So your question is more complicated than you probably thought...and a lot of vet players who haven’t leveled a character in a long time might not know exactly how the new system works. Doslekis’s schedule probably,won’t work for a new player leveling with no champion points.

When they updated the game to One Tamriel - the system that lets you go anywhere and fight anything in any zone - they made this possible by messing with the characters’ power and armor. In the old days, a level 3 toon hit for like 100 damage and a vet hit for like 8000...the monsters were set similarly. So low level characters couldn’t visit high level zones (without being slaughtered).

Enter One Tamriel. The idea is that Now every monster in the game is c160 level, and players are adjusted so that you can fight anywhere at any level. They accomplish this by giving characters a “handicap” the lower level they are. As you level up, these handicaps are removed. But to make up for that loss, you can equip higher level gear. For example, say you’re level 20 and a certain attack does 5000 damage. You level to 22 - that damage will fall to, say, 4,500 because some of the handicap comes off, EXCEPT that you can now equip a level 22 sword that has a higher damage rating, which will bring that attack’s damage back to 5,000.

SO

Under the new system, the bigger the gap between your players level and your gear level, the weaker you will become. If a level 40 tries to fight in level 20 gear, the game will have stripped them of a lot of their handicap bonus...which they’re not replacing by updating their gear. Such a toon will be as squishy as heck and hit for nothing.

As a general rule, it’s a good idea to keep your gear within about 6 levels of your character level. But if you feel too squishy, you might need to update more often...especially in the 40’s.

An exception is champion points...once a character is level 50, the handicap mechanic goes away and you don’t have to update your gear as often. When you hit vet you can make a vet set, then keep that until you hit c160, at which point you can start collecting max level gear.

Also, be aware that this system I’m talking about creates an odd effect in the game...the hardest character levels now are 45-50. As a new player, don’t be surprised if you feel weak and squishy right before your character goes vet.

Other tips that might help:

-Your crafter alt can invest in hirelings as they level their craft skills, which will bring in mats for your fighting character.

-Get that crafter doing daily writs. The rewards outweigh the costs...although you may want to raise some gold to but the mats for those writs if you don’t farm enough.

-There’s a semi-confusing system in play for what level mats your fighter picks up and what mats your crafter gets. I won’t go into it in detail, but I’ll mention it briefly in case you want to look it up. (Sunshine Daydreams guide to ESO crafting is AMAZING). Your fighter picks up mat types based on their level. Your crafter uses and earns mat types based on their rank in the first passive of each skill line. So when your fighter starts, they see iron nodes. When they hit level 16 they start seeing high iron nodes (which refines to steel). On your crafter, if they have 0 skill points in the first smith passive, they will earn iron from the hirelings and their writs will require iron. If you spend a skill point and go to rank 2, this becomes high iron / steel.

Therefore, since you have a fighter and a separate crafter, you might want to coordinate their levels so that your crafter is producing and using the level of mats your fighter earns and needs. You do this by slowly working up that first passive in the trade skills for your crafter as your fighter levels. You can level the lines themselves to 50 as quick as you like...but if you keep the rank on par with your fighter, the mats will match better between characters.

Hope that helps!

You’re vet now and earning CPs...it’s all up hill from here, as they say.

You can probably stop recrafting gear now until you hit c160. Then you can collect a setup that’ll probably be semi-permanent. With the enlightenment system, you should hit 160 in a couple of weeks.

So when you hit 160, you’ll want to decide on a setup then start to improve it to (eventually) gold. That’s where you’ll draw a lot of power from as a vet. You can start thinking about setups and looking at end game builds on sites like alcasthq.com. (He always does a beginner setup, then best in slot, which is helpful).