The Elder Scrolls Online
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Woefully Inept
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Did I read right that Guilds can be cross faction but you can not group cross faction? What is the point of cross faction guilds?
Skrigg
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Trading guilds being cross faction helps keep the population of the guild healthy, not sure otherwise.
Question: Does having multiple skills from a specific class/skill line on your bar help that line level up faster? Id rather not spend points on skills i dont want just to put them on my bar to level.
Flipmode
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I'm fairly certain it only takes one skill to level the entire line but I think individual abilities gain rank quicker through being slotted.
Find a class you like. Look through the class abilities. If you want to go Templar look for a race that has good magika regen and/or magika reduction which is mostly Breton, High Elf, or Dark Elf. Templar's work, but so do Nightblades and DKs.
Ultimate races won't matter to much unless you are the type of person who likes to min/max that last 10-5%. For example, I'm a Vampire so I chose to go with a Dark Elf for the innate fire resist (Vamps tkae 50% more fire damage) so I don't have to gear for it. Essentially all the races have stats that represent an average piece of jewelry. Your racial tends to help you choose different enchants/glyphs/gear.
Answer: Yes. The more skills from a line you have on your active hotbar, the faster that skill line levels overall. You can only level individual skills if they are on your hotbar. It's also a non-linear relationship that is based on your current level. For example, when I was level 20 my Destro staff was level 28. It took forever to level. When I was 25, my level 15 resto staff leveled really fast until it equalized with my current level.
Also, you can level weapon passives/skills even if you are not wielding that weapon. They just have to be on your hotbar.
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I'll chime in and reinforce the importance of opportunity value in racial passives, currently the weakest two being Bosmer and Argonian. As they do not provide any gear alternatives like the other races do.
The strongest arguably being: Breton (Magicka + Defense) Dunmer (Magicka + Fire Resist *Which correlates to about 6% more damage in itemized jewelery for those prioritizing fire resists*) and Khajiit (6% crit chance is a big deal, and acts as free weapon traits)
When you do anything that grants experience points, those points are roughly divided by 6 (for the number of skills on your action bar) and applied to both the individual skill as well as the skill line. The weapon you have equipped also gets some points. Lastly some points go to your Armor skill level and those are further divided up if you are wearing different armor types.
If you have multiple skills from the same skill line equipped, then that skill line will gain ranks at a faster rate. I started off focusing on dual wield and often had 2-3 dual wield skills on my action bar. Since DW accumulated points a 2x-3x the rate of other skill lines, it is by far my highest ranked skill line.
Conversely, I don't have any skills from Daedric Summoning line on the action bar that has all the DW skills. Since the DW action bar is active most of the time when mobs die, my Daedric Summoning skill line is the lowest ranked of all my class skill lines.
Here is the best suggestion I can give you. Before you turn in a quest, reconfigure your action bar to have at least one ability from each of your class skill lines and whatever weapon skill line you use. You can add guild abilities there as well. If you have skills that aren't eligible to be morphed yet, slot those instead of skills that you have already morphed. Doing this will ensure that your skill lines will all increase at about the same rate. If you have a skill line lagging behind, you can add more abilities from that skill line to help it catch back up.
FWIW throughout the closed beta healers made the same exact complaint. They were veteran healers in other MMOs and did not like the smart healing design compared to being able to target a specific player and cast a direct heal.
Standard response from the hardcore fanboys on the forums was that it was all by design and intended to be different than other MMOs.
With that out of the way, I started using a Resto staff on my melee sorceror when I got the second action bar at level 15. I wanted the flexibility of being able to heal to increase my chances of getting into private dungeon groups. Let me also point out I have refused to play a healer in MMOs since vanilla WoW because I hate raid healing.
I had gotten a few ranks in the first two Resto staff skills when I ran Banished Cells with Tuco and two other PRX members. I can now fully understand why TESO designed healing in the way that they did. On every boss encounter, there was so much stuff going on forcing me to pay attention to the red poo on the ground that IMO there was no way I could pay attention to health bars to cast direct heals. For someone like me who generally hates healing in MMO, this smart healing design is something that I actually can get into.
Abefroman
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Healers have been getting out of red shit on the floor while healing for a very long time. Are you saying you find it fun because it's way easier or do you consider Eso's mechanics harder?
Well there is more to it than just getting out of the red shit. In WoW all I had to do was get out of the red shit, follow whatever orders DBM was putting out and cast my raid heals. I didn't have to worry about adds beating on me thanks to the tanks having strong AOE taunts and DPSers having strong AOE damage.
In TESO in addition to having to get out of the red shit, I also have to block, interrupt and dodge. Since tanks don't have AOE taunts, I also have to kill the mobs attacking me.
Not saying it is harder or easier in TESO, just different than previous MMOs. I can also say after being the primary healer in 4-5 private dungeon runs so far, it's very rewarding at the end to finally complete it. If you run them with appropriate level characters, they are very challenging, especially when you are having to learn how the healing system works.
Abefroman
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The dungeons are pretty fun with some of the boss mechanics. Do they have any hand crafted dungeons later on or are they all kind of template dungeons?
Oh and what is with the trash pulls? Are you supposed to get every single fucking mob in a room or was that a bug or L2P?
Oh and what is with the trash pulls? Are you supposed to get every single fucking mob in a room or was that a bug or L2P?
I consider all of the private group dungeons to be the hand-crafted variety. The torch dungeons are all templates for the most part.
Trash pulls are a L2P for the most part. The AI of the ranged mobs causes them to try get out of melee range. If your tank or melee DPS charge in, the mobs may back up and aggro another pack of trash. I've seen it happen a lot in Fungal Grotto. For those mobs, DK tanks can lasso pull them to the group otherwise ranged DPS need to take them out.
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