What Do You Do First When You Log In Each Day? Do You Have a Routine You Repeat Each Day?

ixthUA

Reading this thread, people do so much stuff in game that i got tired just by reading it.
I log in like once a week, claim login reward, do random normal dungeon as a tank (in less than 10 minutes), log out.

Nestor

I dont have a routine per say. It all depends on the events in the game. If it is one that rewards crafting or gives double reward drops like with dragons, i will cycle through some or all of my alts to grab the goodies.

Outside of events, I putter or quest or run a few dailies.

I think i may finally start farming some Mythics. I only have two so far, Wild Hunt and Oaken Soul. I do have a fantasy of playing a character that is only wearing Mythics, if that is possible.

TaSheen

Nestor wrote: »

I dont have a routine per say. It all depends on the events in the game. If it is one that rewards crafting or gives double reward drops like with dragons, i will cycle through some or all of my alts to grab the goodies.

Outside of events, I putter or quest or run a few dailies.

I think i may finally start farming some Mythics. I only have two so far, Wild Hunt and Oaken Soul. I do have a fantasy of playing a character that is only wearing Mythics, if that is possible.

Eh, at one slot per character, it's not possible right now. Kind of doubt it ever will be - talk about way OP....

Roxxsmom

I do crafting dailies nearly every day with at least 2 of my characters. Since I've been doing this, I don't tend to run out of crafting mats.

aaisoaho

Login to alts to trains horses. On the last alt, open up a reward of the worthy container to get guaranteed transmute crystals. After that, it starts to vary. During Mayhem, I turn in IC and Cyro quest on my main. Not during events, I start doing what interests me that day.

DreamyLu

Easy and short routine: before to log off each day, I park my toon at the equipment writs board in Vulkhel (Auridon).
Upon logging the day after, I take those 4 writs and do wood - blacksmithing - clothing. Then on the way to jewelry I pick up alchemy at the other board and do jewelry/alchemy. That's fast thanks to Lazy Crafter addon. After picking up reward, I go at bank to put on trading the list of mats of the day and from there, hurry to Summerset to start a round of runestones farming, that usually stops about 10 minutes later, when my dog asks to go out and that's over already...

Stridig

75% of the time I log in, check mails then log out. 25% of the time I log in, look at my friends list full of people who haven't logged in for over a year, get sad and log out.

Pelanora

ixthUA wrote: »

Reading this thread, people do so much stuff in game that i got tired just by reading it.
I log in like once a week, claim login reward, do random normal dungeon as a tank (in less than 10 minutes), log out.

Yep. Agree. And i did wonder if this is why we don't get new pvp content. Why bother- if this is what the game means to people and this is what people like about the game.

Nightowl_74

I don't have much of a routine in-game but during months that have a login reward I want, I'll add collecting that to my regular morning routine after I make my coffee. I don't actually play at that time, though; it's very quick, probably less than five minutes.

Lugaldu

I do crafting with all four of my characters first every day. After crafting follows a round of stealing in Nekrom with two chars - it's wonderful how many containers are left unattended here.
After that it varies what and for how long I do something with one of the four characters, but above all dailies (especially in the Reik, on High Isle/Galen, or now on the Telvanni peninsula) and quests.
My "relaxation" after all that effort is building houses.

Vhozek

I think of what I want to do, figure out that's not interesting enough, leave the launcher on screen for hours sometimes, come back to rethink what I want to do, and either close or launch the game.
If I launch it, I delete characters I don't want anymore, theorycraft character themes I'd want to play in the future for like an hour or two, spend about 30 minutes creating the character so its looks and name matches the theme, and actually play the game for like 15 minutes.
I then close the game and get on the forums to complain about how combat is too floaty and overland is extremely boring at low levels because it's too easy.

That's legit my 2000+ hours of ESO.

RaddlemanNumber7

Do horse Speed training on my Arcanist (24 days to do)
On my main crafter - take the daily reward, look at Endeavours, do one set of writs.

TwiceBornStar

I always log in with my Argonian first, then run 200 laps around the Hist Tree in Shadowfen, do a silly dance and then I start looking for a Blessed Thistle. I can't interact with, or do anything else before I've plucked a Blessed Thistle. Oh, and coffee!

Lots of coffee!

TwiceBornStar

If my Argonian doesn't feel like running (and trust me, I can tell just by looking at him from the character selection screen!) I'll just pick my Hlaalu Dark Elf and feel very sexy at any of the crafting tables in Vivec city. After at least three hundred people have drooled over my character and complimented me on how cool my character looks, I'll just log out and talk about it to my guineapig, because no one else wants to hear about my life in Vvardenfell.

Oink!

Zodiarkslayer

I am an early bird. I do writs on my seven characters in the mourning, before breakfast. Takes like 20 mins. I have parked them all in the zones where they have their respective homes, so relogging and writ crafting isn't as boring as parking them all in the same city.

After work and picking up my kids in the afternoon, I will sometimes go monster hunting and fishing with my son. But only if there isn't anything else to do.

When they have gone to bed, I can do questing, dungeons and farming stuff, whatever I fancy that day.

Necrotech_Master

1. check mails (claim sales, hirelings)
2. determine how i want to do daily endeavors
3. (if event) do tickets
4. determine what other activity i want to work on (usually missing antiquity lead thats not a map, trials if i rostered for one, or dungeons to work on gear)

i dont do mount training cause i hate doing that 1 pt at a time, and im not logging in all of my toons every day to do that, i dont like daily writs as i find them a massive waste of time and mats (unless they put freaking leads in those, which refuse to drop for me)

Billium813

1. I port to Vivec City, Vvardenfell and grab my daily writs. After turning in my writs, I quickly go to Battlemaster Rivyn and pickup a BG daily
2. Port to Tideholm, Southern Elsweyr and grab the Dragonhold Supply Chest
3. Go through my mail and guild trader sales
4. Port to Elden Root, Grahtwood and pickup my Undaunted pledges for the day. Queue for pledges as a I move forward with PvE dailies
5. Port to Cormount, Grahtwood and grab the daily from Zahari
6. Port to Stormhold, Shadowfen and grab the daily from Jee-Lar (Hoping for "Salty Meats" cause it makes me chuckle)

After my pledges are all done...

7. I go to IC and turn in 1 completed daily so that I can get my daily Siege of Cyrodiil Merit. If I turned in my last completed IC daily, I go pick up 5 new dailies and go knock them out quickly so that I have 5 more days covered.
8. I go to Cyrodiil and pick up a new Conquest daily so that I can get my daily Arena Gladiator's Proof. Run off and complete that daily.
9. While working on the Cyrodiil daily, I queue for BGs

After my PvP dailies are all done...

I work on my houses, or top up my guild traders, or I run around Craglorn farming mats, or I help friends with content.

I have my Guild dailies all done, so I don't need those anymore. I have most of my Arena gear collected so I don't need those.

If there is an Arms Pack on sale, I usually skip the PvP stuff and farm the dungeon or work on trifecta completions for that dungeon.
If it's the weekend, I check Lux Vendor in Craglorn and check Golden Vendor in Cyrodiil.

DigiAngel

1. Login, upgrade horse on 3 alts
2. Logout

merpins

Each day? More like each week. I don't play as much as I used to.

TaSheen

merpins wrote: »

Each day? More like each week. I don't play as much as I used to.

And I actually play more - because my real life is.... entirely unfun....

Kaelthorn_Nightbloom

Queue for Gray Host

Elowen_Starveil

TaSheen wrote: »

I play from about 7 am until about 2 pm every day.

I feel like this part should be required on all of these posts. It's great that someone can make so much wealth in ESO by having 9 fully-leveled toons on 6 accounts, and I realize that Lazy Writ Crafter speeds things up incredibly, but it still takes a lot of time to swap through all of those characters and do all of this stuff.

shadyjane62

Endeavors. Daily crafting writs. Endless attempt to finish prologue for Shadowfen. Check PVP status of my two favorite wars.

Empty mail. Clean out bank and inventories. Top up pots and scrolls. Check to see if treasure maps and survey maps are busting containment.

And try to find a good place to be for the day, which now includes finding a place with no Arcanists leveling.

TaSheen

dk_dunkirk wrote: »

TaSheen wrote: »

I play from about 7 am until about 2 pm every day.

I feel like this part should be required on all of these posts. It's great that someone can make so much wealth in ESO by having 9 fully-leveled toons on 6 accounts, and I realize that Lazy Writ Crafter speeds things up incredibly, but it still takes a lot of time to swap through all of those characters and do all of this stuff.

Well.... I don't have 9 fully leveled characters on any of my accounts. And I don't craft on all of them (not even during Jubilee) AND I don't have gazoolas of gold (across 3 accounts both PC megaservers I have about 12 million total - and virtually nothing to spend it on so....) As for how much time I spend swapping accounts and characters in the morning, it's less than an hour total for riding, writ dailies, endeavors - and then I get to do something else on whichever girl takes my fancy.

Since I'm retired I get to play as much as I want - this is my retirement hobby. Some people play golf, I play ESO.

Sarannah

As someone who can technically play the whole day, I do have a daily routine:

1: Log in my two mains and do the daily crafting writs, combined with any endeavours I can quickly complete in town.
2: If there's an event going on, I grab my tickets.
3: Complete the rest of the daily (and weekly if it still has to be done) endeavours.

Necrom 4: Do two necrom dailies till I have the entire motif from those drops.
Necrom 5: Complete a daily fighter/mages/undaunted quest to get my companions to guild levels 10. (only one day to go to get both new companions max guild)
Necrom 6: Run through Gorne and Underweave to get the 25 PD items, for the squirrel achievement. (so far at 23-17)
Necrom 7: Spec both my new arcanists to be both tanks and DPS. (work in progress, only one has a tank spec so far)
Necrom 8: Work on unlocking the new companions their keepsakes. Sharp is fully done, Azandar only needs more levels(level 13 now).
Necrom 9: Still trying to figure out a way to get the new too-hard-to-get antiquity leads from the out-of-the-way areas/bosses in dungeons.

Event 4: If there is an event going on, I try to make the most of it. (right now I complete like 2-3 PvE towns in Cyrodiil every day, hoping to get Cyrodiil set items I still need)

Actual 4: Complete alliance zone content for any lowest completion rate character. (slow going as I complete zones for 100%) Not working on this at the moment, too many other things to do(see above). Both arcanists are next in line obviously, atleast up to cadwell's gold.

If I ever do not feel like playing, I only do the daily and weekly endeavours(+tickets) and log off.

PS: I have a rule, where when I log into a character for anything, I do the daily crafting writs on them. (mostly stopped doing daily writs after doing them on 18 characters for two years straight)

Syldras

Depends. Generally not that much, though.

If I have plenty of time, I do all crafting dailies on my main and all daily endeavors that I feel like doing. If I have even more time, I do crafting dailies on a few side characters, too.

If I don't have much time, I take a short look at the endeavors, might do some that only take few moments (like turning in 2 quests, drinking 2 beverages or deconstructing a few items) and skip all the rest. If I have to choose, I definitively prefer questing over chores.

Oh, and Saturday's routine includes a visit at the luxury furnisher.
And if I'm currently member of a trading guild, I refill the guild store each day, of course.

Daiyanae

On a daily basis and up until about a month ago I:
1. Did Login on # 1 of 15 characters
2. Collected mail and daily reward.

Then:
3. Did daily writs on all 15, sell junk sellables gained to merchant, add new sellable stuff and surveys to bank.

On # 1 I would pull sellables from the bank and restock 5 trading guilds to max.

On # 15:
I pulled all surveys from bank and added to chests in main house to do when something reached 20 of the same. Then I would collect mats from those 20 surveys. And then whatever struck my fancy from there.

Now, since I'm having medical treatments on my eyeballs and they hurt, I only pop in or have my son pop in occasionally, to collect the daily reward and hireling mats from mail. But soon I hope to be back to 'full time' again!

Daiyanae

16BitForestCat

This is not a true quitting post, despite how it may sound.

I hate to say it, but I realized recently that all the daily "busywork" grinds ZOS keeps inserting more and more of into the game have been killing my interest in actually playing the game. I haven't done a story quest that wasn't event-related since May 2021, when I finally finished Western Skyrim (least favorite Chapter) and Markarth just before the then-new Chapter dropped.

Without even consciously being aware of it, at some point I stopped truly playing the game. Because, when I first logged in, I would find myself so deep in the routine of the daily-reset busywork grind that it took up all my playtime. Daily/weekly Endeavors, writs, mount training on whichever new alt, trait research, event tickets, inventory management, running dull daily group quests for unlocking achievements in new content, checking Crown Store because of all those ridiculous unnecessarily limited-time offers....Though, as to that last, ZOS makes far less profit from me than they normally would. I get so overwhelmed by all their FOMO tactics that I often just...forget to buy anything before the offers expire because there's so much other grindwork in the game that I just forget to check the store. I save a lot of real money on all the crowns I'm no longer buying because I never seem to find time to spend them due to everything else going on in game and the sale offer windows being so small. Thanks for helping my wallet stay thick, ZOS! Kisskiss!

Sooo...I log in for at least an hour every day, but that time is entirely spent on dull busywork, not on playing and enjoying myself. I didn't set out to do this on purpose. Rather, I'd log in ready to quest and explore, think to myself, "*Sigh* I'd better get the dull stuff out of the way first, or I'll forget to do it before the reset and be mad I didn't get my event tickets or whatever." Then, by the time I finish my daily grindfarming, I'm no longer in the mood to play the actual game part of the game. Logging into ESO has become a dull habit, not a fun relaxing way to wind down at the end of the day.

Of course, now that I'm consciously aware of the problem, there's an easy fix. When the official ESO servers go down for good, is it going to matter anymore that I wasted hundreds of millions of gold, and countless hours of my life, just buying treasure maps and grinding leads to complete the Deadlands motif set this past year? That I finally bought every gold-purchasable house in the game so I'd have places to store all these furnishings I don't have time to use for decorating because of all the grimding? That I sat around waiting forever for people to show up at The Prime Cataloger so I could knock out that "do thirty group boss dailies in Necrom" achievement? That I wasted so much time grinding three stupid random-drop leads to finally complete a single codex set for a single antiquity furnishing? Heck, no...and heck again, it doesn't really matter NOW. Because there's so much grind, I'm not even making use of what I've achieved and acquired so far.

Back to the easy fix: right now, I'm trying to build up my gold stash because I spent so much on stupid treasure maps. That way, I can just buy stuff with gold instead of farming later--but only if I actually want it. I'll bet you I never even use those Deadlands motifs I wasted so much of my limited lifespan farming. No more completionist OCD for me. (Now, if only I could kick my OCD in other areas of my life....) No more grinding anything at all. When I've got my gold built back up and my stores cleaned out of spare items to sell on guild vendors, the fix is this: I'm logging out until I feel like playing the actual game part of the game again, and from then on, I will only log in to do fun things. Currently undecided if I'll pop in for easy Endeavors and event tickets. I'm winging it. I'll keep up with the game news and community, at least. Less sure if I'll keep my subscription, which I've held since day one of early access 2014, or if I'll keep buying new Chapters and DLC's before finishing what I already have.

All I know is, I've got a stack of movies, TV shows, books, and, yes, classic action-adventure and RPG games, plus remakes of classic games. All of which I've been neglecting, in order to do pointless daily grinding in ESO for years. Semi-tangent: one of my biggest complaints with modern games is that they complicate things too much in the name of "realism" in gameplay. So everything from combat to exploration is overly complicated and clunky in most games these days. And yet, it doesn't feel any more "real" or fun than playing the Magic Flute and flying across the map via duck in A Link to the Past. Which, incidentally is one of the classic games I'll be replaying when I'm no longer giving my entire free life to ESO, along with Final Fantasy 1-6, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger--just for starters. There are also some new non-grindy games I'd love to try out. Games where I can effectively kill even the final bosses by myself, without having to read a bunch of build theorycrafting to make sure I have viable gear and skills? Where daily busywork and achievement grinds don't exist, and the only grinding I'll be griping about is the completely optional level-grinding--maybe rare Relic-grinding in FF6, but only if I decide I hate myself and want to smack around some dinosaurs? Sign me up!

It actually makes me really sad to type all this up! ESO has been an obsession, both positively and negatively, since I was first invited to closed beta in 2013. There hasn't been a single day in all that time that I didn't log in if I had Internet access. But all the grinding and FOMO tactics have been "grinding" my patience more and more with every new content release, far more than even bugged content, janky combat that over-relies on crowd control and stunlocking, and lack of dev communication. It's all the reasons I've refused to play any other MMO's before. The lack of constant grinding and FOMO, along with the Elder Scrolls flavor, was what drew me to this MMO, as a nonfan of MMO's. And this now ever-increasing reliance on MMO player retention tactics is what's pushing me away from ESO. If that's the kind of stuff you like or don't mind in gaming, then I'm truly happy that you're happy, but it doesn't improve my personal gameplay experience, nor does it make me want to hang in there.

I actually never intended to write any of this down for public consumption. I was just gonna quietly fade away. But coming across this thread and seeing these other players talk about all the busywork they find themselves doing in game...kinda broke the dam(n) in me, I guess?

Thanks for this thread, OP. It helped me work out some issues that have been plaguing me for a while.

(Still not a quitting post, thank you very much!)

rpa

I log in to one character, and as applicable, fatten mount, research traits and do writs, check what endeavors are and cheese the cheesiest at some point, clear inventory from previous day, (should) list stuffs on trader, do tickets, whatever dailies and quests I'm working on. Login to other chars needing daily attention to fatten mount, trait research &cet. Still lagging too bad for group content (while waiting for fiber) so no dungeons &cet.

Pelanora

@16BitForestCat

Good for you. go get some fun elsewhere.