Where do I go from here?

Huzya

Yeah... definitely a loaded question... one that will generate some entertaining responses....

But seriously, just looking for some advice on what to do now. I leveled up a Pet Sorcerer (main) and a Bow Warden (alt) to 50. My CP is almost 300. Trade skills on both are all at 50 (and I do the daily crafting writs on both). Horses on both are at max speed and working on carrying capacity. Gear is Legendary crafted as advised by https://alcasthq.com. In 2 months, I'll be able to buy a house and hopefully start furnishing it.

Is there a zone where I should be looking to farm daily quests? If yes, where... and what are the rewards that I should be looking for?

Should I be working on dungeons and raids? If yes, are the gear rewards really that much better than the crafted stuff? I find that I can solo pretty much any non-group delve and even a few normal dungeons. Are guilds the way to go.... even for folks that don't always want to group with others?

All told, I just loaded up ESO a few months back because I loved Skyrim. Since then, I've just followed the quests (gold finished on the sorcerer) and worked on trade skills. It's been a fantastic game (I never grow tired of the graphics). I'm just wondering if there's other things that are fun to do so I can keep moving forward.

Two notes though:
1. I've been in raiding guilds dating back to Everquest. Spending ungodly amounts of time just to get minimal gear upgrades isn't all that fun anymore
2. PvP isn't that much fun either.... unless ESO has something to offer that is new and different from games such a WoW.

Mic1007

Are you on ESO Plus? If so, all the DLCs have daily quests, alongside their questlines. There are the Undaunted Pledges as well, for Group Dungeons. Some dungeon sets are really good, but some are also complete garbage or at least very niche.

You can probably begin with normal trials (12-man raids) as well.

Huzya

Mic1007 wrote: »

Are you on ESO Plus? If so, all the DLCs have daily quests, alongside their questlines. There are the Undaunted Pledges as well, for Group Dungeons. Some dungeon sets are really good, but some are also complete garbage or at least very niche.

You can probably begin with normal trials (12-man raids) as well.

Yes, I'm an ESO Plus subscriber... so I'm fairly sure that I have access to all of the dailys. I'm just not sure which ones are worth doing. I was doing the two out of Vivec City for a while, but never got anything of use so I eventually stopped. I recently started questing in Craglorn and see that I lot of the zone is built for groups. Are the dailys there worth doing? Looking them up on Google didn't show me much unfortunately.

As far as trials are concerned, do you need to be in a guild for them... or are pugs also a successful alternative?

jlboozer

You should check out the PvP in this game, it is actually good imo. Also have you tried getting into trading, its always fun to make gold.

Mic1007

Huzya wrote: »

Mic1007 wrote: »

Are you on ESO Plus? If so, all the DLCs have daily quests, alongside their questlines. There are the Undaunted Pledges as well, for Group Dungeons. Some dungeon sets are really good, but some are also complete garbage or at least very niche.

You can probably begin with normal trials (12-man raids) as well.

Yes, I'm an ESO Plus subscriber... so I'm fairly sure that I have access to all of the dailys. I'm just not sure which ones are worth doing. I was doing the two out of Vivec City for a while, but never got anything of use so I eventually stopped. I recently started questing in Craglorn and see that I lot of the zone is built for groups. Are the dailys there worth doing? Looking them up on Google didn't show me much unfortunately.

As far as trials are concerned, do you need to be in a guild for them... or are pugs also a successful alternative?

Try the other DLCs for dailies; I find the ones from Wrothgar for the bosses pretty fun, and they give motifs.

You can probably successfully pug for normal trials, just have low expectations of group cohesion.

Huzya

Mic1007 wrote: »

Huzya wrote: »

Mic1007 wrote: »

Are you on ESO Plus? If so, all the DLCs have daily quests, alongside their questlines. There are the Undaunted Pledges as well, for Group Dungeons. Some dungeon sets are really good, but some are also complete garbage or at least very niche.

You can probably begin with normal trials (12-man raids) as well.

Yes, I'm an ESO Plus subscriber... so I'm fairly sure that I have access to all of the dailys. I'm just not sure which ones are worth doing. I was doing the two out of Vivec City for a while, but never got anything of use so I eventually stopped. I recently started questing in Craglorn and see that I lot of the zone is built for groups. Are the dailys there worth doing? Looking them up on Google didn't show me much unfortunately.

As far as trials are concerned, do you need to be in a guild for them... or are pugs also a successful alternative?

Try the other DLCs for dailies; I find the ones from Wrothgar for the bosses pretty fun, and they give motifs.

You can probably successfully pug for normal trials, just have low expectations of group cohesion.

Cool! Motifs are always good.

Totally noob question on the trials. How are they different than the group dungeons? Are they basically the same things (but with more people)? Also, is there a DPS requirement? In solo environments where I face 1-4 mobs, I can usually put out about 10-20k dps. I find that my dps in normal dungeons is often lower as mobs are usually running all over the place and not grouped up well.

Loralai_907

One thing I would suggest with the upcoming outfit system is doing any content that will get you whatever motif pages you may be missing. I'm working though a few things myself and buying anything that I can that is currently under 15k a page.

PvP can be super fun.

I've heard people say that it would be less of an awesome time trying to pug a trial. I don't run much group content so my personal experience there is lacking.

Aurielle

Start doing normal dungeons and trials. If you want to maximize your characters' capabilities, you'll want the Undaunted passives (which can only be obtained through dungeon achievements). Daily Undaunted pledges will also give you access to best-in-slot monster sets. There are some nice gear sets available in dungeons and trials as well. Your pet sorc is probably fine with something like Necro/Julianos, but there are other good combinations that you can only get through dungeons and trials. Doing dungeons will also teach you how to do proper DPS, as you'll likely get some suggestions/complaints from your group mates if you aren't already using a solid damage rotation. If you can, practice your rotation on a target skeleton until you can at least hit 10k DPS, then focus on refining it until you can hit bigger numbers that will help you manage veteran dungeons.

PVP is also a fun option, if that's up your alley. You'll still need to do dungeons for Undaunted passives and gear, but you can also zerg-surf in crafted impenetrable gear until you get the gear sets and passives you need.

If you're on PS4 NA, I'd be happy to take you on some dungeon runs or show you the ropes in Cyrodiil.

starlizard70ub17_ESO

Both the Gold Coast (assassins guild) and Hew's Bane (thieves guild) DLCs have 3 or 4 daily quests that can be done quickly and give good xp, plus you can get motifs from them.