How to earn skill points fast in Elder Scrolls Online

Doing quests is one of the slowest ways of earning skill points.

Did you know – 90% of the quests you take will NOT award skill points!

To earn skill points fast, the fastest ways are as follows

  1. If you have another character who has completed collecting Skyshards for a particular zone, you can pay $$$ to get those skyshards on your current characters too. Note: They are not giftable
  2. Level up your character to  level 50 by doing Alik’r Dolmens. You get skill points every time you level – maximum up to 50.
  3. Do the main quest (the one with the Prophet). Stop after the quest “Council of the Five Companions” as it requires you to enter Cold Harbour, it gets lengthy at this point.
  4. Kill the Group Event boss in all Public dungeons if your character can dish out the dps and sustain the hits. Use this add-on to find which boss awards the skill point in a particular public dungeon. You DON’T need to kill all bosses. You ONLY need to kill that ONE boss to get the skill point
    • TIP: Use this add-on to filter which of your guild members is in a public dungeon and port to the public dungeon directly!
  5. Grab Sky Shards all across Tamriel and in delves. Use this add-on to help you locate Sky Shards.
    • TIP: Use this add-on to filter which of your guild members is in a delve and port to the delve directly!
    • UPDATE 21 May 2019: The upcoming Elsweyr expansion will introduce crown store options to apply skyshard achievements (with relevant skill points) to another character if you already have at least one character with the achievement. PC users have the option NOW, console users have to wait till June 4.
  6. Complete 4-player group dungeons. Here are some tips for faster queuing

The above will net you about 190+ skill points.

Here’s a more detailed guide on all the ways to obtain skill points

One thought on “How to earn skill points fast in Elder Scrolls Online”

  1. Quests are important for weapon, armor, skill, majic, stamina and health XP points. Skill requires requires experience points for all your character types. Sure you can cheat, take short cuts to get the skill points from the shards. I would rather have the experience points instead. Given a choice wouldn’t you want 999,999,999^99999999th power XP or your skyshard points???

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