It realy depends on what you want your character to have. Like Shauna98ca2 has said, its a smart idea to put atleast 1 skill of all 3 class lines in your bar, just so you can level them.

Then as you level and reach endgame, you need to decide for yourself, what you think your character needs to survive in Tamriel when he or she is facing a enemy.

Personaly, I always try to find skills that have good synergy with each other or skills which you can use to form a combo, fine example could be: You cast a skill to root alot of enemies on one spot then you unleash a big AoE skill, this same AoE skill triggers a passive which makes you regain HP, MP or stamina.

A fine example is for my Dragon Knight, I will focus on leveling all 3 class skills (because they all have a skill or a passive that I could use with my other skills). I will also level Mages Guild, Destruction, Racial, Restoration, Light and heavy armour. When I am done leveling those skill-lines, I will then (if I have skill points left) focus on other skill-lines that have a good synergy with my build.

This game gives you alot of skill-points and alot of options, sticking to one class skill-line seems pointless, because you will be able learn all 3 class skills, because you get alot of points.

My advice is to do this:
1) Ask yourself, what you want your character to be in this game. The roles of your character for example, healer, dps, tank, support or a hybrid.

2) Look at sites like Esohead so you can plan ahead what kind of build you want and you can look at the morphs that some skills provide.

3) Try to atleast have 1 crowd controll spell, 1 spell that heals or triggers a heal and a AoE for the packs. You could always make one bar single type dps and another one AoE type dps or one bar could be a dps and another bar could provide the heals, cc, tanking skills.

I hope, I have informed you on what you can do.

Have fun.

Thanks for the advice guys, i will try and figure out which way to go with my toon But it does seems like you get many skill points, so maybe i shouldn't be to afraid about spending them.

Ohh, thats alot

I'm sorry to say that I have a hard time looking into the future because I have not used one of those class building programs. What I have done instead is create multiple classes and tested different things. Also, I've respec'd three of my guys around level 12 just to try different things.

For instance, I made one of my Sorcerers a glass cannon by only choosing Storm Caller. I know I could get more defense by wearing heavy armor but I wear light armor for the magic improvements.

Another Sorcerer I respec'd to Daedra Summoning. In my five slots I have Morphed Curse so it blows up after 3 seconds, a fire carpet to toast their little toesies, a touch spell that blows them away from me, the flying daedra for future healing and my little imp guy morphed so he explodes on demand or when he dies.

Of the two, the summoning guy is the most fun to play and the most survivable. The imp tanks, the flying chicken lady gets taken out first, the curse is awesome damage, the flame carpet lights up the room and hits multiple targets and the fist of pain keeps the major damage dealers away from me.

But the more I read the more I realize that there are synergies between different trees and that I'm missing out on them by focusing on one tree only. My advice is similar to the above posts... mix and match. Oh, and don't forget to add Soul Stone from the World tree to your five spots at some time or another. That is an awesome ability.

Thx for the good comments.

I guess i never saw it as an option to have skills you haven't equipped all the time. But as many of you say, it makes good sense to have abilities which you only equip for certain situations.

Fx. i have trained the Cleave ability, but on single target encounters i could just equip the Lava Whip ability instead etc.

I guess i am just used the old WOW style, where you can see all you abilities all the time.

Cheers

Shaun98ca2 wrote: »

Ummm early in the game I recommend an ability from all three trees so you can level them all. If you don't plan on ever using a tree at all then I guess you don't need any points in it.

Racial and Armor Passives are very good when you run out of abilities you NEED for your current desired build. Weapon abilities can be apart of your build if you desire which will also need points and leveling.

Or if you pre-built your character with any ESO character calculator, you can pick only one, maybe two skill lines in the class and a few from weapons and get going.

You start getting extra skill points by around level 30....unless you want to put a skill point in all skills, class, weapons, racial, world, guilds (both) etc...

deamill wrote: »

Hi fellow players,

I have a question, i know there is not a definitive answer But are you only ”supposed” to put skill points in one class tree?

Short answer: no

Long answer:
You are going to get a LOT of skillpoints just playing the game (unless you are one of those grind-happy ARPG wannabes), so you don't need to worry *too much* about putting them in abilities from trees you aren't as likely to use. As someone else said, it's good to level them all, thus you need an ability from each.

Most classes have at least one reallllly good ability in each tree AFAIK, and some pretty deep down. So it makes sense to level all three.
Unless you plan on maxing out EVERY crafting profession and >1 armor line and all the guild lines and the pvp trees, you won't need to worry about a shortage of skill points.

Plus, you can always respec (for a lot of gold).

Yea I personally don't spend skill points just because I have spare skill points unused. I always look ahead to what abilities will be morphing soon or what ability line will unlock a new skill that I can put a point into. This usually leads me to needing 3/4 skill points in the near future, so I just hand on to them. And as someone said you can respec your skill points (costs a ton) so it's not a one way street.