12 Beginner Tips This Game NEVER EXPLAINS! - IMPORTANT Elder Scrolls Online Beginner Guide!

[@HackTheMinotaur]

PART 2 IS HERE! kzbin.info/www/bejne/raSke6KtgpKNnK8 Check it out for even more tips!

[@Acw35]

You seem to be growing in influence, do you think it’s possible that we could rally and get ZOS to focus on pvp outside of cyrodil? It seems like they don’t care that there are pvp players who don’t like cyro such as myself. I would rather be able to play bg’s with friends, but that’s no longer a thing🙃

[@matios83]

@@Acw35 m'y dog are well feed

[@JadedEvild0er]

This was an awesome video. I learned something new about each one of those. Keep these and other videos coming. Big wins in my book!

[@jankoritko2054]

Hey Hack, very nice video man! This would help me a lot at times i started to play eso. Next beginner tips video u can maybe do some brief overview of crafting system, traits knowledge, transmuting and gear upgrade /what mats needed to get purle, gold gear etc/. I remember it took me quite time in past to get all crafting knowledge. New players might appreciate some guidance in this area too. Anyway keep up great work mate! 🙂 Cheers.

[@newworldforward1842]

Hack, just did some vet dungeon runs and as often happens in PUGs I was the last man standing(alone against the boss) and they were all debating whether to use "the scroll" or not.... What do you think they meant?

[@The_Conundrum_Crew]

For new players. A few seconds after dodging, the feet glowing means next dodge will cost more stamina.

[@kevinsullivan3448]

While your feet are glowing you also have a move speed buff.

[@noble14]

THANK YOU

[@The_Conundrum_Crew]

@@kevinsullivan3448 I think that is for using a bow and being a wood elf. They both have passives that give movement speed boost after dodge roll.

[@RestlessHarp]

I wondered what that was! Thanks!

[@falcon989]

I thought I was just in the mood to dance

[@bronks1010]

A tip from my side. If you reach level 10, go to Cyrodill (the PVP zone). Just do the basic tutorial there to unlock your "Alliance War" Skill tree. Go to "Assault" and choose the "Rapid Maneuver" skill. It gives your horse a 30% speed boost for 30 seconds. Really helps a lot to cover ground if you are new / low level.

[@roqsteady5290]

I notice there is an addon that automatically equips rapid maneuver when you are on your horse and switches back when you dismount - soulds useful, but haven't tried it yet.

[@hederahelix4600]

I didn't go to Cyrodil but tried out a battleground once and that gave that skill line. Didn't see that skill. Hope it's a passive. That would be great.

[@jvd3339]

@@hederahelix4600 - it's the first active skill in the assault line. - Not a passive

[@hederahelix4600]

@@jvd3339 Thanks for the info. couldn't get online in ESO to check for myself today. Am still downloading that mega update.

[@PerspicaciousOne]

This should be pinned. This is one of the big useful things I realized way too late.

[@mosher.s]

1. starting zone (0:51) 2. quest journal (3:07) 3. quest types (4:07) 4. mounts (6:03) 5. resetting skills (6:52) 6. camera pov (7:36) 7. buffs stacking (8:27) 8. set bonuses (9:34) 9. dodge roll (10:19) 10. heavy attacks (12:01) 11. generate ultimate (13:06) 12. skill scaling (14:29)

[@Tito_2202]

The hero we dont deserve

[@obihan_shinobi]

But the hero we need.

[@longt.standing6607]

Thank you.

[@sssuperhero]

Tee Riff SephiTrump its just that some people know certain things but not others and not in a particular order so it is helpful

[@zachary5664]

@Tee Riff SephiTrump Why does it matter? A timestamp helps people who might wanna skip things they already know. Why are you even on this video?

[@loxley75]

Another beginer tip I wish I had known at the begining is to ignore most of the builds that you will see of your class online unless it specificlly says solo. The 'meta' builds are specifically designed to maximise damage and usually lack healing and shields as they are designed to be played in group content with a healer and tank. Your first character should have a little of everything and ideally they will probably do all the crafting skill lines and end up your crafter. You can have fun doing story quests right up to cp 160 and then you can make new toons specced specifically for damage, healing or tanking for doing dungeons with!

[@Acw35]

Well every pvp build is designed that way, so if you start off as a pvp player this wouldn’t apply to you. For that reason I suggest every new player start off with a pvp build

[@loxley75]

I mean to be fair there are a lot of solo builds online these days but there never used to be so I could never understand why all the 'best' builds seemed to ignore really useful skills and then later I couldnt understand why I hit like a wet noodle when i tried to do dungeons. Ah well, live and learn!

[@bronzecobra8556]

I agree, I think it’s better to experiment and find what works for you.

[@spcbrass]

Those solo builds will eventually do OK in the group content as well. Once you get them geared up properly and get some CP under your belt in the right places you can pull enough dps to perform OK in veteran content. I play exclusively solo builds and pull 35-40K plus am able to mitigate my own damage and self heal. It’s not ideal but it still works. Oddly only 1 of those builds works well in PVP though but it’s a matter of gear setup why the others don’t work so well in PvP.

[@roqsteady5290]

Also, I reckon solo builds are good for doing dungeons with PUGs. It seems that most PUG healers/tanks are either incompetent or faking to avoid the long queue times, so you can't could on any help from them.

[@spcbrass]

Oh quality of life tip for new players. Level up your first character by questing. Grinding that first character by mindless doleman zerging or running endless loops of zombie pulls is just not fun and you won’t learn very much about the game itself. Experience the stories, listen to the dialogue. Some of it is very good!

[@jauken83]

Just started this game last night, loving it so far. That tip about heavy attacks restoring resources was worth the watch alone. Game changer!

[@doakesanddrax]

Right after starting a new character recently it actually tells you in the start of the game but I musta missed it on my first character for quite some time. Was total game changer and made game more enjoyable lol

[@faithlesswolf]

@Common Good I've seen light attack weaving mentioned once in the game, as a load screen tip.

[@Youkai_graphics]

also you should learn weaving, light weaving heavy weaving, really useful weaving basically means animation skip.

[@phobet]

I gotta say, the thing about the world bosses resonated with me. As a fledgling necromancer, I was in Elswyre running around and exploring. I heard a battle against a dragon, so of course, I had to join. I got one shot in, and the dragon punted me into Oblivian. Good times...

[@dorasaphyre2875]

Don't worry, most chars can get 1h by a dragon, even cp600. The key is dodging and healing in time.

[@Dilligff]

With enough CP under your belt, dragons are actually a great way to level up alts. For me, the level scaling on my necro had me dealing more damage in greens and blues than I was on my main in maxxed out equips and abilities. Just be aware of its attack patterns and avoid stuff (unless you're unlucky enough to get targetted by soul shatter, that'll mess you up regardless of what level you are). Gained about 20 levels in a couple of days just running with the spam groups in Southern Elswyr. Only drawback was having a crappy riding skill level and keeping up with the player swarms.

[@florrrina]

this comment cracks me up every time i come across it lmfao

[@mda187]

About the beginner zone thing. You'll start in the new expansion zone, but ESO tries to fix this by giving you a quest pretty early on about a benefactor. Take this quest and complete it and it will set you on the Molag Bal quest (where you go to the prison) and then it will eventually drop you off in the same starter zones you mentioned (based on your faction). I'd suggest doing this because it starts you on the main faction quest as well as getting you your first skyshard. At least in this way, the developers are trying to fix the overwhelming zone you get dropped in at the beginning.

[@Orinslayer]

Pretty hard to convince me to get sacrificed to Molag Bal.

[@poopikins]

You forgot #13: Always wear at least 1 of each type of armor, Light/ Medium/ Heavy, while you level up, the earlier the better. Each of these armors have their own skill line and they level up by simply wearing them. Once you've leveled them all up, you can then mix the armor you wear to suit which armor passives you'd like to use. A popular one is getting a % boost to your resources, Health/ Magic/ Stamina, depending on how many types of armor you wear. So if you wear at least 1 of each, you'll get the maximum benefit.

[@zargle5924]

Do you still get set bonuses

[@poopikins]

@@zargle5924 It's more free now to choose what you want to wear. Instead of requiring 5 pieces, a lot of passives are just % increases depending on how many pieces of one set you're wearing. There are positives and negatives to each armor, and it just makes more sense overall.

[@Maerahn]

Great list! I've been playing ESO for years now, but even I learned stuff here! Other tips I would add: 1 - Join the Mages Guild and the Fighters Guild as soon as you can, and put a skill point each into Intimidating Presence (Fighters Guild Skill Line) and Persuasive Will (Mages Guild Skill Line.) Both of these can save you soooo much effort on many quests in the game, as you can just hit the (Persuade) or (Intimidate) dialog option to skip whole stages of a quest. 2- Crafting is awesome! Not only does it enable you to create your own gear sets (there are specialist crafting tables all over the worlds, and some offer better bonuses than the dropped world sets,) but if you've learned all the crafts, it's a quick and easy way to make gold from the Daily Crafting Writs, and get some nice stuff like crafting equipment, items, motifs, recipes and all sorts. The amount of gold you can earn from completing all seven crafting writs each day goes up as your level does as well; once you hit Champion Level, you can make 600+gold from just one crafting writ. So, at that level, doing all seven writs, that's an easy 4,500gold for about 5-10 minutes work. 3 - As long as you can keep your Health stat above 20,000 points, you'll be fine for most of the time, no matter what character class you're playing. This means you can freely stack up in Stamina and Magicka instead; no need to pour a ton of attribute points into Health, even if you're a tank. Just put in enough to keep you around 20,000, and then stick the rest in the other two, which you WILL need more. 4 - You can always use crafted food to boost your stats up too; the purple recipes are the best, since they buff ALL attributes for 2 hours. Learning Provisioning to a high level is worth it simply for that - and, fortunately, Provisioning is also one of the fastest and easiest crafts to level up. Or of course you can just buy purple-level food from Guild Stores.

[@mayplaysgames7978]

I've found 17,000 health is more than enough for my mag templar but good tips!

[@pietroroberto6114]

That only speaks about your cognitive abilities. Everything in this video is obvious and extremely easy to test and notice. I am deeply disappointed in human's intelligence if tutorials like this, are necessary ;(

[@jinkpotato7575]

@@pietroroberto6114 uh… no. There are many people who are playing an mmo for the first time or are playing a videogame for the first time. So it’s not something they will be able to figure out so easily. Many people who mainly play games like COD or Overwatch would never even think about the fact that you can restore resources with heavy attacks if they don’t pay attention to their magicka and stamina all the time, some might even think heavy attacks are not as efficient as light attacks. There are many times that a fight can end before any of your resources get to 50% on the beginner’s area so there would be no reason to worry about that. Others could think using a two handed sword that increases stamina would be more effective for them as a sorcerer that has a lot of magicka and little stamina. Considering that you have never played Subnautica, would you be able to do things such as how to create a self sufficient base or the best way to use the space of the Cyclops(submarine) efficiently without watching a video?

[@pietroroberto6114]

@@jinkpotato7575 Ha ha ha. Yes. I actually am finishing Subnautica for the first time and created not one but two self sufficient bases. All by myself through trial and error :D The only thing I checked online was water purification machine's production rate to calculate how many of them I will need for my second base. I could have stood by it with a clock and measure it myself. That is exactly what I would do and what I was doing before the Internet was available. The only reason I checked it is the fact that it took significantly less time. With ESO it is different, because you pick up pieces of information all the time by playing and having fun and when you need something specific you can either quickly test it or ask in guild chat. Unless you want some very specific, obscure piece of information like for example: "will Blessed Armor set actually make me invincible for those advertised in tooltip 5 seconds?". Then you have to make a little more effort in testing it: grab a friend/guildie, explain the tests and run a series of tests. Or you can just use it and see how it behaves.

[@jinkpotato7575]

@@pietroroberto6114 Well, I guess you’re right. If you don’t know something you can always ask a friend or guild mate but if you are playing and see on KZbin a video with a title like that it is going to call your attention. There are things that you might not have noticed during your play through, I play with my father and it is one of the first games he is playing so videos like this can heavily assist him as he doesn’t have a lot of free time and I suck at explaining things and that goes for a lot other people who don’t have the time to even think about such details and want to progress through the game(basically casuals). I’m not calling you a sweat or anything, I understand that you might like to learn about the game without the help of the internet but there are people who find the process of finding out such things boring and prefer to spend 15 mins to learn it all. Going through trial and error is pretty fun but for some it might be boring.🙂

[@agelegend4975]

CP 400 and had no clue I can zoom out even more in 3 person on ps4 like I thought thats a pc exclusiv thing. Thanks for that :D

[@christinehede7578]

Age Legend you obviously never looked at the settings then.

[@amancalleddanger]

He's not the only one. Didn't know that either on xb1 and I'm CP 300 with 2 characters. Sometimes we just miss the obvious. Thanks HtM

[@Snyde91]

I searched if there was a zoom feature almost immediately after starting lol not sure I would have kept playing if there wasn’t but that’s just me of course

[@felatioable]

Same. You can also turn on combat queues which is super helpful...so you can see where the enemy is targeting and their area of effects. I didn’t know that was a feature available on ps4 until much later.

[@brunskies92]

Dude I discovered the extra zoom out at level 810... my mind was blown. When a game has hundreds of features it’s easy to let a few slip by you

[@gloverhaywood]

Being fairly new to the game, this guide was A1. Truly appreciate it. Cheers!

[@revanvonheaven8270]

How was the game

[@gloverhaywood]

@@revanvonheaven8270 I'm actually enjoying it. I don't get to play as much as I used to, but I do try to get on at least once a week.

[@StarFlower99654]

Under Speed: As soon as you turn lvl 10 go to Cyrodiil and it is just to do a quick tutorial (training) which opens up the Assult & Support skill line. You get the Speed ability, several skill points and alliance points upon completion of the very quick and easy quest (without having to do any pvp whatsoever).

[@zarakikon6352]

This sounds pretty nice. How do I do this ? Like what area is Cyrodiil and is there an already unlocked waypoint I can teleport to ? Cheers 😊.

[@chiefkiefy6155]

@@zarakikon6352 open up you menu and click campaign, choose cyrodil and whichever is below lvl 50

[@Orinslayer]

@@zarakikon6352 haha when I was new I thought I could walk into cyrodyl. Shame the gates are closed.

[@michaelcaley1359]

Another great tip is to take your time and go through all of the settings. Changing the color of the AOE effects on the ground can really help out. I changed my damaging effects to purple and it really shows up well especially in dungeons where the floor may already be dark and red.

[@BuildinWings]

Learning ALL of this on my own by feeling it out was such a pain in the ass. Thank you for putting this up, I hope it helps everybody who was as clueless as I was.

[@waynebraden5018]

Been playing 8 months, learned about 90% more things in this video...

[@sredna2413]

Wayne Braden if I played a game for 8months that would be 2000 hours damn

[@dumpsterfyer8739]

I swear 😂

[@gangusharm3015]

Sounds like eso alright 👍

[@MrM-mt4bv]

Bro what? Are you serious??

[@ZelosSama]

Wait really ?????? How the hell, been playing for a month or so and im fine , just had to do some research ( 10 minutes in total at best) . Everything in this video i already know by now lol

[@dcg_ravage]

As a more experienced player, this video was really well done, so great job! Two things I would like to add would be that blocking an attack also triggers the ult gain buff. This means if you are not quite comfortable getting in light attacks you can block an attack for the same effect. I found this out doing the trial Halls of Fabrication and standing and blocking within the spinney blades right before a boss fight. The other thing was changing your monster AOE color to something other than red. You can make it fun or just something you know you wont miss. That's under Settings/Gameplay/Enemy Color. You can change the brightness as well.

[@fireydog]

Setting up the camera angles and repositioning the screen offset is actually really useful to ensure that it 'just works' for you - I also see a lot of 'How to' do certain Bosses, Dungeons runs and Trial runs vids and try to learn stuff from them, but nowhere have I seen anyone explain exactly how to adjust the detail on screen, the first time I was persuaded to join a Trial to screen became so messy that it was very hard to see what people were talking about (ie positioning to avoid a specific mechanic for example). Making it clearer would be much easier to see what it happening in the same way you see a clear vid explaining the mechanics by an expert player. As a brand new player this info is not known or made known easily either. Love the info vids, as much as they may be basic for most, for a beginner they are invaluable!! Keep up this great work. Thanks.

[@stefanomontanari2194]

You are the hero ESO’s new players need and deserve! ☺️

[@AndrewJFO]

Another new player tip for PC: it's best to play with the annotations for health, stam, magicka, ultimate, active effects and enemy hit points activated. By default it doesn't show any of these, at least mine didn't and they really do help in figuring out which strategies are most effective.

[@jeandupont8501]

Underrated comment

[@KimPachis]

I don’t usually comment at all but I’m a returning player along with some new friends and these guides are extremely helpful!

[@faithlesswolf]

Something I learned recently that would have been nice to know sooner is the difference between magic and physical damage. Or rather what counts as what. Like disease and poison damage are physical and scale off your stamina. But elemental damage scales off magica.

[@tutulio9095]

I don't know why we can't chose the starting location when we create a new character...

[@roqsteady5290]

You can easily move your character to anywhere in the world using the boat and wagon system. Of course, if you are a new player you are not necessarily going to know that. It seems the game always wants to start you in the latest expansion and the original starting areas have been deprecated.

[@mrjoop6889]

The lore doesn't allow it, ZoS is weird like that.

[@FreelancerND]

Because that would be so Everquest II, thus old school and boooring =)

[@mtpstv94]

You don't need to. This video is wrong.

[@nixie_lynx]

the game just assumes you are making your 14th alt and know everything already and just wanna play the newest thing

[@s379Ox]

Having the quest journal cap is pretty annoying, especially when I go to pick up the daily writ quests. However! ... having the cap at 25 helps me because if there wasn't a cap, my quest log would be a mess its like a reminder that I have aome quests to finish b4 starting a new one 🙃 I have a habit of not finishing or putting off quests for later and then never actually get around to them because I have been distracted by something else or a new quest lmao.

[@roqsteady5290]

I found a good addon (called quest map or something) that shows quest locations, so I can go back to quests I didn't take the first time.

[@newworldforward1842]

I like the cap. It makes me focus on the quest lines and zones I want to finish, without all the frivolous side quests cluttering my journal.

[@TheBrilliantPhoenix]

Yes, I have the same problem, but then I have been diagnosed with ADHD.🤯

[@bluescreen4085]

Hack, thank you for the good video. What i suggest to mention is: tip 4: at level 10 rush to Cyrodiil pessing L, selecting Below leve 50 campaign, do "welcome to Cyrodiil tutorial" (not skipping it) to unlock Assault and Support skill lines and 2 skillpoints and spare one of these to unlock Rapid Maneuvers. Rapid maneuvers is invaluable for riding the newbies' annoyongly slow horse. This is not anyhow taught in the game, but is quite important timesaver for a total newbie. Also: provisioning recipes for dailies are sold by Chef and Brewer. Potence runes are available at enchanter (near daily writs crafting stations) Spending 1 SP for alchemy keen eye and 1 SP for Trafiicker (ledgerdemein skill line) to double fencing limits (easy money) are good tips for new player too. Respect, HTM! what a nice job you are doing.

[@junetalon8796]

I always hated that the game throws you into a new "starting" location with every DLC because I like my playthroughs in a somewhat chronological order. If you want to play the main storyline, you specifcally have to travel to Vulkhel Guard (Aldmeri), Daggerfall (... Daggerfall) or Davons Watch (Ebonheart) and look for a hooded figure who then proceeds to throw you into the original Coldharbour tutorial that starts the main story. At least it was that way last time I made a charakter when Elsweyr was released, hope I'm not mistaken now.

[@loxley75]

They also really need to do something with the characters from the DLCs. It must be confusing as hell for new players leaving Lyris in Coldharbor and then her turning up in the fighters guild wanting to save skyrim only to rescue her from coldharbor a few levels later. Or meeting Abnur THarn in the mages guild only to meet him for the first time later in the main quest. Its a total clusterfuck at the moment with all the dlc quest givers.

[@lukasa.6964]

@@loxley75 yeees. 100% *spoilers below, trying to be as vague as possible * At a certain point in the main mainstory you have to choose. And that decision didn't seem to have quite an impact for the prolog-quest-givers. Maybe it's because I jumped from mainstory to skyrim and this discrepancy is adressed in between?

[@junetalon8796]

@@lukasa.6964 Not your fault. That's just how it is. Your decision at that point doesn't matter for the DLCs.

[@Anastasia-ii2yy]

@@loxley75 Being droped in Elsweyr with a letter from Abnur, do Elsweyr quest line, then go to explore Tamriel and meet Tharn who see you first time in his life is even "funnier". Or being dropped in Elsweyr with the letter from Tharn about dragons, see dragons flying around, go to starting town, hear NPC discussing dragons and then do Elsweyr prologue where... oops! Horrible way of quest sequence :(

[@nixie_lynx]

@@lukasa.6964 they just assumed everyone picked that person who doesn't have a dlc

[@RattleSsssnake]

Also remember by pressing and holding the right thumbstick/mouse button while you have an enemy highlighted by your cursor will result in marking the enemy so you can see them even when they are standing behind things. This allows you to focus on the enemy you need to take down first especially in trails

[@darrylmathews969]

How did you come to find that out?

[@RattleSsssnake]

@@darrylmathews969 by accident lol

[@vedranbileta8346]

Starter zone....so much this. Surprised that ZOS did not explain this after so many years.... really. It also helps immersion if you follow the story, as it was intended, and unravel the story.

[@danj7860]

This actually goes back to the one Tamriel (?) update prior to Morrowind. Prior to that update, each zone was a specific level range that was dependent on your faction, and you could only visit the later zones if your level was high enough (and you had unlocked the story to that point - Cadwell’s silver and gold.) you would also only bump into other players of your own faction. Then they released the update, which was designed to give the game a more open-world feel like Skyrim. They merged several things including veteran levels and CP, as well as all faction maps, which were now accessible by all players of all factions. And all maps were now level-scaled so that technically you could do the content of any zone at any time.

[@jeandupont8501]

I don't know you see videos of guys starting in Morrowind and they have a lot of fun.

[@viperdemonz-jenkins]

we have plenty of online resources that explain these things, has been for years.

[@lianawolfe5812]

​@@MapTheMissing that depends on your faction, I can give you dc because i have done it a bazillion times. But you will start out in a small island when you follow that quest it will take you to the next zone. These three islands are Bleakrock, Stros M'kai (sorry for spelling), and Khenarthis Roost. These will depend on your alliance so it will vary in that respect but past the one tamriel you can go to either one and start each story. I would suggest starting with your base faction and doing the MAIN story (Harborage/Cold Harbor) at the same time because then at the end it will take you to the other factions in the story and it ties in better in the end.

[@kiwipalace]

yeah i remember older players telling me i can just go anywhere, it doesnt matter (which is true if you just want to hack & slash) but i started playing stories out of order & that wasnt really fun

[@giantmonkee1199]

I think joining the fighters guild and mages guild right away is also important.Many stamina builds will include fighters guild abilities and it levels by killing monsters like Vampires and werewolves.

[@Alex-rz4fg]

For starter zones use the wayshrine to your first faction city. It starts up the main quest line that will drop you into the starter zone.

[@Foefaller]

FYI Dodge rolling on PC is done by Double-tapping in a direction by default, though I would recommend changing it to be a button press to make it more reliable.

[@Yenastuundepaspris55]

I tend to double-tap in a direction, essentially ''panic dodging'', so for me 'that' is the reliable method.

[@rodbob11]

good idea

[@Foefaller]

@@Yenastuundepaspris55 See I have the opposite problem; I find myself accidentally doing double-tap dodges all the time with it on thanks to attempting to repositioning (which as someone who mains tank, is not how you want to spend your stamina unless you actually have to.) Making it a button press is the only way I can make sure I only dodge when I actually want to dodge.

[@LyleAustin]

I can never get my double tap dodges to work. I don't know if I'm tapping too quickly or too slowly. Haven't found a setting to adjust tapping speed. Guess I'll have to set a specific button push, maybe Ctrl added.

[@nixie_lynx]

double taps will get you to roll dodge accidentally from a cliff and die. it happened to me before. set up a mouse side button for it.

[@lianawolfe5812]

I posted this as a comment down below but it ties into starting zones, depends on your faction, I can give you dc because I have done it a bazillion times. But you will start out on a small island when you follow that quest it will take you to the next zone. These three islands are Bleakrock, Stros M'kai (sorry for spelling), and Khenarthis Roost. These will depend on your alliance so it will vary in that respect but past the one Tamriel, you can go to either one and start each story. I would suggest starting with your base faction and doing the MAIN story (Harborage/Cold Harbor) at the same time because then in the end it will take you to the other factions in the story and it ties in better with the story that way.

[@crimsonhawk52]

I'd love just an in depth run down of the whole settings menu. Tons of stuff in there that is super useful, never mentioned, and not really labeled in a way that's intuitive or obvious. For example, "enemy brightness" can make WAY MORE VISIBLE the red areas you don't want to stand in. Prevent Attacking Innocents is a nice one to have on. Auto/quick casting targeted spells is another if that's your thing.

[@quatron9561]

Dude this is the best video I have ever seen for the beginners. I have been playing this game for 1 year, but I did not know only basic attacks grant ultimate regen. Nice video man, and you used my tip there too from that youtube thread of yours.The spell damage and Magicka thing.

[@jameswells7232]

YES! Thank You! I've been playing for a week and watched at least a dozen beginner tutorials that all talk about mount training and daily quests, AND NOTHING ELSE! Even the ones that mention other stuff don't actually tell you how to do it. This video is SOOO helpful! Thank You!

[@andrekk3938]

I play ESO for a long time and didn't know some of these tips, thanks man, your video helped a lot.

[@metalheadrobredbar6899]

I didn’t know light/med/heavy attacks generated a lil ultimate lol, thanks Hack

[@matios83]

Welcome friend, we've working at least for 3 days to make this video for u guys.

[@Slugg720]

Yea i didnt know that either

[@gekiddoz]

Bro, almost all the tips i already know it by playing, dieying and play again, and for experency. I wish i could saw this video before. Also i didnt know the zones for beginers, ty Hack.

[@LuciusSicarius]

I actually didn't know about being able to zoom out the camera till I had been playing the game for 2-3 years. It's amazing how much easier dungeons got when you can actually see the aoe attacks.

[@Mrnoone23]

10:03 did not know that, Great video! Also, teleporting to another player is free as opposed to just teleporting to a wayshrine!

[@tazzeightsixfour9721]

Teleporting to another player just means teleporting to the closest wayshrine to that player... It IS free though, but it's nott actually *TO* that player....

[@boredeasily1955]

I started maybe 1 week ago, and everyday I find myself playing more.. but it's so huge that it's impossibly easy to get lost and overwhelmed. This video was great. Explained things in a way that I understood easily. I have a learning issue but you kept me engaged and informed thanks brother!

[@manaleauxduclaire482]

Thanks minotaur I learned something, didn't know basic attacks gave you an invisible buff. He forgot to mention that dodging breaks immobilize.

[@gamersedge4867]

I haven't finished the video yet so idk if this was mentioned but zone chat is usually incredibly helpful if you have any questions and you can even get some services if you're willing to spend a little gold.

[@airaneon]

Didn't know ZOS was tossing new players into the dlc zones after the tutorial. That is why I'm seeing all those low level folks roaming around. I was always thinking that they were veteran alts that knew something I didn't, so that's why they were so early on those zones.

[@andygreen3575]

Just started playing a week ago, basically at the end of the tutorial you end up in a room with portals to every starter zone and dlc zone and you are free to choose whichever you want. Fortunately at this point I was like er OK is there a base story arc, and eventually found out that there is if you pick your faction zone portal. The NPC does kind of give you an overview of each portal zone, but should really advise new players that if this is their first visit to ESO to choose the faction portal.

[@justmeok2]

ty! im only lvl 16 with the base game and didnt know some of these things, the charged attack regenerating resources for 9 seconds was helpful AF!

[@AndreasPalmbladBt]

Played eso for hundreds of hours, didn’t know about 2set piece with two-handed. Thanks.

[@pietroroberto6114]

lol

[@LyleAustin]

I've been actively playing for a year and a half, and this video taught me a lot. Most importantly, that it's my basic attacks that charge my ultimate, not just participating in fights! Wow! Just... Wow!

[@Retro-75]

Lyle Austin I didn’t know this either!

[@AndresJadan]

How about the menu settings? Like health, Stam percentage/numbers and buffs, debuffs to be set for always show, along with ultimate in numbers. I think all of these are fairly important to use or at least know about xD and there's a lot of people who don't know you can do these things

[@lukasa.6964]

and why do I have to do it for each Char 😭 or give me a toggls option apply generally or apply to char only

[@silver1surfer69]

In all my years in eso, u are the 1st one to explain ulti regen! GJ! Been thinking about doing a tutorial for this for years.^^

[@LuisSoto-fw3if]

I keep watching this videos even though I don't own the game. Hopefully I can buy it at summer sale. Cheers!

[@johnhamill5997]

If you need help levelling you need only ask

[@johnhamill5997]

Join the ebonheart pact op

[@dynamystic3050]

It's a lot of fun. Join a guild, or 5, look for one that helps starting players. You can get equipment, group with people who will take you through some starting helpers, or information

[@roqsteady5290]

@@dynamystic3050 Yeah I'm having a hard time finding an EU guild that is good for starting players

[@newworldforward1842]

You'll be amazed at how HUGE this game is, even just the base game. It's the largest open world game I've ever played.

[@samanthagwinn2830]

Best thing for new players to know about to make the game easier is farming gold, researching traits, and getting writs. I suggest you look up vids on that. You will be able to max out storage, build your own armor sets, and buy armor sets you want from Guild Traders. I wish I would have know this, because for the first 6 months paying I used random armor with no extra benefit and had no clue I could buy from guild traders I wasn't in a guild with. I basically locked myself into one or two guilds to get supplies and it was very hard. I would also suggest being a little social, as I was not. They purposely make you be social to get the best armor and weapons.

[@maxringland3202]

Hey hack! I'm finally getting access to my pc tomorrow for the first time in 7 months!! I'm so bloody excited! I'm gonna jump right back into eso - this video's timing couldn't be better!

[@HackTheMinotaur]

Nice!

[@bryon29able]

Hey man I wanted to give a shout out to you and say thank you so much for this video I cannot tell you how much it has helped me...wow thanks very much

[@pietroroberto6114]

Really? You really needed someone to tell you the most obvious things that you should have picked up naturally by playing the game with open eyes? O_o

[@slackerpope]

Great video! I'd add a few more things. Maybe a follow up video? Also lots of other great ideas in the comments! 1) Skill Leveling: The fact that there is a difference between the skill line, the specific skill and skill morphs is critical to creating the build you want. 2) Armor Leveling: To echo another comment add armor leveling. You must equip THREE pieces of each weight of armor to open the skill line but afterwards you only need to keep one piece of a particular armor weight equipped to continue leveling that armor skill line. Also more pieces of a particular armor worn = faster leveling that armor skill line. 3) Travel to Player: Join a big guild just so you can travel to guild members who are in a zone you have not been to yet. Really saves time. Open guild tab, go to the guild roster, find somebody in the zone you want to travel to, right click and choose Travel to Player. Free teleports ;-) 4) No Auction House: There is no central auction house. If you are shopping for rare or expensive items you will want to visit player traders located in each of the major cities of each zone. This is a big deal if you are transitioning from WoW or other games with a central economy. 5) Crafting for gold: Doing daily crafting writs is a great way to make some fast gold when just starting out.

[@ilovecredz]

Who's also here who knows everything about the game yet watch it for fun because you're bored?

[@straight-to-the-point]

In that case i need gold and lots of it how do i go about it gear is to much and only getting like 15k a day and still need to fix gear

[@fearcaleb8184]

If u know everything how do ppl actually get to lvl 810 ? Like I don't play that much but I've only gotten to lvl 30 😔

[@finleyz9271]

fearcaleb wait for double xp events and farm zombies in alikr or do skyreach

[@straight-to-the-point]

@@fearcaleb8184 i am no pro i am a noob haha but lvlng up cp fast you do dolmen farming with a scroll i even got my vamp up to lvl 9 in 2 hours with dolmen farming

[@masonelliott7674]

fearcaleb it’s a grindz

[@JJZ77]

Played this game YEARS ago when it first came out, on xbox one. Haven't touched it since vanilla, but currently going back to it on PC. These tips have refreshed my mind A LOT. Keep it up man! Subscribed.

[@Anastasia-ii2yy]

Isnt it better for beginner not to travet to starter zone, but to trigger main quest with Cold Harbour? It will give some understanding of the main quest line and then drop to the starter zone. It the very-very start of the game. And also for me not taking prologue quests, though it is very hard, until you finish main quest is a good tip. a) if you do prologues first then it my be very hard to undertand what's going on in that world and why people don`t recognize you XD b) taking (and not doing) Elsweyr prologue blocks main quest line (maybe they fixed it with Graymoor, but I doubt)

[@celestiallyme777]

how do you trigger the main quest with cold harbour, having purchased a game version that came with DLC? I've been trying to figure this out

[@Cotoadriano]

Even being a veteran in this game i appreciate a lot this kind of videos, because as you said, it shows a lot of useful tips the game itself doesn't teach you. This way new players will have a much better experience. Thank you for contributing to the community!

[@V1DE0]

You probably should have gotten into the game settings a bit. Like Prevent attacking innocents, buffs, HUD chat On(for console players), and a few of the other important ones. A lot of new players dont even know that the options exist.

[@velkanzi]

That would be a great idea for the Mk2 version of this video clip

[@trumpelstiltzkin9068]

The thing about the quests is that once you start any quest it almost always ends with the start of another quest and it can really side track you and some quests even come running up to you requesting help which will lead to a whole other quest line and that quest log fills up fast and becomes annoying as hell because you always trade in a quest and immediately receive another taking the free spot again

[@sip5712]

Im gonna start eso tommorow ive been procrastinating of like half a year

[@valheru4646]

Haha same

[@wacojones8062]

3rd person camera view on PC can also be centered or shifted to the sides varying distances and shifted in elevation of view point.

[@Crazy_Gamer_OG]

I just started playing & walked into a trial. Me, "Oh cool, a test of some kind!" Game, "ah yes, more fresh meat for the grinder..."

[@kirkendauhl6990]

One tip I want to mention myself as a level 13 character who hasn't even unlocked my weapon swaps on pc yet: If you download add ons, some of them may require other add ons to function, I had no idea this was a thing and had to figure it out the hard way. For example I browsed steam's forums and found a link to an add on manager called Minion and I wanted to start with one small feature: sky shard icons on the map. I downloaded the add on and then it appeared on the game in red text, it said it needed "libraries" to work. I had no idea what that was, from my understanding it's similar to a bike. If you want a bike you'll need wheels and a chain and a set of handlebars etc. to have a proper bike. So in order to get your "bike" to work, you need the components for it to work. I had to download the proper libraries from the Minion client and now the sky shard add on works perfectly, it even has a proximity feature similar to vanilla icons on the overhead compass. idk if this counts as some kind of third party shady thing, I'm just trying to be helpful since modding is a big part of pc gaming and I'm hoping this reaches anyone who's stuck on level 0 like I am

[@Endlessfairytale]

All this time playing battleground I just found out there’s a quest.

[@dennistroha2033]

wait there is

[@Endlessfairytale]

@@dennistroha2033 i meant dailies not actual quest but yeah missed a ton of ap points.

[@Generic_Username_0331]

Just stumbled on your videos. Wish I had this video available about 2 years ago when I first tried ESO. I quit probably 20 hours into the game and haven’t bothered since. You have changed my mind with this tips video

[@MadMorgtigan]

1:26 - *IF* the new player bought the expansion... or *IF* the new player has an ESO+ subscription. I'm not 100% sure what comes with the base game these days, I know Vvardenfell is now a DLC and included in ESO+ but I think failing that you start out in a starter zone after you escape cold harbor. Even with ESO+ Vvardefell is pretty new player friendly. Rather than wayshrining to these starting zones, they should go to see the hooded figure. /shrug - all in all it is a piss poor set up by the devs.

[@davidpearse1536]

All dlc is included with eso+ except greymoore

[@lianawolfe5812]

@@davidpearse1536 well a better way to put this, all but the current latest dlc expansion is included in eso+ you will get all dungeons however not the latest expansion until it rotates out when a new one arrives.

[@BerkayBB]

I just started ESO for the first timr 2 weeks ago. im lvl 20 and finished everything in Vvardenfell until lvl 14 or so. It was pretty cool and new player friendly

[@redbee5741]

I've started a new character with Greymoor and I'm almost at the end of the main quest line (I think) of Western Skyrim. I'm lvl 13 and it's actually pretty fun to have this freedom to choose where we want to start our storyline. Personnaly I'm not a big fan at all of the quest with the hooded stranger.

[@ravensworngaming]

Another tip! If you are a really new player, take your time and level up your skill lines. Dont worry about missing out content since content is scaled to u, rather than having to skip zones because u outlevel them. Also, sell white gear, and decon greens, blues and even purples that u arent wearing. It makes ur levelling slower since u hav to go back to the crafting stations in town or back in your homes, but honestly, this is really helpful if you want to have enough mats and level up your crafting level for that character.

[@JSuperfly]

Im CP 700 and didnt actually know only my standard attacks generate ultimate! The more you know!

[@pietroroberto6114]

Right?! Because it is sooooo hard to notice that you don't increase that number next to ultimate when you don't use LA in combat! And it's not like you can approach a group of mobs and just test stuff, because they are soooooooo incredibly hard that you always have to give the best out of yourself.

[@MrHoll87]

Been playing ESO since beta and there are some basic things in this video that I did not know. Great video, good for everyone, new or experienced.

[@hydromancer6351]

Charge your weapon. It’s giving me anxiety

[@corbystallman9928]

I just started the game a week ago, and this list of beginner videos you put together is awesome. I am sure I would have quit the game in frustration had I not found this list.

[@elfpimp1]

I think the biggest takeaway with the lack of details ingame is the fun of discovery.

[@newworldforward1842]

Yeah, but some things are just frustrating. Took me weeks to figure out how to roll-dodge, which should have been explained in the tutorial..

[@lukedorrington7455]

I never knew about the starter zones, I wondered why I was getting wrecked over and over and losing interest, thankyou this will help

[@chrisbenn]

"A new server"? is there not only 2?

[@blktauna]

looks like he's on console, so there's 4 more?

[@jankoritko2054]

U can always choose whether u play on console or pc. For each way u can then go for EU /Europe/ or NA /North America/ server.

[@alucard8433]

there is 6 total servers, PC NA, PC EU, XBOX NA, XBOX EU, PS4 NA, and PS4 EU.

[@nixie_lynx]

@@alucard8433 more if you count the pts

[@cynhanrahan4012]

Brand new level 16 player here. This REALLY helped. Thank you!

[@knightjumpsnewsnetwork8940]

Not only is it frusterating but it's also frustrating.

[@fredhurst2528]

Like that starting location tip, imagine starting in Summerset like I did a while back, not knowing about the natural starting zones. You breeze through some early story content, and then, bam, K'tora.

[@vibes1025]

I love your videos man! Thank you for this, keep doing you! I just learnt a game-changer the other day. If you put your crosshairs on an NPC and hold down right thumbstick it highlights them so you can see them through walls. It's especially helpful for sneaky characters.

[@doakesanddrax]

This will also lock your attacks to that character. So say you are in a boss fight and don't want your attacks to hit the boss, but the add that's standing inside the boss cause he's annoying. You can lock on him

[@varana]

@@doakesanddrax Unless it's drastically different on console, that's not how it works, unfortunately. At least on PC, ESO only uses hitboxes - the targetting may help you see where a certain enemy is, but it doesn't make your attacks hit only that target.

[@joaomatos-gc1ud]

Oh wow that heavy attack tip made my day, been trying to solo dungeons and my main problem was running out of stamina to sustain my hp and dots, thank you a lot for the video!

[@plushiesaurp2068]

Great video, thank you for sharing! What I like to do for the horse riding lessons; I load 5 first lessons into stamina, then some into speed, then carrying capacity [the last one is especially useful if you don't have ESO+ craft bag] I prioritize stamina because with its increase I can endure more hits before being dismounted, which is really useful if I'm in a hurry and running through the wilderness, not wanting to fight some mobs. 5 points is enough to get me away from pretty much anything on a normal sprint, even without the speed upgrade.

[@gdubactual]

Most useful ESO video I have seen to date (and I've watched quite a few). Well Done! Thank you.

[@spcbrass]

Watch out for all of the starter/prologue quests once you get into alliance capital cities as well. They appear with the same main quest icons as the particular zone you happen to be working on. Suddenly you may be whisked away to Orsinium, Vvardenfell or Summerset and following a whole other quest line completely.

[@spcbrass]

Oh and along those same lines there are prologue quests that can freeze the main quest line of the game. “The Tharn Speaks” will get locked if you have “The Demon Weapon” open because Abnar Tharn will literally be in the same location for both quests at the same time and the game doesn’t allow that so it keeps his main quest marker hidden. I’ve heard there is another quest locked in the same manner. Sai Sahan/Dragonhold related.

[@roqsteady5290]

Really great stuff! Picked up most of these (slowly) over the six weeks or so since starting, but completely missed that two handed weapons count double in an item set - that is going to make a big difference to my item set planning! Also thanks for clarifying the difference between dodge/roll and block! I had thought that I must be mistiming dodge/roll, because it works totally differently to how it works in Guild Wars 2 (where rolling always stops damage). I've been having some problems in dungeons understanding how to mitigate damage from bosses and seem to get one shotted some times, judging by the post mortem reports (in normal random dungeons). And I can't quite figure out what is happening. Obviously red circles are not good - but it would be really useful if you could do a video on the different damage indicators in the game and how to counter them - the open world (including delves and public dungeons) is a bit of a cakewalk, but group dungeons (some of them) and world bosses do need some mechanics, I think - and I'd like to try the harder, veteran, content soon.

[@Plasmafox]

8:20 you can also go into the settings menu and change the horizontal alignment of the camera- switching shoulders or centering the camera above your head.

[@MadMorgtigan]

A couple Missed suggestions: 1 - Guilds - Difference between NPC and player guilds, how to level NPC ones & making sure you pick them up. Unduanted intro at level 10. Joining up to 5 player made guilds 2 - Guild Vendors, not global like the auction house in most other MMO's, does your guild hire a trader? and if yes they can be accessed from a banker in any city, you don't have to travel to them. 3 - Selling vs crafting/deconstruction. Leveling crafting is NOT by creating but rather by destroying things. Researching traits and how that gets up to 30 days so focus on needed ones earlier than later.

[@danielmiller4354]

Knew I wasn’t crazy when I noticed my Mana going up after a heavy lol thank you for confirming

[@earlcarter9020]

Great tips, here's 1 more, the best food for beginners is gain by completing the Orzorga recipe quest line in Orsinium, you need ~ recipe quality rank 4 and ~ recipe improv rank 1 to make the food, the food itself has no set level, it levels with your character, the two recipes are max health/mag recovery and max health/stam recovery. ps, max health/mag recovery is also one of the best tank foods

[@zerpharet]

A remark on the quest markers: The big one is for the big story line of current zone. Also the alliance story line starts in the starter zone and guides you from zone to zone in your alliance. They will have that big zone quest marker. But if you do not go to the starter zone and begin there you will doing the zone quests in a different order which could be confusing story wise. The main story with the prophet, coldharbour and all the bliss does not count as zone quest. Therefore it has a normal boring quest marker. Although it's a long story.

[@Craul08]

I never noticed until I found out today that champion points have diminishing returns. I just went 100 damage 100 regen/penetration and couldn't understand why you would possibly ever chose anything else. Also didn't know off balance attacks restore double stam/mag.

[@camronreynosa4958]

10:02 This must be an adjusted quality of life change, when i started playing in 2016 the WAS NOT the case. A 2handed weapon had to be paired with 4 pieces of armor to get the 5piece perk. I just got back on this game 2 months ago and knowing this will make building an armor set with jewelry sets even more volitile!

[@HackTheMinotaur]

I think this changed in 2019 - maybe 2018? Many players were used to the old way and didn't realize it changed.

[@OmnicoranGaming]

Pc lvl 25 temp here, one thing you should know is that all y'all are awesome and I've never met a better community. That is all

[@cpthammer]

good guide, i watched a few "beginner guides" today and a lot are super simple things everyone who has played a mmo or rpg before would know already. This guide was a lot more informative and the tips are very useful, good job! One thing I learned from one of the simple guides that was not in this video is that "mundus stones" are a thing. Stones you find in the wilderness that give your character a permanent buff when used.

[@__Kal]

As someone who started playing barely 4 weeks ago, I'm immensely impressed with the pace of information supplied in this game. In my opinion, they perfectly walk that fine line between an overwhelming amount of information/mechanics and too simple to be fun. They made the general quest mobs easy enough to allow me to focus on deciding on/experimenting with which skills I wanted to pick without completely crushing me for not knowing the ins and outs of interrupts and heavy-attack-blocks. Then by the time I started feeling comfortable with my skills and wanting to hit harder things, I had enough focus available to notice the indicators for the advanced mechanics and found a whole new world of complexity and refinement that left me feeling like the hero my character is developing into. Absolutely superb. That's not even counting the fact that I was lucky enough to have my friend recommend the faction with what will likely be my favorite zones/stories in the game (AD, because cherry blossoms and intrigue). I honestly haven't had this much fun with the gameplay/story of a game since Wrath of the Lich King.

[@nilaprasad7871]

May I ask where is the location of that cherry blossom zone..? I'm still new btw

[@falcon989]

Thanks! The tip about two-handed weapons counting as two pieces for a set just blew my mind! lol

[@daveh7720]

Another thing I bumped into regarding the 25 quest limit: Crafting Writs count toward that limit. I was doing all seven available writs every day to get my Crafting levels up, but if I already had more than 18 quests in my journal I couldn't pick them all up at once. I had to go do a few writs, turn them in, then run back to the writ board to pick up the rest. All it really cost me was a few more minutes at the start of each game day, but I wanted to get the daily stuff done so I could get on with the actual game. Why make the grind take any longer than it needs to be? Oh, one other thing: to see what a Guild trader has to sell, open their store and press 'R' (for Start Search). It doesn't list their wares automatically. I played for months thinking I couldn't buy anything from them because their inventory looked empty (except for my own guild's trader, which only showed the Guild tabard.)

[@harithomas1911]

I was really hoping for a bard subclass or skill line. I could imagine abilities flavoured after music. Maybe a horn you can blow to make people around afraid of you, or a flute you play to make people dance around you, acting as a stun or something, or a war drum that would grant you some benefits, like maybe increasing your stamina/ magicka recovery or granting you some physical and spell resistance for a limited time. Or have a damage shield like the sorcerer's hardened ward in the form of floating music notes floating around you. As a support you could choose friendlies for some other music notes to reflect, working like the warden's netch, or increase healing/ damage to that target if it was an enemy. I'd love to see something like the fury spell in Skyrim being implemented in ESO, maybe in PvP this would work as some sort of shared damage, say toggling it on and any damage to you may be halved and shared with a friendly close to your enemy. So much potential!

[@HackTheMinotaur]

I was hoping for that too. Maybe next year?

[@uglymofugly]

I was just wanting to pick this back up and give it a fair go on xbox. Ty

[@ChechireCat4721]

All fairly easy to learn if you observe what changes when you do certain things, also helps to have skill, attributes, and ult number on. damage scaling did go through a few less obvious things, but if you hover over your attributes in the character section of the menu it will tell you max magicka does more than provide sustain.