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Do you have to do Mages Guild Quest to advance the skill line?

kylewwefan
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I made a new Toon and working on getting Meteor. I'm noticing the mages guild bar is not moving after finding lorebooks. Do I have to do this quest again on every toon?
  • Eweroun
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    kylewwefan wrote: »
    I made a new Toon and working on getting Meteor. I'm noticing the mages guild bar is not moving after finding lorebooks. Do I have to do this quest again on every toon?

    You have to become member of the mages guild. Quick talk with one of the mages guild.
    Already found books on you character wil be added directly to the experience.

    So if you found already books, you will probably pass at once to lvl 2 ,3,...
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  • Autolycus
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    You just need to do the "first conversation" piece with one of the Mages Guild members to obtain the skill line. After you have the skill line, leveling it is done through collecting lore books. You progress the skill line to unlock skills with lore books; you progress the skills themselves via normal leveling experience, i.e. quests, killing monsters, etc.
    Edited by Autolycus on September 23, 2016 4:38PM
  • DHale
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    Get skill line find lore books no quests are required.
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  • undefeatdgaul
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    only the purple books give the mages guild XP just fyi
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    Oddly enough, the Quests for the Mages and Fighters do not give you any Reputation towards increasing Mages or Fighters.

    They are adding Dailies to the Mages and Fighters as an alternative to leveling the Guilds, but I stil think you want to most your leveling finding the purple lore books or killing Daedra.

    I wonder if they will also include the Guild Quests towards that Reputation boost with the update or in the future.
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  • Dagoth_Rac
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    only the purple books give the mages guild XP just fyi

    This is a good observation. At some point, every little scrap of paper you read brings up a, "Lore Book Discovered!" message. I am not sure if this is a bug. But only the purple glowing books are lore books that actually increase Mages Guild level.
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    Nestor wrote: »
    I wonder if they will also include the Guild Quests towards that Reputation boost with the update or in the future.
    There's already way too many purple books in the game. You can max the Mages Guild by only finding half of them.

    Adding extra gain to the quests would make finding the books completely useless.
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  • undefeatdgaul
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    SirAndy wrote: »
    Nestor wrote: »
    I wonder if they will also include the Guild Quests towards that Reputation boost with the update or in the future.
    There's already way too many purple books in the game. You can max the Mages Guild by only finding half of them.

    Adding extra gain to the quests would make finding the books completely useless.
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    Ive never specifically looked for the books, but Ive read every one Ive seen out and about. Completed the mages guild line & caldwells silver & gold and Im only at level 7, its a PITA. I guess im going to have to specifically go find them which Id rather not do but I want that meteor!
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    SirAndy wrote: »
    Nestor wrote: »
    I wonder if they will also include the Guild Quests towards that Reputation boost with the update or in the future.
    There's already way too many purple books in the game. You can max the Mages Guild by only finding half of them.

    Adding extra gain to the quests would make finding the books completely useless.
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    @SirAndy

    True, and this is more an issue now than after 1T. As it stands now, we are into the Gold Zones before we get to L10 in the Mages, (it used to be Silver but I think they removed some books as the last two Alts needed to be in the Gold Zones to finish leveling Mages)
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    I've been mostly finding them at the eye symbols and here and there....though I have specifically searched some out. It is a major pita but meteor is well worth it. I would much rather run dungeons to level up the mages guild skill line.
    I was reading about the destro staff ultimate and how it's very comparable to meteor. It may be better to wait for it with one tamriel!
    Edited by kylewwefan on September 23, 2016 5:42PM
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    Nestor wrote: »
    As it stands now, we are into the Gold Zones before we get to L10 in the Mages
    Not if you have any of the DLCs.

    I'm using my mapping AddOn to track assets on all maps and the DLCs have added a lot of purple lore books.
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    PS: There's also quite a few in the group dungeons.

    Edited by SirAndy on September 23, 2016 5:45PM
  • undefeatdgaul
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    yeh but if youre on console and have no addons youre screwed and it takes forever
  • Elmour0Fudd
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    Autolycus wrote: »
    You just need to do the "first conversation" piece with one of the Mages Guild members to obtain the skill line. After you have the skill line, leveling it is done through collecting lore books. You progress the skill line to unlock skills with lore books; you progress the skills themselves via normal leveling experience, i.e. quests, killing monsters, etc.

    totally agree, but don't forget to check any building for bookshelves,
    you may have already got the book but you can get a gem occasionally.
    or normally if it glows purple or gold go look but the shelves you have to look for.

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  • Lexifer452
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    I for one am glad they are adding dailies for the npc guilds. Also glad that they will hand out guild rep for completing them too. If there is one thing about this game that I cannot stand it is leveling mage's guild on each and every alt I level up. A more monotonous task there is not. Especially on console. Sure I have a map on my tablet while i'm doing so but none that I have found are large enough or detailed enough to pinpoint the location so there still tends to be a fair bit of mandatory exploration.

    Playing stamina on my newest alt so I think i'll let it stay at rank 4 until update 12 drops. Granted the dailies probably won't give out a huge amount of reputation but it should be nice not having to find quite so many of those stupid little books.
  • Kyye
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    Dagoth_Rac wrote: »
    only the purple books give the mages guild XP just fyi

    This is a good observation. At some point, every little scrap of paper you read brings up a, "Lore Book Discovered!" message. I am not sure if this is a bug. But only the purple glowing books are lore books that actually increase Mages Guild level.

    I believe this happens once you complete the main story line.
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