Random XP Gain and Loot Cease (Solved)

ArchMikem · May 2016

Don't know if this is a bug or a very odd new feature, though I'll report it.

Twice now I've encountered moments where my character would not gain any experience whatsoever from fallen mobs nor would any of the mobs drop loot of any kind. I would attack them, they'd respond, I'd still do actual damage and defeat them, but there would be no XP gain nor any dropped loot at all.

The first instance was just outside Windhelm at the Stormfist Brigade camp, I decided to grind them a little bit and after a good five to ten minutes I started to notice that not a single one of them was dropping anything, and when I checked my XP bar it hadn't progressed at all. I tried a little longer but eventually gave up and moved elsewhere in Eastmarch to continue the Alliance questline, to which normal mechanics resumed. I don't remember if I had used a Wayshrine to travel or my mount, but moving away from that Camp returned everything to usual.

Second instance was in a group Dungeon. Just to cover the bases, I was a Lvl40 in a group of Veteran rank players in a Veteran Dungeon. I was regulated to Healer but even when I would do direct damage, I didn't gain any experience at all when defeating the mobs, nor did they drop anything for me, however they did for the others. I will note though that at the end of the dungeon when we turned in the dungeon associated quest, I did in fact receive XP and the reward item from the Quest Giver. That was the only XP I got out of the whole Dungeon.

lolo_01b16_ESO · May 2016

It should be impossible for you to enter a veteran dungeon while you are below level 50. If you managed to bug your self to enter the dungeon, maybe the game is programmed in a way, that non vet players can't get xp in vet dungeons.

Usara · May 2016

Same reasons in both instance : you don't gain anything (neither loot or xp) when you have a difference greater than 5 level -below or above - between you and the enemy.

For the dungeon, you are mistaking a v16 Normal Dungeon for a Veteran Dungeon, which are not the same thing.
You can not enter a Veteran Dungeon before veteran 1.
But if you use the dungeon finder, enemies and everyone in the group will be scaled to v16 for Normal Dungeons.
If you join a group formed by a veteran guy, the Normal Dungeon enemies will have the same level than the group leader, but you and the others teammates won't be scaled.

Edit: Normal Dungeons and Veteran Dungeons usually share the same map (not in the case of City of Ash though) but have a different quest and different enemies and bosses. Usually, it's the follow-up of the story/quest you had in the Normal Dungeon.

ArchMikem · May 2016

lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »

It should be impossible for you to enter a veteran dungeon while you are below level 50. If you managed to bug your self to enter the dungeon, maybe the game is programmed in a way, that non vet players can't get xp in vet dungeons.

Okay I had a brain far then. It was a Group Dungeon scaled up to Vet16.

I can't remember if I had a level difference of five at the first instance, I know I was ahead but by that much or more I can't remember, but if that's actually a thing (which I had no idea about) then I guess that solves it.