So for anyone who doesn't know a whole lot (that includes me) a friend of mine who played ESO for a while sent me a pretty awesome breakdown of close to every one of the skills in the game and their usefulness on a scale of 1-5 (mostly geared towards PvP, but takes PvE into account). As far as I know, the author of these articles is constantly updating them. The reddit post says that it is for patch 1.6, but the articles reference the current patch of 2.2.x.
https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/39jmhd/psa_guides_for_every_single_skill_new_players/
Super useful for planning your character out a bit if you don't want to waste money having to respec all the time.
Also, that same friend helped me set up a number of addons to make the UI more friendly. If anyone is interested feel free to ask, I'll gladly help anyone set some things up.