Lord Zorvan ayatesart Thanks for the insight!  It’s OK.  After this situation and trying out Black Desert, I’ve gone back to WOW and I’m casually playing some LOTRO, so going old-school for now!  

I think TESO is a great game.  I look forward to seeing how they implement player housing and maybe when it’s time for that I’ll have a new video card.

ayatesart Also for reference, this is the list of DX12 compatible cards for Nvidia: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/dx12/supported-gpus?field_gpu_type_value=All

ayatesart Lord Zorvan It sucks, but DX10 is going on 10 years old. Time to put it to pasture. DX12 is here, which means DX11 will be taking it’s own bow shortly. Luckily, modern DX11 cards all the way back to 400 series ( basically Fermi and above cards ) are all DX12 compatible. That’s on the Nvidia side, wouldn’t know ( or care lol ) about AMD.
Microsoft, and game developers as a whole, made the biggest mistake by continuing to develop for DX9 ( and 32 bit OS’s while we’re at it ) for so many years. It held software development back. Hopefully they never make that mistake again.
I run a GTX660 and play on high settings ( except for shadows, those go on low ) at 2560×1440 and stay at 60fps the majority of the time ( I don’t pvp so mileage may vary in Cyrodick ). You don’t need the newest, greatest card  to play any game today regardless what paid shill developers or card manufacturers would have you believe. Shop around and you can probably find a sweet deal on a card that’ll get you up in running in ESO for a decent price.

Mortam ..the point of the TG quests is to sneak LOL. Its not very non sneak friendly on purpose.

Lord Zorvan I can’t play with DirectX10, apparently.  The game looked good on my cpu. Too bad..I was starting to get back into it and I’m not really ready to buy a new video card.

Watching the dx9 players whine and cry has been more entertaining than the DLC. Wish more developers would have the balls to make people get with the times and stop holding progress back.

Mortam Have you tried sneaking? Guards can’t be killed so you have to pay attention to where they are and sneak past them.

So I tried doing the first quest for Thief Guild on my 22 Templar – yeah not so much. Even though I was boosted up in level, and I can kill the mobs, I can’t get past the guards and they kill me every time.

Elikal Ialborcales Your character’s stats will be upscaled to the level of the new region, so no worries there. You probably won’t be able to do the raid, but open world should be fine.

I ended up grabbing this on PS4 since it was £10 in the bargain bin at Game and while the main mmo stuff is pretty much what i expected: diet coke elder scrolls with butchered lore, but i’ll be damned i didnt waste hours doing the legerdemaine and justice achievement stuff right off the bat, i think i had the 10k horse by day 3 and lvl.6 just because the first big ebonheart town was great fun to sneak around and steal from. So of all the dlc this has this is finally something that interests me over another endgame of killing stuff because reasons.