Tips for new player

[mxsoncw]

Downloading the game rn, any tips?

[LadstonFelisGaming]

Here’s my top 3 biggest:

+ Always craft. Crafted equipment will always be better and easier to acquire than equipment from shops. Most of the loot you collect is more valuable for their crafting components than the actual items themselves.

+ Avoid vampirism. Vampirism is horrible for PvE due to the massive weakness to fire. Aside from Physical, Fire damage is the most common damage type for PvE mobs.

+ Do your job in group situations. Nothing causes party wipes faster than people not doing their job. Tanking? Do just enough DPS to keep aggro and don’t run the boss (and, by extension, their AoEs) towards your teammates. DPS? Don’t run ahead of the tank and aggro an army of mobs. Healing? Don’t attack unless you have to. Every second spent attacking are seconds that your allies are not getting much-needed healing.

[Ficelle]

Choose stamina or magicka, dont do both on same character
Choose a race suited to stamina or magicka if possible
If it is important to you, take time to design a good looking character as you cant redesign without real money

Alliance choice is definitive for the character
If you have friends already playing, choose wisely
Doesnt really matter otherwise

Dont waste your hard earned gold on low level crap
Bag, bank and mount training are top priority...and it costs a lot

Dont buy a horse, you get a free one at lvl 10

There is no high level or low level zones, everything is same level
You can go everywhere, dont feel restricted to stay where you start

If you plan on crafting, start learning traits asap

Addons can GREATLY improve the game
Feel free to use them
Dont go overboard with 50 just startting...but 1 or 2 and add more as needed

Dont rush, enjoy instead ;D

[Alaskan Glitch]

The very first thing you need to do when creating a new character is to locate and join the Fighter's Guild. Even if you have created a mage, or nightblade. The Mage's Guild and Undaunted Guild are retroactive, so you don't have to worry about joining those immediately, but the Fighter's Guid is not retroactive and every class needs to join. So before you start killing anything you need to join the Fighter's Guild in order to gain the benefits.

[frogprincess_q4]

Sign up with the mages guild and fighters guild ASAP so you can passively level them. Mages Guild is levelled by finding books that glow purple (they are all over the map) and Fighter's Guild is levelled by killing undead. The guilds don't mean much outside of unlocking the (Intimidation) perk with the Fighter's Guild and the (Persuasion) perk with the Mages Guild, although they do both have storylines that are worth following at about the same pace as you do the Main storyline.

If you want the story to make sense and you have either Morrowind or Summerset, I recommend finding your way back to the main game area and taking the quest that will be given to you when you first arrive in the main area by a person that runs up to you and tells you someone wants to meet you in a nearby house. This triggers the main questline. (If you don't have either of those DLC/expansions then don't worry, you start with the normal start already).

Then follow the main questline and zones consecutively. Summerset makes more sense if you have already done Morrowind and Clockwork City as it follows them timewise, I really don't know what they were thinking making Morrowind and Summerset starting zones for people who own them. It's like starting the book at the last chapter and then going back to the beginning later.

If you don't care about the storylines making chonological sense then you are free to go wherever, whenever and do quests in whatever order you like. It will give you the effect of going backwards and forwards in time a bit, storywise, but it makes it a lot easier to quest with friends.

[Alaskan Glitch]

Learn the appropriate crafting skill for your armor type (Light & Medium Armor = Clothing, Heavy Armor = Blacksmithing). The best way to level up in your crafting skill is to deconstruct everything you are not using or researching.

Always keep your Clothing, Blacksmithing, Woodworking, and Stable research clocks running. Don't let any stay idle for long.

[Aluca]

Research weapon traits. Don't make the same mistake I did where I glossed over them.

[Mreisse]

Pick up the free "house" (inn room) at least. You can teleport to your house for free from anywhere so it is a quick escape to safety in a pinch. Also you get a free storage coffer at level 18 and you have to put it somewhere.

Join a guild--beyond social and guild trader and vet trials and guild hall benefits, you can freely teleport to almost any wayshrine near ANY online guildmember from the roster, which is a great way to unlock a whole range of waystations across tamriel.

plus a tip from an MMO novice: my mouse button 4 was mapped to autorun by default. I didn't even know we HAD autorun. My WASD-Shift carpal tunnel flareups would not have been a problem if I had known earlier LOL

[mxsoncw]

Originally posted by Alaskan Glitch:

The very first thing you need to do when creating a new character is to locate and join the Fighter's Guild. Even if you have created a mage, or nightblade. The Mage's Guild and Undaunted Guild are retroactive, so you don't have to worry about joining those immediately, but the Fighter's Guid is not retroactive and every class needs to join. So before you start killing anything you need to join the Fighter's Guild in order to gain the benefits.

How do I go about joining this guild?

[frogprincess_q4]

Most larger towns will have Mages and Fighter's Guilds. Look on your map. If you can't find them ask in zone chat and someone will usually be happy to point you to the closest one.

[Mreisse]

Just posted this in another thread but I realized it's pretty important for newbies too!

Pay attention to your time zone! Remember that daily login rewards are in GMT/UTC, which for example in my time zone is 8am Oct 1, and in my sister's time zone is 8pm Sept 30.

[BingzKi]

Just enjoy the game.. guides are useless if you're not enjoying it.

[mxsoncw]

Originally posted by Ficelle:

Choose stamina or magicka, dont do both on same character
Choose a race suited to stamina or magicka if possible
If it is important to you, take time to design a good looking character as you cant redesign without real money

Alliance choice is definitive for the character
If you have friends already playing, choose wisely
Doesnt really matter otherwise

Dont waste your hard earned gold on low level crap
Bag, bank and mount training are top priority...and it costs a lot

Dont buy a horse, you get a free one at lvl 10

There is no high level or low level zones, everything is same level
You can go everywhere, dont feel restricted to stay where you start

If you plan on crafting, start learning traits asap

Addons can GREATLY improve the game
Feel free to use them
Dont go overboard with 50 just startting...but 1 or 2 and add more as needed

Dont rush, enjoy instead ;D

I'm a Redguard Dragonknight. I currently have all my points into stamina. Which weapons/armor would be suited for me?

[Trigger]

RED is bad, don't stand in it

[oddbasket]

Once you get your horse at lvl 10, go to cyrodil (pvp) and finish the tutorial. Spend 1 point on rapid maneuver to make your horse go fast. Download Fast Ride mod. Never be slow again.

[Turd King]

Mods to look at.

Website ESOui.com

Keyshard map mod
lorebook map mod
Master merchant (if you join player guilds) or Tamreil trader for other traders scanned. or both. :)
Metric mechanics is a stat chart. Interesting to watch yer stats!
and perhaps a combat mod that sounds tailored to your style.

Avoid vamp for grinding and go werewolf.

Endgame gear level Is 50 CP( Champion Point) 160. Dont worry about any endgame gear or save any gear until CP 160. After you hit level 50 you aquire CP points to a max I think now of 780. But the gear ends at at CP 160

~Also this is just me, But I dont use steam for my ESO game client. Even tho i got the game orginally from steam. Ive had a smoother connection and lower game file size by going directly to the ESO website and logging in account and dowloading their game client.

and I noticed 0 time increase between a ssd and hdd load time during cell change.
Only improvment I saw with a ssd vs hdd was that players loading instantly during cell changes vs the occasional pop in of players through gameplay