You will want to equip the weapon(s) you plan to use for your character. There are six different weapon skill lines and each is unlocked by equipping the appropriate weapon(s) and killing any monster. Once you reach level 15, you can have two skill bars. The weapon skills you put on a bar require that weapon to be equipped with the bar. Ex: You must have a bow equipped to use snipe.

Talk to Hilan at the Fighters Guild Hall to join their guild. Doing so will also open up a new quest line. The Fighters guild offers one of the stamina-damage boost abilities and the ability to use the Intimidate option (Intimidating Presence skill) while questing.

Leveling this skill line requires you to kill daedra and undead as as well as close Dark Anchors (Dolmens). You can get a daily quest for Dark Anchors at any alliance capital city Fighters Guild Hall.

It is also here that you can find Millenith who will train and certify you in Clothing, Blacksmithing and Woodworking.

The Dark Brotherhood skill line gives you the Blade of Woe (allowing you to one-hit kill humanoid characters) and allows you to reduce your bounty due to murder, receive a free daily gift and reduce aggression from hostiles while mounted (one of the most useful passives when running around Tamriel). If this is desirable to you, seek out Amelie Crowe in any Outlaw Refuge or initiate the quest (Voices in the Dark) via your Collections in-game DLC area. Conclude this quest by talking with the Speaker and you will be initiated into the guild.

The skills you equip to bar are what get leveled. The use of skills is irrelevant to leveling a particular skill line. The skills that are on your bar at the time of gaining experience points apply toward to those skill’s lines. Thus, the more skills of a particular skill line you have on your bar, the faster that skill line will level and unlock its Ultimate ability.

The one exception to this rule is the alliance war skill line. It will only progress/level as you gain Alliance Points in PvP. Once a skill is attained, it will level on your bar like any other – some faster than others.

Alchemy requires combining various components together to produce useful potions or poisons. The easiest way to level Alchemy is by 1) learning traits of components and 2) making certain potions for the first time. If you unlock all the alchemy traits, you will already be near level 30.

Clothing, Woodworking and Blacksmithing work like Enchanting but only spare Intricate, Ornate and Epic items will be worth keeping and deconstructing for Inspiration… Intricate being the best. Save your leftover junk from playing and deconstruct when you can. To begin with, you can also deconstruct Superior (blue) items but at around skill level 20, the Inspiration gained is no longer worth it compared to the gold value of selling them.

There are many options available to increase the rate by which you gain Experience and Inspiration. The cooldown on these items stop when you are logged out. You can only use one of each distinct item as they do not stack (e.g. you can no longer use a 100% Scroll + 50% Psijic Ambrosia). Because these sources do not provide a very long duration of bonus, you must use them wisely when you’ll be getting a lot of XP (such as during quest turn-ins or before defeating the final boss of a random daily dungeon).

Crown Store
Crown Experience Scroll (x5 for 1000 ) gives you +50% for two hours.

Crown Gems (from Crown Crates)
Major Crown Crate Experience Scrolls (40 ) gives you +100% for one hour.
Grand Crown Crate Experience Scrolls (100 ) gives you +150% for one hour.

Craftable Drink (which will stack with other buffing food/drink)
The Psijic Ambrosia drink gives you +50% for thirty minutes.
The Aetherial Ambrosia drink gives you +100% for thirty minutes.
The *Mythic Aetherial Ambrosia drink gives you +150% for thirty minutes.
(*Not that you’ll ever see one in your lifetime.)

Training Trait
Every piece of armor and your weapon(s) should be with a trait of Training. This increasing the XP you gain from killing enemies.

Double XP ESO Events
Every so often, keep on the lookout for when ESO will be hosting a Double XP event. This is an opportunity to have +100% XP, in addition to other bonuses. The events are typically in January, April and October. (July’s bonus is for the Alliance War only.)

Subscribe to ESO Plus
One of the benefits of subscribing is you get a permanent +10% Experience/Inspiration bonus.

You will want to take advantage of what things you can do in-game by yourself vs. with a group and how much those activities Experience they give.

Teleport to guild mates. (solo)

Simply porting around from place to place will unlock wayshrines and provide experience for unlocking a new location. Look at your mini-map and unlock close POIs and take nearby Skyshards after teleporting. It’s also a convenient time to head to that Zone’s capital city and accomplish the “This One’s On Me” Undaunted quest worth 30 points.

Gather overland Skyshards. (solo/partner)

You may be tempted to go into every delve and dungeon to get Skyshards as well but remember at low level, you have very few skills and they will take a lot of time. Come back when you have more skill points from levelling due to exploration.

Switch from zone to zone, gathering all the Skyshards you can – every three gives you another skill point. Going through the 5-7 zones of your alliance will probably give you about 20 skill points.

Participate in Guild events. (group)

Your guildmates are probably all max level and can carry you through PvE events rather easily. Join them for a daily random dungeon, questing and defeating World Bosses.

Clear delves and public dungeons. (solo/partner)

Each delve and public dungeon have a Skyshard and provide a lot of Experience for killing the bosses. Also as a reward for clearing the group events in public dungeons, you will receive a skill point. This adds up to 20 skill points just for finishing the alliance-zone public dungeons.

Before heading off to these delves and dungeons, check the Undaunted Enclave and Mages Guild in your capital city for quests to obtain items from these dungeons. You might as well get paid twice for doing the same work. These quests are daily but group up with others, and they could share more.

Alik’r Desert Dolmens (solo)

Travel to the Alik’r Desert and unlock the wayshrines closest to the three Dolmens. There is always a zerg of players completing the Dolmens there, one after another – so you need to use the wayshrines to keep up.

• Try getting a Fighter’s Guild daily quest to see if Alik’r is your daily. You will get extra XP for turning it in after completing any three.
• With a +50% XP buff, you can reach level ten within completing twelve Dolmens here – it will take less than an hour – the zerg does most of the work.
• Along with the level increase, you will more than likely acquire a matching set of jewelry (necklace and two rings) where you can wear them for additional stat increases. You can always stay here for more Experience until you get jewelry you want.