Combat Metrics
Action Duration Reminder
AUI - Advanced UI (Mostly for the ability to move modules. I use another minimap add-on).
Harvest Map
Lorebooks
Quest Map
Sky Shards
Tamriel Trade Centre

starlizard70ub17_ESO wrote: »

Here's a list of all the add ons I use

Lui Extended
Destinations
Votans Mini Map
Map Pins
Combat Metrics

Crown Crate Logger

(for PvP)
Papa Crown
Piece of Candy

What is piece of candy? Edit: it’s a pvp addon so everyone can drop their ultimates all at once. Gosh this fondue is hot.

Also to others: don’t you find that MM and Harvest Map slow down your game? It’s always the first thing people tell guildmates to turn off when they are having trouble hopping around the map on guild nights.

Stormshaper wrote: »

No one mentioned Dolgubon's Lazy Writ Crafter yet?? Daily crafting writs came to a screeching halt just recently after the last patch did something funky (since fixed, thx Dolgubon!). One guildmate even likened it to being thrown back into the stone ages for the very brief time it was down. I really feel bad for the console peeps who haven't experienced the 'crack' addiction that is having your daily crafting writs made for you.

I could mention many add ons but this one is essential in my case. I am a casual gamer. Many days I sometimes only have maybe a hour to play ESO with a full time job and family obligations. Lazy Writ Crafter is a time saver. Also, because I am a casual, I am not a member of a trading guild or anything, so crafting is my main source of earning gold.

ghastley wrote: »

srfrogg23 wrote: »

If it's not an official part of the game and it gives people an advantage over others who don't have it. I mean, do you really think that's ok?

That description just about matches any DLC. They're not part of the base game, so some players don't have them. The sets dropped give much more advantage than any of the add-ons.

Apart from Craft Store, just about all I run add content to my map, so I can better plan my itinerary. They don't show anything that won't be visible in normal play, just put it on the map, so I can see what's in the area I'm going to.

I said official. Not base game. Big difference there.

Official means created by the game devs. Addons are not officially a part of the game. DLC is, whether owned or not.

Harvestmap, Votan's Minimap, Master Merchant, AwesomeGuildStore, Inventory Insight, Inventory Grid View, MultiCraft, LazyWritCrafter, Furniture Catalogue, Craftstore, and ShoppingList. Wykkyd's Toolbar is also helpful, as is Destinations. Mobile Bank is helpful, but buggy sometimes.

You can probably guess my main playstyle given that list of mods.

AUI (or anything else with a quick slot bar)
WPama
Craftstore

Mini map
Azura - which allows you to move and re-size the base UI
Binder - save key bindings and copy them to other characters quickly
pChat - save chat settings and copy them quickly
Master Merchant - so I know what's a reasonable price when I'm buying and selling
Advanced Filters - so I can actually find things in my inventory

I do use some others but those are the ones I'd really miss if I didn't have them.

Hallothiel wrote: »

Console ‘peasant’ here.

Looking at the list of add ons and what they do, makes me wonder if anyone on pc actually plays the damn game really.

Can’t be arsed to do something / learn something / work something out yourself? Don’t worry there’s an add on for that.

And no, not jealous or envious. And now pretty sure that console players are probably the far better players as they actually have to, you know, PLAY the game.

sigh. we have addons precicely BECAUSE we want to spend as much time as possible playing the game.

searching through pages and pages and PAGES of things without being able to narrow them down, is a time sink that takes away from questing etc. hitting the same button over. and over. and over.. and over.. to craft your potions or food - is a time sink that is boring. having to go through 15 loading screens just to look for an item on an alt, but you don't remember which alt... is boring and time consuming. as is having to keep multiple spreadsheets if you'd rather not deal with as many loading screens. being able to modify the way your UI looks is a baseline feature in many MANY MMO's. ESO just decided to go the "let addon creators do it" route. minimap lets me keep moving, keep exploring instead of having to stop. open map. check location. close map. start moving again. and lets not forget the joy of not having to spend as much time on inventory management that is the definition of tedium - becasue addons let me set what I want to junk, what I want to keep and delete/vendor as needed, so that I could spend more time doing the fun stuff in game.

now... if all of the above is part of immersion for you? that's fine. but please. stop with the whole "addons play the game for you" addons save us time so that we could actualy spend more time playing. THAT is literally the point.

Zedrian wrote: »

Vuron wrote: »

srfrogg23 wrote: »

Aliyavana wrote: »

srfrogg23 wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

They can't be considered "borderline cheating" if the game principals themselves allow them.

Now that said - I can see how someone on console could feel that way. But that's on MS or Sony....

They absolutely can be considered to be borderline cheating. I literally just did it. I'm still doing it.

You get access to information that people without the addons either don't have or have to spend much more time looking for. Particularly when talking about the addons that provide pricing information about the guild traders.

Besides, they cheapen the experience. They eliminate the sense of discovery in a lot of cases or give that unfair advantage. Not to mention when they break after an update or just flat out corrupt game data.

Nope. I'm not using them and I'm not impressed by anyone that does. They should all be banned.

I don't like something so therefore it should be banned for everyone

If it's not an official part of the game and it gives people an advantage over others who don't have it. I mean, do you really think that's ok?

Technically, addons are a part of the base game provided by ZOS. Only information provided by the API is available to addons. This API is provided by ZOS specifically for addon creators and is modified based on what information they want to be available.

The earliest version of the API made player information available so that you could see other player stats, health, magicka, gear, etc. This caused some issues so it was removed.

ZOS has stated since beta that their goal was to create a very basic, simplistic UI so that addon creators could design whatever the playerbase wanted and to give options.

Interesting. How come we don't have some of these very useful addons on console if it was ZOS intention to have some designed by the community in the first place and be part of the base game?

Console Pleb here

The actual reason for that is console limitations. Applying mods to games on consoles has always been either a real pain in the neck on the part of the user or impossible to do legitimately by design of the game developer. Console operating systems wouldn't allow you to just "drag and drop" mod files into a specific folder and call it a day like you can on PC. The game developer would need to develop a sort of mod import feature directly into the game for it to function properly.

From what I understand, they did this for Skyrim SE for consoles. They simply haven't done it for ESO for consoles, even though it's very obviously possible now.

Besides that, the default UI of ESO on consoles differs in many ways from the default UI of ESO on PC (though PC's Gamepad UI may be the same). There's likely some changes in coding on console that would make it incompatible with PC ESO addons. Though I suppose any addon developer who cares about console could just make a console specific (version of their) addon, much like they do with PC's Gamepad UI.

Top 10

Lazy writ crafter
Combat Metrics
Combat Cloud
Alpha Gear
Master Merchant
Awesome GuildStore
Lost treasure
Leos Altholic
Inventory GridView
Action Duration Reminder

Here's a list of uncommon addons I use that I find useful (all with <100k downloads from ESOUI):

• Arch's Enhanced Crafting
  • Only shows raw materials with a stack of 10 or greater in refinement window, hiding stacks you can't refine. Also automatically selects the default crafting style to be the material with the greatest total quantity. Both options are customizable.
• Crafted Potions
  • Changes the quality level (white, green blue, or purple text name color) of potions and poisons depending on whether or not they're crafted and depending on how many bonuses they gained upon creation (ie how many alchemy ingredient trait matches the potion has). VERY useful to see which potions are crafted and which are trash at a glance, and it just feels good to use epic potions.
• Crafting Material Level Display Updated
  • Does as it's named: displays level ranges of crafting materials in the tooltips and on the inventory listings of each material. Very useful if you don't want to memorize the tier names for each craft's materials. Especially useful for Enchanting, as it adds the level enchantment each Potency rune will make and the effect of all Potency and Essence runes to their respective tooltips.
• Enchanted Quality
  • Ever wonder what quality enchantment is on a piece of gear? Maybe it was a drop, or it's on the guild store. Or maybe you just forgot. Well, wonder no longer. Now the enchantment name is color coded on the equipment tooltip.
• Leo's Altholic
  • Allows you to view tons of information (inventory, build, dailies, etc.) of all your characters in one, compact window from any character. VERY useful if you have a lot of alts. WARNING: May be abandoned. It's currently, as of this writing, out of date. The addon author hasn't said anything in the comments for months.
• No Interact
  • I literally can't play without this anymore. Empty containers will no longer prompt you to interact with them. "E.g you loot an urn, the empty urn will no longer tell you it is empty." Now, only containers with loot will do that. You can also blacklist any object in the game (including NPCs), and it will disable the interact prompts on them as well.
• PersonalAssistant
  • I like carrying exactly 5,000 gold on hand at all times unless I'm going shopping. Not more, not less. I use this addon specifically because it will auto withdraw/deposit to keep this amount on-hand, but it does a lot more than that. Auto Repair, Auto Sell Junk, Autojunk Grey/Specific Items, Autoloot only Gold + Materials, etc. All options toggleable and customizable.
• Thurisaz Guild Info
  • Adds a bit more information to guild rosters and friends list, as well as enabling some basic guild-based notifications. Character Names, Last Online, Guild MotD Change Notifications. Customizable.
• Votan's Advanced Settings
  • An addon everyone on PC should get. The in-game settings don't include every possible setting you can change. This addon... "Allows to change additional client configuration settings (UserSettings.txt) not handled by build-in UI." Now you'll have in-game access even to the settings that are hidden in the settings files.
• WeaponCharger
  • A simple, light-weight addon that does only one thing: automatically recharges weapon enchantments when they run out using soulgems from your inventory.

I can't live without inventory grid view. Ofc skyshards and lorebooks is a must for new players as well. Lazy writ crafter, AUI (just for the minimap), advanced filters, auto-recharge, inventory insight...

I enjoy Oblivion style HUD alot, just to spice things up a bit. I could go on, really...The default UI has gotten better over the years, but it's still not incredible.

Almost Always On:

• Advanced Filters
• Map Pins (as someone previously mentioned, this has Psijic Portals and much more)
• CraftStore (giving me errors presently, but it's very helpful to see which characters haven't learned which recipes and which need to research which traits so I can save those items instead of vending or refining)
• Inventory Insight (great for finding sets pieces spread out amongst characters, banks, and storage chests)
• pChat
• Votan's Minimap

Character Dependent:

• Pet Dismiss (easy keybind for my sorcerors and wardens so they'll blend in with polite society without putting bear butts or flappy wings in faces)
• Dressing Room
• Combat Cloud

Situational:

• For characters who do all 7 writs: Dolgubon's Lazy Writ Creator (an absolute godsend)
• When I plan to do a bunch of gathering of the things: Harvest Map
• When my main has accumulated a bunch of master writs: WritWorthy
• When I'm doing surveys + treasure maps: Lost Treasure
• When I'm decorating/house hops: Essential Housing Tools, Port to Friend's House,
• When I have a lot of fish to fillet: Votan's Fish Fillet
• When I have a lot of mats to refine: MultiCraft
• When in VVardenfell: By the Ancestors

Combat metrics to get an breakdown on damage, uptime and effects.
Master mercant for showing relevant price for items.
lazy writ crafter for one button writ crafting.
Dressing room for changing gear and bar layout with one click.
Very nice on an healer as you can change priority normal-vet-dlc-trial as I name them. Also overland and pvp.

Has many other who is more utility, but the 4 above is best.