So...world bosses, dolmens, public dungeons and the future...

SgtPepperUK · August 2014

My AD sorceror is currently working her way through Coldharbour and there's a distinct lack of people around which means some world bosses and the public dungeon are pretty impossible to do.

Whilst we do have the influx of players from the Steam launch coming through, eventually I foresee a time where new players, or those levelling alts, will not be able to get this type of content done unless they go back at a much later level.

Should ZOS look at making this type of content soloable and, if so, when?

Nestor · August 2014

SgtPepperUK wrote: »

will not be able to get this type of content done unless they go back at a much later level.

Except you will never get above Level 50 until have finished the MQ in Coldharbor and the MQ for the game. You will be stuck in Coldharbor foooooorrrrreeeevvvaaaaarrrrr. Try to that with a booming Molag Bal type of voice.

Hey, I need to do the public dungeon in Coldharbor, I have an AD NB with a Destruction Staff that is ready for that. Well, 3 more levels in Destruction to get Impulse and I will be ready, just a few minutes at the Zombie Farm really. I recently tossed his bow in the lava and am now using a Staff. If you can't find anybody by this evening, send me a message in game

LonePirate · August 2014

Nestor wrote: »

SgtPepperUK wrote: »

will not be able to get this type of content done unless they go back at a much later level.

Except you will never get above Level 50 until have finished the MQ in Coldharbor and the MQ for the game. You will be stuck in Coldharbor foooooorrrrreeeevvvaaaaarrrrr. Try to that with a booming Molag Bal type of voice.

While it is true you cannot move on to the other factions' zones until you defeat Molag Bal, you can progress your character beyond level 50 before defeating him. Thanks to Cyrodiil, I was VR4 before I got around to killing him and moving on to my first set of VR zones.

leeux · August 2014

I'm slowly getting there... My highest level char is 43 as of now, and in a few days I could be in Coldharbour, and having the same problem as you

At least, by next weekend maybe we could help each other if you still haven't found other players to do them. I'm in the NA server, BTW.

But I agree, even at late nights (3:00am - 6:00am) for me in normal level zones there's a distinctive lack of players around which make doing the dolmens and w. bosses at level very difficult.

Super_Sonico · August 2014

Go back to Auridon or Greenshade and ask for help in zone chat. There's enough players running around for other purposes you should be able to get some help if there's not enough people in Coldharbour.

And wait til you get to VR zones. My main is in DC and I've completed AD and am now in EP zones. These areas are dead! Literally there will be maybe 1 or 2 people in zone chat who even respond. (There might be more in the area, but only a couple of people who communicate or are willing to help out.) I did beat a dolmen the other day in Stonefalls with just me (NB) and a templar healer. We didn't even die! And on that note, I think there is some scaling of the Dolmens. For instance, I noticed on that run, a few of the shackles you have to unlock (or whatever) only took like 2-3 kills to activate. I remember being surprised by this because I've been in large groups where I know it's taken 20+ kills to get them to activate.

LonePirate · August 2014

I proposed a solution to this problem in the link below. As usual, the response has been little more than crickets.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/126138/add-daily-quests-related-to-dark-anchors-and-world-bosses

sari · August 2014

SgtPepperUK wrote: »

Should ZOS look at making this type of content soloable...?

Is it not?

DenverRalphy · August 2014

Every MMO in existence has had to accommodate for this contingency. Eventually there will be more veteran characters than 1-50 characters, and adjustments will have to be made.

Nestor · August 2014

LonePirate wrote: »

While it is true you cannot move on to the other factions' zones until you defeat Molag Bal, you can progress your character beyond level 50 before defeating him. Thanks to Cyrodiil, I was VR4 before I got around to killing him and moving on to my first set of VR zones.

Do you get VR content/Exp in Coldharbor once you reach 50? If so, while he may be able to level above 50, he will be Coldharbor forever unless he wants to go to Cyrodill

SgtPepperUK · August 2014

My play time right now is rather sporadic but many thanks to those who've offered to help anyway

LonePirate wrote: »

I proposed a solution to this problem in the link below. As usual, the response has been little more than crickets.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/126138/add-daily-quests-related-to-dark-anchors-and-world-bosses

I'm about to head off to bed right now but I will take a look at that tomorrow!

sari wrote: »

SgtPepperUK wrote: »

Should ZOS look at making this type of content soloable...?

Is it not?

I guess it depends a lot on build/class and playstyle. If you have such that you can solo this content on level all power to you, not everyone can though and, in some cases, people might have a build their perfectly happy with in every other respect but might not be suited to soloing things like this.

For me personally, some world bosses, mainly single target, I can destroy but where it's multiple targets at a world boss it's more the other way around hehe.

Nox_Aeterna · August 2014

DenverRalphy wrote: »

Every MMO in existence has had to accommodate for this contingency. Eventually there will be more veteran characters than 1-50 characters, and adjustments will have to be made.

GW2 tried to make do with player scaling , your lvl would be based on the region so you can always do the content to a point and so on.

If anything ESO went all the way in the other direction , since a player a few lvls above the area wont receive rewards at all for the content , there isnt any reason to backtrack lols.