Starting Mage's Guild quest late...

Bloodgharm · July 2015

So I'm a level 43 stamina nb and because of this, I never started the mage's guild questline in the beginning for rp reasons. I've recently decided that I want to respec my nb for magicka and consequently, wanted to go back and do the mage's guild line.

My question is simple: if I'm starting so late, will I be able to simply breeze right on through the questline and catch up in a matter of hours by just doing the quests or am I going to have to go hunt down books to progress my level in the guild? If it's the latter, is there a map I can look up to help find all of these books or are them random?

Enodoc · July 2015

Mages Guild progression is dependent on finding the books, yes. A good resource for this is http://teso.mmorpg-life.com/lorebooks-locations-map/ . There's also an add-on if you're on PC.

Bloodgharm · July 2015

Enodoc wrote: »

Mages Guild progression is dependent on finding the books, yes. A good resource for this is http://teso.mmorpg-life.com/lorebooks-locations-map/ . There's also an add-on if you're on PC.

Thanks. Now, there's one caveat of finding these lorebooks. Are they the blue ones that I've been finding scattered around tamriel that pop up "lorebook found" on my UI when I find one? Or are they lorebooks independent of these that are used exclusively for the mage's guild? If they are the former, do they count retroactively? In that, I mean if I've already collected a bunch of the blue lorebooks, will it automatically increase my mage's guild rank or am I screwed out of that exp?

Enodoc · July 2015

Bloodgharm wrote: »

Enodoc wrote: »

Mages Guild progression is dependent on finding the books, yes. A good resource for this is http://teso.mmorpg-life.com/lorebooks-locations-map/ . There's also an add-on if you're on PC.

Thanks. Now, there's one caveat of finding these lorebooks. Are they the blue ones that I've been finding scattered around tamriel that pop up "lorebook found" on my UI when I find one? Or are they lorebooks independent of these that are used exclusively for the mage's guild? If they are the former, do they count retroactively? In that, I mean if I've already collected a bunch of the blue lorebooks, will it automatically increase my mage's guild rank or am I screwed out of that exp?

They are indeed the blue ones, and they should count retroactively.

Zeroswitch · August 2015

Enodoc wrote: »

Mages Guild progression is dependent on finding the books, yes. A good resource for this is http://teso.mmorpg-life.com/lorebooks-locations-map/ . There's also an add-on if you're on PC.

Very nice site! I was wondering how one advances their Mage Guild rank. Thanks!

Pazz_ · August 2015

Enodoc wrote: »

they should count retroactively.

Can confirm, they count retroactively.

Started the Mages Guild at VR2 (never really thought about it at all until recently!). Did wonder if all the lorebooks I found previously was now useless, but I've jumped straight up to level 4 before doing the first quest.