I added exceptions in the firewall and my av as well. Ran the program as admin and used 32 bit ver. I added the game manually because it failed to find it for some reason. (C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\AddOns) I see other threads with the same not sure what is going on.
It started to work after I added <skip-network-check /> to the xml under <client>
Last edited by cazx : 08/18/18 at 04:54 AM.
Reason: some how it started to work
If the network check was the problem then your firewal or proxy server was blocking the contact to the Minion servers.
Or the java installation on your pc got a bug (there was one thread in this forum about network beeing blocked by java due to anything i did not really understand).