TraitBuddy is an addon that tries to help you easily manage and keep track of what crafting research traits all your characters know. Great for those alt'o'holics out there just like myself.
I have expanded many game tooltips so that the information you want to see is right there on the item where you need it. There is also a custom screen if you prefer to see all the research in one place.
In case you are unsure what an alt is, it is a term to describe another/alternative character.
This addon is for Blacksmithing, Clothing, Woodworking, and Jewellery traits.
The latest version of addon libraries LibAddonMenu, LibCharacterKnowledge, and LibSets are required and will need to be installed separately.
Features
- Expanded in-game tooltips:
Bag, loot, mail, buyback, trade, guild store search, guild store listings, links placed in chat, quest rewards, crafting, equipped items, and motifs.
- See the traits your character and your alts know.
- See the traits your character and your alts are researching
- Automatically knows when your research has finished. You don't need to log on to your alts for it to update.
- View and search the motifs your character and your alts know.
- Research overview screen.
- Compact movable window.
- Allows you to view any of your alts by simply picking them from a dropdown or using an icon bar.
- The screen you see will be just as if you had logged on to that alt.
- You choose which alts are included/compared.
- Customisable icon and text colours.
- Translated into English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Russian.
- Supports gamepad mode.
- Ability to filter motifs, unknown, almost completed, etc.
- List of all crafted sets with details of their bonuses and locations.
- Support for other addons such as Inventory Grid View and Inventory Insight
- Icons in inventory and the decon assistant.
- Ability to mark a trait for research. (This is for when you're picking up or crafting gear on one character for another. It will not trigger research.)
- Search function on the motifs tab.
- Plus a lot more...
Check out the attached screenshots for a small sample of what the addon offers.
What do the icons mean?
Green Tick
The selected character has researched that trait.
Orange Tick
At least one or more of your characters has completed researching that trait.
But not the currently selected character.
Blue Hourglass
The selected character is researching that trait.
Orange Hourglass
No characters have completed researching that trait but one or more of your characters have started to learn it.
The colours can be customised from the options.
How to set it up
- Log in to each character one by one so TraitBuddy can automatically work its magic
- Check out the tooltips on items with traits and motifs
There are 3 ways to open the TraitBuddy window
- Bind a key
- Use the buttons added to the corners of the crafting stations, skill screen and guild store
- Use the chat commands /traitbuddy and /traitbuddyoptions
Use any combination you prefer.
Binding a key is done from the normal ESO options screen
- Bring up the ESO Options > Controls > Keybindings and scroll down until you see "TraitBuddy Addon"
- Choose a key you would like to use to show and hide the window
- Personally I bind the ] key
Info for other Addon makers
Detect when mousing over a trait in TraitBuddy
In your onLoad function
Then add a new function to do your custom stuff
If you have ideas to improve this addon or have found a bug, please either post on the comments section of this addon page, or send wolfstar a private message.
I hope you like it and find it useful.
ABOUT THIS LISTING
This page describes TraitBuddy by Weolo. The description and screenshots are the author's own, imported from their listing on ESOUI on 3 October 2026: https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1058-TraitBuddy.html
Mythiq.net hosts no files for it. The download button goes straight to the release file on cdn.esoui.com, so you are downloading from the author's own host, not from a copy of ours.
The download count, rating and comments on this page start at zero and count Mythiq.net only. The source's own figures are not copied here — they measure a different site, and a number that cannot be checked against our own ledger is not worth printing.
Media
Requirements
Game version
12.1.0
API VERSION
Built for ESO API version 12.1.0. After a patch the game marks add-ons built for the previous API as out of date; the "Allow out of date add-ons" checkbox in the add-on menu loads them anyway, and most work.
LIBRARIES
Many ESO add-ons depend on a shared library — LibAddonMenu-2.0 above all — which is installed separately, exactly like an add-on. A dependency that is missing shows as the add-on simply not appearing in the list.
CONSOLE
Add-ons are PC and Mac only. There is no way to load them on console.
Installation
1. Download the archive with the button on this page and unzip it.
2. Move the unzipped folder into your add-ons directory:
Windows — Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\AddOns
3. Start the game, and at the character select screen click Add-Ons.
4. Tick the add-on. If it is greyed out and marked out of date, tick "Allow out of date add-ons" at the top of the same panel.
5. Log in. Most add-ons need a /reloadui after they are first enabled.
UPDATING
Delete the old folder first. ESO loads everything it finds, and two copies of one add-on is the usual cause of "an add-on has produced an error" on login.
This release downloads from cdn.esoui.com, not from us, so
there is no checksum to compare against. Scan the archive before you unpack it.
9.11.2 (144)
- Fixed aggressive scanning that attributed motif knowledge account-wide versus character. Log back in to each character you've been on since the previous version to correct knowledge tracking.
9.11.1 (143)
- Fixed bug preventing Koldane Cartel from updating when learning motifs
9.11 (142)
- NEW requires LibCharacterKnowledge and LibSets
- NEW UI for less clicking around
- Should also automatically add new motif when U50 launches
- API bump
9.10 (141)
-Added new motifs
9.9 (140)
- Added new motifs and sets
9.8 (139)
-Updated Russian localization
-Adjusted position of the TB icon on the Skills menu
9.7.1 (138)
-Fixed bugs getting several of the motifs to display correctly on the UI.
9.7 (137)
-NEW search function on the Motifs screen
-Updated for U46
9.6 (136)
-Allow you to mark a trait as having an item to research. Just right-click on the trait. (kerpeden)
-Whites out the research tab if there's only 1 trait left to research (this is per craft, not per item). (kerpeden)
-Tooltip now displays the number of characters who can learn a motif. (kerpeden)
-Updated for U45.
9.5 (135)
-The research tab now indicates via color whether a toon has open research slots and when there is less than 24 hours left (kerpeden)
-Fixed bug regarding Inventory Insights saved variables
9.4 (134)
-Added motifs 127-129
-Updated for U44
9.3 (133)
-Fixed bug regarding researchable jewelry traits and links.
-Updated for U43
9.1.0 (131)
- Updated to Scribes of Fate DLC / Update 37
- Added Firesong motifs, number 117
- Added House Mornard motifs, number 118
- Added Blessed Inheritor motifs, number 119
- Added Scribes of Mora motifs, number 120
- Blessed Inheritor and Scribes of Mora motifs will automatically show when available
9.0.0 (130)
- Updated to Firesong DLC / Update 36
- Added Syrabanic Marine motifs, number 112
- Added Systres Guardian motifs, number 114
- Added Y'ffre's Will motifs, number 115
- Added Drowned Mariner motifs, number 116
- Added Old Growth Brewer crafted set
- Added Claw of the Forest Wraith crafted set
- Added Chimera's Rebuke crafted set
8.9.1 (129)
- Fixed more tooltips over textures in the TraitBuddy screen
8.9 (128)
- Updated to High Isle Chapter / Update 34
- Added Ancestral Breton motifs, number 93
- Added Dreadsails motifs, number 110
- Added Ascendant Order motifs, number 111
- Added Steadfast Society motifs, number 113
- Added Druid's Braid crafted set
- Added Order's Wrath crafted set
- Added Serpent's Disdain crafted set
- Changed the draw layer and tier on some textures
- Replaced some deprecated ESO constants
- Optimised strings and string functions
- Added Spanish language translations (Añadidas traducciones al español)
- Fixed a typo in the English translation
8.8 (127)
- Updated to Ascending Tide DLC / Update 33
- With "Account Wide Achievements" changed checking for known chapter motifs from Achievements to individual character Lore Books
- LOG INTO each character will fix this
- Added IsLoreBookChapterKnown() function
- Added IsAchievementChapterKnown() function
- Added Annihilarch's Chosen motifs, number 107
- Added Fargrave Guardian motifs, number 108
- Fixed a bug detecting crown motifs for languages other than English
8.7.1 (126)
- Small logic change - Events from EVENT_NON_COMBAT_BONUS_CHANGED only kick in after EVENT_PLAYER_ACTIVATED
8.7 (125)
- Updated to Deadlands DLC / Update 32
- Added House Hexos motifs, number 98
- Added Ancient Daedric motifs, number 104
- Added Crimson Oath motifs, number 105
- Added Silver Rose motifs, number 106
- Added Wretched Vitality crafted set
- Added Deadlands Demolisher crafted set
- Added Iron Flask crafted set
8.6.1 (124)
- Visual bug - I forgot to increase the shown level number in the settings screen
8.6 (123)
- Updated to Waking Flame DLC / Update 31
- Added Sul-Xan motifs, number 102
- Added Black Fin Legion motifs, number 103
8.5 (122)
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