I disagree about storage chest, I think they should go in the borderline category since you can get them through writ vouchers doing crafting writs I only bought once a crate through crowns all others through writs. Just do daily writs sometimes you will get the special writ and if you have the mats and the motif then you can crafted and exchange for vouchers
Anything cosmetic, for convenience, or to reduce time to collect (by using money) on a character is good business. Crates are not good (gambling). Increasing power level of any kind is not good (that should be done through time engaging in the content in game). If someone's got money to spare go for it, it's just entertainment.
That, I agree with. And dyes. Dyes were useful when we didn't have an outfit station. I have 60 wasting space in one of my house crates.🤷🏼♂️ Dyes are fun to earn in game. I even did a dye run for an entire day. Got 20 something achievements and tons of dyes.
Started playing last week. Fell in love and there was a big sale. Bought the new dlc collectors pack and like an idiot bought 30 crates. Got nothing. Now I know lol
you can get the necromancer and warden classes when buying the ESO Collection (base game+all chapters). In crown store they are sold separately from their respective chapter, so you'll save lots of money if you buy the collection instead if you haven't own most chapters and both the dlc classes this way.
The armoury effectively allows you to respec for free if you leave the second slot empty. Also Twitch drops allow you to get frequent crown crate fixes if you watch for the required period of time and link your account. Opening these and converting unwanted items to gems also increases the choice of the items you can choose to collect using gems. Crates from drops build up quite quickly especially during DLC launch events. For PC players be careful of "account wide" purchases - they're not - they are limited to the megaserver on which you purchased them in game. The only items that truly apply account wide are those you buy in top level game DLC on the website or those you redeem on your account page online. This is something that ZoS fails to make clear as they claim some items in the Crown Store are "Account Wide" when they're server limited.
@@JarredPearman NA and EU as you say. Same "account" different servers so crown store purchases do not apply to both. Which is a real shame. ZoS missed an opportunity for a massive amount of player goodwill for some extra income.
@@nightforalessia I don't know. I have ESO+ and buy each new area via the website I've never bought any of the DLC in the Crown Store. I'll see if any of the guild members have the answer. I suspect you'd need to buy it on both in the same way as other Crown Store purchases. If I manage to find out I'll update here.
Don't buy furniture items for crowns either. They're almost all available for gold. I love any race any faction because I like roleplaying. I also love assistants. My banker gets a lot of use.
Not even close to the truth. 95% of the furniture has to be bought with Crowns. Fishing is extremely rare from my experience and getting any from loot is even rarer still. Guilds will just charge outrageous prices for things, and, you get 100x more selection from the store.
The banker is the best thing I've ever bought in crown store. Very useful. The inventory pets actually stack for a total of 10 extra inventory on every character. Some motifs are crown store exclusive so if you're a collector thats the only way to get it. I believe the Frostcaster motif in the video is crown store exclusive. You're right about not buying the regular race motifs though, I would even add to that the "rare" motifs, which could probably all be had for 3000 gold in game. The storage chests can be bought in game with writ vouchers and I think 1 even comes as a character level up reward now, I could be wrong about that. I got my second account from 20 CP to around 300 CP just by doing enough writs for the boxes, during an exp event and with a 150% exp scroll.
You are completely wrong on assistants. Being able to dump stuff in your bank or sell quickly when your bag is full while you are out is DEFINITELY worth it.
Depends on the player. For most it's not that big of a deal to sell stuff 2 or 3 times per day when your running though a town. Now if you could actually repair with the merchant, or if it was full banker access instead of min bank access, for 5k crowns really not worth 30 dollars.
Nobody is wrong on something subjective like that. He mentions if you play with people they most likely have this stuff you could use as well. Its an extremely high price point for something you can circumvent by having better bag upkeep practices. Is it convenient? Absolutely. At the end of the day, do you. I find value in it ftr.
@@GetToasty An opinion piece makes judgments, just as responses it will. Why watch if "nothing is true"? Of course you are free to disagree, but arguing against having an opinion is foolish for an OPINION video!
As someone who is constantly running around towns I don't really care for nor need the merchants I don't struggle inventory wise but I feel thats cause I have good inventory management
@@n7firetruck848 I would guess you don't loot much then. It is VERY EASY to fill up your bags if you do. Of course the assistants are a waste if you would not use them though!
I buy a lot of skyshard upgrades. Here’s why they’re worth it for me. I play mostly solo. I’m into roleplaying my characters, going slow, questing, reading books instead of just clicking once to open ans again to close, making up my own dialogue when I interact with npcs… Even my wife get frustrated and impatient with me. I play very little with others and I haven’t enjoyed any pvp so far. So that locks me out of a lot of skill points. Now I enjoy hunting down all the skyshards in a landscape. Really, I do. But mostly the first time. Going through that on every single alt again and again and again… not so much. The first time feels exciting, it’s an exercise in exploration, and an achievent when you find the last one. Subsequent times feels more like tedious grinding. So I’m happy to sink some of my crowns in that. I’m not super into flashy pets and cosmetics, so, yeah.
@@minzekatze Just because someone enjoys the game differently than you, that's cringe? Oh little boy, you're going to have a lot of growing up to do in life realizing not everyone is a sheepless robot like yourself all thinking the same, enjoying the same thing.
The skyshards you mention only become available in crown store when another character has gotten al skyshards in a specifiek zone (skyshard hunter achievement), so I don't think new players are able to see this. (correct me if im wrong)
This is a great video for newer players, as it lets them know how little is worth paying for in the crown store. I have had ESO+, on and off, for years, and can't spend those crowns ☹. I think some will go to the armory slots from now on, but other than that, I might start selling them for in-game gold, lol.
I know you put this out a while ago but Thanks, was trying to figure out what i got for free and what's worth spending my crowns on as I watched your other video a few mins ago about ESO plus a decided its for me, I'm returning after years away tbh i only every got ESO on sale and played it for like 2 weeks but I'm really giving it a proper go this time as I've finished all my SP RPG games
I got the storage chests with writ vouchers, which I think is a good goal to achieve if you are a long term player rather than buying them with crowns. It technically cost me a lot of gold as I used many jewelry writs and those were mats I could have sold, but I do love those storage chests.
Thank you. I just started after the new year [22] and it is confusing. I bought the Necromancer because it looks, and is, fun. Keep up the good work. I'm out there playing, confused, and hoping I'm not screwing up.
Summonable banker then merchant (both essential - you'll use them like extra limbs). Then it depends. If you're getting serious about DPS buy an atronach (trial) dummy - you'll need a house to put it in of course. Then summonable ragpicker (best used with a dedicated expert level crafter character since she extracts what you would if you traipsed round the tables). Then completed stuff. If one of your characters has got all the skyshards in a zone you can buy them on another character - instant skill points. And some skill lines once maxed out on one character become purchasable for others - instant level 10. Top of the list is the Mage line. If you think Molag Bal sapped your soul, try the great book hunting slog sometime... Of course you could blow it all on making your character glow if you like. I wouldn't judge you but nor would I wait for you every time you have to gallop back to town. As to inventory and bank space - mount training every day and buy upgrades with in-game gold if you need to. If you have the banker and merchant you probably won't.
Thanks for the video. I'm new and have been debating on the store. I'm still torn on getting the assistance dues to my whole group just starting the game.
If people don't want your opinion on where to spend their Crowns... - don't watch the video! Less pain for Adam and less pain for everyone else. Personally I found the vid very helpful as a newish player, and I look forward to more content. liked and subbed. Cheers man!
Thanks this helps me a lot. New ESO player. Just find it hard to get my templar high elf like anyone else Templar. Have learned a lot from your videos.
You should give a shout-out to the blood fountain and thrall for vampire characters - it's REALLY utilitarian, and while a lot of guilds have them, not all do.
Each character has 2 armory slots by default, and it's really worth it to make it 3, but after that, it kinda feels redundant unless you're a content creator.
The first time I actually played the game I brought my own races motifs with the 500 free crowns Ibgot at the start as I didn't know where to buy the racial style material.
been playing a cpl of days around lvl20 odd and still feel all over the place🤣 bought blackwood collection and have eso plus so im in for the long haul hopefully, nice video i will save my crowns for a while till i get my bearings👍🏻
the bag space upgrade is also shared with the pack merchant bag space upgrades so there is that, you might not have actually been gifted that as it grays out with bag space upgrades from the pack merchant as well
He brought up respec as a do not buy. 100% agree but it might be worth it to buy an armory slot because you can equip an empty armory slot and respec your skills and CP for free. Saving like 10-13k gold each use, helps with setting up multiple specs and good for testing out builds and stuff. I do also 100% recommend banker and shop guys and a notable house if you have the crowns for them, the banker and shop assistants are great if you're a solo player with no friends like me.
FYI: You can't earn all of the available bank/bag slots without buying them in the crown store. You will reach a limit to what you can buy in game and still have slots available to open for crowns.
I agree with almost everything. The one thing I disagree with is the storage chests. While it may take you a bit longer to get to that point, you can earn them with writ vouchers. I bought my first two with crowns before knowing this. Now after 1yr of play, I've made enough writ vouchers to buy all the rest of the chests, a full set of crafting tables, the Glass Motifs, a Transmute station and I'm waiting for the Zenithar event with over 250 Master writs saved up to do (I'll be rolling in the writ vouchers after this event.) You can always create mule characters early on if you need to store some extra stuff. Way cheaper.
I understand cash shops in MMORPGs more so than in a single player game with almost no replay value. ESO is a game that's constantly receiving love and care from the developers. They gotta get paid somehow.
Played eso on and off since launch and would avoid the crown store like the plague, but one thing I got out of this was FREE armory station thanks for this
As far as buying XP scrolls, that all depends on you wanting to wait for one to be a daily reward. As with instant research scrolls I disagree with never buying them. They provide time that otherwise would be wasted waiting for one. But for everything else I agree.
4 month player here. I invested in the year sub to ESO+ getting the 20ish k crowns that come with it 3 days into my play. I do a lot of solo play and leveling alts/writs. My thoughts are: 1) I use my banker assistant countless times per day on every character. It's 100% essential. I also just bought the armory assistant and he will be second most used once I get rolling with him. I also bought the merchant and use her but less frequently, needed for me though not game-breaking to pass on. 2) I bought the Imperial pack. Not necessary but whatever. I want all races and classes. The necro and warden came with the Blackwood game package. 3) I am currently at 12 characters for writs/variety and will be filling out to 18 just because I want to. Character slots are a purely personal choice but glad it's an option. If nothing else they can serve as mules for items/gear. 4) Inventory pets, helpful especially when multiplied across many characters. 5) Houses. I gotta admit, I am really into housing. At this point the houses that I really want the most are crown store rotation houses only. I just bought a large amount of crowns during the holiday sale knowing that I will likely buy a home or 2 furnished when they roll around again or if another one comes out I like. The price is so high but I know 6) Armory slots. I can see down the road maybe getting an extra one for select characters that I really use most. 7) I bought the Adept Starter pack and a cheap costume for some flavor fun with the initial crown budget from the year sub. 8) Certain skill line completions may be helpful down the road depending on choices. Most everything else is either purely cosmetic and personal choice or just exorbitantly priced or both. Some of the things in there I can actually see spending crowns/real money on if they made a massive cost reduction like 90% off. I am not sure how they decide on the pricings they have but it is what it is. A big factor I think people will use to determine what they buy is whether they are spending ESO+ crowns or additionally purchased ones. It's a lot easier to justify spending 'free' crowns than extra paid ones, especially if there is little that you really want/need.
I'm ok with having a crown store. As gamers some of us make that initial purchase then expect to get lots of hours out of the game, expect our game to run flawlessly, and to have new content constantly coming in. If buying stuff from the store supports the game in any way then I'll participate every now and then.
Not when it makes doing anything actually difficult in the game almost worthless since they add way more unique mounts and cosmetics instead of earning it.
I agree. I played Heroes of the Storm a lot and paid for extras like boost. I think they gave up on supporting the game because too many people want something for nothing and never paid a penny to play it as it is otherwise 'free to play'.
Good video, just came back to the game. Didn't play much to begin with because of life and all that. I think the 2 things I want the most would be the Necromancer class and 2 character slots. Otherwise there is nothing I can see in the store being worth it to me.
Best thing to do! period! as a new player! sell the crowns for Gold! This can easily boost your early game extremely! Full Inventory upgrades? sure! full bank upgrades? sure! boost crafting to 50 across the board? sure! CP160 crafted/overland gear? sure! A lot of cheap motifs and other cosmetic? sure! Just sell the crowns! you get so much more value out of it!
I have a question... IF you buy something in the crown shop, for example a horse, is it only for that char you bought it, or is it available for all chars? I know, houses are accessable for all, and what is if i place a crown chest in that house.... Can every char put and grab items from it, if not, can every char place a chest withoug buying them again.... ESO is so damn crazy with the irl money you can spend....
I am new to the game, less than three months in game. On my main I have every sky shard in the game except the ones in Cyrodil. I have been using my crowns to buy skyshard scrolls so my new toons can immediately have 40 or 50 skill points. It saves the time suck.
I spend like 100 a week i don't have time to grind characters. The progress stuff really helps. Plus no one has to use the crown store. It's all by choice.
@@christinehede7578 I know. Collecting 100 writs in the begining was a pain in the butt. Because you don't really know or have stuff researched. Not enough traits means no completed writs or a very limited number of them. Better spend that on something that helps you complete more of them first.
@@MauraMaudJadeit - Storage chests require player housing. The housing you get from questing allows one storage chest. And you get one storage chest from leveling. New players have other ways of increasing storage like bag space upgrades and bank space upgrades. New players should be researching traits while they level up instead of waiting until level 50 to start. New players can also browse through guild stores to find writ vouchers they can complete once they get 10 in a crafting passive. Besides all that, how much stuff is a new player really hoarding? Collecting sets before CP 160 is pointless. Especially with the sticker book. There are only a few motifs you can't learn until later in the skill tree. You level up too fast for it to make sense to hoard crafting materials before CP 160 (other than JC platings). Alternatively, you can get storage chests for tel var stones, but it's a slog to get that many. If you want to spend real world money so you can store more stuff in a video game, that's your prerogative, but there are people out there who don't want to do that. There are alternatives for those people.
@@matthewchapko8070 I used to dump surveys and treasure maps for the alliance that I wasn't currently playing in them. Also writs of elaborate level because sure I will do this 9 trait gold writ in an easy style as soon as I will finish researching it. I also keep monster sets in there and champion level stuff that I would like to use on an alt. Plus odd bits of trial gear that I'm missing pieces of to full set.
I get gold and purples from crown crates too often to stop buying crown crates, lol, but I don't buy crowns to buy crown crates. I just use what comes with ESO+
I agree, crown crates are not worth the effort to get the top tier items. It's good if you want a rather lower tier object or some random surprise pet. I wanted to get an Ursauk one time for my vampire druidic roleplay build, but settled for a Stonelore bear. In exchange, I got some tattoos and miscellaneous pets, after 4 tries of the 15 crate boxes between myself and my brother. Not worth the effort, but those who do get what they want it's cool.
Thank you so much for making this. I just started playing eso last month since the beta. I found this house that was for sale called sweetwater cascades when I first logged in and was checking out the houses for sale. I was mindblown by how much in game gold you need to buy it, as well as how much it costs in crowns. Over $100 just for the house. Holy crap lol Well I didnt realize back when I was viewing that house that it was a limited item. I bought 20k crowns to buy a house for my account. The house isnt for sale anymore and I just have all these crowns now. I did spend some of them but I'm still holding onto 16k crowns for the opportunity to purchase a house I want but I'm not really into any of the houses except for the ebonheart chateau, and even that needs a bigger yard lol Maybe a swimming hole ;) One thing I have an issue with is the cost for everything in the crown store. Why is everything practically $50+? Your advice to not buy reskills and restats is advising against spending $7 for but here I am sweating over higher values lol I can reason spending money on the restat/skill because you said you can only do it one time per character at level 50 for free. Spending $7 to redo yourself into another build isnt so bad. Losing $50-$130 to the wrong housing investment is my biggest scare hahaha
There are little shrines in the faction capitols (Elden Root in Grahtwood, Mournhold in Deshaan, and Stormhaven in Wayrest) where one can spend a few thousand gold to reskill/restat. Absolutely NOT WORTH spending crowns on. Please.
No no no, DON'T spend crowns on respecs. You can reset your skills/attributes for like 3-5K gold, which you can get in minutes really. Just doing the daily crafting writs on 1 character gives you over 4500g for maybe 5 mins of crafting even if you are level 1 crafter. Also you can respect everything on your character for free at any time if you get the FREE armory station from the crown store and just load an empty setup. Your guild probably has one of these as well.
A game that you pay for in order to play shouldn't even have microtransaction stores in the first place. It's just extra insulting that the crown store sells things that you can get for free just by playing the game.
Anything you can buy with gold; exchanging gold for crowns is permitted by ZOS, and exchanging crowns for gold with another player (eg; world crown exchange discord), then buying that thing is almost always 10x cheaper (furniture, respec, style books, bag space, etc..). Also never buy DLC, those come free with the (significantly cheaper) monthly subscription. Things I will always buy with crowns: Undaunted skill line, mages guild skill line, riding speed. These just save way too much time (literal months).
i have 40 million gold in PC NA server that i don't need for anything and i will use it to buy crown crates from players in next DLC if there's something i like!
awesome vid dude. but holy shit what is that armor you have? i need this asap i dont care how much money it costs ( if it even does) that is definitely the coolest skin ive seen
i would argue if character slots cost the same as an armory slot, then why not get a character slot? U get two new armory slots essentially with the character slot.
I feel like I’m in the minority for not caring about the micro transactions at all, as in their existence isn’t bothersome to me in the slightest.. The first year of me playing the game I went through it without spending a cent, had a blast, didn’t feel pressured to buy anything until I felt like getting myself some more zones and storylines to explore, so it really doesn’t feel like it’s all that pushy and asking for my money too often.
ESO makes money, that's the incentive for creating new content. Out of all the pay games I have played this game dose the best at making the cash shop optional.
I think stores are necessary for alot of MMOs especially if they help to give the game a longer shelf life, but only if they're like they have in ESO nothing in the store will make you stronger or better than another player it's just cosmetic or things you can earn in-game. What I disagree with is games that are random loot boxes only kinda like genshin impact or games where you can pay to make your character stringer like what's happening in diablo immortal right now you can pay to be more powerful and own in PvP.
you could have removed 10min of this video just by saying "80% of the things in the store are not worth But here are the things i think are worth or could be worth" legit would have moved the video from a pointless 13min slog to 3-4min. tell me your trying to milk viewers without telling me your trying to milk viewers.
Im new. I have been playing a month. I just got a year of eso plus and I got like 20 thousand crowns with the 500 I got for starting. So far I just bought the frost horse to go with the crystalfrost skin. I'll probably spend mine on some mounts. I tried not to splurge right off and spend alot of crowns at once tho. I figure new stuff will come out every month and I still got 12 months of plus time! I might get that Indrik mount this month seeing as I missed all of last years events and I didnt get the collectors edition (didnt realize) so I had zero mounts when I started.
The fact that it's **OPTIONAL** and helps provide new content is excellent... I like the idea.... BTW, Crown repair kits are useful because one kit repairs ALL of your damaged equipment... Also, they can be used right before a boss fight in a dungeon... without having to be at the merchant... Houses are often overlooked, and are overlooked here, in the fact that you can fast-travel **for free** from any PvE area on the map....
I think you missed the transmutation station , which can take forever to get through writs, so it is better to purchase with crowns. Also how about the assistants with the deconstruction one , which one is more useful ?
I Some What Feel The Storage Chest But That 50$ for one is How Come I Don't Own Any!! Crown Crates Defiantly Not Worth It Especially The Low Drop Rate There Was Two Thing The One I Bout & The One I Got From A Couple of DLC'S And The a Funny For Me Was I Watched Some Do A Live Drop Of 300 Bucks Worth 3 Mounts None Were Legendary or A one But Majority was The Garbage and Repeatable It Was So Sad!! But Thx For You Content This Was A Good One
It’s not like your inboxing this to our emails demanding we spend our money here. I like that TH-camrs take their time to inform those without time or inclination to research themselves
Thanks for watching! I hope this video is helpful in 2022 as you decide what you want to get in the crown store.
39.99 for 15 crown crates to be accurate
Also I would add it depends on what your after in that crown crate
And thank you for covering the classes cuz when I got into this I dodged those for a few
In my opinion I would not purchase storage containers through the Crown store. I would just do the crafting writs you can get the same items.
I disagree about storage chest, I think they should go in the borderline category since you can get them through writ vouchers doing crafting writs I only bought once a crate through crowns all others through writs. Just do daily writs sometimes you will get the special writ and if you have the mats and the motif then you can crafted and exchange for vouchers
I want that white robe outfit u got brah looks awsome
The storage boxes can be purchased in game with writ vouchers.
Aren't they also available through Telvar stones? I vaguely recall something like that. New to game.
thank you so much this great to know
@@JarredPearman I wish I had known that. I got the biggest ones on sale, but I did get the smaller one with Writs.
Anything cosmetic, for convenience, or to reduce time to collect (by using money) on a character is good business. Crates are not good (gambling). Increasing power level of any kind is not good (that should be done through time engaging in the content in game). If someone's got money to spare go for it, it's just entertainment.
Thank you for making this, new players need to see this. DO NOT BUY RESPECS WITH CROWNS!! (even if they are 'on sale')
Ya... I figured that out shortly after doing just that. I was so mad when I ran into the respec shrines lol
That, I agree with. And dyes. Dyes were useful when we didn't have an outfit station. I have 60 wasting space in one of my house crates.🤷🏼♂️
Dyes are fun to earn in game. I even did a dye run for an entire day. Got 20 something achievements and tons of dyes.
Wish I would’ve seen this yesterday…
Started playing last week. Fell in love and there was a big sale. Bought the new dlc collectors pack and like an idiot bought 30 crates. Got nothing. Now I know lol
Noob here, bought 4 crates got an Apex mount.
When i read how rare it is i feel lucky.
i feel you i, i bought 50 a few days ago because i was trying to get a red senche that was soon leaving wasted 100 something bucks for nothing 🤦
you can get the necromancer and warden classes when buying the ESO Collection (base game+all chapters). In crown store they are sold separately from their respective chapter, so you'll save lots of money if you buy the collection instead if you haven't own most chapters and both the dlc classes this way.
The armoury effectively allows you to respec for free if you leave the second slot empty. Also Twitch drops allow you to get frequent crown crate fixes if you watch for the required period of time and link your account. Opening these and converting unwanted items to gems also increases the choice of the items you can choose to collect using gems. Crates from drops build up quite quickly especially during DLC launch events.
For PC players be careful of "account wide" purchases - they're not - they are limited to the megaserver on which you purchased them in game. The only items that truly apply account wide are those you buy in top level game DLC on the website or those you redeem on your account page online. This is something that ZoS fails to make clear as they claim some items in the Crown Store are "Account Wide" when they're server limited.
By server do you mean NA and EU, or something more hidden?
@@JarredPearman NA and EU as you say. Same "account" different servers so crown store purchases do not apply to both. Which is a real shame. ZoS missed an opportunity for a massive amount of player goodwill for some extra income.
Ah thanks for this info. I agree with you there. Also, it's respec time : )
What if i buy dlc? Is it share between server?
@@nightforalessia I don't know. I have ESO+ and buy each new area via the website I've never bought any of the DLC in the Crown Store. I'll see if any of the guild members have the answer. I suspect you'd need to buy it on both in the same way as other Crown Store purchases. If I manage to find out I'll update here.
Don't buy furniture items for crowns either. They're almost all available for gold. I love any race any faction because I like roleplaying. I also love assistants. My banker gets a lot of use.
Some furnishing are crown store only though, but nothing you cant cobble up using gold furnishing
Not even close to the truth. 95% of the furniture has to be bought with Crowns. Fishing is extremely rare from my experience and getting any from loot is even rarer still. Guilds will just charge outrageous prices for things, and, you get 100x more selection from the store.
The banker is the best thing I've ever bought in crown store. Very useful.
The inventory pets actually stack for a total of 10 extra inventory on every character.
Some motifs are crown store exclusive so if you're a collector thats the only way to get it. I believe the Frostcaster motif in the video is crown store exclusive. You're right about not buying the regular race motifs though, I would even add to that the "rare" motifs, which could probably all be had for 3000 gold in game.
The storage chests can be bought in game with writ vouchers and I think 1 even comes as a character level up reward now, I could be wrong about that. I got my second account from 20 CP to around 300 CP just by doing enough writs for the boxes, during an exp event and with a 150% exp scroll.
You are completely wrong on assistants. Being able to dump stuff in your bank or sell quickly when your bag is full while you are out is DEFINITELY worth it.
Depends on the player. For most it's not that big of a deal to sell stuff 2 or 3 times per day when your running though a town. Now if you could actually repair with the merchant, or if it was full banker access instead of min bank access, for 5k crowns really not worth 30 dollars.
Nobody is wrong on something subjective like that. He mentions if you play with people they most likely have this stuff you could use as well. Its an extremely high price point for something you can circumvent by having better bag upkeep practices. Is it convenient? Absolutely. At the end of the day, do you. I find value in it ftr.
@@GetToasty An opinion piece makes judgments, just as responses it will. Why watch if "nothing is true"?
Of course you are free to disagree, but arguing against having an opinion is foolish for an OPINION video!
As someone who is constantly running around towns I don't really care for nor need the merchants I don't struggle inventory wise but I feel thats cause I have good inventory management
@@n7firetruck848 I would guess you don't loot much then. It is VERY EASY to fill up your bags if you do.
Of course the assistants are a waste if you would not use them though!
I buy a lot of skyshard upgrades.
Here’s why they’re worth it for me.
I play mostly solo. I’m into roleplaying my characters, going slow, questing, reading books instead of just clicking once to open ans again to close, making up my own dialogue when I interact with npcs… Even my wife get frustrated and impatient with me. I play very little with others and I haven’t enjoyed any pvp so far.
So that locks me out of a lot of skill points. Now I enjoy hunting down all the skyshards in a landscape. Really, I do. But mostly the first time. Going through that on every single alt again and again and again… not so much. The first time feels exciting, it’s an exercise in exploration, and an achievent when you find the last one. Subsequent times feels more like tedious grinding.
So I’m happy to sink some of my crowns in that. I’m not super into flashy pets and cosmetics, so, yeah.
thats mad cringe
@@minzekatze what is mad cringe about that?
@@minzekatze Just because someone enjoys the game differently than you, that's cringe? Oh little boy, you're going to have a lot of growing up to do in life realizing not everyone is a sheepless robot like yourself all thinking the same, enjoying the same thing.
I think if you take out the loot boxes and maybe lower the price a bit for certain items. The cash shop isn’t too bad.
Storage chests can be brought with master writ tickets btw. Already mentioned.
Thank you so much for these tips it’s great to see someone else who doesn’t fall for the pay to win aspect of games these days
The skyshards you mention only become available in crown store when another character has gotten al skyshards in a specifiek zone (skyshard hunter achievement), so I don't think new players are able to see this. (correct me if im wrong)
i think the 500 starter pack is worth it imo mainly because its a cute pet for a cheap price with some added goodies
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What armour set/bundle thing is your character wearing in this? It looks pretty cool
> The last thing that I think is really worth it is the Storage Chests...
ooph, those are purchasable in game with writ vouchers
I have ESO plus and use the crowns to unlock the DLC's; just in case I lose the ESO plus.
This is a great video for newer players, as it lets them know how little is worth paying for in the crown store. I have had ESO+, on and off, for years, and can't spend those crowns ☹. I think some will go to the armory slots from now on, but other than that, I might start selling them for in-game gold, lol.
Can I have some crowns?
dunno about the Daggerfall Covenant and the Aldmiri Dominion, but in the Ebonhart Pact you can get vampirism for free just doing the story line.
You can also buy storage chests from Rolis Hlaalu with Writ vouchers..
and with telvar
I know you put this out a while ago but Thanks, was trying to figure out what i got for free and what's worth spending my crowns on as I watched your other video a few mins ago about ESO plus a decided its for me, I'm returning after years away tbh i only every got ESO on sale and played it for like 2 weeks but I'm really giving it a proper go this time as I've finished all my SP RPG games
Wish I watched this before I spent like $30 getting the assassin set... Good tips! :)
I got the storage chests with writ vouchers, which I think is a good goal to achieve if you are a long term player rather than buying them with crowns. It technically cost me a lot of gold as I used many jewelry writs and those were mats I could have sold, but I do love those storage chests.
Thank you. I just started after the new year [22] and it is confusing. I bought the Necromancer because it looks, and is, fun. Keep up the good work. I'm out there playing, confused, and hoping I'm not screwing up.
Fear not, the only thing that is permanent on a given character is their class.
Summonable banker then merchant (both essential - you'll use them like extra limbs). Then it depends. If you're getting serious about DPS buy an atronach (trial) dummy - you'll need a house to put it in of course. Then summonable ragpicker (best used with a dedicated expert level crafter character since she extracts what you would if you traipsed round the tables). Then completed stuff. If one of your characters has got all the skyshards in a zone you can buy them on another character - instant skill points. And some skill lines once maxed out on one character become purchasable for others - instant level 10. Top of the list is the Mage line. If you think Molag Bal sapped your soul, try the great book hunting slog sometime... Of course you could blow it all on making your character glow if you like. I wouldn't judge you but nor would I wait for you every time you have to gallop back to town.
As to inventory and bank space - mount training every day and buy upgrades with in-game gold if you need to. If you have the banker and merchant you probably won't.
I got the any race pack, and the alliance pack, and it came with some junk, but the pet mount, and costume was worth it. Thanks for the great video
Thanks for the video. I'm new and have been debating on the store. I'm still torn on getting the assistance dues to my whole group just starting the game.
If people don't want your opinion on where to spend their Crowns... - don't watch the video! Less pain for Adam and less pain for everyone else.
Personally I found the vid very helpful as a newish player, and I look forward to more content. liked and subbed. Cheers man!
I didnt even know that there was buyable dlc. Now i know how i'll take advantage of the crown sale
Thanks this helps me a lot. New ESO player. Just find it hard to get my templar high elf like anyone else Templar. Have learned a lot from your videos.
You should give a shout-out to the blood fountain and thrall for vampire characters - it's REALLY utilitarian, and while a lot of guilds have them, not all do.
Can't you get Storage Chests with Writ Vouchers?
One item I would say is worth buying in the crown store, is the Imperial Race. 2,100 crowns if I recall.
The Snow Globe Home was great during the end of year event on the PS4. Beam there and turn things in, with a decent wayshrine close.
New player (level 20) and honestly this was so helpful lol. Thanks for keeping me from wasting money!
Each character has 2 armory slots by default, and it's really worth it to make it 3, but after that, it kinda feels redundant unless you're a content creator.
The first time I actually played the game I brought my own races motifs with the 500 free crowns Ibgot at the start as I didn't know where to buy the racial style material.
I would never buy storage chests with crowns. Waste of money when they can be bought with writ vouchers or Tel Var.
Cab you tell me where these chests would be located after you buy them? I’m a new player so some of this went over my head
@@RoaringPhilosopher on ur Collection menu, u can place it on ur houses
been playing a cpl of days around lvl20 odd and still feel all over the place🤣 bought blackwood collection and have eso plus so im in for the long haul hopefully, nice video i will save my crowns for a while till i get my bearings👍🏻
the bag space upgrade is also shared with the pack merchant bag space upgrades so there is that, you might not have actually been gifted that as it grays out with bag space upgrades from the pack merchant as well
He brought up respec as a do not buy. 100% agree but it might be worth it to buy an armory slot because you can equip an empty armory slot and respec your skills and CP for free. Saving like 10-13k gold each use, helps with setting up multiple specs and good for testing out builds and stuff. I do also 100% recommend banker and shop guys and a notable house if you have the crowns for them, the banker and shop assistants are great if you're a solo player with no friends like me.
FYI: You can't earn all of the available bank/bag slots without buying them in the crown store. You will reach a limit to what you can buy in game and still have slots available to open for crowns.
I agree with almost everything. The one thing I disagree with is the storage chests. While it may take you a bit longer to get to that point, you can earn them with writ vouchers. I bought my first two with crowns before knowing this. Now after 1yr of play, I've made enough writ vouchers to buy all the rest of the chests, a full set of crafting tables, the Glass Motifs, a Transmute station and I'm waiting for the Zenithar event with over 250 Master writs saved up to do (I'll be rolling in the writ vouchers after this event.) You can always create mule characters early on if you need to store some extra stuff. Way cheaper.
I understand cash shops in MMORPGs more so than in a single player game with almost no replay value. ESO is a game that's constantly receiving love and care from the developers. They gotta get paid somehow.
Played eso on and off since launch and would avoid the crown store like the plague, but one thing I got out of this was FREE armory station thanks for this
As far as buying XP scrolls, that all depends on you wanting to wait for one to be a daily reward. As with instant research scrolls I disagree with never buying them. They provide time that otherwise would be wasted waiting for one. But for everything else I agree.
As someone coming from FF14, I love the fact that your sub gives you currency to spend in their store.
Thats because FFXIV expansions are 20x bigger than ESO ones literally
4 month player here. I invested in the year sub to ESO+ getting the 20ish k crowns that come with it 3 days into my play. I do a lot of solo play and leveling alts/writs. My thoughts are:
1) I use my banker assistant countless times per day on every character. It's 100% essential. I also just bought the armory assistant and he will be second most used once I get rolling with him. I also bought the merchant and use her but less frequently, needed for me though not game-breaking to pass on.
2) I bought the Imperial pack. Not necessary but whatever. I want all races and classes. The necro and warden came with the Blackwood game package.
3) I am currently at 12 characters for writs/variety and will be filling out to 18 just because I want to. Character slots are a purely personal choice but glad it's an option. If nothing else they can serve as mules for items/gear.
4) Inventory pets, helpful especially when multiplied across many characters.
5) Houses. I gotta admit, I am really into housing. At this point the houses that I really want the most are crown store rotation houses only. I just bought a large amount of crowns during the holiday sale knowing that I will likely buy a home or 2 furnished when they roll around again or if another one comes out I like. The price is so high but I know
6) Armory slots. I can see down the road maybe getting an extra one for select characters that I really use most.
7) I bought the Adept Starter pack and a cheap costume for some flavor fun with the initial crown budget from the year sub.
8) Certain skill line completions may be helpful down the road depending on choices.
Most everything else is either purely cosmetic and personal choice or just exorbitantly priced or both. Some of the things in there I can actually see spending crowns/real money on if they made a massive cost reduction like 90% off. I am not sure how they decide on the pricings they have but it is what it is. A big factor I think people will use to determine what they buy is whether they are spending ESO+ crowns or additionally purchased ones. It's a lot easier to justify spending 'free' crowns than extra paid ones, especially if there is little that you really want/need.
you can get storage chests with writ vouchers or tel var stones other than just crowns
I'm ok with having a crown store. As gamers some of us make that initial purchase then expect to get lots of hours out of the game, expect our game to run flawlessly, and to have new content constantly coming in. If buying stuff from the store supports the game in any way then I'll participate every now and then.
Not when it makes doing anything actually difficult in the game almost worthless since they add way more unique mounts and cosmetics instead of earning it.
I agree. I played Heroes of the Storm a lot and paid for extras like boost. I think they gave up on supporting the game because too many people want something for nothing and never paid a penny to play it as it is otherwise 'free to play'.
Good video, just came back to the game. Didn't play much to begin with because of life and all that. I think the 2 things I want the most would be the Necromancer class and 2 character slots. Otherwise there is nothing I can see in the store being worth it to me.
Worth mentioning there are three ways to get storage chests and two that are in game: Tel Var (PvP), Writ Vouchers (Crafting), or Crowns ($$)
Best thing to do! period! as a new player! sell the crowns for Gold! This can easily boost your early game extremely! Full Inventory upgrades? sure! full bank upgrades? sure! boost crafting to 50 across the board? sure! CP160 crafted/overland gear? sure! A lot of cheap motifs and other cosmetic? sure! Just sell the crowns! you get so much more value out of it!
I have a question... IF you buy something in the crown shop, for example a horse, is it only for that char you bought it, or is it available for all chars?
I know, houses are accessable for all, and what is if i place a crown chest in that house.... Can every char put and grab items from it, if not, can every char place a chest withoug buying them again.... ESO is so damn crazy with the irl money you can spend....
I am new to the game, less than three months in game. On my main I have every sky shard in the game except the ones in Cyrodil. I have been using my crowns to buy skyshard scrolls so my new toons can immediately have 40 or 50 skill points. It saves the time suck.
Alot of the stuff in the store is cosmetic but the assistants are the more useful.. I made the switch from console and found they were very clutch
I spend like 100 a week i don't have time to grind characters. The progress stuff really helps. Plus no one has to use the crown store. It's all by choice.
Glad I looked this up before I hoped on today
You can buy storage chests with in game writ vouchers and tel var stones
You can get storage chests through writ vouchers. Might be a better option if you don't want to spend the crowns on them.
Or buy them when they're on sale if you're missing one and have a better use for writ vouchers. That happens occasionally.
It takes a very long time for a new player to get writ vouchers though. Buying some storage chests early when they are on special is a good idea
@@christinehede7578 I know. Collecting 100 writs in the begining was a pain in the butt. Because you don't really know or have stuff researched. Not enough traits means no completed writs or a very limited number of them. Better spend that on something that helps you complete more of them first.
@@MauraMaudJadeit - Storage chests require player housing. The housing you get from questing allows one storage chest. And you get one storage chest from leveling.
New players have other ways of increasing storage like bag space upgrades and bank space upgrades.
New players should be researching traits while they level up instead of waiting until level 50 to start.
New players can also browse through guild stores to find writ vouchers they can complete once they get 10 in a crafting passive.
Besides all that, how much stuff is a new player really hoarding? Collecting sets before CP 160 is pointless. Especially with the sticker book. There are only a few motifs you can't learn until later in the skill tree. You level up too fast for it to make sense to hoard crafting materials before CP 160 (other than JC platings).
Alternatively, you can get storage chests for tel var stones, but it's a slog to get that many.
If you want to spend real world money so you can store more stuff in a video game, that's your prerogative, but there are people out there who don't want to do that. There are alternatives for those people.
@@matthewchapko8070 I used to dump surveys and treasure maps for the alliance that I wasn't currently playing in them. Also writs of elaborate level because sure I will do this 9 trait gold writ in an easy style as soon as I will finish researching it. I also keep monster sets in there and champion level stuff that I would like to use on an alt. Plus odd bits of trial gear that I'm missing pieces of to full set.
I get gold and purples from crown crates too often to stop buying crown crates, lol, but I don't buy crowns to buy crown crates. I just use what comes with ESO+
Great video and informative!
Just started and i got 500 coins and was gonna buy the starter pack but I’ll probably buy something cosmetic
To me Character slots, any race any alliance, Imperial, and some hair cosmetics.
Super late to this video, but I would really like to know what the outfit motifs your using here are? Thanks!
I agree, crown crates are not worth the effort to get the top tier items. It's good if you want a rather lower tier object or some random surprise pet. I wanted to get an Ursauk one time for my vampire druidic roleplay build, but settled for a Stonelore bear. In exchange, I got some tattoos and miscellaneous pets, after 4 tries of the 15 crate boxes between myself and my brother. Not worth the effort, but those who do get what they want it's cool.
Thank you so much for making this.
I just started playing eso last month since the beta.
I found this house that was for sale called sweetwater cascades when I first logged in and was checking out the houses for sale.
I was mindblown by how much in game gold you need to buy it, as well as how much it costs in crowns.
Over $100 just for the house.
Holy crap lol
Well I didnt realize back when I was viewing that house that it was a limited item.
I bought 20k crowns to buy a house for my account.
The house isnt for sale anymore and I just have all these crowns now.
I did spend some of them but I'm still holding onto 16k crowns for the opportunity to purchase a house I want but I'm not really into any of the houses except for the ebonheart chateau, and even that needs a bigger yard lol
Maybe a swimming hole ;)
One thing I have an issue with is the cost for everything in the crown store.
Why is everything practically $50+?
Your advice to not buy reskills and restats is advising against spending $7 for but here I am sweating over higher values lol
I can reason spending money on the restat/skill because you said you can only do it one time per character at level 50 for free.
Spending $7 to redo yourself into another build isnt so bad.
Losing $50-$130 to the wrong housing investment is my biggest scare hahaha
There are little shrines in the faction capitols (Elden Root in Grahtwood, Mournhold in Deshaan, and Stormhaven in Wayrest) where one can spend a few thousand gold to reskill/restat. Absolutely NOT WORTH spending crowns on. Please.
No no no, DON'T spend crowns on respecs.
You can reset your skills/attributes for like 3-5K gold, which you can get in minutes really. Just doing the daily crafting writs on 1 character gives you over 4500g for maybe 5 mins of crafting even if you are level 1 crafter.
Also you can respect everything on your character for free at any time if you get the FREE armory station from the crown store and just load an empty setup. Your guild probably has one of these as well.
Hey man! Great video. New player here. What is the black „skin“ or „gear“ you wearing? Ist this also purchased or unlockable?
Anything to do with additional storage space, for the inevitable moment subscription & 'pay to win' becomes too much; & you go 'free to play'.
A game that you pay for in order to play shouldn't even have microtransaction stores in the first place. It's just extra insulting that the crown store sells things that you can get for free just by playing the game.
What outfit style/ personality are you using?
Anything you can buy with gold; exchanging gold for crowns is permitted by ZOS, and exchanging crowns for gold with another player (eg; world crown exchange discord), then buying that thing is almost always 10x cheaper (furniture, respec, style books, bag space, etc..). Also never buy DLC, those come free with the (significantly cheaper) monthly subscription.
Things I will always buy with crowns: Undaunted skill line, mages guild skill line, riding speed. These just save way too much time (literal months).
i have 40 million gold in PC NA server that i don't need for anything and i will use it to buy crown crates from players in next DLC if there's something i like!
awesome vid dude. but holy shit what is that armor you have? i need this asap i dont care how much money it costs ( if it even does) that is definitely the coolest skin ive seen
I've been on eso plus and I don't get monthly crowns... Does anyone else have that problem?
i would argue if character slots cost the same as an armory slot, then why not get a character slot? U get two new armory slots essentially with the character slot.
i love bill just being there
I feel like I’m in the minority for not caring about the micro transactions at all, as in their existence isn’t bothersome to me in the slightest..
The first year of me playing the game I went through it without spending a cent, had a blast, didn’t feel pressured to buy anything until I felt like getting myself some more zones and storylines to explore, so it really doesn’t feel like it’s all that pushy and asking for my money too often.
ESO makes money, that's the incentive for creating new content. Out of all the pay games I have played this game dose the best at making the cash shop optional.
The bag space upgrade is grey out because your bag space is maxed.
I think stores are necessary for alot of MMOs especially if they help to give the game a longer shelf life, but only if they're like they have in ESO nothing in the store will make you stronger or better than another player it's just cosmetic or things you can earn in-game. What I disagree with is games that are random loot boxes only kinda like genshin impact or games where you can pay to make your character stringer like what's happening in diablo immortal right now you can pay to be more powerful and own in PvP.
you could have removed 10min of this video just by saying "80% of the things in the store are not worth But here are the things i think are worth or could be worth" legit would have moved the video from a pointless 13min slog to 3-4min. tell me your trying to milk viewers without telling me your trying to milk viewers.
yo adam what are your motif styles in the video?
ThankYou for this!
Im new. I have been playing a month. I just got a year of eso plus and I got like 20 thousand crowns with the 500 I got for starting. So far I just bought the frost horse to go with the crystalfrost skin. I'll probably spend mine on some mounts. I tried not to splurge right off and spend alot of crowns at once tho. I figure new stuff will come out every month and I still got 12 months of plus time! I might get that Indrik mount this month seeing as I missed all of last years events and I didnt get the collectors edition (didnt realize) so I had zero mounts when I started.
Consider the banker you can summon. Possibly the merchant if you farm alot.
@@batboy555 agreed 👍
@@batboy555 I saw those. Also both pets that add carry capacity look worth it especially if they are on sale.
@@matthall8378 I use the banker every day. Hardly the merchant as I port to repair and sell.
@@matthall8378 I may need to look at those pets as I don't have them yet
So I bought the collector's pack for the dope mount *screams internally*
Storage chests can be gotten in game ...without crowns in 3 different ways atlest, i got them with writ vouchers, other ways are with telvar, and ap
I took a drink every time this guy said borderline, now I am writing this from the other side.
What armor are you wearing you look awesome?
The fact that it's **OPTIONAL** and helps provide new content is excellent... I like the idea.... BTW, Crown repair kits are useful because one kit repairs ALL of your damaged equipment... Also, they can be used right before a boss fight in a dungeon... without having to be at the merchant... Houses are often overlooked, and are overlooked here, in the fact that you can fast-travel **for free** from any PvE area on the map....
You can buy green repair Kits at the Vendors for gold too.
The only downgrade is you got to repair every part one by one.
I think you missed the transmutation station , which can take forever to get through writs, so it is better to purchase with crowns. Also how about the assistants with the deconstruction one , which one is more useful ?
Don't you love TH-camrs that care less to respond to followers/viewers?
Thanks for the update on this topic. Love the videos
What is that black dye color you have and what’s the achievement? It looks badass
I'm sure it's cold harbour ash black from the main quest finished. Very popularly used
Yeppp, this is for me!!!!
I always wait until a sale. i only get crowns when on sale and only spend when on sale. I got the banker and merchant bec necro.
I Some What Feel The Storage Chest But That 50$ for one is How Come I Don't Own Any!! Crown Crates Defiantly Not Worth It Especially The Low Drop Rate There Was Two Thing The One I Bout & The One I Got From A Couple of DLC'S And The a Funny For Me Was I Watched Some Do A Live Drop Of 300 Bucks Worth 3 Mounts None Were Legendary or A one But Majority was The Garbage and Repeatable It Was So Sad!!
But Thx For You Content This Was A Good One
It’s not like your inboxing this to our emails demanding we spend our money here. I like that TH-camrs take their time to inform those without time or inclination to research themselves