How long have you played on each class?

Jaimeh · May 26

I wanted to see how much I've played on each of the different classes before subclassing gets introduced in the game next week, since this metric won't be as meaningful once we choose to use subclassed skill lines on a character. Therefore, I totaled the playtime I have on each class on my account, on both the NA and EU servers (since I play on both), and these are my results:

I wasn't surprised with sorc being my most played class, since my 'main' Vestige is a sorc, and I do all questing, solo PvE content, housing, crafting, and daily writs with that character (besides the Jubilee anniversary, during which I do writs on my alts as well). I also wasn't surprised at NB being the second highest, because I run a lot of PvP and PvE group content on my NBs as well. Templar being a close third was a bit surprising at first, but in hindsight, one of my PvE Templars also doubles as my AR50 character, so it makes sense to have spent a big chunk of time with them. The rest of the classes have similar percentages, but given how much newer the Arcanist is, it means that I have played them much more relative to when I first created them. Finally, I always thought the class I was least familiar with was DK, but it's actually the Necromancer, even though their numbers are close.

I'm mostly optimistic about subclassing, because there are skills from other classes I really like, but I got used to doing things on the same few characters, so it will be nice to borrow skills from other classes and re-familiarize with them. I still think it's sad how the era of pure classes is ending--at least for those of us who will eventually participate in the new system--the concept of having a main class and playing it through nerfs or buffs... but the game is evolving, and so must we. That's why I wanted to have this metric as a memento before the next patch is released, and if others wish to share how long they've played on the different classes, if they're surprised or not by the results, and whether they will choose to participate in subclassing, please add your thoughts to the thread

Treeshka · May 26

I have logged into each character of mine. Here are the results. I think i will probably not going to play anything other than Nightblade and Arcanist as main character class with subclassing coming. But who knows what meta will tell.

Necromancer: 17 Days 23 Hours
Templar: 20 Days 23 Hours
Sorcerer: 23 Days 11 Hours
Dragonknight: 25 Days 20 Hours
Warden: 50 Days 11 Hours
Arcanist: 73 Days 23 Hours
Nightblade: 888 Days 16 Hours

mdjessup4906 · May 26

Where do you find this?

I imagine sorc, necro and arc to be my highest. I've only played others enough to level them.

Jaimeh · May 26

Treeshka wrote: »

I have logged into each character of mine. Here are the results. I think i will probably not going to play anything other than Nightblade and Arcanist as main character class with subclassing coming. But who knows what meta will tell.

Necromancer: 17 Days 23 Hours
Templar: 20 Days 23 Hours
Sorcerer: 23 Days 11 Hours
Dragonknight: 25 Days 20 Hours
Warden: 50 Days 11 Hours
Arcanist: 73 Days 23 Hours
Nightblade: 888 Days 16 Hours

Thank you for sharing, and nice triple digits on your NB

Jaimeh · May 26

mdjessup4906 wrote: »

Where do you find this?

I imagine sorc, necro and arc to be my highest. I've only played others enough to level them.

You can type '/played' (without the quotation marks) in the chat box in-game, and it will show you how long you played the character you are logged in with.

metheglyn · May 26

Dragonknight: 80 days, 23 hours, 2 minutes, 48 seconds
Nightblade: 19 days, 17 hours, 39 minutes, 31 seconds
Sorcerer: 22 days, 13 hours, 22 minutes, 26 seconds
Warden: 16 days, 6 hours, 45 minutes, 18 seconds

I find it amusing that the official breakdown goes all the way to seconds. Also, I would have thought the time for my dragonknight would have been more. Spread out over eight and a half years that really doesn't come to much.

Vonnegut2506 · May 26

I have two of each class, so I just combined them.

Sorcerers: 43 days 23 hours
Nightblades: 29 days 10 hours
Dragonknights: 27 days 19 hours
Wardens: 26 days 16 hours
Necromancers: 25 days 7 hours
Templars: 24 days 19 hours
Arcanists: 20 days 22 hours

I would imagine sorcerer is so much higher due to one of them being my Grand Master crafter.

Hapexamendios · May 27

I am going to guess DK, Sorc then Templar for me. I've got 20 characters so jumping on them all and adding up the time just isn't happening.

Unfadingsilence · May 27

....I'd had to log on all platforms NA and EU to even look at this one

ElderOfTamriel · May 27

Treeshka wrote: »

I have logged into each character of mine. Here are the results. I think i will probably not going to play anything other than Nightblade and Arcanist as main character class with subclassing coming. But who knows what meta will tell.

Necromancer: 17 Days 23 Hours
Templar: 20 Days 23 Hours
Sorcerer: 23 Days 11 Hours
Dragonknight: 25 Days 20 Hours
Warden: 50 Days 11 Hours
Arcanist: 73 Days 23 Hours
Nightblade: 888 Days 16 Hours

damn, 888 days is WILD ^^ My main is a DK and i guess i have about 240 days on that one, have to check tonight

randconfig · May 27

Hard to say, since I delete and make new characters often. If I had to estimate I would say:

(40%) Necromancer
(20%) Arcanist
(20%) Sorcerer
(10%) Nightblade
(7%) Dragonknight
(3%) Templar

And time spent in the game overall across multiple platforms and 10 years is probably over 5k hours.

styroporiane · May 27

I don't really know my hours, cause i play on PS4 and PS5. Only i can say: Nightblade woodelve since june 2015. 😉 nearly every day....

Pixiepumpkin · May 27

BasP · May 27

Poor Sorcerer. I'll most likely add the Storm Calling skill line to a couple of characters in the future, which probably means that I'll use the actual Sorcerer even less (I'm not interested in the pets and I feel like Dark Magic isn't really worth using without some buffs).

Jaimeh · May 28

metheglyn wrote: »

Dragonknight: 80 days, 23 hours, 2 minutes, 48 seconds
Nightblade: 19 days, 17 hours, 39 minutes, 31 seconds
Sorcerer: 22 days, 13 hours, 22 minutes, 26 seconds
Warden: 16 days, 6 hours, 45 minutes, 18 seconds

I find it amusing that the official breakdown goes all the way to seconds. Also, I would have thought the time for my dragonknight would have been more. Spread out over eight and a half years that really doesn't come to much.

That's still a lot of time to have played on one class!

Vonnegut2506 wrote: »

I have two of each class, so I just combined them.

Sorcerers: 43 days 23 hours
Nightblades: 29 days 10 hours
Dragonknights: 27 days 19 hours
Wardens: 26 days 16 hours
Necromancers: 25 days 7 hours
Templars: 24 days 19 hours
Arcanists: 20 days 22 hours

I would imagine sorcerer is so much higher due to one of them being my Grand Master crafter.

My sorc is also my master crafter (and housing decorator) so yeah those do add up a lot of time.

randconfig wrote: »

Hard to say, since I delete and make new characters often. If I had to estimate I would say:

(40%) Necromancer
(20%) Arcanist
(20%) Sorcerer
(10%) Nightblade
(7%) Dragonknight
(3%) Templar

And time spent in the game overall across multiple platforms probably over 10k hours.

Wow 10k! And nice to see most hours on a Necro class!

styroporiane wrote: »

I don't really know my hours, cause i play on PS4 and PS5. Only i can say: Nightblade woodelve since june 2015. 😉

That's awesome--I've also started the game in 2015!

Pixiepumpkin wrote: »

'Fireguy' and 'Budgetmage'

Thanks for sharing!

BasP wrote: »

Poor Sorcerer. I'll most likely add the Storm Calling skill line to a couple of characters in the future, which probably means that I'll use the actual Sorcerer even less (I'm not interested in the pets and I feel like Dark Magic isn't really worth using without some buffs).

Thanks for sharing! I don't like using pets on my sorcs either, it's a pity it has been the strongest option for the longest time. I prefer using the other two lines more.

Blood_again · May 28

DK	45.07%	5508h
Temp	19.10%	2334h
Sorc	17.77%	2172h
NB	9.67%	1182h
Ward	4.17%	510h
Necr	3.14%	384h
Arc	1.08%	132h

Fairly reflects my preferences in questing, pve and pvp.

As for subclassing, I canned some armoury slots for each char. So I'll be able to play subclasses and return to pure old builds for nostalgy.
I still love the old classes despite any nerfs and updates.

jaws343 · May 28

I didn't log into every character, but I did hop on my most played for most of the classes:

Sorc: 248D
Temp: 10D
NB 8D
DK 7D
Ward 6D

Necro/Arcanist are probably closer to the Warden due to recency. Didn't check.

I also have multiples of each class, outside of the sorc, I expect that each of those numbers are probably actually double across other characters for each class. Sorc is my main for PVE content, so that 248 days reflects a ton of content and achievement grinding.

randconfig · May 28

Jaimeh wrote: »

Wow 10k! And nice to see most hours on a Necro class!

I'd say I started playing the most around 2019, when we got Elsweyr and the Necromancer class. Loved the class ever since, despite how few things the class had going for it on release.

Probably more around 5-6k hours if I'm being more accurate, since steam shows I spent over 3k hours playing Elden Ring over 2022-2024, and pre-2019 I didn't play nearly as much as I do now.

But yeah, I probably average 6 hours a day playing ESO.. Probably not great for my health lol but I love the game and the community!

Sheridan · May 28

379 days 7 hours on my sorcerer. And that is my first and only character for all 11 years.

Carcamongus · May 29

Arcanist: 14h
DK: 680 days
Necro: 30 days

I have two templar mules that aren't meant for normal gameplay, so I didn't bother checking those.

Jaimeh · May 29

Blood_again wrote: »
DK	45.07%	5508h
Temp	19.10%	2334h
Sorc	17.77%	2172h
NB	9.67%	1182h
Ward	4.17%	510h
Necr	3.14%	384h
Arc	1.08%	132h
Fairly reflects my preferences in questing, pve and pvp.

As for subclassing, I canned some armoury slots for each char. So I'll be able to play subclasses and return to pure old builds for nostalgy.
I still love the old classes despite any nerfs and updates.

Yes, I'll definitely miss the pure classes as well!

jaws343 wrote: »

I didn't log into every character, but I did hop on my most played for most of the classes:

Sorc: 248D
Temp: 10D
NB 8D
DK 7D
Ward 6D

Necro/Arcanist are probably closer to the Warden due to recency. Didn't check.

I also have multiples of each class, outside of the sorc, I expect that each of those numbers are probably actually double across other characters for each class. Sorc is my main for PVE content, so that 248 days reflects a ton of content and achievement grinding.

Thanks for sharing! Yup, PvE mains get the most hours.

Sheridan wrote: »

379 days 7 hours on my sorcerer. And that is my first and only character for all 11 years.

Having played 11 years on only one character is truly impressive!

Carcamongus wrote: »

Arcanist: 14h
DK: 680 days
Necro: 30 days

I have two templar mules that aren't meant for normal gameplay, so I didn't bother checking those.

Thanks for sharing!

robwolf666 · May 29

All I can say is I've played all the classes, but I have no idea how much time I've spent on each. Sorc is definitely my longest surviving character though.

ArchMikem · May 29

Not positive, but you might be able to tell which one is my Main.

This also isn't accurate, considering the characters I've deleted in the past. I particularly had a Templar I played for a long while before stupidly getting rid of. As well as my original Sorcerer.

Defatank · May 29

I have absolutely spent the most amount of time on my "main" DK

Thank you,
Defatank

randconfig · May 29

Defatank wrote: »

I have absolutely spent the most amount of time on my "main" DK

Thank you,
Defatank

That's incredible, you played Templar for more than a day!

Lol jokes aside, nice Dragonknight main, what kind of build do you enjoy? I've had trouble enjoying Dragonknight since I like to play from range and the interesting flame/poison themed spells are more melee focused. Really wanted to make the Stone fist ability work, but the initial melee cast and the cost of the ability just makes it unviable outside of maybe applying stagger stacks to help the group dps when playing as tank.

ArchMikem · May 29

Defatank wrote: »

I have absolutely spent the most amount of time on my "main" DK

Thank you,
Defatank

10,200+ Hours... on a single character/class alone??

Morimizo · May 29

In eleven years, never have tabulated, much less considered it...until now. (all numbers are in hours)

Sorc: 5321 (5 chrs, obviously my main-lol)

Temp: 1250 (3)

NB: 964 (3)

DK: 683 (3)

Ward: 425 (3)

Arc: 155 (3)

Necro: 141 (1)

It's funny how the class most played is likeliest to benefit from subclassing (as no-pet gets nerfed). I will admit to also being optimistic about the upcoming changes, but would've welcomed the addition of new scribed skills for each class line as an alternative.

Stat quest complete. Processing reward. May I have my blue-quality Ruby Ash Bow of Frost now?

:P

Deimus · May 29

I knew Necro would be #1 as before the class came out I wasn't really attached to any character enough to call it my "main", but I'm surprised with the other results. Sorc was my first character followed by NB when the game released, but I at max level I played the DK and Templar much more so to see the numbers so even and Templar at 2nd least played when it's my 3rd favorite class was unexpected. I knew Arcanist would be last as I didn't make one until last year.

Total of 7604 hours played over the last 11 years and 181 days on my main Necro.

Mofasa · May 30

This one have played for 118 days and 8 hours in total for 8 years, 6 months and 4 days, that is (according to math) 55 mins per day....

60.5 days (1453 hours) was spent as a Dragon Knight where 48 of those days was with my main char.
21.5 days (516 hours) as a Sorcerer
11.8 days (282 hours) as a Templar
10.7 days (256 hours) as a Warden
7.2 days (173 hours) as a Night Blade
6.7 days (160 hours) as a Necromancer

I have 11 chars in total and all are currently at level 1750.

Am a causal player, strolling around in the forests, picking flowers and enjoying the views.

Defatank · May 30

ArchMikem wrote: »

Defatank wrote: »

I have absolutely spent the most amount of time on my "main" DK

Thank you,
Defatank

10,200+ Hours... on a single character/class alone??

Yes indeed

Right out of the gate day 1 I knew DK was going to be my main and he's pretty much been my focus. The other classes I have enjoyed though are Arcanist (probably the only other class anywhere close to becoming a "new main") and Warden (Mostly because of the healing style they have) I also want to make a good bomber / assassin with a NB.

Pic of my /played on my main in my house

I omitted most of chat to protect their conversations of course.

Defatank · May 30

randconfig wrote: »

Defatank wrote: »

I have absolutely spent the most amount of time on my "main" DK

Thank you,
Defatank

That's incredible, you played Templar for more than a day!

Lol jokes aside, nice Dragonknight main, what kind of build do you enjoy? I've had trouble enjoying Dragonknight since I like to play from range and the interesting flame/poison themed spells are more melee focused. Really wanted to make the Stone fist ability work, but the initial melee cast and the cost of the ability just makes it unviable outside of maybe applying stagger stacks to help the group dps when playing as tank.

lol its funny you pick out Templar they are honestly my least favorite class to play, but I wanted to have 1 of every class to at least try out and play around with. They're all lvl 50 (most power leveled of course)

My tank though is first and foremost a PvE Tank always has been. He's running Imperium, Juggernaut and Swarm Mother Monster set. With the addition of scribing he now has a very nice AoE pull using Leashing Burst, I absolutely freaking love it

and I'm looking forward to getting the necro shield ability with the pull on it I cant think of the name of it off the top of my head when we get subclassing next week

If you want the full build just let me know and I'll be glad to post it

Other than that he has like 7 or 8 other builds varying mostly with DPS in mind. I've made a nice little AoE Bomb build that is fun to play with him too. But yea you hit the nail on the head about DK's being more melee focused. Which I love the up in your face gameplay which that's another reason I went DK because they do excel at close ranged combat and who doesn't love alot of fire right?