Question about the skill leveling tip in the latest Ceannard Notes.

Fog wrote:

This is a neat trick I discovered in the final beta. If you equip and kill 1 enemy using each weapon and wearing one of each type of armor you will unlock all the weapon and armor lines. Then switch to your prefered weapon of choice and armor of choice. You will notice your other skills leveling as you advance without even using them. At the end of Beta my Bow skill was at rank 8 without even using a bow aside from the first kill to unlock it.

So maybe this question is for Fog, or perhaps others may have experience with this. My question is, how does this work with class skill. Let's say I play a templar and have Rushed Ceremony on my bar when I kill an enemy. I then remove the skill from my bar. What will level up now? Only Rushed Ceremony? The general Restoring Light line? Both? Or put an other way: Will specific skills in a skill line level up or is it "only" the general skill line rank?

Id like to know early if that is an exploit or not lol cause if it isn't then every one should be doing it :) 

All your doing is unlocking the tree so you can start leveling it. The game auto levels all of the skills you've unlocked. But it will not progress anything you havent. This is part of the game mechanic. I believe all your class skills are unlocked at creation. Please not this doesn't level individual skills just that weapon or armor rank. 

So for me I unlocked bow and it leveled up enough I could skip the first 2 skills without wasting a skill point and get the knockback.

Thanks Fog.

Perfect  :) thank you :)

Awesome! Glad you asked this because I was wondering the same. :)

I experienced the same effects. I tested this by following the same steps Fog did. I ended up being character level 10 with the majority of my skills I wanted (weapon and other) reaching around level 19-21.

Also keep in mind that a skill will level faster if it is equipped. So during the majority of your leveling, keep the skills you want to level the fastest equipped at all times and until you reach level 15 for weapon swap, before you turn in those quests, change out skills to give them some love.

Beloc

On a side note I will be able to make early access.. :) Thought I would be missing it since I am out of town.

This must be fine with the developers, because all the details above were the topic of more than one ESO forum post over the last couple months.

And they left it just as it is going live.