Blacksmithing In The Elder Scrolls Online Is Complicated

18 responses to “Blacksmithing In The Elder Scrolls Online Is Complicated”

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   piratepete

   February 21, 2014 at 8:05 pm

   They did this in WoW in 2005. There were special dark iron sets you could craft by fighting your way to the special forges in Blackrock Depths.

   All this says to me is that before I can craft some junk that I will out level in a few hours I need to wander out to the middle of nowhere and engage in the games sub par combat.

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      benjamasm

      February 21, 2014 at 8:14 pm

      you mean the wow that was good? that wasn’t catering to ever single casual gamer out there?

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      michael_debyl

      February 21, 2014 at 8:49 pm

      … You should probably consider that you just sound burned out on MMO’s.. Since this is pretty much the theme of any MMO..

      It happens a lot with WoW players.. Doesn’t mean you need to hate on every other MMO.

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         piratepete

         February 21, 2014 at 11:00 pm

         Yeah but I feel like if you want to succeed in the MMO market you have to do something better than your competitor.

         They need to shake the “Generic MMO” feel that they have going on.

         You are right though, I am quite burned out from WoW but to put it in perspective I got enjoyment out of SWTOR all the way to the level cap where ESO felt so same same to what I have already done to death.

         I guess the story telling in SWTOR really carried it as the combat wasn’t that great. Probably also because ESO is a fantasy MMO.

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            michael_debyl

            February 21, 2014 at 11:17 pm

            As someone who just casually partakes in MMO’s, I don’t find this boring at all. Think of it like, you’ve never played WoW, and you liked Morrowind through to Skyrim, so this might be a better medium-life MMO for you than WoW or any other MMO that does many of the same things

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            Gmoney

            February 22, 2014 at 8:43 am

            Well, if they do something different it stops being an mmo.

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               piratepete

               February 22, 2014 at 2:44 pm

               Star Wars tried something different with its story telling so that was nice.

   3. 

      travisnew87

      February 21, 2014 at 9:36 pm

      I enjoyed the battle system in TES:O during my time in the beta weekend. I particularly enjoyed taking on bosses with several mates and the NPC for good measure. What about the combat did you not enjoy?

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         piratepete

         February 21, 2014 at 10:57 pm

         It just feels slow compared to something like Skyrim, I don’t know if it improves later on but the starting mobs took quite a bit more whackin than I felt they should.

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      Shenten_wolf

      February 21, 2014 at 11:46 pm

      The sets you can craft give unique bonuses. You can always make lvl50 gear in this set provided you have the resources required

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         kingpotato

         February 22, 2014 at 7:37 am

         This, pete didn’t even watch the vid.

         The entire crafting system is rather unique

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            zombiejesus

            February 22, 2014 at 8:18 am

            I still wish an MMO would bring back the crafting system from SWG, or something of similar complexity. I loved SWG’s crafting, and how you could genuinely be unique as a crafter instead of just spitting out mass-produced copies of exactly the same item every other crafter can make.

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               kingpotato

               February 22, 2014 at 5:11 pm

               I heard A LOT of good things about that system. So much so that I almost went and played it only to find out it had just closed everything down. Though I don’t really remember the specifics.

               But as you stated I really wonder why more mmo’s haven’t invested in it. I would love nothing more than for MY wares to be unique. That I could create a BRAND and have it be recognised on my server as the best shit money can buy or something to that effect. Though now that i type this I’m pretty sure SWG had this or something darn similar.

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               bigcheez77

               February 24, 2014 at 3:41 pm

               Have a look at “The Repopulation”, you may just get your wish. It seems to have the crafting depth that SWG had. It’s still in Alpha but as all the Ticks in the boxes for me.

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   gryms

   February 21, 2014 at 8:41 pm

   Similarities:
   Crafting locations : WoW did this in Vanilla for BS in BRD (FR Gear and weapons) and Alch in BWL (Flasks)
   Set Bonuses for Crafting : Again WoW Vanilla, all the way to Pandas (LW, Tailor, BS all has different paths for different specs Dragonscale in LW for example)

   And no WoW didnt use to do it for casual gamers when it first came out, that was probably at the end of Wotlk or midway though Cata some might argue as the subs dropped dramatically at that time.

   What that article should have noted more was the ability to use the gear end game. From everything that ive seen they actually want you to use craftable gear end game

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   kuraara

   February 21, 2014 at 10:03 pm

   this doesnt sound too different to skyrim really, which was pretty fun with all the leather braces and tanning rack stuff

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      zombiejesus

      February 22, 2014 at 8:16 am

      The alchemy system is quite similar to Skyrim too, which I really enjoyed when I tried it in the beta. It’s one of those ‘mix a few random things, see what comes out, learn a bit about the ingredients’ things.

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         kingpotato

         February 22, 2014 at 5:14 pm

         See in the actual game (skyrim) I found this tedious, boring and aggravating. In an mmo however I find it strangely alluring as there is a possibility for something rather unique to be found/made that no one would have to share.

         I’m still waiting to play the BETA myself (xbox one version) My pc needs a GPU upgrade and Its hard to justify when i just bought both current gen consoles. So I haven’t played it yet to see how it works specifically.

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