24 Ridiculous Things Only Super Fans Knew About The Elder Scrolls: Online
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It’s the perfect time to jump into The Elder Scrolls: Online, thanks to recent expansions. These 24 tips are a must for new (and dedicated) players!
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The Elder Scrolls Online was released way back in 2014. Now, four years later, ESO is still making various valiant efforts to polish off its experience for players. Last year, we saw the first Chapter release (another way of categorizing how they deliver DLC), Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind. In the long run, it would seem ZeniMax Online Studios – the team behind Elder Scrolls Online – want to keep to releasing yearly chapters, each containing three DLC packs. In Morrowind, we saw Horns of the Reach, Clockwork City, and the Dragon Bones downloadable-content make an appearance.
Most recently, Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset was released. Firstly, Wolfhunter arrives at our fingertips! This DLC has given us two new Werewolf-themed dungeons. One of which contains the Deadric prince Hircine himself! Secondly, it’s confirmed that Murkmire will be available for players to explore and adventure across this fall. Estimated to be somewhere around the Shadowfen area, this area of Black Marsh will have a whole new storyline to follow and a devious new trial to try overcome known as the Blackrose Prison Arena.
With all this new content coming about, I thought it wise to arm you with 25 Crazy Facts that can give you the edge in The Elder Scrolls Online. I’ve been playing the game just over a year and a half now. I’m by no stretch of the imagination a professional player, but I’ve picked up a few tricks to share from my time in Tamriel. True love, weapon damage, build advice… all below!
24 Advanced Settings
You can adjust your settings to show the amount of damage you’re dealing, a percentage and number on the enemy and your stats. You can display players on your compass and make their name and health bars appear overhead. You can also adjust it so it shows player name rather than Gamertag/PSN ID. On the PC Version of ESO, players can even remove grass! Apparently, it helps with resource foraging. Maybe that’s what to expect next in the settings menu on the console. Familiarising yourself with all those complex settings will benefit your gameplay experience as a whole.
23 Skyshards & Lorebooks
Skyshards and Lorebooks can be a pain sometimes. Notably, Skyshards are responsible for your skill-points and purple Lorebooks level-up your Mages Guild skill. There’s a right and wrong way to go about grabbing these collectibles. The right way is to just go online and follow a quick guide. Trust me, there are lots to collect. Some people may feel more genuine collecting them naturally, but you won’t get anywhere quick. I would highly recommend the Dulfy guides, they’re easy to read and detailed enough to follow without any problems.
22 Guild Traders
Check with the guild traders regularly to see if you’re sitting on a gold mine! Compare prices with items you own and shop around to get the best deals and potential profit. Farm items that are worth the most gold and sell them to the guild traders for the going rate to make a nice amount. You can also check online on various apps and sites for a rough estimate of the value of each item, but values change based on the server. Join up to five player guilds to maximize your selling capacity. You can sell 30 items per guild-trader. The busiest cities sell the most items, try to get traders in places like Grahtwood or Wayrest.
21 Maximizing Stats
Knowing what to actually put your points into can be the make or break for many builds. When thinking about what we want to achieve in the game, we should consider what we need to do to get our stats looking half-decent:
- DPS: Max Weapon/Spell Damage and fair critical makes the best DPS. Focus on The Ritual for W/damage or The apprentice for S/damage. The Medium armor is best for Stamina abilities and Light for Magicka abilities. Play to your strengths.
- Tank: Max Health and Stamina or Magicka makes the best Tanks, dependent on abilities and race. Resistance and heavy armor are crucial. Focus on the Lord.
- Healer: Max Magicka and spell damage makes the best healers. Use light armor. Focus on the Apprentice with Blessed and Elfborn.
20 Every Last Drop Of Power!
It’s also crucial we think about what we can do to get the most out of our sets and abilities. You should try and gold out all your gear, make sure that you have the appropriate traits on equipment, and use equipment sets (sets of five) and monster sets (sets of two) to get crucial bonuses to your statistics.
- Use gold enchantments, transmutation stones, crafting, key traits, refinement and monster sets to help your build.
- Make sure to have a variety of effects available to either help your team or hinder the enemy. Buffs are applied usually by tanks and healers, DPS builds should focus on Area-of-Effect and Damage-Over-Time as well as brutality-based abilities.
19 Player Morality Awareness (P.M.A)
Some players will try to scam other players out of things, so be wary. Never pay for a Vampire or Werewolf bite, people give them out for free all the time. Be wary of what you give away and what you pay for. Some things are ridiculously expensive. On the other hand, some players will help you farm, give you gold for your time, and hang out. I’ve bought a few horses for players in my time… before they gave them out for free! Don’t get me started on the guys who queue as all three roles in a dungeon.
18 Sign Of The Lover
People actually meet and fall in love through The Elder Scrolls Online (like a lot of games, only far more common). I met my girlfriend on ESO from a different country in Britain and now we live together and have a baby daughter. Some people have even moved continents to be with one another. Sometimes it doesn’t work out and creates rifts in the online communities. Honestly, it’s better than the Jeremy Kyle Show sometimes. Interestingly, the biggest guilds have groups on Facebook and are never shy of gossip! Think it’s just a game now?
17 Been A Successful Outlaw
You’ll want to be upgrading your Legerdemain abilities right away. Also, you’ll need ESO Plus or the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood DLC. Put skill points into every perk in both of these. Pickpocket people twice before ending them with the blade of woe, otherwise you’ll miss out on the potential three-item drops. The outlaw’s refuge is your best friend, but they only appear in capital cities of the area. When picking locks, after maxing legerdemain, you can just spam x and square until it opens. The Assistant fence is pretty poor, they take a 30% cut from you and you can’t launder items, making the Refuge worth the visit every time.
16 Regeneration Awareness:
If you’re going to maximize stats, make sure you can compensate with the Recovery too. You can put points into the Lover champion tree to increase regeneration for all three attributes. You don’t want to run out of Magicka or stamina too quickly or you’ll be useless at casting abilities. Likewise, you don’t want to take forever to regenerate health or you’ll find yourself as fragile as glass (unless that’s what you want). You can maximize your Stamina and Magicka recovery for DPS/Healer and Health recovery for Tank. Food can help increase your recovery for up to two hours.
15 Tank PvE Vs. PvP
Tanking in PvE involves grouping ads and bosses, taking lots of damage and basically being the distraction so your team can dish out the DPS and the Healer can heal easier. Tanks in PvE should always be aware of where they are facing in relation to the team. They should try to face the enemy away from the team. In PvP, these abilities aren’t as efficient, although grouping the ads in keeps, farms, and castles can help, you can’t make the player follow you. Tanks should try and be as sturdy as possible with points in crit resistance, whilst still able to dish out a moderate amount of damage.
14 Healer PvE Vs. PvP
In PvE, the majority of DPS builds will be relying on the healer to keep them alive. Spell power and critical will increase the amount of base healing you can dish out. Healers should also be applying the occasional buff and de-buff where they can. In PvP, you want to focus on making your healer reasonably tough to eliminate with a strong focus on spell power, magika, and regeneration. Heavy armor is optional.
13 Damage-Per-Second PvE Vs. PvP
PvE DPS builds should put everything into sustainable damage. Dropping DPS, DOTs, AOEs, and activating abilities as often as possible, it’s all about finding a rotation. One ability leads to another, then another, then you spam for two seconds and back to the first ability, rotate again. Damage and Critical as well as a steady reserve and regeneration. In PvP, most builds are tailored towards a burst damage, causing heavy hits on impact over sustainability. This is because the player won’t act like AI and move away from dots. Also, add some crit resistance and physical/spell resistance and use heavy armor to make yourself harder to eliminate.
12 Speed-Running And Mechanical Awareness
Mechanics in a dungeon or trail are what make them a challenge. Knowing the mechanics is sometimes half the game. Be aware of what the boss does and how to best defeat them. You can do random normal dungeons for a steady rotation of all the dungeons to help learn the ropes. Random daily dungeons in the Activity Finder also give you 100,000 XP for the first run. When farming, consider speed runs. Are there bosses that you can completely run past? Ads that you can ignore? Shortcuts you can take? Try and do the dungeon faster and faster.
11 Master Crafter
Master Crafters (excluding adventurists, gatherers, and farmers) are the backbone of most of ESO’s guild trader activity. They’re the ones you can pay for new armor and weapons quick, who can make the furniture you want, who have the skills and abilities. You want to focus on researching every day to become a master crafter. Research, Research, Research! The rest is easy. Any race can become a master crafter, none is better than the other. Research with each character daily as these skills are character bound. Master Crafter’s have exclusive chances to make high-amounts of gold! Craft the season’s latest furniture and cash in on it!
10 Writs
Writs can be grabbed once a day and there is one writ type for each of the crafting disciplines. Complete these writs to earn new recipes, transmutation stones, furnishings, writ vouchers, supplies, XP, inspiration, and surveys! Sealed writ vouchers are a great way to increase your skills further. They can be used to purchase a variety of furnishings, recipes, and motifs from Rolis Hlaalu. Players get a chance at receiving Master Writs for handing in the top-tier writs, these hold even bigger rewards! Complete writs daily to get ahead!
9 Undaunted
Complete Undaunted pledges and quests to earn Undaunted Keys, monster set shoulders, transmutation stones, armor, gold, loot caches, and XP, as well as leveling up the Undaunted skill-line! Some passive perks are crucial in a lot of player’s builds such as the 6% bonus to health, magika, and stamina for wearing one piece of light, medium and heavy. Completing daily pledges will reward you with the keys you need to open the Undaunted chests and find shoulders that go with Monster Sets. Complete veteran dungeons for Monster Set helmets, if that dungeon is also a pledge you’ll get two keys for the chests! There are three pledges a day, so plenty to shake a staff at!
8 Master Angler
Collecting every fish in the game can be tedious. Rare Trophy Fish are what you need to be rewarded with the Master Angler title. Harvesting common fish gives a chance of dropping the highly sought after Perfect Roe. Use the correct bait at the corresponding water source to increase your chances of a Rare Trophy Fish drop (note: special baits can’t be used in the water source they’re found in).
Ocean:
Bait: Worms, Chub
Common Fish / Special Bait: Dhufish, Longfin, Minnow
Lake:
Bait: Guts, Minnow
Common Fish / Special Bait: Spadetail, Silverside Perch, Shad
River:
Bait: Insect Parts, Shad
Common Fish / Special Bait: Salmon, River Betty, Fish Roe
Foul Water:
Bait: Crawlers, Fish Roe
Common Fish / Special Bait: Slaughterfish, Trodh, Chub
7 Scoutmasters
Learn to read maps! Follow roads when you’re lost. Some areas can be unforgiving for navigation. You’ll soon begin to recognize the areas that could contain quests, loot, etc. If you’re out foraging, you can check out resource maps online that show you the locations of resource nodes, this way you can set up a farming circuit! Map-reading and Navigating are key skills to have under your belt in ESO and can dramatically save you time.
6 Maximizing Potential Buff
Buffs are usually applied by healers and tanks, but every class can do whatever they can to ensure they are buffed out to the max. A rotation of abilities in PvE (and sometimes PvP) can help a fluent and consistent series of positive and negative effects to occur for you, your team, and your enemy. Be sure to eat food and consume potions, use Mundus stones to activate boons, traits to magnify them, and use sets to add a little madness in there. You can activate your buffs to appear on-screen in the UI settings, this allows you to track buffs as they activate.
5 Enhanced Movement
If you’re after crossing lots of terrains quickly, you might want to bear some of these abilities in mind when you play. The Bow skill line offers players the ability to increase movement speed when they dodge roll. The Support and Assault skills in PvP can give you some boosts inside a campaign. The Two-Handed skill-line users, Dragonknights, Nightblades, and Templars can travel long distances and strike a target. Yes, that includes crossing large canyons you couldn’t before.
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