#1 has already been answered, it gives you writs of the level you can work with - in your case, writs that require you to make oaken things but also grant you oak in return. As you put more skill points in the passive, you'll start getting higher tier writs that require higher level mats and award higher level mats as well, along with slightly higher xp.

Veteran dungeons are more challenging versions of dungeons that become available after level 50. Far as I and II go, back at the dawn of ESO there used to be no I and II, say, what is now known as Spindleclutch I was simply Spindleclutch, a level 15 dungeon, and what is now known as Spindleclutch II was a veteran Spindleclutch, a vet rank 5 (back then we had no CP but champion levels after hitting level 50) dungeon. A lot of things have changed since then, now everything is the same level and ALL dungeons have normal and veteran versions so in order to avoid confusion those that had second version were renamed to I and II. Ergo, dungeons II tend to be a little bit longer and more challenging than dungeons I.

You can switch from normal to vet in group tab, or/and you can explicitly choose normal or vet when queueing for specific dungeons/random dungeon. Notice that you'll have to be >lvl 50 for that, and for some vet dungeons, more challenging ones, you'll have to be >300 CP in order to queue for them (you can still enter them manually with a team of your own though).

Rewards-wise, I'm honestly not sure on xp, if it's higher in vet dungeons, it's not by much. You get same sets but in purple quality vs blue in normals (especially important for jewelry since that's very costly to upgrade) and you also get monster helms off the last boss - which does not drop in normal (unless that's being changed recently? I don't think it has, been a while since I ran normals). Vet dungeons have a lot of achievements normal dungeons don't, such as speedrun, no death and hard mode (a way to buff the last boss, making the encounter a lot more challenging). Running a dungeon on vet and activating HM is the only way to get 2 keys in daily dungeon quests, pledges. A lot of dlc dungeons also have motifs drop off last boss, the chance of motif drop being guaranteed in HM, mediocre in veteran non-HM and low on normal.

devildarklink wrote: »

Okay thanks guys for the help, I understand now both my questions. I will use this topic to ask another related question then:

I haven't upgraded my crafting passives yet because I was wondering about the shortage of skill points.

I have around 40 skill points to use now, but I still need some points for my dual wield/bow/two handed skill lines, not all skills are unlocked.

So my question is: is it possible to have a fully crafted character and still be able to use it for combat (pve and pvp) properly, I mean I know about skyshards and quests that give skill points, if I pick all of them, I will be able to have all skills of crafting and still be a good character for combat? Or I need a separate character just for crafting?

Thanks!

Yes, there are more than enough available skill points to max crafting and have a character with all the skills necessary to do combat, either PvE or PvP (or both). Sources of skill points are quests (main quest, zone quests, guild quests, dungeon quests), skyshards, public dungeon events and alliance war ranks.

There is something like 400 skill points available (not sure on exact total as of Greymore)

You can MAX

All Class skills (60)
All Crafting (156)
All Racial skills (9)
All Armor skills (39)
All Mages or Fighters guild and Undaunted(33)
4 Weapon skills (88)

and still have 15 points left over

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Athyrium93 wrote: »

There is something like 400 skill points available (not sure on exact total as of Greymore)

455 total skill points available, @Athyrium93.

Though a few of those are the "missing skill points" from the older tutorial missions (e.g. Firemoth Island; Vvardenfell).

Still plenty, though, to max out crafting and combat ...

Glad to know there's more than I thought, I think I forgot the pvp/cyrodiil ones because I don't have those

To be clear about one and two dungeon versions, two is no longer considered vet, so blue gear drops and no monster helms. If you're able to follow the quest story within dungeons at all you'll see the version two is actually a new story, usually a continue of the version one, with sometimes new bosses, sometimes updated version of the original bosses, sometimes even new rooms opening up, but all scaled with their own normal and vet versions.

And yeah there's plenty of skillpoints for crafting and combat on the same character, it can be rough leveling them simultaneously on your first character though if that's your plan. Doable, but you'll find yourself torn between crafting or combat with every skillpoint you get.

I ended up leveling a separate character for crafting, who eventually maxed her crafting and then started focusing on combat. All my other characters just focus on combat, while slowly adding to crafting when they have an excess of skillpoints.