want to do all quests but scared to miss out on some stuff

Darkspecialist

I am so amazing behind..years behind. If i were to do the main quest only will i miss out on anything to screw anything up when it comes to all the side quests? I have a toon i want to do eveything on but i dont play often enough to get this done in a few months. each dlc or xpac that comes out puts me back 3 steps when my playig only gains me one step forward.

felt if i do the main story first then everything else is at my leisure. right?

stewhead2ub17_ESO

Everything is at your leisure. If you're interested in the stories and questing then there really is no "behind". If your goal is just to explore all of the content then you set your own pace. Remove any sense of urgency and just enjoy the ride.

kargen27

I wanted to do all the quests again in order of when my first character did them but all my characters have done quests kind of haphazard. I started a 2nd account to do the quests on and am having a blast doing them again from the start. I did cheat a little bit and leveled the psijic line so I can get the portals as I go through each zone but the rest I am doing the same. When I did it the first time we had to be a certain level to advance the main quest so I finished that one earlier than I did on my first character. I'm doing the guild quest lines now along with the zone quests.

My first character was in the Daggerfall alliance so I am still doing those zones in the same order they were in when I started. Will go to Cadwell's Silver next.

I still have my first account to do all the other stuff on. If you think you want to skip around some with dungeons, pledges trials and/or PvP you might start a 2nd character for that and then you still have this one to do the stories in some kind of order.

As I mentioned above the main story early in the game was stretched out over time. A player could well be into other zones and a good part of the guild lines before finishing the main story. The main story is mostly stand alone so it won't wreck other things if you finish it first or wait a bit.

Each zone has its own story line to follow. The side quests in each zone kind of add flavor to the main quest line in that zone but don't affect the outcome. I use this as example. In A Christmas Story Flick gets his tongue stuck on a flag pole. That doesn't affect in any way whether or not Ralphie gets his BB gun but it adds to the story. Those are the side quests.

I agree with Stewhead. Go at your own pace and enjoy the game. Explore every zone all kinds of fun stuff to do and see.

ectoplasmicninja

The game was initially paced that you'd do your alliance questline and unlock a main quest every 5 levels. So originally you were meant to work your way through the zones and do sidequests etc alongside the main storyline, approximately syncing up the end of your alliance storyline with a particular quest near the end of the main story. The level requirements are no longer in place, but you can still space them out similarly for a good "chronological" telling.