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Favorite Non-Combat Activities (self.elderscrollsonline)

submitted 3 months ago by Essence_of_Meh to c/elderscrollsonline

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Hi there! I hope there's enough lurkers to get some interesting ideas here.

I just came back to the game after a year or so. I'm not really in the mood for combat at the moment so I decided to take a stab at a pacifist character for a change.

Right now I'm just traveling randomly, taking screenshots and looking for quests that can be completed without combat (even through cheesing, I'll take what I can get). While fun, this approach means I'm probably missing things obvious to more active players so I was wondering if anyone has any fun non-combat activities to share.

The only DLC I have are Morrowind and Murkmire but I'd be interested in things available in any other expansions as well.

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[–] superduperpirate 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Late to the discussion, and I’m not sure how much this is worth from someone who is on his own break from the game, but my favorite non-combat activities included:

daily crafting writs on 20 toons (probably part of why I’m burned out)
cashing in a fat stack of master writs
trait research
collecting mat surveys, for a small number of surveys (if surveys weren’t account bound, or if you could collect multiple surveys at once, I’d be willing to start crafting writs again)
using market tools to locate a furnishing plan I wanted, or a piece of gear I needed to finish out a set in the sticker book

[–] Essence_of_Meh 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Late or not I do appreciate additional replies, it's always interesting to see what other people lean towards.

Were you really into crafting or did you just end up doing all those activities after getting bored with other parts of the game? I'm guessing it's the former considering the amount of tasks mentioned here.

[–] superduperpirate 2 points 1 month ago

I got into crafting writs because I was looking for easy reliable sources of gold. With the craft bag and a bunch of characters, it was a pretty steady source of income. I started doing trait research to improve my chances of dropping master writs. 18/20 of my characters are full 9 trait researchers. The other 2 are 7 or 8 traits. I don’t remember for sure, since my last login was back in April.

I did a lot of crafted gear for my characters.

I never really got into housing, yet I still spent untold millions of gold buying furnishing plans for my main crafter to learn. I would occasionally craft stuff on request for guildmates. Someone would link a plan in guild chat, ask if anyone knew the plan, and I would sometimes be able to swap to my crafter and help out.