In The Elder Scrolls Online, skill points are a currency used to unlock abilities and passives. Skill points are unique to each character you create, so you must collect them for every character you make. Currently, there are over 500 skill points available, and you need at least 100 skill points to purchase all the skills and passives needed for a basic build. But don't worry. SavySnapdragon' guide will explain everything you need to know about how to get, spend, and redistribute all skill points.
Source of Skill Points
Absorbing a Skyshard in ESO
Currently, there are over 500 skill points. The most common way to get skill points is by collecting skyshards, and you will receive one skill point for every three skyshards.
There are several ways to earn skill points in ESO:
Collecting Skyshards: You can earn up to 181 points from collecting skyshards in Overland Content
Completing Zone Quests: You can earn up to 147 points from completing quests.
Completing Public Dungeon Group Events: You can earn up to 32 points from completing these events.
Completing Group Dungeon Quests: You can earn up to 52 points by completing quests in group dungeons.
Character Leveling: You can earn up to 64 points by leveling up your character in ESO.
Ranking Up in Alliance War: You can earn up to 50 points by participating in the Alliance War.
Type of Skills in ESO
In ESO, skills are abilities that your character can use to perform various actions, such as dealing damage, healing, or controlling enemies. Skills are square in shape in the skill book, and there are five types of skills:
Class Skills: These are unique to each class and are unlocked as you level up your class.
Weapon Skills: These are tied to specific weapon types and are unlocked by using those weapons in combat.
Armor Skills: These are tied to specific armor types, such as light, medium, or heavy, and are unlocked by wearing at least three pieces of that armor in combat.
Guild Skills: These are tied to various in-game Guilds, such as Mages Guild and Fighters Guilds, and are unlocked by completing quests and advancing in rank.
Alliance War Skills: These are tied to the game's PvP system and are unlocked by participating in these activities.
Passives
Passives are skills that provide constant effects or bonuses to your character without needing to be activated during gameplay or slotted on your action bar. Passives can be obtained from various sources, such as Class Skills, Weapon Skills, Armor Skills, Guild Skills, Racial Skills, and more.
Passives can provide bonuses to attributes, like Max Health/Magicka/Stamina, reduce resource costs, increase damage, improve healing, enhance Critical hits, and more. Each skill line in ESO has its own set of passive skills that can be unlocked and improved as you progress in the game. There's no limit to how many passives you can have, so make sure to grab them when you have skill points to spend.
Spending Skill Points
To purchase skills, you have to use skill points. The base version of each skill costs one skill point, and players are able to purchase more of the skills within a skill line as they increase their level for that skill line.
Once a skill is purchased, it must be slotted on the active skill bar to be cast and to level up. When enough experience is gained for that skill, a base skill is able to be morphed with the use of another skill point. Along with skills, passives are also purchasable, and they cost one skill point each.
Morphing Skills
In ESO, each skill has two morphs that allow you to choose an advanced version of the base skill that offers different effects or benefits. Morphing a skill requires that you have the skill at rank four and spend a skill point to unlock the morph.
Morphs can change the resource cost, damage, duration, or other aspects of a skill. Some morphs can also change the type of damage dealt or the way the skills interact with each other. Each skill can only have one morph at a time, but players can change the morph if they wish.
Changing Skill Morphs
The Shrine to Stendarr
One of the best features of ESO is the ability to change your skills and morphs at any point. With a bit of gold, players can change their skills and morphs at any time by following these steps:
1. Find a Shrine to Stendarr in any major city.
Resetting Skill Points at the Shrine to Stendarr
2. Select either "Skills" to adjust whole skills or "Morphs" to adjust the morphs of skills.
3. Select "-" to remove skill points from a skill and unmorph or unpurchase that skill. You can also purchase additional skills or passives while in this window.
4. Once you are satisfied with your changes, select "Confirm".
Any skill points taken out of skills that are not spent while in the shrine are not lost and can be used again at any other time.
Those are the six quick tips about skill points and skills. If you found this guide helpful, please be sure to subscribe to SavySnapdragon's channel, as she will continue to provide more ESO tips.
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