I would focus (when it comes to race) on the attribute boosts. Boosts to a skill are not a big deal because if you use the skill alot it will go up to the max of 50 regardless. So having a boost to a skill is only an early game / temporary benefit. Attributes are finite however and limited.

Speaking of attributes, I recommend the following concept. Most of the big kids / elites on the official forum endorse it and I swear by it based on my own limited experience.

If your focus is damage primarily from melee/bow/stamina-powered abilities then focus on stamina since that boosts damage for those.

If your focus is damage primarily from staves/magicka-powered abilities then focus on magicka since that boosts damage for those.

If your focus is on healing (like mine), that comes from staves and magicka abilities and is boosted by magicka.

If your focus is on tanking (meaning unkillable but low damage) then focus on health.

When I say focus on one of those, I mean put every single attribute into that attribute. If that ability is not health, then you simply enchant some of your gear (season to taste) with enough health to survive at minimal expense to your damage or healing.

A magicka-based staff user, for example puts all points into magicka and enchants most of their gear with magicka - putting only enough hp on gear to avoid death. The more into magicka = the more damage (or healing for healers).

A stamina-based damage dealer does the same only with stamina as their primary.

If you do not focus extremely hard on one attribute your damage will be poor. It is only tanks who can focus on health and accept the consequences of low damage as their job is to hold/block/distract foes so the damage dealers can kill and the healers can heal/buff.

So if you're thinking a DK, decide if you want to be a stamina fueled damage dealer or a magicka fueled damage dealer or low damage massive health tank.

Note that any of the 4 classes can specialize in magicka for damage/healing, stamina for damage or health for tanking. If you're looking at the DK, decide if you want to be a StamDK or a MagDK and design the character accordingly regarding abilities, armor, weaponry.

Man, Khajiit hasn't put any thought into any of that! This one thought he was just going to wander around and kill stuff, lol. This one will take your message to heart and consider well the options. Thank you!

Imperials are very strong and tough; I have three of them. Dragonknights are a very "In your face" fighter, but are some of the toughest in the game in a fight when it is against you. They have some terrific powers later on in your build too (like reflect damage).

I had one Dragonknight character, she was a total blast to play! Just be prepared to spend a lot on repairing armor till your skill level is raised enough for some of the better perks, because early on their spells are not ranged in combat (but are a ton of fun!)

They draw their power from the earth (meaning the ground) and one of the coolest things is that they can temporarily become a part of it in combat. You may notice your character appears to be made of mud for 30 seconds after combat, that is the power of the earth you have temporarily become a part of. It is very awesome, and their earthquake spells make you feel like a god throwing them. They are a blast to play!

So you run your Dragonknight as a Magknight?

That is exactly how I played it - I tried out each class and just played them by exploring until I found the one that suited me best (which for me was Nightblade) and settled down with it. My Misa is a strong contender in a fight, but not a powerhouse and could be stronger and more effective if I had followed a strategy like Acadian is talking about.

What I did was just explore how to build a character on my own rudimentary experimentation, which is fine early on. Later, when you are taking on veteran level stuff, it is not so good. I have to be carried through veteran dungeons by those I am with.

That said, if you love a character and don't want to just throw it out when you find a few mistakes in their build; then you always have the option in game of respec'ing them (attributes, skill points, or even just the optional upgrades of your skills) = and you can respec them as many times as you want to fork out the "in game gold" to respec your character.

(or you can buy respec scrolls from the Crown Store, but like Hazmick said = I don't buy anything from the Crown Store that I can get in game unless I'm just desperate to have it right then and there and no waiting).

I just respec'd my bank mule into a crafter, then found out I needed more skill points for his new build, so may have to respec him twice more = once to make him strong enough to go out and get those skill points, the second time to send him back to just being a crafter again. It is either that or I will have to take my favorite character to play and turn her into a crafter, which would mean giving up playing with her unless I can figure out a way to make her strong enough in combat.

Respec'ing a character for in game gold costs only 50 gold per each skill point getting respec'd; and is VERY easy to do, so it gives you the choice to keep a character and try to build them better if you just don't want to throw them out.

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The biggest problem I've found in game is managing inventory. There is limited storage space, and coming from Single Player games we have a tendency to hoard/collect/keep mementos. There is really no room in this game for that.

I think your bank account can hold either 240 or 250 items tops. Each character can be built up to hold 200 items each (at a great cost of in game gold or Crown Points; but like Hazmick said = don't spend Crown Points unless you just have unlimited cash to keep buying them).

The game starts out with 60 inventory "slots" in your bank account, and you only have one bank no matter how many characters you have (they have to share the account).

Each character starts out with only 60 inventory "slots" as well. You can spend in game gold or Crown Points to buy more space in increments of 10 (which starts off cheap, but grows rapidly in cost) - and each character can also buy One inventory slot per day in their horse (which is how they bring their character up to 200 inventory capacity).

Making money in game is a lot easier than managing your inventory space! A lot of people keep a character they no longer want to play, just for the extra inventory slots. Right now I have 6 characters that can hold 200 pieces of inventory a piece; and my bank is holding 220 - and I am still juggling items around from lack of space because I have trouble throwing out things, lol.

I am a member of several guilds, and when my inventory gets too high I donate a bunch of stuff to the guilds for their weekly raffles.

If you pay for the ESO Plus membership they give you an unlimited "Crafting Bag of Holding," that holds any of the raw materials needed for crafting - that helps tremendously to keep your inventory down; but you still have to be careful of keeping too much armor or weapons in storage because it creeps up on you at the worst times (like in the middle of a dungeon when you find some great item and have no room in your inventory to pick it up, lol).

Khajiit is actually familiar with this type of inventory/bank system from his time in games like WoW and Destiny. Should be fine!

Lots of other good information in your post also. Khajiit is sure he will just take his time at first and get used to how things work. And then of course there's dealing with the unpredictable NPCs in MMO games, lol

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Dec 3 2016, 08:27 AM

This is going to sound like a dumb question, but where does one go to spend crowns? When I click on "store" from my account screen all it shows me are the games themselves and crown "packs".

Oooh, I know this one! You buy the game and more crowns on the website - things that require real money. You buy the stuff you get with crowns in the game itself. Open any of your menu screens (map, inventory, whatever) and you'll see a row of icons across the top. Hovering over them shows you what they are. The Crown Store is the left most icon.

So in that case I can't buy the imperial upgrade until I start a character?

Gosh, that looks like it might be so. You see, when mALX and I bought the game (before Tamriel One), you could buy the basic game or the Imperial version. So we bought the Imperial version which allowed you to start as an Imperial right out of the box. Now the offerings are the basic game or the Gold Edition which is DLC heavy but doesn't include the Imperial version.

So yes, it seems. Currently you have to buy the Imperial upgrade in game. I don't know if you can do that during chargen (never noticed if you can access the Crown Store in chargen) or if you might have to start a dummy, buy the Imp upgrade then start a new character. Clunky but doable if that is what it takes.

Oh well, no biggy. Khajiit will just do as you suggest and make a character then get the Imperial add on. Heh, this one should've bought the Imperial edition when he saw it back in the spring, but, well you know what they say about hindsight.

Tonight.

At least you don't have to worry about PvP until (and if/when) you go down to Cyrodiil. That is the only place there is PvP in game unless you want to accept a duel request from a player. I have my game set to automatically turn down duel requests, it is too humbling to see how powerful the ones asking to duel are! But I most def do enjoy watching the duels!







I think you can either access the Crown Store from your game launcher (click on the picture of the Crown Store featured items just above the blue "Play" button); or by Googling "Crown Store ESO;" or by going on this forum's "ESO News" thread to get a link to the Crown Store for if you want to just scan around and see what they are offering.

Also; if I am not mistaken there is a way to buy from there = sign in under your ESO account name and password; and when you get in game the items you purchased can be found the same way Acadian described for getting to the Crown Store - but this time you click on the icon for "Collections" to find what you have bought.

However, that said - I have seen the way to sign in to buy, but never done it myself so don't know how smoothly it works.






This post has been edited by mALX: Dec 3 2016, 09:49 PM

Yeah Khajiit will not be dueling anyone, lol

Yeah Khajiit tried googling crown store and it brought up the site and he could see the Imperial add on but when he clicked it it only gave him options to buy crowns and he could see no way to log into his account on that screen.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Dec 3 2016, 09:50 PM

You have to buy items at the Crown Store with "Crowns," not cash. You spend the cash buying up the crowns, then spend the crowns on the items. There is a way to sign into your account on the upper top right corner of the page if I'm not mistaken. But if you click on "Buy Crowns" it will bring you to a page for your to sign into your account.

This is just like in XBox Live where you had to add an amount of game bucks to your account that you could buy DLC with. I added enough onto mine to buy any DLC a game came out with, then just ordered the DLC when it came out = same thing with the Crown Store. You buy the Crowns to spend, and every time you open up the Crown Store after that it shows you in the bottom left corner how many Crowns you have left to spend. But you have to buy the Crowns first; then choose what to purchase with them.

Ok Khajiit will have to look again. He's got enough crowns for the Imperial add on; he just has to find the interface that will allow him to spend the crowns on the Imperial add on, lol

Every week when they patch in new items to the Crown Store, Hazmick has been posting a link and telling us what is new right on this site under the ESO News thread. You should be able to just click that link to shop and sign into your ESO account from there if you see something you want.

Ok, will check it out when this one gets back home tonight.

Well this is the link to the crown store: http://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-gb/crownstore/upgrades

but as Acadian said, I think you can only buy stuff in-game so you'll have to make a dummy character to buy the upgrade before starting your actual character.

Ok thanks!