Outfit System: Basics Guide

Last Updated: 5/20/2024

The Outfit System allows you to completely tailor the appearance of your gear, regardless of what your character is currently wearing. In this basics guide, you'll learn everything you need to know about how to create your own custom look!

The Outfit System is a base game feature available to all ESO players. Through use of this system, players can customize their character’s look with many different styles. Customizing your Outfit is a simple process, so get ready to always look your best!

THE OUTFIT STATION

Where do I customize my Outfits?

Outfit Stations! These handy stalls serve to both dye your gear and create Outfits.

Outfit Stations can usually be found near other crafting stations in most major cities and can also be added to player homes as furnishings. They are represented on your map with this icon:

How do I get started customizing my Outfit?

To get started, simply use the Outfit Station and select “Outfit 1" from the Select Outfit option. It is possible to get additional Outfits after the first – more on that later in this guide.

Once you have selected the Outfit you wish to customize, you can begin with many Armor Styles and Weapons Styles options available. Your options at this point are based on your Collections—see later in the guide for more details.

CUSTOMIZING OUTFITS

What can I customize?

Almost everything! When using the Outfit Station, you can change the appearance of the following item slots: Helmets, Chests, Shoulders, Hands, Waist, Legs, Feet, Primary Weapon(s), and Secondary Weapon(s). Note that to customize your second weapon set, you should use the weapon swap toggle option.

How do I customize an Outfit?

It's a little like equipping gear. To customize a gear slot, select it from under the Armor Styles or Weapon Styles categories to see all your options. As you select options for different slots, you'll see how they'll look on your character. Note that you are not modifying your items but overriding the appearance of each individual slot.

Select a style for a slot (click here for console)

To help you manage all your available options, you can use the filters to only show Light, Medium, Heavy, or Signature armor pieces, with “Signature” armor pieces being certain special appearances only available as Outfits. You can also toggle Show Locked on or off to view or hide styles you don't currently own or use the Filter By option to filter by specific keywords.

When customizing your character, you can preview any of the different Outfit Styles, but you can’t apply them if you don't own them first.

Once you're happy with all the different options, select Apply Changes to save your Outfit.

How much does customizing my Outfits cost?

Each unique slot has a specific gold cost to customize based on two key factors:

• The size of the slot itself (for example, a new style for your chest slot costs more than hands)
• The rarity of the style you're applying to the slot (for example, it might cost more to apply the Telvanni style than the basic Dark Elf style)
• Whether or not you're also dying the Outfit slot

Gold costs per slot can then range between hundreds or thousands of gold.

When browsing different styles for different slots, you can see the Application Cost in the item tooltip, and once applied, you can see the total cost to Apply Changes at the bottom of the Outfit Station window.

As an alternative to gold, you can buy Outfit Change Tokens from the Crown Store. A single Outfit Change Token covers the cost of an entire Outfit change (not a single slot), regardless of the slots you're customizing or the rarity of the styles you're applying. If you're using an Outfit Change Token, be sure to make the most out of it!

You can find Outfit Change Tokens under the Outfit Tokens category within the Crown Store Crafting section.

Do styles have to match the items?

Not exactly! For the most part, you can customize your appearance regardless of the type of item you are wearing. For example, this means you can make your heavy gear look like it is light, or your sword look like an axe. However, there is one restriction: you cannot make a weapon or gear type look cross between certain categories. The categories are:

• Armor (by slot—so light, medium, and heavy boots are one category to themselves)
• One-handed melee weapons
• Two-handed melee weapons
• Bows
• Staves
• Shields

You can't make your bow look like a two-handed sword, and you can't–as hilarious as it would be–make your helm look like a boot.

OUTFIT STYLES

What are Outfit Styles and how do I learn them?

To make the most of a new Outfit, you must know Outfit Styles. These can be learned through the various Motifs that any of your characters on your account have unlocked—learning the motif on one character unlocks it for all your other characters as well. This is because all known Motifs are transferred to a type of Collections called Outfit Styles. You can view and preview your currently known Outfit Styles by navigating to your Collections UI and selecting the Outfit Styles option. More details on Collections can be found in this guide.

In addition, some looks are only available through the Outfit System and are not found or able to be crafted on gear. These styles can be found on special Style Pages available from a variety of sources, including events, Undaunted rewards, or the in-game Crown Store. To get new Outfit Styles, learn new Motifs or find Outfit Style Pages!

This means that when creating an Outfit for one character, you can use the style of Motif that another one of your characters knows, or from an Outfit Style Page any of your characters has used.

OUTFIT SLOTS

How do I get more Outfits Slots?

If you want to have more than one custom Outfit available at any one time, you can acquire additional Outfit Slots from the in-game Crown Store.

You can find additional Outfit Slots within the Crafting section, and you can have up to 10 Outfit Slots on any one character. Note that new Outfit Slots are not shared with the other characters on your account.

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS

Can I dye my Outfits?

Yes! You can dye any of your Outfit slots like any other gear or costume. To dye your Outfits, select the Dyes category from the Outfit Station, select from your available colors (based on completed achievements), and apply the dyes to each unique slot, whether weapon or armor. If you want more options in your palette of dyes, you can preview what achievements you need to unlock a certain shade. Once your choices are complete, you can save your changes by selecting Apply Changes.

Note that when dying Outfits, there is a small gold cost per slot. There is no cost to dye regular gear, and you require ESO Plus membership to dye any costumes.

How do I hide my hat?

When customizing your Outfit, you can enable the Hide Helmet option within the Outfit Station for each unique Outfit. The option can be found above all your available styles.

Hide your helmet in Collections (click here for console)

You can also hide your hat by using the Hide Your Helm option in your Collections UI. You can find it under Hats in the Appearance category.

You can also earn a collectible to hide Shoulder slot items, available from a vendor named Philius Dormier. More on him and his employer, the Impresario, can be found in this guide.

What about my ability to convert to Imperial or Morag Tong styles?

Previously, certain Collector’s Editions offered unique benefits with regards to these styles. They have since been added to the Collections of accounts with the relevant unlocks and can be applied at the Outfit Station. Note that on such an account, you do not have to pay to apply these styles like you would when typically crafting an Outfit. You'll notice that their application cost in this case is “0".

Can I change my outfit on the fly?

Yes! You can change your current Outfit (or turn it on or off) from the Outfit Styles section of your Collections UI menu or from your Character UI menu.

Remember: You can only create and customize Outfits at the Outfit Station.

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With the Outfit System, you're able to give your champion the custom look you've always dreamed of.  Don't forget that if you ever have additional gameplay questions, you should navigate to the in-game Help menu for more information on the game's features and mechanics. In addition, you can visit the Players Helping Players section in the official ESO forums to talk to the ESO community or check out any of the player-made guides right here.