• Rolis Hlaalu, the Mastercraft Mediator in each alliance capital
• Zanil Theran, the Luxury Furnisher, can be found in the Hollow City at weekends
• Achievement Furnishers, can be found "throughout Tamriel, including Cyrodiil"
• Home Goods Furnishers, "throughout Tamriel in each alliance's main city and all capitals"

ztyhurstub17_ESO wrote: »

I think it is funny you get a lot of achievements for buying a furnished house with crowns. I would think the achievements would be reserved for players that craft items themselves.

MarkusLiberty wrote: »

Couple of bugs I found:
Floating pillows in the pre-furnished Sentinel home

Patch Notes wrote:

• Guild Reprints of Shalidor's Library
  • After you complete a collection from Shalidor's Library, a Mages Guild reprint of that collection will be available on any Mystic for a moderate fee.
  • Each reprint contains individual volumes of every book in that collection. These reprint volumes can be placed in your home, and you or your guests can read them at any time.
  • Reading a reprint volume does not grant Mages Guild reputation or progress towards Shalidor's Library--only the original version of a book counts for that!

Kikazaru wrote: »

I think it would be awesome if I can hire NPCs like a cook, butler, minstrel, guards, etc, etc for my manors. I want my homes to feel more alive!

• Did you complete the initial quest to acquire your apartment? Did you run into any issues?
  I didn't do the quest because I was impatient to get to the house stuff so I just bought the houses I wanted with pretend crowns.
  
• Home Previewing
• Were you able to successfully preview a home and buy it with gold?
  Previewing was generally fine, but I didn't buy any homes with gold because of the aforementioned impatience. Also it occurred to me later that I would have had less pretend gold to throw at furnishings if I had bought my houses with gold so I'm glad I didn't do that (at least for PTS; I intend to buy everything on live with gold).
  
• How did you preview the home? Did you do it via the Crown Store, Collections UI, or just walk up to the door?
  Crown store, because it was the fastest and easiest way to quickly look at a lot of homes.
• Were you able to figure out how to switch between previewing a furnished/unfurnished home?
  I didn't realize you could preview a furnished home. I only noticed that you could switch to furnished when I had already decided to throw pretend crowns at a furnished home just to see what they would give me. As others have mentioned, tying the preview options to the Buy Home button is confusing.
• Furnishing Sourcing
• Were you able to purchase and place furnishings from Achievement Furnishers?
  Yes. It was initially hard to find the Achievement Furnishers and it's a bit confusing and inconvenient to have to travel to every zone to get everything related to achievements, but once I got used to the system it makes sense somewhat that you get the zone-specific items in the zone where you got the achievements. If there's a way to preview items before buying from NPC vendors, I didn't see it, but that would be excellent to have, especially since currently most icons don't show you what the actual item looks like.
  
  I had the same issue that others did where large items were difficult to see and place because of their size.
• Were you able to purchase furnishings from Zanil Theran the Luxury Furnisher?
  Yes. I probably wouldn't have found him if I hadn't already been in the Hollow City looting everything for new blueprints, but once I stumbled across him I had no trouble buying and using his wares.
• Did you get any Undaunted Busts from dungeon bosses? If so, which one was your favorite?
  I don't run a lot of dungeons in general so I haven't tried this.
• Specialty Furnishings
• Were you able to find the reprints of Shalidor’s Library books, place them, and read them?
  Once I realized that regular trade/craft vendors sold new housing stuff, I found a mystic that sold a lot of book collections. (I probably wouldn't have known to visit a mystic for library books if I hadn't been checking every vendor I saw.) I bought three of the collections. It was not immediately clear that they were containers that wouldn't show up in my housing UI until I opened them. I actually sort of forgot about them until I saw another mystic and thought "wait didn't I already buy some books" and checked my inventory until I found the containers.
  
  The fact that you can take out individual books from the container is good, because all of those books would take up a crapton of space individually if you had to take them all out at once.
  
  I had some issues when I tried to place the books in my furnished home (Hunding's Palatial Hall). The books are too large to fit on bookshelves the way you would normally orient them, so I had to lay them flat. In this orientation only two books could fit on each shelf. This will be immediately problematic if someone wants to display an entire collection on one shelf, or even find a place for all of the books in a container without just having piles of books stacked all over the place.
  
  Once I had placed the books, it took some time for an interact prompt to appear after I switched out of the editor, but after that I was able to read the book fine.
• Did you understand how to use the various light sources?
  The prompt when I hovered over the lighting items was clear, yes.
• Were you able to sit on chairs, both in a home and throughout the world? Was it clear which chairs you could sit on?
  I didn't try sitting on chairs outside my home. Chairs within the home were buggy as other people have mentioned. I'd immediately stand up after sitting, there were clipping issues with my character, and when I tried to sit on an Altmer throne that my goat was already occupying, I got stuck inside the throne until I wiggled my way out. Also some chairs in the furnished home gave me the sit prompt and others didn't, so I didn't know which ones I could use without hovering over everything to see what gave me the prompt.
• Were you able to allow or restrict other players to enter your home?
  I didn't play with permissions at all.
• Did you duel inside your home? How was the experience?
  I'm not the dueling type.
• Did you like the housing-related achievements and titles?
  I didn't inspect these enough to say so. I noticed a lot of achievements popping up for learning blueprints and gathering new materials and I guess you get some for having a certain number of furnishings in your home based on the ones that popped up when I bought the furnished large home. So those are cool to have for doing what I'm doing anyway, and I'll have to look closer to see if there are any titles or dyes that I want to work toward.
  
  The only titles I'm aware of right now are the ones for buying manors, which are nice titles but probably not something that I would throw money at unless I decided it was worth spending all that money for the home(s) itself.
• Which was your favorite home, and why?
  Of the ones I visited, the Hunding's Palatial Hall, because of the large, varied, and lovely outside amenities and the ample indoor space. I'll probably put off buying that, though, since I'd feel more comfortable starting with one of the smaller and more manageable homes.
  
  I'm currently leaning toward buying Mournoth Keep because it has a lot of space in the courtyard and I like the levels and entrances of the interior, and my Breton likes the idea of being in a little isolated nook of High Rock. (It remains to be seen whether that dolmen right outside will be annoying, though. I don't know yet if you get ambient noise from outside the estate.)
• What did you think of the prices for each home?
  They're aight. Honestly my wallet is more concerned about the overall cost of all of the achievement-related furnishings I'll want to buy, which will easily add up to more than I spend on a house (see my earlier post about that).
  
  The difference in pricing between houses of the same tier is interesting. I checked out the Gorinir Estate because it was the cheapest large home that wasn't made of mud, and I was very impressed with the exterior space while the pods themselves were quite modest. It's still a good option for someone who wants to save half a mil off of the more generously appointed Hunding palace. But in some cases, as others have mentioned, you'd have to weigh what you're getting for the price.
• Are you an ESO Plus member?
  No. At some point I'm planning to sub for a month to take advantage of some perks, but that will be a temporary thing.
• Do you have any other general feedback?
  It's difficult to find relevant NPCs until you stumble across them. I'd particularly like it if the master crafter dude was around permanently so I could see what he's offering without having to already have a master writ in hand. I spent a while searching for him in-game before I found a forum post that explained that prerequisite.
  
  Item previews and placements need to be scaled or something so that you can see the entire item while you're previewing or placing it.
  
  It's good to be able to merge items into walls or floors or whatever if we want, but often even when I had the surface sliding or whatever it was called on, items would go through walls or other previously-placed items making it hard to place the new item in a realistic fashion. More collision I guess would be good if we have that setting enabled.
  
  My excitement at finding new blueprints was quickly harshed by the realization that I didn't have the mats to make them. Part of that was the fact that I hadn't gone gathering the new materials yet, but needing 20 or 50 of something for a single item is a huge mat sink. (And I say that as a hoarder who has a pretty decent stash.)
  
  As a questing completionist, I kind of dig the quest achievement requirements for buying houses with gold, but I can see that being off-putting to people who like a home but haven't done the 60+ quests to get Grahtwood Adventurer or whatever.
  
  I'd still really like the option to mount rare fish I've caught on the walls. The Master Angler boat is rad, and I'll definitely be looking for goodies to fish up, but it'd be cool to get some along-the-way accoutrements for those of us who haven't quite reached Master Angler yet.
  
  Also I found more stolen items I'd like to have in my house during my looting spree than I found blueprints, and none of the blueprints were for the kind of awesome stolen stuff I'd like to have. Furniture is nice and all, but can I get a model pirate ship or a Dibella figurine?
  
  Having furnishings taking up regular inventory space is going to make me cry.
  
  The cheese grater item from the Mages Guild guy has the wrong Mages Guild quest listed as a prerequisite.
  
  /just throwing stuff out there