I was in the Mage's Guild in Mournhold. I believe I already opened/read all books/bookshelves. Then today, I went through the bookshelves again. And behold, I got a skill up. Was it a server reset or something? Or how does this book skill ups work?
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I was in the Mage's Guild in Mournhold. I believe I already opened/read all books/bookshelves. Then today, I went through the bookshelves again. And behold, I got a skill up. Was it a server reset or something? Or how does this book skill ups work?
From what I have heard it is randomly generated based your level when you enter the "instance". So you could theoretically read the same book shelves several times and not get any skill ups - or get several.
I had this happen just tonight (or rather really early morning) when I started a new character and ran Bleakrock. I did all the buildings and got various skill ups. Then later on did all the bldgs. again and got one more from a book shelf that didn't give me one the first time.
It is a pain in the butt, but I make a point to hit all the book shelves at least 2 x in a town and some times more. If you think about it - for all the book shelves you tag - it doesn't happen often - and many times it is a skill you will never use. For me it is enchanting. I have one character - just level 17 - who has not enchanted a day in her life but is enchanting level 4 - just from book shelves.
Then again - when we are doing dungeons I have been in groups where every one gets the exact same skill ups off the same book shelves. in these cases it might be random for the group when the group enters - but the entire group is the same. They sure do keep us guessing ;)
Yes, you can go back later and might get a skill up out of the same shelf. As Morigana stated, this is totally random on what books you will get and if there will be skill ups. After you level up a certain amount from books in a skill you won't level up again in it at all. Now I don't know how many book skill ups you can get, but I've had skill ups on skills already in the 30 range but never seen many books to level it before.
The way it was explained to me was as follows:
Each zone has a set of books that will appear on bookshelves in that zone. Most of those books don't have a skill up associated with them, some of them do. Each time you load an area the bookshelves are randomly assigned a book from the set of possible books based on the zone the area is a part of. You only get a skill up once per book. This is why you see more skillups from bookshelves when you enter a new zone because there is a new set of skillup books thrown into the pool that you haven't read yet.
I don't know if it is 100% accurate but it sounds reasonable to me and it fits my observations of getting more skillups early in a zone than later.
I was also told there are a total of 6 skillup books for each skill - that seems to match the numbers my weapons end up at if I don't use them.
That is one of the things I love about ESO. This is one MMO where I can truly get lost in the world. The last time this happened was WoW. WoW had very good story, good lore and very beautiful environment. Though the interactivity was very limited.
ESO on the other hand, feels real. I feel I am truly part of adventuring in Tamriel. The story and lore are fantastic. Considering I have very limited time to play with new baby and all, but I am thoroughly enjoying my slow levelling and the process of it. All the rest of MMO I just skip wall of text, grind XP and blast through to max level.
Do note that it is of minimal benefit to try to wait on books. Just read them early on for the boost they give, as every skill except enchanting will level easily anyway.
The 6 points will in no way matter for your enchanting in a significant way later on, in fact waiting will likely mean you only slow down as you can't craft higher tier runes... and since it is so slow that only makes matters worse.
Xrande has a great point. This game does a great job of pulling me in. The quests are well written, and even the standard kill x quests and fed-ex quests feel much more organic here. The stories are also well done.
To me a large part of this is the lack of floating names. it blurs the line in PvE of players and npc in a really good way.
Now to un-hijack the thread:
Mystborn's description also matches my observations. However, think of the skillups to unused skills as just one of those life skills everyone actually has from their hobbies or from the random conversation with an accountant.
"or from the random conversation with an accountant."
I have lost brain cells when speaking with accountants :)
... and I use to do bookkeeping and studied to be an accountant. and yes, Xrande has it right. Love to explore this world - there have been several great stories in the books - the ones on the shelves and the lore books they have scattered around in camps, under trees, in the backs of carts. They have done a great job.
