Leveling Skills at VR Cap

iuki

Guide to Skill leveling at VR cap ->

Intro: At this time...leveling weapon skills, class abilities, etc is extremely slow once you are at cap (atm VR 12). I ground for days with groups but skill exp barely even moved (0-5 exp max per mob). Tried solo in VR zones but it was just as slow and even more annoying.

I looked over a handful of other skill exp guides (super rare) and all them tell you to level skills via quests...well when you are at cap and completed most of them you are out of luck...

Method:

1) Go to ColdHarbor
2) Use a destro staff with impulse
3) Slot skills you wish to level on the destruction tool bar
4) AoE grind mobs that are levels 46-49

Notes: do not be in a group and grind solo since with more players around...you will gain less and less skill exp. If there is other players attacking your mobs, move on to an area that has no one around.

Coldharbor mobs are not as tough as VR 1-12 yet yield the same skill exp than say a VR 11 one. You only need impulse and can slot the rest of the bar with the other skills you need to be leveled! Fyi, non-destruction abilities will level since it only needs to be on the bar to get exp even if you can't/don't use them.

If you have a good AoE move you prefer over impulse then use that if you want; it's up to you.

Lastly, If you are NOT VR 12....make sure to level all the skills you might need (or don't) well before the cap since you get penalized with severely lowered skill exp and even more so in a group. Trust me, you will thank me for it because you won't have to grind hardcore to increase skills later!

TLDR: to increase under leveled weapon, ultimate, ability, etc skills at VR cap easier, head on over to Coldharbor and kill stuff solo since lvl 46-49 mobs give the same exp as VR 1-12 ones.

p.s. dear zeni, please either revise skill gains or fix whatever bug that makes leveling skills suck at the VR cap.

R0M2K

Ty

leandro.800ub17_ESO

Nice tip man.

reggielee

thanks for the tip. I have been leveling an asst of weapons, armor and skill lines just in case I might need them but am about to vet level and had no idea it would be so hard later on. due to your hint I will make sure each skill is near to max as I can tolerate before becoming vet

Mephos

thx, I did hit the cap (v12) yesterday and still ask myself how I should level all the remaining skills. If grinding is the only way zeni did a really bad job, serious.

Vuron

Mephos wrote: »

thx, I did hit the cap (v12) yesterday and still ask myself how I should level all the remaining skills. If grinding is the only way zeni did a really bad job, serious.

You can level skills at VR12 just like you leveled skill from 1-VR11. Put all the skills you want to level on your 2nd bar and switch to it before turning in any quest.

Levi

Also, if you are still having issues with this, go to Cyrodiil in a campaign that your faction has all or the majority of the territory. Grind those repeatable quests in there. Works pretty well.

elausche_ESO

This is currently broken. At VR14, any mob under VR10 will only give 1 skill xp. Mobs at VR10 give about 50 skill xp and VR11+ mobs give 100 skill xp. This is about 1/3 of what you were getting off VR11+ mobs before 1.5 and 250x less than you were getting off VR9 or less mobs.

So once you reach VR14, you have to farm Craglorn to level a skill and it will take much much longer than before 1.5.

ZoM_Head

This needs to be looked at Zenimax, it is taking forever to level up other weapon and skills at VR14.