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While nearly all MMORPGs emphasize combat to earn resources and survive, if you’re not comfortable playing with others, a casual approach might be more suitable, especially in a long-running game.

Undoubtedly, Elder Scrolls Online, now over a decade old, is such a game. Even new players will probably be drawn to the casual atmosphere and relaxed after completing the initial quests.

So, what qualities of ESO still allow you to enjoy it casually as a solo player in 2025? We’ll analyze them for you.

Game Overview - Atypical MMORPG

While you can reach the top of Elder Scrolls Online by constantly farming ESO gold or rarer gear, the more you play, the more you’ll find that even casual questing can provide a solid ESO experience.

If you prefer full-on combat, you can team up with guild-mates in ESO to complete raids or slay bosses in large dungeons for loot. You can also gather in PvP zone of Cyrodiil to form an army and fight other players.

If you prefer a more casual solo experience, you can wander around Elder Scrolls Online’s towns, chat with NPCs, or create clothing accessories to accessorize and style your character for a more unique and stylish look.

ESO’s comprehensive crafting system allows you to experience forging, enchanting, cooking, and even crafting furniture to build houses through a variety of crafting skills. Furthermore, you can use the fishing feature to sell rare fish or materials you catch for more ESO gold.

In fact, with the removal of the subscription requirement and more Tamriel updates, such as the recent addition of the subclass feature, ESO becomes more like a pure “Elder Scrolls game” than a typical MMO, allowing you to customize your playstyle to your needs.

Easily Immerse In The Game Story

In MMORPGs, most PvE gameplay and quests involve complex storylines and character backgrounds, sometimes even affecting your quest progress. Therefore, you need to be fully familiar with these details before engaging in combat.

Some MMORPGs, such as World of Warcraft series, often use extensive text descriptions to explain quest backgrounds. While this approach helps ensure that no details are missed, it can be tedious.

In contrast, Elder Scrolls Online sometimes provides key quest information in the form of notes, and most quest dialogue is voiced for quick understanding.

Furthermore, some ESO story content is actually based on the background of other Elder Scrolls games, but the integration is very good. Combined with the engaging narrative style, completing an ESO PVE quest is like immersing yourself in a magical story.

A Large Number Of Completable Quests

ESO PvE quests are diverse, including multiple faction quest lines and various side quests. Completing them rewards skill points, making them perfect for a killing time as a solo player.

A single faction questline takes approximately 50 hours, and if you prefer, you can complete the questlines for two other factions with the same character. This way, the faction questlines alone could fill a whole vacation, not to mention the other smaller quests.

In addition, as you complete the quests, you might unlock more points of interest, find places to fish, gather crafting materials, or even complete your own dungeon. This gives you a constant stream of content to enrich your single-player experience.

Multiple DLCs

If you’ve already experienced all the base game content or are looking for new single-player adventures, Elder Scrolls Online offers a wealth of DLCs to satisfy your needs.

These DLCs typically include different dungeons, maps, and exclusive gameplay options, allowing you to choose the one you want. Each DLC also has its own storyline, which flows seamlessly together, helping you gain a deeper understanding of Tamriel.

Major ESO DLCs include:

• Imperial City
• Orsinium
• Thieves Guild
• Dark Brotherhood
• Shadows of the Hist
• Morrowind
• Horns of the Reach
• Clockwork City
• Dragon Bones
• Summerset Chapter
• Wolfhunter
• Murkmire
• Scribes of Fate
• Necrom Chapter
• Scions of Ithelia
• Gold Road
• Fallen Banners
• Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1

Recruiting NPCs As Helpers

While most of the game can be completed solo, one person’s power is limited, and completing it may require more time and effort. If you’re a solo player and don’t have any friends or don’t want to socialize, you can recruit NPCs as helpers.

Compared to real players, NPCs can complete your requests simply by giving you command, eliminating the need for additional communication. They’re also more cooperative, especially on simpler tasks.

Diversity With Subclass Feature

Newly added in June of this year, the subclass feature allows you to choose from up to two other classes’ skill lines, in addition to your chosen base class, and experiment with a combination of skills.

Based on the total number of ESO classes and their associated skills, this is expected to result in over 3,000 possible combinations. This significantly expands your combat skill-set and allows for even more customized builds and styles.

While this will consume more skill points, as a solo player, you’ll have plenty of time to earn enough skill points by completing quests to unlock the desired class skills, allowing for maximum character customization.

More New Content

Since late 2024, Elder Scrolls Online has laid out several preliminary plans for its next decade. This means that even if you’ve been a ten-year veteran, you can still enjoy new content, much of which is still suitable for casual solo gameplay.

These are the reasons and methods for easily exploring solo play in ESO. We hope this will inspire you to explore your next game plans. Have fun!

In the hot summer, playing games at home may be a more comfortable choice than going out for a trip or exercising! Especially in those MMORPGs, even if you don’t do any quests, just wandering around in the open world can make you have a happy day.

Based on this, some MMORPGs choose to launch many new events from July to August to ensure that you can have a fulfilling summer. According to the July 2025 roadmap, Elder Scrolls Online will be a good choice to kill time.

ESO has arranged so many events that although only one-third of July has passed, some events are approaching or have already ended! But it doesn’t matter, we will introduce those that you can continue to play in time!

July 2025 Daily Login Rewards

This should be regarded as the basic welfare activity of the game. As long as you log in to the game every day in July, you will have the opportunity to get ESO gold, crafting materials, research scrolls and Luminous ink for Scribing as rewards.

And the longer you log in, the better the rewards you get. At least in July 2025, you can even get an adorably spooky pet this way!

Free Scribing Feature

This feature was introduced in Gold Road chapter in 2024. It allows you to customize yourself with more powerful combat capabilities by combining scripts and grimoires, but it requires consuming gold.

However, starting from July 10, 2025, as long as you claim The Second Era of Scribing quest in the crown store, you can unlock and experience Scribing and all related content for free.

July’s Golden Pursuits Scribing For All!

On this basis, Elder Scrolls Online further launched Golden Pursuits event in July. From July 10 to August 7, if you have not experienced Scribing feature before, Scribing For All! event will help you get familiar with it; if you already know how to utilize it, you can directly win rewards.

It is expected that you can win gold, Luminous Ink, and Scribing Altar, a pair of Flame Atronach Crown Crates, and even have the opportunity to master new skill styles through your efforts!

Weekend Mini-Event Crazy King

This event is open for a short time, from July 10th to 15th. To get rewards, you need to join the featured queue and win dominance for your faction through fierce battles to obtain available alliance points. Please note that no tickets are available for this event.

Whitestrake’s Mayhem

This event is a classic limited-time PVP gameplay in Elder Scrolls Online. This return time is from July 24th to August 6th. During the event, you can earn tickets by completing the imperial city district daily quest or Cyrodiil or battlegrounds daily quest.

In addition, Whitestrake’s Mayhem also allows you to gain more alliance points and Tel Var Stone gains, combining event tickets to win more rewards.

More About Update 47 And New Dungeons

Although Update 47 and new dungeons are scheduled to be released on August 18, the game development team revealed the preliminary plans and content to you through Update 47 live broadcast on July 1. The main changes in Update 47 that are known include:

• The much-anticipated Mount Swimming functionality will be available, allowing you to ride mounts in water as usual.
• Stackable survey reports, similar to Update 46’s stackable crafting writs will be brought.

As for the new PVE dungeon pack Feast of Shadows, it will provide you with two four-player dungeons to explore. Although the plots and rewards of the two dungeons are different, they are generally related to the theme of Seasons of the Worm Cult.

Dungeon 1 Black Gem Foundry requires you and your teammates to enter Coldharbor manufactory and eliminate the ability to create terrible soul-stealing armaments here after a series of adventures.

In Dungeon 2 Naj-Caldeesh, a group of Argonian necromancers are trying to corrupt and control the ancient xanmeer’s keystone, and you must work with your teammates to stop them.

It should be noted that, like the dungeons in the previous Fallen Banners DLC, the new dungeon pack Feast of Shadows also requires you to have a 2025 Content Pass, 2025 Premium Edition or ESO Plus membership to experience it.

New Crown Store Items

The crown store in ESO will also bring more available items as the game content is updated. Among the new items that will be available in July 2025 are:

ESO Plus Exclusives:

• Statuette: Redguard Warrior

Crafting and Outfit Styles:

• Alliance Accord Arms Pack
• Militant Monk

Houses:

• Shattered Mirror Isle

Furnishings:

• Furnishing Pack: Heart of the Loom
• Statue, Mistress of Nightmares

Mounts:

• Three Banners Veteran Wolf

Pets:

• War Veteran’s Hunting Dog
• Destruction Dale Fawn

Ended July Events

First is June Golden Pursuits Golden Pursuits that lasted until July 8. Since the new Golden Pursuits have already started, no need to regret missing it.

Another July event that has ended, Zeal of Zenithar, actually started at the end of June. It mainly provides a lot of quests to win you the opportunity to get reward chests.

In general, it is completely in time to play most of the July events of ESO from now on, and you can directly experience update 47 and new dungeons by sticking to August! Act quickly!