To reset your skills in ESO, visit a Rededication Shrine in any major alliance capital or activate an Armory Station inside your player home. Interacting with the shrine refunds your points immediately for a modest in-game gold fee, while an empty Armory build clears your bar at zero cost.
The shrine fee scales directly with your total invested skill points, which sets the actual price you pay. Resetting costs 50 gold per allocated point across your entire build, or roughly three gold per point if you only change your morphs.
Players often clear every single skill point when they only needed to adjust a single ability upgrade. That wastes thousands of gold coins and forces you to reassign dozens of passives you never wanted to touch in the first place.
How to Reset Your Skills in Eso
- Travel to an alliance capital city such as Mournhold in Deshaan, Wayrest in Stormhaven, or Elden Root in Grahtwood.
- Locate the Rededication Shrines on your city map, which display as three curved horn icons grouped together.
- Interact with the Shrine to Stendarr if you want to modify active combat abilities, or the Shrine to Mara for marriages.
- Select whether you want to clear all allocated skill points or only reset your ability morph choices. Tip: Choose the morph reset option if you just want to switch an ability from magic damage to stamina scaling, because it preserves all your passive allocations.
- Review the total gold fee displayed at the bottom of the window, which requires 50 gold per active skill point on your character.
- Confirm the prompt to return your points to your available pool instantly.
How Long It Takes
Resetting your character takes only a few minutes once you reach the proper city shrine or housing item.
| Situation | How long | What changes it | What to watch for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance capital shrine | 2 to 4 minutes | Travel load screens and city layout | High gold cost based on your total spent points |
| Home Armory Station | 30 to 60 seconds | Distance to your player house | Requires a blank build slot saved beforehand |
| Crown Respec Scroll | 10 seconds | Menu navigation speed | Consumes a real-money Crown Store purchase |
If you can’t find the shrine inside the city temple, check your map filter settings to ensure service icons aren’t hidden.
How to Tell When It’s Done
Open your character skills menu immediately after confirming the transaction at the altar. Your unspent skill point counter at the top of the interface will show your full refunded balance, and your slotted ability bars will appear completely empty. If you chose a full wipe, your passive abilities will show greyed-out rank numbers without active highlight borders. When you only purchase a morph reset, your base abilities remain unlocked at rank four, but their secondary branch icons become unselected squares awaiting your new choice.
Mistakes That Ruin It
- Clearing all points instead of morphs. You spend full price to wipe every passive line when you only wanted to swap a single spell’s resource type; choose the morph-only option to save your gold.
- Paying at a shrine without checking your house. Buying a reset costs up to 15,000 gold on a high-level character, while loading an empty slot on a free Armory Station does the exact same job for zero gold.
- Buying Crown Store scrolls. Spending real money on Crown Respec Scrolls wastes valuable currency, so skip them entirely since in-game gold is easy to earn through daily quests.
- Reallocating without enough gold. If your bag balance falls short of the full calculated fee, the shrine locks the confirmation button until you farm the remaining coins.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I Reset Morphs Without Resetting Passives?
Yes, you can change your morphs separately at the shrine. Select the morph option when prompted, which costs much less gold and keeps all your racial, armor, and weapon passives completely intact.
How Much Does It Cost to Reset Skills?
It costs 50 gold per allocated point for a full reset. A character with 100 spent points pays 5,000 gold, but this varies by model — check the label on your confirmation screen for the exact sum.
What Happens to Skill Line Experience After a Reset?
Your skill line levels never reset or lose accumulated experience. A level 50 Destruction Staff skill line stays at level 50, so any ability you re-purchase returns immediately at its previous earned rank.
Who Is the Armory Station Not For?
The Armory Station isn’t for players who want to adjust just two abilities during a dungeon run. Loading an empty armory build strips your gear, champion points, and curse states, forcing you to rebuild your character from scratch.
Is It Safe to Reset Skills as a Vampire or Werewolf?
Yes, resetting your skills is completely safe and won’t cure your vampirism or lycanthropy. You simply unslot the active skills from your bar, but the underlying affliction line remains unlocked on your character.
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