How Strong are the Arcanist Ultimates in ESO Necrom?
Today we'll show the three new Ultimate abilities coming with the Arcanist class in ESO Necrom.
Like all classes, the Arcanist has three skill lines, each one including an Ultimate ability that has a basic version and two morphs.
The Unblinking Eye Ultimate
The Unblinking Eye is the ultimate ability in the Herald of the Tome skill line, the DPS focused skill line of the Arcanist Class. This ultimate summons a Watcher above your head that will deal heavy damage in a small AOE with its beam attack. Its two morphs are The Languid Eye and The Tide King's Gaze.
The Languid Eye is the strongest morph in terms of its damage output - while it has a shorter duration than the other morph, this is more than made up for because its damage value increases 7% each tick (it ticks every 0.5 seconds for 6 seconds).
The total damage output from this skill is quite similar to Elemental Storm, a commonly used ultimate for DPS characters. It also costs less ultimate to cast, 200 instead of 250, however the radius is smaller. So using this as your main DPS ultimate is definitely viable.
On the other hand, The Tide King's Gaze deals less damage but lasts for 8 seconds instead of 6, and it also automatically follows your target wherever they go, rather than needing to be manually retargeted. This makes it more suited to PvP situations as it prevents your opponent from avoiding the damage.
Gibbering Shield
Gibbering Shield is the Apocryphal Soldier ultimate, and like the entire skill line it is focused on mitigating damage, making it ideal for a tank. This skill gives you a strong health-scaled damage shield for 10 seconds, which will reflect all absorbed damage to nearby enemies as an AOE DoT when it expires or is broken. This damage reflection is spread out over another 10 seconds.
The first morph of this ultimate is Gibbering Shelter, which removes the damage reflection but instead grants up to six allies a fairly strong damage shield whenever your shield absorbs damage. This is definitely the best option if you're tanking a dungeon or trial with a group, the shields you give to your allies will help to keep them alive during tough parts of the fight. However you honestly might be better off just using Barrier if you want a good shield ultimate for your team.
The other morph is Sanctum of the Abyssal Sea which just gives you a somewhat stronger shield compared to the unmorphed version, which also has the side-effect of slightly increasing the amount of damage you can reflect. While this damage reflection might sound good on paper, it's generally not that helpful in PvE
, and in PvP opponents can pretty easily move away from you to avoid the damage.
This skill is a nice idea on paper but in most situations it really doesn't feel strong enough to compete with existing skills.
Vitalizing Glyphic
Vitalizing Glyphic is the ultimate from the Curative Runeforms skill line, focused on healing and buffing yourself and allies. It's a pretty unusual skill in terms of how it works - it summons a glyphic which pulses every second, healing nearby friends and increasing their weapon & spell damage. Healing the Glyphic increases the effect.
Glyphic of the Tides is the first morph of this skill, which just causes the Glyphic to spawn at a higher health percentage than the original. Healing the glyphic isn't that hard so this is only a minor buff. The skill's effect in general though is pretty interesting - having an Arcanist in your group drop this into the group gives us another new way to buff the damage output of DPS players, which basically gives us another skill to use in optimized raids besides Aggressive Horn and Frozen Colossus. Arcanist healers definitely have something new to bring to the table thanks to this ultimate, and that's great.
The other morph, Resonating Glyphic, has the same effect but instead gets stronger the lower its health is. This might be preferred if you don't have a healer in your group or if you're playing solo - you can pretty easily get the Glyphic down to 0% health with some AOE effects, which will maximise the effect of the buff and heal.
This ultimate is definitely going to bring something new to the table for optimised groups in PvE, and probably PvP too. It will be interesting to see if this finds a place in the meta or if it will just be an interesting off-meta option.
May-16-2023
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Elder Scrolls Online (Updat ...
As one of the most classic MMORPGs, Elder Scrolls Online has been launched for ten years - in fact, the game also held a grand anniversary celebration in 2024. Although ESO has difficulty maintaining its popularity as more and more excellent RPGs emerge, it has been working hard to ensure the quality of the game by launching various new initiatives. At the end of 2024, ESO announced that it would gradually implement major in-game innovations in 2025, the most prominent of which was to replace the previous annual chapter updates with more frequent seasonal updates. To fully demonstrate this transformation, Elder Scrolls Online will launch a new DLC and Update 45 in the near future. Based on this, we will fully introduce these two new changes to you. New DLC Fallen Banners According to the latest news, DLC is expected to be officially released on March 10, and will set up two new explorable four-player dungeons for you, giving you the opportunity to earn more ESO Gold through new battles with your friends. After entering the first dungeon, Exiled Redoubt, you first need to let your character join Lucilla and infiltrate the stronghold of the once powerful Albus family. You will then discover a conspiracy that plunges the people of Cyrodiil into endless war. To do this, you need to fight through multiple battles to rescue these trapped people. The second dungeon is called Lep Seclusa, where you and your teammates need to protect Moth Priests and their precious relics from the threat of the evil boss Orpheon the Tactician and his minions. These two dungeons, which will come with DLC Fallen Banners, offer you their own unique storylines, characters, challenges, and unique boss battles, allowing you to earn exclusive rewards by completing them. And the good news is that after March 25, you can even play this DLC on Xbox and PlayStation consoles, but the prerequisite is that you have an ESO Plus membership. Update 45 Overview Update 45 is expected to be released together with Fallen Banners, and it will also support multi-platform experience. Unlike the new DLC, Update 45 is completely free. Starter Zone Refresh If you follow the developments of Elder Scrolls Online, you will know that it is updated frequently. For example, Update 44 was released on October 28, 2024 and November 13, 2024, on different platforms, respectively. Update 45 is expected to bring more changes and overall improvements to ESO. Undoubtedly, the most exciting addition in Update 45 will be Starter Zone Refresh, so all starting areas in Elder Scrolls Online will be completely refreshed, making them more consistent with the details of other recent additions to ESO, such as West Weald or Telvanni Peninsula. PVP Mode Innovation Of all the playable ESO modes, PVP has always been in a terrible state because of its unstable server performance, but as the main combat mode, PVP needs to provide you with a more refined experience. Update 45 is expected to introduce the first PVP changes in Cyrodiil. The update will add a new Cyrodiil Champions test event to the game, which will allow ESO development team to better monitor the server’s response to simplified capabilities by locking you into specific class builds including attributes, abilities, and items, and to better plan the future of Cyrodiil regional development and PVP by collecting data, in order to bring you a more complete and smooth PVP combat experience. Changes In PVE Mode For PVE, the game is expected to bring a new coat of paint to Betnikh, Stros M’kai, Bleakrock, Bal Foyen, and Khenarthi’s Roost areas in Update 45, so that the lighting, overall atmosphere, and new additions including various sundries and updated signage can be improved, thereby improving the experience of new players on the one hand, and making loyal fans love the basic PVE mode more on the other hand. Quality Of Life Improvements This update information has not yet been fully released, and it may be known to you one by one with the official launch of Update 45. However, it is certain that the starting speed of the mount will be increased, but the maximum speed will not be greatly improved, so advanced players may not feel much difference. Other quality of life changes include several crafting skills in Champion point tree becoming passive skills, new item sets will be added, maps will also receive some improvements, and custom waypoint markers are in development. Besides Update 45 and the new DLC, ESO developers also said that you will experience new add-ons on Xbox Series XS and PS5 later, and they are expected to be tried on PTS starting next week. After understanding the above information, I believe you should have an idea of how to prepare for these new contents, but if you have difficulty in resource reserves, such as lack of enough gold coins, you can try to enter iGMeet Discord to seek help with relevant giveaway information. Thank you for reading.Jan-15-2025
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Elder Scrolls Online: How T ...
In the background story of Elder Scrolls Online, Tel Var Stones are Esoteric fragments of White-Gold Tower found in the corrupted Imperial City. It is used as a currency, mainly used to exchange gear, crafting materials and other items in Imperial City. So, how can you get Tel Var Stones in ESO, and how can you use them? This article may provide you with some reference. How To Get Tel Var Stones? Like Elder Scrolls Online Gold, Tel Var Stones can be deposited into your bank for you to use later. Tel Var Stones mainly come from Imperial City, and you can also get it by claiming daily rewards or killing other players. Here are the detailed ways to get Tel Var Stones. Daily Login Rewards You can log in to ESO every day to claim a certain number of Tel Var Stones. Of course, if you want to use Tel Var Stones to exchange for some good Elder Scrolls Online Items, it is obviously not enough to rely on daily login rewards. You also need to participate in battles. Defeat Imperial City Bosses In Imperial City, Tel Var Stones are mainly dropped from enemy monsters, and the drop amount is often a multiple of four. Therefore, if you want to farm Tel Var Stones in Imperial City, it is recommended that you form a team of 4 or less, and the team members will share Tel Var Stones equally. Before going to Imperial City to start the battle, remember to flip Imperial City flags, which will increase your Tel Var Stones income. Strong enemies will drop more Stones. Tel Var Stones are mainly obtained by killing Patrolling Horror Bosses in the city. Each district of Imperial City has a boss, and they respawn every 15 minutes. If you fight alone, you can get 5,000 to 8,000 Tel Var Stones per boss you defeat, and you can farm them by running around and killing them repeatedly. Besides killing bosses, you can also get a small amount of Tel Var Stones by killing ordinary NPCs. After completing the quest in Imperial City, you will receive Light Tel Var Satchel, Medium Tel Var Sack, or Hefty Tel Var Crate as a reward. Killing NPCs In Imperial City Sewers You can also get Tel Var Stones by finding and defeating NPCs you can see in Imperial City sewers. Keep an eye out for Cunning Scamps, which can get a lot of Tel Var Stones. Farming Tel Var Stones this way is slower than killing bosses directly, and ordinary NPCs don’t drop as many Tel Var Stones as bosses, but it is relatively safer. Killing Other Players In Imperial City This method is more of a test of your PVP skills. In Imperial City, you can get Tel Var Stones by killing other ESO players. Every time you defeat a player, half of his Tel Var Stones will be divided between you and all your teammates who participated in the kill. Of course, this rule also applies to you. If you die, you will lose half of your Tel Var Stones. You will not lose a Stone if you die in the two Group Dungeons in the city or outside Imperial City. So when you are in Imperial City, please be vigilant! Make Good Use Of Tel Var Stones Multiplier Carrying a lot of Tel Var Stones in Imperial City can gain a multiplier. The higher Tel Var Stones multiplier, the more Tel Var Stones you will get when you kill monsters. However, as mentioned above, once you die, you will lose half of your Tel Var Stones. The specific relationship between the number of stones you carry and the multiplier is as follows: Carry 100 Stones: x2 Carry 1,000 Stones: x3 Carry 10,000 Stones: x4 The more Tel Var Stones you carry, the greater the benefits, but the risk also increases. You can decide the number of stones you carry based on your ability, which will help you get more Tel Var Stones faster. What Can You Exchange With Tel Var Stones? You can use Tel Var Stones to trade with Vendors for ESO Items you need, such as gear sets, collectible items, unique runestones, or crafting materials. You can use Tel Var Stones to exchange items at various merchants. The following introduces the three main merchants. Tel Var General Merchant Trading with Tel Var General Merchant is the main way to consume Tel Var Stones. You can use Tel Var Stones to exchange for almost all materials that can be used in Imperial City, including Soul Gems and Sigil of Imperial Retreat, at Tel Var General Merchant. In addition, you can also exchange for crafting materials such as Hakeijo. Tel Var Equipment Lockbox Merchant You can exchange for some random gear set items at Tel Var Equipment Lockbox Merchant. However, the quality of the equipment you get is not guaranteed, it all depends on your luck. Tel Var Jewelry Merchant You can exchange for some golden jewellery items in Imperial City gear sets at Tel Var Jewelry Merchant. That’s all about Tel Var Stones in Elder Scrolls Online. Taking an efficient approach to farming Tel Var Stones will help you quickly exchange for the items you need. If you want to learn more, try to enter iGMeet Discord to participate in the giveaway and you will have a chance to win rich prizes!Dec-10-2024
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Elder Scrolls Online: How T ...
The much-anticipated Elder Scrolls Online Gold Road finally released today on PC and Mac! In the new Chapter, you’ll have more opportunities to get a new free manor and decorate it. But many first-time Tamriel Homeowners are still wondering: what can a house do, exactly? There are many benefits to owning a house, but the most obvious use is to decorate it! If you already love customizing items in RPGs, then you’ll have a ton of fun with Housing system. In this guide, we’ll go over where to get furniture, as well as some decorating tips. Benefits Of Owning A House Before we get started, let’s take a look at the beneficial uses of owning a house. Fast Travel Houses can act as fast travel locations. Any house you own can act as a Wayshrine, which you can travel to for free from anywhere using the world map. You can even choose to spawn inside or outside a house if you just want to get into town quickly. Every house you own, and the furniture you place in it, is shared among all characters on your account, meaning you can own as many houses as you want. Once you own a house, it’s added to your collection, so you can even go to it with a list of houses you’ve collected! Improve Social Interaction There are also a lot of social elements for housing. For those who enjoy the social aspect of the game or are creative, the options are endless, such as building Mazes, Escape Rooms or Puzzles. There are even guilds dedicated to housing, which encourage you through competitions and creativity, and give you the opportunity to earn extra ESO Gold during the decoration process. In order to invite others to your house, make sure you check your permissions and enable certain guilds or friends as guests. Houses are locked by default. Once permissions are unlocked, you can send a direct link to your house via mail or text chat. You can also set a house as your Primary Residence. This way, people with the appropriate permissions can visit the house using your name on the social menu, regardless of your online status. However, please note that you can only have 1 Primary Residence. If you want to decorate one of your houses with a friend, or even hire someone to decorate a house for you, you can enable the decorator rights for certain people. You need to place the furniture, but they can move every piece of furniture. Be careful not to grant full decorator rights to anyone you don’t fully trust. No one can take your furniture, but they can destroy what you’ve built or make it hard to find. If this does happen, or you just can’t find a piece of furniture, you can use Retrieve menu to mark its location and find it, or just put it back in your inventory. Storage Coffers & Chests Available One of the best reasons to have an in-game house is to have a place to place and use Storage Coffers and Storage Chests. There are 4 large chests and 4 small coffers available. Each large chest can hold 60 items, and the small coffer can hold 30 items, which is equivalent to adding 360 inventory slots to your account. These Storage Chests are added to your collection as you unlock them, so all of your characters can use them, and you can place them in multiple houses at the same time. You’ll unlock one coffer from Level Up Advisor after reaching level 18, and the rest can be redeemed with Master Crafting Writ Vouchers, Tel Var in Imperial City, or with Crowns. However, I would recommend using the in-game method. You can name containers to help categorize items. I use 3 chests to store survey maps and label them for quick storage and categorization. These chests, and the items you put in them, are only accessible to you. Crafting Tables You can also place each Crafting Table in your home. Of course, using Master Crafting Writ Vouchers, or mining through Antiquities, is also a good way to get them. You can go a step further and try Attunable Crafting Tables. This can be used at Overland Set crafting locations to add nearby set bonuses to a crafting table and bring them home. This is especially useful if you want to access sets from DLC areas that you can’t normally access. Assuming you have temporary access to High Isle through ESO Plus trial, you can use these Attunable Tables to replicate Order’s Wrath crafting stations, and you can still craft the set bonus after the trial ends. Houseguests Houseguests are collectible furniture that can be placed in all of your homes. Some of these can be obtained from Crown Store, but others can be obtained in-game. Since they are account-wide collectibles, they can be placed in multiple houses at once, and all of your visitors can talk to them. You can place them on a path if you want to make your home feel more lived in. You can even decorate the house with your mounts and pets. Merchants, bankers and deconstruction assistants can also be added to your house for everyone to use. All of these have been Crown items so far, but they are definitely worth getting if you have Crown. How To Get More Furniture? Now that we’ve gone over the useful uses of a house, let’s get back to decorating. Furniture and decorations can come from many places, but as always, there is a Crown option under Purchase tab in Housing Editor. Crown Option If you do use Crown option, it’s important to understand that these items are tied to your account. If you use a Crown to acquire an already decorated house, those furniture items will also be tied. This tab contains over 5000 pieces of furniture in the game. Even if you don’t plan on acquiring anything with a Crown, it can be a useful tool to help you determine exactly what furniture style and items you’re looking for. ESO Plus Benefits Also note that as part of ESO Plus your furniture limits are doubled, but if you fully renovate your house and lose your membership, the items you placed will stay where you left them. However, if you pick up and move an item after your membership ends, you won’t be able to place it again without increasing your furniture limits. As an ESO Plus member, you can expect to get a free piece of furniture in Crown Store every month to add to your collection. Antiquity Furnishings If you have access to Greymoor, Antiquity system is worth upgrading to get mythic items, and you can also mine a lot of wonderful furniture from leads. It’s important to note that furniture obtained through Scrying is bound when picked up, so you can’t sell them to other players. But there’s a lot of cool and sometimes large furniture here. Crafting Furniture You can craft new furniture by acquiring Furniture Plans, and making items yourself using your existing crafting skills and crafting tables. Furniture Plans can be found on chests, desks, backpacks, wardrobes, cabinets, trunks, nightstands, and urns. Different areas can drop different plans. You can also get plans and furniture from daily quests in each area, fishing, or running Infinite Archive. Of course, don’t forget to check Guild Traders. Other players may be selling plans and furniture you didn’t even know existed. While the cooldown for finding Furniture Plans has never been confirmed, the community believes that there is a cooldown window of up to 30 minutes after picking up a purple plan, during which you can’t pick up another one. How To Decorate Your House? Once you enter a house and enter build mode, you can place furniture from your inventory, house storage chests, collection and bank. Lock Position You can lock their position so that they automatically snap to surfaces, or move and place them freely. Link Items With free placement, you can even stack items together to build custom furniture. When you stack furniture on top of each other, it may seem cumbersome to move each item, but you can link their positions together to move them as one. You can choose an item as a parent, such as a table, and then link everything on the table together. Block Off Unfinished Areas You can also block off areas of your house that are not yet finished using wall or rock furnishings. Since small furnishing limits in extensive areas, it is also beneficial to block off areas you don’t want to decorate, so that you can invest the vast majority of your ESO Gold budget in areas you care about. Use Furniture In Different Ways Conversely, you can use stairs and floors to access areas of your house that you wouldn’t normally go to. You can even place items in the scenery around your house if you want to improve your vision. You can also flip furniture to use it in different ways, such as the underside of these Coldharbour rocks with a void effect, or the underside of Morrowind table map. Final Thoughts Houses are one of the most customizable parts of ESO Gold Road. There is no right or wrong way to decorate, and the options are endless. I hope this guide has given you some new house ideas, long-term goals worth working towards, or just helped you see the benefits of using them. Good luck!Jun-02-2024
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Unveiling The Elder Scrolls ...
Exciting times are upon the realm of Tamriel as The Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) unfurls its latest marvels with the launch of the Endless Archive and Update 40. While PC/Mac users are already immersed in the adventure, console players eagerly await the release on November 14. This base-game patch isn't just an ordinary update; it gifts all ESO players with an array of features and quality-of-life improvements, all for free! Endless Archive: Battling the Unfathomable Venture into the Endless Archive, a mystical stronghold under the influence of Hermaeus Mora. Chaos reigns within, and Master Malkhest beckons brave adventurers to unravel the mystery and quell the corruption. The Endless Archive introduces a dynamic PvE activity, offering a relentless challenge in the form of randomly generated stages, teeming with waves of monsters and formidable boss encounters. Unending Challenge: Dive into the Eternal Arena Solo explorers or those with trusted allies can delve into this ever-shifting arena. As you progress, the dangers escalate, providing a thrilling test. Three defeats, and your run ends, but with each challenge, the rewards grow. Choosing between temporary buffs (Verses) and permanent buffs (Visions) shapes your strategy and determines your success. Infinite Rewards: Riches Beyond Imagination The Endless Archive yields a trove of rewards, including unique collectibles, item sets, and class set items—a groundbreaking addition offering potent boons to select Class Skill Lines. Archival Fortunes, a new currency, lets you purchase helpful items, from buffs to permanent account unlocks, enhancing future runs. Uncover exclusive in-game collectibles that make your journey unforgettable. Getting Started: An Expedition for Everyone The Endless Archive is a complimentary base-game addition, accessible via two methods. Owners of the Necrom Chapter can find the entrance northeast of Cipher's Midden in Apocrypha, while others can teleport directly using the Endless Archive icon on the map. ESO Plus members enjoy a bonus to Archival Fortune gains during expeditions. Update 40: Elevating the ESO Experience Accompanying the Endless Archive, Update 40 introduces a plethora of features and quality-of-life improvements, enhancing the experience for all adventurers across Tamriel. Group Finder: Uniting Like Minds A novel Group Finder tool simplifies the process of finding fellow players for any in-game activity, from Trials and Dungeons to zone explorations, roleplay sessions, or fashion contests. Categories and customizable options offer flexibility, ensuring you find the right companions for your unique adventures. Grand Master Crafting Stations: Crafting Elevated For master crafters, Update 40 introduces Grand Master Crafting Stations—an end-game furnishing that consolidates attuned crafting stations, saving space in your home. Acquire them with Writ Vouchers from the Achievement Mediator, and witness them evolve visually as you feed them attuned crafting stations. Jewelry Crafting Rebalance: Streamlined Crafting A broad rebalancing of Jewelry Crafting aligns its costs with other crafting disciplines. The removal of Jewelry Crafting grains, conversion into platings, and adjustments to upgrade costs make upgrading rings and amulets more accessible. Quest XP & Gold Standardization: Consistent Rewards Update 40 standardizes Experience Point and Gold rewards for various quests, ensuring more consistent rewards based on complexity or length. This brings greater predictability to questing across zones, main storylines, prologues, dailies, and guild storylines. Conclusion The Endless Archive and Update 40 aren't just updates; they are grand expansions of The Elder Scrolls Online universe. Whether you're seeking endless challenges, unique rewards, or an enhanced crafting experience, ESO continues to evolve, offering new adventures for every player. Dive in, explore, and let the journey through Tamriel's ever-expanding wonders continue. May your exploits be legendary!Nov-21-2023