Skill Lines for your newly created characters

PathosDante · February 1

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 · February 1

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.

Danikat · February 1

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.

LunaFlora · February 1

i do not use those skill lines for all characters.

though i never purchase Skill line progress or Sky Shards

Varana · February 1

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. · February 1

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 · February 1

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.

CalamityCat · February 1

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

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 · February 1

I train them on each character. I have never purchased a skill line, or anything I can obtain by playing my character.

Erickson9610 · February 2

PathosDante wrote: »

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.

ESO_player123 · February 2

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 · February 2

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.

spartaxoxo · February 2

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.