{"id":10755,"date":"2023-08-15T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T13:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=10755"},"modified":"2023-08-15T13:06:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T13:06:36","slug":"eso-2-month-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/eso-2-month-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"ESO &#8211; 2 Month Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the second month of ESO+ having just expired, it seems like a good as time as any to take a break from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-elder-scrolls-online\/\" title=\"The Elder Scrolls -ONLINE-\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the game<\/a> to focus on some other stuff.<\/p>\n<p>At this point I&#8217;ve cleared all content up through <a href=\"https:\/\/en.uesp.net\/wiki\/Online:Summerset_(Chapter)\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Summerset chapter<\/a> (apart from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.uesp.net\/wiki\/Online:Trials\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trials<\/a>, which I&#8217;ve decided to skip due to lack of automated matchmaking, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.uesp.net\/wiki\/Online:Blackrose_Prison\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blackrose Prison<\/a>), maxed out all weapon, armor, crafting, guild, &#038; world skill lines (besides <a href=\"https:\/\/en.uesp.net\/wiki\/Online:Werewolf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">werewolf<\/a>), acquired all pack\/bank slots, and reached Champion Level 659.<\/p>\n<p>Only thing I regret is not getting into <a href=\"https:\/\/en.uesp.net\/wiki\/Online:Tales_of_Tribute\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the card game<\/a> earlier (currently only rank 5). It gives so, <em>so<\/em> many crafting materials as rewards for playing it&#8217;s not even funny; legendary ones can even show up in the consolation prize. Just a massive missed opportunity there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably go back sometime after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/final-fantasy-xiv\/\" title=\"Final Fantasy XIV\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FFXIV<\/a>&#8216;s next major patch to finish up the remaining story chapters, though I don&#8217;t think this will be a game I&#8217;ll be playing long-term. There&#8217;s a certain lack of variety that comes from only being able to slot 5 abilities at a time, the trading system is just flat-out horrific, and it kind of pisses me off how incredibly unbalanced the PvP situation is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the second month of ESO+ having just expired, it seems like a good as time as any to take a break from the game to focus on some other stuff. At this point I&#8217;ve cleared all content up through the Summerset chapter (apart from the Trials, which I&#8217;ve decided to skip due to lack of automated matchmaking, and Blackrose Prison), maxed out all weapon, armor, crafting, guild, &#038; world skill lines (besides werewolf), acquired all pack\/bank slots, and reached Champion Level 659. Only thing I regret is not getting into the card game earlier (currently only rank 5). It gives so, so many crafting materials as rewards for playing it&#8217;s not even funny; legendary ones can even show up in the consolation prize. Just a massive missed opportunity there. I&#8217;ll probably go back sometime after FFXIV&#8216;s next major patch to finish up the remaining story chapters, though I don&#8217;t think this will be a game I&#8217;ll be playing long-term. There&#8217;s a certain lack of variety that comes from only being able to slot 5 abilities at a time, the trading system is just flat-out horrific, and it kind of pisses me off how incredibly unbalanced the PvP situation is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[704,28,472,500,121,473],"class_list":["post-10755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-video-game-related","tag-elder-scrolls","tag-fantasy","tag-first-person-perspective","tag-mmorpg","tag-rpg","tag-third-person-perspective"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}