When the game first came out I thought all these grinding guides were dumb and you were missing out on so many skill points that it wasnt worth it.

Fast forward a month and a half, and I still haven't had time to hit 50 on my main. So for anyone who has tried it, I have two questions:
1. Is grinding really that much faster than questing?
2. Do you run into any problems not having enough skill points? I know you can go back and get them later if you really want to, but for your actual leveling time do you feel gimped on skills?

Grinding=more gold=horse=faster questing/skyshard hunting when you need the skill points.
Questing=more fun=more rewarding.

Vet ranks are pretty much all questing though, so grinding 1-50 isn't the worst. I think its about twice as fast, which is still a long time to play for a vet1. Gotta do the main quest. When I first finished the main after nearly 100%ing the EP quests, I was high on adrenaline and fucking stoked to have achieved all that without any trading/gold buying, and only using the net for skyshards (though I ended up with 16 or so unspent skill points).

Personally, I'd stick to questing. If you have enough gold from your main, buy the speedy horse and a couple inventory upgrades for your new chars, and keep questing to level them. I've found much more satisfaction with much less boredom this way.

As for skill points, just get skyshards. As I said earlier, when I hit vet ranks I had level 50 armor and draconic power, filling up both of them, quite a few random skill points in passives here and there, some in crafting, a few in world/guild and 16 extras (19 before I got a few more passives before finishing it), which were all because I got all the skyshards I could. I don't think quests give you 16 skill points, and even if they do and you're short, the game isn't that much harder without morphs or a few passives. If you look up a quick guide for your class or whatever, you'll be cruising through the game ezpz with lots of skills for crafting and nifty little passives.

1: Grinding is faster than questing yes
2: I have had zero issues with skill points, have never respecced and have all the skills I need plus about 40 more skill points that aren't being used at the moment lol. You get skill points for everything. There are skyshards everywhere and you get a lot in pvp as well just for playing.

Sit down and do a few quests, once you get bored, hit up some of the grinding locations with some guildies. Try not to grind in parties of more than 4 (i recommend 3) There are a lot of good grinding locations aside from what the guides show.

I recommend you watch some of the spawn rates of mobs that you are hunting. If you find an area that has 3+ mobs grouped together, and there are a bunch in the area, try and figure out your own pattern to run a circuit, if the first group respawns before you make it there, boom thats your grind area till out leveled.

Actually questing is more gold.

even with looting all the goodies? Idk when I ground for a little I got 1k+ a level when the quests were worth 800 (went back and did them).

is ther e a nice "grind map" for lv1-50 daggerfall? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h0KDvmlheU .. found this one, good?