ESO Free Trial Guide
Welcome to The Tank Club’s ESO Free Trial Guide for Tanks!
ESO occasionally offers free trials of ESO+, usually lasting a few days to a week. During this time, non-subscribed players get full access to all DLC zones, dungeons, and trials—except for the latest expansion. As a Tank, this is the perfect opportunity to unlock crucial skills, farm essential gear, and prepare your setup for the future.
Don’t waste your free trial—follow this guide to maximize your tanking potential in The Elder Scrolls Online!
ESO+ Free Trial Checklists
Psijic Order Skills (Summerset DLC):
- Complete the main story quest of Summerset until you get sent to Artaeum, where you can begin the Psijic Order quests.
- Level up your Psijic Order Skills, focusing on unlocking Undo/Temporal Guard and Accelerate/Race Against Time.
Jewellery Crafting (Summerset DLC):
- Access to Jewellery Crafting will end with the free trial, so prioritize researching Infused traits for Neck and Rings, as well as other useful traits.
- Visit our Tank Jewellery Page to decide which traits to research.
Excavation and Scrying Skills (Greymoor DLC):
- Complete the Greymoor quest to unlock and level up your Excavation and Scrying skills.
- Use these skills to collect valuable Tank Mythic Items.
Orzorga’s Recipes (Orsinium DLC):
- Complete Orzorga’s quests in Wrothgar to obtain two essential Tank Food recipes.
General Activities:
- Collect Skyshards, Lorebooks, and complete treasure maps, main story quests, and public dungeon group events in all DLC zones.
Crafting:
- Gather as many crafting materials as possible, complete crafting surveys in DLC areas, and perform daily writs on multiple characters.
- Store all materials in your craft bag for future use.
Pets and Cosmetics:
- Enter one dungeon from each dungeon DLC to unlock free pets and cosmetics.
Additional Tips:
- Utilize double storage in your houses to stock up on furniture and materials.
- Dye your costumes and collect up to 1000 transmute crystals.
- Complete solo arenas like Vateshran Hollows (important for Void Bash) and Maelstrom Arena.
- Farm dungeons for any missing Tank Sets and Monster Sets.
- Participate in normal or veteran trials to acquire essential trial gear such as Pearlescent Ward, Claw of Yolnahkriin and Saxhleel Champion.
See our full ESO Gear Guide for more details on gear to farm.
Dungeon Gear – Collect these important Tank Sets from Normal Dungeons:
- Crimson Oath’s Rive (The Dread Cellar)
- Turning Tide (Shipwright’s Regret)
- Drake’s Rush (Black Drake Villa)
Dungeon Monster Sets – Collect these most useful Monster Sets from Veteran Dungeons some of these are quite hard to complete:
- Archdruid Devyric (Earthen Root Enclave)
- Encratis’s Behemoth (Black Drake Villa)
- Nazaray (Shipwright’s Regret)
- Earthgore (Bloodroot Forge)
Mythic Items – These are the best ones, try to collect them from Scrying and Digging:
- Spaulder of Ruin
- Oakensoul Ring
- Pearls of Ehlnofey
- Ring of the Wild Hunt
Weapon Sets – There are many but the most useful one is from Vateshran Hollows:
- Void Bash (Vateshran 1H & Shield)
Trial Sets – You are unlikely to be able to complete Veteran mode on these trials but you could group for normal to gain the sets as they are still very good but missing the one extra gear bonus which is fine.
- Pearlescent Ward (Dreadsail Reef)
- Claw of Yolnahkriin (Sunspire)
- Saxhleel Champion (Rockgrove)
