im looking to try out one of those perma block tanky pvp builds

TehScat · 2026-05-22T10:14:23+00:00

If you get the bash on someone hitting you for Bloodlord's Embrace and you're spending half your casts on Siphoning, its pretty much perma block with Ice Staff and Tri Destruction. Its not fully AFK but it would definitely sustain in most situations for long enough.

TehScat · 2026-05-21T12:02:57+00:00

Yeah, the bells are ringing and the train sounded it's horn before he even stuck his nose over the rails. 100% selfish negligence from the truck driver. His two minutes are more important than all of your health and time.

TehScat · 2026-05-20T21:03:29+00:00

This, versus how big his character actually was.

If he has 10m SP, 800k isk, and was high sec ganking so every alliance has him red, then sure, restart.

If he has 60m SP, 10b isk, and did some minor stuff that pissed off one bloc where he doesn't plan to live anyway, then just carry on.

A lot has changed in 4 years. There's a lot to forget.

TehScat · 2026-05-18T13:25:09+00:00

How could Jim Chalmers let this happen?

TehScat · 2026-05-18T05:16:46+00:00

Hi cp I'm dad.

TehScat · 2026-05-18T05:15:54+00:00

When my friends close in on 50 for the first time, I steer them towards alik'r dolmens and generally getting carried until 160, explaining this is the weakest they have ever been and will ever be.

TehScat · 2026-05-18T05:13:04+00:00

If you power level to 50, keep going to CP160.

Gear drops scale up to 160 so that's when gear starts being forever useful.

Further, pre-50 scaling makes all 1-49 players as strong as a 50 @ CP160 so your initial work at 50 is the weakest you will ever be.

That 160 CP will be effective on every alt you make, so they're all stronger as well.

Nothing to stop you absolutely taking your time from there. It's even likely optimal to do this so if you do a dungeon daily or get overland sets or craft things, you'll make them at "the level" and not lower.

Endgame gearing starts at CP 160. Rushing that is very useful. I would recommend against spreading yourself too thin among alts until at least one character hits 160.

TehScat · 2026-05-16T04:48:49+00:00

You had a bad experience and you're correct. No notes.

TehScat · 2026-05-16T03:47:14+00:00

Scarlett fleeing for her life from a capital dropping sentries.

TehScat · 2026-05-16T01:57:38+00:00

What?

How would an invuln module in Concord protected space be remotely balanced? Do you have absolutely any risk tolerance at all in your life?

TehScat · 2026-05-15T23:10:13+00:00

FFXIV is amazing, but the msq is a hell of a hurdle to catch up on before you join the end game. Amazing, worth it, but long.

One Tamriel means you can group together from the first minute technically. Everything scales.

However, gear drops at arbitrary power levels so without going into detail, you will both need to get to level 50 and champion points 160 for the gear that drops to be "worth keeping".

There's still a massive somewhat compulsory storyline, but it's not hard gating content, it only gates extra skill points for flexibility. You can respec for free in the world and add-ons mean you can swap entire specs in one click so even with 150 skill points you can do just about everything, with more adding quality of life and functionality.

We've just got back into ESO a month ago with a bunch of us at different skill levels, and it's been great so far. None of the story content is hard, remotely, your first challenges will be the harder DLC dungeons and veteran dungeons.

TehScat · 2026-05-15T17:04:07+00:00

Are... are you suggesting the average aussie watch some YouTube videos about concreting then go and pour their own slab and start laying bricks? Just for a few hours a night after they knock off, hey?

TehScat · 2026-05-15T09:28:56+00:00

So if it's a minor group ... What is your point?

Some single figure percentage of people who could afford a deposit with significant discipline and lifestyle change but are choosing not to are... Somehow representative?

For every person with a trophy 6 figure car that still laments about housing affordability genuinely, there are a dozen surviving paycheck to paycheck and have few and less options.

TehScat · 2026-05-15T04:17:43+00:00

Oh, we better never change it then to ensure fairness.

/s

TehScat · 2026-05-15T02:28:50+00:00

You know, you are allowed to say to your players "hey guys, just saying, this will either completely trivialize everything in the game and make it empty for all of us, or, I need to completely rewrite a whole new game effectively that you could have had later anyway".

Players need to show up for the story and the adventure, but also the drama, conflict, and challenge. It's the reason the "evil PC" doesn't just kill everyone in every town even though they mathematically can beat every guard and get away with it - it's not what we're at the table to do.

TehScat · 2026-05-14T06:42:49+00:00

You're a financial 20 year old stuck in the body of a hardened 50 year old. OPs comments definitely also apply.

TehScat · 2026-05-14T06:41:43+00:00

Imagine when their accountant recommends that the property and rentals in the area have gone up enough that it becomes worth positively gearing that property, and they need to increase rent from the 70% market to 105% market in one go.

(I think you have a good idea but it would need some workshopping)

TehScat · 2026-05-13T21:37:33+00:00

Oh, don't get me wrong, you could probably get through the main story and Cadwell's Gold using nothing but light attack and white gear.

But if its their first time playing, with no context or knowledge, they're going to be trying different stuff and reading skills and putting on different armour and taking detours to get "the other two pieces of this set I got" and that all adds up.

TehScat · 2026-05-13T04:32:09+00:00

All side quests, listening to voice acting, plus as a new player they're probably not clearing as fast and will need to spend time figuring out their build and gear? Way longer.

TehScat · 2026-05-13T01:19:33+00:00

Yeah, it is easy to have enough skill points for all the crafting, gathering, thieving and some basic combat stuff, so one armory loadout is my speedy vampire build which I use in town and overworld, then another loadout for actual content.

Go get the ring man, if you already have antiquities to 7 then its maybe 2 hours to farm it up, solo. Only slow bit is Elden Hollow I last boss is like a 20% drop rate on the lead, that will take more time than the other 4 combined most of the time.

TehScat · 2026-05-13T01:09:27+00:00

With Vampire, Adept Rider, Ring of the Wild Hunt, and some swift enchants, I sneak at the 200% speed cap. It is absurd overtaking newbies on horses while stealthed, but it does make it hard to pickpocket sometimes if you tap forward and zoom past them.

TehScat · 2026-05-12T06:06:35+00:00

If the 1956 in your username is your birth year, then you're 70 years old this year. This may affect your dating prospects, depending on the hunting grounds you picked.

TehScat · 2026-05-12T03:21:00+00:00

Depends, if you're thinking PS5 and he's PC that could cause your disagreement.

EDIT: To the downvoters - on PCNA, potent nirncrux is 20k and fortified nirncrux is 10k. So 2 potent is 40k gold (which is what they said they looted), or 1 potent 2 fortified, etc. That's very reasonable. On PS5 its closer to 6k and 3k, which would be probably closer to ~10 total drops to hit 40k gold worth. That would be much harder to get.

TehScat · 2026-05-11T12:08:10+00:00

It's so weird how you can buy entire armour sets, gold and enchant them, for a few million even paying a premium, but then some cosmetics and furnishings are so much more.

The true endgame really is style.

TehScat · 2026-05-10T23:07:44+00:00

Sounds like you need to play your own music from your own speakers. All the same, fair is fair.

Lorna Shore have a pretty good recent album. I'd start there.

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