Thanks for watching! I hope this video is helpful in 2022 as you decide what you want to get in the crown store.

The storage boxes can be purchased in game with writ vouchers.

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

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')

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

What armour set/bundle thing is your character wearing in this? It looks pretty cool

Storage chests can be brought with master writ tickets btw. Already mentioned.

You can also buy storage chests from Rolis Hlaalu with Writ vouchers..

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.

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

i think the 500 starter pack is worth it imo mainly because its a cute pet for a cheap price with some added goodies

Wish I watched this before I spent like $30 getting the assassin set... Good tips! :)

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

THE FLOW OF LIFE CONSIST OF UPS AND DOWNS, ADAPTATION IS KEY,AND TO ADAPT U NEED TO PRACTICE CONSISTENCY LIKE U SAID ONG💯💯💯💯

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.

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.

I have ESO plus and use the crowns to unlock the DLC's; just in case I lose the ESO plus.

Just what I needed. Thanks. I spent $200 before realizing houses could mostly be bought with gold. Lol

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 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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

> The last thing that I think is really worth it is the Storage Chests... ooph, those are purchasable in game with writ vouchers

I would never buy storage chests with crowns. Waste of money when they can be bought with writ vouchers or Tel Var.

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!

Hey man! Great video. New player here. What is the black „skin“ or „gear“ you wearing? Ist this also purchased or unlockable?

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.

You can buy storage chests with in game writ vouchers and tel var stones

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.

you can get storage chests with writ vouchers or tel var stones other than just crowns

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 didnt even know that there was buyable dlc. Now i know how i'll take advantage of the crown sale

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 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.

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

One item I would say is worth buying in the crown store, is the Imperial Race. 2,100 crowns if I recall.

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.

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

New player (level 20) and honestly this was so helpful lol. Thanks for keeping me from wasting money!

You can get storage chests through writ vouchers. Might be a better option if you don't want to spend the crowns on them.

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.

I've been on eso plus and I don't get monthly crowns... Does anyone else have that problem?

What motif is that on his character? Can’t find it anywhere in collections.

Glad I looked this up before I hoped on today

What outfit style/ personality are you using?

Worth mentioning there are three ways to get storage chests and two that are in game: Tel Var (PvP), Writ Vouchers (Crafting), or Crowns ($$)

Could you maybe make a video on some mid game builds. I don’t want to rush to the late game but I’m not sure what to do in the mid game other than questing and doing daily’s. Trials look like a ton of fun but I have a long way to go before I can start doing them

What armor are you wearing you look awesome?

As someone coming from FF14, I love the fact that your sub gives you currency to spend in their store.

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.

yo adam what are your motif styles in the video?

What is that black dye color you have and what’s the achievement? It looks badass

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.

If I was to buy the warden class can I change it on my main or would I have to make a new character?

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

i love bill just being there

ThankYou for this!

Thanks for the update on this topic. Love the videos

Could someone please advice me what I ought to by if I want to start a guild for me and some friends? They are mostly casual gamers but I want to make it as convenient for them as possible, so the merchant and bank assistant sounds like great buys. And I didn’t understand the armory thing. Is it something for a house? Like where does it go?

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 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!

Thanks Bro!! 🤗

Um .. what's that helm and chest piece you are wearing?

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

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 bought a banker and merchant then my friend showed me g2g and I stg I found all the merchants for like 5 dollars each. I’m not really endorsing buying stuff from a third party but like damn

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.

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 Really Want To Know How To Make That Outfit/Armour Set?!

Yeppp, this is for me!!!!

im ok with the shop but not with thre prices like the banker cost as much as the game like what?

Anything to do with additional storage space, for the inevitable moment subscription & 'pay to win' becomes too much; & you go 'free to play'.

So if i buy a Motif do i have to have certain skill levels to craft?

Hay bro ya helped me thanks

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

What armor is that?

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.

What’s this Motif? I love it!

I watched that to late, anyway great video!