Controls information for Elder Scrolls Online on PC and Consoles is listed on this page.
To get started, you can read the Controls Guide Article.
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Controls Information
Control |
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Xbox |
PS4 |
Notes |
Movement |
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| Look/Turn | Mouse |  |
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Also used to navigate menus. | |
| Move | W, A, S, D |  |
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| Sprint | Shift (hold) |  |
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Sprinting rapidly depletes your Stamina. When on horseback, this control causes your horse to gallop. On Xbox and PS4, you click down on the left stick |
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| Activate AutoRun | Num Lock | N/A | N/A | When On, you will sprint when moving instead of walking. | |
| Jump | Space |  |
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This makes your character jump. This does not deplete your stamina, unlike previous Elder Scrolls games. Also, while on horseback, it will cause your horse to jump if you are moving forward, or rear back if you are stopped. | |
| Sneak Mode | Ctrl |  |
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Toggle crouch/sneak mode On Xbox and PS4, you click down on the right stick |
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Combat |
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| Ready Weapon/ Sheathe Weapon |
Z |  (hold) |
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Toggles weapon between ready and sheathed. If used while drawing a bow or holding a charged spell, this control cancels the attack. |
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| Swap Weapons | ` | |
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Swap weapon/skill sets (level 15+). | |
| Light Attack | Left Click |  |
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Attack with the weapon in your right hand or cast the spell assigned to your right hand. | |
| Heavy Attack | Left Click (hold) | (hold) |
(hold) |
A more powerful attack that restores stamina (with melee weapons) or magicka (with staves). When using a bow, draw the bow; the longer you hold, the more damage you will do. The maximum damage and range is reached in about 1 sec. Releasing the control will fire the arrow. A heavy bow attack also restores stamina. |
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| Block | Right Click |  |
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Will block, using whatever shield or weapons are equipped. | |
| Interrupt/ Break Free |
Right Click + Left Click | + |
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Perform a bash, interrupting some enemy attacks. Also used to Break Free of crowd control effects. |
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| Skill Attack | 1,2,3,4,5 |  ,  ,  ,  ,  |
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Uses the skill assigned to that slot, if the player currently has the magicka or stamina that the skill requires. | |
| Ultimate | R | + |
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Use the ultimate skill currently slotted, if the player has sufficient ultimate points accumulated. | |
| Synergy | X | + |
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Activate Synergy with another player's ability. | |
| Dodge | W, A, S, D (double-tap) | + with |
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Dodge in that direction. Can be also bound to a single button on PC/Mac. | |
| Target | Tab | N/A | N/A | Target the enemy under the cursor; successive presses cycles the target between available enemies. Targeting "locks" the effect of attacks on that enemy; no other enemies will be hit (even if they run between you and the target) until the target is dead or breaks the targeting lock. (Some skills can break target lock.) | |
| Quick Slot | Q |  |
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Consumes whatever consumable item is in the primary Quick Slot. | |
| Select Quick Slot | Q (hold) | (hold) |
(hold) |
Opens the Quick Slot wheel for viewing. The player can move their mouse in the direction of a slotted consumable to select it as the primary. | |
| Command Pet | Y | N/A | N/A | Direct Sorcerer combat pet to a specific target. | |
Menus |
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| Character Menus | Alt | Option |  |
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Leaves whatever menu/list is currently open, or reopens the last menu/list UI that was open. |
| Inventory | I | Inventory (Item List) | |||
| Character | C | Character screen | |||
| Guilds | G | Guild screen | |||
| Journal | J | Journal, showing quests, achievements, and the character's library of read books. | |||
| Skills | K | Skills | |||
| Champion | = | Champion System screen | |||
| Collections | U | Account-wide collectible items | |||
| Alliance War | L | Alliance war information | |||
| Map | M |  |
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Map | |
| Notifications | N | Notifications | |||
| Social | O | Social tools | |||
| Group | P | Group tools | |||
| Crown Store | . | Access the Crown Store | |||
| # | In-game mail system | ||||
| Quest Cycle | T |  |
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Cycles the active quest through the character's quest list. | |
| Settings | Esc | |
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Game settings and options. | |
| Help | F1 | Help | |||
| Emotes | (hold) |
(hold) |
Access a list of quick-slotted emotes. | ||
Siege |
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| Fire Siege Weapon | Left Click | |
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| Exit Siege Weapon | Alt | Option | |
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| Stow Siege Weapon | X | |
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General Gameplay |
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| Interact with Environment | E | |
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Activate, use, talk, gather, etc. | |
| Interact with Player | F | (hold) |
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Interact with another player. | |
| Activate Cursor | . | N/A | N/A | ||
| Viewpoint | V |  |
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Toggle first and third person camera. | |
| Viewpoint distance | Mouse wheel | + (hold) |
+ (hold) |
Zoom camera in or out in 3rd person. Zooming all the way in will switch to first-person mode; zooming out while in the first person will switch to third-person mode. | |
| Mount | H | (hold) |
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Toggle mount. (The player will also dismount during some types of interaction, or when entering interior spaces.) | |
| Toggle Fullscreen | Alt+Enter | N/A | N/A | Toggle Fullscreen/Windowed game mode. | |
| Screenshot | Prt Scr | F12 | |
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Take screenshot. Xbox and PS4 need to opens a console menu with options to take a screenshot or video clip. |
| Start Chat | Enter | + |
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AnonymousHello, is there a way to be able to use keyboard for game controls on Xbox? I swear when I first signed in it asked me if I wanted to use keyboard or controller. I selected controller at the time but would like to be able to switch between them.
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I own a PS4 PVSR and can't seem to talk to any NPCs. When I go to the Riverwood tavern, and look at the bartender, I only get the (X) for Pickpocket option. What Dualshock 4 controls do I use to open a dialogue menu.
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So on the PC/Mac version with a controller I do not have this problem, but when using a keyboard, I can not move the cursor on the map (or move the map under the cursor. I can go up and down levels with right or left clicking, but I can't find the equivalent of the 'left stick' movement on the map.
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why cant i change my controls i dont have the option in my settings
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Will there be anyway to make x interact on Xbox 1?? If not then why? Having a as interact makes no sense when x is interact in literally every other game. I don't want to have to learn new controls just for this particular game. After playing for about an hour I decided to play tomb raider and Everytime I went to interact with something I would hit a and end up falling of a ledge bc a isn't interact in that game. I can rebind all controls on Skyrim, so why can't we on eso? That makes no sense
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is there a way to set multi-key hotkeys yourself? like "Ctrl+1"
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Hey is it possible to use this exact setup on the pc version?
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In the quest stonefalls u gave to touch the stones. How do you touch. I can only punch
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If you have a keyboard hooked up to the ps4 you can input some commands like changing the chat or some gestures. /flute /lute /drum /eat /zone are but a few i found to work. Haven't learned how to whisper via commands yet.
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i have been unable to swap weapon bars for about a week now and my crouch button isn't working. please help me figure this out.
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On Xboxone when I press the LS button I have to tap it 3 times then hold for somereason how do we chang the running button
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On PS4 I held down the touch pad and options button by mistake and now I cant get the chat box icon to leave the side of my screen. How do I make this go away?
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this was veryveryvery useful
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