Faction questlines

SameMeteor26 · January 2017

For anyone that has done it or knows, how long does it take to do all three factions questlines? ( not talking about side quests, like helping Mary find her lost pen,etc.) cuz I would like to do all the Main questlines so i can have most the map unlocked

imnotanother · January 2017

Took me months but I did every quest.

If you only did the main ones every zone, I imagine you could clear a zone every 4-5 hours.

Honestly, I have no clue. Just guessing.

SirAndy · January 2017

You can do the Silver and Gold main quests (which are the other factions main quests) in a weekend without much stress.

Your own faction main quests take about as long as those two combined.

BlackSparrow · January 2017

A far easier way to unlock the map would be to hop on a mount and run. You can open up most of Daggerfall Covenant without ever touching a quest. For areas that are inaccessible by foot, I believe there are boats that will take you to the new zone in the previous zone (Skywatch in Auridon to Grahtwood, and Stormhold in Shadowfen for Eastmarch) without needing a quest. Or if all else fails, scan your friends or guild lists and right click to teleport to the players in the desired zones.

I'm usually on the side of questing and PvE content but if your primary goal is to open the map, don't rush through quests to do it. You miss a lot of gems that way.

nordsavage · January 2017

As long as you don't bog down selling green and blue junk in zone or other low level time wasters you can do a zone 100 % in a about 3-4 hours. That is accounting for soaking up the story. 1-2 hours if you mash E on all dialogue and skip petty fetch quests.

Enodoc · January 2017

nordsavage wrote: »

As long as you don't bog down selling green and blue junk in zone or other low level time wasters you can do a zone 100 % in a about 3-4 hours. That is accounting for soaking up the story.

Cripes, you can soak up the story of 50+ quests in 4 hours? It usually takes me an hour to do one.

Enslaved · January 2017

If you know what you are doing you can storm trough some zones. For example, I know EP quests by heart and I can do entire zone for a day. That would be about 4-5h, depending on how tired I am after work.

So, its maximum a week to clear entire alliance, so it would be like 3 weeks to do all alliances. That leaves a few days to do all DLC content, Craglorn, Coldharbour, Cyrodiil. Without doing group dungeons and trials, one could do every quest in ESO in a month on a single character.

TheShadowScout · January 2017

imnotanother wrote: »

If you only did the main ones every zone, I imagine you could clear a zone every 4-5 hours.

Honestly, I have no clue. Just guessing.

But its a good guess.

When I had some gaming time, I did just about that for one character I really wanted to get through stuff quick-like - one zone per five or so hours daily gametime. If you just speedrace through all quests, its doable.

Of course, with most characters I prefer to take my time, also stop and smell the flowers (then pick them for alchemy purposes), follow the conversations and so on... much more fun if you focus on the road then ohn geting to the goal.
I suggest taking your time, at the very least for your first charactcer. Alts... yeah, there the temptation to skip something you already seen is great. Still fun to revisit is often enough though... but not always.

Nestor · January 2017

SameMeteor26 wrote: »

For anyone that has done it or knows, how long does it take to do all three factions questlines? ( not talking about side quests, like helping Mary find her lost pen,etc.) cuz I would like to do all the Main questlines so i can have most the map unlocked

You don't need to do the Faction Quests to unlock the next zones anymore, you just need to go there and your all ready to do. One Tameriel added Navigators to the main cities in each zone to help you get to both the other alliances and to the zones in the alliance you are in. Most of the time, you can just walk to the other zones, at least in your alliance.

For example, I recently leveled a character and I wanted to avoid all major quests so that I could get max scaled rewards (quests frequently drop set items now). So, I just found the Skyshards in about 6 zones, did the public dungeons and dolmens in those zones and only the quests in the delves where the skyhards are. I reached L50 doing this. I did have gear with the Training Trait, so that helped.

Now I am going back and doing the story (zone) quests and enjoying them as I don't feel I have to rush through them in order to get to the next zone. And, getting some sweet loot drops at the same time.

MEBengalsFan2001 · January 2017

Enslaved wrote: »

If you know what you are doing you can storm trough some zones. For example, I know EP quests by heart and I can do entire zone for a day. That would be about 4-5h, depending on how tired I am after work.

So, its maximum a week to clear entire alliance, so it would be like 3 weeks to do all alliances. That leaves a few days to do all DLC content, Craglorn, Coldharbour, Cyrodiil. Without doing group dungeons and trials, one could do every quest in ESO in a month on a single character.

That is if you know all areas. If not, and if you are running all side quest, how long would it take on a single character? Would you state a good 3 months or more?

drakhan2002_ESO · January 2017

Get the Destinations addon - it will allow you to filter down to each alliance main quest line...super helpful... shouldn't take too long... like a previous poster mentioned, maybe a weekend.

BlackSparrow · January 2017

MEBengalsFan2001 wrote: »

Enslaved wrote: »

If you know what you are doing you can storm trough some zones. For example, I know EP quests by heart and I can do entire zone for a day. That would be about 4-5h, depending on how tired I am after work.

So, its maximum a week to clear entire alliance, so it would be like 3 weeks to do all alliances. That leaves a few days to do all DLC content, Craglorn, Coldharbour, Cyrodiil. Without doing group dungeons and trials, one could do every quest in ESO in a month on a single character.

That is if you know all areas. If not, and if you are running all side quest, how long would it take on a single character? Would you state a good 3 months or more?

Assuming a couple hours a day, it took me probably 6 months of total playtime to get my first character through the end of the EP Alliance? (It was actually three years, but that's accounting for a 2-year break and playing alts). And I still haven't gotten that particular character through most of DC or any of AD yet (though my alts have).

It really all depends on your playstyle. If you want to enjoy the quests, take your time and enjoy them. But know that this content is meant to take a while, so stop focusing on "opening up the map" and just settle in for a long, enjoyable journey.

If your goal is to open up the map? Just physically travel around to the zones, by foot, boat, or teleport. That's a way faster way to get some wayshrines available in each zone, at least.

CapnPhoton · January 2017

You don't need to do it to unlock. However fyi, if you skip the rest of the content in the zone, you are missing some good stuff and probably about 60% of the game.