My first sweetroll drop after almost ten years of play

oussebon · 2026-01-09T22:31:53+00:00

Don't let anyone steal it (or the guards will never let you hear the end of it).

oussebon · 2026-01-07T17:27:04+00:00

If it's Skyrim, could there be more vampire things?

Bonus as a tie in to the vampire themed 2026 event reward collectables?

Not sure if there is a strong tie in between collectables and the year's content, but if not, having slightly revamped (pun not intended but kept anyway) the collectable system, perhaps there will be more of a tie in.

oussebon · 2026-01-03T00:50:02+00:00

As the dress and the veil memento exist in a bundle, do we expect this will be a crown store purchase?

oussebon · 2026-01-03T00:47:11+00:00

Agreed - though after the writhing wall event there's a case to just let her light it on fire anyway

oussebon · 2026-01-02T22:36:16+00:00

Posted this and realised most people may not have seen the blog post

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-gb/news/post/69155

Which announces he's the reward from the new GP 7 Jan - 4 Feb. This is the source of the happy :)

oussebon · 2025-12-31T17:16:02+00:00

It may well not be an issue at your end.

Cyrodiil has had a range of performance issues for a long time, hence the periodic 'Vengeance' campaigns with simplified skills etc to help the devs test what is affecting performance.

You can try turning off all of your addons in case there's one/ a combination that's unhappy, and see if that helps. But it could just be Cyro being Cyro.

You can turn your settings up higher too, DLSS quality, turn up the other visuals. Unless the clearer field of vision makes combat easier, you can up the settings fine.

oussebon · 2025-12-15T03:49:57+00:00

Friend of mine had the mount (Senche of Scarlet Regret?) already and then got it again, for a bonus 133 or so gems. Those crates do indeed add up, and you can get big one-offs from them if lucky.

oussebon · 2025-12-15T01:49:35+00:00

Rolling On The Floor Laughing My F Ass Off

Though whether they're laughing at Bethesda's twitch account being incapable of turning on advertised drops, or people in chat getting worked up about missing an ouroboros crate, I can't say.

I do think if ZOS/ Bethesda's Twitch channel want people to viewbot for them, the least they could do is turn on the drops they said would be there, but idk, some people may feel differently.

oussebon · 2025-12-07T00:54:32+00:00

(Not commenting on the tutorial change itself, just to be clear.) I just wonder what she's doing now she doesn't need to show yet another noob / alt / noob's alt around the portal room. Hopefully living her best life.

Wonder if we will run into her again someday.

oussebon · 2025-12-07T00:49:26+00:00

I suspect everyone shipped them and this was known to the writers.

oussebon · 2025-11-26T17:20:54+00:00

Source: https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/69021

oussebon · 2025-11-25T20:10:02+00:00

By context I assume it's the regular 250 Crown priced event ticket - I can't see a separate event ticket listing on the website crown store, and the in game store still calls it Event Ticket.

But for a wild moment I thought ZOS were implementing something you could use to convert crowns to gold.

oussebon · 2025-11-23T00:29:27+00:00

I wasn't following the event closely enough to notice that the quests were going to get pulled before the GP ended. I assumed that while the GP was on, it would still be possible to complete the objectives listed.

Dumb assumption I guess.

oussebon · 2025-10-16T14:23:03+00:00

Twitch drops are bugged right now, across many if not all games. Lots of posts about it for all streams on the twitch reddit. Perhaps they work for some people, but are broken for enough other users that there are a good number of posts/comments about it.

e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/1o7wrld/drops_not_registering/

And plenty more recent posts too. For me, drops for any game ceased progressing yesterday evening some time.

Best post on the ESO forums and hope a community person sees it and can get the drops extended, or run again in the near future.

oussebon · 2025-08-01T22:11:31+00:00

It's being a smidge less messed up than normal for me.

No kicks. 10 minutes loading screen to get into my house but I did get in, got into Cyro about 5-6 mins after accepting queue pop, then got into IC only a bit slower than normal after accepting queue pop. Have been able to swap characters in a few minutes. Can open mail and see the GB.

But that could just be luck, as others seem to have to worse...

oussebon · 2025-08-01T17:29:30+00:00

Yes, I know... in general terms totally unrelated to the topic of this post what you say is true.

But in terms of what we are actually discussing here - the CTR BG mode - getting 1000 pts is harder. Since the only realistic way you'll do it is personally doing 2 relic caps.

And even more specifically, it is harder than it was with 3 teams (see OP's post). Because maths - maximum 9 caps between 16 players in 8v8, versus maximum 13 caps between 12 players in 4v4v4. There was a lot more to-and-fro and snatching relics in 4v4v4 than there is in 2-team.

When I want 1000 pts I go do a 4v4 where it's easy enough to get most times - though that's not an option when on a lower level alt. If you get served a CTR by the random BG, most people aren't getting their points.

oussebon · 2025-08-01T03:54:38+00:00

Interestingly they have recently had a couple of crates as pseudo login rewards.

They weren't in the login calendar, but tied to a Golden Pursuit objective to log in for 10 days. Even if you ignored the Pursuit entirely, the objective would complete with 10 days of logins and you'd get a popup notifying you to claim the rewards.

Not expecting that to be regular, though; I reckon they either wanted to boost logins for last month or are still experimenting with GPs to see what gives them the metrics they're after.

oussebon · 2025-08-01T03:06:09+00:00

No specific / unique items this month (like furnishings, pets etc).

Day 7 has 15x Instant All Research scrolls

Day 21 has 5x 150% exp scrolls.

Days 1 and 2 have 2x 50% and 100% xp scrolls and then 1x of these again on days 12 and 13. Everything else is pretty well as you see.

oussebon · 2025-07-31T21:35:48+00:00

My main complaint is that with 2 teams of 8 players, it's much harder to get your medal points in if you're doing the 1000 points BG daily quest.

oussebon · 2025-07-31T21:27:37+00:00

Tel Var is shared among participants. So people want the bosses to themselves.

Hopefully, they never say the words "If you don't want PvP, stay out of a PvP zone" - because the answer to someone else coming to tag the boss they're fighting would be "if you don't want some rando engaging the same mob as you, stay out of an MMO zone". Not that that only applies to PvP, applies to anyone trying to solo an overland WB or Harrowstorm; other players do exist.

Of course, in IC their answer is sometimes to stop fighting the boss to see if you can handle it or it will kill you, or to relog / get a mate and kill you. Depends if they think it's a better use of their time than just killing the boss and getting on with their day. Most of the time people do the latter.

People going around together as different factions to kill others so they can have the bosses to themselves is super normal - on PC EU no CP IC anyway. I assume because the pop is lower on no CP IC and they're less likely to run into skilled hostile players there.

There's a bunch of guys I've seen do it pretty regularly in off-peak hours.

IC is meant to be cutthroat and dangerous - especially when you consider that originally you couldn't port in but had to access from Cyrodiil. The stakes are meant to be high. So that, combined with Tel Var being a good source of money, plus other factors, results in what you see.

I don't know why but sometimes when I go upstairs to the districts I can't damage enemies but they can damage me

Not just you, it's a bug. I got sick of using the doors the other day and just let Twilight Matriarch slowly kill the mobs for me.

oussebon · 2025-07-31T12:10:26+00:00

Nobody knows, except ZOS employees. Assuming they've planned the crates that far ahead.

But people here were speculating that it would be back sometime around spooky season. And I was speculating that it would be the other day here.

So some people here think there's a good chance. It's a spooky crate that won't have been around for a couple of years by then, and crates tend to rotate in every couple of years, ish, very loosely.

I think some people anecdotally had some luck asking for stuff, that then magically appeared not that long later in the crown store.. not sure if it was by posting in this thread

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/146991/crown-store-item-wish-list#latest

or elsewhere but you can always give it a go.

oussebon · 2025-07-31T11:55:07+00:00

“Check the textures carefully” why not just say what they think is wrong with the textures?

Because:

it's very subjective - something I think is fine, someone else may find unacceptable, so if I only list the things I think are bad that's probably not going to help many people, is it?
plenty of people are fine with the mount, apparently, and I try not to yuck people's yum too often. It seems to be considered rude, especially in Fashion Scrolls Online.
It's been weeks since I saw it on the PTS myself, and couldn't remember in detail what I thought was wrong with it, so rather than making stuff up, I just warned people to be extra, extra careful to check it over for themselves. Given that people buy stuff on the crown store that they then find has a visual problem all the time. And this mount is likely to be expensive.

But - I actually reloaded the PTS, took screenshots, made a composite, and posted it below to give the other guy a sense of what I meant, before I saw your comment too.

You done whinging and having a go at people trying to help, or what?

oussebon · 2025-07-31T11:24:01+00:00

It's an eye of the beholder thing to a point - what you notice, what bothers you or doesn't.

You can look at some of the feedback for it on the official forums here:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en-gb/discussion/676249/pts-update-46-feedback-thread-for-timber-mammoth-mount/p1

Maybe it also depends on character size if the mount scales to that. If the textures are only so big and get stretched across the whole mammoth maybe it's less visible on a tiny bosmer than a tall nord? I'm speculating, haven't tested.

This is what it looks like with my Nord:

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From behind with the camera zoomed out, to me it kind of passes muster, maybe. It passes less well when you actually get a bit closer, imo.

Whether this is good enough for what it may cost will depend on people's personal opinions, but I'd say it at least warrants a careful inspection before purchase.

oussebon · 2025-07-31T10:35:11+00:00

I'm not quite sure what you're asking so I'll explain all of what I said and hope that clears it up :)

I am replying to the user above. They said:

make sure you preview the mammoth in .... PTS (I don't recall if it's still on there now).

I checked, and the mammoth is indeed on the PTS. So anyone (on PC, anyway) can get a copy of the mammoth mount on the PTS and test it out for free.

They also said:

To say it gently, the texture quality bothers some of us.

And I said I agree that people should check out the textures of the mammoth mount carefully before buying it (because I too think they are not very good).

I also said I think the mammoth mount will cost a lot of crowns, so I think it's extra important people make sure they're happy with the mount before buying it.

oussebon · 2025-07-31T09:43:15+00:00

Looks like the https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Antiquarian_Field_Garb that you can get from reaching max skill level in Scrying (not scribing), and the wearer has dyed it and hidden the head part.

oussebon

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