What Are The Types of Elder Scrolls Online Items?

In The Elder Scrolls Online (ESO), there is a wide variety of items that players can acquire, craft, trade, and use throughout their journey. These items range from equipment and consumables to crafting materials and collectibles. Here’s a breakdown of the main types of items in ESO:

1. Weapons
Types: Swords, daggers, axes, maces, bows, staves, and shields.
Categories:
One-Handed: For dual-wielding or combined with a shield.
Two-Handed: Greatswords, battleaxes, and mauls.
Ranged: Bows, destruction staves (flame, frost, shock), and restoration staves.

Weapons are classified by their damage types (physical or magical) and are often enchanted or improved through crafting.

2. Armor
Types: Light, medium, and heavy armor sets.
Light Armor: Focuses on magicka and spell damage.
Medium Armor: Enhances stamina and stealth.
Heavy Armor: Improves defense and health.

Players can mix and match armor pieces to suit their playstyle. Armor can also be improved or enchanted for additional benefits.

3. Jewelry
Types: Rings and necklaces.

Jewelry items provide bonuses to attributes like health, magicka, stamina, or combat effectiveness. Jewelry can be crafted, upgraded, or enchanted to enhance its properties.

4. Consumables
Potions: Provide buffs, healing, stamina, or magicka restoration. Common types include health, magicka, and stamina potions, as well as more specialized mixtures for combat buffs.
Food and Drinks: Offer temporary stat boosts to health, magicka, and stamina. Foods usually provide a longer, more stable buff, while drinks offer faster recovery.

Soul Gems: Used to resurrect fallen players or recharge enchanted weapons.

5. Crafting Materials
Raw Materials: Collected in the world and used in crafting professions (blacksmithing, woodworking, clothing, alchemy, enchanting, provisioning, and jewelry crafting).
Refined Materials: Processed from raw materials and used to craft higher-quality items.

Crafting Style Materials: Required to craft items in a specific racial or cultural style (e.g., Nord, Khajiit, or Daedric).

6. Set Items
Armor and Weapon Sets: These provide special bonuses when multiple pieces from the same set are equipped. Set bonuses can significantly impact a player’s build by adding extra damage, healing, or utility effects.

Set items can be acquired from dungeons, trials, PvP, crafting, or overland activities.

7. Trophies and Collectibles
Trophy Items: Often dropped by bosses or earned in PvP, these are non-tradable items that symbolize achievements.
Mementos: Special visual effects or actions players can use for fun but have no combat impact.

Pets and Mounts: These collectibles provide no combat benefit but can be summoned to follow the player or used for fast travel.

8. Housing Items
Furniture: Ranging from chairs, tables, and lights to large structures and decorations, furniture can be placed in player-owned homes.
Blueprints: Used to craft specific furniture pieces in housing.

House Deeds: Allows players to purchase homes in various styles and sizes across Tamriel.

9. Quest Items

Items that are part of specific quests or storylines, typically not tradeable or usable outside of their associated quests.

10. Crown Store Items
Cosmetics: Includes costumes, hats, hairstyles, and skins that change the appearance of your character.
Mounts and Pets: Unique mounts and pets that can be purchased using Crowns and have no in-game stat effects.

Utility: Experience scrolls, storage expansions, character slots, and more can be purchased via the Crown Store using Crowns (ESO’s premium currency).

11. Runes and Glyphs
Runes: Gathered through the world and used in the Enchanting crafting skill. Runes are combined to create glyphs.

Glyphs: Used to enchant weapons, armor, and jewelry, providing bonuses such as increased damage, health, or resistances.

12. Recipes and Motifs
Recipes: Used in the Provisioning crafting skill to create food and drinks. These can be looted, bought, or traded.
Motifs: Crafting motifs define the style in which an item is created. Different racial and cultural motifs offer distinct visual appearances for armor and weapons.
These diverse item categories allow for deep customization, offering players various ways to enhance their characters, improve their gear, and create unique builds tailored to their playstyle.