I would like looted items to show in group chat and I would like achievements broadcast to guild, other than that I'm good with no addons.

ESO Enhanced Graphics Launcher + SweetFX

They are not addons but they make the game look 100000 times better. Removed background fog, better colors / shaders etc. I feel sorry for console players just because of not having ESO EGL + SweetFX, it's like playing a completely different game.

More info here.
http://tamrielfoundry.com/topic/eso-launcher-graphics-enhancer-2/
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/150639/radeon-pro-sweetfx-eso-launcher-graphics-enhancer-info

Addons I use a lot but I prefer a minimal UI while playing..all my addons are more background information based, map and crafting addons and aesthetic addons.

• Advanced Filters
• AI Research Grid
• Alchemist
• AwesomeGuildStore
• Azurah - Interface Enhanced
• Combat Cloud
• Combat Log Statistics
• Compatibility tool for update 6
• CraftCompare Updated
• Crafting Stations
• Desinations
• Foundry Tactical Combat
• Harven's Custom Map Pins (Markers)
• Harven's House Hunter
• Harven's Trait and Style
• HarvestMap (EsoheadMarkers)
• Inventory Grid View
• Inventory Item Borders (for Update 6)
• Item Saver
• Lootdrop, Continiued (All In One)
• LoreBooks
• Lost Treasure
• Minimap by Fyrakin
• No, thank you!
• Public Dungeon Champions
• Quick Enchanter
• Research Assistant
• Show Motifs
• Show Weapons While Mounted
• SkyShards
• Slightly Improved Experience Bar
• Sous Chef - Provisioning Helper
• TreasureMaps
• Votan's Rune Info
• Wykkyd's Framework
• Wykkyd's Outfitter
• Wykkyd's Full Immersion
• Wykkyd's Quest Tracker
• Wykkyd's Toolbar

drschplatt wrote: »

I was having some huge problems after 1.6 came out so I did a full wipe and reinstall. Just for kicks and giggles I decided to try and play without addons for a while. There were two or three that I decided I just couldn't live without, so those will make up my list.


-Bank Stuffer (or a similar addon, there are a couple): Automatically places like items in the bank as soon as you open it. Makes storing materials and things much easier.

-Tactical Foundry Combat: The vanilla UOI doesn't cut it for me.

-Wykkyd's Toolbar: All the info in one easy, small, simple, adjustable space. Love it.

-Quickslots: The spinning wheel to use potions is horrible.

Use Minion addon manager, installs and removes as well as updates addons automatically. Saves a lot of hassle.

*Compatibility tool for update 6

^^ This addon is also awesome as it helps with compatibility between different addons older and newer addons clashing with each other.

Add-ons which should be standard:

• Advanced Filters
• Harven's Quest Journal
• Harven's Trait and Style
• Sous Chef, specifically the bit which shows which characters know a recipe and which known recipes an ingredient is used in
• Greymind Quick Slot Bar, specifically the hotkey functionality, with the visual bar as optional

Add-ons which have functionality that should be covered by built-in options:

• Inventory Grid View
• Srendarr
• Clock - Tamriel Standard Time
• CyrHUD
• Cyrodiil Alert
• No, thank you!
• NoAccidentalStealing

Gidorick wrote: »

drschplatt wrote: »

I was having some huge problems after 1.6 came out so I did a full wipe and reinstall. Just for kicks and giggles I decided to try and play without addons for a while. There were two or three that I decided I just couldn't live without, so those will make up my list.


-Bank Stuffer (or a similar addon, there are a couple): Automatically places like items in the bank as soon as you open it. Makes storing materials and things much easier.

-Tactical Foundry Combat: The vanilla UOI doesn't cut it for me.

-Wykkyd's Toolbar: All the info in one easy, small, simple, adjustable space. Love it.

-Quickslots: The spinning wheel to use potions is horrible.

This is very much what happened to me but after 1.5. I removed all add ons and reloaded the ones I felt were essential.

Same here, I then slowly filled back in the quality of life ones as they got updated. I recently made a post in reply to someone on my guilds' forums asking what addons were good nowadays and you'd really want to have. All of this functionality either used to be standard and was removed due to "immersion" complaints about the options' existence even, or should have been standard. Nameplates used to be too, awhile back, and need to return.

Honestly, all of this stuff should be in as options/preferences to enable/disable, plus a simple implementation of Azurah's addon to be able to move things in the UI (WAR, RIFT, and SWTOR all had that and it was a godsend). Basics like a "reply to mail" button would be good too.

Here's my post, with some stuff removed and names redacted to protect the innocent :

"
FTC: I use the unit frames and ultimate tracking. I prefer its scrolling combat text over combatcloud, but both are good options. The recap window you pull up by hotkey is a goodie. (Edit for public eso forums: The recap window wouldn't need to be a stock function particularly, but the sct, ultimate count/percent, and numbers on health/magicka/stamina bars and compact bars instead of the awkwardly inverted-depletion and bulky stock ones should be.)


ChatStamp: Because I want to know when that message was sent in my chatbox. Adds a basic time before chat messages such as "12:36pm".

AwesomeGuildStore: Fixes the default guild store interface as well as adds a history of your searches you can save as favorites, item quality and range filters, type and trait subfilters (all multiple choice), a text search for the current page (it provides a button to go to the next results page if more than one page came up), and all the other sorting options you'd expect. Also saves your last search when you exit the guild store window, so if you want to find something on a kiosk, search.... move to next npc, press one key, and keep doing so until you find it on one of them ! Huge convenience and time saver.

CombatLogStatistics: Gives a combat log, also can go in its own tab instead of its own window, can autohide after X seconds of not being in combat (or stay up always like I have it), and be hotkeyed to toggle the window on/off. I just close the mini-dps meter since I use Foundry's and place it above my chat box.

JunkIt: (Edited on official eso forums: This one wouldn't necessarily need to be in as a stock option, but there should at least be a default keybind to mark an item as junk instead of having to rightclick on it and then click again to tell it to in the context menu that pops up). Allows you to set up very customized filters sort of like bank manager, but for items in your inventory when you loot them! Then you can visit a vendor and use one button & confirm, to sell all of the items marked as junk by your rules. Also allows a hotkey to mark an item as junk manually (or un-junk it from your junk tab). Instead of spending time hitting items one by one and racing down the 150+ item list making sure I skip certain items, I just take a quick skim through the junk tab, then hit the sell button.

MiniMap: Self-explanatory. Make sure you have the settings like position refreshes for yourself around 100ms or higher, and then set the map stepping to 1. Lower things too much so it looks perfectly smooth and your CPU will cry when you go into Cyrodiil. Yes, even your overclocked-to-the-hilt i7 Haswell . Has heaps of customization options. I keep mine so it defaults to a 1/4 of the zone roughly view and shows the zone name in a corner and /loc coordinates at the top middle transparently. I can zoom with the scroll wheel and teleport to a wayshrine by clicking it on there.

PL CombatIndicator: Adds a red border to your compass when you're in a combat state. Red goes away when you're no longer in combat. Now you know exactly when you can mount or regen quicker. No screen clutter involved even .

MultiCraft: Lets you craft multiple items of the same type in one go (queues them quickly). Need to make a full stack of food? Slide it to 25, click, and watch it craft (or browse forums on your phone a minute).

NoThankYou: Lets you suppress some of the annoyances like notifications, disable the face-character-straight-on rotation animation when accessing any UI window (annoying! ), and use windows like guild or inventory without interrupting harvesting since your character no longer turns .

Srendarr: Gives a lot of customization options for the buffs/debuffs/etc. in the game, within the unfortunately limited API features. My sorc has nice thin bars with the buff icon for things like power surge and boundless storm above his healthbar that deplete (and a number of seconds over the icon) for example. You can customize it in a lot of ways including things like just the icon with text over it, under it, font size/colors, enemy buffs, yadda yadda.

Wykkyd's Toolbar: Adds a nice convenience toolbar in a compact fashion for things like bag space and to see your current AP total, horse feeding timer, etc.

Wykkyd's Enhanced Chat: Cleans up the bulky default chat box of its decorations and huge border, allows resizing to any size, and a few other miscellaneous tweaks. I basically enable it and only need to set a couple of options, but you can do a lot of customization if desired.

Wykkyd's Outfitter; He also covered this one. Nice for ability swaps or gear swaps, can be combined with his Macros addon for keybound access."

I'm lazy so I'm just gonna quote myself in another thread.

daemonios wrote: »

Gix wrote: »

I'm all for improving the game's UI but is it really the monstrosity that most people claim it is?

Let me sum up some of the most glaring examples:

- Too few categories in inventory/bank (try finding that one trait stone or ingredient whose name you don't quite remember among all the clothing/woodworking/blacksmithing/provisioning/enchanting/alchemy materials);
- No information on which of your items has sold, or in which guild store (not a game-breaker, but still... why?);
- Impossible to reply directly to a mail from another player - you have to type his character or @ name, and might conceivably get it wrong;
- Lack of text search in guild stores (certain searches may return hundreds of results spanning several pages; for instance, good luck finding a green recipe by name using the standard UI);
- No cross-guild store search, search options not always saved between searches (forces you to select your search criteria over and over again when switching guild stores);
- Items reference stats that are nowhere to be found on the character sheet (e.g. elemental resistances);
- No option to prevent deconstruction of certain items, made worse by the fact that you can deconstruct items stored in the bank;
- No indication regarding known/unknown traits, which makes managing your researches a pain;
- Visual/audio cues for certain abilities/buffs easily missed depending on conditions (my crystal frags proc sometimes doesn't make the usual sound, and I can't always be looking at my hands to check whether they're glowing; besides, the glow can be missed if there are a lot of effects on screen);
- ...

Note that most of the things mentioned above have NO INFLUENCE WHATSOEVER IN IMMERSION, since they would only appear when you have a menu open (inventory, mail, guild store).

Rebeccas04nub18_ESO wrote: »

Advanced filters for sure, any way to sort would be great. I can google skyshards.

You could also look for them ! It's not like the journal doesn't give you clues as to their whereabouts.

@Troneon that's a lot of add ons! I agree a good deal of those should be toggleable but since of them, like the sky shard map offers a bit too much of a shortcut, I think.

Gidorick wrote: »

@Troneon that's a lot of add ons! I agree a good deal of those should be toggleable but since of them, like the sky shard map offers a bit too much of a shortcut, I think.

@Gidorick
I am a heavy explorer, I don't leave an area for a lot longer time than most people, I complete everything, find everything, do everything before moving on. Over lvl 30 on one character and still not even left greenshade or even half way through it lol. The map addons and skyshard etc save a lot of time finding the stuff I might have missed, I can turn it on and check if I missed anything.

Troneon wrote: »

Gidorick wrote: »

@Troneon that's a lot of add ons! I agree a good deal of those should be toggleable but since of them, like the sky shard map offers a bit too much of a shortcut, I think.

@Gidorick
I am a heavy explorer, I don't leave an area for a lot longer time than most people, I complete everything, find everything, do everything before moving on. Over lvl 30 on one character and still not even left greenshade or even half way through it lol. The map addons and skyshard etc save a lot of time finding the stuff I might have missed, I can turn it on and check if I missed anything.

I could agree that we should be able to buy 'skyshard maps' and the like from merchants or from the crown store. (I'm thinking about console players)

I played the way you are through Glenumbra.... and was WAY over level in Stormhaven. So much so that I just skipped it completely. I'll go back later.

Tandor wrote: »

Enodoc wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

None. The present balance between a minimalist default UI and the variety of optional add-ons available for those who want more than the default UI is fine.

I agree in theory, but part of the point here is that console players probably won't get the chance to have any add-ons, and some of them provide really useful functionality.

That's a different subject altogether. It doesn't mean we need to have add-ons included in the PC UI, the facility for that already exists. The default UI is fine as it is for the PC, if it needs to be varied for the consoles then that's fine but no need for it to affect the PC version.

Besides which, I don't find a need for any add-ons with the PC version and wouldn't therefore be needing any if were to play the console version, but that's just my personal preference which is all any of us is being asked to provide here.

it's likely the console UI is going to have MORE features than the PC version.

Gidorick wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

Enodoc wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

None. The present balance between a minimalist default UI and the variety of optional add-ons available for those who want more than the default UI is fine.

I agree in theory, but part of the point here is that console players probably won't get the chance to have any add-ons, and some of them provide really useful functionality.

That's a different subject altogether. It doesn't mean we need to have add-ons included in the PC UI, the facility for that already exists. The default UI is fine as it is for the PC, if it needs to be varied for the consoles then that's fine but no need for it to affect the PC version.

Besides which, I don't find a need for any add-ons with the PC version and wouldn't therefore be needing any if were to play the console version, but that's just my personal preference which is all any of us is being asked to provide here.

it's likely the console UI is going to have MORE features than the PC version.

In fact, ZO$ has said the console UI will have added features, many of them from the add-ons we use.

As far as what I would like to see, certainly at least as options:
AdvancedFilters
InventoryGridView
AwesomeGuildStore or equivalent
CraftStore or equivalent
MiniMap
SousChef
Master Merchant or equivalent
JunkIt or equivalent

That's my short list

Advanced Filters is awesome for inventory management, and I cannot believe the lack of intuitive filtering options in the base inventory UI that would make such an addon necessary. Because, yes Zeni, when I am looking for my stack of hemming, I want to be scrolling through a massive list of mats that includes my wheat and my voidstone ore and my Rakeipa runes. *sarcasm*. Or, you know, I could just choose to look through my clothier mats.

Also I know it is available in many addons, this is something that Zeni chose to add, but without any option to have it stay up on screen, or move or resize it. Yep, it is a small digital readout of the time according to your PC. It exists on the Map page, if it is anywhere else I have yet to find it. You need to use an addon to have it stay onscreen! If we were being charged by the hour, I could understand that it may be lucrative to not have the option to show your local time onscreen at all times but it is something I find very useful - I use Wykkyd's toolbar for this and many other basic functional needs!

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