy skin.

So glad we could help get Elke near her questination.

Skinchanger headgear!! At long last!

Honestly, I've been running the same thing for over a year now that may be behind current meta. That thing being something I threw together that works well enough in solo PvE and the occasional group PvE.

By Stamina I mean that all skill morphs are geared towards stamina when I can help it and stamina is the second most invested attribute behind health. I figured since he has a bonus to magicka due to being a Breton, he wouldn't need much investment in the attribute, and his magicka-based skills are limited to things like Breath of Life as an emergency heal or Rune Focus. But as I said, his weapon damage isn't all that great, which makes things like Veteran Maelstrom Arena impossible for him to finish.

I also found that his magicka resistance reaches the soft cap way before physical resistance because, again, Breton. Though his physical resistance falls a few thousand short of what is desirable for tanks, which I've been meaning to fix once I get enough Lion Fangs for the Armor Master set. Right now he's running a full Hist Bark and...Vampire's Kiss? The dodge can be a lifesaver when your stamina is hurting. He's also stuck to the Endurance Jewelry set and a Prismatic enchantment on his helmet and shield. I also don't have a very high Undaunted or Alliance War skill line. I DO have Inner Fire and recently unlocked the armor passive, but I don't have caltrops unlocked. Yes, that's right. I tanked without opening with an AoE. Kill me now.

I haven't done group PvE content in about a year now, though.

Nice to hear some of the details of your templar, Monkey. I was really jazzed by your mention of the Hist set since I've had my eye on it for some time as a 'big girl dropped set'. Buffy is a CP151 magplar healer and I've promised her a set of Histx5 when she gets 160. She only really fears two things:
1. Running out of blue. Despite being a Bosmer she's doing pretty well there.
2. Getting disabled/stunlocked. When she has died, this has usually been the problem. As long as she's casting she's doing damage and healing but if she gets knocked out of action, her little red bar evaporates frighteningly. Nice thing about a healer is that their primary defense is the same as her primary role/focus - healing faster than foes can kill her or allies but, again, all that shuts down if disabled. She's gotten good at blocking/dodging when needed, invested plenty of CP into shortening any disable duration and is really looking forward to the Histx5 set bonus since it cuts 20% off all disable durations and heals you every second you are disabled. Sounds way too good to pass up. She'll stick with Seducerx5 for her other set - simple with nice bonuses for her.

Does anyone here have an extra couple of Skinchanger boots they want to get rid of?