RP'ers Character costume & mount changes

stewhead2ub17_ESO

Lately I've been finding myself changing outfits for my char to match the weather in the zone I'm in. Question for all my RP'ers. Do you change your character's appearance to better match the terrain they're adventuring in, i.e. warm weather clothing vs. cold weather? How about your companions or mounts? Do you change to a non combat outfit unless questing? This simple act has added to my enjoyment & given me more incentive to find motifs.

DTLight

Oh for sure. I do a lot of solo-RP, and just the other day when my character was in Stros M'Kai, he was wearing the royal courier (or whatever the name) leather costume, and I switched it over to one of the sailing ones with baggier clothes because I couldn't help but think that the dude would get absolutely boiled in that outfit lol

Tesman85

I don't know if I could call myself a proper RPer, certainly not a hardcore one. But I still do change the characters' appearance for the occasion, especially when questing. I aim to have armor outfits for warm and cold zones and both in "dirty work" and neat-looking styles. Besides, I change into formal clothing costumes for visiting royalty etc. and sometimes to more relaxed ones when doing writs or just loitering around. All costumes are dyed to fit the characters, of course. I sometimes change the female characters' hairstyles or ornaments, too, to suit the situation.

Mounts are less critical and I have none of the gaudy apex ones, but I do choose them so that they fit the character's outfit colours and/or its theme in general terms. For instance, my Dunmer rides a white guar and my necromancer a black horse.

Companions I care less about appearance-wise. They get one outfit and one costume, and I change them into one or the other when I get bored at looking at the other. Mirri has to ride the Narsis guar, but otherwise I don't care about what mounts they have.

I agree with you that choosing outfits for the occasion adds to the enjoyment, it's more immersive to quest in an appropriate outfit. Besides, it's fun to see how the characters' appearance can change with different looks!

Anumaril

I do! Glad to know other people do this too haha. I've got different outfits for different weather types, like cold weather, warm weather, temperate, etc. Mounts too, at least if I happen to have lore-appropriate ones unlocked.

For companions I don't bother though. Changing my own outfit is really quick, but changing a companion outfit requires going through a menu and dialogue options, and you can only change their costumes too. We only have 1 customisable outfit for companions with different slots, and there isn't a fitting costume for every setting.

BlueRaven

I am not in an RP guild, but I do like playing MMO's LIKE it is an old fashioned pen and paper RPG. So on a few of my characters I do have various costumes set up for the environment they are in.

As for mounts I generally have mounts that work for their character, then I use a random mount/pet mod.

Here is an example using four environmental costumes. You may notice that in three of them, they are just color variations of the same gear. (I like how that looks on her.) And they all work with a particular hat. I like having the costumes have as quick change as possible so I don't want to keep going into the collections tab. They are all set up that I can open the character screen. Select the costume, then keep going.


Summer/Forrest - And really my default costume setting for her. I wanted to emphasize her wood elf nature, so I gave this costume sandals to suggest basically bare feet.


Snow/Winter


Fall/Desert


Cave/Stealth - I used that particular bow because when she is sneaking it gives her a very small profile as that weapon disappears.


I kind of wish we had an addon that can automatically change costumes for us depending on the zone. Like when I am in Malabol Tor then select this costume, and if I am in Elsweyr select this different costume. Etc.

Tesman85

BlueRaven wrote: »

I am not in an RP guild, but I do like playing MMO's LIKE it is an old fashioned pen and paper RPG. So on a few of my characters I do have various costumes set up for the environment they are in.

As for mounts I generally have mounts that work for their character, then I use a random mount/pet mod.

Here is an example using four environmental costumes. You may notice that in three of them, they are just color variations of the same gear. (I like how that looks on her.) And they all work with a particular hat. I like having the costumes have as quick change as possible so I don't want to keep going into the collections tab. They are all set up that I can open the character screen. Select the costume, then keep going.

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I kind of wish we had an addon that can automatically change costumes for us depending on the zone. Like when I am in Malabol Tor then select this costume, and if I am in Elsweyr select this different costume. Etc.

Very nice work with that character! She looks good, and the outfits are great.

AcadianPaladin

Yes. My elf goes through plenty of clothing changes each day depending on what she's doing and the environment/weather. Of course that often dominoes into a need to change her circlet and hairstyle as well. Not so with mount and pet. She'd never venture out without her precious palomino mare nor the watchful eye and giggling chortles of her nyxad.

emilyhyoyeon

With my two main characters, one I do, the other I don't because I love her robe too much and her mount is undead (a ghost) that she summons so a mount change doesn't really matter to her.

My other character has her combat/adventuring leathers, different sets of town clothes for different climates and situations, fishing gear, etc. She doesn't usually change her mount though. In fact a lot of the time she goes places on foot.

Danikat

I've been swapping my characters into non-combat clothing in towns and other safe areas since TESIII and would have done it earlier if I'd played games with that option.

In ESO I generally use costumes rather than outfits for downtime because there's more of a variety of things which don't look like armour or mages robes. All my characters have a selection of formal, informal and practical clothing for different situations. I'll also change their hair styles and accessories to match the costume.

I will do a similar thing with outfits, for example my breton warden has one for when she wants to be seen as a respectable mage and one that's more of a Wyress style. But outfit slots are expensive so I have fewer options there, and I always want it to look like something they would wear in combat.

With mounts it varies. I use the RandomMount addon so I never know what mount I'm going to get, and sometimes it brings up one I've not used in a while or hadn't considered and I decide I want to stick with it regardless of the area. Other times I will change it for one I think would do well with that climate or terrain.

Kesstryl

My High Elf Ayleid descendant righting the wrongs of his ancestors in Murkmire dressed in Argonian style:



He even lodged his horse in a stable and rented a guar because it was too swampy for his horse to explore. Yes, I do this.

stewhead2ub17_ESO

@Danikat " I'll also change their hair styles and accessories to match the costume."

Haha that's awesome!

colossalvoids

Even not as a role-player in common eso sense I do treat this game's RPG elements as relevant when fitting, like when going through stories or just feel like it, including swapping outfits and such, growing and "cutting" facial hair, or hair in general after some time. Mounts are mostly class/style/race relevant so swapping isn't frequent at all.

Crown_of_Antlers

Kesstryl wrote: »

He even lodged his horse in a stable and rented a guar because it was too swampy for his horse to explore. Yes, I do this.

LOL I thought I was on the only one. My play style is much like the other people in this thread. I'm always changing my characters' outfits to suit the weather and terrain. They almost always use a horse for a mount, but I will occasionally switch to guars when in Murkmire or other swampy areas.

Tenthirty2

@BlueRaven You may want to check out Bandit's Gear Manager
It can't switch outfits\gear automatically by zone, but you can configure literally everything in a "look" to switch with 1 key press. Weapons, armour, outfits, all cosmetics, mounts, etc.
I've been using it almost as long as I've been playing ESO, it's an essential addon for me.

To the point of the thread, yep I change outfits and gear based on zone\terrain\weather, location
I also have a few normal home and town outfits, even use some of the plain "clothing" items, they're perfect for that.

Nestor

I do outfit changes, but not as often as I should. Mostly because I don't spend enough time in a particular zone.

I also typically wear clothing outfits on all my characters. Those tend to match their role or class or disposition.

opalcity

My guys tend to wear stuff suitable for the zone they're in, and I'll pick a suitable mount to match, too.

I'll also change things up for the seasonal events. I've only recently started looking at decorating my housing rather than using it as a free transport and storage, so I've found myself wearing something casual around the house!

BretonMage

To a certain extent, though I used to a lot more than I do now. My character tends to try to dress more practically when she's in a dungeon or out in the swamps of Shadowfen. I don't pay much attention to climate, though. 10 years of traipsing through Skyrim in a sleeveless dress has inured me to the cold.

stewhead2ub17_ESO

@opalcity "so I've found myself wearing something casual around the house!"

lol

Ajaxandriel

stewhead2ub17_ESO wrote: »

Lately I've been finding myself changing outfits for my char to match the weather in the zone I'm in. Question for all my RP'ers. Do you change your character's appearance to better match the terrain they're adventuring in, i.e. warm weather clothing vs. cold weather? How about your companions or mounts? Do you change to a non combat outfit unless questing? This simple act has added to my enjoyment & given me more incentive to find motifs.

I do not, because I won't spend a penny on outfit additional slots. So either there is a Costume to put in or I keep the outfit I define once and for all. (This is done for each character.)

However, among my many alts I log on a peculiar character depending of the region I have to visit!
for example, I never really ask myself how my redguards would get dressed to go to Skyrim or Wrothgar because they just don't go there.

alternatelder

stewhead2ub17_ESO wrote: »

@opalcity "so I've found myself wearing something casual around the house!"

lol

Glad I'm not the only weird one that had a separate outfit for decorating, although I started wearing it everywhere.

BloodyStigmata

Waaaaaay too much work.

I make outfits that match their personality, try to match a mount/pet to them and call it a day.

Cazador

I'm not really an rp'er but I do this too. My nightblade has an outfit for wamer/colder climates, one for more average climates and one to serve as an alliance uniform for those rare times I feel like pvp'ing.

WiseSky

How do you expect me to have one outfit for each zone if I max out the outfit slots and only have 10...

Ohhyeah...

I use all the addons in the EQ section of this list
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/574549/immersion-addons-and-settings/

emilyhyoyeon

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

With my two main characters, one I do, the other I don't because I love her robe too much and her mount is undead (a ghost) that she summons so a mount change doesn't really matter to her.

My other character has her combat/adventuring leathers, different sets of town clothes for different climates and situations, fishing gear, etc. She doesn't usually change her mount though. In fact a lot of the time she goes places on foot.

Wanted to show my character's outfits because I wanna see more people posting theirs too

This is Qa'Rirra, my assassin, and for context she was born and raised in Gideon, Black Marsh to her khajiit mother and imperial father. She is culturally not very khajiitish; her mother's side has been in imperial culture for a long time. This is reflected in the stuff she wears among other things but yeah.

I stick mostly to costumes because, as been said, the outfit tokens are overpriced. I only have one that a friend gifted me.

general adventuring outfit. Also functions as cold weather gear. Also has a hood

Black Marsh-specific adventuring gear that she doesn't use a lot, but it's there


imperial style casual clothes for home, town, etc places that aren't cold


argonian style casual clothes for home, town, etc places that aren't cold


a fishing outfit, also sometimes uses the previous two

Vevvev

Only when I'm doing RP with others and want to be more grounded in something plausible. Not going to be wearing a flowing dress in the middle of hiking through a tundra, and don't plan to be wearing a full on jacket in the Gold Coast during the height of Summer.