Sunday, January 22, 2017

Wrothgar Skyshards

There are several good maps online that provide the general location of Wrothgar Skyshards.  However, most of them lack the precision of Skyshards Archives - Dulfy.  Unfortunately Dulfy's site doesn't include Wrothgar.


1. Beneath the ruined aqueduct.




2. West of the cliff jumper’s falls.




3. Smuggled away in Shipwreck Cove.




4. On a stonecutter’s scaffold.




5. A seaside view from the cliffs of Morkul.





6. Above the ancient barrow.




7. Lost cargo on a frozen freighter.




8. Atop the frozen waterfall.




9. Overlooking the ice-bound Centurion.





10. Caught in the webs of the old city.

Inside of the Old Orsinium public dungeon.



11. Washed down river by Dwarven boilers.

Inside of the Rkindaleft public dungeon.




12. Surrounded by silver.

Inside of the Argent Mine delve.




13. An unusual egg for harpies.

Inside of the Coldperch Cavern delve.




14. Pried from a necromancer’s cold, dead hands.

Inside of Thukhozod’s Sanctum.




15. Kept as a prize in the cold Dwarf tomb.

Inside of Zthenganaz.




16. In a subterranean spider oasis.

Inside of Nikolvara’s Kennel.




17. Amidst the crumbling gargoyles.

Inside of Watcher’s Hold.


Saturday, January 7, 2017

ESO Screenshot Tips

When I first started searching the web for ESO tips, I assumed that all of the screenshots where created by PC gamers.

Not so.  It turns out that you can capture screenshots on the Xbox One by double tapping the power button and pressing Y.  I discovered this by accident because I'm not very coordinated.

To get the screenshots off of the console you can share them to OneDrive.  Then you can download them to your PC from the OneDrive website (if you're running Linux, like me).  It's probably even easier if you're running Windows.

Then I do some image processing using the ImageMagic convert program.

I start by shrinking and converting the images to JPEGs.

For the "view" I shrink the width to 800;

convert AboveAncientView.png -resize 800 AboveAncientView.jpg


For the map I shrink the width to 1024;

convert AboveAncientMap.png -resize 1024 AboveAncientMap.jpg

And then I crop it;

convert AboveAncientMap.jpg -crop 384x384+320+90 AboveAncientMap.jpg

I feel like this gives a pretty good balance between size and quality.

So I put a script named conmap in ~/.local/bin and it looks like this;

#!/bin/bash
if [ -f $1 ]; then
   FILE=$1
else
   echo "The file "$1" does not exist"
   exit 1
fi
JPG="${FILE%.*}".jpg
convert "${FILE}" -resize 1024 "${JPG}"
convert "${JPG}" -crop 384x384+320+90 "${JPG}"


I am obviously not a bash expert, but this works for my limited needs.

One Last Brawl

Grant 5 elderly Orc warriors a glorious death.


There is already an excellent map of the One Last Brawl locations here; One Last Brawl & Orsinium Patron - Knights of Nocturnal.

Since the NPC spawns at random times, unless you've already encountered the NPC, you may be asking "Am I looking in the right place?"

1. East of the Morkul Plain Wayshrine




2. West of the Morkul Plain Wayshrine





3. Northwest of the Siege Road Wayshrine




4. Northwest of the Two Rivers Wayshrine


I've included two views in case that helps.  It's at the bottom of the cliff.




5. Northeast of the Great Bay Wayshrine




6. West of the Great Bay Wayshrine


You can see this more easily while leaving Old Orsinium.



7. Southeast of the Siege Road Wayshrine


Not too close to the Siege Road or Frostbreak Ridge Wayshrines.



8. West of the Trader's Road Wayshrine