Do it,
Buddy Bradley - do it!! I'm not one for statues and other ephemera - the only thing that might have tempted me was the map - I love maps - but a map isn't worth an extra £20 imo. So although I do prefer a physical copy of things I pre-order, I opted for the digital Imp Edition instead. It just made more financial sense.
Great screenshots,
Epona. I only took a handful.
Somewhere up a mountain in Stonefalls, completely out of the way.
I died! But we took the keep.
It was a fantastic experience. Someone resurrected me shortly after I took this. It started lagging badly on Sunday in Cyrodiil, but everyone was complaining of the same thing so I don't think it was necessarily a problem with server distance in this case. I'm still on the fence about what server to choose. Someone I've played other MMOs with tried the beta this weekend and has gone from "eh, idk, it doesn't really inspire me" to "omg, I think I really do want the game". He's in the US and doesn't have the best internet connection, and I'd absolutely want to team up with him, so that might force my hand. I'll have to see how Cyrodiil is at launch.
Enjoying the view of Red Mountain from the shores of the Argonian village behind Ebonheart.
And here's that view.
Right after I took that picture, up the little path to the left a dark anchor dropped. So I swam across and helped 6 or 7 other people close it. It was a great experience! Then it dropped again maybe 10 minutes later but bugged and so was there from then on until beta ended.
On that same shore by the Argonian village, having just swam back from closing the anchor.
I got that nice robe from PvP, I'm not sure what style it is in.
On a little island across from the Argonian village.
I had a quest there, and you can see the marker if you look closely. Turning off the hud doesn't get rid of them, unfortunately. I think I read they are giving the option to turn off markers as well, but I'm not sure if that was ZOS who said that or someone making an addon. My memory is faulty.
I took others but that's all I have uploaded so far.
I got to level 13 in the end and felt pretty powerful. In my experience, the difficulty does suddenly ramp up a bit around level 7 or so, and I started feeling rather squishy. But after level 9+ I felt a bit more substantial. There are anomalies though. I can't stand fighting scamps no matter what level because they are little bastards. On the other hand, I was level 11-12 and killing 2 or 3 level 14 covenant soldiers at a time. I don't mind those discrepancies though, because it keeps you on your toes. Sometimes you will feel powerful, but then all of a sudden something will hand your arse to you on a plate and you'll run away licking your wounds thinking "what the everloving fuck?"
In related news, Gutstripper was so much easier this time around because I learned you can keep hopping on his little platform and his pathing means he can't hop down the same way as you and has to go around. Not sure if they'll change that or not though. But exploiting the environment is a must for many hard fights. The one at the end of the fighter's guild line took me forever as a nightblade archer last beta, but was a lot easier as a dragonknight fire mage this time around, mostly because I had more rocks and stuff to use to block attacks, plus I knew to kill the adds that heal it quickly. I didn't know that until I'd been fighting it for ages last time >_<
So I've quit for the night I think. I didn't see a single other enemy player in there, but I don't think I got far enough in. There was a keep under attack nearby but I was a bit too scared to go and see! Maybe tomorrow 
I bet that's when the lag will start to hurt.
for the Imperial Edition. You get a couple of days extra early access, plus some other bits and pieces though.
