Yes I can google things as I hear about them, sure.

But the point I'm making is that I've been playing for nearly 6 months and until yesterday when someone mentioned the weekend vendor, I had no idea there was such a thing.

There could very well be dozens of things I don't know about this game and I'm wondering if someone has compiled a comprehensive list.

I'm CP 300ish and know just about everything about questing, but there is this whole elite side of the game I've barely gotten a glimpse into.

I think that it's a flaw for a game to be this impenetrable (relatively speaking).

letsdothedungeonslow wrote: »

Like:-

- The best order to do content
- What a 'weekend vendor' is
- How to survive in Cyrodil and do all the PvE stuff there

Here. You can make a thread asking these questions, and (if you try really hard to not make the OP sound Trolly in any way, they're a trigger happy bunch..) the Vets of the game will give you answers and tips.

1. The "best" order to do content would be chronological, as well as what Faction you chose. Take me as an example, I'm with the Pact. I would then begin to Quest through the Pact Alliance Zones, starting with Bleakrock Island, then Bal Foyen and on to Stonefalls etc. As I'm doing this, the game will give you quests for the Main Storyline with the Prophet. However, you can't finish the last quest objective of the main story until you've first completed the Coldharbour questline where you stop the Planemeld. You can also do the Mage's Guild and Fighter's Guild questlines during all this as well. Simplified, your Alliance Questline first, in combo with the Main Story and or the Guilds. Then when all that is said and done, you'll be given a Quest to experience the other Alliances.

2. A "Weekend Vendor" is usually referencing the special Khajiit Merchant that can be found in Cyrodiil at one of your Faction's home bases, and she only appears there during the Weekends. She is where you can buy a random selection of Jewelry, Helms, and Shoulders from Monster Sets and other hard to come buy armor sets, all in Legender quality, either for in-game Gold, or PvP Alliance Points.

3. The best way to survive in Cyrodiil while trying to PvE is to go into a Campaign that is completely empty. You can check that by look at the three bars under each Faction emblem which indicate how many players are in that Campaign. If all the bars are empty, then it's a 99% chance you won't run into another player in that Campaign. Still, just because the bars are empty, doesn't mean there aren't players there, and there's always the chance one or two will have the same idea you do, and could run into you at one of the PvE locations. When that happens, all bets are off. You could try to show yourself in a non-aggressive stance such as holding block and then sheathing your weapons (if they're out), but really you can't control how others act, and many of the common PvPlayers will just see you as an easy kill and wreck you "for the lulz".

If only.

Everything is obvious once you already know it. Before that - why doesn't weapon damage make staff attacks better? Isn't a staff a weapon? Why does a trebuchet damage the front door, but on the side you have to be sure to hit the wall instead? Why did my damage go down when I leveled up? Why aren't my buffs stacking? Why didn't that ability fire?

^ I know the answers now, but first I had to flail around not even knowing I didn't know.

This game is full of "Why didn't you just tell me that!"

ArchMikem wrote: »

1. The "best" order to do content would be chronological...Simplified, your Alliance Questline first, in combo with the Main Story and or the Guilds. Then when all that is said and done, you'll be given a Quest to experience the other Alliances.

I was referring more to non-quest content. Trials, Cyrodil PvE, VMA, etc.

Let's take my CP 320ish Magicka DK for example. She has done Cadwell Silver and Gold, and a decent amount of normal and a few vet dungeons, but very little in Craglorn, and almost nothing of Hew's Bane and the Gold Coast. She's currently doing Morrowind since that has novelty.

But I'm worried that I'm somehow nerfing her this way.

Let me bring in another point, which if you like we could use my newest toon as the example for.

I think she is Level 25, and she's gotten there without doing any quests, just grinding in 3 spots for a couple of hours at each, and maybe 4 dungeons with mostly lame pickup groups.

Even then, what I've found is that leveling mainly through grinding levels the skill lines way more than questing does, purely because you're doing nothing but combat. No solving mysteries or 'run over there and tell that guy something, and he'll tell you to run somewhere else and tell someone else something' time-wasting.

Having done Gold and Silver, I doubt I will really get into questing with my other toons as I'll be repeating, but is that good?

Is any of this good?

I want to do things well and right so that I can be above the middle of the pack on dungeons and trials, and maybe even wet my whistle in PvP at some point. MAYBE.

There is so much to know and the game does a rotten job of it.

The #1 thing I learned this week that no one ever told me is that if you make a couple of decent crafted sets for a Lvl 10 character they will be so strong, even when Lvl 20 wearing the same gear, that they seem virtually unkillable.

there's always the chance one or two will have the same idea you do, and could run into you at one of the PvE locations. When that happens, all bets are off. You could try to show yourself in a non-aggressive stance such as holding block and then sheathing your weapons (if they're out), but really you can't control how others act, and many of the common PvPlayers will just see you as an easy kill and wreck you "for the lulz".

Thanks for this. I look forward to my own Blondie vs. Angel Eyes moment.

And I hope I'm not Angel Eyes...or Tucco!

Thanks to all who replied

TLDR: I guess I've gotten used to being one of the best in the few games that I've played in the past - GTA, Skyrim, Civ 5, etc. But it's REALLY hard discerning useful info from fluff and improving my play at ESO. It's nothing like Skyrim in terms of progression. To get amazing at Skyrim you just need to level Archery and Sneak all the way so you can one-shot Draugr Deathlords without them ever knowing about it.

letsdothedungeonslow wrote: »

Like:-

- The best order to do content
- What a 'weekend vendor' is
- How to survive in Cyrodil and do all the PvE stuff there

I mean, a certain amount of it I can ask guildmates but there really must be better resources somewhere

Huhu,
and welcome.
Actually you are in the right place already, evenso it sometimes might be hard to see.

Concerning "the best order of quests" - idk how much you value a well writen narrative, but if you just look for XP and leveling through questing, collecting skyshards etc. I got good news: With the one tamriel patch the order of quests doesn't matter - XP scale to your level and all mobs do the same.
If however you care for a well written narrative, an unbroken stroyline and some depth (immersion) while questing, i got some rather not so good news: With the one tamriel patch the narrative got pretty much broken ... and up to now ESO doesn't even admit that this could be a problem, nor is there any sign that player based suggestions to allow for questing in line of the narrative are picked up and integrated (for further reading I would suggest you have a look at @GrumpyDuckling 's posts, beeing the latest approach in this direction). Beeing someone who isn't too happy about the current situation I would love you to take the time and write a feedback about how you experience the storytelling in ESO, maybe some new faces/voices reach the ears of the mods.

Concerning "week vendors" ... 2 of them are to be found in tamriel: the "golden one", selling monster set items and rare golden jewellery on weekend in cyrodiil and the "exclusive furnisher", selling exclusive furniture in coldhabour, again only on weekends and again only few items per week. Keep your eyes open on saturday mornings to catch the updated posts on which items are on sale this week in the forums (saves some legwork!).

Concerning "how to survive"... there are subforums here dedicated to combat mechanics in PVP and PVE, asking your race/class/choosen weapon question there will definatelly bring the theorycrafter of tamriel answer. In general I guess we can say that there isn't one best strategy. Due to inbalances and constant changes in the combat system/gear/game mechanics there are however "flavour of the month"-builds, but playing ESO for 3 years I would strongly encourage you to just try and find you own preferred playstile and then ask in forums for advice concerning optimization. Well, its just my personal view, but this way I feel changes are not always and everytime frustrating, plus knowing "your" build will almost always allow for adjustments, hence your chances are good to overcome obstacles.

I hope this helps.
Good luck ... and see you on the battlefield!

Read and understand:

http://tamrielfoundry.com/topic/introduction-to-pve-damage-calculation-homestead/

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/279426/damage-mitigation-explanation-updated-for-morrowind-new-calculator/p1

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/284053/buffs-and-debuffs-a-full-list-updated-for-morrowind/p1

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/265399/detailed-explanation-of-block-cost-changes/p1
(Block cost now charged every .25 seconds, constitution return nerfed by 40 something %, rest should still be correct)

Animation canceling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLZzGoPp9Ug

@fgoron2000

Oh, here's one...I never read anywhere official, that you can shift-click on the +/- signs on the CP stars to jump up/down 10 points at a time...but then recently I saw someone on a youtube video. He didn't say it, and you can't see the keyboard, but when he was clicking, the numbers were jumping 10 up & down, so I tried it with shift-click and sure enuf, it worked...

I never knew about the shift-click, but I just found out the other day that if you hold down the button it slowly goes up faster and faster. Before that I was just single clicking it every time...all the way to 100 or whatever I needed Xd

Berenhir wrote: »

Read and understand:

http://tamrielfoundry.com/topic/introduction-to-pve-damage-calculation-homestead/

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/279426/damage-mitigation-explanation-updated-for-morrowind-new-calculator/p1

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/284053/buffs-and-debuffs-a-full-list-updated-for-morrowind/p1

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/265399/detailed-explanation-of-block-cost-changes/p1
(Block cost now charged every .25 seconds, constitution return nerfed by 40 something %, rest should still be correct)

Animation canceling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLZzGoPp9Ug

Thanks! This was a tremendously helpful post!

I think you have a point. There is alot that isnt explained by the game.

Your best bets are Google, youtube, twitch and having 5 guilds hopefully with some experienced and helpful members.
Other than that just playing the game and figuring it out for yourself.

I would say the forums is a good place for info but lets be honest its 87% nerf threads, threads about baby birds, people quitting or begging for gold. (This is a joke for people who dont understand internet sarcasm)