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If you're on PC, N'Tak Dialogue is a great addon to use to really immerse yourself in the dialogue. It has a lot of options including centered camera, optional written dialogue hiding, etc.

On my quester I try to do 1-2 quests a day MAX, and collect all rare fish in the zones. This process takes me around 1-1.5 month to clear a zone, so I actually develop some familiarity. Also, walk everywhere and no wayshrines.

Now doing Cadwell Silver, reckon there's 2 more years of content remaining. Feelsgoodman

DreamyLu wrote: »

Welcome to my world!

I chill in this game, free of any stress, doing only what I feel for, taking my time at things, never grinding... It's very comfortable.

As said in another thread some days ago: the only stress we can feel/have is the one we set to self by having too many objectives. But there are no obligations in this game. None at all, for nothing. It's just choices we make. So let's take it easy and give priority to enjoying the fun.

This.

I base my playstyle on (a) not wanting to burn out on a game, and I never have, and (b) the recognition that judging by the constant barrage of negativity from those who rush to the "endgame", it isn't all it's cracked up to be so why worry about getting there?

To coin a phrase, a MMORPG is for life, not just for Christmas !

Like a lot of people I got a job that demands results, high pressure, big workloads and I kinda takes those bad habits with me in my "free time".

As a consequence I usually lose interest unless I'm focus on a specific task at hand like finishing a specific quest/zone/achivement/dungeon/trial etc.

It really does take away from my enjoyment of the game, but I think my brain has a hard time to switch off the work brain when I finally can relax..

The few times I have been able to relax with the game it completely blows my mind how gifted Zos art team really is. The scenery on max graphics PC is stunning, and there's lots of little stories being told through the scenery IMO.

I sometimes wish I could enjoy the world more as a casual player but I've come to learn that I'm not great at quickly adapting.. But yeah, I agree OP. Fine points.

Welcome!

ESO is a big game and has a lot of stories. The best piece of advice, smell the roses. The quests aren't going anywhere, take your time and enjoy the story. Get to know the characters.

ESO is also a very beautiful game, so by all means just stop and look around every now and then.

Once I stopped running around trying to do all of ESO's content as soon as possible, and settled into a relaxing daily routine of play, it actually transformed the way I look at playing the other Elder Scrolls games.

I try to play this way, I really do, chill is my default mode in life. But as someone who has 18 characters, each with their own needs and wants, I have a long to-do list. And as I have little game time throughout the week, there's always 'just one more thing' I want to get done real quick before I can get to that point, otherwise I'd make no progress at all.

I am sometimes able to get there though. My crafter is often an outlet for relaxing and taking in the scenery. I like doing surveys. I pick a zone where I have at least one of each type and go through all of them for that zone. I'm not zipping from wayshrine to wayshrine when I do this, I'm traveling through the whole zone, primarily on foot, while collecting the other nodes I see along the way. I'll also stop and clear any fishing holes I see and usually stop at the random encampments I come across to appreciate the work put into them while I loot the containers.

Master writts are another way. While I am in two higher tier trading guilds with full service guild halls, I usually opt to do my writts in the wild tracking down and traveling to each set's zone location, including those in Cyrodiil and IC, which can make master writts day quite the adventure for my crafter.

Another casual activity I like is housing. Now, I don't do a lot of housing, I only have a few fully decorated homes, but when I do get inspired by an idea it can take up the majority of my time. It usually starts with a grand idea for a section of a particular home, often a cobble project, and since I don't like to leave things unfinished I spend the next month or more slowly adding to the rest of the home to fill it out. I think Alpine Gallery took up a good amount of my time for about 4 or 5 months before it was really fleshed out. And even still I add to it, just today I cobbled together a grill pit in Pirharri's squatter's camp she has out back using the broken urn from the luxury furniture vendor. And that house only got started because some pillars I found inspired me to want to build a bridge going across the top of the waterfall, that's it, that was my entire plan going into that home, and somehow Pirharri got a squatter's camp out of it. While working on homes I'm also paying extra attention to the details in the game's environments while doing other activities looking for further inspiration and ideas to flesh the home out. So this has a natural way of slowing down everything I do.

Besides the things I do on my crafter, I also have seven characters who are under 50 still. I've always preferred to take my time leveling and I was actually playing for about a year and a half before finally hitting 160. Of course, after hitting 160 with that first character I did crunch down on the next few to get them there as well, but once I had a few 50s under my belt I went back to levelling slowly with the rest. Now I'll occasionally hop on one of these lowbies to do some lighthearted questing and skilling up and just feeling the character out when I can get around to it. During these sessions I'm fully exploring areas looking for lorebooks sans add-ons or guides and / or looking for owned containers to level ledgermaine. I find just being on a low level character makes everything feel a little less serious so I'm able to just play on them without feeling a need to be optimal. I still try to be somewhat efficient with basic things, like filling my skillbar only with abilities that still need levelling, but that actually leads to some whacky setups that are far from optimal, which is part of the fun of lowbies for me.

Most of the time though, I'm on a maxed out character with maxed out needs sprinting full speed toward some objective, trying to beat the clock in hopes that maybe I'll have time for some of these laid back activities before the end of the weekend. Unless of course just one more thing I can knock out real quick occurs to me, in which case I'll just do that first, it'll only take a minute, right?

Good for you vsrs_au. That's the way I have played since launch. But be aware that you won't enjoy groups if you play that way.

This one gets it !

Here is some Addons you can use to tweak the game if you wish

Thanks for the replies, everyone

I installed the 2 N'Tak addons, they're not bad.

WiseSky wrote: »

This one gets it !

Here is some Addons you can use to tweak the game if you wish

I already had the dialog addon, and just installed the darker nights addon, because I miss the ES5:Skyrim nights. The nights in ESO are odd, because even in the middle of the night, it's just not that dark.