What to buy with crowns as a new player?

[Commancho]

I'm new to ESO, but I'm old TES player so I'm familiar with most mechanics. Recently I have bought ESO+ for 3 months, which I'm going probably to renew, so I have total 5000 crowns to spend in the store and here comes my dillema:

1. I don't care much about cosmetics.
2. I would rather avoid spending crowns on things I can buy with gold in-game.
3. I have Morrowind/Summerset + access to other DLCs through ESO+.
4. I'm rank 30 DK / Tank / Crafter.
5. I was thinking to buy things such as pernament expansions, account upgrades, assistants, inventory upgrades or motifs and similiar stuff which would increase my crafting options, storage abilities or gold inconome.

What do you think???

[erialor]

Some likes banker and or merchant.

[Mandrake109]

Most motifs can be found ingame or bought for gold. There are a few crown exclusives Tsaesci, Frostcaster, and Grim Harlequin. Pyandonean is an odd middle ground you can get it from crates but you can also fish for it in Summerset. The Worm Cult is a anniversary special. Expansions are most likely your best bet.

[Sehkh]

i think that of all the dlcs, werewolf and vampire are who you can get the most profit of them all (because you need to get bitten every 7 days), besides that if you are confortable with eso+ (renewing every time) just spend on crates or exclusive motifs from the crown store

[Commancho]

Some usefull info here, thanks guys!!

Originally posted by Sehkh:

werewolf and vampire are who you can get the most profit of them all (because you need to get bitten every 7 days)

Could you elaborate?

[Invicta]

Originally posted by Sehkh:

i think that of all the dlcs, werewolf and vampire are who you can get the most profit of them all (because you need to get bitten every 7 days), besides that if you are confortable with eso+ (renewing every time) just spend on crates or exclusive motifs from the crown store

dont buy werewolf, litteraly anyone in a zone will likely turn you into a werewolf or vampire for free. you also dont have to be bitten more then once, its that you can only bite another player to turn them into a vamp/wolf every 7 days after you have the skill (hell I can turn you into a werewolf later myself if you want). and yeah dont buy motifs off the crown store, most can be bought from guild stores, so unless youve got alot of expendable income and have no patience, just buy them from there.

Id say the best use of crowns is buying the dlc, and ESO+ gives you crowns equal to the cost of your memebership (30 days gives 1500 crowns, 60 is 3000 crowns, etc.) and ya things like the banker are nice as a utility that can be used by all your characters, and mounts as there is no way to obtain those outside of the store/crates. also as for bag space, look for a "pack" vendor in a city, they sell you 10 inventory spaces at a time for like 2500, 5900, 10000,etc until a certain point.

if you like any more suggestions im happy to provide a couple more.

[Trigger]

instead of just having acess to all dlc's, why not buy Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood dlc's adding them to your base game status. GOTTA HAVE BLADE OF WOE.

[Commancho]

Well things are getting clear. Bank assisant would save me really alot of time and confusing moments when I have to destroy something in my inventory while being in dungeon...

What about house storage chests? It seems like a tedious grind to get them with wrists.
What about houses at all? Are they are serving any purpose beyond storage?

[Invicta]

Originally posted by Commancho:

Well things are getting clear. Bank assisant would save me really alot of time and confusing moments when I have to destroy something in my inventory while being in dungeon...

What about house storage chests? It seems like a tedious grind to get them with wrists.
What about houses at all? Are they are serving any purpose beyond storage?

the houses are only worth it if you have the gold/crowns to blow on the personal crafting stations, as they are the only utility device that matters, outside of that yea houses are just for putting the storage chests in (you get one for free from leveling) and putting cosmetic furniture and collectibles in that you made/earned/found out in the world. id reccomend the vvardenfall harbor house if you plan on getting one, as its 40$ worth of crowns, has 3 floors, and a massive garden area, and a large allowance for place able objects, probably the best one for your money/time ive seen so far.

[Trigger]

Garder House in Wayrest best for crafter and master writs crafter WRIT merchant is just outside east gate.

[Psyringe]

My suggestions (ordered by priority):


1. Warden class (1500 crowns), but you probably already got that with Morrowind.

2. Digital Imperial Upgrade (2100 crowns), otherwise you can't play the Imperial race.

3. If you plan to continue playing after your subscription, the DLC 4-pack (5500 crowns), so that you keep access to all areas, and keep access to the Thieves Guild / Dark Brotherhood skill lines for new characters.

4. If you like to play with many characters, additional character slots (1500 crowns each). On one hand, the default 8 slots are already quite a lot, and you can respec characters for gold. On the other hand, if you want to play every race, you need more slots. An additional character also gives you 60 (by default), 140 (with gold), or 200 (with gold and time) inventory slots, whereas a storage chest would give you 60 max (and can be bought with in-game currency).

5. Potentially the "any race, any alliance" (1900 crowns) upgrade if you want to choose your alliance freely for every character. Not really necessary if you play solo, but useful if you want to have most of characters in one alliance, and/or want to play Alliance War PvP together with friends and have a free choice of character race).

6. Banker (5000 crowns); can be useful, but you will find banks in every zone outside of PvP areas, and you'll rarely run out of inventory space with a maxed character while your subscription is active, since most of the loot will go directly into your unlimited crafting bag. You can expand your inventory to 140 slots with gold, and up to 200 slots with a bit more gold and time. In the only zone where the banker would be extremely useful (Imperial City, to save Tel Var stones before other players can take them from you), you can't summon him. The banker is most useful when you keep playing after the subscription; you can then use him as a replacement for the crafting bag (summon him, unload crafting mats into bank, keep playing).

I wouldn't buy:

- storage chests (you get one for free, and buy the remaining 7 with master crafting writs and Tel Var stones)

- houses (houses can be bought for gold, and they are as large as the ones you buy with crowns)

- other DLCs (they just add 2 dungeons each); Clockwork CIty might be worth an extra purchase but I'd give it low priority and thus it won't be in your budget)

- crown-only crafting motives (cosmetics)

- merchant (there are lots of merchants in the game, you can sell anything to any merchant, and with 140-200 inventory slots and potentially a summonable banker you just don't need this)

- consumables (you get those as login rewards, and can craft better ones anyway)

- bank / inventory upgrades, riding skills (can all be bought with gold, and you can't go beyond the maximum anyway)

[Ficelle]

With 5000 crowns, if you dont really care about cosmetics and have access to all DLCs via ESO+...i would go for banker or merchant assistants, these are always useful
Quite costly unfortunatly...

Everything else, you can get ingame, can be long or costly, but well...

And many cosmetics can still be earned via random giveway loot boxes (got some familiars, a mount and some tatoos...), plus the ingame quest cosmetics and disguises...
This is more than enough for the non fashion victims


Buying DLCs is also an option in case you plan to drop ESO+ one day but still play
I wouldnt play without ESO+, but that is me...

[maxkidd]

DLC for when sub runs out, imperial dlc for the fact that imperial is a great tank character,dont buy cosmetics as free crates occur in dailies and in events,

[sax5thave]

Any race any faction is a fine purchase. Less needed since One Tamriel, but if you have friends you want to pvp with and are really hardcore set on a race.

That has a lot of 'if' statements.

[maxkidd]

Originally posted by sax5thave:

Any race any faction is a fine purchase. Less needed since One Tamriel, but if you have friends you want to pvp with and are really hardcore set on a race.

That has a lot of 'if' statements.

True I got it to play breton mage as pact

PACT5EVAR

[amapola76]

There's a lot of good advice in this thread, but the one point I would make that I don't think has been covered is that your crowns don't expire, and the store content changes out pretty frequently. There's also a lot of short term content that only lasts for a few days.

So don't feel like you have to spend your crowns now just to spend them, if there's nothing you really want. You can always save them, and wait and see if something new catches your eye down the road.