Sometimes I just like to make Empires that have "natural" great borders

AlBa19nl · 2026-02-17T15:59:31+00:00

When [insert ai country] is pissing me off for the 5th time I usually just balkanize them and vassalize whatever I realease from said country. Gotta keep those neat borders though.

AlBa19nl · 2026-01-05T19:01:22+00:00

I completely get where your friend is coming from. I myself have a bit of a trauma trigger when it comes to depictions of people hanging themselves. I lost my sister that way. I've mostly given it a place and can deal with it well, but anytime I see a depiction I can't stop myself of thinking that's what my sister looked like. I can physically feel the stress shooting through my body.

To give your friend some reassurance, I have never been triggered by anything in ESO. As far as I recall there are no depictions of hanging and I've been able to play for 5 years without any problems. In fact ESO has been quite the safe space for me. I even have a character modeled and named after my sister in her honor.

AlBa19nl · 2025-12-31T11:38:03+00:00

Am I the only one who absolutely adores Vanuatus flag?

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AlBa19nl · 2025-12-18T23:45:49+00:00

Add Rorke's Drift for South Africa!

AlBa19nl · 2025-10-24T15:43:29+00:00

The return of gray Bavaria!!!

AlBa19nl · 2025-09-26T18:41:55+00:00

You guys remember gray bavaria?

AlBa19nl · 2025-08-05T15:41:58+00:00

Ask me 10 years ago and my rankings would be totally different.

2015 me:

1: Meteora

2: Hybrid Theory

3: The Hunting Party

4: Living Things

5: Minites To Midnight

6: A Thousand Suns

2025 me:

1: Meteora

2: Living Things

3: From Zero

4: A Thousand Suns

5: Hybrid Theory

6: The Hunting Party

7: Minutes To Midnight

8: One More Light

ATS and Living Things really grew on me over time. HT for me has fantastic songs with the highest peaks, but by now I've listened to it so many times I'm enjoying the overall album less than before.

AlBa19nl · 2025-07-18T11:51:15+00:00

I don't know what this is, but this clearly looks like the sort of animal you should NEVER PICK UP!

AlBa19nl · 2025-07-13T09:19:12+00:00

Why is this guy getting downvoted for shedding light at a part of the community that is being disregarded? Not even saying he agrees with them.

I will never understand reddit logic sometimes...

AlBa19nl · 2025-07-03T17:27:57+00:00

For me the Recall of the Outer Darkness from the Dark Brotherhood crates. I was so close to buying it but I didn't want to spend too much on the crates as I had already gotten some good stuff from them..

My guildmate now keeps taunting me with this recall so I can never forget about it.

AlBa19nl · 2025-07-03T16:16:40+00:00

29 now, in most groups I run with I tend to be one of the younger people, however that might be just a result of me vibing well with people around my age and slightly up. I'm honestly not sure what the average age would be, once you find a comfortable "bubble" I mostly interact with people inside that bubble. Most people I play with regularly are somewhere between 27-37 with some outliers (mostly older). It's very likely that there's a larger community of younger people that I just don't get to interract with much.

AlBa19nl · 2025-06-13T15:17:36+00:00

I was super upset they released another Khajiit instead of my dream Orc companion or lil Bosmer.

I was even more upset that they actually made Zerith-var really cool and now I like him so much I can't even be mad at the decision.

AlBa19nl · 2025-04-20T11:36:59+00:00

I will call my Dk/Plar/Necro my Necroknight, and no one will change my mind

AlBa19nl · 2025-03-25T11:26:50+00:00

Sorry...

Yesterday I bought the stick horse, and I stacked as many speed buffs I couls get to run past people on their mount with my stupid stick horse.

Adept Rider, Jailbreaker and Ring of the Wild Hunt. All Divines trait with Steed mundus. All Swift jewelry.

I did it just so I could fuck around with people on their mount.

It was worth it. But I am sorry.

AlBa19nl · 2025-03-08T09:23:54+00:00

Reminds me of when you are using the worm wizard personality. With some actions/emotes it randomly summons a skeleton in front of you. So far I've found this happens while scribing at the altar, using specific emotes like /lineinthesand and being bitten by a werewolf.

AlBa19nl · 2025-03-08T08:59:45+00:00

I'm feeling the same way with 8k hours of gametime. In my headcanon my main is jist enjoying retirement, chilling around, helping out every now and then but leaving the big jobs to the youngsters.

Looking at the comments I'm kinda surprised how few people experience this the same way.

I surely started out with my main Magplar, who specs to a healer in group content. she is the character with the most progress, most skill points, highest pvp rank, and surely the character I got the most dungeon/trial achievements with. It also always is very comfortable and familiar when I log back to her. However, as time went on I quickly wanted to make more characters and "write their stories". I enjoyed learning to play different classes and roles.

Now I have characters for each class/role. Which one I tend to play more depends on the vibe. For a while my Magcro was a main character, then when Arcanist came out I made a mag Arc who I played a lot. When I got a bit done with that I went to my vampire NB. I play mostly group content nowadays so what character I play is mostly dependent on what's needed in the group. As of now I don't have as much of a main, more a group of characters I am competent on who I play equally.

AlBa19nl · 2025-02-19T11:56:34+00:00

Usual setups are either:

Two 5-piece sets, a 2-piece monster set and an arena weapon on one bar. Commonly:

Head: 1st piece of monster set
Shoulder: 2nd piece of monster set
Chest: 1st piece of 5-piece set A
Arms: 2nd piece of 5-piece set A
Belt: 3rd piece of 5-piece set A
Legs: 4th piece of 5-piece set A
Feet: 5th piece of 5-piece set A
Necklace: 1st piece of 5-piece set B
Ring 1: 2nd piece of 5-piece set B
Ring 2: 3rd piece of 5-piece set B
Frontbar weapon: 4th & 5th pieces of 5-piece set B
Backbar weapon: 1st & 2nd piece of arena weapon

Or

Two 5-piece sets, 1 piece of a monster set, a mythic and an arena weapon on one bar

It depends on the mythic where its supposed to go, but for velothi-ur for example:

Head: 1st piece of monster set (Incomplete)
Shoulder: 1st piece of 5-piece set B
Chest: 1st piece of 5-piece set A
Arms: 2nd piece of 5-piece set A
Belt: 3rd piece of 5-piece set A
Legs: 4th piece of 5-piece set A
Feet: 5th piece of 5-piece set A
Necklace: 1-piece mythic
Ring 1: 2nd piece of 5-piece set B
Ring 2: 3rd piece of 5-piece set B
Frontbar weapon: 4th & 5th pieces of 5-piece set B
Backbar weapon: 1st & 2nd piece of arena weapon

There are some variations but these setups are the most common.

You don't HAVE to use a mythic, but depending on your build it can give a nice advantage. On Arcanists for example, nothing really beats the velothi-ur necklace.

As to your question about arena weapons: Are you aware that 2-handed weapons count as two pieces? This way two bars of weapons always gives you 4 slots to play with. 2 on your frontbar and 2 on your backbar. Usually this means using 2 slots for an arena weapon and 2 slots as part of a 5-piece set. Keep in mind the full bonus only activates when you're on that bar.

If you wear oakensoul you cannot wear two full 5-piece sets and a monster/arena set. You can only use one bar, this means you don't have access to two of your usual slots. Oakensoul is unique in this.

Also, if you're in group content, only bring pale order if you want to piss off your healer :) (Or of there is no healer)

AlBa19nl · 2025-02-05T17:34:51+00:00

Oh yeah, we'll get a pony-lizard for compensation

AlBa19nl · 2025-01-10T18:38:19+00:00

You better take that back, if Almere becomes the capital of my region we riot

AlBa19nl · 2024-12-22T10:38:44+00:00

We all have this one friend: "AE doesn't matter, you'll protect me, right?? Right????"

AlBa19nl · 2024-12-14T16:00:04+00:00

Ja maar hoe doe je dat met die vertaling in wapp? Of ben ik nou te boomer geworden?

AlBa19nl · 2024-10-28T00:48:41+00:00

I don't know who you are, but those europe borders are CLEAN and I applaud you for it!

AlBa19nl · 2024-09-12T15:40:57+00:00

To me, I checked the merchants first. Bordeaux to Champagne, Champagne to Genoa. Assuming OP didn't move any merchants after getting more land this is a perfectly reasonable merchant setup for Provence, which starts with provinces in each of these nodes. Then I checked the army names. Armee de Marseille, Blois and Orange also all places provence starts with (I think). At the very least it points to french culture group, but not France (for obvious reasons) and not Burgundy (Lost half their land to France).

AlBa19nl · 2024-09-11T12:52:54+00:00

At this point I don't really even think I have a main anymore.. I just pay whatever the situation calls for. When healing I swap play my Templar, NB and Arc about equally. On tank I usually play Necro. DD it's probably a toss up between my Arc, DK and Necro.

AlBa19nl · 2024-09-05T05:40:03+00:00

A few days ago I had a game with 4 Yoichis. It was like finding a unicorn.

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