Yes, there is enough skill points in the game for one toon to be a master crafter and an endgamer.

My two main characters are both Grand Master Crafters and have enough points for all crafting, for their PvE tank builds and for their PvP builds at the same time. I think it requires around 280 skill points (not skyshards) and it's definitely possible.

Galerane wrote: »

When I started, I wasn't any a guild so I didn't know this would be an issue. I play two different characters, one with blacksmithing, woodworking, and clothing. The other with alchemy, provisioning, and enchanting. I am being told to make only one a crafter and one and endgame character. The problem is the first is pretty maxed out in everything and has almost all the traits, the second is maxed in alchemy and provisioning with many high-end, purple recipes. So do I really need to change, is there no way to be able to do both on both characters?

There are more than enough skill points available in the game for a character to fulfil both crafting and be built for end game content.

Getting the skill points is another matter! But if you go on a run for an evening to pick up the skyshards, this can significantly increase your skill points.

My main is my jack of all traits, skills points are more than enough for PvE, PvP, crafting, ect... As stated above by others.

If you earn the skill points, sure. If you skip a lot of content, it gets trickier. Especially if your build requires a lot of skill points. My main tank requires me to make some choices, but none of them impact combat or crafting, though they can leave me without any available skill points if I need to unlock another skill for a particular fight. My main does all 7 crafts and even has some keen eyesight unlocked. He also has some points in legerdemain and all the hirelings. Making him a vampire would cause me to have to cut some skills. I also have QoL skills like rapids that I don't actually use in endgame content, but which are very necessary to not hate life when doing quests.

I could get a decent number of additional skillpoints if I forced myself to grind them in PvP, but I find it hard to return there after unlocking all the skills.

There are also some annoying compromises I have had to make, like not using better stamina dps options when questing because I don't have the skill points for it after investing in s&b and destro staff.

Some of these issues are due to being a tank and how tedious single player content becomes when you hit for so little damage while easily surviving. I usually just run past all mobs when questing and just engage what I need to engage to finish quests. I also don't like carrying a lot of gear when questing because I would like to go for as long as possible before having to unload and I want to be ready to join a group activity on a minutes notice if an opportunity arises.

"There are several methods of earning skill points, listed below, up to a current total of 424 points (as of patch 5.0):

a) Leveling your character, up to level 50 (64 Skill Points)
b) Completing quests in the main quest (11 Skill Points)
c) Completing quest chains in the Dominion, Covenant, Pact, and Coldharbour main storylines (49 Skill Points)
d) Completing the Imperial City storyline (1 Skill Point)
e) Completing the Reforging Orsinium storyline (3 Skill Points)
f) Completing the Summerset storyline (3 Skill Points)
g) Reading the Folium Discognitum (Optional quest reward from Mages Guild quest chain) (2 Skill Points)
h) Completing the primary quest chain of the Thieves Guild storyline (6 Skill Points)
i) Completing the primary quest chain of the Dark Brotherhood storyline (8 Skill Points)
j) Completing the Divine Power, Morag Tong, and House Telvanni quest chains on Vvardenfell (3 Skill Points)
k) Playing or skipping the tutorial quest in the current chapter: Broken Bonds, The Mind Trap, or Bright Moons (1 Skill Point - only one of these quests can be completed by any given character, and those created prior to Morrowind cannot get any of them.)
l) Completing the primary quest chain of the Clockwork City storyline (8 Skill Points)
m) Completing the primary quest chain of the Murkmire storyline (7 Skill Points)
n) Absorbing skyshards (113 Skill Points, 34 more including all DLCs)
o) Ranking up in the Alliance War (50 Skill Points)
p) Completing group challenges in public dungeons (16 Skill Points, 8 more including Orsinium, Vvardenfell, Summerset and Elsweyr)
q) Completing group dungeons (24 Skill Points, one for each completed dungeon storyline quest in the base game, 12 more including those added by Imperial City, Shadows of the Hist, Horns of the Reach, Dragon Bones, Wolfhunter, and Wrathstone)
r) Completing Orsinium Maelstrom Arena (1 Skill Point)"

idk wrote: »

I think there is an addon that can tell you what skill points a character has and which ones they are missing.

No addons here. I play on PS4.

Maybe you're thinking about this:
https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1863-UrichsSkillPointFinder.html

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

This kind of functionality should be in the game so it would also be on the PS4. Quit leaving out key functionality!

Yeah but there's Sony and their position towards addons...

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

One note for those who may not know: You can get skill points every so often from running the main quest lines in each area. I didn't know that at first, so it is possible others didn't realize it. You can also get skillpoints (not just a single skyshard) from every Public Dungeon by completing an event specific to that dungeon as far as I know. I have not found an exception to that, so I assume it is all of them.

I detailed all that in my post above.

I have separate crafters for equipment and consumables; it works very well if you don't have plus.

I was under the impression that motifs don't impact consumables, so it shouldn't matter too much.

At the end of the day, if it works for you, then do what you prefer.