Main quest only comes from prophet every 10 or so levels... you will know

There's the main questline, and there's the 'primary storyline' in each zone (the quests that reward skill points).

As others said, the main questline will be accessed through the prophet \ the harborage.

There really is no way to differentiate the 'primary storylines' in each zone, other than paying attention to the storylines and knowing the characters. When you first play it is hard to distinguish them from the side quests, everything seems like an alphabet soup of names and unrelated quest objectives. It isn't until you've played the game for 1000 hours or so when it really becomes enjoyable, when you've done all the quest lines enough to be able to differentiate all the characters and discern the main storyline from all the other quests happening simultaneously. That's when the game really makes sense, when you've done the same quests over, and over, and over again.

When you get to VR level, you can just focus on the main storyline quests in each zone, and then go back and do the side quests. I actually found that better for enjoying the storyline. At regular level you can't really do that, as you will be under leveled towards the end of the zone, and might even lose xp by being over levelled for some of the side quests at the beginning of the zone.

Really, the best thing to do is to quit your job, say goodbye to your family, and be prepared to take multiple characters through all the content of the game. It will all make sense then and be much more rewarding then anything else you would do.

It'd be nice if someone made a list of all the primary zone quests in the correct order for all zones and posted it somewhere - that way those whom, like I, want to do the quests in the correct order, don't have to worry about starting a quest we come upon when exploring in fear that it might be one of the zone primary quests that we haven't gotten to yet via the storyline. Just notice if the quest name is on the list when it starts and if it is, abandon it and save it for later when you get to it correctly.

Maybe I'll make a list sometime.


It's actually not something I personally need as I'm already at the point where I'm in cadwell's silver/gold now so the almanac helps in that regard, but it'd help a lot of story-interested new players I'm sure.

KrisButtar wrote: »

I think this is a correct list but I haven't gotten far enough to check them all out
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Cadwell's_Almanac

It's correct, but it only has the quests required for the Cadwell Objectives, which doesn't include all the zone storyline quests.

For all your quest needs, Start Here.

For the full zone storylines, see:

• Aldmeri Dominion Quests
• Daggerfall Covenant Quests
• Ebonheart Pact Quests

For all quests in each zone, split into story quests and side quests, see:
Quests by Location

Most of the quests are given by level. I usually try to do any and all quests in order of level. If eventually I'm led to a main story qiest, then I'll do them until I reach the next level bracket.