In Skyrim, I loved the 3rd person vanity shots of my champ in his Nightingale Armor... As a thief-archer, I found it difficult at times though, to shoot from third person. I found it always was a little off, having to compensate for being "Right handed". Plus, you don't really see the rocks and whatnot that are in your way in the same way as in first person - so i would goto first person, like a typical shooter game, to snipe people. For melee, however, i found it easier to do 3rd person, being able to watch my surroundings and better judge distances. Would this be a similar problem I wonder in ESO? It'll be interesting to see how range vs. melee functions with 3rd person. If it's going to be a skill-based aiming system like in Skyrim, or more locked in like other 3rd person mmo's (WoW hunter type thing or GW2).

they are designing it be 3rd person first. so i think 3rd person will almost always be preferred. it's supposed to have aiming and a tab-target system. how those two will synergize together i have no idea.

in Skyrim i like to walk around in 3rd person but i always fight in 1st person. becuase 3rd person is slightly off. unless im playing a thief, cause then i can just one-shot everything.

in skyrim iam use 3rd person to i only use fist 1rd person when iam use bow

3rd person is alot easier to see what's going on. espeially when there's 4 or 5 guys you have to fight at once. it works ok with melee weapons. but spells and bows are sometimes hard to aim.