Good, I’ll fire it up this week then. I felt like Guild Wars was really pushing to team up to see the later content. I’m just way past the time in life where I’m going to schedule game time around other people, and MMOs just lose time like a sieve.
GW2 is also completely soloable, but feels very different. ESO feels like a single-player game.
I’m considering subbing to this so I can get all the DLC and such. I just need to find a way to remind myself to play it in order to make the subscription worthwhile.
My wife plays the Hell out of this on Xbox One. She’s Champion level 16, I think. She’s finished all her home area quests, and most of the stuff in the other two factions. She’s grouped up with some random folks a couple of times for the harder dungeons, but she’s primarily a solo player.
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GW2 is an awful solo game. I really, really disliked it as such. It was painfully obvious that the most interesting content was for groups (whether randomly coalescing in a zone, or groups of friends).
Veteran rank 16, which as of yesterday means 160+ champion points.
That’s another good point; the ESO console versions are reportedly excellent. But you do miss out on addons.
Yeah, she’s obsessed with it. On the 360, her game of choice was Skyrim, but this time around it’s all about ESO for her.
Am I the only person that loved the fact that they built this game around NOT having nameplates? Ugh I hate all that clutter and I’m always turning it off in MMO’s.
Obviously I don’t have a problem with others having the option to turn them on but it’s nice that an MMO catered to me for once :p
I don’t know about the only one, but I personally disagree a whole heck of a lot. Anyway, they are not active by default.
Apparently it was part of the initial vision to have minimal UI intrusion so as to maximize immersion. While it was neat to have to pull up the map every so often to find my way around (and see others doing the same), once I installed the minimap addon I never looked back. For me, ultimately in MMOs, convenience > immersion.
Now my screen is a mess of bars, names and flying numbers.
Yeah, you can complete 90% of the content just using dropped green weapons and broken down armor. The only places you have to party with others for are group dungeons and some of the world bosses in DLCs (the world bosses in the main game are easily soloable.) So you don’t have to worry about mats and such unless you want to.
PvP is another story of course.
Right on, my brutha from anutha mutha. I installed all the MMO-style addons.
Where does one get these addons?
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I got them with the Curse client, back in the day. I think there’s also esoui.com.
Yes, ESOUI.com. Updates via “MMO Minion”.
My suggestions:
- AUI: Big UI mod, different unitframes, includes a minimap, action bar, buff bar, and better scrolling combat text. Alternatives you may prefer are FTC and LUI.
- Lootdrop: Onscreen loot
- Ravalox’ Quest Tracker: Much better quest tracker
- Dustman: marks trash items as junk so they autosell when you visit a merchant
- Destinations: Labels tons of random stuff you want to know about on your map
- Skyshards: Labels on your map
- Lorebooks: Labels on your map
- Lost treasure: Labels on your map
- Advanced Filters: Better inventory
- Wykkyd’s: Toolbar, Auto Repair
Shissu’s LUA Memory: Stops out of memory errors
Welp, i just finished the Orc island, made it to level 8…and subscribed. It just felt so right. I’ll check out those mods, thanks!
There really is no particular need to subscribe, but it’s actually not a bad deal-- you get 1500 crowns per month you subscribe (major DLCs cost 2-3k, so that’s a fair amount) and also a 10% XP and gold found buff. And as of this latest patch you get an account-wide tradeskill material bag which people are going gaga over. I’m not max level or crafting so I don’t care about that.
I do strongly suggest spending some money on the cheapest horse, or buy the imperial edition upgrade. And be sure to train your horse every single day too, for inventory upgrades first and then horse speed. You can actually pay for the training before you have a mount, but… get a mount.
In addition to Stusser’s list I’d also recommend:
Bufftracker - There are a lot of addons that displays the buffs/debuffs you have, but Bufftracker allows you to set certain buffs (like Major Brutality) to pop up when you don’t have it running.
AwesomeGuildStore - Essential if you want to buy stuff from guild vendors. Makes searching for stuff less painful.
Master merchant - Essential if you want to sell stuff via guild vendors. Gives you the historical selling prices of items. Caveat – you need to be part of a large trading guild for this to work well. Otherwise you can just ask in zone for the price and someone will link you their Master Merchant result.
SWAPS - I think there are newer addons that does the same thing (or better) but I started off using this one, so. Allows you to save skillbars and swap them with a hotkey.
I use these Addons
Wykkyd’s (for the info bar and the quick item swapping)
Skyshards (gotta catch them all)
Foundry Tactical Combat (I like the bars. Not updated yet and the data is not accurate so you need to use the generic ones that come with the game right now) It has a really good combat log too.
Loot Drop (see what the auto loot is putting into your inventory).
Used to use Master Merchant, when I was selling lots of stuff before I took a break. I stopped using it though because I was worried that it was slowing my frame rates down even when I had it disabled. Pure superstition but it would get funky on me. I couldn’t afford that in PvP so now that I only make money to buy potion reagents it’s not a big deal.
Used to use Cloud Combat - Switched to the integrated combat numbers that they added recently. It’s pretty decent.
I like the name plates but I really wish they did not include my @ account name. I know you can see it on guild lists and leader boards but I’d prefer not to have it showing anywhere and especially not in game.
Yea; I could never understand the stupidity in ESO about showing your account name.
I bet they once discussed having your password listed there as well.
So: You run an addon to grab all the account ids being used.
Then you match them against the 2 milliard or so (Billion for you guys in the US/UK) password/accounts that have been leaked so far, and try.
Wonder how much account theft ESO has had, although I believe they added an account IP guard coupled with your email address?
Sad to see nobody using my addons, guess I should’ve kept them up to date even after quitting ESO, those 10$ a month from Curse kept me supplied with ebooks for a while :D
