Alik'r Grind

Crimsonorion

I see people are still doing this, got Alik'r for the Anchor daily and found it quite humorous the huge amount of people still grinding anchors, and 98% of them were Arcanist spamming fatecarver or w/e its called. I thought the Alik'r Grind wasn't useful anymore?

Jaraal

Crimsonorion wrote: »

I see people are still doing this, got Alik'r for the Anchor daily and found it quite humorous the huge amount of people still grinding anchors, and 98% of them were Arcanist spamming fatecarver or w/e its called. I thought the Alik'r Grind wasn't useful anymore?

I think it's fun, racing with everybody else to get to the next one, jumping off the cliff, the mayhem light show, and all that jazz. I'm always laughing and having fun running Alik'r. Sometimes I'll run max characters just for the decon jewelry and companion gear... plus it's where I found my only Daedric Fence plan. Also a good place to level companions. The trick is to do it solo, using gap closers, stacked AoE damage and persistent ground effects for max kill credit and XP.

Not everything has to be a grind. Sometimes we play for the fun of it.

Nestor

There are faster easier ways to grind up a character. But the Alikir Dolmens is something you can do on Autopilot.

SpacemanSpiff1

the alikr dolmen doughnut is one of the xp grinds of all time.

Braffin

I do daily writs in sentinel with one of my chars, and yes alik'r dolmens are still well visited, at least on pc eu.

Jestir

It's at least a nice brain dead way to level until you get enough skill points to do any of the better methods

Rogue_WolfESO

Very useful to quickly max out fighters guild skill line

Stanx

Rogue_WolfESO wrote: »

Very useful to quickly max out fighters guild skill line

Yep AFAIK it's still a great spot for the fighters guild. Only reason I'll take a new toon there nowadays

jaws343

It hits a few bases all at once.

Slightly levels companion
Companion Gear drop potential
Jewelry to decon for Jewelry crafting skill line
Fighters Guild leveling
Character leveling

Personally, I prefer to level by doing all Dolmens in game. But that takes a lot more time to do, with the trade off of a lot more skill points by hitting skyshards and public dungeon group events along the route through each zone.

zaria

Nestor wrote: »

There are faster easier ways to grind up a character. But the Alikir Dolmens is something you can do on Autopilot.

Agree, now this one prefer Auridon, you get more kills, so more xp from them, have fun getting ticks in Alik'r.
Still something you do watching other stuff.

blktauna

I really enjoy dolmen running. It's just fun.
I stay off Alikir when its too crowded but I jump between there and Auridon.

Jamie_Aubrey

It's fast
It's easy
There's always people doing it
Most people doing it are doing it just to fast grind new chars
You can complete Fighters Guild to 10 with it
They are close to the Wayshrines

MidniteOwl1913

Huh, why not use Deshaan instead? All the anchors are close to way shrines...

vsrs_au

MidniteOwl1913 wrote: »

Huh, why not use Deshaan instead? All the anchors are close to way shrines...

It's the same in Auridon, the 3 dolmens are very easy to get to, and rotating between them is easy. I did that rotation a lot earlier this year when leveling up jewelry crafting.

disintegr8

I think the curse has spread to High Isle - saw some people posting "LFVG" (looking for vent group) in zone chat yesterday.

Rkindaleft

There are faster XP grinds out there currently but the Alik'r dolmen farm is still extremely popular because:

1) It's the fastest way to level up your Fighter's Guild skill line on new characters.

2) It always drops rings and necklaces, so it's good way to level jewelry crafting on those characters at the same time.

3) There are so many players there that it's basically AFK if you join a group, if you don't count running between wayshrines.

4) Still gives great XP.