I know if I do too much, I'm going to burn out and it will feel like everything (especially the quests) are a chore once I have to do them again at launch. At the same time, how can I resist stepping back into the world and playing around? I almost wish there wasn't going to be another beta so there would be no temptation.

Just play your least favourite Alliance's quest during the beta, it might help!

Edit: If you hate the Covenant, be sure to play the Pact questline, those Covenant ppl are ruthless Necromancers!

I plan to funk around the world not doing the quests even though they are hard to avoid, since it would be fun to try lvl 15 only 3 more lvls..

I did avoid doing the main quest in last beta though. Did some random quests.

I found leveling to be too slow without quests. How did you do it?

Oh, I guess there is PvP, if we get to keep our chars. I doubt that will get old.

That's why I made characters only in EP. I'll probably stick to PvP next time, or play around with different builds some more. I'm joining AD in April, so everything will be fresh and new.

ye. i probably won`t play with my main Altmer char. i have a lvl 1 redguard warrior still siting in hes cell in cold harbour. and since the DC is my least fav faction i don`t think it is going to have any effect on my game experience after release.

Not at all lol. It's a great game, and I'm more than happy to jump in again, hence the pre-order lol. I've been in more than one already.

That said, it'll be kinda painful to be parted from my character on go-live. You do get kinda attached lol. BUT, it's testing. There are bugs to find and fix. Needs to be done, and anything we can do to help add polish is worth doing well.

Maybe I'll get a chance to try something else. Perhaps a sorcerer with knockback. They look COOL, having seen one in my last party. Blowing an enemy 20 foot back and blasting their face off is pretty swish (and probably the reason why she didn't bother socketing any heals lol). Maybe I'll try some weird hybrid healer with undaunted skills. Maybe a nightblade healer. I'm told the syphon heal approach with a resto staff makes for a wicked character, and a very strong pvp healer with awesome takedowns when you need them. Soooo many options and so little time.

At the moment, I'm pretty attached to my current character so maybe I'll roll with that again. Who knows. The joys of replayability.

Having played through the starting areas for all three alliances I don't feel they have a re-playability factor. But, that is not unique to this game.

What makes it worse is that until you get to the 3rd or 4th zone (depending on how you count) there is (so far) a set number of things to do with gates. I would not have participated in the last beta if I had to start over.

Seemed to me that exploration xp was pretty good. I was determined to find a racial crafting book before the end of the last beta. So I made it a point to search out every single hovel, hut, shack, shanty, building, office. treasure chest, tomb etc I could find just to pillage the containers. (I learned quickly that the good stuff is in dressers, desks, and cabinets) But by doing that, I discovered so many other cool things. Like skill books. it seemed as though about 1 out of every 20 or so books that you find and read actually offer skill points in random catagories. I also found lots of Provisioning recipes, gathered tons of crafting materials, and found myself getting hooked on both exploration and crafting at the same time. But I was steadily gaining levels all the while.

So every time I would see a quest npc, I would say ok, i'll get back to him later.... but never did because I was soo hooked on exploration.

In the end I still gained a few levels while doing hardly any quests, got every skyshard, maxed out Blacksmithing..... and YES finally found a High Elf crafting book in a dresser. I was soo excited to finally find one. it felt rewarding.. Then of course I had to rush back to a forge and make my Orc a full set of High Elf Plate mail lol.

So in a nutshell, got some good xp and had tons of fun while not questing very much at all.

Can't do EP. Even just for beta. Something about snow I just hate. I want heat, enough to melt in. But maybe I can explore the Daggerfall area some more.

Crafting is another good idea. I enjoyed taking screenshots during beta and comparing the different races and styles.

I will be doing the same as I've been doing the entire monday of the last test, spend my time running around the starter island in Daggerfall Covenant, gathering crafting materials and getting more used to how to effectively deck out my character in which pieces of armor.

My Redguard has the Bosmer and Nord crafting styles she found in Cold Harbour, and ofcourse I hope for finding more in random containers

Edit: ofcourse trying to find bugs as well, seeing there were a few spots to fall through the world and all.

Altho i understand you don't want to spoil your fun before release i really need one more beta event so i can see some more things i didn't have the time to see and make my thoughts about a build i have in mind more clear.

Also i want to try a dungeon and see for my self how this experience is.