I totally understand the character stress. If it helps, you don't really need to choose a main from the start, just who your crafter is going to be as that's the one who will be learning motifs, recipes, and furnishing plans. Any character can be a crafter and still have enough skill points for doing other things in the game.

I'll be honest, I don't understand this. It's whatever character is learning the motifs/plans/recipes and often doing the most questing. Just because you settle on a main doesn't mean you only need to play them. My main is a templar bc that's the first class I made.

My first ever character(a sorc) is now my crafter and home decorator.

My second character(a templar) is now the one I do questing content on and I sort of think of her as my Main.

My third, fourth and fifth characters are mules and daily crafters.

Number six, is now a HA pet Sorc and my go to for soloing harder content.

My Warden is number seven and my PVP main.

I have more but one, two, six and seven are actively played and my point is I consider them equal as far as use is conceerned, this game is very forgiving and multiple "main's" are not unheard of. 🙂

Your Main is the Alt you are playing right now.

I have 11 Mains, 4 Mules and 3 that mostly hangout in a Pub in Alinor.

Sometimes I play a character for a few weeks, sometimes I play them for a few hours.

Thanks for the answers. Apparently this is normal 😁 I just level all classes to 50 and then worry about race/alliance/"backstory" combinations later.

I totally understand. And since it takes almost a year to level a character (for us completionists) its always an extreme commitment. I struggle with it too.
Currently I try to stick to Arcanist. But I know as soon as he has finished all the zones and all the crafting-research its back to choosing.....

It all depends on your approach and playstyle. For many it's completely unnecessary to have a "main", or "a" crafter, for example. There's absolutely nothing wrong with playing multiple characters as equal individuals. It's just a game, play it the way you enjoy it. If you want to play competitively at elite level then the fact that you'll need to develop one character to "meta" standards doesn't mean you can't play other characters as well, and do so differently.

Zodiarkslayer wrote: »

You do not have a Warden? 😳 😉

No. I think of Wardens as tanks and I have zero interest in that role. Also, I don't want a huge bear following me around and in my face.

I really don't like pets, which is why one of my Sorcerers doesn't use any and the other only uses the Volatile Familiar, but I may switch that out for a different skill because I rarely summon it.

If you enjoy leveling characters, however you do that, then that’s fine. It’s also not the worst idea to get a feel of the other classes to truly find your main.

Desiato wrote: »

Healing is generally considered to be the main proficiency of Wardens....

No is frost and bleed only, healing is only for templar and Arcanist's but especially templar because most of the restoration skill suck.

Make and level one toon of each class then decide.

Something to remember is that the game itself is rather easy. One can level up a character without possessing phenomnal combat skills, however the hunt for skyshards and skill points can be tedious while being relatively easily attainable by most players.

That being said my very first character in this game was "press-ganged" into being my main only by virtue of being the first to complete quests, learn writs, recipes etc. So, by fait accompli this character won the lead post while being woefully inadequate.

yadibroz wrote: »

Desiato wrote: »

Healing is generally considered to be the main proficiency of Wardens....

No is frost and bleed only, healing is only for templar and Arcanist's but especially templar because most of the restoration skill suck.

I'm not sure where that opinion comes from, but Wardens are arguably the best pure healer in the game in terms of raw heal output for most activities. I understand there are niche roles like brittle builds, but that's now how most players play them.

I'll admit I am not familiar with the latest progression raid metas, but Wardens are indisputably better at healing than tanking or dpsing in most contexts at least.

In all honesty, in the beginning, you really don't have to pick a "main"- just let yourself have fun. You can pick a character that you want to learn all motifs/recipes/crafting on- but they don't have to be your "main"- you can consider them to be your "crafter" if you later decide that you'd rather main a different class.

Generally speaking, it's often common practice in the ESO community that our first character ends up being a "main"- the one who learns motifs, recipes, and ends up crafting food, potions, and armor for the rest of the characters on the account. Once you have an established crafter whom you have all research on (so that you can craft armor) having multiple mains becomes easier.

I really enjoy the roleplay aspect of ESO, as well as endgame PVE and PVP, so I have multiple mains, all with backstories. I currently have 13 characters, with 3 being considered "Mains".

• My first ever character, a Bosmer Nightblade, is the head Thief of my account. He's also my master crafter and home decorator.
  
• My ninth character, a High Elf Templar, is my PVP main and PVE Tank. He is also the character I enjoy doing solo challenges on, such as vet Maelstrom, or soloing vet dungeon content. He's also my three star in AVA rank, and was the character I got Emperor on. I have a strong connection to him, not only because of all I've managed to accomplish while playing him, but because he is my favorite character to write about.
  
• My thirteenth character is a Dark Elf Arcanist. She's my main DPS, and is built to do Infinite Archive.
  

I consider these three my "Mains", because they are the characters I have the strongest connection to. I write about them the most outside of gameplay, and they have the most complex backstories of the 13 on my account. My templar and my arcanist where actually characters whom I created and was writing about before I played ESO.

Choosing your main really depends on what motivates you. In my case, I am motivated by my characters backstories, which drive me to embody their tales through the pursuit of endgame activities- something more than possible in ESO.

Take your time to find that connection to a special character, whether it be because story or accomplishments motivate you- since you are a newer player, I encourage you to lay aside the worry that you are wasting time in favor of simply immersing yourself in the games story for now. Eventually as you develop an interest in more difficult content, one or two characters will start sticking out to you as the ones you'd really like to play that content with, and they will become mains to you. Its a process that kind of happens "naturally".

I have played the game for 5 years, and it was only within the last 3 years of gameplay that I started doing more "serious" content, letting myself stay in the early exploration stage of the game and building up my resources/skill/crafting abilities until I decided I was ready to pursue more difficult content. ESO is a flexible game with a huge amount of things to do- don't feel pressured to progress too quickly. You can progress as fast or as slow as you want in ESO. Any progress you make now will aide you later. Its a game that moves at the pace you set for yourself.

If you don't like light attacking between each skill, you may like to try an Arcanist.

Incidentally my warden is a Breton ready for when he graduates from DPS to healing.