AntMan100673 wrote: »I'd continue questing etc to get the skill points, as well as the other alliances areas you'll also now have access to craglorn (they'll be a cart in your alliances capital that can take you there for the 1st time). Craglorn is aimed at groups however with the one tamriel update a lot of it is being revamped to make it solo friendly. Other content like trials are probably best left until you're CP160.
For gear I'm not sure what's the best advice to give you. When I got to 50 (under the old vet system) is when I switched from using dropped gear to using crafted sets. I got sets at what is now CP10, CP50, CP100 and CP160. It took significantly longer to level up under the veteran rank system though (when I got to VR16 which is the equivalent of CP160 I had 320 champion points).
If you're struggling with the difficulty of the content then get yourself some crafted set gear even if it means buying material / paying a crafter. If you're not struggling then if you've got the material you might as well craft yourself some set gear as the bonuses are always nice to have and it's not like the material is useful for anything else. Below CP160 I wouldn't bother improving anything above blue quality (purple for weapons if you've got enough).
If you want to gain champion points quickly to get to CP160 then use the activity finder to do a random normal dungeon. With the enlightenment bonus it's worth a load of xp. If you haven't done the quest in the group dungeon before you can also get a skill point. If you pick up the undaunted pledge quest before queuing (in your alliances capital) and get given that dungeon as your random one you can also get an undaunted key (save these until you are CP160) and you can use these to get monster set shoulders
Start researching traits ASAP. They're real time-locked, so the sooner the better. You don't need any skill points on crafts to start researching, but it can help to boost the speed at which you research and how many items you can research if you decide to allocate a few points to it.
First trait, say a training trait, from a gear piece you looted, will take like 3 hrs. Second might take 5. By the 4th, it could be a day, and the 9th will be like 28 to 30 days.
*research is literally the process of learning how to craft a weapon trait from a piece you found. Different sets require different number of traits to craft, ranging from 2 to 9. It can be any 2, but it depends on the piece you want to craft.
Starting early is important, since this is one of the most real time consuming things in the game. The second is leveling up your mount. Be sure to do that every 20 hrs. Everything else is the grind: for cp, for mats, for gear, for undaunted, for keys, etc.
At level 50, you can do both undaunted vet and non-vet dailies. I recommend doing at least the random normal and the normal undaunted pledge until 160 and save your undaunted keys for when you hit 160.
Gearwise, you won't be cr 10 for long, so I wouldn't invest in anything fancy, but if you do invest a little, it'll make the grind to 160 less painful.
Be sure to do your harborage quest line all the way through cold harbour (6 hour quest line there) until you finish the storyline. You get skill points from those quests, decent experience, a good story, and you unlock the Cadwell silver quest line, which gives you access to a ton of skill point rewarding quests. This might be less relevant with one tamriel. I'd still recommend though.
You are correct.Let say I want to craft 5x Armor of Seducer (reduce magica cost 8%, and magica recover etc), It says I need 3 traits unlocked.
Does that mean, if I have 3 traits unlocked on chest armor, I can craft a Seducer Chest, but not gloves? So If I want 5x in that set I need to unlock 5x3traits? -snip-
I like to be self sufficient so my opinion is that it's worth the effort and time. If you can find a friendly guild or two and don't mind being dependant on others for your crafting needs, then maybe not so much. Only you can make this decision.-snip-But is it worth too keep level up crafting and put skill points into it, and also maybe get woodworking for staffs etc (feel like no need for blacksmithing as a light armor caster?)
Or opionio on that?^^