Always, sometimes, rarely, never

DigiAngel · May 2025

On the heals of "What do 99% of ESO players do", I thought I'd expand on this. Think of "always" as every day for context...post if you feel the need..otherwise, it's interesting to see how differently people play the same game:

Always

Daily Normal Random Dungeon
Daily Random BG
Endeavors

Sometimes

Vet Dungeons
Trials
Questing (usually while waiting for queue)
IC (usually while waiting for queue)

Rarely

Writs (only in support of Endeavors)
Crafting (usually in support of writs above)
Arenas
IA
Cyrodill
Vet Trials
Pledges

Never

Fishing
Housing
Tales of Tribute (have never done one)

Of course, during an interesting event this list kinda goes out the window and I usually do more event stuff if I can.

freespirit · May 2025

For me almost everything you listed is probably under "Rarely" except for.....

Housing
Questing
ToT - Npc's only
Crafting
Trading
Events
Endeavors

and never would be....

Battlegrounds - Never done one
Daily Randoms - Cannot remember doing these either.

Soarora · May 2025

Always:
- inventory management

Sometimes:
- random vet dungeon pugs
- vet+ trials
- HM+ dungeons
- writs
- IA

Rarely:
- battlegrounds/imperial city
- housing
- thieving
- photography
- questing

Never:
- ToT
- group imperial city/cyrodiil

katanagirl1 · May 2025

Always -
Daily crafting writs
surveys
endeavors
Daily BG
Cyrodiil

Sometimes -
Daily pledges
IA
trials
housing
trading

Rarely -
random normal Daily

Almost Never -
ToT

alpha_synuclein · May 2025

Always: vet or HM trials and dungeons.

I very rarely log in if I don't have group pre-scheduled or fixed on discord.

Desiato · May 2025

The only thing I do every day I play is collect the daily reward.

My cycle is more like:

- take a break from eso
- lose skills
- start playing again, usually via a discord event, enjoy playing with friends
- find enjoyment in improvement
- develop a new character or new role
- get tired of the same problems that always emerge
- repeat

Sarannah · May 2025

Always:
-Daily writs(atleast 3 chars) ... I have a rule for myself that when I log into a character for anything, I have to do the daily crafting writs with them.
-Endeavours.
-Events... when active and fun. (Master writs during double exp events)
-Golden pursuits.... when active.
-Questing... if there is any playtime left for me.

Sometimes:
-Random daily dungeon(s)... This is actually what I mostly enjoy about the game, but the current state of grouping(fake roles/speedrunners) has me almost never run dungeons anymore.
-Housing. Have two complete crafting/amenities houses, working on third. (two are in housing tours, but don't think anyone has ever visited them yet. PC EU)
-Outfitting. Love dressing my characters in something new! All my characters have atleast two different outfits.

Rarely:
-IA.... Used to do this every day, but due to the game taking too much of my daily playtime already, I had to cut back on this.
-Surveys. Only when low on a specific material.

Never:
-ToT.
-PvP(unless event).
-Fishing.
-Pledges.
-Trials.

amiiegee · May 2025

Always

PVP
buying all chapters for getting acess to classes and sets for pvp

Sometimes

Vet Dungeons for sets for pvp
Trials for sets for pvp
Questing for scripts for pvp
IC for scripts for pvp
trading for gold for setups for pvp

Rarely

Vet Dungeons for sets for pvp
Trials for sets for pvp
Questing for scripts for pvp
IC for scripts for pvp
IA for scripts for pvp

Never

Fishing
Housing
Tales of Tribute (have never done one)

emilyhyoyeon · May 2025

Always

endeavors

Often

housing
questing

Sometimes

writs
vet DLC pledge
fishing
pvp - cyrodiil
rnd

Rarely

pvp - IC or BGs
infinite archive
tales of tribute

Never

have a lore unfriendly character

BretonMage · May 2025

Always: Endeavors

Sometimes: Everything else

Never: ToT

Grega · May 2025

Always (fun): run around, socialize, design (character, housing)

Always (annoying): BG daily, IC daily, conquest daily, IA daily (because they forcefully lock access to items that way to drive engagement)

Sometimes: dungeons, trials (don’t have the time for every day - need group coordination)

Never: TOT (have done many - it’s the most annoying thing ever invented in the history of mankind and should be deleted the way they got rid of forgotten prince, however should also get our brains wiped so we forget too.).

Elsonso · May 2025

Always: daily login reward.

Sometimes: event or pursuit

Rarely: endeavors, dungeons, farming, antiquities

More rarely: infinite archive, writs

Never: ToT, PVP, vet dungeons, trials, arenas

Pixiepumpkin · May 2025

ALWAYS
• Endeavors
• Decorating or Questing (generally do not do both at the same time)
• Farming, even if its just a little
• Mounts
• Guild Trader Maintenance (making sure I am always full up/stocked at the trader)
• TOT (but only when visiting NPC's in taverns)
• Character Outfitting/Style

SOMETIMES
• Dungeons
• Crafting Dalies
• Antiquities
• Daily Repeatable WB Quests/Dolems/Delves

RARELY
• These days, PVP (although I loved Vengeance)
• Master Crafting Writs
• Normal PUG Trials
• Endless Archive
• VET Dungeons
• Fishing (I'd fish daily in Minecraft, not so much in ESO)
• Pledges

NEVER
• Solo Arenas (I mean I HAVE done them, no where near completion...I just find them boring)
• VET Trials (never stepped into one)
• TOT Against players
• Cyrodiil
• Imperial Sewers

twisttop138 · May 2025

There's so much to do. I wish very much I had more time. I get about 3 hours in the evening.

Always:
Trials normal and vet. (Learning tanking and healing to be a better teammate)
Dungeons vet and normal (I wanna do HM and tri runs. I'll get there)
Guild stuff. I'm an officer in an amazing guild, so game nights, events.

Sometimes:
This is where I wish I had more time. I don't play on the weekends due to working all week and wanting to be with my family but I will wake up at 430am so I can do the following or when I'm not doing group stuff.
Questing. Antiquity stuff. Dailies. WB runs. Arenas (come on void bash) All the other things.

Rarely: Cyro. Fun but im trash. BGs.
Horse training. I'm an idiot like that.

Never. ToT. Dude I tried. I really did and I can't wrap my head around it. I'm gonna need a ted talk.

Estin · May 2025

What I do each day depends on what my current fixation is, so I don't necessarily have anything in Always because it changes between what I have in the other catergories.

Sometimes:
Battlegrounds (More than 1 a day)
Vet DLC Pledges
Vet Trials
Daily World Boss Quests (Mostly in zones that have valuable drops)

Rarely:
Cyrodiil (not good enough to be by myself so it mostly feels like aimless wandering if not following a large group. Events are better)
Imperial City (Only active during events, I spend most of my time here when there is one)
Housing (It can take weeks to build a house, not always in the mood to spend that much time on one)
Quests (Only when the mood hits, but never did anything pass the base game)
Infinite Archive (Only when I want a new set)
Writs (Only during events that give boxes for quests)
Resource Gathering (Worthless since economy crashed)

Never:
ToT

ZigoSid · May 2025

Always :

- Daily Vet DLC pledges
- Dailies quests if I haven't all the motif pages or achivements yet (then it goes to sometimes or rarely)
- FASHION !
- Events

Sometimes :

- Vet DLC Dungeons
- Infinite Archives
- Arenas
- Tales of Tribute (but can easily go down to rarely)
- Antiquities

Rarely :

- Trials
- Housing
- Writs (only during events)
- Fishing

Never :

- PvP : Kinda liked it back in 2014 but it didn't last. Now I only go there in events and don't even try to fight back if someone attack me. Maybe if one day we have a campaign similar to Vengeance (but better) I'll give it a second try.
- Vet trials

AzuraFan · May 2025

Always

Daily crafting quests
Resource gathering - not every day, but I'll usually pick up stuff I see
Achievement hunting - this pretty much drives what I choose to do when there's no event or GP happening.

Sometimes

Endeavors (when they complete naturally)
Questing (when there's new story content. Once I've completed the achievement for a daily quest giver, I don't do their quests again).
Pledges - I have two quest givers left to finish for the achievements, but I'm almost done. Then they'll go into the "Rarely" category.
Collect lorebooks
Surveys
Antiquities - chasing leads and digging them up
Master writs

Rarely

PvP - basically only for a guild event that will give me an achievement I don't have, or game event. Less than a few times a year
Trials - I've done one in my entire ESO life. So not never, but...
Vet content - did some for the easier dungeons, but not worth my time
Housing - feeble attempts to do something coherent with decorating (I'm in awe of those with skills in this area)
Fishing - I have all achievements here, so only if there's something else (like the GP) going on
Infinite archive - with no save function, I don't do this one much. Mainly when I'm running low on fortunes. Gotta have some on hand to buy leads.
Arenas. I've done Maelstrom a few times. I did Vateshran's once and will never do it again. I've never done DSA. Will probably do it once just to see it. Did Black Rose Prison and don't need to do it again.
RND - I might do more once I've finished the pledge achievements. Right now I always queue for a specific dungeon, when I'm doing dungeons.
ToT - there has to be a really good reason. Even avoided it during this GP.
BG - Haven't done one since the changes. Did a few before.

Never

Well, some things on the rarely list are so rare that they're pretty much "Never". I've tried all the content types in the game, so nothing's under Never.

DigiAngel · May 2025

Lotta great responses thank you!

Erickson9610 · May 2025

It's a shame that so many people disregard Tales of Tribute. I wonder what ZOS could do to make it more appealing to a broader audience?

Syldras · May 2025

Erickson9610 wrote: »

It's a shame that so many people disregard Tales of Tribute. I wonder what ZOS could do to make it more appealing to a broader audience?

Replace it with TES Legends

Erickson9610 · May 2025

Syldras wrote: »

Erickson9610 wrote: »

It's a shame that so many people disregard Tales of Tribute. I wonder what ZOS could do to make it more appealing to a broader audience?

Replace it with TES Legends

I had fun with that game, too. Shame it's not around any longer.

Syldras · May 2025

Erickson9610 wrote: »

I had fun with that game, too. Shame it's not around any longer.

But to answer your question seriously: In my case, I don't think ToT can be improved in any way that would appeal to me. The whole game principle of pulling and collecting cards from the "tavern"... I personally find it boring. What would appeal to me in a digital card game would be either some action-/combat-like gameplay like Legends had it, or complex tactics at least, and ToT just isn't a game of that type. And I think that's okay, not everything has to appeal to everyone.

Of course we could discuss now whether ToT was a reasonable addition that appeals to many ESO players or not, but I don't think debating about that makes much sense either at this point. ToT is already in the game, and so it should remain. If people have fun playing it, I'm happy for them.

DreamyLu · May 2025

In my case, it's easier to start with always.

Always:
- Wandering in explorable while farming resources.
- Trading.
- Daily crafting + master writs.

Sometimes: Housing

Rarely: Questing/Delves, fishing (when tired), scrying (only when I get a yellow lead).

Never: Whole rest (including dungeons, trials, ToT, ...).

Side note: at earlier times, I was enjoying a lot "treasure hunts" of the type give to the poors, music instruments and such.

Elsonso · May 2025

Erickson9610 wrote: »

It's a shame that so many people disregard Tales of Tribute. I wonder what ZOS could do to make it more appealing to a broader audience?

Replace it with a simple tavern game. They over engineered it.

Djennku · May 2025

Rarely: house decorating

Always: everything else

sarahthes · May 2025

Always
Vet HM trials
Pug trifectas
Trifecta progression

Sometimes
Writs
Surveys
Trading
Fishing

Rarely
Dungeons
Questing
PvP
Housing
Infinite Archive

Never
ToT

Daoin · May 2025

Always:(until recent crackdowns):

9 random vet dungeons across 9 toons each day and wonder why i keep getting grouped with people i blocked before promptly leaving group to queue again on the next char.

9 BG's across 9 toons but not a single one since 3 team bg's got axed

Housing

Sometimes:

Everything else in eso

Syldras · May 2025

Elsonso wrote: »

Erickson9610 wrote: »

It's a shame that so many people disregard Tales of Tribute. I wonder what ZOS could do to make it more appealing to a broader audience?

Replace it with a simple tavern game. They over engineered it.

Yeah, that would be also something I could imagine. Something simple, maybe some dice game? It should be easily understood and not take longer than a minute to play (or maybe even half a minute). Then I could see people playing one or two fast rounds just for fun or while waiting for someone or something.

katanagirl1 · May 2025

Erickson9610 wrote: »

It's a shame that so many people disregard Tales of Tribute. I wonder what ZOS could do to make it more appealing to a broader audience?

With so many decks now, it’s just gotten too complicated for me to devote enough time to be good at it. I enjoyed it when there were only four decks. I want to do other things in the game and I just don’t enjoy it as much as any of the other things so it gets left behind. If I wasn’t doing crafting, surveys, Endeavors, Golden Pursuits, housing, farming, BGs, Cyrodiil, and trading, I might be more interested.

mdjessup4906 · May 2025

Always:

Endeavors
Random vet
Browse gf for anything interesting to do/help out with.
Trials, dungeon cores.
Vet pledges if I like them that day or if someone asks.
Hang out in guild, zone chat usually while doing one of the above.
Post stuff to the trader.

Sometimes:
Fishing, questing, soloing dungeons or wbs, usually while I'm waiting for a core to start.
Event box farming.
Antiquities, treasure maps.
Pvp, cyrodil, but not lately. Maybe that's 'rare' now.

Rarely:
Ia.
Solo arenas.
Housing. Maybe the new vault will change that. Too much hassle to move stuff currently.
Surveys, writs. Used to do them religiously but I'm at a point now where just playing the game gets me all the gold, trader sellables I need.

Never

Tot. Keep meaning to try it but have not yet been bored enough to go do the tutorial.

Maitsukas · May 2025

Erickson9610 wrote: »

Syldras wrote: »

Erickson9610 wrote: »

It's a shame that so many people disregard Tales of Tribute. I wonder what ZOS could do to make it more appealing to a broader audience?

Replace it with TES Legends

I had fun with that game, too. Shame it's not around any longer.

Honestly, ToT is more easy to understand for me than Legends was.