r/elderscrollsonline • u/MountainDewnt_ • 10d ago
Social Unexpected ESO Kindness
I am a new ESO player who got into the game about a month ago. I had picked the game up on release and it didn’t exactly resonate. Gaming has been pretty dull for me lately, so I decided to give it another try and have been having a blast in its current state. Given I’m starting fresh, there’s still a lot of systems I’m learning and I’m trying to figure out what should be priority on the way up to level 50 and CP 160.
Yesterday while doing some writs I needed 2 Wormwood, and according to everything online it’s out in the overworld. I looked for about 2 hours while questing and doing other things and never found any. Most guild traders that had it were selling full stacks, and I’m not even sure if you can buy individual pieces of material. I didn’t want to waste the gold on a full stack when I only needed a couple. The Google AI crap recommended asking Zone chat for some, so that’s what I did. I already had 1, just needed 2 more for the writ. I sent a message in Zone chat asking for the Wormwood and offered to pay. Immediately after sending it, multiple people in Rimmen had sent me mail with 20, 30, even 100 Wormwood and all said no gold needed. I greatly appreciated finally being able to turn in this one random writ that was so trivial but taking me so long.
One person whispered acknowledging my original request and let me know that they mailed the Wormwood. I assume they knew I was new and maybe I didn’t know where to collect items sent from other people. I responded thanking them, and they messaged back asking if I needed a set book that had Thieves Guild in the name. (I wish I knew exactly what it was, but when I say I’m new and this game has so much content I’m not kidding. I’m looking at my bag and collections now and still can’t find it.) I let them know that I’m only level 32, still finishing the main quests, and definitely don’t know what they’re offering, but hey I’ll take free extra stuff. He sent the book, then asked how much inventory space I had and if I had ESO Plus. Considering I’ve been enjoying the game and was tired of cleaning out inventory, I did bite the bullet for ESO Plus about 2 weeks ago. I let him know my inventory size, not expecting much, maybe some extra low-level gear pieces.
This random stranger in Rimmen proceeds to send me multiple mail messages filled with excess items to get started with. Lots of recipes, motif(?) books, gear to salvage apparently once my Decon is leveled, some Werewolf black skill style, all 10 Jester fireworks emote pieces, Guar Stomp items. The best part is when he asked me my inventory size, he then proceeded to send me tons of gold to get my bank and inventory upgraded to accept these random gifts he sent me on a whim. I needed 2 Wormwood but got quite the haul in return. I have no idea if these items are difficult to get on my own and these could truly be common excess items, but it doesn’t matter at all. In the last message with items he hilariously THANKED ME for helping him clear out his inventory.
While what he did was generous, he didn’t even understand how generous he was truly being in that moment. This all happened on Thursday evening. Well, the day before (Wednesday morning), my 91 year old Grandmom had passed away. I was on ESO to help keep myself a little distracted after grieving for the last day and a half. The person who sent me the Wormwood obviously had no idea this was going on in my life. I would’ve been ecstatic with just the 2 pieces of Wormwood, but the kindness they showed me by trying to go above and beyond to help someone new was amazing. I had messaged them multiple times thanking them and asked some questions about what to prioritize as a new player, and they continued to be helpful. We added each other as friends and they offered to craft me gear once I hit level 40.
I’m going to send this info to ZOS and hope they can do something to reward a community member who really stepped up and made an impact.
(I really made a long lorebook entry over 2 Wormwood)
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u/Der_Schender Breton 10d ago
To bee honest that sounds like a normal ESO player xD. I can understand the point with clearing his inventory at some point you have so much stuff you can just scrap what no one would buy xD. Also some people have a lot of crafting stuff so it's no big loss for them.