PTS: Group Dungeons with Templated Characters

[Deandra]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to run group dungeons with an end-game character? Maybe you've wondered what it's like to play a totally different role from what you usually do? Well, now's your chance to try out whatever your heart desires!

This Saturday, Jan 31, and maybe on Sunday too, I will organize a few dungeon runs for templated v14 characters only on the PTS. If you're interested in joining, here's what you need to do:

• Get set up to play on the PTS, and then log in there.
• Optional but recommended: Figure out how to log on our Mumble server
• Make a Pact templated character. You can do this by picking the template from the dropdown at the top left of the character creation screen. If we're all on the Pact, then we'll all be able to play together.
• Take some time to figure out what's in their inventory. You get a lot of stuff. You want to make sure you're wearing some gear that matches the role you have in mind.
• Figure our your skills, equipment and champion points.
• Let the rest of us know about your new character and which role(s) you think you'd like to try.

Note that you won't be able to morph any skills until you use them a bit, but once you do morph them, they'll be rank 4 of the morph. This is probably a bug.

Specific times TBA.

I made a templar healer last night, and I can't wait to try her out

[baratron]

Also, and I cannot emphasise this strongly enough, if you want to join in then download the PTS now. Here's an explanation of how to do it from our very own UESP wiki.

The reason I'm saying to download the PTS now is that if you've never used it before, the download is well over 30 GB - and even if you have, this patch is about 16 GB. And it's easy to say "But I have fast internet" and calculate that it should take about an hour, but you're limited by the speed of Zenimax's servers, which don't seem to go above 3 Mb/s. Therefore, the 30 GB download takes a good 10 hours for most people.

Also, since it is such a large download, if you have any "unmetered" time in your broadband subscription when you can download as much as you like (e.g. mine is midnight to 7 am), you want to time the download to happen then.

We are thinking about starting the dungeon runs at 6.30 pm GMT / 1.30 pm EST / 10.30 am PST. Therefore, please either set up a V14 Templated Character in Ebonheart Pact NOW, or get online from 5pm GMT / noon EST / 9 am PST. It will honestly take an hour or so to get your character set up (more if you're fussy about looks).

Look forward to seeing you then!