Okay question! I have ESO but I’ve never been able to get into it because I don’t know what to do. What was the first thing you did? How do I actually get into the game? I loved Skyrim and would like to love ESO
honestly you gotta just power through your first zone. i find ebonheart pact (alliance for nords, dunmer, and argonians) to be really ugh but i genuinely loved daggerfall covenant as my first and aldmeri dominion as my second alliance. so picking a character and their race becomes kinda key. Making sure you are actually playing the main quest and are in the correct zone helps a lot, since the game dumps you in whatever zone the most recent chapter you own is in (vvardenfell for morrowind, summerset for summerset, elsweyr for elsweyr). it’s very jarring and hard to get into stuff when you have no idea whats going on, who anyone is, or even WHO you are. so having a key for that helps.
Go along with the main questline and your own alliance’s, avoid the prologue quests like the plague (look them up in advance), don’t bother with eso plus until you finish the main quest unless you like paying out the ass for DLC it doesn’t make sense to play yet chronologically, join the fighters and mages guild, and don’t even bother with group dungeons or PVP. Once you make it through the first major zone (glenumbra, auridon, or stonefalls) and its main questline, you should already be somewhat attached to certain characters, and invested in the questline. I know I was already in love with Darien by the time I finished Glenumbra, and had a big (hehe) crush on Lyris, AND wanted to punch ol’ moldy balls and mannimarco in the face REALLY badly, so I was motivated by that.
I’m a very quest/plot/story oriented person, so that’s what gets me in games. Not everyone is the same, but that’s what it is for me.
