Adventuring - ESO

Quests

Citizens throughout Tamriel need heroes and grant quests to willing adventurers. These quests contain objectives that the character must complete to advance the quest. Completing a quest chain often yields greater treasures and experience. To locate a quest bestower, look for the , or indicator above a character's head and speak with them to accept the quest.

Quest Indicators

Quest indicators for active quests appear on the Compass in the top center of your screen. They also appear on the world map, which can be viewed at any time by pressing the M key.

Additionally, players can view Quest Bestowal Indicators on their compass by enabling the "Compass Quest Givers" setting found in the Interface section of Settings. Settings can be found in the System Menu ESC. represents Zone Story Quests. These quests serve as the main story arc for the zone. This icon also appears on quests that might not be a zone story quest, but lead to the next quest in the zone story.
represents Normal Quests. These quests expand the lore of the world.
represents Repeatable Quests. These quests can be completed weekly, daily, or infinitely, depending on the quest.

Quest Journal

Your Quest Journal will track all of the quests that your character currently has active. To view the Journal press the J key and use the index on the left side to browse through your active quest categories. Most quests are grouped by area, but some, like the Main Quest and certain Guild Quests, are grouped by type. Click the name of the area or quest type to expand and view the list of current quests in any category.

Exploration

As your character explores the world of Tamriel they will discover Points Of Interest (POIs) of various types, including cities, towns, dungeons, tombs, encampments and keeps. While exploring, if your character gets within range of a POI, a POI Indicator will appear on your compass.Most POIs will have a story or a portion of a story for your character to experience. Completing a story within a POI will often yield additional treasures and experience gains.

Dungeons

While adventuring in Tamriel you will come across special locations known as Dungeons. Dungeons are designed for groups of 2-4 players, and feature denser monster populations with enemies that are harder to kill. If you are up to the challenge, Dungeons are filled with treasures and higher quality rewards.Some Dungeons are public, which means that you may encounter other players while adventuring there.

Other Dungeons will give you and your groupmates a private, instanced version. Private Dungeons are designed for 4 players.

Trials

Trials are repeatable PVE gameplay designed for groups of 12 players. Groups are pitted against the most aggressive types of encounters Tamriel has to offer. If they are victorious, they earn the highest quality loot, and those with the fastest completion times get bragging rights on the Trials Leaderboard.When a group completes a Trial they will receive a Vitality Bonus| based on how few times players revived.

Each week, a new Trial is randomly determined to be the Weekly Trial by the Undaunted. Once a week, when players complete the Weekly Trial, they receive a special reward.

Wayshrine Travel

Traveling in the world of Tamriel is simple and fast. The Wayshrine Network allows your character to move instantly between Wayshrines.When your character comes within range of an undiscovered Wayshrine it will be added to your network and appear on your map. If you approach and interact with a Wayshrine in the world, it will bring up a Wayshrine Map, allowing you to instantly travel to any previously discovered Wayshrine.

Recalling

Your character can also choose to travel directly to a Wayshrine from any point in the world for a small amount of in game currency.To travel using this method, press the M key to access your world map, then click on any previously discovered Wayshrine to which you wish to travel. A confirmation pop-up will appear, revealing the cost of traveling to that Wayshrine and giving you the option to accept or cancel.

Travel to Player

You can use your Contacts Menu to instantly travel to another player's location. Press the Not Bound key to open your Contacts Menu, then right-click on a contact name and select "Travel to Player" and you will be instantly transported to their location. This same method can also be utilized from your Guild Menu or Group Menu.

Delves

Delves are explorable underground areas accessible through doors, gates, and portals in the world. Delves are public locations where you can encounter other players that may help you to face the challenges within. Additionally, each delve will contain a skyshard as well as a population of hostile creatures and their accompanying treasure.

Group Delves

Group Delves are present in Craglorn and are balanced for two to four players. Group Delves are instanced locations, so you and your group will have your own version. You will never encounter ungrouped players in a Group Delve.

Public Dungeons

Public Dungeons are large, dangerous areas that contain many monsters and treasures. They are balanced for groups of two or more players and can be found in most of the zones in the game. As their name implies, they are public locations where you may run into other ungrouped players that may help you overcome the challenges within the dungeon.

Navigators

Most cities in Tamriel contain a Navigator that will transport you to other major cities and alliance territories upon request.