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I'm sure your handles are somewhere in this thread, but I can't find them. Who do I send a request to?

Mine's @Mazra

Sumbishes done took my in-game name, naturally, but they can't take my username!

Patch 1.2.3 is here, and it's a giant *** patch.

Downloaded something like 4 gigs, installed 18 gigs, and then downloaded another 3 or 4 gigs.

Hell, it's about time. My Orc looks ridiculous in a dress.

Finally got to VR1 and tried Cyrodiil. I can see where it has the potential to be super fun, but gigantic spiky nauseating lag is a huge problem. I get the same thing occasionally in cities but it's more frequent and worse here. Since PVP is probably the only endgame activity that will interest me, I'm not sure how much future I'll have in the game if I'm going to keep running into this - hit a button, wait a couple seconds while screen is frozen and jerky, then find I'm dead (before the button I hit actually does anything). It's a shame because I really like the design of it all and if it ran smoothly for me I think it would be awesome.

It does seem to get worse the longer I'm on for, so maybe if I quit and restarted every 15 minutes it would be better. Doesn't seem like a sustainable plan when other games run fine...

Hopefully it magically improves!

Thanks! Haven't really had the urge to start over but I could really use a barber shop.

The MMO thing definitely comes and goes in waves. It seems to cycle with the seasons for me - for some odd reason I always miss WoW in the fall, especially Halloween, and we end up playing again for a while. Speaking of WoW, I'm trying to pull my husband back into ESO by advertising Cyrodiil as a gigantic Wintergrasp that's active all the time. Which is pretty true, except there's also a healthy dose of Arathi Basin mixed in, and he'd run screaming if I said that. The Cyrodiil lag seems to be a common problem which I actually find encouraging - if it's at least partly on their end rather than mine, I have some hope of it getting fixed.

I started getting bored with ESO but I think my interest is on the rise again. It helps that you can play a different way every day (or every five minutes) if you want to. I put all my attribute points into health so I could just tweak magicka/stamina with gear rather than respecs. My goal is to get enough skill points to have both light and medium armor and as many weapons as possible - at least the 2 staffs, and maybe a bow as well. That way I can carry around a set of light armor enchanted with magic and a set of medium enchanted with stamina, both kinds of food, and just switch from rogue to fire mage to healer to archer on the fly without every having to respec.

You mean to tell me you haven't hit the hard cap on deletes?

Wait, ESO gives you a limit on the amount of times you can delete characters?

Edit: Ok, looks like 3 characters per day? I guess that's not bad. Kinda awkward, but it is apparently made to fight gold-selling bots. So ok, whatever.

Edited, Jun 27th 2014 4:59pm by IDrownFish

So now I'm just talking to myself in the ESO thread...

I'm leveling again. I like my wood elf, so I decided to keep her. My other NB is VR1 so I'll keep her too - she can do all my crafting since she has all the basic racial motifs already. And boy, am I saving a lot of time on NB #2 by not having to worry about crafting as I level. With all my crafting on one character and none on the other, the bosmer will have enough points for investment in all 3 class lines, 4 weapons, 2 armor types, and various other guild, etc. abilities. That should fulfill my dream of being able to choose from a wide variety of play styles just by switching up toolbars and (when necessary) gear, no respec required.

All of this is necessary because I feel like I need to have my main set up just so, now that I'm thinking I might stick around ESO for longer than the 3 months I subbed for. Or I might not, we'll see, but the combination of Cyrodiil being fun and the WoW expansion backing off on some of the initial promises that I was excited about make it a strong possibility.

The only question really is whether in ten more levels or so I'll decide I just can't take doing all these quests again and delete her.

Listen, sonny, don't you patronize me. In my day, if we wanted heavy armor, we had to forge it in the fires of Mount Doom, which we had to walk to, uphill, through the snow. WITH NO SHOES.

But if you must know, I would never wear heavy armor. When my characters drive daggers between people's shoulder blades, they are ladylike about it. And I hate all the sandals in this game. Who is going adventuring through a wilderness rife with big bugs in sandals, I ask you? If I could get a nice pair of Victorian boots and a lovely high-collared riding habit to match, I'd be in heaven. (High heels are not impractical, as they can be used for stabbing.)

Anyhow I specced it out and without crafting I can get everything I want in less than 175 skill points so neener neener.

I have this same complaint! And even though I'm kind of a big deal in Sporeggar, I have no desire to relive my Zangarmarsh days.

But if you guys are all playing Daggerfall, watch out for Ranser. Word on the street is he's a madman.

Edit: Someone post another post or two. I hate ending on 13 pages. I like 14.

Edited, Jul 1st 2014 8:02am by teacake

I think sporelings is descriptive enough, since afaik there's noplace else they live, so there are no other sporelings the sporelings of Sporeggar could be confused with.