As per Grits's suggestion; a thread to list our ESO "Add-Ons!
On my game:
First and foremost is my favorite: "Idle Animations" - it takes every idle animation available in game and plays them randomly when your character is idling. It is fully customizable so you can shut down ones you don't like.
(example: the other day Calia suddenly just threw up while meeting Buffy for the first time! Nerves? Maybe, but her ability to puke has been shut off now, )
If left standing idle too long they will yawn, stretch, tap their feet, cross their arms, face palm, etc. Misa signals passing players and points up to the ceiling looking up as if there is something up there, lol. If you take too much time she will droop her arms out like a sulking teenager whose parent is making them wait too long, it is hilarious! And it is totally random, you never know what they are going to do next!
The other day on completing a quest she cheered and leaned her head back and laughed - really AWESOME Add-On!!!
2. Skyshards = speaks for itself. It puts an Icon on your map to make the finding of Skyshards easier. When one is found, it disappears from the map so you have an active data of how many skyshards left in each region (and where they are) to plan out your skill point spending.
3. Lorebooks = Same thing as Skyshards; but it is the Mages Guild Lorebooks. Makes it a hell of a lot easier to find thousands of tiny books in a huge realm! Once each book is found, all indicators to other world copies of that book disappear from your map so as not to keep it cluttered up.
4. Destinations - Helps me keep track of where available achievements; active quest stages; etc - on your map and compass. Once again, they disappear when you find each, and this is also fully customizable so you can check to see where stuff is at any time and then shut them back off to keep your map clean; or just put up certain ones.
Example: It shows the set places on the map that M'aiq spawns for your "I like M'aiq" Achievement; or where to find the Undaunted in a Province just in case you want to buy them a drink, etc. Or you can shut those off and just keep your active quest markers up.
5. Lost Treasures = Shows me a big giant red X on my map if I find a treasure map = where I'll find that treasure. It also puts one up for finding your Survey sites if you do Writs (I do Writs). Without this, every time you raise your crafting materials level you have to search a new Province for where their Surveys are. (which is why I never raised my girl's level in mats till she was at the top of the field and didn't have to do Writs anymore. If they had this add-on when she first started I may have done things differently.
6. LUI Memory Manager = manages the memory usage for Add-Ons so they don't interfere with your gameplay if they are hoggish memory users like this next add-on is:
7 & 8: Master Merchant & The Awesome Guild Store = I keep ahead of Misa's shopping expeditions by selling at the Guild Stores. Master Merchant & TAGS automatically keeps me informed of current market prices for items to sell; keeps a record of my sales and net profits; and helps me manage the store shelves at the Guild Stores I deal with.
Master Merchant has to be a memory hog to keep up with billions of sales; all your mercantile history; all your store inventories (I have five stores I sell at); etc. It is, and so it needs the LUI help above. (I'm pretty sure the Idle Animations uses a good amount as well because it has to check if your character is idle; so = scripts running in background)
I use a mod manager called "Minion" that is Awesome = quick, easy to use, keeps all the add-ons up to date automatically; but I have that feature shut off and once per week I check for updates manually. It takes less than minutes even if some need updated; and this way it is not running in the background of anything else I am doing.
What mods I wish they had:
1. More options to customize the Khajiit like the Ohmes-Raht; Cathay-Raht; etc.
2. Sitting on benches out in the world; an animation to get into a bed and sleep instead of the positioning we have to use now.
3. Player house (I know, this is coming next year)
4. More leisure wear for our characters or the ability to craft it at the clothiers.
Oh my gosh, you nearly killed me with Calia barfing when she and Buffy first met! That is a mishap worthy of Jerric. LOL!!
These look awesome and so convenient! Just the map add-ons for books and Skyshards alone make me drool. Thank you for this thread, mALX!
I'm interested in quite a few of them, though the others I don't quite understand yet.
But how does one get add-ons?
Poor Calia, I’m sure Buffy handled it with her kindness and grace! I would be trying to get the barf to happen more often, lol. Jerric has made frequent use of the Mystery Meat, and he never fails to pick it up when someone leaves a piece lying around Davon’s Watch as a prank. He has the cheer emote on his quickwheel, so it’s barf and then cheer while everyone is laughing.
haute, there is an ESO section on the Nexus, plus I know there are more sources but I don’t have a clue which ones are good/bad/most convenient. Also if a mod manager is recommended or if you simply drop files into the Add Ons folder. I’m following this thread in case Mr. Grits wins the lottery and shares the wealth, lol.
ROFL! Jerric has eaten stale bread and spoiled food, but has never found the Pie of Death!
Thanks, mALX! I downloaded Minion and installed the personality idles late last night. Mazul got to run through a few of them before I logged off for the night (or morning, rather - 1 AM!!).
The maps I downloaded and installed this morning. I'm going online to try them out.
Mazul just finished up in Betnikh. She loved being back among Orcs again, but it made her feel lonely as well. I learned, playing the Daughter of Seamount quest, that she is exiled from her Stronghold, much like Lash in Skyrim. This quest resonated for Mazul in a way it didn't for Julian.
I do like the add-ons I have so far.
The Idle Animations one is probably the one I enjoy the most. I've got Mazul using the Tough set, because it fits her demeanor very well. I made a couple of tweaks to it, though. I took time earlier today to run through the set and watch her play them out. I think my favorite one is the one I call Armor Adjustment, where she kind of shrugs, then https://www.flickr.com/photos/hauteecole_rider/28927889173/in/album-72157670274428003/lightbox/ and swings them out, then https://www.flickr.com/photos/hauteecole_rider/29260918040/in/album-72157670274428003/lightbox/ in both directions.
She's also had a https://www.flickr.com/photos/hauteecole_rider/28927888013/in/album-72157670274428003/lightbox/, while a wild routing party was going on behind her with leaping combatants, flying chickens (which became stuck up in the sky), and magic flying everywhere. It almost looks like she's trying to decide if she wants to dive in and start bashing heads!
And with the crafting perks she's picked up, the maple logs look cool, almost like they're on fire. But the https://www.flickr.com/photos/hauteecole_rider/29260956880/in/album-72157670274428003/lightbox/ - well, let's just say that Mazul thinks she needs https://www.flickr.com/photos/hauteecole_rider/29260956880/in/album-72157670274428003/lightbox/ when she takes Murphy out on these expeditions.
Great shots and am glad you're enjoying the animation mod. Not to tie us too closely to poop, but I do note that both maLX and I logged off in your chat window - perhaps due to the smell.
These are great, haute! Ha, that Daggerfall fountain is party central. I love the neck cracking animation. Mazul is ready for business!
ADDED: Ooo, I love the screenie in your sig! Yay Julian!
I got a new Add-On a couple days ago: The Recipe Master List. What a great addition! It has every recipe available in game; and when you mouse over the recipes in the list it shows you the ingredients needed to make that item and also shows which of your characters knows that recipe if you have multiple characters.
When you pick up recipes in a dungeon, same thing: Mouse over them either in the container or in your inventory = find out if any of your characters needs it or not in one quick glance! Awesome help! Saves me from getting loaded down with recipes I don't need (or if I pick them up anyway to sell and become overloaded at any point = I know what is expendable to destroy.
Ooh, that sounds like the perfect Add-On for Julian!
And now they can all pick up recipes for each other!
Wonder if there are similar addons for the other crafting lines?
I am trying CraftStore Fixed and Improved alongside Trait Buddy and so far I really love this combo. It makes managing the crafting items useful but also tells me when my offline characters have finished researching or have completed riding lessons. Really cool info!
As I add more characters and start divvying up traits and tasks between them, I can see these add-ons really beginning to shine.
Thanks, mALX for the info! It is much appreciated by all of us - me, Julian, Mazul and now Alise!
I really like running both at this time - no problems so far
Trait Buddy seems to be complementary to CraftStore so far.
I haven't tried Recipe Master yet because the description to Craftstore said not to.
So far I haven't needed it for much beyond the basics but already I enjoy being able to see what all my characters are doing and being notified when my toons finish their research.
I may test it out. I don't want too many add-ons, but before I get rid of the Recipe List one, want to be sure there is a better option.
I was hoping Craft Store would do it all so I wouldn't need Trait Buddy. (which I don't really want to be rid of because it works perfectly).
Let me think on this a moment . . .
CraftStore lets you see who learned what trait when you mouse over style materials, style books, trait stones, armor and weapons, etc. It also tells you if a recipe is known to the current toon, but so far I haven't seen anything that tells me whether or not other toons know it as well. What I really like about it is that it tells me how many of which items each toon has, and how many is in the bank. Really helps with managing inventory - if it's already in the bank, I'm gonna throw it in there. I've also avoided buying expensive style material for Alise because I was able to see Mazul already has it.
Trait Buddy gives me an excellent overview of what each character knows, so I'll keep that one for now.
Hi, stupid question mabye but how do I register on ESO forum? Says I need invitation key????
They say they send you an e-mail with invite (code) to join the official ESO forum. I never saw or noticed mine so I opened an in game ticket and asked for one and they sent me one. Just looked up the question over there and here is what they say about it: https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/18679/kw/join%20forum
Hope that helps.
I've been using Craft Store for a while, and mostly it's very helpful, but where they replaced the crafting UI with their own (Provisoning, Enchanting) the option to preview furnishings went away, if you don't have yet another add-on. The latter seems to let you preview when you're not at the crafting station, which is nice, but not compelling. Anyone know how to turn parts on and off, or do I have to learn Lua, and rewrite it myself?
The main reason I got it was the Trait display, but being able to check the lists of furnishings known and unknown is also something I don't want to lose now I have it. So Trait Buddy's not enough.
IIRC there's a menu option to disable the crafting UI. The gear at the top right corner lets you disable the "Use CraftStore Cook/Rune" options. I don't know anything about the furnishing stuff, though.
I just installed the "Port To Friend's House" add-on, and I'm still figuring out the best way to set it up and use it. Any tips?
It looks like I'll need to spend some time setting up favorites, or I'll have to keep scrolling through lists of all the potential homes in the entire game. It didn't seem to have any short list of what was actually available to visit for a player.
For the PTF, I think you need to share a visit card with a friend. That card will show you the available homes that friend owns, as I understand it. Personally, I've never used it.
What I have used is the Favorites, and I use that for those places where the owner is not a fellow guildie or a friend, so I don't have to remember their names in order to show it to friends of mine.
Oh Haute, tell Cardinal THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT !!!!!!!
(Capital letters to emphasize how excited I am over the changes he made! AWESOME !!!!! )
I absolutely LOVE how he fixed it, and now I'm sitting and thinking up names for all my houses!
Shameless plug here
I’ve been using three AddOns by Cardinal05 quite a bit lately. I’ve been able to drop a few AddOns thanks to these three, including and especially PTF. I use Essential Housing Tools (EHT), which enable me to precisely place objects (much of the redecorating in Pariah’s is due to this), set up FX (which requires you to also have EHT installed to see), and animations. There is also Magic Carpet, which allows you to use certain furnishings to move around your home at different heights, and access areas you can’t reach otherwise (such as the top of the southern waterfall at Pariah’s, where I parked the Big Guy). My favorite of this feature is the crafting station - it builds an entire crafting station out of certain furnishings you keep in your inventory and you can float it around and drop it in your current WIP. The third one is DecoTrack, which is exactly what it says - it tracks all your furnishings in all your houses, storage, bank, and toon inventory. So if you can’t recall where you parked that Hew’s Bane bed, you use DecoTrack and it will tell you where it is.
I am continuing to use CraftStore, Trait Buddy, and Potion Maker for my daily writs. Dolgubon’s Lazy Writ Crafter is really effective at moving through five of the seven crafts very quickly.
With EHT you can have crafting stations move from storage to a convenient location just inside your front door (one of my guildies did that, and she loves the steps it saves her) and then back again; or you can have hidden doors/bookcases that open when you click on a candlestick (that always makes me think of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjYsIv90zWk). You can have lights come on when someone walks into a room, and turn off when they leave. Sky's the limit . . .
Cardinal has several threads on the ZOS forums regarding his add-on;
This is one of the most important - https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/458217/recovering-your-home-with-essential-housing-tools-automatic-backups.
And here is a thread with some examples of https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/436263/animations-are-about-to-get-an-upgrade#latest you can do.
He's on the forums as R_K and is one of the nicest, most helpful folks I've ever met. He helped me tremendously with my Kragenhome project.
I'm looking at add-ons to swap equipment and bar slots, so that Unna can carry a tank bar/gear as well as her usual stuff. I saw in another thread that mALX uses "Dressing Room" for Misa, does anyone else have an alternative recommendation? I found a few that do one or the other (gear-only, or bar-only) but nobody was comparing against all-in-one.
Does that mean it's still viable for "home" use - i.e. enable/swap/disable again before leaving home? If she gets a set of heavy, and a set of medium, as well as the weapon and skill swaps, it looks like a reloadUI delay would still leave it quicker that way.
If it works out for Unna, the tanks would be considering the opposite swap for their solo stuff, to bring in some damage at the expense of group buffs etc.
If not, we'll look at the bar-only ones first, although I'd suspect the same problems with those.
I checked out Combat Metrics for our foray into (normal) Crypt of Hearts, and the results were interesting.
Unna did over half the group damage on her run, but still wasn't happy with only around 20k. Weaving is erratic, as is remembering to bar-swap and keep up the AoE/DoT's.
However, Laurie ran as tank for hers, and the whole group only managed that much! I need to practice bar-swapping so she can get to her chain and ranged taunt better. I was losing aggro on the primary target trying to pull in others, although that might have been one of the others pulling against me. She needs to keep the debuffs up better, too.
I'll have to spend some time at Mournoth playing with the 6M dummy, to compare the simple numbers from that against the CMX breakdown.
I may well be back asking for help interpreting the flood of numbers it gives. I'm still confused by the various tabs, and where to find everything.
I'm Checking out Style and Elegance, as an adjunct to Dressing Room, for Unna and Blossom. This add-on lets you save appearance items as a profile, so you can swap outfits and collectibles (mount, pet, hairstyle, adornments etc.) all at the same time.
I quite like the fact that the gear load-out is one add-on, and appearance is another, even if I am likely to use them together a lot of the time. There will be times when only one of the swaps is needed.
For Antiquities I'm using Display Leads With Location. So far it's working great.
https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info922-ExterminatusGroupLeader.html is the add-on I'm using that places an arrow near the reticle to help you follow the group leader. It has a few options. I'm using the nav one. Be sure to turn off "Only in Cyrodiil" for regular use.
I have been tweaking my combat info add-ons, and I’m almost happy with the results. LUI Extended and Foundry Tactical Combat provide a lot of the same options, so I’ve chosen the options from the add-on that I like better and hidden those options in the other add-on. It didn’t occur to me until today that I could use both. Combat Metrics gives me a log I can look at, but I’ve hidden the Combat Metrics UI elements since they’re covered by my other add-ons.
What made me scratch my head until I finally had a Breton moment was wanting to use FTC’s combat log window and also move my compass in LUI. It’s at the bottom of my screen now. I am delighted!
Companions. I noticed many on the official forums complaining about how easy it is to inadvertently talk to your companion when trying to loot or interact with other things. Someone there recommended https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1623-NoInteract.html. So I tried it and love it. You can program a hotkey and when you aim it at a target, it toggles whatever you are aiming at (within interact range) off or on as far as the ability to interact with. Buffy has both companions toggled off and simply points at them and taps a key to interact with them when she wants to then repeats that to toggle them off again. Also, she has torchbugs and butterflies toggled for no interact so she can't get on Mirri's bad side. Good and flexible add on.
Thank you, Acadian! Bastian has been on Jerric’s last nerve. He’s fighting in melee range next to Jerric now, and he can be interacted with during a fight. Argh!
I am using Port to Friends House and Beam Me Up. Port to Friends House is integrated into Beam Me Up’s panel on the map, so you can pull up your map and port to a house on your favorites list in (I think) two clicks. Love it!
Bumping the thread with a mention of https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info3103-ImprovedCompanionRapportInformation.html. I like the fact that it just adds the numbers to the existing information, and nothing else that you don’t want. The trigger points using those numbers are documented on UESP, so you can easily determine if you’re close to getting one their quests. The tables there show how many points activities get, so you take Isobel on an Undaunted daily, rather than feeding her 125 banana treats.
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