New ESO player here. What are some things you know now you wish you knew when you were new?

Stridig

I agree with all of those who suggested crafting. I would also add to that by encouraging you to get certified in your crafts as soon as possible. Crafting writs are a good way to make gold while learning everything else.

WuffyCerulei

F O O D. It was like I discovered sliced bread when I learned of how good food buffs are.
And sets. I wore bland armor for so long when I first started. Crafted and dropped sets can pretty much suit anyone’s playstyle.

Zer0_CooL

You won't need an axe to chop wood

JadonSky

Add on's are your friend if you have PC. If you are on PC get TTC add-on and Join a good traders guild to make money and don't just sell everything in the merchant. I found out I had sold stuff to merchant that was worth 100-200k gold lol, now I check everything and make lots of money doing so. Also deconstruct anything thats white and don't forget to start researching traits early and always check what you have for research.

Also LA weaving and not making a hybrid build unless your tank.

Snow_White

- Everything before CP160 is disposable. Don’t get attached to the look and spend anything on upgrading it because it’ll be useless after a few hours of gameplay.

- I recommend doing all the new DLC as it comes out because that’s where the majority of the player population will be.

When I started out I didn’t do the DLC the game started me in and went back and started the Coldharbour quest arc because I wanted to experience the game story as originally written.

Problem was that while I took my time working through the original main quest arc all new content was becoming old content as more DLCs were released. Doing DLC first does mess with the story timeline, but running around through empty game content is a lot less fun than running through full game content.

- There’s a guy in purple standing outside the crafting hub in Alinor that gives the jewelry crafting writ quest. I spent eight months wondering why there were no jewelry writs before I figured that one out.

- Read forums and websites. ESO doesn’t do a particularly good job teaching or guiding new players and there’s a lot of things that you might miss (like that guy in purple above).

- Food. When leveling it makes a big difference. Its like you’re rolling around 2-3 levels higher than what you actually are.

Tommy_The_Gun

1. Don't bother collecting "special" gear (the ones with some description or special name). Those will only clutter your inventory.
2. Don't farm gear, till you are level 50 and 160 CP.
3. You can skip all of the group dungeons till you are level 50 CP 160 (you may, but the gear you will find will be useless later on as it will be low level).
4. Deconstruct all gear that you dont use, to increase your crafting level faster. Unless it is CP 160 set gear peace (top level gear) of course.
5. For WW or Vampire (if you want those that is) you can always get it for free from other players. Don't be fooled as some people will want to charge you money for it, (often quite ridiculously high amounts of gold). Alternatively, you can join a guild, if you can not find any one in zone chat and get it for free.
6. Don't buy a mount, you will get one for free while levelling up.
7. Don't hesitate to experiment with skills & morphs and attribute. If you run out of skill points, you can always re-spec them for gold (but there are more than enough skill points, even in a base game).
8. When you have the mount unlocked, it is best to upgrade Bag Space (carry capability) 1st as it will add up to 60 additional inventory space.

Snow_White

Riding skills - investing ten points into endurance will make you faster because you spend a lot less time walking/recovering. 10 points will let you run pretty far on most maps.

doobat

When I first started, I didn't know about the focus on either magica or stamina you had to think about when your character levels up. My current main on NA has been respecced several times because of this, but mostly striking was my first respec, when someone pointed out you shouldn't balance out your attribute points :'D

So, yes, for very basic playing, keeping an eye on stamina versus magica abilities and not mixing them up, plus using food and potions is the main thing.

Getting crafting cerifications for all crafts as soon as you can on a character is a great idea. By doing writs on your low level character, the idea is that you'll grow your crafting alongside your character, so your character will be able to craft their own gear, for instance at the set stations you can find in all the zones, plus their own food and potions. A lot of your lower level recipes will drop from rewards for doing provisioning writs, and the low level ones required for the writs themselves are usually availlable from brewers and chefs.

Don't throw away your survey maps! If you're on PC, you can use various add ons that will tell you exactly where to find the sites described by the surveys. Doing the surveys will give you the materials to do your writs!

Skullstachio

Advanced tips:

• doing group dungeons with others on veteran difficulty will yield what’s called “Monster Sets” primarily the helmet only, when doing group dungeons, be sure to check in with Maj, Glirion, and (for DLC dungeons) Urgarlag Chief Bane for pledges that award undaunted keys upon completion, these keys can be used to buy mystery coffers, or even coffers from a specific dungeon which contain a Monster Set Shoulder.
• Wearing a Full monster Set comprised of the helm and shoulders yield effects unlike almost any other set which can change the way you face your enemies, From a Chance of summoning a Lich crystal to explode and damage foes, to summoning a powerful Daedroth to incinerate your target, to turning your skin into stone (gaining ultimate and increased resistances upon taking damage.) and even turning into a skeleton for a brief period (gaining damage reduction but heal for less.) and much more.

x48rph

If your on PC download the PTS. This allows you to test a lot of stuff out before you waste money upgrading gear and stuff. A lot of sets look nice when you read what it does but in reality, they don't perform well. I can't stress this enough, you can save a lot of gold and aggravation by testing on PTS first.

Also, it's a great way to get your character looking perfect before you make them and start leveling. For whatever reason, things on the creation screen never look quite the same in game. Get your sliders and stuff perfect on PTS where you can buy virtually unlimited change tokens to tweak things , then screenshot it all and recreate on the main server.

SydneyGrey

Each public dungeon has one particular boss that will give you a skill point, and one skyshard as well, so if you do three public dungeons you'll come away with a total of four skill points (since three skyshards is another skill point).

Public dungeons are different than the four-player dungeons that are just called "group dungeons." Group dungeons are harder.

Golnebo

There is an achievement for wearing all purple gear, but there is no achievement for wearing all gold gear. I learned that the hard way by spending a lot of gold for two gold rings and a gold necklace (of some useless set). Later I found out you can check all achievements by pressing J and clicking the achievement icon.

Also..
If you plan to have a magicka based character it is generally a good idea to join the mages guild early and then picking up every lorebook you find in the world. This levels your mages skilline which is very usefull for a magicka based character. The lorebooks that add XP to the mages skill are the purple glowing ones. There are also addons you can use, if you are on PC, that mark them on your map.

Veinblood1965

I do this on all my new toons. At the end of the day deconstruct all of your junk armor, weapons and jewelry and even enchants (except ornate items which sell for a lot to vendors) you won't use. You'll get level 50 in all skills within a month that way. As you increase in skills you can also start harvesting better stuff like platinum and Ancestor Silk etc which you can use yourself or sell for a tidy sum. Also when you refine them you gain gold mats which you will need.

Solaire

Don't queue as a fake Tank/Healer

TwiceBornStar

Following is an excerpt from ''22 Tips for the Sensible Adventurer'', a book that can't be found anywhere in Tamriel.

1. Avoid Sheogorath if you value your sanity.
2. Avoid Khajiit if you value your gold.
3. Avoid Dunmer if you value your happiness.
4. Avoid Nords if you dislike drunks.
5. Avoid Argonians if you dislike swamps, mud, wasps and mosquitos.
6. Avoid Cadwell unless you're one of those who mistakes a pot for a helmet.
7. Avoid Dragons if you dislike getting roasted, frozen stiff or sapped of all your health.
8. Avoid Bretons unless you like bloodsucking vampires.
9. Avoid Redguards if you find sand in your boots annoying.
10. Avoid High Elves unless you're as arrogant as they are.
11. Avoid Wood Elves if you're uncomfortable around public nudity.
12. Avoid Sea Elves if you're afraid of lightning.
13. Avoid Sea Elves if you can't swim.
14. Avoid Sea Elves if you get sea-sick easily.
15. Avoid Sea Elves at all cost.
16. Avoid World Bosses unless Sotha Sil himself crafted your armor.
17. Avoid Dungeons unless you know Kung-Fu. (which isn't actually a skill line!)
18. Avoid Deadra if you value your limbs.
19. Avoid Deadra if you value your mental health.
20. Avoid Deadra if you value your health in general.
21. Avoid Deadra unless you have masochistic tendencies.

22. HAVE FUN.

Aendruu

I wish I'd known that there's no "kill-stealing". (My apologies to anybody I watched being creamed while I stood around gormlessly!)

ghastley

Another things that's not obvious is slotting a skill on a bar to raise it, even when you don't (or can't) use it there. A two-handed skill on your dual-wield bar, for example. It's something you'd only do when growing a character, so experienced players are past that stage, and only have to remember for their new alts.

It has the greatest benefit below level 15, when you want to grow the skills for the second bar, before you have one. That way, the second bar has stuff you can really use right away.

Veinblood1965

My suggestion is to start the Dark Brotherhood Quest line ASAP. I was gold poor when I first started and you get the Blade of Woe right off the bat with that quest line. You can use it to assassinate NPC's. Each evening before I logged off I would go to a town and kill every single NPC I could and loot them. Killing them runs up a bounty, it decreases over time however. The reason I did this before I logged off was I'd run up about a 10,000 gold bounty and by the time I logged in the next day it was gone. The thing about this is you get about 5 to 10k gold each day by doing this and only takes a few minutes. My favorite was the town of Rawalkia in Reaper's March as there are tons of NPC's there and most not near any guards and also an INN with no guards. There are about 7 or 8 chests there and a lot of lootable furniture items in the INN.

It will be really apparent very quickly that this works great and it's fun killing NPC's lol.

MitsubishiOutlander

For those who is new to PC version of Elder Scrolls Online there is couple very helpful addon's you might want to use.

The first addon I suggest getting is Bandits User Interface. The addon gives helpful info what's going on like what skill a monster is about to use OR what incoming game mechanic is about to happen like in a dungeon.

If your in a big guild OR multiple guild's another helpful addon is EasyTravel. Let's say you never been to a certain map but you would like to quick travel there. Normally you would have to bring up your guild list find someone in that list that is there on the map. Then right click on their name and choose travel to player.

By using EasyTravel addon. All you got to do is bring up your map and go to locations TAB. Then just right click on the name of the area you wish to quick travel to. If there is no current guild member on that map is will wait until there is and will quick travel automaticlly once there is.


If you are someone who swaps gear/skill's a lot then checkout the addon Dressing Room for Greymoor. It allows you to save multiple loadouts like if you use one set of gear/skills for soloing and maybe other gear/skills for group content.

To be honest there is a lot of useful addon's for ESO far too many to post here about. If you plan on doing group content like dungeons the biggest must have addon has to be Bandits User Interface. As it warns you about incoming skill attacks and what game mechanic is about to happen which you should know about. It gives you other info as well which is very helpful while playing the game.

butterrum222

Be a crafter, take the time to fill all your research spots and train your mount. You’re already leaps and bounds ahead of most new players by even visiting the forums

barigood54_ESO

For easy peasy info, check out this video:

https://www.google.com/search?q=eso+beginner+guide&rlz=1C1CHZL_enUS758US758&oq=eso+beginer&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l7.4794j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#kpvalbx=_4iV9X-P9EK7R0PEPze2a-A018

MirandaSharp

Start your game in the starter zone for your race so you can start the Guild quest lines and remember to always upgrade the speed of your horse(I learnt the hard way when I came to Cyrodiil).

FrancisCrawford

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

Actually, my old and once very popular tip thread has some content that still applies, particularly in the first post.

https://www.tamrielfoundry.com/articles/general-tips-for-new-or-returning-players/?page=4

Edit: This site shut down. Oops.

One of the most popular bits in that post was the sequence:

• Don't stand in the red circles.
• Don't stand in the red rectangles.
• Don't stand in anything red.

I later learned that one can change the color on "red" to make it more easily visible.

Another popular part was my explanation of the complexities of leveling. Probably we should have a tips post just on that.

FInally, I exhorted people to read the documents lying around if they had the patience to do so, most particularly the ones that get added to The Prophet's "office" after you complete stages in the main quest.

Pallio

Alcast.com

Also get fighter guild, mage guild, Undaunted as soon as you start a new character.

NeeScrolls

Minyassa wrote: »

Get a free house, and start doing Master Writs for vouchers as soon as you start getting them, so you can buy housing chests that add inventory slots.

hi , so i'm technically not a "new" player ( started in beta) but i still feel like a newbie sometimes learning something new in ESO practically every week lol (which is 1 of the great things about this game imo ) . But anyways, i thought the only way to add inventory slots was by either training 'riding' mount skill or by purchasing 'bag slots' from the Crown Market?

So are you saying that the more houses one has = more player inventory max? Or are you just saying "inventory" as in you can use the CHESTS in houses as a substitute (extra) storage?

HertoginJanneke

NeeScrolls wrote: »

Minyassa wrote: »

Get a free house, and start doing Master Writs for vouchers as soon as you start getting them, so you can buy housing chests that add inventory slots.

hi , so i'm technically not a "new" player ( started in beta) but i still feel like a newbie sometimes learning something new in ESO practically every week lol (which is 1 of the great things about this game imo ) . But anyways, i thought the only way to add inventory slots was by either training 'riding' mount skill or by purchasing 'bag slots' from the Crown Market?

So are you saying that the more houses one has = more player inventory max? Or are you just saying "inventory" as in you can use the CHESTS in houses as a substitute (extra) storage?

Each Character

• Starts with 60 slots.
• Gets 10 slots more while leveling, as a leveling reward.
• Can buy 7x10 =70 more slot from a Pack Merchant, for a total of about 180k gold (which is easy to get). Each upgrade gets more expensive. You can also use Crowns (but why would you ?).
• Can buy 60x1=60 more slots (carry capacity) at the stable for a total of 15k gold (but why would you ?).

Furthermore you can buy 2 specific pets (a pig and a rat) that each give 5 extra slots. These extra 10 slots are account wide.

You character also has bankspace (which is account wide) and

• Starts with 60 slots.
• Can buy 18x10 =180 more slot from the banker, for a total of 768.5k gold. Each upgrade gets more expensive.
• has its bankspace doubled when you have ESO+. When you'r over the storage limit when you don't have ESO+ anymore, you can still withdraw items, you just can not add items anymore.
• can buy a banker from the crownstore (sometimes it is on discount) so you can access your bank anywhere (but PVP).

For housing, I'm not sure but I think you

• Get a chest with 30 slots while leveling, as a leveling reward.
• Can buy 7 more chests (3x30+4x60 slots) with writvouchers (gained from Master Writs form Daily Crafting Writs), Tel Var (gained from PVP in the Imperial CIty) or Crowns.
• Can place these chests in every house you own, and access them with every character on your account. Total chest storage is 360 items (a stack of 100 potions counts as 1 item) and this, unforunately, is not doubled with ESO+.

Jackarallious

hitn mount upgrades asap straight into mix of main storey and pvp for skill points and map freedom not wasting my efforts golding out first gear i find and personally waited very long time before meeting others and then relize just how backward i was at being what i want as a player

Starlight_Whisper

How to break free! Left and right click together. The tutorial didn't make sense to me.

Jumping costs nothing so just jump around bad stuff.

Blocking is key for everything

Felucca20

NineInchSnails wrote: »

I've been playing for almost two weeks after buying Elsweyr and subscribing to plus. So far I'm having a lot of fun but there seems a lot to take in. So I'm looking for tips from veteran players. As the title states, what are things you know now that you wish you knew when you were new to the game?

Thanks in advance for any info and happy adventures.

If you're a stage 4 vampire you can use hyponitze on NPCs to make them willing to talk to you

newtinmpls

Move as you attack.

Don't stand in red.

If you have a question, shout it out in chat - there are lots of friendly folks out there.

Try different things, you might enjoy something you don't expect to.

Start the "undaunted" line early, and remember which zone it was - it will matter later when you "sign the book" for dailies.