Maintenance for the week of March 9:
• [COMPLETE] NA megaservers for patch maintenance – March 9, 4:00AM EDT (8:00 UTC) - 12:00PM EDT (16:00 UTC)
• [COMPLETE] EU megaservers for patch maintenance – March 9, 8:00 UTC (4:00AM EDT) - 16:00 UTC (12:00PM EDT)
• ESO Store and Account System for maintenance – March 11, 9:00AM EDT (13:00 UTC) - 1:00PM EDT (17:00 UTC)

Skill Lines for your newly created characters

PathosDante
PathosDante
✭✭
3 skill lines are important for the game.

- Soul Magic
- Mages Guild
- Psijic Order

Do you complete these quests individually for each character you create?

Or do you obtain them from the Crown Store?

Honestly, personally, with the characters I've put effort into, I just complete the tasks.
  • Radiate77
    Radiate77
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    I go ahead and run the quests.

    For me; part of the journey with a new character is experiencing the game again, and Soul Magic is the main story.

    The other two are much easier now with Add-Ons, so I just get them both done in an afternoon.
    Dragon Priest [Restoring Light, Draconic Power, Grave Lord]
    Death Knight [Grave Lord, Winter’s Embrace, Siphoning]
    Pyromancer [Ardent Flame, Dawn’s Wrath, Earthen Heart]
    Summoner [Living Death, Grave Lord, Daedric Summoning]
    Ranger [Animal Companions, Green Balance, Shadow]
    Druid [Earthen Heart, Animal Companions, Stormcalling]
    Elementalist [Stormcalling, Winter’s Embrace, Ardent Flame]
    Dawnguard [Dawn’s Wrath, Restoring Light, Ardent Flame]
  • Danikat
    Danikat
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't use these skill lines on all my characters but when I do (or when I want other world skills) I'll train them up in the game rather than paying to skip playing them.

    Hypothetically if I was making a character specifically for some end game thing which needed them I'd consider buying an upgrade, but I've never done that, I'll use my existing characters.
    PC EU player | She/her/hers | PAWS (Positively Against Wrip-off Stuff) - Say No to Crown Crates!

    "Remember in this game we call life that no one said it's fair"
  • LunaFlora
    LunaFlora
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    i do not use those skill lines for all characters.

    though i never purchase Skill line progress or Sky Shards
    miaow! i'm Luna ( she/her ).

    🌸*throws cherry blossom on you*🌸
    "Eagles advance, traveler! And may the Green watch and keep you."
    🦬🦌🐰
    PlayStation and PC EU.
    LunaLolaBlossom on psn.
    LunaFloraBlossom on pc.
  • Varana
    Varana
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭
    I don't think these skill lines are crucial.

    Soul Magic: It's basically only important for the scribed skills. For those, skill line level doesn't matter, and I think you get the skill line from the tutorial.
    I eventuall do go through most of the main quest with my characters for the skill points, but levelling the skill line isn't really that important.

    Psijic: It was more important earlier, and still is for some specific builds (or probably PvP), but not much more. I did it on characters until I got the necessary skills but have since stopped doing that. It's so extraordinarily boring.

    Mage's Guild: That one I level eventually on all characters. For the most part, you can get away with not using it, though (except for the scribed skill, and for that level is irrelevant), so I don't particularly grind it.

    I haven't bought a skill line in the shop ever.
  • wolfie1.0.
    wolfie1.0.
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭
    There are only a few skill lines worth paying for in the crown store.

    Psijic, antiquities, alliance war.... are in my opinion the worst grinds. And often worth the time skip investments.

    Cyordill is the only zone worth the skyshard investments.
  • Soarora
    Soarora
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don’t level soul magic, I have enough soul gems.

    I manually level Psijic but only on characters who need the skills.

    I manually level mages guild on fresh characters, as I pick up books on the way to skill points. Fighters and mages guild I pick up asap.
    [PC/NA] Dungeoneer (Tank/DPS), Retired Trialist, and amateur Battlegrounder (DPS) with a passion for The Elder Scrolls lore.
  • CalamityCat
    CalamityCat
    ✭✭✭✭
    I always just level skill lines like these in game. I try to start any lines that I'm training ASAP, then do as many things as I can at the same time, especially if I can do them by area. I'm training up combat skills and unlocking sky shards and wayshrines anyway, so I just try to be efficient. Bonus points for doing it while there's an event in that zone too :D

    I find it pretty quick after the first run, and if I do quests too then it's fun revisiting some of my old favourite quests and characters.
  • SilverBride
    SilverBride
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    I train them on each character. I have never purchased a skill line, or anything I can obtain by playing my character.
    PCNA
  • Erickson9610
    Erickson9610
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭
    3 skill lines are important for the game.

    - Soul Magic
    - Mages Guild
    - Psijic Order

    Do you complete these quests individually for each character you create?

    Or do you obtain them from the Crown Store?

    Honestly, personally, with the characters I've put effort into, I just complete the tasks.

    These are the skill lines that I use:
    • Werewolf
    • Any 3 Class lines, as long as they include passives that don't require the slotting or use of Class skills
    • Light, Medium, and Heavy Armor
    • Undaunted
    • Racial
    • Assault and Support
    • Provisioning and Alchemy
    The only Active Abilities I need are in the Werewolf skill line, which ranks up very quickly. Emperor is useful for everything but the Authority passive, but obviously you don't always have access to that.

    I don't touch anything else. I don't need Weapon skill lines because the passives aren't meant to work in Werewolf form. None of the other skill lines (such as Fighters Guild, Mages Guild, Psijic Order, Soul Magic, Scrying/Excavation, Legerdemain, Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood) are useful to me as far as combat goes.

    I also cannot get Vampire, as having both Werewolf and Vampire at the same time (normally not possible to do) will lock you out of Werewolf Transformation until you remove Vampire. No "werepyres" allowed, haha.


    The skill lines I do need to rank up and spend skill points on are easy to level and I don't need to spend a lot of skill points in them, since I'm only interested in a few select skills/passives. As such, I usually don't buy skill lines or even skyshards outright.
    PC/NA — Lone Werewolf

    Werewolf Should be Allowed to Sneak
    Please give us Werewolf Skill Styles (for customizing our fur color), Grimoires/Scribing skills (to fill in the holes in our builds), and Companions (to transform with).
  • ESO_player123
    ESO_player123
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭
    I've never purchased any skill lines/skyshards from the Crown store. I do not see a need for that.

    Also, I do not need these questlines completed on every character. I have everything completed on my main, the rest is determined by the needs of a particular toon. Say, I might want a specific skill from the Psijic Order or the ability to see psijic portals. That means that I do a part of the questline up to the point where I get what I want.
  • PathosDante
    PathosDante
    ✭✭
    To be frank, I have never purchased a “skill line,” and I can see that many people in the community agree with me.

    Personally, I think skill lines are overpriced. I’m sure that if they were priced between 500–1000 crowns, more people would be willing to buy them.
    Edited by PathosDante on February 2, 2026 3:17AM
  • spartaxoxo
    spartaxoxo
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have purchased the antiquity line but I was just feeling lazy to get the treasure chest passive and had the crowns to spare that day. I don't normally purchase skill lines and just level them normally. I don't think it's hard to play without those skill lines either so not all my characters have them.
    Edited by spartaxoxo on February 2, 2026 4:43AM
Sign In or Register to comment.