Hidden or Lesser Known Tips and Tricks for ESO!

Demra

Glaiceana wrote: »

[*] Change your default name preference to Account Name! The reason I would recommend this is to allow you to get to know your guildies and friends better. You might not recognise the people you play with if they log in on a different character all the time. Many people think they are talking to a new person, when actually its just a different character.

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Billdor

Don't queue for vDLC Dungeons if you're an absolute ape.

Rake

- learn when to dodge
- learn when to block
- learn when to heavy attack
- learn how to animation cancel light and heavy attacks and skills
- learn how not to rage

BoraxFlux

Sneaking to a Scuttlebloom n Murkmire will let you harvest it, it drops honey, alchemy solvents and very rarely a Scuttlebloom furnishing item of the Conservatory kind.



Scuttleblooms can be found in the wild in Murkmire, around the outskirts of Death-Water village for example.

NoTimeToWait

A small tip for explorers: if you hold down block, your character would be less prone to slide from the cliffs and will also move slower, so you can fine tune your position easier. It makes climbing steep hills immensely easier and in some areas it is the only way to move to certain places

Nestor

When Splitting a Stack or Retrieving items, you can click where the numbers are and type in the amount rather than use the + or - to get the number you want.

If you have Multicraft addon, you can mass Refine a stack by putting in a number equal to or greater than the amount of raw mats you have.

Pyr0xyrecuprotite

RodneyRegis wrote: »

Pyr0xyrecuprotite wrote: »

[*] Wrothgar has an encounter where you can buy a special drink that gives a temporary stamina recovery bonus while you are in Wrothgar
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Really? Where? How long? Does it work in MA?!

@RodneyRegis
Look for an old Orc woman (Batasha) eating a leg of meat at the side of the road, with a backpack on the ground next to her. It's one of the "random encounters" for the zone, in the same locations as the old warrior who wants a last duel, or the City Solicitor collecting donations for the rebuilding of Orsinium - there are achievements for those two if you do enough, BTW. The easiest way to find the locations is to use the Destinations addon (or possibly Map Pins). I think the 5% stam regen bonus lasts for half an hour and does NOT apply in MA either, sorry.

Note: you apparently only encounter her if you freed her from the Vosh Rahk in a side quest (not sure if it's Paragon's Remembrance or Honor's Rest).

KhajiitFelix

Also one more tip:

If you press alt +f4 you will have much better ESO experience

Soleya

Skills and Skill lines gain XP when they are on your bars. So when leveling new character, put skills on the bar that you want to level when turning in quests.

Also, wear 2/2/3 armor (light, med, heavy) when leveling, so when you get to 50, your armor lines should be maxed out (or nearly). Then if you ever decide you want to change roles you'll already have all the armor lines maxed out. Early on you own't have enough armor passives to need to run 5/1/1 or 5/2, etc anyway.

If you want to level a weapon skill line fast when your higher level, put that weapon on and every skill from that line you can. Do a random normal and make sure to switch to that bar right before boss dies.

Lastly, don't read book shelves for skill books early on. Wait till your nearing max level, then start spamming book shelves. Gaining a full skill point in the 40s is much better gain than gaining a full skill point in the 1-20s.

Pyr0xyrecuprotite

Soleya wrote: »

If you want to level a weapon skill line fast when your higher level, put that weapon on and every skill from that line you can. Do a random normal and make sure to switch to that bar right before boss dies.

Doing a daily random normal is a great way to get a lot of xp (for the first one each day), but you can't switch gear during combat. If you really want to level up those skills, you need to have that second bar active when the final boss dies, i.e. you will probably not have many useful skills available at the time. This only works for some boss fight situations. Don't worry too much about maxing your skill line gains from random normals - it's a lot easier to switch to that second bar or skills setup whenever you turn in a quest instead. The daily repeatable quests for special events are great for this, especially if you are also getting a double xp bonus from the event.

Ertosi

When first making your characters, assign them all to the Daggerfall Covenant. This will ensure when you start to PvP in Cyrodiil, player colors will match the normal colors for NPCs: Blue are allies, Red are enemies, and Yellow are harmless.

oXI_Viper_IXo

It took me over a year to realize that you could select both normal and veteran dungeons when choosing which to queue for, I assumed you had to pick one or the other. This is really helpful for doing daily pledges if you don't want to be stuck in queue for ages.

Mattock_Romulus

There is a food called Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl that buffs your ability to catch fish, reducing the time it takes to become Master Angler.

TempPlayer

Right-clicking will present you pop up menu on interface mode.

Try right-click on:
Player name in chat window
Items in inventory
Equipment that your toon is wearing
And most importantly, items in merchant's screen so that you can buy multiple of the same item in one go without repeatedly clicking on the same spot.

Mik195

If you are using the Daggerfall boats to level ledgermain or make money, when you finish with the 2nd ship (Hotspur?), take it to Davons Watch and you'll have a brand new boat to loot. Then take it back and most of the containers will reset.

MartiniDaniels

KhajiitFelix wrote: »

Also one more tip:

If you press alt +f4 you will have much better ESO experience

Ahaha, I checked it actually works! no stupid questions like "you sure you wanna log out", no waiting, just immediate shutdown thanks, nice tip! got in group of jerks? no need to excuse, to answer whispers, alt+f4 and cup of tea/cigarette for several minutes and everything is solved by itself

Yvarhna

This is likely known by most and I think will only work on PC but If you are a pet Sorc and you want to get rid of pets while in towns etc, bring up your character page and right click with mouse where the pets show under effects/buffs.

sevomd69

On xbox... if you find that your map marker (blue diamond) keeps snapping to a discovered site on the map you can prevent the snap by holding down right trigger when placing the map marker...IOW...holding down the right trigger allows for more specific placement of the marker...and prevents the cursor from snapping...

USTTech

You can send Express mail, as in whatever you send in mail, if you include 1 gold, it will get to the other person instantly and they dont have to change zones to get it.

RavenSworn

Grab all the town houses. This allows you to quickly port to a main town for free from anywhere.

It is prudent to be in a guild, even if its a trading guild and not a social one. Right clicking on any of the guild members brings up an option to travel to them or to their primary residence. Most guilds have 'guild residences' which have merchants, bankers and the various crafting stations.

Use this when you have finished a dungeon, rather than just leaving group and waiting for the port. That way, you still have free port, you have access to sell items and the other players might be able to finish up their quests or grab items. You can still trade of you need some of the items so its a win win for everyone.

Its good to quest in pairs as the exp gained is shared equally, quest obj can be done much more quickly and bosses, esp world bosses can be defeated much easily as well. Running random dungeons goes faster as well since you have already filled some of the roles needed.

Once you have a crafter (or if you can get a crafter) , craft the innate axiom sets of armor for each 10 levels of your character and upgrade it right up till blue or purple. You don't need a second set per 10 lvls as the good thing about this set is that it's a hybrid set, which makes it excellent for levelling. Not only that, since it boosts class abilities and you are going to level each class skill line regardless, you will be able to skim through much of the overland.

Also, craft 3 heavy armor of the innate axiom and 2 weapons. This is so you can pick up whatever armor for the other slots and still use this set for your other alts. Keeping it to every 10 levels means you don't have to change gear often and allowing you as much downtime as possible while levelling.

I'll keep this thread up whenever I can, there's some good tips in here for both new and old players.

BoraxFlux

A nice little detail:
When giving a character a good swirl in the character selection screen, it will show annoyance in different ways.
My NB bosmer even threw a dagger (probably because of assassin personality)

marius_buys

*ESO monsters don't swim - If you're in trouble just get yourself in deep water. (pun intended)

*De-Aggro monsters chasing you by throwing down an AOE, they will run to it, take a bit of damage and turn aroind.

FrancisCrawford

Soleya wrote: »

Skills and Skill lines gain XP when they are on your bars. So when leveling new character, put skills on the bar that you want to level when turning in quests.

Also, wear 2/2/3 armor (light, med, heavy) when leveling, so when you get to 50, your armor lines should be maxed out (or nearly). Then if you ever decide you want to change roles you'll already have all the armor lines maxed out. Early on you own't have enough armor passives to need to run 5/1/1 or 5/2, etc anyway.

If you want to level a weapon skill line fast when your higher level, put that weapon on and every skill from that line you can. Do a random normal and make sure to switch to that bar right before boss dies.

Lastly, don't read book shelves for skill books early on. Wait till your nearing max level, then start spamming book shelves. Gaining a full skill point in the 40s is much better gain than gaining a full skill point in the 1-20s.

I disagree with several of these. The skill book advice is only accurate for crafting, so you might choose to sacrifice that benefit so as to level weapon and class skill lines early. The skill line XP advice is true for class and weapon skill lines mainly (but the skill part is true for all active ones). And on the PC, where add-ons make it easy for you to change gear just for quest turn-in later on, there's nothing wrong with leveling in light or medium armor.

Glaiceana

Demra wrote: »

Glaiceana wrote: »

[*] Change your default name preference to Account Name! The reason I would recommend this is to allow you to get to know your guildies and friends better. You might not recognise the people you play with if they log in on a different character all the time. Many people think they are talking to a new person, when actually its just a different character.

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Settings, Interface, Display Name, Prefer User ID.

Great suggestions guys! To expand on one, you can slot your werewolf skills on your bar even when not in werewolf form. You cannot use them of course, but this will allow you to level 1 or 2 at a time while you are not in form.

And yes its worth getting all three of the free houses, you get a light furnishing with them too, and while you are questing etc, you can place some of the furnishings in there to store or just to see if you want to keep them.

Dragneel1207

Using guild trader costs listing price(price to list the item) and the housing cut (the money that goes to oblivion when u r item is sold)
If u r placing a high cost item the listing price will be more and to save that money
U can directly sell the items in the zone chat like

WTS [Temporing Alloy] 5k

and ppl who like the offer will msg u and u can trade with him

U can find many ppl during weekends or during evenings in mainly Craglorn and alliance capitals and vvardenfell crafting area

Drako_Ei

If you level up alchemy and get the medicinal use passive, it will boost your dps and sustain

Glaiceana

Drako_Ei wrote: »

If you level up alchemy and get the medicinal use passive, it will boost your dps and sustain

Yes this is a very good one to do! Especially when levelling other characters, its easy to forget to do this, and you can do it for provisioning too, just to get your food and drinks to last longer, will save on materials in the long run.

Mayrael

My 2 cents from similar thread:

Well I mostly PvP so:

When you have a lot of Tel Vars and you afraid to lose them, you can use Imperial sigil of retreat (you can buy it for 10k AP in sewers base), you can also use command /stuck (once per hour if I remember well) or simply switch to other campaign if you don't have sigils.

When sieging a keep you encounter heavy resistance on the breach you can use your mount with rapids to get through the breach much faster than on foot thus avoiding a lot of incoming siege damage and spreading chaos in defenders lines.

You can also ride mounts inside outposts (like Sejanus, Nikel, Bleakers etc. but not inside inner outposts of keeps), thus avoiding defenders and oils.

Killing boss in any dung in Cyrodiil gives you 1 hour long bonus increasing APs you earn by 20%.

You can use siege weapons to take down resources guards much faster.

You can repair Camps using siege repair kits.

Quest to kill 40 players is harder to finish in group because it counts only for 1 person in that group, the one who did final blow, while when running solo all you need to do is to deal some damage to player.


You can Whisp to someone when just knowing their character name (without @id). Simply type /w CharacterName and follow it with comma e.g.: /w Mayrael,

Crafting:
Deconstructing equipment made by other players gives more exp than deconstructing looted stuff and is fastest way to lvlup most crafting skill lines (except of alchemy and provisioning).

Mayrael

Soleya wrote: »

Skills and Skill lines gain XP when they are on your bars. So when leveling new character, put skills on the bar that you want to level when turning in quests.

Also, wear 2/2/3 armor (light, med, heavy) when leveling, so when you get to 50, your armor lines should be maxed out (or nearly). Then if you ever decide you want to change roles you'll already have all the armor lines maxed out. Early on you own't have enough armor passives to need to run 5/1/1 or 5/2, etc anyway.

If you want to level a weapon skill line fast when your higher level, put that weapon on and every skill from that line you can. Do a random normal and make sure to switch to that bar right before boss dies.

Lastly, don't read book shelves for skill books early on. Wait till your nearing max level, then start spamming book shelves. Gaining a full skill point in the 40s is much better gain than gaining a full skill point in the 1-20s.

Actually each skill line can have different requirements, to learn them all you need to do is to hover your mouse over skill line experience bar, you will find description of requirements there.

Protossyder

Ermiq wrote: »

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2. Magical damage is not a damage dealt with all magicka-based abilities. Magicka-based abilities can deal several types of damage: magical, fire, shock, frost (and sometimes other types such as oblivion damage, decease, etc.), so magical damage is just one of these damage types. The same with physical damage. The following are different damage types: magical, fire, frost, shock, physical, poison, decease, oblivion.
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Keep in mind that:

- Magical Damage is not the same as Spell Damage
- Physical Damage is not the same as Weapon Damage

Spell Damage and Weapon Damage are base stats (that can be increased/decreased themselves) and increase the damage types that @Ermiq listed.

In general and afaik:

- Spell Damage increases: Magical Damage, Fire Damage, Shock Damage, Frost Damage
- Weapon Damage increases: Physical Damage, Bleed Damage, Poison Damage, Disease Damage

Example: the set "Strength of the Automaton" adds 400 weapon dmg to your physical dmg abilities only, which means that skills with poison/disease/bleed dmg are not affected and remain unbuffed.