How many professions are realistic to have maxed endgame?

Ibstronk

As topic. I recently started playing this wonderful game (VR8 atm) and Im currently working on 4 professions. Is it realisticly possible to have 4 maxed out professions on your main character without hurting the rest of your characters skills/skillines too much?

Sorry for bad English

Nestor

I have a character at VR14 who is pretty much a Master Crafter in everything and is quite deadly. She has no PvP skills, no Undaunted Skills, and only uses one weapon on both bars, no other weapon lines have any skill points in them.

However it took until VR14 on her, but she ran like 4 Group Dungeons, no Craglorn Skyshards, no Cyrodiil Skyshards. So, I could have had some more skill points to use up, but not a huge amount more.

Jayne_Doe

I only have one veteran character (V8) and she's had 4 crafting professions throughout her career (Blacksmith, Enchanting, Alchemy, Provisioning). I just added Woodworking since I wanted to start using a bow (before then, she was strictly dual-wield).

You do have to make some choices in skills, but remember, you don't have to have every class skill or every weapon skill. I would definitely have all (or most all) of the passives, though.

Same goes for the skills in the crafting professions. You don't have to have all of them. For example, one point in Keen Eye is enough, and don't bother with Snakeblood in Alchemy.

My character doesn't have PVP or Undaunted skills either, but I was able to add a second weapon line. I've survived just fine, and have done a number of WB (vet included) solo, plus, I soloed most of the vet public dungeons, including group challenges, since no one else was around.

I just made sure to get all the skyshards in each zone, including public dungeons, as well as completing the group challenges. I did a couple of group dungeons prior to the level scaling, but I don't have any Cyrodiil or Craglorn skyshards.

timborggrenlarsenb16_ESO

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Austacker

My VR7 has 5 Professions maxed out. I don't feel like I'm losing anything from my main abilities doing that.

I guess it's because in ESO you are so limited by the number of active abilities you can have on your two bars anyway + passives.

Mind you, I have farmed up every Skyshard in the game from my base area + Cadwell's Silver so I had a lot of points to burn. I haven't even gone through Cadwell's Gold + Cyrodill yet to get the rest.

There's over 300 Skill points you can acquire in this game which is a HUGE amount. I'd daresay there's absolutely no reason at all why you cannot max out every profession in the game on one character and still have more than enough skill points left over to do everything you want on your main.

Rex-Umbra

I have all the Cyrodiil and Craglorn Skyshards. Still need to get all the gold ones though

Leandor

All can be done. I struggle with 3 per char (but I definitely distribute too many skill points in skills I only occasionally use...).

If you want to retain a certain flexibility like doing different weapon setups or different roles (which can be done still), and not have to run to the shrine every time you want to change something around, limit yourself to 2 or 3 crafts. Alchemy and Provisioning can be taken to 50 in a couple hours and the equipment crafts take a couple days. Even less if you stockpile materials of all levels before you start.

I would suggest starting out with enchanting, if you want to have it, and in addition the craft that will provide the majority of your armor since that gives you 7 slots minimum to use with sets. If you want to skip enchanting, use two equipment crafts. that way your motifs get double use.

Level your char, stockpile materials for the other crafts, once you reach ~200 skill points, decide on whether you have excess for a third or even a fourth craft, then power level it quickly.

Just make sure that you have one char that learns all traits, motifs and has the minimum skills for the three equipment crafts (9/9 respectively 10/10 for the craft level and possibly 4/4 research perk. you can do refining and improvement on another char, if you have a twink. If not, you will also need 3/3 in both of these for all three crafts, bringing it to 57 (60 with 2.1 update) skill points in total spent in crafts).

Kerioko

I have a V1 Master Crafter with Blacksmith, Clothing, Woodworking, Enchanting, and Provisioning maxed with all traits, recipes, and motifs. All playable toons have Alchemy and Provisioning maxed since certain passives from these 2 professions affect gameplay (+20 min on food and drink, and + 30% potion duration, extra provisioning mats from hirelings).

For those really interested in crafting, it is worth maxing all crafting on all characters to complete multiple writs and have multiple hirelings!

I_killed_Vivec

VR14 Master Crafter - all crafts.

I have, over the course of time, maxed out 4 weapon lines and completed most of a fifth.

Clever skill point juggling means that I can have the passives for race, class, three weapons and two armours (not all for the second armour because I'm not using 5 pieces), along with the active skills I use for three weapons. It does require some thought and a bit of reconfiguration but that's all part of learning how to play.

I currently have 5 points, and haven't done all of Cyrodiil yet, I'm saving them for the new crafting passives but to be honest I haven't really found any other use for them.

Septimus_Magna

My main is a master crafter with all skill pve skill points. Ive unlocked almost all passives (need 2 more), 15 class skills, 4 weapon skills, 3 armor types, a couple mages/fights guild skills, alliance war skills and Im not a vamp.

I think you can take all/most skills you want basically, you just need to get all the skill points. Its been a while since I respeced but I think I have close to 293 skill points in total. If you increase your alliance rank you also get skill points so the first 10 are pretty easy to get in pvp.

Ayantir

Same as others, all professions on my main char, v14.

But you'll need to do all skyshards, all dungeons, and do a little bit of pvp to earn skill points from pvp ranks.

I currently have 5 skill points free, they're for new craft tiers. (they'll require 6 points in fact).
IC will add 4 skyshards skill points, 4 dungeons skill points and 2 vetrank skill points.

PS: I've unlearned some craft things, because I don't need them anymore. 12 skill points for research (did all). for observation, I got rank 1 in alchemy, wood, clothing and smithing. 0 for enchanting, they're pretty easy to see.

I'm templar and I'm tanking/healing and dpsing quite well. (vet & raid). all passive in light/heavy/class/staffs and got all the skill I need, even thoses I don't often play with.

With the 10 more skill points I'll have with IC,
I'll need 6 more for the last pvp skills (I'm only assault/assistance rank 9) and for war horn which I didn't unlocked yet.
1 point in legerdemain, for last stealth bonus I didn't unlocked yet, and I'll have 2 remaining points I don't know yet where to spent on.

I actually unlocked 299 skill points. With IC, it will be 309.

Get all craft on a single char isn't so hard, but on your main char is pretty hard. It will require a lot of time and wise choices when choosing skills

leepalmer95

You can do 4, you'll have to get the majority of skyshards or such though.

SLy_Kyti

With the skyshards in Cyrodiil, the extra skill points from group dungeons and good planning one can easily have a very competitive character and have 4 crafting profession's maxed. That's competitive in PvP AND PvE.
Or one character that is pretty dang squishy do everything.

Lokustreign

Ibstronk wrote: »

As topic. I recently started playing this wonderful game (VR8 atm) and Im currently working on 4 professions. Is it realisticly possible to have 4 maxed out professions on your main character without hurting the rest of your characters skills/skillines too much?

Sorry for bad English

@Ibstronk Your question is largely dependent on which class and spec you play and your individual play style for that character. If you just want to do PvE content for example, you don't have to worry about putting points into any of those PvP skill trees. Same goes for whether or not you want to try out being a vampire or werewolf, which I also haven't done. I imagine that since the tooltips for a lot of skills are vague and there isn't an abundance of information in-game for players to refer to regarding the synergy of skill trees, a lot of people needlessly waste points. The Mages Guild skill tree is great...if you use Mages Guild abilities exclusively...otherwise the passives don't offer much in the way of synergy with your base stats.

In other words, you should have no problem maxing out 4 or even all 6 crafting lines on your main without having to worry about gimping your DPS. But it really just depends on how you play your character. If you wanted to be a vampire and you PvP a lot, yes, I'd say that you might have a problem doing more than 4 crafting lines. There are something like 324 skill points in the game between skyshards, quests, leveling, PvP, etc. It's a lot more than you need, but not all are easily gotten.

Hope this helps.

deadlykitten6

I'm vr13 and have all crafting maxed and a vamp and do dps in pve and pvp with no problem. I have 230 skill points or so and have all the skills and things that i want. It is possible just depends on what you want to do.

CGPsaint

Great question! I don't see myself having the time to build more than one character, so I want to do as much as possible with the one that I'm currently playing. I plan on grabbing all of the Skyshards as I explore, and will leave Provisioning and Alchemy for last so that I can try to maintain a balance between crafting and fighting skills.

Ourorboros

You can do all 6, it just takes planning and patience. You can only have 10 skills and 2 ults active, and you only need a few auxiliary skills in addition. I have all 6 professions maxed along with way more than 12 skills and their passives learned. I have 30+ points unused, and still need most dungeon and PVP skill points. There are enough skill points available to learn as many professions as you want and still be effective in combat.

mklundub17_ESO

For me, it was more about inventory space than skill points available since I haven't maxed out bank slots yet. I always have alchemy/provisioning on my characters anyways for the bonuses and also for the writs which are super easy for alchemy/provisioning/enchanting.

If you do writs, then it takes up a lot of bank space to keep things on hand for them. If you don't do writs then you really only need to keep a handful of alchemy / provisioning ingredients.

Main Character: Alchemy/Provisioning/Enchanting -- does those writs, keeps everything in the bank

Crafter Alt: Blacksmithing/Clothing/Woodworking -- does not do writs since he's not VR yet, but since as of right now equipment writs aren't very good I'm not worried about that yet. He keeps all mats on him. Advantage of having all 3 of these on 1 character is I only needed 1 of each motif to cover everything, and he can keep all style/racial gems on him instead of cluttering up the bank.

Gerardopg

im a vampire, master crafter in everything almost all the passives just missing the ones to see the runes because you really don't need that, and i do pretty well with a lot of passives a lot of skills, and still have 15 spare points, so you can max out all crafting just need to collect all the sky shards

Brrrofski

I'm vet 9 and got except alchemy to top rank and maxed out on skills. I've got every skyward up to zone 2 in cadwell's gold so that went a long way. Spend 3/4 hours getting the ones I missed Saturday. Found 41 so had quite a lot of spare skill points then.

BrassRazoo

You can do all but lately I have run low on skill points.
I have maxed all crafting on my main but with Emp passives (soon to be returned) Justice Skill Line, now I'm Vampire again I have run low.
I respected and have 297 skill points and believe it or not I ran out.
I'm probably short a few skill points as well, not sure what the max is, maybe 350?
I recently passed Enchanting and Cooking to my a couple of alts.