ESO: meet Your Skooma Supplier

Your Skooma Supplier is the name of my new Khajit Sorcerer in ESO (The Elder Scrolls Online.

(Khajits are the best, by the way.)

I'm joining my old raid team over on PC after playing on console for a few years. Here's my first impressions of ESO on PC vs on console.

PC play is less buggy

In general, there are not as many glitches and bugs with NPCs, controls, and lets not forget the random crashes and "unusually long load times." I don't miss any of that at all.

QoL add-ons are fantastic

As this is a from scratch character, I need to go hunt down those skyshards for skill points, and lore books too while I'm at it. (I streamed doing that today.) I've used every skill in the Mage's Guild tree at one time or another.

The population is way higher

Zone chat is still active at off hours. I see lots of other players in the overworld even in out-of-the-way areas.

The culture seems different

I think people are even RPing over on PC. That is wild to me. On XBox there was just that one Argonian-only guild. Or you had to have at least one Argonian character to join.

Guild shouts have a theme of no empty applications. Hell, near the end we had shout runners advertising our guild around in different zones to get fresh blood. The raid scene was hemorrhaging players faster than we could replenish the ranks.

Sweats

Speaking of, there's a lot of "anti-sweat" sentiment. I'll admit I was a sweat and am still proud of my extremely high parses, even known in my circles as King of DPS. I held in-game classes to mentor players.

I did writeups, parsed several times a week, and was fluent on every class. So maybe I was a sweat but I wasn't an asshole. And, I do feel like the titles and other milestones I achieved did have meaning because I had a community around me to celebrate them and the opportunity to pass on knowledge to others. By the time I quit, some of my former students were pulling titles I didn't even have.

But someone was telling dad jokes in zone chat, and someone else was talking about ketamine, and someone was asking for help with world bosses. I felt right at home.

So, time to take advantage of the double XP gain going on right now amd get this character some levels because raiding is back on the menu, boys!