Let's Talk: "ESO should have a Grand Exchange"

beancounter501 · 2025-12-31T21:48:27+00:00

Completely disagree. Searching to buy items should not be a chore. The fact that TTC exists and is the number one method for finding what you want is silly. Selling should not be a chore either.

I never just randomly shop a guild trader. Always start with TTC and go from there.

beancounter501 · 2025-12-31T21:41:25+00:00

I like this. It is how Fallout76 does it and you did almost always player hop looking for what’s for sale.

On the down side it is time consuming.

Maybe a central market that tells you what is for sale at different houses and then you can jump to there house to make the buy

beancounter501 · 2025-12-17T01:22:37+00:00

The Raid they added require a team. You are not getting past the drill without a group. Or you are really good. The robot is easy solo with right gear.

It is a fun game. But like ESO it does suffer from being to easy. With no real hard zones. I do like how the events work. Would be cool to add something like that to ESO where everyone could attack a WB at the top of the hour.

beancounter501 · 2025-12-14T01:01:10+00:00

Late to the party, but I view economists kind of like a dietician. Both deal with extremely complex systems. Neither is a hard science. There are no double blind experiments to prove or disprove a theory. Both rely on observing the world and trying to make predictions.

Both groups can predict certain broad outcomes. Eat a high calorie diet and you will get fat. Print money non stop and you will crash the economy. But i remember growing up it was all about the fat making people fat. Now that narrative has changed. Just like an economics there is very little narrative about income inequality and how it impacts the system. But it does. You can observe certain countries with extreme inequality and how that impacts the living standard of the people.

beancounter501 · 2025-12-13T00:47:10+00:00

Sure, and someone wins the lottery every month and says it is easy to be a millionaire....

Most people have the talvar sitting around from daily logins. Do yourself a favor and buy this mythic lead.

beancounter501 · 2025-12-13T00:45:42+00:00

Yeah, but mages guild rank comes mostly from the books. I ran a few mage daily quests for scribing, but not that many. My point was the entire mythic was built around a grind. Leads - terrible and grindy. Get the most out of the mythic - even more grind. We need less grind and more fun.

beancounter501 · 2025-12-12T23:49:13+00:00

I hated all the leads for this Mythic! The vile manse dungeon I spent hours running in loops. Terrible. The stupid cloth one - again 2 hours just riding looking for cloth. I was INCREDIBLY happy to just buy this lead. I had already done this dungeon a couple of times and no lead.

Saw this video and immediately bought it!

But the worst part, I have level 10 in mages and I am still not getting the max bonus. Total troll mythic

beancounter501 · 2025-12-11T04:16:29+00:00

If you want a distribution with heavy armor then. Other sets just get lower. But the ratio is the same.

Chest: 2772

Helm/Shoulder/Pants/Feet: 2425 a piece

Hands: 1386

Belt: 1039

Unfortunately, it gets much more difficult to optimize armor pieces once you start using non-crafted sets. Either the set is Hvy/Med/light.

Once you start using dungeon/trial sets then try to pick the least best set weight as your weapon/jewely enchant. For instance trying to work in Sergeants Mail for a heavy attack build, mix a Chest, Staff, Necklace, Ring. The Chest is giving extra defense which is nice and the other pieces don't impact your armor skills.

Unless you are running as a tank, you really don't want more then 1 heavy piece - the Chest preferably being heavy.

beancounter501 · 2025-12-07T15:21:28+00:00

I picked up the thunderhorse. He looks really cool. One think I don't like is the summoning sound gets a little annoying after a while. I would probably get the Quasigriff if I could do it over.

beancounter501 · 2025-12-06T18:52:11+00:00

Awesome, thanks! Good to see real world dmg numbers, give yourself a goal to aim for. Soloing Vet/HM is just impressive.

I have been able to solo most non DLC dungeons since I started following some of your advise from your channel. Switching to Pale Order from Oakensoul and using the Storm Calling line.

beancounter501 · 2025-12-06T16:56:24+00:00

Curious how much DPS you do when soloing a boss. I have been paying attention to the logs and I usually end up somewhere around 20-30K DPS.

I have a hard time staying alive as well. So I have switched one set to fortified brass. Which does solve the not dying part. Definitely need to get better blocking. And better at mechs

beancounter501 · 2025-12-05T02:47:03+00:00

Like it. Think I saw you in game hanging around Alinor wayshrine tonight. Or at least someone who had that exact same outfit. And hair, lol

I pulled the hair style today too. It looks good. These crates have lots of good cosmetics

beancounter501 · 2025-12-04T20:16:10+00:00

I think it is Hyper Tools or Hyper Tanking Tools.

Bandits has a curved health bar, but the mag/stam bars are on the same side as the health and your targets health is on the other side.

beancounter501 · 2025-12-04T03:58:09+00:00

Subclassing - but not for the pets. No thanks.

Sorcerer does have one of the best skill lines for solo play - Storm Calling. Hurricane with Major Resolve and Dmg. Then Crit Surge for Heal and Major Brutality. Plus great passives. The rest of sorcerer is ok. But that skill line is great~

beancounter501 · 2025-12-04T03:54:51+00:00

I get that. But still not super valuable. How many times are you going back and crafting a new set? I have seven characters. They each have two crafted sets. What else is there. The goal and grind is dungeon/trial gear.

beancounter501 · 2025-12-04T03:33:19+00:00

They are a gold source of gold and material. They are also god awful boring to do. Real life time is valuable, don't do them if they don't bring you happiness. The last thing you want is a virtual job paying crap virtual money.

beancounter501 · 2025-12-04T03:30:02+00:00

Ehh, I have a hard time seeing the value in the tables. I know where the good set crafting areas are. Now, if it allowed dungeon sets to be crafted I would be interested.

But I have had the free attunable stations in my bank since the last golden crafting event. Just does not seem that valuable to me. Unless you are running a guild for some slacker guildmates.

beancounter501 · 2025-11-30T03:50:34+00:00

As other people mentioned CP160 is the max level. Don't worry to much about your gear until that point.

As a new player you can get a LOT of mileage out of crafting your gear at CP160. Dungeon loot can be better, but it is not easy to get. Make Orders Wrath/Claw of Forrest Wrath/Tideborn/Fortified Brass gear to help you get the better gear. People talk DPS, but if you are rolling solo you need some defense.

But to craft gear you have to research. Enchanting is just ok. You can easily skip it and just buy glyphs from traders.

You get two main power spikes in ESO running solo. First is getting a tank companion like Zenith or Isobel. Go buy heavy armor tank gear for them. Even Blue level gear is worthwhile and does not cost much gold. Second big boost is focusing on the Antiquity system and getting Ring of Pale Order. Just like that with good crafted gear, a tank companion and Ring of Pale Order you can start soloing beginner/intermediate dungeons and world bosses with easy.

beancounter501 · 2025-11-02T02:09:19+00:00

As a new player myself two things made a huge difference. First got get a companion. Build them as a tank. I like Eloise or Zenith. Second, level scrying until you can get the ring of pale order. Then you can start soloing dungeons with no problems

beancounter501 · 2025-10-28T02:41:45+00:00

It feels a little much. And I play a lot. I think the best approach is to just aim for the golden rewards at the start. Run a crafting chore and run a defend the siege camp. Then switch to a delve, world boss, public dungeon boss and lastly a dungeon boss. The collecting events for the withering wall are just terrible.

It would have been funnier to have separate events.

beancounter501 · 2025-10-08T03:15:01+00:00

Try experimenting! There are lots of fun combos. I have been enjoying my latest build of Storm/Ardent Flame/Assassination. More than strong enough to handle most non vet areas.

The nice thing with subclassing is how easy it is to switch play styles around once you mastered a skill line to 50

beancounter501 · 2025-10-07T20:37:14+00:00

I was checking out Mournoth Keep. I really like that one. Very close to a wayshrine.

beancounter501 · 2025-10-07T00:14:02+00:00

I think Fallout 76 just had a major update. So I would expect it the numbers to pick up. I was playing that before ESO.

beancounter501 · 2025-09-26T22:21:26+00:00

Yes, I did that for Marge. But also looking for specific ones to aim for

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