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Console Players: How do YOU find Lorebooks/Skyshards?
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bareheiny✭✭✭✭✭Use the internet for locations, comparing what I already know from the achievements/lorebook tab to what I needHmm...mayhap I should've voted "other".
I primarily use The ESO App, with the occasional internet search for newer items (some Vvardenfell survey locations).0 -
AngelFires333✭✭✭✭✭Other, please explain...I wait until my guild goes shard/lorebook hunting.
Also a bit of "Hope I stumble across them as I explore".0 -
monktoasty✭✭✭✭✭Hope I stumble across them as I exploreI just use them as I see them but sooner or later I'm gonna have to buckle down and get them all as I'm running out of points. I dread that day0 -
Vaoh✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Use the internet for locations, comparing what I already know from the achievements/lorebook tab to what I needHorrible grind
If Mages Guild 10 wants to be realistic without the use of addons/the internet, the amount of required books should be cut in half.Edited by Vaoh on January 14, 2018 11:46PM0 -
Sevn✭✭✭✭✭
✭Use the internet for locations, comparing what I already know from the achievements/lorebook tab to what I needUnfadingsilence wrote: »
Thank you!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, true nobility is being superior to your former self
-Hemingway0 -
AcadianPaladin✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Though I play on PC, I don't use addons.
Skyshards - I use the internet of help find them.
Lore books - I grab any I happen to see while avidly exploring but don't actively search for them. I do Mages Guild dailies to finish the skill line up to 10.PC NA(no Steam), PvE, mostly solo1 -
Appleblade✭✭✭✭✭Use the internet for locations, comparing what I already know from the achievements/lorebook tab to what I needHead canon: my character bought a map from a mysterious stranger.
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Tandor✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭TheShadowScout wrote: »On PC, but never used any of those darn add-ons.
I have way too much fun trying to figure those things out on my own!
Skyshards are a breeze, the crypric hints in the journal -really- help tracking them down.
Lorebooks are best done during game-nights, when you can see the blue glow from afar... all it takes is enjoying wandering off the beaten tracks, checking out places the story does not take you to, etc.; and you'll stumble over loads of them.
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You young whioppersnappers don't know how good you have it these days, with in-game maps and all that! Why in the olde days, we had to draw all our maps by hand, on actual paper, and check out every nook and cranny for that hypothedical treasure chest containing some nifty magic item (and occasionally fight a mimic!). Then fight our moms over it when they wanted to throw away our hard earned intel as "trash"... ah, the good old days, they don't make adventure gamers like they used to, why, todays gamers would be lost without their fancy maps and apps, now, gerroff mah lawn!
I couldn't agree more! I too don't use any add-ons on PC.
Plus, we had to use the co-ordinates back then to work out where we were half the time!0 -
Rex-Umbra✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Use the internet for locations, comparing what I already know from the achievements/lorebook tab to what I needMemory and a cellphone app.Xbox GT: Rex Umbrah
GM of IMPERIUM since 2015.0 -
Ilithyania✭✭✭✭✭Use the internet for locations, comparing what I already know from the achievements/lorebook tab to what I needUsed the Internet and pure memory
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Lord_Etrigan✭✭✭✭Other, please explain...www.gamemapscout.com.
U welcome PS4 EU
Lord Etrigan (Former Emperor): PVE High Elf Sorcerer
Nyssa al Ghul: PVP Nightblade Wood Elf (Ganker)
Lady-Death : PVP High Elf Sorcerer (8 x Campaigns Former Empress and Grand Warlord) Retired:(
Achmed-Silence I keel you: PVP Dark Elf Nightblade (Suicide Bomber)
I'm with stupid: PVP Argonian Magic Temp (Group support and healer).
Guild:
The Order of Stolas (Founder and Guild Master)
Faction: Aldmeri Dominion
Her Royal Highness Queen Ayrenn Arana wants You for Dominion.
LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!!0 -
phileunderx2✭✭✭✭✭
✭I was playing on pc for over a year before I installed any addons. And of those I don't have more than 6. So on console for skyshards I took pics of the locations and have them on my phone. And am doing the same for treasure maps. Looking up stuff on my phone is not fun because many sites are loaded with ads and the phone just really sucks.0 -
Jade1986✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Hope I stumble across them as I explorePC player here not using lore book add ons. You just remember after a point.0 -
sudaki_eso✭✭✭✭✭Use the internet for locations, comparing what I already know from the achievements/lorebook tab to what I needSince no one posted this site yet: https://esomap.uesp.net/
This one helped me quite a lot, shows everything, treasure maps, surveys, lorebooks, skyshards , maiq the liar locations, chests and so on....just make sure you use the search and restrict it to the zone you are looking at.Edited by sudaki_eso on January 15, 2018 2:17PMPS4 EU - StamDK1 -
emilyhyoyeon✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Use the internet for locations, comparing what I already know from the achievements/lorebook tab to what I needI'm on PC and use the internet with no addons lolIGN @ emilypumpkin, imperial pumpkin seller
Tullanisse Starborne, altmer battlemage & scholar of the ayleids
High Priest Eraamine as a houseguest please C:0 -
randomkeyhits✭✭✭✭✭Other, please explain...Memory first, all the delve type ones are super easy and many overland you just stumble across.
Then the hints which now act as memory joggers anyway. I usually am prepared to put in a reasonable effort as I go for these when I have plenty of time.
Then finally I use the eso life site. This was for some of the special ones, for example reasonably time critical behind enemy gates in Cyrodiil ones.
Reminds me, I need to go back to Wrothgar and finish up all of those skyshards too.EU PS40 -
jaws343✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Other, please explain...I do both. Usually, when I start a new character I do every dolmen in every zone, walking between them all and collecting skyshards, books, public dungeons, chests and resource nodes along the way. By the time I reach 50 I am normally at level 7 or so in mages guild and level 10 in fighters guild. And then I pull up a map online and grab the last few I need.
I also have many zones' skyshard locations memorized from leveling multiple characters.Edited by jaws343 on January 15, 2018 2:30PM0 -
MilwaukeeScott✭✭✭✭✭Use the internet for locations, comparing what I already know from the achievements/lorebook tab to what I needI'm in a Guild that does Skyshard and LoreBook runs by zone every Tuesday.
We use https://esomap.uesp.net/ maps.PS4NA
All I see is hate and rage from people who don't understand how to.....0 -
Mic1007✭✭✭✭✭
✭So, a majority of you simply use the Internet, and then rag on us for using an add-on that does basically the same thing, only a little easier? Edited by Mic1007 on January 15, 2018 2:44PM@Mic1007
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DC/AD/EP
PC NA
PAWS (Positively Against Wrip-off Stuff) - Say No to Crown Crates!0 -
SGT_Wolfe101st✭✭✭✭✭Other, please explain...There is an app called "The ESO App", has skyshardes, lore books, crafting node surveys, Delve/Dungeon boss, shard locations, etc. It isn't on my HUD but it is very good. The best $1.99 I have spent on the game. The maps are wonderfully detailed and you can zoom right to the location of the surveys, shards, books. There are many a website, but the maps are clunky, they tend to have UI issues when attempting to zoom in or it is one of a billion YT videos with 6 minutes of the guy asking you for a like and a sub and all I really want is the location of the damn shard. If you are on console and haven't I highly recommend this app. It is not mine and I get nothing for the plug but it is awesome, especially for alts, need level 10 in mages guild, you can get the books in like 2 hours.PS4 -NA ADWood Elf - StamNB - DPSNord - MagDK - TankHigh Elf - MagSorc - DPSDark Elf - Mag Warden- Healer0 -
Takes-No-Prisoner✭✭✭✭✭
✭Use the internet for locations, comparing what I already know from the achievements/lorebook tab to what I needturn on laptop, look at the library of already collected books, and compare the greyed out ones with what I see on my laptop screen
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RoyalPink06✭✭✭✭✭Use the internet for locations, comparing what I already know from the achievements/lorebook tab to what I needI use maps on the internet just to find the blue lorebooks for Mages Guild skill, and only collect as many as I need to max it out. My gawd is it tedious
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Tandor✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭So, a majority of you simply use the Internet, and then rag on us for using an add-on that does basically the same thing, only a little easier?
There's a big difference between occasionally looking up an internet map while out of the game in order to get an idea of where a particularly elusive lorebook is and displaying up a permanent map in-game to show the location of all of them without exploring or even reading the journal clues! I for one never have a browser open while playing games and so don't use a third party website as the equivalent of an add-on - but you make a fair point in respect of those who do !.
Besides, I don't rag on people who use add-ons, or at least I only do so on those players who use add-ons to trivialise the gameplay and then complain that the gameplay is trivial!Edited by Tandor on January 15, 2018 2:56PM0 -
kitsune_beth✭✭✭Hope I stumble across them as I exploreI run around like a headless chicken, wasting many gaming hours trying to find them.
Looking it up online is pretty much the same as cheating imo.
There are still many Shards and Lorebooks I haven't found... I'm OK with it, it's motivation to keep exploring until I've found them all.1
