Can I just wander?
Misty
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I have started a new character but am fed up with doing all the starting quests, so I teleported to somewhere I can't remember playing. Is it okay for me to carry on wandering and forget the starter quest?
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Kwoung✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭I have started a new character but am fed up with doing all the starting quests, so I teleported to somewhere I can't remember playing. Is it okay for me to carry on wandering and forget the starter quest?
Yes. Depending on what version of the game you bought and when, the game itself starts you in any number of different zones. Some however, are a lot less forgiving to a newbie or low level character than others.1 -
Misty✭✭✭I have started a new character but am fed up with doing all the starting quests, so I teleported to somewhere I can't remember playing. Is it okay for me to carry on wandering and forget the starter quest?
Yes. Depending on what version of the game you bought and when, the game itself starts you in any number of different zones. Some however, are a lot less forgiving to a newbie or low level character than others.
I am a eso plus member.
I have played a awful lot of eso in the past and have been through the starter quests more times than I can remember. So I was just looking for something new to get my teeth into.
I noticed this one wayshire on my map that I could not remember visiting so I jumped and found myself in a new aera full of orcs and started questing. I was just a bit worried that it might break my game or something as people seem to advise always doing the starting quests.0 -
Kwoung✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭You should do the main storyline to level that skill line, but I cannot think of any way in which it would "break" the game just wandering around and doing stuff as you come across it.0 -
LeonAkando✭✭✭✭You should do the first bit of starting quest (like literally just the introduction, iirc to unlock the soul skill line) and after that you're fine.
I've leveled many characters by just wandering around and suffered no penalties. The story can be less cohesive if you don't stay in a zone but that's more of an RP thing.
I've also had a single main who has done every quest and story line.
Overall the main difference is just the amount of content done, not the order you do it. Some of the only benefits of doing things in the "right" order (chronologically) is that characters will remember you from other zones.
Even then, on some characters that I did the "wrong" order, I found some neat things like seeing Psijic Mages from the Summerset questline in Wrothgar even though Summerset came out afterwards.
TLDR: You can wander without worrying.0 -
zaria✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Its no problem just wandering around. You can go to another faction and zone and do quests and stuff there.
Its an benefit to do the faction story quest from the start to get the order right but that is the only constrain.
Grinding just make you go in circles.
Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.0 -
RedMuse✭✭✭✭✭
✭I have started a new character but am fed up with doing all the starting quests, so I teleported to somewhere I can't remember playing. Is it okay for me to carry on wandering and forget the starter quest?
Yes. Depending on what version of the game you bought and when, the game itself starts you in any number of different zones. Some however, are a lot less forgiving to a newbie or low level character than others.
I am a eso plus member.
I have played a awful lot of eso in the past and have been through the starter quests more times than I can remember. So I was just looking for something new to get my teeth into.
I noticed this one wayshire on my map that I could not remember visiting so I jumped and found myself in a new aera full of orcs and started questing. I was just a bit worried that it might break my game or something as people seem to advise always doing the starting quests.
All that'll happen is that you might get the quests out of order, which if you're new can be confusing. But no, you can't really break anything.
And honestly, the ability to even on a completely new character just go into a zone and wander about, pick up what quests I feel like or completely ignore them, is a major factor in why I'm here and unlikely to go anywhere else in the foreseeable future.0 -
Mythreindeer✭✭✭✭✭"Not all who wander are lost." - Tolkien
It's one my favorite things to do in ESO.4 -
Danikat✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭New players are advised to start with the main story and their alliance and then work through the zones in order because it's the only way the story makes sense. If you don't do that you'll meet characters who talk to you as if you're an old friend when you've never seen them before (then they'll treat you like a suspicious stranger later on), learn that people died then see them alive and well, get references to past events which won't make any sense because it assumes you were there and so on.
But that's players preference, if you want a coherent storyline. ZOS are quite happy to dump new players into the latest chapter they own, even if they themselves advertise it as being the middle of the story and say you should do the preceding dungeons first. Even if you play through that chapter in order there will be nothing beyond a few hints at the next dungeon release to tell you what to do next so at that point players are on their own and ZOS expects them to figure it out.
So the game is actually designed to allow for doing things in a random order with no regard for the overarching story or continuity. You won't break anything or get locked out of anything by doing that, it just might not make any sense.
Since you're not new and have played through it before there's no harm in starting a new character and wandering aimlessly. The worst that will happen is the continuity errors and if, at some point, you want to make sure that character has done everything you'll have a harder time working out what you might have missed.PC EU player | She/her/hers | PAWS (Positively Against Wrip-off Stuff) - Say No to Crown Crates!
"Remember in this game we call life that no one said it's fair"0 -
Misty✭✭✭Mythreindeer wrote: »"Not all who wander are lost." - Tolkien
It's one my favorite things to do in ESO.
Love it.
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Everstorm✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭I have started a new character but am fed up with doing all the starting quests, so I teleported to somewhere I can't remember playing. Is it okay for me to carry on wandering and forget the starter quest?
Yes. Depending on what version of the game you bought and when, the game itself starts you in any number of different zones. Some however, are a lot less forgiving to a newbie or low level character than others.
I noticed this one wayshire on my map that I could not remember visiting so I jumped and found myself in a new aera full of orcs and started questing. I was just a bit worried that it might break my game or something as people seem to advise always doing the starting quests.
Sounds like you're in Wrothgar. That should be no problem.
The original zones for the three factions however have continuous storylines, running those out of order ruins the story but it doesn't really break anything.
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Misty✭✭✭I have started a new character but am fed up with doing all the starting quests, so I teleported to somewhere I can't remember playing. Is it okay for me to carry on wandering and forget the starter quest?
Yes. Depending on what version of the game you bought and when, the game itself starts you in any number of different zones. Some however, are a lot less forgiving to a newbie or low level character than others.
I noticed this one wayshire on my map that I could not remember visiting so I jumped and found myself in a new aera full of orcs and started questing. I was just a bit worried that it might break my game or something as people seem to advise always doing the starting quests.
Sounds like you're in Wrothgar. That should be no problem.
The original zones for the three factions however have continuous storylines, running those out of order ruins the story but it doesn't really break anything.
I am only having a problem with the robots. My axes don't seem to dent them much. Maybe I should try duel maces with shock damage.
I'm not to bothered about the story as I have been through it many times before.0
