Lack of Beginner build guides.

shadowlord_ESO · July 2018

I am kinda new to ESO in some way, expectually when I never had a max leveled character. I've been looking around for builds that suppose to help newbies out from 1-50, and all I tend to see if people who made end-games builds over at alcastHQ. I googled searched and some of these builds are outdated, post that from 2014-2015... I'm come to the conclusion that their is no great summerset isle patch to get people started without making a mistake such as following an end-game build when your level 20, waiting to get those skills that you need for that particular build, but your dying left and right on soloing monsters that are not elites.

SilverWF · July 2018

Try Google
https://alcasthq.com/
https://www.xynodegaming.com/
etc

VaranisArano · July 2018

That's because beginner builds for overland questing are literally "wear gear that's close to your level, ideally training trait, ideally set pieces and if you have friends/guildies to craft for you, ask them to make you Hundings Rage/Julianos or some fun crafted set".

Most true beginners dont have the traits researched in order to make their own crafted gear, the gold to buy crafted gear, and farming their own set pieces often get out-leveled quickly.

So my advice for leveling players is to wear gear close to their level so they get the most benefit from battleleveling. If they can collect set pieces or have set pieces crafted for them, that's great.

Smasherx74 · July 2018

For 1-50 just grab random set gear you find in the world, none of your gear is going to be up to par or match your level until you hit CP160 which is your focus when experiencing all the content. Once you hit CP160 then your gear will actually matter/be important.

If you're struggling for regular quests then I suggest doing your dailies. Now you can get daily dolmens and you can grab daily WBs from dlc zones, as well as the random dungeon daily. You'll gain XP easily that way, you really want to get into CP so all your experience gained actually matters.

Taleof2Cities · July 2018

It’s easy to forget, I know, but the base game has a built-in leveling advisor for new players.

Iselin · July 2018

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

It’s easy to forget, I know, but the base game has a built-in leveling advisor for new players.

That is something alright but it defaults to a really bad one that doesn't even do weapon or armor recommendations. Even if a new player clicks on the cog and chooses one of the better builds for a class that does provide weapon and armor recommendations there are several WTF (for new players) recommendations there... like when a build recommends the 4th ability in a skill line but says nothing about needing to unlock lower level abilities in that line in order to unlock the 4th one eventually.

It's better than not having one but I pity a true noob that tries to rely on the level-up advisor without googling beginner guides.

@shadowlord_ESO

Alcast does have a beginner guide he did recently after Summerset. Have a look there.

https://alcasthq.com/eso-new-player-beginner-guide/

Davor · July 2018

SilverWF wrote: »

https://www.xynodegaming.com/
etc

Thank you very much for this link. I really like the stuff added to his site. It's up to date and is what I needed, really simple. I really like how he has it written as well.

Original poster, I strongly suggest this site. I went to the other site as well but seemed a bit to complex for my simple mind. Really liking these videos and written builds.