What Add-Ons should just be in the game?

Seraphayel · March 2018

Something for Guild Stores (turn them into one server wide auction house!) and a personal combat metrics addon (I don't care for your DPS but I want to test specs, sets and skills on console).

Septimus_Magna · March 2018

Action Duration Time - clean skill tracker, better in every way than the current in-game buff tracker
Awesome Guild Store - its basically impossible to find a specific motif page without this add-on
Combat Metric - no explanation needed
Iakoni's Gear/Skill Changer - quickly save, load and name gear/skill setups
Inventory Insight - to quickly browse through all your items

Asardes · March 2018

Awesome Guild Store for sure. The vanilla guild trader UI is a disgrace, really.

MyKillv2.0 · March 2018

I agree with players who would like combat metrics and a guild trader search feature on consoles. In particular the guild trader is mind boggling to me that the game did not include some feature in the base game. Probably just ignorance on the developers end, not understanding the game’s popularity on consoles.

Skyshards and lorebooks are “meh” to me.

Combat add ons are a major no go for me. I play on console specifically to avoid such add ons. I view them as as cheats or crutches.

idk · March 2018

Add-ons are just in the game. Well, except for that one trading addon that does send information to a website.

Of course if OP is actually meaning there should be no addons permitted in the game and we should be stuck with what Zos has made for us, the answer is no. Zos has made it clear they have no interest in making a fully functioning UI that is customary for major MMORPGs. What they have added is essentially due to the failure of being able to see visually buffs and debuffs in the game reliably.

So the answer is no regardless of what is stated in this thread. The current UI is to paltry.

Sergykid · March 2018

anything that lets me:

search in guild stores
organize buffs/debuffs
swap gear and abilities

And while i'm here, a question: is there an addon to auto mark as junk stuff by its type?

Schmetterfrosch · March 2018

Sergykid wrote: »

And while i'm here, a question: is there an addon to auto mark as junk stuff by its type?

dustman

Drachenfier · March 2018

redspecter23 wrote: »

Minimap is my number one choice. I can see no reason that this isn't an optional addition to the base game already other than extreme stubbornness on the part of ZOS and their desire to seem unique by not including one.

Kind of like an auction house

Iccotak · March 2018

idk wrote: »

Add-ons are just in the game. Well, except for that one trading addon that does send information to a website.

Of course if OP is actually meaning there should be no addons permitted in the game and we should be stuck with what Zos has made for us, the answer is no. Zos has made it clear they have no interest in making a fully functioning UI that is customary for major MMORPGs. What they have added is essentially due to the failure of being able to see visually buffs and debuffs in the game reliably.

So the answer is no regardless of what is stated in this thread. The current UI is to paltry.

What I am asking is; What add-ons should just be features in the game rather than depending on the outside player base to provide?
Also many console players are missing out on the features add-ons provide and it is annoying when a new update goes live and there are certain add-ons you can't use until the author updates that add-on.

fgoron2000 · March 2018

LadyNalcarya wrote: »

Awesome guild store and Master merchant

Combat metrics

Advanced filters

Inventory insight

Kyoma's global achievements

I've been looking for a global achievement addon, and just came across Kyoma's, and it's exactly what I was looking for. Only thing is, it's a pretty recent addon from December 2017, only been d/l'd about 350 times, and there's not been much discussion about it, beyond the references here. I'm wondering if there might be any conflict with an earlier achievement addon - Wykkyd Achievement Tracker, which doesn't have the global feature. Has anyone tried these two together by any chance?

If Kyoma is intending to update and maintain this addon, I can see really good things in the future from it. There has only been one comment so far, on the addon's page, and it was a player's inquiry if there could be some sort of tooltip showing all the character's status on any given achievement that was hovered over. That would make this a really great addon IMHO.

As far as the ones that I've used already, there are at least a half dozen or more that I can't play wiithout. At the top of that list is definitely MiniMap by Fyrakin. Next is Harven's Quest Journal. Others are Destinations, AwesomeGuildStore, Dungeon Tracker, Dustman, and Inventory Insight.

Auldjohn · March 2018

Photographer, Tamriel Time Lore Date, and MiniMap (especially Votan's Circular MiniMap. When I play my Khajiit Khajiit-Speak is helpful for RP.

Slick_007 · March 2018

smacky wrote: »

I think the problem is the trade system is a little broken.
The information is there, and addons like AwesomeGuidStore for example, are simply making use of it.
Adding a text search to Guild Traders is not much to ask IMO.
Add text search and show unit price and total price, and I don't need AGS anymore, one is a search box, the other is an output line.

I guess the point is, also that if MM / TTC integration existed, everyone in the game would have the same information avilable to them. I like the idea of retaining MM's limitation to your guilds and that creates a market which still has a viable malleable economy.

i dont disagree that the trader system needs work. but the system they have in place would be negated by themselves if they setup an MM/TTC. Thats why i said that would be stupid. And the game devs should never ever, in any game, be the ones to deal that kind of information to players.

The only thing that they really should be doing, is making the trader UI usable. A search, the ability to sort by name as well as price, those sorts of things.

newtinmpls · March 2018

all of them

R_K · March 2018

Grimm13 wrote: »

Guild Tools
Godsend Email
Mini Map (It's in the game but takes a addon to use, utterly ridiculous)
EZ report
Immaculate Construction

R_K · March 2018

Can I weigh in on this as an add-on developer? If not disregard my bias below...

For ESO Player Housing:

Oops I Did It Again
Multi-level Undo and Redo for adding, removing and changing furniture.

Furniture Snap
Automatically snaps placed furniture along a configurable, virtual grid. Works for both position and orientation -- and makes perfect alignments and placement actually possible without a huge hassle.

Let There Be Light
Automatically resets lights and other interactive furnishings to their default state (i.e. "On" for lights, etc.).

Immaculate Construction
This would be a nice-to-have; but, personally this is my absolute favorite. Just check it out if you haven't seen it yet. You may like it.

Scaffold
Because why shouldn't you be able to fly throughout your own home for the purposes of editing? Think of it as a nifty, compact "Creative Mode" for ESO Housing.

Draxys · March 2018

combat metrics and an actually usable UI like LUI would be nice

MM, fish fillet, multi craft, and a gear changing add on are all indispensable too imo

nightstrike · March 2018

redspecter23 wrote: »

Minimap is my number one choice. I can see no reason that this isn't an optional addition to the base game already other than extreme stubbornness on the part of ZOS and their desire to seem unique by not including one.

Given that the first few attempts at minimaps were pretty heavy on a performance hit, and the game targets some pretty low end requirements, my guess is that this wasn't included initially due to the runtime cost. And by the time that was no longer an issue, well, the community solved the problem anyway.

Minyassa · March 2018

Action Duration Reminder. I was honestly surprised that there wasn't just a setting I could turn on that would do that natively, I kind of expected it after similar functions built into other games.