So I would advice making a comprehensive list beforehand, taken from your primary alt or if you have a second monitor, simply take some screen captures and use them as a crib sheet to fine tune your new character. None of the above tools port these settings and you’ll have to make them manually. If you want to change such settings you have to alter a drop-down box or toggle a switch. For example, some onscreen displays only show during combat. But due to the foibles of ESO there are still a few settings that have to be dealt with manually. Hence hours of tweaking await you if you’re unprepared.įollowing the above steps will save you time and a lot of bother. Furthermore, assuming you want to use the same addons on your new alt, all those settings have not by default been carried over. All changes made to the key mapping of your other character are not present. New alts enter the game world with defaults settings.

However, things are not so simple in ESO. You can now focus on the game rather than fine tuning your HUD etc. You bags, hotbars and other onscreen paraphernalia is all where you expect it to be. Hence when you create a new alt, once you finished the important task of tweaking their appearance you can start the game and load all your customary settings. In older games such as The Lord of the Rings Online and Star Trek Online, you can customise you UI and key mapping easily and when complete save all relevant settings to a file. If, like me you were not aware of them, then it can be frustrating attempting to trouble shoot them on the fly. If you know about them in advance, they are a lot easier to manage. Because unlike other MMOs, creating a new alt in ESO causes some additional problems to arise. If I can spare someone the hassle that I’ve had over the past 48 hours trying to figure this shit out, then I consider that a valuable social service. However I have written this article for the benefit of those relatively new to ESO as well as the occasional or casual player who are not au fait with all the subtleties and nuances of the MMORPG. If you are a veteran player of The Elder Scrolls Online, this post will simply be a statement of the “bleedin’ obvious”.

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