The environment of Elder Scrolls Online is littered with unassuming crates and barrels, much like the ones pictured above from Skyrim. Don’t assume these are meaningless debris scattered about to fill blank spaces. Crates and barrels often contain crafting materials, like food stuffs, lock picks, and if you hit the jackpot on occasion a gold or two. Often in ESO these vessels will be marked as empty but don’t despair chances are that someone looted them before you got there. Don’t stand around and wait for them to respawn either, just be aware that if you run across them then loot them if you have inventory space.
Lock picking is the bane of my Elder Scrolls love but essential. First word of advice, always have lock picks on you. If you think you have sufficient lock picks, purchase more. I’ve figured out lock picking in ESO, thanks to my hubby, but it isn’t easy and I’ll admit I miss the force feedback from the Xbox Controller. But as difficult as lock picking can be, it is a thousand times worse when you come upon a chest only to discover you have no lock picks on you and you are forced to walk away from what was obviously the greatest chest of all time because you were too lazy to stock-up on lock picks.
Soul gems are essential. A filled soul gems are used to refill the “charge” of a magically enchanted item or to resurrect a fallen player in ESO. Different levels of soul gems refill items to varying degrees and the level of the player dictates the level of soul gem required to resurrect them. Soul gems are available for purchase either empty or filled in any town of decent size. Filled soul gems are far more expensive than empty ones, so stock up on empty ones when in town too. It is not funny when your weapons run out of charge in the middle of no-where and your inventory is devoid of soul gems.
Soul gems are filled with the use of the Soul Trap spell that all players have access to, it is a good idea to keep this spell on your spell bar. In addition to filling a soul gem, it is also a damage over time spell available to all players even if the creature fails to die before the Soul Trap spell expires.
Black Soul Gems are used to store the souls of humanoids in Elder Scrolls lore. I haven’t personally seen them in ESO but it is a safe assumption they are in the game, it wouldn’t be an Elder Scrolls game without them. Levels 1-10 in ESO require only petty soul gems to resurrect a player, by the way this is the only way to resurrect a player.
Repairing your own gear is possible in ESO. General merchandise vendors and others sell repair kits. Repair kits will prevent your gear from breaking out in the field. Any vendor in the game can also repair your gear when the store inventory menu is open. I haven’t yet tested the repair kits in the beta but if they work anything like Oblivion, then the kits are of limited use (i.e. the kit will break as well). I’m also not sure if the repair kit will level the Armorer stat like in previous games, I will test this in the next beta.
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