Level of a skill

ONEone78

Is there any real point to having a skill level other than to hit the point where you can change its effect? Class skills for instance, once i've Morphed Puncturing Strikes to Biting Jabs, what's the use of Biting Jabs to gain experience? Does the base damage increase?

Shimond

Pretty sure the rank comes with an ability bonus (damage, healing, whatever). It still scales with level regardless, just is a better overall skill, I believe.

nerevarine1138

Yes, the base damage of the skill (or whatever base attribute it has) will generally increase with its level. Bear in mind that morphed skills level insanely slowly.

ONEone78

good to know, it's hard to monitor that sort of thing. also nice to know that the skills i invest points into early on in the game are not wasted on abilities that eventually become obsolete.

bob_jeko

nerevarine1138 wrote: »

Yes, the base damage of the skill (or whatever base attribute it has) will generally increase with its level. Bear in mind that morphed skills level insanely slowly.

If you want to level your skills quicker fight higher level mobs. It tends to not level at all after a while fighting same leveled mobs I think.

Ulalume

The skill level makes a difference. At rank 1 Dark Cloak removes one negative effect, at max rank it removes four. Then again, there I some skills where I barely notice any improvement when I level them up. If you're curious about particular skills check out the skill calculator at www.esohead.com, which seems mostly correct.