Power Leveling (from 1-50)

Galenus_of_Pergamon

I have 5 characters to 470cp.

My goal is to get 12 characters to CP.

Since One Tamriel, Wrothgar public dungeons award 40% less XP per kill.

I have 7 characters in their teens and early 20s.

What's a guy (or gal) to do to power level their characters to level 50?

Are there any power leveling guides post One Tamriel?

People seem to kick me from the random dungeon finder, since I'm on a lower levelevel character, despite me telling them I'm 470cp.

nine9six

Training Gear - XP Pots - Pledge of Mara - Grind

Am I close?

12 / 12 Toons @ 50.

Just shy of 700 CP

I never 'got married' in ESO.

AlnilamE

I think any of the old leveling spots would be a good start. You could also get one close to a dolmen, and then just do the dolmen every time it pops for some good XP (and Fighter's Guild XP to boot).

Combine that with queuing up for the dungeon finder, and if you get kicked, you just go back to grinding.

Nestor

There are lots of overland mob grind spots. Google ESO Leveling 1 to 50 for maps

Ayantir

Every zone with zombies/draugr is a place to grind and exp is really quick now.

SickDuck

Any overland place with decent amount of mobs is good for grinding. Don't forget your training gear and xp drinks. Lvl 50 is a few hours only.

For powerlevelling forget about random runs. They give way less xp even with the one time daily bonus than grinding.

Swomp23

I leveled my last char in IC sewers. It was the first char I was power leveling, so I can't compare, but it was pretty fast. Changing training gear every 10 lvls and xp scrolls. Howerver, it was during the last weekend of the witches festival, so it would be longer now...

Smashington357

You can grind open world now that its all scaled to 160cp. Any of the known spots work fine some less populated than others

FloppyTouch

IC

Nestor

Swomp23 wrote: »

it was during the last weekend of the witches festival, so it would be longer now...

I would be willing to bet it would be twice as long now......

threefarms

I remember when I had to level two of my characters all the way to v16.

Taleof2Cities

Swomp23 wrote: »

I leveled my last char in IC sewers. It was the first char I was power leveling, so I can't compare, but it was pretty fast. Changing training gear every 10 lvls and xp scrolls. Howerver, it was during the last weekend of the witches festival, so it would be longer now...

FloppyTouch wrote: »

IC

Yep, Imperial City is still good ...

Nerouyn

Galenus_of_Pergamon wrote: »

What's a guy (or gal) to do to power level their characters to level 50?

Wait for the next double xp event (anniversary in April?) and jump onto the dolmen train.

I got 9 characters to level 50 in the past week or so - 4 of those brand new and all but 1 of the others under had been under level 10. I got another to 36 and there was enough time to get him to 50 but I was too sick of it by then.

It's dreadfully boring but easy and effective.

Loralai_907

I took advantage of the Witches Festival to power level 3 characters. With the double XP, Ambrosia and training gear, it was super quick. I have no will to do any more the long way at this point lol

Valen_Byte

IC

Brutusmax1mus

Public dungeons ask the way.

Brutusmax1mus

Go to one with crappy set drops

nine9six

threefarms wrote: »

I remember when I had to level two of my characters all the way to v16.

Only 2?

Galenus_of_Pergamon

Nerouyn wrote: »

Galenus_of_Pergamon wrote: »

What's a guy (or gal) to do to power level their characters to level 50?

Wait for the next double xp event (anniversary in April?) and jump onto the dolmen train.

I got 9 characters to level 50 in the past week or so - 4 of those brand new and all but 1 of the others under had been under level 10. I got another to 36 and there was enough time to get him to 50 but I was too sick of it by then.

It's dreadfully boring but easy and effective.

Wow, you were on the grind. The next double XP event is December 13th through January 1st. It's the New Life Festival and many NPCs will be wearing Santa hats, hahaha!

vamp_emily

One thing I would do is go to different grinding spots and monitor how much XP you gain.

This was something I worked on a while back when I was looking for good places to grind CP:



One thing I found out by tracking my XP was that some people said IC was the best place to grind, but Coldharbor gave me more XP than any other place.

Even though Coldharbor was the best place for me to grind XP, I tend to like IC because I get XP, stones, keys ( to open vaults ) and AP. Also, it doesn't feel like a grind.

P3ZZL3

During the event, with the Ambrosia pots, any good overland rotation would get you in excess of 6.5 levels an hour.
Although I only started collecting that info after about level 38/39 - so obviously more, quicker, in the beginning.

There's still a few classic spots left that are open to fast, quick rotations that haven't been nerfed

Reorx_Holybeard

Surprised no one has mentioned normal Maelstrom. It's a little slower than grinding with a partner but with training gear and XP potions/scrolls you can get 4-5 levels in each run in 30-45 minutes (was 5-6 levels per run with the Halloween event buff that just finished). Downside is little to no loot and a little slower XP but upside is no competition and you can do it whenever you want.

Asardes

Never bothered to power level. Always took my time to get enough shards to spec all useful skill trees. But after One Tamriel it also makes more sense, since the world scales with you. Leveling in an alliance area has a chance to drop set pieces, which will always be at your level. Which is not really desirable, since for example leveling in Auridon could beget you a sharpened elegant sword ... level 23. Which would be quite frustrating. There needs to be a level blind reward that comes with the power leveling process. One that can be deposited in the bank for later use on CP level characters. I've actually gave it quite a bit of thought and I came up with an answer.

The place is IC and the reward is Tel Var stones. Of course you will lose some when you die, but you will be able to retain ~80% of them overall if you deposit them regularly in the bank. And you can use those stones to buy gear on your CP level characters, which will be max CP by default. Or buy those sets or Hakeijos and resell them for gold. One added perk is that you will be leveling fighters guild, since all NPC enemies are daedra, and AwA skills, since you will surely come against enemy players and manage to kill some. If your alliance dominates the campaign and has emperor, you will have an XP and AP bonus, and if it has scrolls also stat bonuses. Which also help beating the NPCs easier.

NewBlacksmurf

Guess no one considers normal MSA effective anymore.

Galenus_of_Pergamon

vamp_emily wrote: »

One thing I would do is go to different grinding spots and monitor how much XP you gain.

This was something I worked on a while back when I was looking for good places to grind CP:



One thing I found out by tracking my XP was that some people said IC was the best place to grind, but Coldharbor gave me more XP than any other place.

Even though Coldharbor was the best place for me to grind XP, I tend to like IC because I get XP, stones, keys ( to open vaults ) and AP. Also, it doesn't feel like a grind.

You, Madam, are quite the tactician. This is a good, objective answer.

vamp_emily

Asardes wrote: »

The place is IC and the reward is Tel Var stones. Of course you will lose some when you die, but you will be able to retain ~80% of them overall if you deposit them regularly in the bank. And you can use those stones to buy gear on your CP level characters, which will be max CP by default. Or buy those sets or Hakeijos and resell them for gold. One added perk is that you will be leveling fighters guild, since all NPC enemies are daedra, and AwA skills, since you will surely come against enemy players and manage to kill some. If your alliance dominates the campaign and has emperor, you will have an XP and AP bonus, and if it has scrolls also stat bonuses. Which also help beating the NPCs easier.

I just want to comment on this, just in case someone decides to go to IC. In the districts, the more flags your alliance controls, the more stones you get ( It makes a huge difference ). I just learned this recently, I always wondered why sometimes I was getting less stones for killing the same NPCs. Then I started asking around and found out about the flags.

For example, if your alliance does not have any flags and you kill one of the harder NPCs you might get somewhere between 36-48 stones, but if your alliance has all the flags then you get something like 148 stones for killing the same NPCs.

Also, get Blade of Woe ( if you are a NB ) and take it to IC, it is tones of fun to use and instant kills the NPCs.

drakhan2002_ESO

Wait for the next festival event and grind dolmens - I got my last 3 toons to 50 quite easily. In fact, I did it during the first week. Can't recommend this super fast method enough.

Granted I did use crown xp scrolls. But it was super fast.

SquareSausage

I power levelled at stoney basin dolmen in the rift, and killed all the trash summoners surrounding it. hit the dolmen every time it was up. super super fast.

Pupsy

When y'all say grinding zombies in cold harbor is there a specific location there or do you simply go find some zombies and start blasting elemental ring. Thanks

Swomp23

Nestor wrote: »

Swomp23 wrote: »

it was during the last weekend of the witches festival, so it would be longer now...

I would be willing to bet it would be twice as long now......

Lol ok I deserved that one... Altough u gotta admit this is pretty hard math.... kmn