How Much Do You Use Mods?

Loralai_907 · November 2017

What is ESO without mods?

I'm not at home, so I probably will miss some. But to function, I need Skyshards, Lorebooks, Destinations, some form of a mini map, lost treasure, lazy writ whatever, potion maker, inventory grid view, roomba, AUI, some of the wykkyd addons, Advanced Filters, MM, Srendarr, Kill Counter, FTC, Craft Store (on my main master crafter only), and Awesome Guild Store.I'm sure there are more.

And it depends on what character I am on. Like the one I use in PvP has pretty much all of them turned off, what does she need Master Merchant for in Cyrodiil? If I am fishing, I turn on some fishing add ons. Baby characters also get that quest add on that helps sort main quests w/skill points from the rest.

Aurie · November 2017

What is ESO without mods?

Loc2262 wrote: »

Like Turelus, I use a good amount of mods. And likewise I have to say that most of their functionality should be in the base game.

- Advanced filters (the vanilla inventory filters are way too broad)
- AI Research Grid (to know what each char has researched, without having to relog)
- Arkadius' Trade Tools (alternative to Master Merchant, can't imagine trading without it)
- Auto Recharge (I forget it way too often otherwise)
- AutoMaxImprovement (uses max # of tannins when improving)
- AwesomeGuildStore (again, can't imagine buying from guild stores without it)
- Chat Window Manager
- ChatHotkeys (assign keyboard shortcuts to stuff like /quit /reloadui etc.)
- Circonian's Addon Selector (organize your addons in profiles and turn them on/off quickly)
- Combat Metrics (must-have for minmaxers)
- Constellations (calculate optimal CP allocation)
- Destinations
- Dolgubon's Lazy Writ Crafter
- DressingRoom (switch skill bar and gear loadout with a keypress)
- EasyTravel (right-click on a zone in the map window, and auto-port to a friend/guildie in that zone)
- Enchant Maker (so you don't have to remember all those rune properties)
- FCO Item Saver (assign groups/icons to gear and filter views accordingly)
- FCO StarveStop (reminder when buff food runs out)
- Foundry Tactical Combat (used to share DPS with my group)
- Greymind Quick Slot Bar
- Group Loot Notifier (there's ongoing discussion about this one, but I don't mind others knowing what I loot, and vice versa)
- Harven's Chat Completion (makes it easier to remember / enter long commands)
- Harven's Extended Stats (shows important stats like spell/phys penetration that aren't in the char screen by default)
- Harven's Improved Skills Window (shows allocated skill points, needed exp for next lvl, shows tooltips for the non-selected morph etc.)
- Harven's Stack Split Slider
- Harven's Trait and Style
- Inventory Insight (look at all chars' inventories and bank without relogging or needing a banker)
- Itemization Browser (Searchable overview of all sets in the game with location, type, effects etc.)
- Journal Quest Log (shows an alphabetical list of all completed quests)
- LoreBooks
- LUI Extended (alternative to AUI etc., makes the GUI worthwhile)
- Merlin's Rez Helper (shows directional arrows pointing to dead group members)
- No, thank you (suppresses all kinds of annoying messages)
- NoAccidentalStealing (prevents looting "steal" containers if not crouching / pressing a hotkey button)
- Pet Dismiss (assign a key to quickly unsummon your pet)
- Potion Maker (so you don't have to memorize alchemy ingredient effects)
- RaidNotifier (shows hints and warnings about mechanics in raids)
- Rare Fish Tracker (shows a window with the rare fish you're missing in your current zone, ordered by type)
- Scootworks Combat (among other things, colors the compass red when in combat)
- SkyShards
- Srendarr (this is what a buff tracker should look like, unlike the recently added vanilla one)
- SuperStar (overview/import/export of full character build)
- Thurisaz Guild Info
- Untaunted (keeps track of mobs have had taunt/ele drain/etc applied to)
- Votan's Fish Fillet (process stacks of fish without having to wear out your INTERACT key)
- Votan's Fisherman (keeps track of fishing holes and types of fish)
- Votan's Improved Quests (quest list in map window with filters/types/categories)
- Votan's Keybinder (make selected key assignments account wide)
- Votan's Mini Map (one of several available minimap addons, for me a must-have)
- What Pledges at my Alts (calendar/list of undaunted pledges / DLC world bosses / raid rewards per character)
- Wykkyd Toolbar (all the important game info in a small font bar)

Are there any that you don't have? !!

LordGavus · November 2017

Picked up a couple mods, nothing drastic.

I dont use heaps. Mainly ftc, combat metrics, dressing room and standards and notebooks.

Annalyse · November 2017

What is ESO without mods?

There are some addons that I find it extremely annoying to play without:

Advanced Filters
Master Merchant
Awesome Guild Store
Destinations
EasyTravel (would not really need this if they would just make it free to teleport from a house to a wayshrine)
Lorebooks
Lost Treasure
No, Thank You
SkyShards (the searching is fun once but gets old when you have multiple alts)
Votan's Minimap

Others that I use because they are awesome:

Azurah Interface Enhanced
Craftstore
Dolgubon's Lazy Writ Crafter
Dustman
ESO Master Recipe List
FurniturePreview
Harven's Stolen Filter
Inventory Insight
Personal Assistant
Pet Dismiss
Potion Maker
Roam Home
WritWorthy

TerraDewBerry · November 2017

What is ESO without mods?

Play ESO without mods? Oh dear gods... I can't even... I wouldn't last a day without them!

ADarklore · November 2017

What is ESO without mods?

When I started on PC, it was only supposed to be a way for me to get familiar with the game before I jumped to the console version a couple weeks later. However, after experiencing the addons, there was no way I would ever play the console version. There are just way too many cool things you can do with addons that leaves the console version lifeless and a lot less fun IMO.

TheUndeadAmulet · November 2017

Console, so no Mods/Add-ons for me

I'm surprised ZOS hasn't added add-on support for consoles or Xbox at the least. IMO, it should be pretty easy compared to Skyrim Mods for consoles.

kip_silverwolf · November 2017

What is ESO without mods?

It's an Elder Scrolls game...you're not playing it right unless you mod it until it breaks, then re-install and mod it again!

Seriously though, I couldn't imagine playing it without add-ons such as Destinations, Harvest Map, Master Merchant and my all time favorite..Immersive Horse Riding (which brings back sweet memories of Oblivion by letting me ride in first person)

Alchemical · November 2017

Picked up a couple mods, nothing drastic.

I use the new better controller interface mod, since I'm a loser who plays with controlers. It gives me some of the features of other mods that normally aren't open to me. I also use Skyshards/Lorebooks because I did the whole 'discovering them for the first time via exploring' bit enough times before.

And a mod that tracks the fish in zones, as one of 4 people that fish in this game.

Ch4mpTW · November 2017

Vanilla all the way.

Currently on console, so no mods. Lol.

DeathHouseInc · November 2017

What is ESO without mods?

I would not play without mods. Way to time consuming and annoying. Especially key bind and UI. It's really pretty bad without them and kind of pathetic rag-tag players can make better and 10x more useful ui, map, and key bind mods.

Vimora · November 2017

Quite frankly, ESO is just something I use to keep my hundred mods glued together. Otherwise, I only play for the mods.

I'm not an IT person, but I guess ESO is the operating system and the mods are the programs.

ESO is the basket, the mods are the apples.

ESO is like looking at a blank sheet of paper that's never been painted with mods.

Mods are like flowers in a field of ESO grass.

If ESO is life, mods are adventure and sex.

I hope I didn't overreact to the question.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · November 2017

What is ESO without mods?

MM and Awesome Guild store are must-haves for me. I've since added a few more on top of those, but those are the big ones and I don't know how you lot on console can stand being without them.

SFDB · November 2017

What is ESO without mods?

I use mods over vanilla for the same reason I use a smart phone over a landline.

Narvuntien · November 2017

Picked up a couple mods, nothing drastic.

I am using the trading mods.

Particularly awesome guildstore, there is no way I can use the base guildstore design.. its terrible.

ConeOfSilence · November 2017

What is ESO without mods?

Mods all the way because I don't want to click on use 200 times to fillet a stack of fish and I can craft all my writs and have them delivered b4 someone without the Lazy Writ Craft has even finished 2 writs. Download a program called Minion for all mods to be automatically updated.

Cadbury · November 2017

Vanilla all the way.

Console

If it were possible, I'd just want the guildstore mod...

and any NSFW ones

kamimark · November 2017

What is ESO without mods?

Current addOns folder. I prefer things that adjust behavior, not put a lot of new UI on the screen, but my crafting screens are overloaded and I ought to slim that down. I tried minimaps but I find them distracting; In WoW I had the bad behavior of just looking at my minimap and all the bars and chats, with a tiny little view ahead.

AdvancedFilters
AwesomeGuildStore
ByTheAncestors
Clock
CookeryWiz
CraftedPotions
CraftStoreFixedAndImproved
Destinations
Durability
Dustman
EasyFrame
FoundryTacticalCombat
FurnitureCatalogue
GearChangerByIakoni
Goto
HarvensCustomMapPins
HarvensHouseHunter
HarvensQuestJournal
HarvensStackSplitSlider
HarvensTraitAndStyle
has2lam
IdleAnimations
Lorebooks
LostTreasure
MasterMerchant
MM00Data
MM01Data
MM02Data
MM03Data
MM04Data
MM05Data
MM06Data
MM07Data
MM08Data
MM09Data
MM10Data
MM11Data
MM12Data
MM13Data
MM14Data
MM15Data
Notebooks
NoThankYou
pChat
PetDismiss
PortToFriendsHouse
PotionMaker
RainbowReticle
RareFishTracker
Ravalox'QuestTracker
RollCall
ShissuSuiteManager
SkillChangerByIakoni
SkyShards
VampireWoe
VotansFisherman
VotansFishFillet
VotansImprovedLocations
VotansKeybinder
wykkyd_core_libraries
wykkyd_SuiteManager
wykkydsAchievementTracker
wykkydsDialogTweaks
wykkydsEnhancedChat
wykkydsEnhancedHUD
wykkydsMailBox
wykkydsToolbar

Motherball · November 2017

What is ESO without mods?

Vimora wrote: »

If ESO is life, mods are adventure and sex.

This made me lol. What is lag in this regard?

Cadbury · November 2017

Vanilla all the way.

Motherball wrote: »

Vimora wrote: »

If ESO is life, mods are adventure and sex.

This made me lol. What is lag in this regard?

Marriage

Imza · November 2017

Picked up a couple mods, nothing drastic.

wow... some ppl use a lot of addons....

I try to get away with just a few, but every major patch - the addons are all broken

and every patch - I re-think what I use

Always use these core addons:
lorebooks
skyshards
lost treasure - only on 1 toon
Destinations - please update
craftstore/traitbuddy NA/EU - soon not any more as almost finished craft researching

Action Duration - this is better than any other addon for keeping track of buffs and skill use - PLEASE PLEASE update

Advanced filters - please update
votans keybind - please update
votans minimap
votans search box - please update

Awesome Guildstore = great but it breaks my ui so I turn it on only when I need to.

I don't trade - so no MM or TTC - I used to - but they slow the system down soooooo much

Majeure · November 2017

What is ESO without mods?

What mods? Oh, you must mean AddOns.

IlCanis_LupuslI · November 2017

Vanilla all the way.

Milvan wrote: »

I need to say that I tried to delete my addons. BUT THE GAME IS UNPLAYABLE without them.

Have you guys tried to make writs without the add ons? (craftsotre, alchemy and lazy writ) ITS INSANELY. Whoever designed ESO UI should be fired and never work on the industry ever again.

yeh do my writs on 4 chars every day sometimes in 2 day Intervall doing the ones if the previous day and current day @ once. Trust me.... Its easy don't See any problems there

IlCanis_LupuslI · November 2017

Vanilla all the way.

danno8 wrote: »

jlboozer wrote: »

Loc2262 wrote: »

jlboozer wrote: »

On console skill is our only add on. On PC you guys let the add ons play the game for you...I'm so glad I'm on ps4.

You call it "skill", I call it "quality of life". Is it skill to press USE 200 times to fillet a stack of fish, as opposed to letting a script do it for you?

Is Miats also just "quality of life"? Not at all...it's cheating imo!

You didn't answer the question.

Is better inventory filters a cheat?
Is a research timer a cheat?
Is a horse timer a cheat?

Miats is definitely an advantage over those who don't use it, no debate there (and it sounds like they are going to change it), but don't use it as a deflection for the simple question of whether addons offer QoL or not.

If ZoS offered you a toggle to see all morphs before you morphed a skill, you wouldn't use it? Because they do offer it...on PC in the form of an addon.

Grind the ability to rank 4..... Then you can see it. Only needs a bit of questing... No addon needed is rather have some stable PvP servers(even thou not traveling via transitus or dying seems to help) di dnt crash 1ce for 2h...

LadyAstrum · November 2017

Picked up a couple mods, nothing drastic.

Just started venturing into add-on land. Got the helmet add-on and the housing one that allows you to port friends houses at any time. Both of these things could've been added to vanilla game surely, but I'm grateful to the add-on makers.

I'm looking into a guild trade U.I one at the moment.

Not sure I want any that allows me to see soul shards or other discoverable things on the map.

RPGplayer13579 · November 2017

Vanilla all the way.

Console.

Rouven · November 2017

What is ESO without mods?

RPGplayer13579 wrote: »

Console.

I feel there should have been another option. Because playing without mods because it's not possible or voluntary is a little different.

I still think everyone "should" start without and that's what I would recommend. Just see how you like it, check the hints for skyshards or even try to find the treasure chests. But after leveling a few characters (or if any of that is not your thing) I think it's totally fine.

Resfeber · November 2017

Vanilla all the way.

I don't use any but I'd like to invest in some when I'm really back into the swing of the game. Seems like there are some good QOL things out there.