New player

Cyanure

Hello there,

(I apologize for my grammar, English is not my mother tongue)

I am a new player to ESO and I have few questions about the game.

1) Is ESO “community friendly” ? I have heard that the game is doable in solo, at least for questing (and I like that). But I wonder if there is some activities in game which require cooperation ? I my opinion it is the real core of an MMO and I don’t really wish to do everything alone, which is quite boring isn’t it ?

2) How does the guild system work ? I read that players can join “five different guilds”, but does it apply for one account or for one character ?

3) About gameplay : is it possible to create a character who can use both dual wield and heal (himself and mates) ? I don’t really know which class would be adapted to this ? (maybe mag warden or stam sorcerer ?) Do all the physical attacks use stamina ?

GenjiraX

Hello and welcome.

1) Yes, there is multiplayer content and a group finder function.

2) Five guilds per account.

3) Someone with better build knowledge can advise.

colossalvoids

Hey and welcome to ESO

I'd say it depends on how much of solo and group you personally want it to be. There's ability to group for most of the game's content, you would be required a group for trials, group arenas and dungeons but having enough experience would be able to try some of it solo, bar trials. There are places like instanced quests and solo arenas where you're strictly solo but that's about it, guilds and friends could cover you in every other situation.

Five guilds server wide, so 5 slots on EU and 5 NA respectively. You access chat and banks with every character on said server.

Well, you can surely do whatever you want especially in overland and questing, normal difficulty dungeons also but it won't be that optimal. You surely would be able to heal yourself reliably by skills, potions, sets etc. but if you want to full time healer it needs more dedication. But you surely can heal your buddies on a damage dealer or tank setups, especially if all of you having group and self heals. I would say that if you want to perform two or more roles reliably better having two set-ups for that. Different sets and skills, you can use add-ons if on pc for an easy switch or do it manually. For example having damage dealer, healer and pvp setups on one character is pretty common thing, you will have enough space if cautious about it, skill points aren't an issue also if you have eso+ especially to get to all the places.
Also all classes are more or less on equal footing, some are surely better at some roles but those things tend to change from patch to patch. I'd say try out different characters having free character slots to see what's more appealing to you personally and make it work.

jircris11

1: the community is friendly enough. You will always have jerks sadly that is the nature of mmos. Most tend to be helpful or least talkatively. Co-op is an option,sadly per the case with most mmos now days solo is perfered outside of group content.

2: you can join 5 guilds and it is per account. Example i am in a social guild a roleplay giild a trade guild and my own guild leaving me one free slot.

3: while you CAN run dual wield and restoration staff they are nit a recomended pareing. Dw is stamina (green bar) while restro is magika (blue bar) and focus on not only different armor types but skills and passives. Now if you WANT to go something like that i would recomend templar as they have some hood heals or warden if you have it. As fir armor dw is medium for crit while restro would be light for magika related boosts.

colossalvoids

On resources, three's 3 types of them as magicka, stamina and health (+ultimate) but all can have different scaling (max resource, weapon/spell damage etc.) and have different damage type be it bleed, psychical, disease, flame, shock etc. I'd advise reading UESP article or two about it at least so you would have better understanding of what you're building and how to make it synergise. Look up all the skills and their morphs, check out different builds and people going deep into it so you can have insight into how was their thought process creating it and what's worth paying attention to. You surely can go copying after 160cp (so you can have gear that's staying with you permanently without loosing it's efficiency being underleveled, as it's a gee cap) but I'd advise to do your research also as it's pretty crucial to your success.

Aznarb

Cyanure wrote: »

Hello there,

(I apologize for my grammar, English is not my mother tongue)

I am a new player to ESO and I have few questions about the game.

1) Is ESO “community friendly” ? I have heard that the game is doable in solo, at least for questing (and I like that). But I wonder if there is some activities in game which require cooperation ? I my opinion it is the real core of an MMO and I don’t really wish to do everything alone, which is quite boring isn’t it ?

2) How does the guild system work ? I read that players can join “five different guilds”, but does it apply for one account or for one character ?

3) About gameplay : is it possible to create a character who can use both dual wield and heal (himself and mates) ? I don’t really know which class would be adapted to this ? (maybe mag warden or stam sorcerer ?) Do all the physical attacks use stamina ?

1-1 - Yes end-game is group based

1-2 - Depend, some people are nice some are a**, also depend on you if, for exemple, you jump in some vdlc with no clue about what to do and not even asking, people gonna get mad obviously when the group gonna wipe because of that.
Other than that when new player ask for advice they'll get it easily.

2 - Account related. Most of us just join 1 or 2 guild and use the other slot for merchant guild.

3 - Yes it is, only on Stamina Warden, but don't expect it to be nearly as efficient than a standard Magicka healer. And if you're new it's gonna be even less efficient since you don't have any experience about any standard gameplay and build yet.
Skill efficiency depend on ressource pool and offensive stats like weapon or magical dmg. In general it's noted on the skill and if not just look at the cost of the skill.

That said, if you're new and low level, nothing really matter, test as many weapon as you want, same for skill. Don't be afraid about wasting skill or attribut point. They can all be reset in major city for low cost and as you level up you'll even get 1-2 free respe-scroll.
(Never buy them in cash shop, you don't need it ! Can be done in game for few gold !)

4 - If you're new, then don't forget to get into big town everyday to buy training lesson for your mount !
Speed > Bag space > Stamina for XP/Exploration convenience or
Bag > Speed > Stamina if like me you don't care about speed since you stop at everything you can pick-up !

5 - Go in the 1st big town you see and speak to the Warrior and Mage guild to open skill line !

6 - Look at add-on, no need ton of them but as you'll explore for a good amount of time, I recommend at least Map Pin so you can see mage's book and skyshard on the map. Make your life easier but that up to you !

7 - When you can equip one time :
3 part of light, then 3 of med and last 3 heavy to unlock all armor skill line !

8 - If you're on EU and want to get xp a bit fast sent mail at @Orack89 and I'll sent you an crafted XP set (just precise which type of armor you want and weapon)

Welcome to the game, hope you'll have some good moment in Tamriel !


Edit : Adding some basic info for new player

Slimebrow

IMO currently...I would say GW2 offers better group content unless your an RPer then you can always join a RP guild.

This game is more single player oriented.

Cyanure

Ok all, thank you for your indications !

I will check UESP as soon as possible. I used to play to Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim before, so some elements here are not really obvious for me (especially regarding armor types or ressources).

I think I will play an argonian ; if ESO is like in TES IV and TES V, the race is not really important except for HL min-maxing ?

Aznarb

Flubbles wrote: »

IMO currently...I would say GW2 offers better group content unless your an RPer then you can always join a RP guild.

This game is more single player oriented.

As someone who have leave eso to play gw2 and them come back, I disagree, yes their is any group content, but it so easy, even raid and fractal that it's not even fun tbh..
The good point of gw2 is combat and map design, espoecially HoT and mount are so amazingly well done in this game... All move feel so natural..
But that all, I got bored pretty fast tbh. Story is lame at best, I still don't understand saying it's amazing, it's really not, very basic.

Aznarb

Cyanure wrote: »

Ok all, thank you for your indications !

I will check UESP as soon as possible. I used to play to Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim before, so some elements here are not really obvious for me (especially regarding armor types or ressources).

I think I will play an argonian ; if ESO is like in TES IV and TES V, the race is not really important except for HL mix-maxing ?

Yep, play which plz you the most, don't worry to much about it. Even in HL you'll be surprised to see some very good player playing with Khajiit Tank, or me during GS try with Nord healer, doesn't really matter tbh.
It matter a bit more for DPS I would say. But again if you don't plan to do very high end success, who care ? You can even change race with an item in Cash shop so..
Just have fun buddy !

bmnoble

Cyanure wrote: »

Hello there,

(I apologize for my grammar, English is not my mother tongue)

I am a new player to ESO and I have few questions about the game.

1) Is ESO “community friendly” ? I have heard that the game is doable in solo, at least for questing (and I like that). But I wonder if there is some activities in game which require cooperation ? I my opinion it is the real core of an MMO and I don’t really wish to do everything alone, which is quite boring isn’t it ?

2) How does the guild system work ? I read that players can join “five different guilds”, but does it apply for one account or for one character ?

3) About gameplay : is it possible to create a character who can use both dual wield and heal (himself and mates) ? I don’t really know which class would be adapted to this ? (maybe mag warden or stam sorcerer ?) Do all the physical attacks use stamina ?

1: community is friendly for the most part, still the occasional troll you will run into but those are in the minority.

Just be aware that using the group finder, can often result in getting people who will rush through dungeons, so your better off finding your own group either in zone chat or in a guild if your looking to do the quest or a specific run for achievements.

2: 5 Guilds per account, use the guild finder to browse and apply for guilds that interest you or whisper the recruiters pasting their paragraphs of text in zone chat. To bring up the guild finder or guild page on PC press the G key.

3: So long as you have leveled the desired skill lines and have enough skill points to invest in them you have a decent amount of freedom in how you set your character up.

For example if your going dual wield you might want to slot the Vigor skill from the Alliance war skill line, the blood altar from the undaunted skill line if you want to provided some heals for those around you or you could back bar a restoration staff and use the skills from that skill line.

Vhozek

1. There's a good balance of solo and group content but most group content can still be done solo if you're strong enough.
2. Per account.
3. Yes, you can use 2 sets of weapons whether that's a bow and a heal staff in the other. There are also stamina abilities that heal. As far as I know, all physical attacks use stamina and scale their effects with stamina.

Cyanure

Aznarb wrote: »

8 - If you're on EU and want to get xp a bit fast sent mail at @Orack89 and I'll sent you an crafted XP set (just precise which type of armor you want and weapon)

Welcome to the game, hope you'll have some good moment in Tamriel !

Thanks a lot for your proposal ! I will maybe send an mail to you ingame but I would like to discover the game without bonus first

Vhozek wrote: »

Yes, you can use 2 sets of weapons whether that's a bow and a heal staff in the other. There are also stamina abilities that heal. As far as I know, all physical attacks use stamina and scale their effects with stamina.

Ok thanks, I understand better now.