Essential Elder Scrolls Online Addons for 2024

A collection of the most essential ESO addons to get the best from the game, from quest help and lorebooks to inventory management.

By Tim Trott | Gaming Guides and Walkthroughs | September 15, 2018
820 words, estimated reading time 3 minutes.
Elder Scrolls Online

This article is part of a series of articles. Please use the links below to navigate between the articles.

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  3. ESO Zones in Chronological Story Order in 2024
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  5. ESO Mundas Stone Locations and Effects
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  8. ESO Companion Guide - Unlocking, Builds, Skills and Perks
  9. ESO Events Calendar and Upcoming Events in 2024
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  11. Essential Elder Scrolls Online Addons for 2024
  12. ESO Kari's Hit List Guide - Elder Scrolls Online
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How to Install ESO Addons (PC Only)

Sorry console players, add-ons are only for PC and Mac players. Simply download the zip file from the links provided and extract them. Copy the folder created into C:\Users\\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\Addons. Now launch ESO, or type /reloadui into the chat window to enable the addons. If they do not load, check the Addons menu to see if there are any missing dependencies.

Quests and Exploration ESO Addons

Destinations

ESO Destinations Addon
Destinations ESO Addons shows undiscovered locations and achievement locations 

This addon will show additional points on your map and radar for specific achievements such as "Wrothgar Cliff Jumper" or items for "Wrothgar Master Relic Hunter". It can also reveal unknown points of interest on the map for you to discover as well as wayshrines, skyshards and Mundas stones.

Download Destinations 

QuestMap

ESO Quest Map Addon
ESO Quest Map Addon 

Adds pins for completed and uncompleted quests to the map, including not yet started quests!. You can hide completed quests or specific quests. This add-on helps identify where particular quests start or quests that you have yet to complete.

Download Quest Map 

VotansMiniMap

Votan's Minimap
Votan's Minimap 

This addon reactivates the mini map from ZOS. Thus the mini map does not do less, but also not more than the built-in world map, because it is the built-in world map.

Download VotansMiniMap 

Combat Enhancement ESO Addons

ActionDurationReminder

Action Duration Reminder
Action Duration Reminder 

This addon tracks your slotted actions that have duration attributes or over time effects, reminds you to re-invoke your actions, and makes you good at performing rotations.

Download ActionDurationReminder 

CombatMetrics

Combat Metrics
Combat Metrics 

Combat Metrics is an addon to track your fights. You can use it to measure your DPS, you can analyse which skills make your DPS or who caused your incoming damage. You can also analyse the heals you received or cast. You can check which buffs and debuffs were running, and how much magicka or stamina per second you used and regenerated. You can Analyse the Combat log, and filter it to analyse specific issues.

Download CombatMetrics 

PVPMeter

PvpMeter
PvpMeter 

PVP meter provides some stats in Battlegrounds and Cyrodiil about your kills, deaths, alliance points, team scores and more. When you kill an enemy, an animation and a notification sound is triggered. The colour of the animation is the colour of your team in Battlegrounds or Green in Cyrodiil.

Download PVPMeter 

Srendarr

Srendarr - Aura Buff Debuff Tracker
Srendarr - Aura Buff Debuff Tracker

Srendarr replaces the game's limited built-in buff and debuff tracking and gives you the ability to customize the display of these effects on yourself as well as others (even group members). It supports all the standard abilities that appear under the Character window or the built-in tracker, as well as many effects like enchants and gear procs, cooldowns and other things that normally only show via graphical effects on your character (or not at all).

Download Srendarr 

Inventory and Trade ESO Addons

AlphaGear

AlphaGear 2 (Builds, Gear, Skills, Banking)
AlphaGear 2 (Builds, Gear, Skills, Banking) 

AlphaGear 2 lets you create up to 20 profiles each with 16 builds that may be activated with a single button press. This allows you to switch between different roles (DPS/Tank/Healer) or switch between PvE gear and PvP gear.

Download AlphaGear 

Dustman

Dustman
Dustman 

A powerful addon to deal with your unwanted items! The addon has options to mark specific or general items from different categories as junk and can automatically sell junk when you interact with a vendor.

Download Dustman 

Tamriel Trade Centre

Tamriel Trade Centre
Tamriel Trade Centre 

The addon collects all the item listings that you see in the guild store and uploads them to the site. The site then uses all the data collected by all players to generate price info for everyone. You can also use the website to search for the location of an item using a way better filter than the default Guild store GUI.

Download Tamriel Trade Centre 

LootLog

LootLog
LootLog 

This addon simply shows a loot log and summarizes loot for all players in the group. Useful for farming gear and asking specific players if they are willing to trade.

Download LootLog 

Crafting Addons

HarvestMap

Harvest Map
Harvest Map 

HarvestMap displays resource nodes, chests and fishing spots on the map, compass and the 3d world. Whenever you harvest crafting materials, lockpick a chest or fish at a fishing hole, this addon will save the location and place a pin on your map, compass and in the 3d world.

Download HarvestMap 

ESO Master Recipe List

ESO Master Recipe List
ESO Master Recipe List 

Master Recipe List maintains a list of all the recipes known by your characters so you can easily find which character can make a particular item, or which characters need to learn a specific recipe. You can add inventory and guild store icons for tracked/known/unknown recipes and much more.

Download ESO Master Recipe List 

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