#altoholic

My dumb brain: roll a nightborne

Me: No, I want to keep playing Delvana, besides Nightborne are Horde and I wanna stick with Alliance races at least for now because-

Brain: Nightborne

Me: No I don't-

...because I go back and forth between Horde and Alliance blogs, and also because there are a few. I actually have more character blogs than this but due to lack of inspiration, these are the only ones I consider active. I’m always up for adventure/combat RP, research-type RP, social RP... whatever ya got.

My Horde blogs are on a separate account, and likes and follows Hordeside will come from vesdawnshimmer.

Anadira Darkember

-- Currently the most in-game-active Alliance character on my roster -- Ren’dorei “multi-arcanist” (read: warlock), scholar, and professional nerd -- Professor of Forbidden Magics at Dalaran U -- Some written things will be popping up on this girl’s blog soon(tm)

Kasinella Farley

-- This main blog -- Main Alliance alt -- Afflicted Gilnean Harvest Witch -- Tarot reader/fortune teller/botanist/great healer

Te’atali the Starseer

-- My Horde main -- Darkspear druid and mystic; disciple of Gonk -- Reads cards, roots, tea leaves, and stars -- Affiliate of the Cenarion Circle; faction neutral (more or less)

Vesperia Dawnshimmer

I’ve been working my tail off to get these pages done and after BFA hits more will be coming. Everyone’s favorite “Grandpa” will remain at his url and as the main blog now that I’m pulling away from most of my old muses, each new muse will be introduced into the Wild Cards story line. Wish me luck!

New OOC Blog!

Can be NSFW but will be tagged as NSFW

                                                 Wild Cards

~Azeraliah Morrowgaze - Ren'dorei - Warlock - #Az - FC: Emeraude Toubia~

Forced from home due to her affliction this former Heiress is now facing a new world without the privilege of a once lavish lifestyle, what will she do to survive?

~Sinire Windshade - Kaldorei - Demon Hunter - #Sinny - FC: Ruby Rose~

All that she loved was ripped away by the Legion, what was left of her youth devoted to gaining vengeance and saving what remained of home; now that the quest is done she faces a need for a cause to serve.

~Luna Buckley - Gilnean - Druid - #Luna - FC: Kat Graham~

The curse that devastated home robbed her of what remained of family due to her own lack of control, she still hides away in seclusion bearing the weight of her loss.

~Khazniah Nightmourn - Ren'dorei - Monk - #Khaz - FC: Alyssa Miller~

After years of work at the mysterious Training House, her apprenticeship has ended and the real work begins. For one year she must live by the strict rules of the Order to live comfortably with their support as she makes a name for herself.

Tessa Sunblossom - Half Quel'dorei - Priest - #Tessa - FC: Isabel Lucas - Tumblr/Discord Only~

Escaping the slaughter of the bloodline with her elder sister, this trade princess was raised as a child of the Order within the Training House. Taught by older children until repeating the cycle in her teens, then trained in the art of entertainment before reaching her coming of age and the choice was hers; did she leave and start out alone and on the streets or did she continue with her training and learn the intimate arts? With her love of the job she pressed forward and quickly learned her strengths, now as her twenty-first birthday approaches the end of her apprenticeship is within sight.

~Sariah Moonsprinter - Quel'dorei - Mage - #Sariah - FC: Liv Tyler Tumblr/Discord Only~

The war against the Legion had finally come to its end and this battle mage was finally able to return to her normal way of life; deep in the deserts of Uldum she has been away from the current world while delving into the past.

My guardian got a rework since I really do have too many High society/ Noble characters right now and I crave someone more gritty.

And as I just got pointed out: Yes I know her surname is LEIGHTON. But in my defense I don’t think I had Jessica at the time!

In any case, here she is. My warrior, my fierce creature of war, my fucked up piece of shit.

https://sophieleighton.tumblr.com/

🎃 A Guide to Preparing for Witches Festival 2k17

(UPDATED 2017)

by 🌺 lilambrosia (ARodianNip-slip)

ok hi this guide is a compilation of information that will mainly focus on Maximizing Returns for Witches Festival. The first part of the guide will focus on preparing your account for longevity while the second part will cover drop information and how to best get all of the festival-exclusive drops. We will first detail how to properly set up your alternate characters so you can focus on getting drops during the event while simultaneously leveling those characters. I would only recommend the first part of this guide if you already have a main account at Champion Level 160 or are very familiar with the long-run portion of ESO. This will prevent possible “grind burn-out” if you have not already experienced much of the game on a main.

🎃 The Basic Basis:

Witches Festival is a ~2 week event where you can get +100% Experience

Plunder Skulls will drop from bosses during this event from any boss. Many items can be found inside the Plunder Skulls including Runebox masks alongside exclusive motif, furniture and provisioning recipes including the BiS recipe for magicka-based users.

A full list of items and much more information on this will be provided later.

🎃 How to Get the Most:

Alts- all of the alts that u wish for.

From a Catalyst Tank, a Blossom Healer, or even an Orc the Stamsorc Gatherer- make ANY alt that you wish, but make sure you choose the correct race for the build that you will want in the end. We will be preparing these alts to use during the festival, and they will get many, many drops in the leveling process.

PLS NOTE: There is no longer an experience cap. It is possible that ZOS will bring back the +Experience% Cap for the duration of this festival. Previously this cap was +185% Experience, has since been lifted, but MAY return during this two week period. 

🎃 Preparing all of the Alts:

Choose your race wisely. Alcast and Xynode provide great info about tested up-to-date builds that you may find useful if you wish for help choosing the best race for your desired class and build.

Skip the Tutorial. Open your options and turn Auto Loot on, Profanity Filter off, turn Nameplates on (then Friendly Players: Targeted), change Resource Numbers to ‘number and percent,’ turn all Combat Text on, toggle All Buffs on (then Permanent Effects off).

Join the Undaunted, Fighters, and Mages Guilds; interact with each of the 6 crafting stations (no need to craft anything), then pick a pocket or open a locked door/chest. This will unlock all of the skill lines for your alt. Equip 5/1/1 armor with the Training trait (ex. 5 medium / 1 light / 1 heavy) to level all of the armor-based skill lines simultaneously. Your weapon(s) of choice should also have the Training Trait for now.

You may also stack with any Experience Potions or Scroll without capping. IF the +Experience% Cap of 185% returns, you will now be at +max XP% (for monsters killed). This is counting the +100% Experience from the event, +80% for full Purple Training Gear (+90% if dual-weild), and +10% if you are a subscriber to ESO+, meaning there will be no need for XP Pots during the event (not confirmed, only applicable if the +Experience% Cap is returning for the event). You may also stack with any Experience Potions or Scroll without capping

Slot 1 skill from each of the 3 Class skill lines and level up your character however you wish until you reach Level 10. This will allow you to enter Cyrodiil. Enter Cyrodiil and complete (or skip) the Cyrodiil tutorial to unlock the Assault and Support skill lines. Assault’s Rapid Maneuver (no morph) will be very useful during this event and unlocks immediately without requiring any PvP. Optional: You may wish to PvP for additional skillpoints gained from both leveling your PvP rank and leveling your character. The skills Vigor, War Horn, Revealing Flare, or Caltrops may also be of interest to your build.

Slot Rapid Maneuver. This will allow for quick travel between bosses during the event. Your alt is now ready for fast leveling and Witches Festival Farming.

This week prior to the event, it is recommended that your time is spent upgrading your stable, gathering skyshards, questing, PvP’ing, or being carried through dungeons for skillpoints- ANYTHING involving the gain of skillpoints. Do not worry about leveling your character as we’ll be able to do this quickly during the event. It is also recommended that you level all of your crafting trees to 50 during this week to allow your alt to be able to do Daily Crafting Writs. Remember, deconstructing ~275 level 10 potency glyphs will get you from 1 to 50 Enchanting provided that you are allocating skillpoints to the crafting tree.

This whole section was created to help maximize your alt and ensure you’re focusing on getting returns from the festival by minimizing the amount of time spent doing random preparation-based things. Taking these steps can wildly boost multiple characters while you farm the exclusive loots for your main. Spending this week before the event gaining skillpoints on your alts can ensure that they are ready for end-game builds and/or are able to do daily crafting writs. Easy Gold; Easy Materials.

🎃 How to Begin Witches Festival:

Go to the Crown Store and obtain the free Crow Caller whistle

Use the whistle and complete the quest The Witchmother’s Bargain.

Use the quest reward Witchmother’s Whistle  to summon a Witchmother’s Cauldron. Using the whistle will grant you and your party +100% Experience for 2 hours, while interacting with the cauldron will turn you into an undead for 2 hours. Special Boss Rewards, Plunder Skulls, can be obtained with or without use of the whistle and cauldron.

Once the event is over, you’ll be able to keep the Witchmother’s Whistle as a memento, but all of its supernatural powers will be gone.

🎃 How to Effectively Farm for Plunder Skulls:

You now have alt characters that can level hella while gathering all of the event items that you want for your main. You will be farming bosses on these alts for the Plunder Skulls.

There will be easy ways to farm bosses. Your goal is to farm Plunder Skulls, an item that drops from bosses. Overworld bosses, Dungeon bosses, Delve bosses, Dolmen Bosses- even the purple random event overworld bosses will drop Plunder Skulls. The drop rate is 100%, though there will be an invisible 3 minute cooldown timer for the drop frequency of Plunder Skulls. Meaning you will always get one as long as 3 minutes has passed since the last boss has been downed.

Here is a Plunder Skull add-on for PC users,

though any 3-minute timer set after death will suffice. As a PS4 player I consistently have timers ready.

The quickest way to farm bosses but also not give a damn about the cooldown timer is to continuously run Fungal Grotto 1 or to join normal dungeon PUG groups. Either way you’ll be killing 3 bosses every 6 minutes with no downtime, effectively farming experience and plunder skulls while ignoring the timer. This will create a more casual grind, though it’d still demand active attention from the player.

Other possibly effective locations:

Delves: (boss spawns every 5 minutes after death)

Gold Coast delve bosses have a chance to drop Assassin’s League motif pages; Hew’s Bane Delve bosses have a chance to drop Outlaws motif pages

Dolmens: (dolmen begins 5 minutes after downed)

The top 12 DPS / Tank / Healers will be rewarded with a drop from the boss

Dungeons:

Maelstrom Arena is great for solo play.

Undaunted Dailies are great for Double XP + daily keys.

Silken Ring motif pages may drop drom the final boss in Cradle of Shadows. Mazzatun motif pages may drop from the final boss in Ruins of Mazzatun.

Any Normal dungeon with 3 minute timer set between boss downs are effective for Plunder Skull farming.

Public Dungeons:

Wrothgar public dungeon bosses have a chance to drop Ancient Orc motif pages.

Vvardenfel’s Forgotten Waste has mobs that will drop pieces of the Sixth Robe Costume Runebox. Vvardenfel’s Nchuleftingth’s mobs have a chance to drop pieces of the Dwemer Theodolite Pet Runebox. 

🎃 What Items Drop from Plunder Skulls?

All items from 2016 are available in the 2017 Plunder Skulls.

Below are all of the drops, listed by year:

Witches Festival 2017′s added unique drops:

Runebox: Hollowjack Spectre Mask

Runebox: Thicketman Spectre Mask

Pattern (Purple): Witches Corpse, Wrapped (Clothing)

Praxis (Blue): Hagraven Cauldron, Rough Stone (Enchanting)

Random Loot: Alchemical Resin, Bast, Clean Pelt, Decorative Wax, Heartwood, Mundane Rune, Regulus

Furnishing Item (Blue)

Witches Bones, Offering

Witches Totem, Gnarled Vines and Skull

Witches Totem, Twisted Vines and Skull

Furnishing Item (Green):

Branch, Curved Burnt

Branch, Curved Laurel

Branch, Forked Burnt

Branch, Forked Laurel

Branch, Sturdy Burnt

Branch, Sturdy Laurel

Saplings, Burnt Cluster

Saplings, Burnt Sparse

Saplings, Burnt Tall

Shrub, Burnt Brush

Witches Festival 2016 had 26 possible unique drops:

Runebox: Scarecrow Spectre Mask

Runebox: Pumpkin Mask

Motif: Individual Hollowjack Motif Pages (1-14)

Style Crafting Ingredient: Amber Marble (Hollowjack trait stone)

Recipe (Gold): Double Bloody Mara

Recipe (Purple): Witchmother’s Potent Brew

Recipe (Purple): Witchmother’s Party Punch

Recipe (Blue): Crisp and Crunchy Pumpkin Snack Skewer

Recipe (Blue): Crunchy Spider Skewer

Recipe (Blue): Ghasty Eye-Bowl

Recipe (Blue): Bowl of “Peeled Eyeballs”

Recipe (Blue): Frosted Brains

Recipe (Green): Sweet Sanguine Apples

Random: Loot that may contain “creepy” themed crafting items such as Guts, Spider Eggs, Crawlers, etc.

🎃  Witches Festival In-Game Achievements

there are a total of 140 achievement points obtainable only by participating during the annual Witches Festival (with the exception of learning every chapter of the Hollojack Motif Style as it can be purchased year ‘round). Below are a list of the Titles, Details, and Points of each achievement.

Pumpkin Pairs Well With Guts - Drink the Witchmother's Brew during the Witches Festival. (5) Achievement Points

Plunder Skull Enthusiast - Earn your first Plunder Skull. (5) Achievement Points

Plunder Skull Aficionado -  Earn 50 Plunder Skulls. (10) Achievement Points

Plunder Skull Fanatic - Earn 100 Plunder Skulls. (15) Achievement Points

Reaper's Harvest - Complete the Witchmother's Bargain quest. (5) Achievement Points

Happy Work For Hollowjack - Collect and learn every chapter of the Hollowjack style book found during the Witches Festival. (50) Achievement Points

An Unsparing Harvest - Complete the listed achievements for the Witches Festival.  (50) Achievement Points

🎃  Conclusion

Thank you for bearing with me throughout my first guide. I will be updating this to keep up with newly released information in 2018. If you have any questions, recommendations, or would like to roast this guide, feel free to message me here.

I’m not dead! Well, I was kind of dead for a few weeks but I’m back to drawing again.