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Seems only way to level now is questing
Astro6
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After last few patches now the only way to level is by questing this is a slippery slope for a AAA mmorpg some players can't stand questing and like to grind by doing dungeons and grouping now that part of the game no longer works for leveling.
Also questing with a friend is a pain because there is no syncing of quest objectives and sometimes you actually still go out of sync with them and they vanish while grouping.
Also some player hate questing and killing mobs and doing dungeons but love crafting, there is no way to level a character doing crafting either all games i have played players gain exp through crafting but not in ESO.
Just having one way to level in a game will turn off a large portion of the player base i really think they should make different ways to level other than questing.
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Its the one thing about the game that I don't like. I like having the option of both questing and grinding. Dungeons should be a good way to level.
Skyshards don't require leveling and you can add skills that way; this is important for crafting toons. To what end would you like to level up? You can participate in PvP at level 10, for example; and there are no endgame raids, etc. to play. I'm asking because the story-driven questing is the main design element of the game, and asking for a bypass is the equivalent of asking to bypass, well, the game.
If you want to level quickly you can treat quests in traditional MMO fashion and ignore what they're saying and gather up the quest rewards. Some people did level very quickly, so perhaps asking folks who are high level what they did to get to 50 in a week or so would be helpful.
They changed this a few weeks ago. Reduced XP you get from mobs and they clearly stated "We don't want people to level in dungeons".
Well i got early access and i play 10+ hours a day i am only level 22 i tried to see if there was a way other than questing to level there is not grinding mobs gives tiny amounts of exp.
All players that hit 50 all rushed through quests to get to level 50 didn't do any crafting or dungeons this should not be the only way to level.
All i did was grind mobs and dungeons as for skyshards you can't take a level 3 char in a level 30 zone without getting slaughttered.
While I certainly applaud the quality of the PvE quests, I would definitely prefer to level via PvP. Once I realized that wasn't a reasonable option, the game lost a lot of appeal for me.
I think ANet did it right in terms of providing many viable leveling paths including WvW. The variety of zones you can choose to level in is also quite nice. And if you just wanted to PvP, they let you boost to 80, choose your build / gear and go without ever dealing with questing.
Options are a good thing in MMO's.
Players only care about themselves and not how they impact the game for others (yes, it's only natural, but it's also why we can't have nice things).
The only reason they they nerfed mob xp was because people were just spawn camping bosses and aoe grinding. Thereby skipping the game itself while also indirectly griefing people who were trying to complete quests and objectives, and in some cases, causes quests to bug because they would just spam kill mobs so fast that events didn't have time to reset.
I'm all for letting people have more freedom to play as they want, but when you have that freedom, maybe don't exploit it so much?
You can get large chunks of xp from
* Picking chests
* Talking to NPCs in Inns to discover new locations on the other factions - exploration xp
* Killing enemies above your level. Kill 20 and you will see the difference
* Dungeons
I went to Alik'r desert earlier than my level and have exhausted the quests there so now I'm leveling in other ways.
I had heard content more than 6 levels above you gave no xp or drops which is nonsense as I was getting both from golden saints 10 levels higher than my character. Kill 20 and you will notice a difference on your xp bar... kill 2-3 and you probably wont.
Ah... okay this only applies to group dungeons. AOE mob grinding in open world, public dungeons or delves is still the fastest way to level then. It was working fine for me at the weekend and guild mates have been doing it for VR content in grouped dungeons without issue as well.
If they haven't changed anything in today's patch, then AOE grinding mobs is still viable.
Well, they need to change how solo dungeon bosses are done, i am sorry but i had 3 missed in the daggerfall area and i was level 25, so i went back to just get the completion. Every single dungeon boss had 10-20 bots camping them, they lived for less then 5 seconds before the bots annihilated them, it was pretty difficult to actually get in a hit hard enough to get me credit.
Zenimax have obviously used phasing tech extensively in the game, why not phase out the boss after so many kills per 15 minutes... or whatever, just seems ridiculous they allow this kind of rampant farming to continue, its how these gold sellers make there gold, yet Zenimax seem to not really care about it.
Also, if its live player farming i would not have cared, but its bots... mindless bots who do not reply to /whispers and will follow any mob you pull near them.
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So you were just saving this for a rainy day, while blowing it way out of proportion as people actually playing the game have already stated by providing examples based on the reality that we live in.
TBH, if this is your thing, I would have waited a while longer drop this amazing, profound, month-old, meaningless bomb. The hating on ESO is fairly rampant right now. We're all full up.
Whatever makes ya happy tho. Hope you have s'more nuggets to drop soon. *hugs*
Aaand another enabler.
This was the last good site, once upon a time. Maybe I'll make my own and moderate it like a mutha.
Honest opinions, dislike, that's all good. Everyone is different. But spreading misinformation that people base their actual decisions on (I know! so many people are freaking morons) is not cool.
I'm grumpy. World of Darkness died. I'm mourning. DWI.
AOE mob grinding is the fastest way to level 1-50.
Veteran Dungeon grinding is the fastest way to level VR1-10.
Only PvP isn't viable as a way to level. Half this thread is just out of date crying.
So, let me get this straight. By your own admission in other threads you don't own this game and haven't played it. Despite that, you've accumulated a list of complaints from other people, stapled it together, and edited out any positive things that anyone has said about it. What are you trying to accomplish here?
This thread is based on a idea that is simply not true.
Once I hit level 32 I used two grinding spots (one in Alkir Desert and one in Coldharbour) to hit level 50 in about 12 hours of play time.
You can definitely grind...and you can grind up levels much, much faster than questing.
My biggest gripe on this topic is you cannot level what-so-ever in PvP. I'd like to be able to level my characters however I want. PvE, grinding, PvP, crafting, exploring, etc... If they added moderate XP rewards to PvP and crafting I'd be more than happy.
Actually, you need to level up to gain access to new areas which house those skyshards. So you would be wrong.
All activities in the game should have you general experience. All of which, should include... (Off the top of my head)
Harvesting
Crafting
Killing Mobs
Achievements
Completing Dungeons
Quests
Killing Players
Taking And Holding Keeps/Objectives
Unlocking Chests
I'm not saying that some of those don't reward experience, but not all of them do. I actually asked for crafting based quests in ESO beta surveys more than once. I see that suggestion didn't come to fruition. I think it would have been an excellent way for crafters to continue their trade without having to actually level up through fighting. Unfortunately, the game is designed to force you to complete main quests in order to move on, so it's not realistic to do this.
Maybe in a different game.
You can progress by doing dungeons and grinding, it's just a lot slower than questing. I'm an AvA guy, so trust me I understand. I just hit 39 lastnight, and I'm sure I have more hours logged than most About 20 of those levels came from questing and they took a fraction of the time like 1/100th the time.
All that being said, the game has been live for two weeks and I'm almost at cap so, even though I want to complain about AvA XP I can't... Take a couple hours do a few quest, gain a few levels, heck you might even enjoy a bit of it. I found myself staring at the NPC playing out a scene lastnight with a big smile on my face. I still hate questing, but yeah..
edit- I'm glad you can't level by crafting! Buy all the mats, level to cap in 3 hours? That is soooooo lame.
Uhm these are real issues people are experiencing. If you think it's ok leveling just by doing quests than you really don't care for innovation on PVE.
Questing is, in no way, the fastest way of levelling. Sounds like propaganda to me. Questing is SUPER slow. Mob grinding is still the most viable option. However, I appreciate the changes. Really, grinding anything should never be the best way to level. There is a story to be told, damnit! Zenimax might actually be doing the world a favour by acting like hard asses and telling us outright what we should be doing. Guaranteed, the people who are at level 50 right now know nothing about wtf is going on in this game.
It's like if your wife took a TON of time to make you really, really special chocolate chip cookies. Then she brings them to you and instead of sitting down and taking your time to enjoy them in their entirety, you smash the shit out of every single one and shove all the chocolate chips in your mouth. Then you go back to watching TV, without so much as a thank you. In fact, while she's sitting there in disbelief, you tell her that she burnt a couple chocolate chips and tell her that her cookies were messy as shit and she should probably clean them up.
For those that don't get the analogy, that's simply not cool and will probably get you divorce papers.
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