TESO Statistics - Which Race Will You Play?

[Midnight Breeze]

PC master race.

I don't even own a television, much less a console.

[Shadow Mare]

PC master race.

I don't even own a television, much less a console.

[Valy Wave]

I played the beta this weekend, the game is awesome

And we where awesome, too!

With the release of Elder Scrolls Online looming on the horizon, I thought I'd get some statistics as to the makeup of you guys.

As for me? Redguard dragon knight, no question.

I played reduguard dragonknight as offtank- or tank! Enjoyable.

[HaponyHanzo]

Spoiler: show

Bows:
Ok i have read all those complains about bow range and stuff, apparently there is trajectory in Teso and you can skill longer range skills. But a maximum range is pretty necessary for this Game, imagine an Archer seeks an higher position and gets pretty skilled at trajectory calculations and hits you multiple times from very far away, he could most likely kill you without beeing attacked himself. This would be pretty realistic though, but it would kill the balance at some points.

Also currently the enemies that are hit get less dmg the farther they are away, there is also a skill to heighten the dmg that is made to further away enemies to compensate that.

Graphics:
The graphics are amazing for an mmo, some textures seem to be a bit washed out, but when you played other high graphics mmos, you know that they look much worse. Take gw2 for example and look closely on an object, believe me you will see what i mean. But Teso sets a new graphics standard for MMos.

Gameplay:
Yes TESO is not TES, but it comes close. You have lots of things todo and the leveling time feels right for a TES Game. The most amazing thing is that leveling seems to be much less important then in normal mmos, cause questing itself is fun and you don't even care if you level up or not (like in a TES game).

Combat:
The combat itself feels natural and is really close to TES games. With the little change that the animations of TESO look alot better! Even normal Enemies also have a vast variety of skills and combat behavior, which is uncommon if you think about f2p mmos.

Crafting:
While i didn't try it out completly and wasn't really interested in getting a high crafting skill in the beta, i did some crafting and got really useable items, and if i got it right you have a lot of options when it comes to crafting.

[KireiameJin]

Spoiler: show

Bows:
Ok i have read all those complains about bow range and stuff, apparently there is trajectory in Teso and you can skill longer range skills. But a maximum range is pretty necessary for this Game, imagine an Archer seeks an higher position and gets pretty skilled at trajectory calculations and hits you multiple times from very far away, he could most likely kill you without beeing attacked himself. This would be pretty realistic though, but it would kill the balance at some points.

Also currently the enemies that are hit get less dmg the farther they are away, there is also a skill to heighten the dmg that is made to further away enemies to compensate that.

Graphics:
The graphics are amazing for an mmo, some textures seem to be a bit washed out, but when you played other high graphics mmos, you know that they look much worse. Take gw2 for example and look closely on an object, believe me you will see what i mean. But Teso sets a new graphics standard for MMos.

Gameplay:
Yes TESO is not TES, but it comes close. You have lots of things todo and the leveling time feels right for a TES Game. The most amazing thing is that leveling seems to be much less important then in normal mmos, cause questing itself is fun and you don't even care if you level up or not (like in a TES game).

Combat:
The combat itself feels natural and is really close to TES games. With the little change that the animations of TESO look alot better! Even normal Enemies also have a vast variety of skills and combat behavior, which is uncommon if you think about f2p mmos.

Crafting:
While i didn't try it out completly and wasn't really interested in getting a high crafting skill in the beta, i did some crafting and got really useable items, and if i got it right you have a lot of options when it comes to crafting.

Compltetly agree with you, just to point that the story and the quests are awesome and helps to make the player feel like the world is "alive", it could be even better with random events like in GW2, but it could also kill the essence of TES, so i think the developing team did a very good work creating an inmersive and beautiful world for the playeres to be explored.

Not to mention that almost every single conversation is dubbed and the voice acting is excellent 

[Valy Wave]

Spoiler: show

Bows:
Ok i have read all those complains about bow range and stuff, apparently there is trajectory in Teso and you can skill longer range skills. But a maximum range is pretty necessary for this Game, imagine an Archer seeks an higher position and gets pretty skilled at trajectory calculations and hits you multiple times from very far away, he could most likely kill you without beeing attacked himself. This would be pretty realistic though, but it would kill the balance at some points.

Also currently the enemies that are hit get less dmg the farther they are away, there is also a skill to heighten the dmg that is made to further away enemies to compensate that.

Graphics:
The graphics are amazing for an mmo, some textures seem to be a bit washed out, but when you played other high graphics mmos, you know that they look much worse. Take gw2 for example and look closely on an object, believe me you will see what i mean. But Teso sets a new graphics standard for MMos.

Gameplay:
Yes TESO is not TES, but it comes close. You have lots of things todo and the leveling time feels right for a TES Game. The most amazing thing is that leveling seems to be much less important then in normal mmos, cause questing itself is fun and you don't even care if you level up or not (like in a TES game).

Combat:
The combat itself feels natural and is really close to TES games. With the little change that the animations of TESO look alot better! Even normal Enemies also have a vast variety of skills and combat behavior, which is uncommon if you think about f2p mmos.

Crafting:
While i didn't try it out completly and wasn't really interested in getting a high crafting skill in the beta, i did some crafting and got really useable items, and if i got it right you have a lot of options when it comes to crafting.

Compltetly agree with you, just to point that the story and the quests are awesome and helps to make the player feel like the world is "alive", it could be even better with random events like in GW2, but it could also kill the essence of TES, so i think the developing team did a very good work creating an inmersive and beautiful world for the playeres to be explored.

Not to mention that almost every single conversation is dubbed and the voice acting is excellent 

exactly, the voiceacting was Singleplayer-games standart and the expressions on the faces and stuff... combined with the interesting designe of the quests = it's fun to quest again! How many mmo's are soooo boring while questing? In this game i love to take more quest and even backtravel to do old/lowlvl quests. 

And since you dont see, what you get for the quest (I like it), you will be happy if you get skillpoints all of a sudden

[Ramisha]

I hope all the quests will be special and interesting. In Skyrim most of the quests were boring to me. I liked the one with the dog.. what was his name.. Barnabas?

[HaponyHanzo]

I hope all the quests will be special and interesting. In Skyrim most of the quests were boring to me. I liked the one with the dog.. what was his name.. Barnabas?

I could or could not have been in the beta so let's say i theoratically was in the beta and that i theoratically could point out how the quests are designed. Then i would say that they are designed pretty interesting. But that's just theoretical.

[Ramisha]

Your theoretical theory is very theoretic. I give it theory/theory

[Puynsi]

What about the Sneak classes and combos?

Anyone can get rid of someone pretty quickly if it has the x15 damage perk with daggers and invisibility.

[Valy Wave]

What about the Sneak classes and combos?

Anyone can get rid of someone pretty quickly if it has the x15 damage perk with daggers and invisibility.

You dont have 100% the skyrim abilities/perks.  Its not like that.

[Midnight Breeze]

Anyone can sneak, but you don't get any bonus damage, it's purely a tactical stealth mechanic. Sneaking also drains stamina so you can't just stand around stealthed forever, you have to be tactical with it or you will be caught with no stamina to fight with.

The nightblade class does have some abilities that revolve around using sneak as a combat mechanic, though.

[Puynsi]

Im guessing that mages will have some... NERF NERFITY NERF?

Since I wouldnt like to be wandering around and suddenly OMG A LIGHTING STORM/Blizzard/etc.

[Ramisha]

Im guessing that mages will have some... NERF NERFITY NERF?

Since I wouldnt like to be wandering around and suddenly OMG A LIGHTING STORM/Blizzard/etc.

Yeah, I hope they remove those magic runes. Just imagine casually making your way through a town and YOU STEP IN A LIGHTNING RUNE put there by some troll.

[Midnight Breeze]

There are no spells at all in the traditional since. You can't just read a spellbook and learn any spell. All magical spells are exactly the same as physical abilities - they are either tied to a weapon or a class spec tree.

There are two staves; destruction and restoration, that anyone can use. Both weapons allow casting of 5 and only 5 spells of their respective school in total. You cannot cast the spells without the staff equipped.

Other than weapons, the sorcerer class has two magic specs, one dedicated to conjuration and the other lighting-based destruction. The templar has two as well, restoration and fire-based destruction.

So yeah, the magic system is nothing like Skyrim's. If you guys are expecting this game to be Skyrim on multiplayer then you will be disappointed.

[Valy Wave]

There are no spells at all in the traditional since. You can't just read a spellbook and learn any spell. All magical spells are exactly the same as physical abilities - they are either tied to a weapon or a class spec tree.

There are two staves; destruction and restoration, that anyone can use. Both weapons allow casting of 5 and only 5 spells of their respective school in total. You cannot cast the spells without the staff equipped.

Other than weapons, the sorcerer class has two magic specs, one dedicated to conjuration and the other lighting-based destruction. The templar has two as well, restoration and fire-based destruction.

So yeah, the magic system is nothing like Skyrim's. If you guys are expecting this game to be Skyrim on multiplayer then you will be disappointed.

Hmm iw as expecting that and i became that.  OK, you have to expect the right aspects of ESO being like Skyrim, i got what i wanted^^

The ebst would be, just to try it when you get the chance.

[Weatherboy1]

As a major Elder Scrolls fan, I'm sort of angry over the amount of lore they've broken

[HaponyHanzo]

As a major Elder Scrolls fan, I'm sort of angry over the amount of lore they've broken

the lore you are talkin about didn't even happen at this point, infact teso plays before uriel septim is born. teso is completely lore friendly, I realized that in the daggerfall area. graves, tombs, graveyards and time travels  are typical daggerfall things xD

[Puynsi]

Im guessing TESO will teach us more about the very very early lore I guess?

[Midnight Breeze]

Oddly enough, the face of Tamriel has changed very little over the past millennium.

Windhelm is already there, Riften is already there...

I bet you'd have never guessed those cities are over a thousand years old, huh?