Gaming

I improved a thing!
When I was talking about the tabs in the crafting stations I forgot about the middle one which lets you improve items. I've ignored it until now because there's always a chance that you destroy the item in the process so it's not worth trying on important stuff but today I got a better axe (I make them look like daggers in the Outfit station as I think they look nicer when carrying them but underneath that "disguise" they are indeed axes) so I thought I'd have a go with the one that would be replaced.
It seems like you can increase the chances of success by using more of the improvement material (in this case it was Dwarven Oil) so I got it up to 45% and clicked the button and... it worked!
Then I noticed that I had the material for the next stage too (which was Grain Solvent) so.... Yeah, go on then.
I had enough for 60% chance and clicked the button and... Improved it again!
It now appears with purple text in the Inventory! Which is good... I think.

Also after levelling up those Woodworking AND Metalworking skills I now have access to more materials which means... another four slots in my bank are needed.
It's OK, it's not quite full. I'm up to about 98 out of 110 but even so.
It was only the other day that I paid 20 grand to get it over a hundred.

EDIT: I'm now thinking I should perhaps sell some of the stuff that's over double stacked. It's kind of annoying that they only stack up to 200 and I have a few materials (maple, oak, iron, steel, etc) all with an amount of over 400 which takes up three slots for each of them, and that's not including the slots for Rough/Ore.
Or maybe I should create another character and make them each carry some of it all to spread the burden. *hmm* again.
"Lift with the legs, always the legs." As the guy at the Quartermaster's sometimes says.

"It's not a race," I say to myself again as I slowly stroll around in ESO.
Had to do a bit of harvesting today and people kept getting to the nodes just before me.
Apparently everyone had the same idea of going to Dhalmora where there are lots of useful resources around the Wayshrine (and a chest. Shhh. Don't tell anyone. )
So I just had to be patient as people dashed in front of me. Especially that woman wearing the helm with the horns. Three times she appeared from nowhere and got to the iron ore before me.
At least she didn't gloat.

It wasn't me. I completely forgot ESO yesterday. Might keep forgetting it, it's not really fun enough for the learning curve. Or just not fun enough. I dunno.

It's the opposite for me, I find it quite addictive and end up playing it even if I intended to play something else. I log in just to claim the daily rewards then I think "seeing as I've launched it I may as well take 10 minutes to do the crafting jobs" and then I may as well do the endeavours too. And without realising I'm suddenly doing some harvesting and- oh is that a chest over there? And now there's a character from the Fighters Guild calling for me and then I'm off on a quest and I'm exploring a new place and... I no longer have time to play the other game.
So it's still fun for me but the MMO stuff does get annoying with the grind and the inventory and the premium currencies. It would be a much better game without all that.

I've also been back playing Trials Rising recently too, when I give myself time. The DLC expansions were on sale at the Ubisoft store so I grabbed them and I'm now back to crashing my bike on all the new tracks.

I think maybe deep down there's a small MMO lover inside you

Definitely not!

*thinks about installing Guild Wars*

Didn't you have that installed already?

No, I only ever played that on GeForceNow. I couldn't fit it on my hard drive but I have plenty of space now should I wish to bother with it again.

Oh I see.

If I did install it then it'd be one of those occasions where the cloud saves don't match the local saves and I might even have to start again with new characters.
But I'd have to find the time to install and play and I struggle to find the minutes to play the stuff I already have installed.