Finally making the switch to PC! Which add-ons do you find to be a must?

ragingruby1991 · July 2018

Been playing ESO on console for 3.5 years. I am giving up my 830 cp+ account with 8 fully maxed out toons that are all geared pretty well because I finally made the decision to move over to pc (should have a long time ago lol).

Which add-ons do y’all who play on pc recommend the most? I for sure plan on getting the lore book and skyshard add-ons, but outside of that I’m clueless.

BuddyAces · July 2018

Inventory grid menu. Think that's what it's called. The inventory system in this game is the worse I've ever seen. Can't live without it.

Destinations
Lazy writ thingy
Skyshards
Lorebook
Lost treasure
Master merchant
Combat metrics
Awesome guild store thingy
MailR. Good one for guild mails
Potion maker or whatever it is

The inventory one and combat metrics I leave on. The others I toggle when needed. Those are off the top of my head. Good luck bud.

HiLyfe808 · July 2018

i have moved over myself. the poster above covered most i use as well.

Some that was not listed and i love using is

Map Pins (i took off lorebooks and skyshards addons to just run this addon) love it because it made the time breeches so much easier to find.

Raidnotifier (once you start getting back into trials)

LUI
srendarr (if you wanna track your buffs and debuffs)
combat metrics (when your ready to test your dps or just track it anywhere)

And the most important that totally helped me for skill points management.

Urich Skill Point Finder

Gonna take some time rearranging everything to fit your liking but once your set its such a step up from the console experience.

Oreyn_Bearclaw · July 2018

So I think the best addon for what you originally talked about is called Map Pins. I was late to the party on this one. I gives you tons of toggle options (including the psijic portals), so you can keep your map only as cluttered as it needs to be. It made like 3-4 other addons I was running redundant.

Addons I could not live without:

Combat Metrics - Best tool for analyzing a fight, tracking, and sharing DPS.

Raid Notifier - Most trial guilds require this. Gives heads up to specific trial mechanics.

Srendarr - Most robust and customizable buff tracker in the game. Can get a little cluttered if you dont do a fair amount of messing with the settings.

Action Duration Reminder - Simplest and most elegant buff tracker in the game. Simply puts a timer over your skills.

Alpha Gear - Best Addon IMO to manage gear and bar loadouts, also recharges your weapons which is handy.

pChat - Great addon for managing your chat window. Saves older chats if you log off, and allows things like cut and paste.

Grim Focus Counter - Must have if you play nightblade. Keeps track of your light attacks for Grim Focus.

Master Merchant - Must have if you are in a trade guild and do active trading. Shows prices based on any sales in the guilds you are in.

Awesome Guild Store - Makes guild trader searching much more manageable.

FTC/Dark UI - Both are good for beefing up your interface, health bars, etc. Shouldnt need both.

Inventory insight - Lets you look at inventory on other toons and your bank at any time.

Craftstore - Useful for keeping track of trait research and motif knowledge. You can even peak at other toons without logging over if you find something and arent sure if you need it.

Kill Counter - PVP addon to track KDR and that sort of thing.

Multi Craft - Allows you to craft stacks of potions, etc.

Dolgubons's lazy writ Crafter - Shout out to my boy Dolgubon, I owe all my wealth to him. I can do master writs on 10 toons in 30 minutes with this addon. If I was starting a new account, first thing I am doing is power grinding 5-8 toons so they could start doing dailys.

Writworthy - Another one I was late to the party on. Thanks to my awesome Guild House with all the craft stations, (Shoutout to Anslay and ETU), and this addon, i did almost 4000 writ vouchers in less than 30 minutes. Blew my mind.

I am sure there are a few others, will edit if I can think of them.

Tandor · July 2018

It depends entirely on your playstyle and preferences. Personally I don't use any. You probably need to explain a bit about your approach, whether PvE and/or PvP, crafting, trading, hyper-competitive, trials, that sort of thing.

ragingruby1991 · July 2018

Tandor wrote: »

It depends entirely on your playstyle and preferences. Personally I don't use any. You probably need to explain a bit about your approach, whether PvE and/or PvP, crafting, trading, hyper-competitive, trials, that sort of thing.

I do everything in ESO. I love DPSing and tanking dungeons. I’ve been in the vMA leaderboards a couple of times. I’ve played my fair share of trials.

I would say that I enjoy pvp a little more though. Everything I do in PvE usually has some ties to what I want to accomplish in Cyrodiil or BGs.

I really just enjoy all aspects of the game. Just looking for good QoL add-ons that the pc community generally recommends for someone who plays a lot of ESO.

casparian · July 2018

The only really necessary one is Master Merchant. The in-game economy on PC only works because of and is entirely centered around Master Merchant. Everything else is about personal preference (improving UI to be more like whatever you want), convenience (revealing unmarked locations etc.), or playing the game for you (e.g. RaidNotifier telling you how to react to a mechanic).

starkerealm · July 2018

BuddyAces wrote: »

Inventory grid menu. Think that's what it's called. The inventory system in this game is the worse I've ever seen. Can't live without it.

Destinations
Lazy writ thingy
Skyshards
Lorebook
Lost treasure
Master merchant
Combat metrics
Awesome guild store thingy
MailR. Good one for guild mails
Potion maker or whatever it is

The inventory one and combat metrics I leave on. The others I toggle when needed. Those are off the top of my head. Good luck bud.

Master Merchant's only good when you're in trade guilds. If you're just wandering around, by yourself, it won't have useful data for you. TTC can give you useful price data without a guild, but it requires an outside executable. There's also some minor distinctions.

Desinations, Skyshards, Lorebooks, and Lost Treasure have all been superseded by Map Pins. I still prefer Destinations, but Map Pins is better maintained.

Craft Store.
Action Duration Reminder.
AUI.
S'rendarr (technically AUI offers the same functionality, but S'rendarr has more options for tweaking how the info is available to you.)

SilverWF · July 2018

My list of musthave addons:
AdvancedAutoLoot (or similar stuff to deal with loot)
AdvancedFilters
Azurah (partially or full if you prefer default frames)
BankManagerRevived (if you have several chars)
ChatStamp
CraftStoreFixedAndImproved
Destinations
DressingRoom
FCMQT (quest tracker)
Goto
GreymindQuickSlotBar
HarvestMap
IIfA (if you have several characters)
ItemBrowser (to browse all possible sets in the game and their sources)
ItemSaver
Lorebooks
LostTreasure
LuiExtended (I love it, really)
MultiCraft
QuestMap
SkyShards
TamrielTradeCentre
VampireWoe (if you are vampire obv)
VotansMiniMap
wykkydsToolbar
(and this just a half from what I have

)

casparian wrote: »

The only really necessary one is Master Merchant. The in-game economy on PC only works because of and is entirely centered around Master Merchant. Everything else is about personal preference (improving UI to be more like whatever you want), convenience (revealing unmarked locations etc.), or playing the game for you (e.g. RaidNotifier telling you how to react to a mechanic).

Nah, TTC is far better for just ordinary player.
MM useful for that ones, who actively trading

danno8 · July 2018

Here is a short list I wrote down in another recent thread over in the Addon section:

danno8 wrote: »

Inventory/sorting mods:

Advanced Filters
Crafting Material Level Display
Auto Category

Combat/HUD mods:

LUI (Extended)
Action Duration Reminder
Combat Metrics
Dressing Room

Crafting:

Craft Store (fixed and improved)
Master Recipe List
Potion Maker
Research Assistant

Buying/Selling:

Master Merchant
Tamriel Trade Center
Awesome Guild Store

Quality of Life: (These may have spoilers if you use them...)

Destinations
Map Pins
Skyshards
Lorebooks
No, Thank you
FCMQT
Harven Improved Skill Windows
Votans Minimap
Wykkyds (entire Suite or individual pieces)

This is about 3/4 of all my mods. The others are really just flavor and not really an objective improvement.

neverwalk · July 2018

If you use alot of Add-ons, be sure to open up your add-on storage thingy. Double the numbers each time, 64 would go to 128, 128 would go to 256 and so on. And try not to use OUT OF DATE add-ons-causes errors.

OmniDo · July 2018

Basically anything that will help you play the game which you could imagine needing help for, which doesnt exist for console, or wasnt built into the base game itself.
So, just about any utility addon mentioned previously.

Alagras · July 2018

None is mandatory but there s ton of great ones, so as useful as the answers may be, some esoui.com browsing is the best way.

I ll highlight 2 of them:

Srendarr. The settings menu are a bit long to understand quite intimidating but it allows you to customize eeeeverything in the UI and combat numbers display it s greatly tjought out addon.

Dressing Room. Lets you swap with one button between pre recorded gear/skill sets it s unvaluable.

A_Silverius · July 2018

ImmersiveHorseRiding for first person mounts. http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1048-ImmersiveHorseRiding.html
Idle Animations if you prefer your character to some personality. http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1035-IdleAnimations.html

Runefang · July 2018

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

So I think the best addon for what you originally talked about is called Map Pins. I was late to the party on this one. I gives you tons of toggle options (including the psijic portals), so you can keep your map only as cluttered as it needs to be. It made like 3-4 other addons I was running redundant.

Addons I could not live without:

Combat Metrics - Best tool for analyzing a fight, tracking, and sharing DPS.

Raid Notifier - Most trial guilds require this. Gives heads up to specific trial mechanics.

Srendarr - Most robust and customizable buff tracker in the game. Can get a little cluttered if you dont do a fair amount of messing with the settings.

Action Duration Reminder - Simplest and most elegant buff tracker in the game. Simply puts a timer over your skills.

Alpha Gear - Best Addon IMO to manage gear and bar loadouts, also recharges your weapons which is handy.

pChat - Great addon for managing your chat window. Saves older chats if you log off, and allows things like cut and paste.

Grim Focus Counter - Must have if you play nightblade. Keeps track of your light attacks for Grim Focus.

Master Merchant - Must have if you are in a trade guild and do active trading. Shows prices based on any sales in the guilds you are in.

Awesome Guild Store - Makes guild trader searching much more manageable.

FTC/Dark UI - Both are good for beefing up your interface, health bars, etc. Shouldnt need both.

Inventory insight - Lets you look at inventory on other toons and your bank at any time.

Craftstore - Useful for keeping track of trait research and motif knowledge. You can even peak at other toons without logging over if you find something and arent sure if you need it.

Kill Counter - PVP addon to track KDR and that sort of thing.

Multi Craft - Allows you to craft stacks of potions, etc.

Dolgubons's lazy writ Crafter - Shout out to my boy Dolgubon, I owe all my wealth to him. I can do master writs on 10 toons in 30 minutes with this addon. If I was starting a new account, first thing I am doing is power grinding 5-8 toons so they could start doing dailys.

Writworthy - Another one I was late to the party on. Thanks to my awesome Guild House with all the craft stations, (Shoutout to Anslay and ETU), and this addon, i did almost 4000 writ vouchers in less than 30 minutes. Blew my mind.

I am sure there are a few others, will edit if I can think of them.

This is basically my list too. I also run Tamriel Trade Centre which is handy, I almost always price my stuff based on TTC.

Oreyn_Bearclaw · July 2018

Runefang wrote: »

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

So I think the best addon for what you originally talked about is called Map Pins. I was late to the party on this one. I gives you tons of toggle options (including the psijic portals), so you can keep your map only as cluttered as it needs to be. It made like 3-4 other addons I was running redundant.

Addons I could not live without:

Combat Metrics - Best tool for analyzing a fight, tracking, and sharing DPS.

Raid Notifier - Most trial guilds require this. Gives heads up to specific trial mechanics.

Srendarr - Most robust and customizable buff tracker in the game. Can get a little cluttered if you dont do a fair amount of messing with the settings.

Action Duration Reminder - Simplest and most elegant buff tracker in the game. Simply puts a timer over your skills.

Alpha Gear - Best Addon IMO to manage gear and bar loadouts, also recharges your weapons which is handy.

pChat - Great addon for managing your chat window. Saves older chats if you log off, and allows things like cut and paste.

Grim Focus Counter - Must have if you play nightblade. Keeps track of your light attacks for Grim Focus.

Master Merchant - Must have if you are in a trade guild and do active trading. Shows prices based on any sales in the guilds you are in.

Awesome Guild Store - Makes guild trader searching much more manageable.

FTC/Dark UI - Both are good for beefing up your interface, health bars, etc. Shouldnt need both.

Inventory insight - Lets you look at inventory on other toons and your bank at any time.

Craftstore - Useful for keeping track of trait research and motif knowledge. You can even peak at other toons without logging over if you find something and arent sure if you need it.

Kill Counter - PVP addon to track KDR and that sort of thing.

Multi Craft - Allows you to craft stacks of potions, etc.

Dolgubons's lazy writ Crafter - Shout out to my boy Dolgubon, I owe all my wealth to him. I can do master writs on 10 toons in 30 minutes with this addon. If I was starting a new account, first thing I am doing is power grinding 5-8 toons so they could start doing dailys.

Writworthy - Another one I was late to the party on. Thanks to my awesome Guild House with all the craft stations, (Shoutout to Anslay and ETU), and this addon, i did almost 4000 writ vouchers in less than 30 minutes. Blew my mind.

I am sure there are a few others, will edit if I can think of them.

This is basically my list too. I also run Tamriel Trade Centre which is handy, I almost always price my stuff based on TTC.

I probably should install that as well. I definitely use the website if I am looking to buy or sell something worth more than about 20k.

BuddyAces · July 2018

starkerealm wrote: »

BuddyAces wrote: »

Inventory grid menu. Think that's what it's called. The inventory system in this game is the worse I've ever seen. Can't live without it.

Destinations
Lazy writ thingy
Skyshards
Lorebook
Lost treasure
Master merchant
Combat metrics
Awesome guild store thingy
MailR. Good one for guild mails
Potion maker or whatever it is

The inventory one and combat metrics I leave on. The others I toggle when needed. Those are off the top of my head. Good luck bud.

Master Merchant's only good when you're in trade guilds. If you're just wandering around, by yourself, it won't have useful data for you. TTC can give you useful price data without a guild, but it requires an outside executable. There's also some minor distinctions.

Desinations, Skyshards, Lorebooks, and Lost Treasure have all been superseded by Map Pins. I still prefer Destinations, but Map Pins is better maintained.

Craft Store.
Action Duration Reminder.
AUI.
S'rendarr (technically AUI offers the same functionality, but S'rendarr has more options for tweaking how the info is available to you.)

I'll have to check it out. I rarely use those anymore (haven't had a need to lvl a toon in a while) so I don't know what all the cool kids are using these days.

boombazookajd · July 2018

The loading screen reduction add-on

Caligamy_ESO · July 2018

Bet you're sorry you asked that question eh? lol

Skyshards
Lorebooks
Lost Treasure
ResearchTraits Seriously, get this. You gotta add a keybind for it but do it!
AUI
Awesome Guild Store
MM & TTC

That will cover most of your basic PVE needs.

Nyghthowler · July 2018

If PvP is your thing you need Miats

*Grabs popcorn and waits for the explosion*

Colecovision · July 2018

If you are using a gamepad, get used to switching for a couple of the things mentioned. The multicraft and guildstore addons need keyboard mode. You can hot key some other things. I have a key for the skill changer and another for the combat metrics report. Those will pop up and can be used with a mouse even without switching out of gp mode.

I use a little keyboard touchpad combo for that stuff. Not trying to brag, but I could probably pull 2k dps with that thing.

TheShadowScout · July 2018

Addons are for the WEAK!

I for one find it more fun to play without all these "helpful" and sometimes borderline cheating programs doing what the player ought to be doing instead, pointing out the skyshards and lorebooks, treasure chests and combat tips, etc.
But eh. If you need it...

Davor · July 2018

So instead of playing like a true player you have come to cheating eh? :P Just kidding. I can't live without the mini map mods.

calia1120 · August 2018

neverwalk wrote: »

If you use alot of Add-ons, be sure to open up your add-on storage thingy. Double the numbers each time, 64 would go to 128, 128 would go to 256 and so on. And try not to use OUT OF DATE add-ons-causes errors.

Fyi, out of date doesn't always mean you're going to have errors. The out of date is only determined by a value in the addon manifest file. Also, the lua memory usage isn't so much an issue anymore since the introduction of the 64 bit client.

Donari · August 2018

I have a lot of addons by now but will list the would hate to play without thanks to their amazing QoL improvements:

Advanced Filters (sorts out your inventory into tabs so you can quickly zero in on specific items, and looks like it was designed into the game, icons and all)

AI Research Grid (if you craft on multiple characters, or even just on one, it's a super fast way to check who knows which traits and motifs and what they still need to/are currently researching and how long 'til they are done).

Awesome Guild Store (lets you search for specific items without scrolling all over the place)

Craft Autoloot (in conjunction with the ESO Plus crafting bag auto deposit, it just automatically siphons up mats and tosses them in the bag)

Greymind Quick Slot Bar (gives you an on-screen bar of your quick slot items so you can rapidly switch between them)

Lore Books and Sky Shards, as you mentioned.

Research Assistant (may be redundant for me at this point with other addons, specifically FCO Item Saver which is more complex but does help inventory manage; RA color-marks items that you can use for research so you know not to sell them)

Roomba (if you have a guild bank and want to smush together stacks of things in it, this does it at one button press. Be sure to turn off auto dep to craft bag first though, or you may steal all the mats).

Votan's Keybinder (lets you set your keybindings once and have all your characters automatically use those)

Votan's Minimap (takes a square of the world map around you and puts it on screen so you can track your facing and route. Super useful for not getting turned around especially since the map 180's you while you are in it so you tend to run off the wrong way, but does interfere with immersion as you start looking more at the map than the buildings around you)

Wykkyd's Toolbar (No updates in almost a year now, I'm worried this thing is a goner, but it gives you a scaleable bar on your screen showing all sorts of handy info like your level, gold, horse feed timer, research timer, fps, ping, all completely configurable as to what you want to see. It can interfere with reading compass quest text, so I used Azurah mod to haul my compass down half an inch)

Also fun: Cowl (a simple toggle to hide/unhide your helm), Crafting Stations (marks them on your map with mouseover tooltips as to what sets they make), various furniture grouping tools for aid in house decor.

jainiadral · August 2018

A couple I haven't seen mentioned:

FCO StarveStop -- tells you when your food buff expires
and
Pet Dead Alert -- my clannfear sometimes kicks the bucket when I'm stuck a respawn-length behind someone doing the mob farm, so this has been indispensable

My favorites from the above:

Dolgubon's Lazy Writ Crafter, along with Potion Maker and Daily Provisioning -- I don't really care about the auto-crafting, but I've always hated dealing with accepting the quests at the beginning, accepting the rewards, then opening the coffers and the boxes within the coffers when turning in the quests. The auto-open and auto-accept functions are a godsend.

Awesome Guild Store -- can't live without it. The guild store system is a blight, but having portable searches when going from vendor to vendor makes shopping almost bearable. Selling's a lot easier too.

Lore Books, Lost Treasure, Skyshards, MiniMap by Fyrakin-- indispensable. One of the things that made me quit ESO a year ago when I first tried it was getting lost all the time. All of the above keep me from running in circles, and actually be able to find and complete things.

Emmagoldman · August 2018

I generally agree with Oreyn.

Important, you must update them or performance will drop. Also, you may need to toggle them. People run 20 and say, why is the game running slow?

calia1120 · August 2018

I'm the one working on the Wykkyd addons - I'm getting back to things, real life and being mom to an angsty almost teenager took top priority for a bit (I work in IT, took a job as a government contractor for an extremely large company about 10 months ago, and it was trial by fire with a HUGE workload on a major finance application) so life has been hitting me from all sides.

Work is leveling out (as much as anyone in corporate IT can ever say that), and I've got the time to be back playing and coding a lot more now. These are some of the addons I'm involved with:

Advanced Member Tooltip
Combat Reticle
Excessive Withdrawals
GodSend
Guild Invite
Guild Notificator
Librarian
Mailr
Raffle Gold
Raffle Gold Tally
Raffle Unlimited
Rainbow Reticle
SWAPS Continued
Thurisaz
Wyk Achievement Tracker
Wyk Auto Repair
Wyk Dialog Tweaks
Wyk Enhanced Chat
Wyk Enhanced HUD
Wyk Equipment Borders
Wyk Equipment Level
Wyk Framework Suite
Wyk Full Immersion
Wyk Gaming Suite
Wyk Loot Manager
Wyk Macros
Wyk Mailbox
Wyk Multi-Screen
Wyk Outfitter
Wyk Quest Tracker
Wyk Sound Preview
Wyk Suite Manager
Wyk Toolbar

Donari wrote: »

I have a lot of addons by now but will list the would hate to play without thanks to their amazing QoL improvements:

Wykkyd's Toolbar (No updates in almost a year now, I'm worried this thing is a goner, but it gives you a scaleable bar on your screen showing all sorts of handy info like your level, gold, horse feed timer, research timer, fps, ping, all completely configurable as to what you want to see. It can interfere with reading compass quest text, so I used Azurah mod to haul my compass down half an inch).

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