How did someone help you when you were a new player?

Runefang · April 2022

I started playing with a friend who gave me 100k and taught me to weave. The rest is history.

FeedbackOnly · April 2022

Cuddlypuff wrote: »

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

MentalxHammer wrote: »

I helped myself by meticulously studying every mechanic and aspect of ESO in game and through external resources.

Those resources though were made by someone no ?

2 years ago as a brand new player, it wasn't easy to know which resources were good and which were rubbish. High view counts and search engine rank were not a good indicator. The situation is much better now thankfully.

We never even thought to look at any guides when we started out in the game. Overland and normal dungeons were so easy we just assumed that we didn't need to. I think every veteran player will remember the first moment they realize (or get told) that they are actually terrible at the game, that then motivated them to read guides and builds. Ours was getting vBC2 in one of our first random vet dungeons, and being dipped and raged on by at least 10 replacements for over 3 hours

Actually I first got good in vBC2. Way back when I started game was a far different game. Even so I failed bat the basics 😂 was wearing heavy amour as a PvE healer. Not saying it's not possible, but definitely back then it was super bad idea

Actually this is the prologue to my story now that I recall. I was litterally crying because I didn't understand. Someone crafted me gear and explained basics. I had a lot to learn, but that was the start of my legend

FeedbackOnly · April 2022

Runefang wrote: »

I started playing with a friend who gave me 100k and taught me to weave. The rest is history.

It's the moments we helped others that shaped Tamerial into a wonderful world of adventures

robwolf666 · April 2022

Nobody has ever helped me in the game. I see stories about people getting help, but tbh, I don't believe them (the stories). Everything I've learned in the game, I've learned by myself.

Cuddlypuff · April 2022

robwolf666 wrote: »

Nobody has ever helped me in the game. I see stories about people getting help, but tbh, I don't believe them (the stories). Everything I've learned in the game, I've learned by myself.

That's going too far lol. Sure you have to be open to learning but you pick up a ton of things just by being in progs and watching better people play and asking questions. I'm not buying all the good vibes here though, I feel like some people with helpful intentions end up setting new players back by years with poor advice. Stuff like "you don't need to weave", "10k dps is enough for all endgame content", "only top 1% scorepushers need meta" and "only tanks and healers should do mechanics" can potential cripple a new player's mindset for life.

Daoin · April 2022

everyone helped back then because in dungeon finder tanks were tanks healers were healers and dd's where dd's

pklemming · April 2022

Yup, and you pass it on... as I can. RL issues mean I play games less that I would like, but I will run through and help people get things like Monster sets, or farm sets like Medusa or Kinras. Even organise or help in pug trials and similar for some of the other well-used gear sets.

Also, advice on what you can do to make money, or what addons you can use on PC to make their experience better.

Although there are people better than me, I will help people with rotations and builds too, so they don't feel so helpless and confused by the plethora of sets and skill combinations. Making some simplified, or one bar builds for those less able to manage two bar, or lots of button pressing, when they may not be physically able to do it.

I am also an *** to those who don't help, actually hindering or belittling new players.. Well, I guess I am just an *** in general, who occasionally has moments of [snip]

[edited for profanity bypass]

fizl101 · April 2022

They let me join their guild (a social guild) and let me take the baby steps I needed to take after playing solo for two years or so. They made me a set of hundings rage, showed me the guild house and ran noob trials where there were no expectations beyond listen to instructions and try your best. I'm still with that guild now, I definitely struck gold with them

Iselin · April 2022

First time that I remember clearly was during the first few days after release. I was on a mission to get all the skyshards in Grahtwood (this was before skyshard addons, kids) and was missing the one off the west coast in some ruins. I asked in zone char and someone gave me clear directions to it.

Thank you stranger, whoever you were!

phileunderx2 · April 2022

Shortly after I reached v1 I was asked by a friend to run a couple of vet dungeons.
At that time I had never run a group dungeon at all. The tank asked me what gear I had and I was like what?? Lol
So then he took me and made me my first sets of matching gear.

oldbobdude · April 2022

I met a guy who helped me immensely. He grouped me and took me to the places where crafting certifications could be completed. He created armor for me at several levels. Helped me with trading in general. Gave advice on builds, skills and attributes points. He was patient with my dumb questions and really helpful throughout the learning curve. Gave me lots of stuff. Still talk to him in game more than a year later. Also got into a friendly guild with events that helped me learn and grow.

goatlyonesub17_ESO · April 2022

I got in before launch, so when I was a new player everybody was a new player.

I help new players today by answering questions with the level of detail that they want (usually high level of detail, e.g. a keystroke and mouseclick walkthrough on how to join a guild).

I also, sometimes, once in a while, help low-level guildmates reach champion level by grouping with them for a few hours in Crimson Cove, then once they hit 50, I make them a set of legendary armor and weapons and jewelry from the craftable sets in my Pantherfang Chapel house. I have 25 sets in there. A popular combo is 5 pcs New Moon Acolyte (or Innate Axiom) and 5 pcs Aetherial Ascension. Leave a ring and the shoulder open for ROTWH and an undaunted piece.

At present, I am not able to legendarify jewelry due to a shortage of chromium platings in my inventory. So anyone wanting goldified rings or necklaces will have to provide the chromium platings.

Some off-topic stuff follows:

I don't have all styles, and for the styles I have I don't have style mats for some of them, but I do have mimic stones. Some.

When I charge for crafting service, I charge only for materials, and I use the lowest of the seven Belkarth merchants as my price point. The EU server prices for some mats are crazy expensive. One chromium plating? 300k gold, and you need four of them per jewelry piece. One zircon plating? 80k gold, and you need three of them per jewelry piece.

Now, up to a point, I can understand the high prices for jewelry improve mats. If you are a good harvester in a dense ore-node area, you can probably get 12 platinum dusts per minute. On average, you'll get one chromium grain per 200ish platinum dusts refined. You need 10 chromium grains to make 1 chromium plating. If you are a good jewelry crafter, you will need 4 chromium platings to improve 1 jewelry piece to legendary quality.

200 x 10 x 4 = 8000 platinum dusts
8000/12 = 666.67 minutes per jewelry piece improved to legendary

Want 3 pieces of jewelry improved to legendary?
2000 minutes = 33 hours and 20 minutes = a work week minus the standard amount of goofing off

JKorr · April 2022

robwolf666 wrote: »

Nobody has ever helped me in the game. I see stories about people getting help, but tbh, I don't believe them (the stories). Everything I've learned in the game, I've learned by myself.

I'm sorry your experience wasn't really good.

I've helped new players with crafted training gear, invites to helpful guilds, crafting research items, giving fledgling crafters high level items to decon for experience, help with bosses that aren't solo/story restricted, and personal experience/my opinion advice about crafting/mats/crafted sets. I have as much fun helping out new players as I do actually playing the game.

Marginis · April 2022

I'll be another one to chime in that nobody helped me when I was new - mainly because we were all new in beta lol.

But you get a good tip here and there, some kindness from other players even if they're not a higher level per se, and some useful info to keep in the know from guildmates, and that's enough. I do remember my first time getting a werewolf bite, from a helpful guildie. Even though I wasn't new, it was hard to figure that stuff out when I was just a crafter and an ESO wiki wasn't really a thing yet.

ArielSira · April 2022

Not when I was new but a few years ago I moved from EU server to NA (now I play on both). I typed in zone and asked for any dupe green recipes, basic gear to research etc. Tons of people donated stuff including one person who gifted me 100k gold, which went to increasing my bank and inventory. That was amazing and very helpful.

L_Nici · April 2022

Well as I started playing there weren't many people yet who could help, so I learned it all on my own.

newtinmpls · April 2022

I started shortly after PC launch, and we were all new.

We couldn't solo Anchors so they became events and we all called out in zone chat and people came running to help.

There was a lot of new, a lot of excitement and a lot of banter and questions and odd discussions in zone chat, as well as here.

There was a friendly thread here called "Thread for PC users" which was a nice place to chat, meet people and blow off steam. Made me think of similar ongoing "Tavern" type threads in other forums.

I remember an Orsimer cook who every so often would hand out green recipes in Daggerfall, but you had to meet him in person to demonstrate that you were actually an Orsimer.

Mik195 · April 2022

I had just started on a nightblade and had absolutely no clue what was going on. Not sure if I even had slotted any skills yet and I know I wasn't using potions.

I somehow ended up in Stormhaven and was doing a quest whre you went into someone's dream and entered a dream city where you had to kill mini bosses, maybe to get keys(?). There was another player there who was doing the quest and farming. Once they realized that I couldn't kill the mini bosses, they came over and helped. It was obvious that they were keeping an eye on me. Since I also hadn't figured out communicating at that time, here's a very belated thank you!!!!

Belegnole · April 2022

Arunei wrote: »

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

I was here since the pre-release 3 days, nobody helped me when I was new, we were all new.

This, I played during closed beta, so everyone around that time and at launch was new except the people who'd been playing closed beta since when it started.

Pretty much this. Though I remember some helpful conversations in the beta forums. Also all of the websites that have developed can be of great help. Of course for the PC crowd the ad on makers help considerably. Now days I get help from all the above and my guild mates. I also help where I can though it's mostly giving people a lift, helping with a world boss, etc.

Marginis · April 2022

newtinmpls wrote: »

I started shortly after PC launch, and we were all new.

We couldn't solo Anchors so they became events and we all called out in zone chat and people came running to help.

There was a lot of new, a lot of excitement and a lot of banter and questions and odd discussions in zone chat, as well as here.

There was a friendly thread here called "Thread for PC users" which was a nice place to chat, meet people and blow off steam. Made me think of similar ongoing "Tavern" type threads in other forums.

I remember an Orsimer cook who every so often would hand out green recipes in Daggerfall, but you had to meet him in person to demonstrate that you were actually an Orsimer.

Yes! This. Zone chat used to have so many interesting conversations. Among other things, I remember hanging out in Mistral in Khenarthi's Roost just to help people with the chronically broken quest that called it out in zone chat. What a time it was to be part of the ESO community. It's still there these days, but it's not near as communal as it once was.

NagualV · April 2022

newtinmpls wrote: »

I remember an Orsimer cook who every so often would hand out green recipes in Daggerfall, but you had to meet him in person to demonstrate that you were actually an Orsimer.

Holden Farsight!!!

I was going to post my experience with him as well. "Free cooking recipes for Orc chefs!" Years after PC launch, on NA, you would still see that line pop-up in zone chat. Nice person, still on my friends list(at least as of September)

FeedbackOnly · April 2022

phileunderx2 wrote: »

Shortly after I reached v1 I was asked by a friend to run a couple of vet dungeons.
At that time I had never run a group dungeon at all. The tank asked me what gear I had and I was like what?? Lol
So then he took me and made me my first sets of matching gear.

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Marginis wrote: »

newtinmpls wrote: »

I started shortly after PC launch, and we were all new.

We couldn't solo Anchors so they became events and we all called out in zone chat and people came running to help.

There was a lot of new, a lot of excitement and a lot of banter and questions and odd discussions in zone chat, as well as here.

There was a friendly thread here called "Thread for PC users" which was a nice place to chat, meet people and blow off steam. Made me think of similar ongoing "Tavern" type threads in other forums.

I remember an Orsimer cook who every so often would hand out green recipes in Daggerfall, but you had to meet him in person to demonstrate that you were actually an Orsimer.

Yes! This. Zone chat used to have so many interesting conversations. Among other things, I remember hanging out in Mistral in Khenarthi's Roost just to help people with the chronically broken quest that called it out in zone chat. What a time it was to be part of the ESO community. It's still there these days, but it's not near as communal as it once was.

Awhile I saw something fun in zone chat. Everyone would talk but you had to link an item to be part of the sentence you used

Like I got to play "alimony" now

Bosmer askes when can we eat "fresh meat"

katanagirl1 · April 2022

I met a guy at one of the anomalies in Craglorn while waiting for enough players to fight, we chatted, he sent a friend request, invited me to his house.

I’m sure he gave me lots of free stuff, I just can’t remember what it might have been. He invited me to his house to use his crafting tables and training dummy. I did go there for a long time until I got my first small house at Twin Arches.

His house was Earthtear Caverns. I thought it was so wonderful. I thought I would never be able to use crowns to buy a house and settled for saving up gold for the Amaya house in Vvardenfell but eventually I did. He started me down the housing path that I had no interest in up to that point.

I think he still plays but I don’t see him on often.

MentalxHammer · April 2022

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

MentalxHammer wrote: »

I helped myself by meticulously studying every mechanic and aspect of ESO in game and through external resources.

Those resources though were made by someone no ?

Fair enough! Who ever runs ESO UESP, you are amazing peeps

Lugaldu · April 2022

I've never asked for help, started the game and then just tried it, just like with the other Elder Scrolls parts, but I've also always been a solo player.
The only problem in retrospect is that I got completely lost in the order of the main quests (starting with Summerset 2018) and as a result some events and plots were completely illogical. But that will always be a problem unless you're forced to start with every new character in Coldharbour. For example, today a new character meets Lyris in Skyrim, and if he does make it as far as Coldharbour, none of this makes sense anymore. That's really unfortunate and maybe a solution will be found in the future, for example an option that you want to experience the course of the story "from the beginning" and then be guided through the quests of the areas in the right order. That would be great.

kypranb14_ESO · April 2022

Back in 2017 when I swapped from Xbox to PC, I really dreaded leveling enchanting again. I asked if anyone in chat could boost me to 50 by crafting CP160 purple glyphs. They did, and didn't want anything in return. Since then I have helped several other new players get started with gear, provisioning, enchanting, and alchemy boosting, and even helping them learn traits!

Thanks stranger who's name I can't remember!

JanTanhide · April 2022

Invited me to a guild. Once in the guild I was surrounded by people teaching me bits and pieces of the game from their own perspective.

I had no idea there was a crafting system to make set gear. I was using dropped junk from wherever I was in the game (2014). This opened my eyes to a new beginning and I started looked for more information about the game. Y.T. videos became a huge source of information for me where I continued learning about all the crafting in the game and set to get my character to Master Crafter status.

That was the beginning of truly learning and understanding the game and how it works.

BloodyStigmata · April 2022

I was a new player back when everyone was a new player. We all just sort of did our best.

Mostly that meant trying to work past all the bugs and tedium.

Ragnarok0130 · April 2022

At Beta/launch we were all new players so nobody helped anyone like that, but I do my best to help other players whenever possible.

Necrotech_Master · April 2022

i started at launch, and mostly played solo (i never even did my first dungeon until i was in the vet levels)

always done my own builds and started out mainly as a tank, and managed to find some good people to run all the original vet dungeons (which at the time vet BC was what is now BC2, etc)

from that i got a very rare weapon drop that no longer even drops anymore that i still have in my bank as a keepsake lol

i usually always try to help people out when it looks like they need it