Vampires, Werewolves, Fast Travel and Marriages Explanation

Vampires and Werewolves
Unfortunately, there won’t be vampire and werewolf disease in the Elder Scrolls Online. You won’t be able to get into a fight with vampires and werewolves. If you get into a fight with them, you won’t contract vampirism or the werewolf disease. That’s something I always really enjoyed as a game mechanic. I know it was always a pain in the ass becoming a vampire and doing this ridiculous quest to get your cure for vampirism. It just added a whole new side to the game. It would stop everything you were doing, and the game becomes about curing yourself from vampirism, and then you can continue on with your quest. I can understand why it’s difficult to do in an MMO with it being multiplayer and you’d have all these different people. It wouldn’t quite be fair because if you were getting hurt by sunlight and then someone from an opposing alliance came over and started PvP ganking you, then it wouldn’t really be fair because you have vampirism. Then again, you got the whole ‘if you did have vampirism and if you did have the werewolf disease, you could use the special abilities that it came with’. You might get hurt by certain things more, but they could give you benefits. Unfortnately, that won’t be included in the game anymore.

Fast Travel
Fast travel will be in the game, but it won’t be as easy and quick to use as in Skyrim. With it being an MMO, they’ve tightened up a little bit by limiting it to Wayshrines. I guess they’ll just be little statues in major towns and cities. If you go and unlock them, just similar to any other MMO where you’ve got a certain person, you have to speak to or a certain thing you got to click on and register with; then that will be logged into your little book of Wayshrines. You can continue to jump between them and fast travel between them. I’m not sure if there’s a cooldown on it but for sure, fast travel is limited to Wayshrines.

Marriages
There will be relationships and marriage in this game, but only between players. It’s got a nice little touch there for roleplayers where they can give virtual gifts and be able to get married. I don’t do much roleplaying myself, but I feel like roleplaying’s just been totally cut out of games now. They don’t really do anything for the roleplayers. Star Wars: The Old Republic was a really good one for it because the storyline was so in-depth. You had the choice to speak, and there was a really personal storyline to it in there. Most MMOs just tend to go for the ‘click on this guy’, something comes up and no one reads it. They click, yes. They know what their reward’s going to be; they pick their reward, and they go. They’re just thinking about the stats that they’re going to get. They’re not thinking about what the storyline is and how interesting it might be. I think that definitely needs looking into because I think missing out on storyline in games is just a disadvantage.

Look at the Elder Scrolls Online Guilds and Minor Details

Guilds

I’ve just been doing a little bit of research about the guilds, because guilds in the Elder Scrolls game is something that I always spend a lot of time doing, getting to the top of The Mages’ Guild and doing all my Thieves’ Guild quest. There will be The Dark Brotherhood, The Fighters’ Guild, The Mages’ Guild and The Thieves’ Guild. They’re all guilds you’ll recognize if you’re an Elder Scrolls player. I couldn’t find any information on how to get in The Thieves’ Guild and The Dark Brotherhood. I can tell you for The Fighters’ Guild, you’re going to have to destroy Dark Anchors all across the Tamriel, which are essentially giant hooks that are guarded. They’re sent by Molag Bal, the Daedra Prince I mentioned before. He’s the main bad guy in this game, by the looks of things. He’s trying to merge Tamriel with Cold Harbor, which is his Daedric plane. That sounds like a nice little side storyline for the game and something that I’d like to get involved with.

Basically, I think you’ve got to destroy the guard of the hook, and then that earns you a bit of reputation with The Fighters’ Guild and gets you involved with them. Then there’s probably be some quest lines although it’s not confirmed yet. I guess there’ll be quest lines and certain benefits for getting to the tops of these guilds. The Mages’ guild, you have to find law books which are basically just hidden anywhere in Tamriel. It says on the website, ‘Some are in specific locations and some are randomly hidden.’ I guess there are ways of getting clues to these specific-place ones. Any treasure-hunting player will love finding clues in cities and caves.

Minor Details
Some of the minor details of the game include it being in third-person view, like your typical MMO. It won’t be following the old-school first-person Elder Scrolls game. The graphics are halfway between an MMO and an Elder Scrolls game. It’s something that I’m sure they’re having a bit of difficulty with. I’m glad that they’ve got this nice middle ground, because the Elder Scrolls graphic is something that a lot of people are scared of losing with this game. They’re thinking maybe it’s going to go in a cartoon-like direction. They don’t want it to bow down to being MMO and totally just lose sight of it being an Elder Scrolls game. From the looks of the screenshots and the game play videos that you’ll find on YouTube, there is definitely a nice look to this game and combat system is awesome. You still can tell instantly you’re playing an Elder Scrolls game, but then at the same time, it feels like an MMO.

You’ve got your hotbar at the bottom with your keys and everything for your attacks, which is similar to an MMO and unlike a normal Elder Scrolls game. The third-person view will call for some getting used to. Some players like meeplay Skyrim in third-person view because we like seeing the gears that we’re wearing. I don’t know. I know a lot of people will like looking at all the cool gear that they’ve managed to find in all the dungeons.

Elder Scrolls Online Preview: PvP and PvE

Here is a quick preview of Elder Scrolls Online, a game that many are really looking forward to. The beta testing is now available. Getting signed up is recommended because game developers are going to need decent feedback to make this game as good as we want it to be.

The game is set about just over 1,000 years before Skyrim and the storyline hints at the Oblivion things being back. Oblivion was my favorite game because of the story although Skyrim was probably better for gameplay.

You got the Daedra Prince of Domination and Enslavement, Molag Bal. He’s basically trying to merge Tamriel with his Daedric plane and stir up some trouble, and you’re trying to stop him. All the different races of Tamriel that you know have joined together and formed 3 alliances, and now they’re all at war with each other. We’ve got the Daggerfall Convent, the Ebonheart Pact and the Aldmeri Dominion. We’ve got all them and you’ve got all your races inside there. They’re called Alliances, but the same thing as factions in other games.

PvP

There’s a big PvP storyline behind this whole thing. Basically you, as a player, can be named emperor of an alliance. I think that’s a really cool thing to put in a game. Obviously, it’s going to be some serious players who are going to get this status as it’s a nice competitive edge to leave on PvP. There’s going to be massive PvP between these 3 alliances. The highest-ranked player is crowned the emperor of that alliance. It just adds a nice competition to PvP ,which could make some eso gold,  that is lacking in some of the games. It just becomes a bit of a grind in a lot of the games. If there’s an end goal like that, I think it would give a lot more people an urge to play PvP.

According to the game’s website, the emperor will gain special abilities that increase their prowess on the battlefield. Although there’s not much information about it at the moment, it’s obviously going to be some emperor buff. It will probably be pretty good if only one person can get it on each server. Whoever controls the Ruby Throne can be crowned emperor and rules all of Tamriel. You could only be there for 5 minutes, and then somebody else beats you; someone else becomes top rank over you. Expect some serious battles going on between the top PvP players at all times.

The PvP gameplay in the Elder Scrolls Online is going to be similar to if you played Star Wars: The Old Republic where the PvP would level you up so everyone was equal. I could be in there with a lower Level and an opponent could be Level 10. I wouldn’t have as many moves as him, so he would have an advantage, but my moves would do the same damage as his moves. My gear would be stated out so we were all equal no matter what you had on. Then once you get to 50, there was like a separate Level 50 area where your gears and how well you were playing would matter. It is believed that a lot of people don’t like this because most don’t like the concept of people who haven’t really put the effort in to get the gear and the points can kill them. End-game, I don’t really think that will be the case. I don’t suppose it will be Level 10s can just jump into a game with level-capped players. As a player that doesn’t play that much PvP, it allows me to jump in and out of PvP and not feel like I’m at a disadvantage.

There’s also a point system while you’re doing your PvP. These can be spent on so-called ‘Siege weaponry and more.’ Obviously, there’s going to be massive catapults that that are going to help you break into certain places and take over certain objectives. If you’re not a big PvPer, you can actually spend your PvE gold from questing and selling things in the PvE side of the game. You can jump into PvP and use that gold if you’re willing to pay the gold. You don’t have to have all these PvP points, but at the expense of spending your real in-game gold. I don’t suppose a lot of people will bother spending it, because if they’re going to be playing PvP, they might as well be spending the PvP money. Probably the reason is to let people who fancy jumping into a game and who fancy getting a siege weapon out, they can do that with their money if they want.

PvE and Dungeons

In terms of PvE, rumor has it that there is going to be 5-man dungeons with heroic versions. Then there’s going to be public dungeons, or more commonly called as raids. You’ll just find them as you’re exploring, and then you get a group of people together. Then there’s bosses in there and you’ve got to take them all down. It’s going to make the game a bit more social while trying to get people to come with you. A bit like world bosses in any other game, but you’ll get these world raids.

Any Elder Scrolls players will feel at home because it still uses health, magicka and stamina. You still get your basic sources and your resources are exactly the same. That’s pretty much everything on your PvE and your dungeons.