UPDATED : Immersion Guide 1.0 - Help out with your tips and recommendations

WiseSky

Newest Version LINK HERE

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THIS GUIDE HAS 9 PARTS

1. IMMERSION ADDONS
2. EQUIPMENT & EMOTES & COLLECTABLES ADDONS
3. LORE & QUEST ADDONS
4. MAP & COMPASS & PINS ADDONS
5. CUSTOMIZABLE INVENTORY ADDONS
6. USER INTERFACE AND CHAT ADDONS
7. HELPFUL ADDONS FOR PC
8. IMMERSION: CONFIGURATION OF SETTINGS
9. VISUALS AND GRAPHICS ADDONS AND MODS FOR PC

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LINK TO THE ADDON'S WEBSITE
BY CLICKING ON THE

UNDER EACH ADDON'S NAME

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All of these AddOns are on PC only.

To learn about all the features of each AddOn click on the » «under that AddOn name.

These AddOns are all highly customizable, you can tweak their settings in their respective menus.

All AddOns can be downloaded and installed effortlessly with the "Minion Program" at minion.mmoui.com

To find other AddOns go to esoui.com

Make sure to download the "Libraries" which are dependent for each AddOn to function, They can be found on its webpage. Link to How To: AddOn dependencies.

If an AddOn needs some trouble shooting, consult it's website and look in comments, usually someone has encountered the same problem before.

If you love a specific AddOn Consider supporting the AddOn Creators, they do the Divine's work.

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PART 1 - IMMERSION ADDONS

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ADDONS THAT MAY HELP YOU IMMERSE YOURSELF INTO THE GAME, EACH ONE CAN ENHANCE THE GAME IN AN UNIQUE WAY

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BANDITS USER INTERFACE - Version 4.298 or older

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• Has A Khajiit Mode which makes other players invisible to you! The way this AddOn works, is it makes the new players coming into your current zone invisible. The ones already there will still be visible until they leave that zone and come back. You will also still see some effects of the players even if they are invisible to you.

To start making other players invisible click on the "VanishPlayersDesc" side menu button: Pacrooti will appear, meaning: NEW players coming into the same zone as you will be invisible. Make sure you have the Bandits User Interface Version 4.298 or older to have that feature. Don't message the AddOn Creator asking questions, they only removed this feature because "tired of stupid questions about it". Once again, it only makes NEW players coming into your current zone invisible, you have to wait for the other players to leave your current zone for those players to become invisible

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ESSENTIAL HOUSING TOOLS

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• Essential Features for Visiting and Making houses including Adding visual effects (skylines, fog, rain and much more) to your home and seeing specials effects in others ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBOOY59ce1g

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IMMERSIVE INTERACTIONS

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• Customizable Interaction with NPC that make it possible to only hear the voice and hides all NPC dialog text in the interaction window. This absorbs you into the game more as you really have to listen to the NPC. Fully configurable with keybindings to make it show or disappear. Let's you also chose the Color or the Font of the text and other options.

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NTAK DIALOG

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• Customizable the Interactions with the NPCs on how and when you will see their Text. This absorbs you into the game more as you really have to listen to the NPC. Fully configurable with keybindings to make it show or disappear.

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IMMERSIVEHORSERIDING

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• Ability to ride your Mount in 1st person-view just by scrolling the mouse wheel.

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KHAJIIT SPEAK

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• This modifies the player dialog option text into the wonderfully garbled Khajiit Speak. Applicable mostly for true Khajiits

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MUSIC VOLUME IN COMBAT

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• Music Volume In Combat is a simple addon that changes the volume of the game's music when you enter combat and sets it back to the original value when gets out of combat. It is made for those people that really enjoy the game's music but get annoyed by the in combat music.

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NOTEBOOK 2018

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• A Virtual Notebook to keep track of everything you want to remember! Allows you to create as many pages as you wish to write down.

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RP PROFILE VIEWER

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• The RP Profile viewer supports in-game display of character info, biographies, and even a profile image!.

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SKYRIM STYLE VIBRATION

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• Configurable overhaul for gamepad vibration to make it similar to Skyrim. Compatible with all game versions.

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THE COMPENDIUM (DEMO)

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• Create your own Quests that you and others can experience! This AddOn is aimed to be developed into a full-fledged Custom Quest Creator AddOn tool! Currently in Beta, you can try out a first ever custom quest. Allows multiple answers quests.

The Compendium Quest Menu

Custom Keybind to interact with the Custom Quest NPCs launches you into a new adventure

Multiple Choice answers make questing interesting

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THE LIBRARIUM

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• An AddOn for adding your own custom lore writing friendly books to the world of Elder Scrolls Online. Where Adventures can read your books and you theirs, that are naturally found in bookshelves. You can even create different outcome just like the Smolder Scrolls.
  

The Librarium Book Menu

Smolder Scrolls Naryu - Chose your Adventure

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VOTAN'S DARKER NIGHTS

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• This makes in-game nights Much darker. Make nights feel like real nights. The effect is adjustable for the new moon and full moon nights, meaning you can customize how dark you want the nights to be. Great to use with Treasure Hunter Personality with with Almalexia's Enchanted Lantern (Memento) as the light source.

Votan's Darker Nights ON

Votan's Darker Nights OFF

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PART 2 - EQUIPMENT & EMOTES & COLLECTABLES ADDONS

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ADDONS THAT CAN ACCESS YOUR EQUIPMENT, OUTFITS, TITLES, EMOTES, ALL YOUR EARNED COLLECTABLES AND MORE WITH AUTOMATED FEATURES

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ALPHAGEAR 2

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• With this AddOn you create Profiles and Builds that may be activated with a single keybind or mouse click on the appropriate icon. Each build consists of auto equipping pieces of weapons, armor, jewelry, weapon bars including poison, skill bars and more. These AddOns are great if you want to have different looks and equip sets on the fly for Towns, Battles, different Zones climates or weather effects. Can be integrated with AlphaStyle AddOn & FCO Item Saver AddOn

Alphagear 2 Equipment Menu

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DRESSING ROOM

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• With this AddOn you create Profiles and Builds that may be activated with a single keybind or mouse click on the appropriate icon. Each build consists of auto equipping pieces of weapons, armor, jewelry, weapon bars including poison, skill bars and more. These AddOns are great if you want to have different looks and equip sets on the fly for Towns, Battles, different Zones climates or weather effects.

Dressing Room Equipment Menu

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ALPHASTYLE

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• AlphaStyle lets you create styles which can be applied by just one click. Mount, pet, outfit, title and appearance collectibles in easily loadable, nameable sets.

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STYLE AND ELEGANCE ( OUTFIT, IDLE ANIMATION, TITLE, MOUNT, ETC. LOADOUTS )

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• Save your idle animation, mount, pet, outfit, title and appearance collectibles in easily loadable, nameable sets. Access them with a keybind if you wish.

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IDLE ANIMATIONS CONTINUED

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• Idle Animations is an AddOn that gives personality to your character. When idle for several seconds, your character will perform an emote (animation). There are many different styles to choose from, even a Random option that cycles through all animations.

Emotes Styles available

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CUSTOM IDLE ANIMATIONS

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• This AddOn lets you name and fully customize what your character does when Idle with each and every emote you own to be played automaticity and exactly how you set it up.

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PERSONALITY DESIGNER

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• Create your own personality with up to 10 actions (emotes/mementos), also having control of the idle timings and frequency.

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LOREPLAY FOREVER

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• Allows you to set outfits containing collectables automatically, when entering a city, dungeon, a house, etc. Also allows Smart emotes with a significant other. Has limited Idle Animation control.

LorePlay Forever features

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COLLECTION BARS

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• With this AddOn you can display for easy accessibility any of your items in Collections as clickable icon and/or Keybind them to a specific key.

Collection Bars Settings

Collection Bar preview

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COWL - HELM/HAT TOGGLE

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• This adds a keybind (Settings > Controls > Cowl) to toggle helms visible/invisible, meaning you no longer have to navigate to collection menus.

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LOVELYEMOTES

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• This AddOn provides quick and easy access to emotes and personalities, Adding up to 8 Radiant Menus just like the Quickslots and you can also keybind each emote. It also allows you to synchronize emotes with players around you that have the same AddOn if you wish.

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MEMENTO REFRESH

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• This AddOn provides an easy way to automatically refresh mementos (automatically uses a memento on cooldown).

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SIT ON BENCH (CONTINUED)

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• You can now sit on those comfy benches in the tavern. Or temple pews. Or thin air, I don't care.

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PART 3 - LORE & QUEST ADDONS

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ADDONS THAT CAN ACCESS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WITHIN THE QUESTS AND BOOKS YOU ENCOUNTERED

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STORY SAVER

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• This AddOn saves history of dialogues, subtitles, books/notes and quest items. Saved data can be displayed with /storysaver command or special keybind in settings.

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THE QUESTING GUIDE

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• A list of compiled quests where you'll find each major storyline in the game listed in chronological order, (defaulting to order of content release), where you can follow along or even check off your list you may have left uncompleted years ago.

The Questing Guide Menu Showing the chronological order of quests by zone and a summary of your actions in each quest

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HARVEN'S QUEST JOURNAL

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• Like the Elder Scrolls Morrowind Journal but for ESO. It automatically records all your quest steps and objectives including some NPC conversations. Fully configurable, even the color of the Journal.

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LIBRARIAN BOOK MANAGER

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• Librarian records every book your character reads in-game and keeps a list of when it was found and whether you have marked it as read, allowing you to continue questing (and not hold up other players) while being confident you won't forget to read anything later.

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VOTAN'S LORE LIBRARY SEARCH

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• Adds a full-text-search button to Lore Library, to search in title and content of known books. Optional highlights the text found in the book.

Search a keyword within lorebooks

Highlights the text found in the book

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PART 4 - MAP & COMPASS & PINS ADDONS

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ADDONS THAT CAN CUSTOMIZE YOUR MAP, COMPASS AND PINS FOR A LESS OF A HAND HOLDING EXPERIENCE

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ARCH'S ENHANCED MAP

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• Change the size of all the map pins displayed on the map by a scale factor. Perfect for those who play Elder Scrolls Online at 4K along with many other enhancements.

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TRUEEXPLORATION

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• This is known as the "Fog of War" in some games. This hides all portions of your map until you actually explore that area. Fully configurable with chat commands to reveal portions or whole maps individually if you ever need to.

TrueExploration ON - With Map Filters On

TrueExploration OFF - With Map Filters On

TrueExploration ON - With Map Filters OFF - With a Custom Black Fog Background: Place this Undiscovered.DDS file in C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\AddOns\TrueExploration\texture

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VOTAN'S CARTOGRAPHER (FOR HARVEN'S CUSTOM MAP PINS)

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• This AddOn is an addition to "Harven's Custom Map Pins" (depends on it). It adds a button to the interaction menu, to allow you to add a marker for the item or NPC currently focused with a single keystroke.

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VOTAN'S TAMRIEL MAP

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• This AddOn can customize the Tamriel map to look more like a map.

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MAP PINS

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• This adds additional pins on your ingame map. Allows you to only see the ones you want, individually controllable.

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HARVEN'S CUSTOM MAP PINS (MARKERS)

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• This AddOn allows you to place your own markers that allows you to enter the marker description anywhere on the map. You can delete and edit markers in the map window. There is also an option to share a pin with other players who have this AddOn installed.

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PINKILLER

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• Gain full control of all Pins for quests , this AddOn will hide any and all manner of floating quest pins in the World, on your Map and/or your Compass. Makes you really pay attention and explore the world fully, if you wish.

PinKiller OFF

PinKiller On

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VOTAN'S MAP PIN COLORS

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• Allows to hide your player pin and allows you to change the color of some built-in map pins to your preferences.

Votan's Map Pin Colors Settings

The blue Player Pin Becomes Invisible option, Making you have to pay attention the environment and not your Magical GPS

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WYKKYD'S FULL IMMERSION (BSK CORP FIX)

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• Fully Configurable settings that you are able to Toggle with a keybind : Hide Compass, Hide Quest Tracker, Hide Hold to Interact Window and auto-sheathing your weapon and many more settings.

A customized Compass Being Toggled

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PART 5 - CUSTOMIZABLE INVENTORY ADDONS

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ADDONS THAT CAN CUSTOMIZE YOUR INVENTORY WITH TITLES AND ICONS FOR ROLEPLAY PURPOSES

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AUTO CATEGORY - REVISED

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• Adds categories to your inventory, bank, guild bank, craft bag, and crafting station screens. Fully customizable if you are roleplaying!

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CUSTOM ITEM NOTES

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• Adds an option to edit (add/remove) a custom note to an item.

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FCO ITEMSAVER

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• This lets you mark Items with your own Custom Markers. Has lots of other features that may help you keep track of your inventory.

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PART 6 - USER INTERFACE AND CHAT ADDONS

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ADDONS THAT CAN REMOVE OR CUSTOMIZE PARTS OF YOUR USER INTERFACE AND CHAT ON SCREEN TO YOUR SATISFACTION

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BANDITS USER INTERFACE

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• This AddOn has a way to move the frames of the UI, health bars and MANY more settings. I highly recommend playing with all the settings to see to what extent you can customize the game with this AddOn to your liking.

Frame Mover Option

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CLOCK - TAMRIEL STANDARD TIME - LEGACY

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• This Clock adds a completely customizable and movable label to the game which shows you the current date and time of Tamriel and of Earth (linked to your system time, thus it is accurate wherever you are). Additionally, it also shows the current state of the moon and the remaining time to the next phase.

One of the themes for the Clock

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HARVEN'S DWEMER CLOCK

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• This is a Dwemer analog clock. The gears rotate and there is some glow effect. You can move the clock around the screen and change its scale (with mouse wheel). You can use this addon together with Clock - Tamriel Standard Time - Legacy.

Lore friendly look with the Harven's Dwemer Clock

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COMBAT RETICLE

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• Customize the Reticle with tons of features for each type of intractable. This AddOn helps customize what you will see with your reticle, fully customizable for Interactables, Neutral Targets, Combat, Stealing and more. Here is an example what you can make it look like, I made it totally invisible. There are more then 1e300 combinations of different looks that you will surely find your own.

With Combat Reticle AddOn ON

With Combat Reticle AddOn OFF

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FCO CHANGESTUFF

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• A Simple tool to change a few UI related things. Let's you also mute a specific sounds effects ingame.

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FCO CHAT TAB BRAIN

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• Annoying chat notifications can be deleted or directed to chat window, chat window would stay minimized when changing zones or reloading the UI and many more settings. Makes the Chat Background fade instantly. Also lets your customize your chat to be functional, I made it one Tab for each category: Zone = Z, Say = S , Whisper = W, Group = G, Initials of Each Guild, "~" is empty for full immersion with no chat box or text showing when on it.

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PCHAT

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• pChat is an AddOn to fully overhaul the way text is displayed in the chat window, makes your chat customizable, as it should be. Also, lets you Bind Multi-keys with CTRL,SHIFT and Alt.

Features of the AddOn

Multi Key Binding possibility with CTRL SHIFT ALT

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PHOTOGRAPHER (UPDATED)

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• A simple Addon to take Screenshots without the annoying UserInterface "if you actually have one " with just one button.

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NTAK CAMERA

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• This AddOn includes many camera features to enhance the game experience. Gain total control and enjoy all the world using the camera settings you want depending on what you do. Includes over the shoulder camera and Control of the camera in Werewolf mode.

NTak Camera Not Centered

NTak Camera Centered

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NO, THANK YOU! - FLAMES OF AMBITION

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• This AddOn allows you to block or redirect unwanted messages, notifications to the chat and alter behavior or some systems of the UI. Also makes the camera not not spin around when interreacting.

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ULTIMATE UI HIDER

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• An addon that hides all of your UI with a keybind.

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ZONE NAME ALERT

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• This AddOn displays the name of the zone or subzone you're currently entering in the center screen announcement area. The goal is to improve player's immersion in the world and, in the case of Cyrodiil, to improve player's awareness about flagged/unflagged status of the keeps, resources and Imperial City districts in his vicinity. Look in the comments of this AddOn on ESOUI.com on how to remove completely the Zone Name Alert Notification in the top right corner of the screen, if you wish.

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PART 7 - HELPFUL ADDONS FOR PC

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ADDONS THAT CAN HELP WITH VARIOUS FEATURES OF HAVING MULTIPLE ADDONS. PLAYING WITH AND ADJUSTING THESE ADDONS CAN GIVE YOU A BETTER EXPERIENCE

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CARO'S SKILL AND CHAMPION POINT SAVER (CP 2.0)

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• This Addon Saves your complete build for character respeccing.

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CIRCONIANS ADDON SELECTOR

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• This allows you to save the current enabled state of all of your addons in an addon pack that you can give a name to. Then you can click on the name of any saved addon pack in the drop down box and it will reset the enabled/disabled state of each addon back to the state it was in when you saved it (enabled/disabled). You can save multiple addon packs.

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JOVIEX'S ADDON SETTINGS TRANSFER

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• Transfer your addon settings (non-global, character specific) from one character to as many characters as you want on a per addon basis.

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SYNCED ACCOUNT SETTINGS

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• Save your General account Settings account wide with this addon by typing "/accountsettings" and chose which settings you want to save account wide.
  

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VOTAN'S ADAPTIVE (VIDEO-)SETTINGS

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• This AddOn helps with Frame Rate "FPS" it adjusts the view and particle distance to the current graphic load and context (normal, combat, UI hidden) to stabilize the framerate.

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VOTAN'S ADDON LIST

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• Alternative AddOn List Design that automatically adds the needed Libraries for each addon in AddOns menu.

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VOTAN'S ADVANCED SETTINGS

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• This allows to change additional client configuration settings (UserSettings.txt) not handled by build-in UI.

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VOTAN'S KEYBINDER

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• Adds checkboxes to keybinds for account wide shared keybindings.

By Checking the Box left to the keybind, you make that specific keybind account wide

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PART 8 - VISUALS AND GRAPHICS ADDONS AND MODS FOR PC

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VISUALS AND GRAPHICS ADDONS AND MODS ARE FOR PC ONLY. CHOOSING THE CORRECT ONES MAY IMPROVE THE VISUAL QUALITY OF THE GAME TO YOUR STYLE FOR A BETTER ESTHETIC EXPERIENCE.

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CLEANER HUD

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• There are a few things about the HUD that I find ugly, or too intrusive. This addon tweaks the visuals of several HUD elements.

Preview of Cleaner Hud

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DARKUI

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• This addon is a reskin of many of the default ESO textures to a smoother and more subdued UI. DarkUI focuses only on changing textures to improve the look and feel of ESO while being compatible with all other addons and having no performance impact..

Includes the Dark and Light themes, This is the dark one

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DAYBREAK FOR ESO - VISUALS REFINED WITH EXTENDED VIEW

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• This Mod is Able to Push back that Fog. This is an extensive visual overhaul for The Elder Scrolls Online, with zero impact to performance.

Before

After

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VARIOUS RESHADES: CLICK ON THE WAYSHINE TO SEE THE POSSIBLE OPTIONS

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• ReShades are a generic post-processing injector for games. Your favorite game with ambient occlusion, real depth of field effects, color correction and more, while being compatible with all other addons. Usually Having no performance impact try it out to see the difference. Here are some Examples. Try to find one that you like on the website.

SweetFX HEROIC 3.11 Realistic Preset

Neat Perfection ENHANCED EDITION (Next-Gen look and DOF) ReShade

Plushenko Reshade

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PART 9 - IMMERSION: CONFIGURATION OF SETTINGS

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THESE SETTINGS ARE FOR PC AND CONSOLE.
PLAYING WITH AND ADJUSTING THESE SETTINGS WILL HELP YOU EITHER TO HAVE A CLEANER UI OR IMPROVE THE LEVEL OF IMMERSION YOU WISH TO ACHIEVE.
NOTE THAT SOME ADDONS MAY OVERLAP THESE SETTINGS IF YOU ARE USING THEM.

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CUSTOMIZABILITY THE OF FILTERS ON THE MAP MENU

• You can set which Icons are visible on your map by changing these on the Map Sub Menu. Making it a Surprise, if unknow once you discover it.

All Filters Checked ON

Objectives Checked OFF others ON

All Filters Checked Off

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SETTINGS ->VIDEO -> DISPLAY -> GAMMA ADJUSTMENTS

• This Setting is the Gamma Adjustments, it controls the overall brightness of an image. Images which are not properly corrected can look either bleached out or too dark.

Set this to your preferred brightness level

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SETTINGS ->VIDEO -> INTERFACE -> USE CUSTOM SCALE : ON -> CUSTOM SCALE

• When this setting is enabled you can set a Custom Size for the UI that Scales with the slider.

Custom Scale for the UI using the slider

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SETTINGS ->GAMEPLAY -> GENERAL -> FOOT INVERSE KINEMATICS

• Enabling this setting will make your feet rest more naturally on the terrain.

Foot Inverse Kinematics ON

Foot Inverse Kinematics OFF

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SETTINGS -> GAMEPLAY -> COMBAT -> CUES AND COLORS

• Displays Visual Cues to combat behavior, limiting this may help your immersion

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SETTINGS -> GAMEPLAY -> ITEMS -> HIDE MOUNT; STAMINA; SPEED; CAPACITY

• Displays Visual Changes to your mount, depending on the options.

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SETTINGS -> CAMERA

Adjusting these settings to your preferences will affect your 1st or 3rd person view, Notable ones are:

• “Field of View Changes”
• “Screen Shake”
• “Head Bob”
• “Field of View”

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SETTINGS -> INTERFACE -> HEADS-UP DISPLAY

• These options change the visibility of the Quest Tracking Display on the top right corner of the screen, the Pins for quest givers and the Pins on your compass.

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SETTINGS -> NAMEPLATE -> NAMEPLATES & HEALTHBARS

• Adjust these to only see the desired Nameplates and Healthbars, you can also keybind to toggle these ON and OFF in the Controls.

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SETTINGS -> NAMEPLATE -> INDICATORS

• Controls the glow of interactables and targets.

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SETTINGS -> SOCIAL -> CHAT SETTINGS -> MINIMUM TRANSPARENCY

• Controls when the Background of the Chat will disappear. If you want to have an UI free screen without minimizing the chat and seeing that Triangle, Create a new chat tab with the + Icon, Un-check all options and name it. Then you can play with that chat window open and the background of the chat will fade according to the settings you set in your transparency timings setting options .

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SETTINGS -> COMBAT

• Controls the visibility of your Attribute bars and Skills bars and damage metrics during adventuring and combat.

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Danikat

It might be helpful to group your suggestions by function rather than putting them in alphabetical order. You suggest several different addons or settings which do the same thing in slightly different ways (like all the different map pin addons and settings) and it would probably be easier to read if they were adjacent so players can compare similar options more easily and choose the one which is best for them.

Also for overall length and readability it might be helpful to use spoiler tags to hide some of the images and longer descriptions for each addon. Or just link to the ESOUI pages which will have all that info already.

Finally, it might just be me but I don't see what a lot of these have to do with immersion. Things like advanced filters or custom categories are certainly useful but I don't understand how they could be said to be more immersive. (If the trouble I have with finding the right item in a tiny bag which contains 3 items is anything to go by I'd say having to hunt through your whole inventory for the thing you want is actually more realistic.)

Tandor

The best way to increase immersion is to play without addons, they just trivialise the gameplay and cut corners. Now, if that's what you're looking to do then that's fine, use addons, but let's not pretend that it's in order to increase your immersion.

Wirb

Thanks a TON for taking on your time to make this ; there were a lot amongst these addons that I didn't know about. So, unlike some whom are apparently just here to criticize, I say thank you !

Danikat

Tandor wrote: »

The best way to increase immersion is to play without addons, they just trivialise the gameplay and cut corners. Now, if that's what you're looking to do then that's fine, use addons, but let's not pretend that it's in order to increase your immersion.

It's not that simple. Some addons can be used to help immersion, or have no impact on it. It depends on which ones you choose and how they're used. For example I use Azurah to move and resize the notifications so instead of gigantic text in the middle of the screen each time I do something I get a small note above the chat box which is easier to ignore.

Also you can't seriously claim that addons which hide quest markers and reveal NPC dialogue gradually as they say it, or only after they've finished speaking "trivialise gameplay and cut corners", if anything they make it slower and harder to complete things by forcing you to actually listen to what you're being told instead of rushing to the next checkpoint.

Tandor

Danikat wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

The best way to increase immersion is to play without addons, they just trivialise the gameplay and cut corners. Now, if that's what you're looking to do then that's fine, use addons, but let's not pretend that it's in order to increase your immersion.

It's not that simple. Some addons can be used to help immersion, or have no impact on it. It depends on which ones you choose and how they're used. For example I use Azurah to move and resize the notifications so instead of gigantic text in the middle of the screen each time I do something I get a small note above the chat box which is easier to ignore.

Also you can't seriously claim that addons which hide quest markers and reveal NPC dialogue gradually as they say it, or only after they've finished speaking "trivialise gameplay and cut corners", if anything they make it slower and harder to complete things by forcing you to actually listen to what you're being told instead of rushing to the next checkpoint.

Clearly there are indeed some addons that can increase immersion, but I agree with your previous post. Also, those tend not to be the most popular addons that are always quoted in any list of "must have" addons. My standard advice to anyone starting out in any game would always be to play it straight to begin with and not go down the addon route because they will end up trivialising gameplay and cutting corners - and then complaining about the lack of immersion! Get the feel of the game first and then they'll be in a better position to decide where they feel their gameplay can be enhanced.

Ezorus

Console player but bumping this for the amount of effort press into it

Sangwyne

This is an absolutely monstrous post, and a welcome addition to the list of addons I need to try out, thanks. I appreciate that you went the extra mile to specifically call out ones that would not ruin immersion; there are so many addons that look like they would be extremely useful in the context of optimizing my rotation or navigation, but are jarringly at odds with the lore and aesthetic of the game, both of which I value highly.

WiseSky

@Danikat

Danikat wrote: »

It might be helpful to group your suggestions by function rather than putting them in alphabetical order. You suggest several different addons or settings which do the same thing in slightly different ways (like all the different map pin addons and settings) and it would probably be easier to read if they were adjacent so players can compare similar options more easily and choose the one which is best for them.

That is a great idea, I will sure do that for the next update for this list. I will make it more user friendly to find what you need right away.

Danikat wrote: »

Also for overall length and readability it might be helpful to use spoiler tags to hide some of the images and longer descriptions for each addon. Or just link to the ESOUI pages which will have all that info already.

I just gave a brief description of each addon and I did link each page to ESOUI's AddOn page, Just under the AddOn's name, by clicking on the Wayshrine Icon ""

I will try to highlight that information since it can easily be over looked in the first paragraph of this post:

"I just give a brief description for each AddOn, to read a comprehensive description of its features click on the to Teleport for free to that AddOn's website."

Danikat wrote: »

Finally, it might just be me but I don't see what a lot of these have to do with immersion. Things like advanced filters or custom categories are certainly useful but I don't understand how they could be said to be more immersive. (If the trouble I have with finding the right item in a tiny bag which contains 3 items is anything to go by I'd say having to hunt through your whole inventory for the thing you want is actually more realistic.)

I agree with you on that point especially the advanced filters.

Not really anything about immersions, just helps out a bit to find stuff quicker if you RolePlaying and want to find all the "food you have in the bp or something.

But for the Custom Categories, since I play immersion on my main and I like to have categories of Items like" Immersion: Items in the backpack of my Horse." which I find too heavy to carry on me and can only use during rests or Campfires or "Immersion: Food made on today for the trip eat before X" or "Immersion : BP that can only carry X number of Items" or "Immersion : All my Eq for Audrion"

I label them that way, so when I need to do stuff for events where I need to comeback to pulling good DPS for tickets or whatever, without having to empty all my innovatory and wonder what goes where I have my Main gear and I can easily distinguish between my gear.

It's ofc way less realistic to have 210 items on you but it's could be useful to some, So I just wanted to give people the opportunity to have those options. Since everyone has there own idea of what they wish for.

Ratzkifal

I think you missed the one that makes nights actually dark. I really like that one even though it kind of sucks if you don't have a fancy Ilambris weapon, the treasure hunter personality or a glowy memento you can spam because you don't see anything anymore.

WiseSky

Tandor wrote: »

The best way to increase immersion is to play without addons, they just trivialise the gameplay and cut corners. Now, if that's what you're looking to do then that's fine, use addons, but let's not pretend that it's in order to increase your immersion.

These AddOns are the Opposite of "SkyShards", LoreBooks, Lost Treasures and other that just make you run from A to B ignoring everything in-between. That in my opinion Trivializes everything. These AddOns do the opposite.

Snowy_Wyndra_Karn

This is one of the best posts I’ve read in these forums.

Thank you for the time and effort you have put in. Lots here I didn’t know about.

Cireous

Incredible job with this.

Some that I haven''t seen or tried yet, but look forward to do so now:

• Auto Category - Revised
• Personality Designer
• Sit on Benches
• The Librarium (wow at this one!)

ivelbob

Thank you so much for putting together this list! So useful and I learned a few things.

"Immersion" is such a subjective notion that applies to aspects of UI, game design and even narrative. There are so many individual elements that can incredibly annoy one player but go completely unnoticed by another. I appreciate how many addons are available to PC players to tailor their experience and wish console players had the same flexibility!

colossalvoids

The more you know, thanks for some of the suggestions much appreciated work here. Will surely get some of the ones I didn't knew about like votans add-on list or library search.

WiseSky

Wirb wrote: »

Thanks a TON for taking on your time to make this ; there were a lot amongst these addons that I didn't know about. So, unlike some whom are apparently just here to criticize, I say thank you !

@Wirb

Thanks, Lots of these AddOn I also did not know about. Just found them out recently too if you are like me its a always great to have more tools to play with. Some criticism is valid, I will look to make this guide more friendly in the future for players.

Enjoy

WiseSky

Ezorus wrote: »

Console player but bumping this for the amount of effort press into it

@Ezorus Thanks, I tried to also help out Console players in Part 4.

WiseSky

Sangwyne wrote: »

This is an absolutely monstrous post, and a welcome addition to the list of addons I need to try out, thanks. I appreciate that you went the extra mile to specifically call out ones that would not ruin immersion; there are so many addons that look like they would be extremely useful in the context of optimizing my rotation or navigation, but are jarringly at odds with the lore and aesthetic of the game, both of which I value highly.

@Sangwyne

I know that feeling of looking just to change one things that annoys you and with these addons I hope you find what you need.

WiseSky

Ratzkifal wrote: »

I think you missed the one that makes nights actually dark. I really like that one even though it kind of sucks if you don't have a fancy Ilambris weapon, the treasure hunter personality or a glowy memento you can spam because you don't see anything anymore.

@Ratzkifal

The AddOn is there:
It could be that it was too Dark for you to see without a fancy memento

WiseSky wrote: »

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VOTAN'S DARKER NIGHTS

• This makes in-game nights Much darker. Make nights feel like real nights. The effect is adjustable for the new moon and full moon nights, meaning you can customize how dark you want the nights to be. Great to use with Treasure Hunter Personality with with Almalexia's Enchanted Lantern (Memento) as the light source.

Votan's Darker Nights ON

Votan's Darker Nights OFF

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Ratzkifal

WiseSky wrote: »

Ratzkifal wrote: »

I think you missed the one that makes nights actually dark. I really like that one even though it kind of sucks if you don't have a fancy Ilambris weapon, the treasure hunter personality or a glowy memento you can spam because you don't see anything anymore.

@Ratzkifal

The AddOn is there:
It could be that it was too Dark for you to see without a fancy memento

WiseSky wrote: »

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VOTAN'S DARKER NIGHTS

• This makes in-game nights Much darker. Make nights feel like real nights. The effect is adjustable for the new moon and full moon nights, meaning you can customize how dark you want the nights to be. Great to use with Treasure Hunter Personality with with Almalexia's Enchanted Lantern (Memento) as the light source.

Votan's Darker Nights ON

Votan's Darker Nights OFF

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...

Ah yes, there it is. Totally missed it the first time. The post is a little difficult to navigate tbh. More pictures could be spoilered I feel so scrolling through is easier.

WiseSky

Ratzkifal wrote: »

WiseSky wrote: »

Ratzkifal wrote: »

I think you missed the one that makes nights actually dark. I really like that one even though it kind of sucks if you don't have a fancy Ilambris weapon, the treasure hunter personality or a glowy memento you can spam because you don't see anything anymore.

@Ratzkifal

The AddOn is there:
It could be that it was too Dark for you to see without a fancy memento

WiseSky wrote: »

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VOTAN'S DARKER NIGHTS

• This makes in-game nights Much darker. Make nights feel like real nights. The effect is adjustable for the new moon and full moon nights, meaning you can customize how dark you want the nights to be. Great to use with Treasure Hunter Personality with with Almalexia's Enchanted Lantern (Memento) as the light source.

Votan's Darker Nights ON

Votan's Darker Nights OFF

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...

Ah yes, there it is. Totally missed it the first time. The post is a little difficult to navigate tbh. More pictures could be spoilered I feel so scrolling through is easier.

I will definitely do that for the next part of the guide, people can finish FG1 before someone reading this guide all the way down

Klad

Tandor wrote: »

The best way to increase immersion is to play without addons, they just trivialize the gameplay and cut corners. Now, if that's what you're looking to do then that's fine, use addons, but let's not pretend that it's in order to increase your immersion.

Have to say I agree. I have also find out that if you run or run on a mount you miss a lot of things. I know I have been to places that only a handful of players notice.... My group usually walks through Delves Dungeons and Trails, overland I usually have my mount walk (Because you can't run a horse across a continent with no rest.) Dose it take me longer? Sure, but I have the time, and I'm lucky that my set group fills the same..it's awesome never to hear GOGOGOGOGOGOGO! or HEY TANK!!!!!

YMMV though.

WiseSky

Klad wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

The best way to increase immersion is to play without addons, they just trivialize the gameplay and cut corners. Now, if that's what you're looking to do then that's fine, use addons, but let's not pretend that it's in order to increase your immersion.

Have to say I agree. I have also find out that if you run or run on a mount you miss a lot of things. I know I have been to places that only a handful of players notice.... My group usually walks through Delves Dungeons and Trails, overland I usually have my mount walk (Because you can't run a horse across a continent with no rest.) Dose it take me longer? Sure, but I have the time, and I'm lucky that my set group fills the same..it's awesome never to hear GOGOGOGOGOGOGO! or HEY TANK!!!!!

YMMV though.

@Klad

I really don't believe that @Tandor read about the AddOns I posted. They just did a TL;DR and said AddOns are bad for immersion... While this whole post is about AddOn's that add to immersion.

Would you like to Have First person View while Walking your mount? If so there is an AddOn for that.

I really don't see how having that AddOn trivializes the gameplay.

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IMMERSIVEHORSERIDING

• Ability to ride your Mount in 1st person-view just by scrolling the mouse wheel.

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WiseSky

Klad wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

The best way to increase immersion is to play without addons, they just trivialize the gameplay and cut corners. Now, if that's what you're looking to do then that's fine, use addons, but let's not pretend that it's in order to increase your immersion.

Have to say I agree. I have also find out that if you run or run on a mount you miss a lot of things. I know I have been to places that only a handful of players notice.... My group usually walks through Delves Dungeons and Trails, overland I usually have my mount walk (Because you can't run a horse across a continent with no rest.) Dose it take me longer? Sure, but I have the time, and I'm lucky that my set group fills the same..it's awesome never to hear GOGOGOGOGOGOGO! or HEY TANK!!!!!

YMMV though.

@Klad
PS I also walk on my mount but find it more immersive in First Person View if I chose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwBdgRnVRqs

Tandor

WiseSky wrote: »

<snip>
I really don't believe that @Tandor read about the AddOns I posted. They just did a TL;DR and said AddOns are bad for immersion... While this whole post is about AddOn's that add to immersion.

Would you like to Have First person View while Walking your mount? If so there is an AddOn for that.

I really don't see how having that AddOn trivializes the gameplay. <snip>

I partly answered the question of immersive addons in my reply to @Danikat earlier, when I also agreed that it's difficult to see how some of the addons you refer to aid with immersion.

However, I do happily concede that my original post wording was a bit clumsy, and when I said (in reference to addons generally and not specifically the ones you listed) "they just trivialise the gameplay and cut corners" I should have said "most of them" rather than "they". Apologies for that.

Tigertron

Bandits UI author has removed Kahjiit mode sadly. One day I will make a stand alone version.

poodlemasterb16_ESO

LOL. I do love my 2 addons, both FTC and Combat Log. Congrats for all that work though, hope it helps some people.

WiseSky

Tandor wrote: »

WiseSky wrote: »

<snip>
I really don't believe that @Tandor read about the AddOns I posted. They just did a TL;DR and said AddOns are bad for immersion... While this whole post is about AddOn's that add to immersion.

Would you like to Have First person View while Walking your mount? If so there is an AddOn for that.

I really don't see how having that AddOn trivializes the gameplay. <snip>

I partly answered the question of immersive addons in my reply to @Danikat earlier, when I also agreed that it's difficult to see how some of the addons you refer to aid with immersion.

However, I do happily concede that my original post wording was a bit clumsy, and when I said (in reference to addons generally and not specifically the ones you listed) "they just trivialise the gameplay and cut corners" I should have said "most of them" rather than "they". Apologies for that.

@Tandor

Thanks for that clarification, I see your point for some AddOn trivializing the ESO content, I was a bit taken thinking that the list of addon I put was in that category, which is exactly the opposite of what I indented.

Lots of these AddOns are really niche and to me they serve a purpose, In the future I might explain the purpose of each for myself but that is a post of on its own.

WiseSky

Tigertron wrote: »

Bandits UI author has removed Kahjiit mode sadly. One day I will make a stand alone version.

@Tigertron

Yeah its pretty sad to see.

I am just happy older versions of the Addon still have that feature.

In Minion I set that AddOn not to Update. And still enjoy Khajiit mode.

WiseSky

delenn35 wrote: »

This is one of the best posts I’ve read in these forums.

Thank you for the time and effort you have put in. Lots here I didn’t know about.

@delenn35

Take your time and may you find what you did not know you needed

appreciate it

Ithilis

Thank you for posting screenshots about addons instead of just links, really speaks better about the addon than just text description and link!
I found some good addon tips, thank you! Going to reshare this to our rp Discord too