Wow this was very nice. Too bad I’m playing on console and probably can do nothing of this… =)
Cormac
4548
Speaking of… Is this game cross-platform? ie can PC & console gamers hang out together? (assuming they agree on US or EU servers)
Uhm… probably not, since PS never allows that. Didn’t even think about that. Guess I’ll have so stink around alone after all =( Guessing not many here play ESO on PS4? =)
LockerK
4550
That’s a big no unfortunately, each platform is separate :( One of the things that has tempered my enthusiasm for jumping in after FF14’s cross-platform servers. (I still bought Morrowind anyway).
Thanks @Charlatan awesome info. I need some of those… there are some very old school/silly repetitive or pointlessly hard things about this game.
I’ll add Dustman as another critical add-on. An absolute must if you don’t have ESO plus, it automatically marks all the food and excess style/trait materials as junk so that they auto-sells next time you visit a merchant. Useful even if you have the craft bag, as it does the same for the various voidsteel/shadow junk items you can pick up from looting containers. I was able to turn on auto-loot with this addon and it actually saves a nice bit of time if you harvest/scavenge.
One addon I’m sad to see not maintained is Circonian’s BuffTracker It lets you keep track of what buffs you don’t have going, so I can remember to keep my Major Sorcery/MInor Berserk/etc. up. It still mostly works but I started getting some lua errors, so I switched over the Auramastery, which afaik is the only other addon that can do the same thing. It’s not nearly as user friendly though and not as reliable. Anyone else know of a buff tracker that can do the same thing?
I track those kinds of buffs using LUI, which has a section for “notable buffs” - you have to add the buff by name to a special list, and when the buff is there, it shows up in the list with a timer. It seems pretty reliable, though it’s probably a pain to install LUI just for that (I assume you could disable all of the other parts of LUI - the unit frames, raid frames, cast bar, etc).
Yeah, I use stendarr for that (which is really similar to LUI’s buff tracking, not sure if they come from the same code base?) to keep track of, well, notable buffs. But that’s more of a fluid list and a bit harder to read in battle, currently on my magblade I have 4 giant static icons that pops up if I don’t have minor berserk/major sorcery/mutagen/major ward up through Auramastery, but I’m finding that sometimes that stays even if I have the buff. Bufftracker was more reliable.
As someone who reads the books I highly recommend Librarian, which saves every book you’ve opened and lets you revisit them at your leisure. Particularly helpful in group dungeons where your party members will for sure not wait for you to actually read any notes, lore books, etc.
Scrax
4556
Thoughts on the membership price for the “extra DLC”?
Redfive
4557
If you sub to ESO plus you get access to all of the non main expansion DLC (so no Morrowind or Summerset). It is a tremendous value because the DLC is all pretty great, especially Orsinium and The Dark Brotherhood.
Scrax
4558
So started my first character and it sets me up in Morrowind automatically.
If I wanted to start out in the “Nord” starting location. Would that be possible? Can I start the Main Quest there?
Yeah, if I recall correctly you start with some sort of quest, something about a benefactor. Follow that and you’ll end up following the typical Ebonheart Pact storyline (same starting route for Dunmer/Argonian/Nord.) But there’s nothing to stop you from going over to the other alliances’ starting islands and doing those quests first.
ESO is pretty good at recognizing your race and prior actions (for a MMO anyway) though it’s just flavor.
Short answer: you might be able to port to Bleakrock Village on Bleakrock Isle (NW of Vvardenfell) or Davon’s Watch in Stonefalls (directly south of Vvardenfell) … I think you start with a waypoint there.
Longer answer: First a little background…
The start process for ESO is sort of jacked up now. Used to be you started out with a moderately long tutorial instance that set up the storyline. Then you were dumped on newbie island. After doing a questchain, you transitioned to the starter zone for your faction.
People complained that it was too long. They shortened it. People complained that it was too boring. They made it optional. Especially for second and third (etc) characters - they explicitly tell you that you can skip the tutorial.
That process changed with the expansions: now you start in the newest expansion you own. So if you started in Morrowind, that means you don’t have Summerset!
Now to answer your question…
You should be able to port from Morrowind to the Ebonheart Pact starting area, which is Bleakrock Isle (that’s the so-called “newbie island” which only has a few quests and is very small). The EP first zone is Stonefalls and the town would be Davon’s Watch.
Bleakrock Isle is a teeny island directly NW of Vvardenfell, and Davon’s Watch is due south.
There is a boatmaster (Dastas Arenim) who can take you between Vvardenfell and Bleakrock Village, which is the start point for Bleakrock Isle.
However…
Once you hit Davon’s Watch you will get a quest that asks you to talk to a “Mysterious Benefactor” - you will go into a house and you will end up experiencing most of the starting tutorial. It’s been shortened tremendously (it’s now like 10 minutes long at most) and when you’re done you get dumped back where you started (I think…). Once you do this, I think the main questline starts up.
Except for the fact that the tutorial features the voice acting of John Cleese, it’s pretty bleak. But his acting makes up for it (and you do meet the character more than once again!).
Yeah, I always listen through Cadwell’s dialogue - even if he isn’t directly part of a quest, I always speak with him. ESO has pretty good voice acting overall and decent writing for a MMO but Cadwell is a definitely a highlight.
Scrax
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I’m away from my computer right now so I can’t verify the name accuracy BUT:
I finished the starter quest In Morrowind and got off at the town there. I use the shrine to port over to Bleak Isle (I think). It’s a small snow looking zone. I immediately got a quest to help a lady and her friends who were turned into skeevers. I also wandered around a bit and got another request near a bandit camp that has Daedra worshipers in a mine. I walked over to town to see if I could start the main quest – and I could not seem to get “A Mysterious Benefactor” to start.
There were a few NPCs that acted like I had actually started in that town. That I had been pulled out of the water blah blah. I talked to the dark elf captain of the guard and she says she needs my help for a quest with a ship in the harbor – but there is no option to actually start the quest.
draxen
4563
I decided to open some crates and got really lucky with an apex frost wolf :)
The Mysterious Benefactor quest starts in Davon’s Watch, so not until after you leave Bleakrock Isle. The conversation on Bleakrock Isle assumes the original start (i.e., you created your character, ended up in Coldharbour, escaped and were dumped out on Bleakrock Isle).
Like I said, it’s all messed up!
Scrax
4565
Thanks! I think it’s working out. I saved everyone and escaped Bleak Isle. Ending up in Bal Foyen with the implication that I will be headed to the big city soon!
There are a lot of unintuitive jumps you have to make on some of the quest strings. There were a couple of them that had me wandering around for a while before I figured out where/what I was suppose to do. There’s also some ‘you have to trigger this before you can continue that’ sort of stuff with the main questline, it can get a bit frustrating at times until you go through it once.
