Good Morning Folks! This is going to be a bit of a short post because I have to take my father to the hospital this morning. He is undergoing an outpatient surgery so hopefully you all will keep him in your thoughts today. I am not entirely certain what my day is going to look like so I am packing a bag full of nonsense to keep me entertained. I am also not entirely certain what the situation at the hospital is going to look like, but I am thankful that as of yesterday my full “immunity” should have kicked in from my Covid-19 vaccination. I am as prepared as I can be to be around other people… and as such I am apparently going to be giving it a major test by hanging out in a hospital.
Last night was the final evening of the Jester’s Festival buff and I didn’t do nearly as much grinding as I thought I would. Instead I found myself finishing off a few holiday event quests, picking up the unstable morpholith pet which will ultimately be required to get any of the other items from event quests. However I am finding out that each time you upgrade the pet into something else… you lose your original pet and have to purchase it again. I failed to do enough daily quests in order to get the OTHER thing that was available during this event. I am not sure how much I care about player skins in the game because they are all sorta overpowering in appearance.
Even thought I didn’t really participate that much in the event, I feel like I had a pretty great success for the single week that it was open. I largely spent this event catching up my stable of alts, because Elder Scrolls Online is one of those games where I had never really spent time on any other characters. As such I had my Dragon Knight at maxed level and pushing champion levels… but almost everything else was sub level 10 before starting the event. My Warden was a bit higher but all told I leveled it, my Necromancer and managed to get my Nightblade to 31 before running out of juice. I figure the next event which also offers a similar buff… I will focus on the quests and end my night grinding rather than starting it that way.
Here is the thing though… much like leveling the content in a very specific order… grinding up alts to 50 is entirely a “me” thing. For me I like leveling my account as a whole and right now my Champion level is 441 and I want to see that increase. Also my personal jam in this game is running around and questing through zones which I will absolutely do on my level capped alts. I just wanted to be gaining Champion Levels instead of base levels while doing that however because you can burn through CP pretty rapidly while questing. Grinding the Dark Anchors is absolutely NOT the optimal way to play the game if you are doing this for the first time. It is just a thing I am doing to catch my stable of desired alts up to my main so everyone can share in the Champion Leveling experience.
If you have found yourself watching from the wings as I roam around Tamriel and considered getting into the game, now might be the ideal time to do so. Right now in honor of the seventh anniversary of the game they are running an event that allows you to have a free trial of the game until the 13th of April. It is available on PlayStation, Xbox and then the PC cluster of services Steam, Stadia and the Elder Scrolls website/launcher. Seeing as I date back to Alpha I play the game through the official Launcher given that the game started out that way. PlayStation and Xbox are islands and you can only play with other players on those specific networks. PC players get to mix it up and all NA and all EU players are together regardless of the service.
The main difference being if you start on Steam for example, all of your future purchases will have to be through Steam. Same is true with Stadia or going through the official website. Similarly if you start on Stadia, I believe all purchases have to go through Stadia but I am not entirely certain about that one. When I briefly tried Elder Scrolls Online on Stadia I had all of my DLC that I purchased through my main PC account so your mileage may vary. Also of note, PC players can absolutely use a controller if that is your jam or play like I do with Mouse and Keyboard. If you have been curious about the game, then right now might be the time for you to dip your toes in and see if you like it without any risk. Normally speaking the game is “Buy to Play” but I do highly suggest the ESO Plus subscription which gives you a magical endless crafting materials bag and all DLC packs other than whatever the most current expansion is.
Well I am running out of time this morning so it is time for me to wrap this up and pack. Hopefully everything will go smoothly today and Dad will be out of surgery and recuperating by 1 pm. I hope also that he isn’t in a lot of pain and that it doesn’t hamper his mobility much. If you do find yourself trying out Elder Scrolls Online, my in game id is @Belghast so drop me a line and say hi.
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