Fastest way to level to 50?

heartburnkid

Playing the new class after a long break. Is Zombie farming the fastest way to power level with xp pots? I hate questing in this game since it takes forever to max level.....would take months the way I play and hate the long, drawn out quests.

rabidmyers

killing zombies as a necromancer?

what sorcery is this...

HappyLittleTree

Most possibly Dolmen runs with 1 buddy + exp pots/scrolls in Alik'r

Hämähäkki

Skyreach...round after round after round

FierceSam

Why are you power levelling?

There’s fundamentally no difference between the type of content you can do on the way to L50 and the type you do once you’ve got there. If you don’t enjoy the journey, you’ll never enjoy the destination.

Endless rounds of monotonous zombie slaying sounds like exactly what you should be doing.

OlumoGarbag

HappyLittleTree wrote: »

Most possibly Dolmen runs with 1 buddy + exp pots/scrolls in Alik'r

Lol

This is in fact the slowest possible way to lvl to 50.
1. Skyreach
2. Forgotten wastes
3. Spellscar

In that order. If you really wanna do dolmen go deshaan.

siddique

OlumoGarbag wrote: »

HappyLittleTree wrote: »

Most possibly Dolmen runs with 1 buddy + exp pots/scrolls in Alik'r

Lol

This is in fact the slowest possible way to lvl to 50.
1. Skyreach
2. Forgotten wastes
3. Spellscar

In that order. If you really wanna do dolmen go deshaan.

Well if we are nitpicking, I can assure you it's not the "slowest possible way," try questing.

hmsdragonfly

FierceSam wrote: »

Why are you power levelling?

There’s fundamentally no difference between the type of content you can do on the way to L50 and the type you do once you’ve got there. If you don’t enjoy the journey, you’ll never enjoy the destination.

Endless rounds of monotonous zombie slaying sounds like exactly what you should be doing.

actually there are. Vet dungeons HM, vet trials, PvP against actual good players.

hmsdragonfly

heartburnkid wrote: »

Playing the new class after a long break. Is Zombie farming the fastest way to power level with xp pots? I hate questing in this game since it takes forever to max level.....would take months the way I play and hate the long, drawn out quests.

if you are rich (having 10 million gold or smt like that), then alchemy master writs.
if you are not rich, but can manage training gear, xp pots and stuffs, then farming zombies in skyreach, spellscar, verrant morras etc etc
if you dont have any gold at all, then farming dolmens in alikir, but that will be boring af.

zaria

If you want to get to 50 with minimum time used rather than as quick as possible I say random dungeons and BG.

John_Falstaff

hmsdragonfly wrote: »

heartburnkid wrote: »

Playing the new class after a long break. Is Zombie farming the fastest way to power level with xp pots? I hate questing in this game since it takes forever to max level.....would take months the way I play and hate the long, drawn out quests.

if you are rich (having 10 million gold or smt like that), then alchemy master writs.
if you are not rich, but can manage training gear, xp pots and stuffs, then farming zombies in skyreach, spellscar, verrant morras etc etc
if you dont have any gold at all, then farming dolmens in alikir, but that will be boring af.

You don't really need that much gold. It takes 100-150 writs to go all the way up, and they cost about 1k gold each. Even assuming that you're buying them overpriced, let's say 1.5k gold, it'll run you 100-200k gold, and if you have existing characters, you likely already have ingredients.

Uryel

FierceSam wrote: »

Why are you power levelling?

There’s fundamentally no difference between the type of content you can do on the way to L50 and the type you do once you’ve got there. If you don’t enjoy the journey, you’ll never enjoy the destination.

Endless rounds of monotonous zombie slaying sounds like exactly what you should be doing.

My thought exactly.

"I hate questing, it takes forever and it's boring", then proceed to mindless boring farming of a single spot over and over ? To each their own, I guess, but i'd die of boredom long before I reach lvl 50.

hmsdragonfly

John_Falstaff wrote: »

hmsdragonfly wrote: »

heartburnkid wrote: »

Playing the new class after a long break. Is Zombie farming the fastest way to power level with xp pots? I hate questing in this game since it takes forever to max level.....would take months the way I play and hate the long, drawn out quests.

if you are rich (having 10 million gold or smt like that), then alchemy master writs.
if you are not rich, but can manage training gear, xp pots and stuffs, then farming zombies in skyreach, spellscar, verrant morras etc etc
if you dont have any gold at all, then farming dolmens in alikir, but that will be boring af.

You don't really need that much gold. It takes 100-150 writs to go all the way up, and they cost about 1k gold each. Even assuming that you're buying them overpriced, let's say 1.5k gold, it'll run you 100-200k gold, and if you have existing characters, you likely already have ingredients.

Yeah ingredients will probably be a big problem, so i think it's gonna cost 300k in total?

XoxHANNIBALxoX

I also like to do the daily random dungeons and battlegrounds, gives you a good boost

John_Falstaff

hmsdragonfly wrote: »

John_Falstaff wrote: »

hmsdragonfly wrote: »

heartburnkid wrote: »

Playing the new class after a long break. Is Zombie farming the fastest way to power level with xp pots? I hate questing in this game since it takes forever to max level.....would take months the way I play and hate the long, drawn out quests.

if you are rich (having 10 million gold or smt like that), then alchemy master writs.
if you are not rich, but can manage training gear, xp pots and stuffs, then farming zombies in skyreach, spellscar, verrant morras etc etc
if you dont have any gold at all, then farming dolmens in alikir, but that will be boring af.

You don't really need that much gold. It takes 100-150 writs to go all the way up, and they cost about 1k gold each. Even assuming that you're buying them overpriced, let's say 1.5k gold, it'll run you 100-200k gold, and if you have existing characters, you likely already have ingredients.

Yeah ingredients will probably be a big problem, so i think it's gonna cost 300k in total?

If you start without ingredients whatsoever - yes, it will cost some extra; alternatively, you can try to avoid buying writs that rely on most expensive ingredients used to create weapon/spell power potions and tripots. Another thing that will aid is to also use enchanting writs, they're about as cheap. It takes about 200 blue glyphs (created on another character) to fully level enchanting first, and runes, not counting Kuta, are typically a dime a dozen. I used both enchanting and alchemy writs back when I leveled a new character.

technohic

Zone quests that have the bigger icon next to them give skill points and you level decently quick. Not as fast as grinding but then Im not sure the time you then spend trying to get skill points don't make it catch up.

Fastest way I have heard of though was someone doing a ton of alchemy writs. Pretty costly though.

Asardes

Level enchanting or alchemy to 50 (the latter is faster), buy lots of master writs, and craft them. The latter is usually faster, but you can do the former by having someone else, including maybe one of your fully trained characters craft green or blue CP150 glyphs, deposit them in bank and deconstruct them on the new character. Alchemy you can do it by yourself, it takes 15-20 minutes, by crafting progressively higher level poisons - you make 4x without any multipliers and the low level solvents are also cheap - with cheap ingredients; discovering all reagent properties as you go along speeds things up since it gives extra inspiration. Then get Daugubon's Lazy Crafter and Writ Worthy, queue all of those writs, selecting autocraft option in the former, hit a craft station, do them in bulk, then turn them in at Roris Hlaalu. I think it can be realistically be done in an hour, provided you have 80-100 writs and an 150% XP scroll - common daily login reward - or potion active.

Schemering

the fastest way to reach level 50 is skyreach / spellscar / forgotten crypt or Rkindalft but the fastest way to level with leveling skillines included is to do forgotten crypt (levels fighters guild) and in between running ther doing all group dungeons once (for skillpoint and undaunted leveling) and all group challenges in public dungeons this way you have about 120 skillpoints when reaching level 50 undaunted is at 5 or 6 and fighters guild at 10

Asardes

Also leveling is by far the fastest and simplest part of character building. It's the book, shard, important quest (those with skill points), unlocking and leveling undaunted and AvA leveling that take the longest. I can do the former in an afternoon - I don't use the method described above, but normal Maelstrom - but I spread the latter over a couple of months since new character building is more of a background activity, I've done it 9 times already and there's only so much boredom I can push trough at any given time

Vildebill

Alchemy writs is really fast. But your character won't have fighters guild, mages guild, undaunted or psijic. Since most of my chars need some or all of those I tend to focus on leveling them plus the random daily dungeon + BG. That nets me a lot of levels, and if I'm not 50 by the time I'm done with that I usually grind zombies the last levels.

THEDKEXPERIENCE

I tried Skyreach 2 days ago because of how much it’s hyped up. It’s definitely not as great as you guys make it sound.

I can kill deckhands and wasps in south eastern Deshaan in a never ending rotation that can fill up a CP in minutes.

And then there is that other place in Summerset where the rotation takes exactly a minute in some cave.

Long story short, if Skyreach is even in the top 10 grind spots I’d be surprised.

Good thinking on the alchemy writs though.

Kolache

Since 1T I like doing most of the delves for skyshards 'til around 30.. sort of a two-birds one-stone thing. A bit of deshaan dolmens for fighters guild and unlocking remaining skills/morphs 'til around 40, then pugging random dungeons as a tank or healer 'til 50 for undaunted exp.

It's not the fastest but it's pretty quick and gives me a character that has a good start on other aspects of progression.

fred4

hmsdragonfly wrote: »

heartburnkid wrote: »

Playing the new class after a long break. Is Zombie farming the fastest way to power level with xp pots? I hate questing in this game since it takes forever to max level.....would take months the way I play and hate the long, drawn out quests.

if you are rich (having 10 million gold or smt like that), then alchemy master writs.
if you are not rich, but can manage training gear, xp pots and stuffs, then farming zombies in skyreach, spellscar, verrant morras etc etc
if you dont have any gold at all, then farming dolmens in alikir, but that will be boring af.

I agree with this, but for variety:

Daily dungeon
Group events in public dungeons (1 skill point for group event + 1 skyshard, so may as well get those done)
Daily quests in Cyrodiil, particularly Cheydinhall (short and sweet)
Blue sewers zombie loop in Imperial City
Normal Maelstrom

Don't dolmens give you extra XP the first time you do one? In other words, don't go around the Alik'r loop, but travel the world.

Also, while Skyreach is particularly good for Fighter's Guild, I believe it's XP was nerfed, compared to overland, a year or two ago. The benefit of doing Skyreach with two is regrouping and getting a fresh instance every time, however I believe if there is no activity in Spellscar (e.g. at 5am ), then that is better. I find Spellscar hard to beat. There are other grind spots, but not all have Daedra / Undead to make sure you level Fighter's Guild.

Ideally you want training gear and you want to level your Provisioning at the very start to get the Conoisseur passive, which will extend the duration of Mythic Aetherial Ambrosia from 30m to 50m. If you have the gold, make sure to use a 150% XP boost. Don't get locked into a 50% or 100% one.

If you're relying on your own damage, I recommend getting / making 2 full sets of training gear, but not weapons. Use whatever weapons you find at your current level. The gear will last a while, even 20 to 30 levels. Weapons do not. They lose a lot of effectiveness as you outlevel them.

fred4

THEDKEXPERIENCE wrote: »

I tried Skyreach 2 days ago because of how much it’s hyped up. It’s definitely not as great as you guys make it sound.

I can kill deckhands and wasps in south eastern Deshaan in a never ending rotation that can fill up a CP in minutes.

And then there is that other place in Summerset where the rotation takes exactly a minute in some cave.

Long story short, if Skyreach is even in the top 10 grind spots I’d be surprised.

Good thinking on the alchemy writs though.

For Skyreach you need someone - a CP810 - to carry you. Basically you can get through the whole place with just 3 trash pulls. I am not very good at PvE, but even I got 100K+ DPS (not peak, but sustained) on the first pull, doing this with my magplar recently. If you go in alone with your low level character, you can't pull that kind of DPS and you're too fragile to pull a huge amount of mobs in one go. As a side note, I've really come to like Crescent Sweep on the magplar. It's is literally a spammable in Skyreach and it activates much more reliably than the destro ult.

Massacre_Wurm

heartburnkid wrote: »

Playing the new class after a long break. Is Zombie farming the fastest way to power level with xp pots? I hate questing in this game since it takes forever to max level.....would take months the way I play and hate the long, drawn out quests.

Forever ? If you have some srolls from daily rewards it is not forever. Main quest + dungeons for skill points + delves for shards + some questing just to relax ( closing area give a good exp bonus )

Personally i am falling asleep after 30 minutes of mindless tedious grind.

Fivefivesix

Zombie hunting might be pretty good but I did dolmens at alik'r. It took 3 days with about 15 hours of actual game time to hit level 50 using 50% xp scrolls.

I noticed that the imperial city sewers provides good xp and nice trash mobs that respawn quick. I kind of wish I would have gone this route because I could have farmed tons of keys while leveling.

SoLooney

FierceSam wrote: »

Why are you power levelling?

There’s fundamentally no difference between the type of content you can do on the way to L50 and the type you do once you’ve got there. If you don’t enjoy the journey, you’ll never enjoy the destination.

Endless rounds of monotonous zombie slaying sounds like exactly what you should be doing.

No difference in the content available at level 10 vs 810? Lol, you obviously never done vet dungeons or end game trials. If you're not 50, you're not gonna get cp160 drops, so yea, there is a huge difference

Cause most of us already have several toons made and dont care about the grind, we just want to cp as quick as possible to enjoy endgame pve or pvp on a high level

If you're a role player, then sure, enjoying the slowest way to level 50 by questing, exploring, and killing whatever happens to be on your way.

Aka taking forever to reach level 50 is way less enjoyable

Odovacar

For a fast grind: ALL Training gear traits --> XP Potions (preferably 150%) --> ESO Plus --> 2 person group (preferably with pledge of mara)

Ride the dolman train in Alik'r Desert, Skyreach runs, Do your daily random dungeons, BG's.

Be sure to time your potions with your game play. Do all your busy work like gaining skill lines, deconstruction, etc while unbuffed from XP scrolls.