Yes, it's absolutely stupid how the quests were designed in that zone. That has been intensively discussed before, and we can only hope ZOS will do better with the next part of Craglorn.

craglorn really is a fun place the quests the story line its all amazing or at least what i have seen is awesome. unfortunately it is just a really big trade channel all anyone does is grind anom grind burial grind grind grind. i know its a mmo and there of course will be grinding to be done but i did all of the quests in the game and went to crag at v12 i don't know if i was late or what but no one seems to be doing anything other then grind for xp or trade its really frustrating and i truly hope they do something about it

I've been eligible to go to Craglorn for a little while, but thought I'd wait until I got to at least VR 5 or 6. I know it's all intended for group play, but are the quests solo-able at all?

Actually no one is grinding anomalies anymore since they nerfed the XP, they are pretty much ghost towns now. And happily they finally fixed the BoE issue on trial loot so people are not spamming "WTS Warlock..." every freakin' 2 sec anymore, hehe. That being said, a lot of trade still happening but its less annoying than before the last patch.

As for quests... well, yes. It is annoying when you hook up with people in different stages. It was like that leveling too, so no different in Craglorn unfortunately. You have to be at the same spot in the quest chain or wait for somebody to catch up....

Obviously best thing to do is get a grp together before you start a quest and agree to do however many quests together, then bail as needed or else u always have this problem. Guild runs are always better of course since you have more options - in theory - than PuGs.

lord of zion wrote: »

craglorn really is a fun place the quests the story line its all amazing or at least what i have seen is awesome. unfortunately it is just a really big trade channel all anyone does is grind anom grind burial grind grind grind. i know its a mmo and there of course will be grinding to be done but i did all of the quests in the game and went to crag at v12 i don't know if i was late or what but no one seems to be doing anything other then grind for xp or trade its really frustrating and i truly hope they do something about it

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Agree on the Craglorn zone being pretty cool lord of zion. If grouping were any sort of priority for ZOS as far as PvE is concerned (like I thought Vet+ content as well as Craglorn was originally designed by the devs for), they would have corrected at least some of the issues players mention repeatedly about the difficulties of grouping up there...you know, do something to help with the phasing issues, add additional group e-x-p bonuses, and/or awesome loot for groups to be motivated by.

1.) May I ask please lord: Where else in this MMO in levels below 50 did you see repeated grinding by anyone single, or in groups on dense mobs worth enough e x p and which respawn often enough to have a good ttk ratio?

2.) Did ja know ZOS was made aware of the grinding parties a long while back? Does it not seem curious that ZOS has not gone in and thinned out the obvious grind spot mobs/added to the spawn time or in some other way made it less desirable for player content grinders to keep doing it? (*)

I wonder. (*)

Anastasia wrote: »

1.) May I ask please lord: Where else in this MMO in levels below 50 did you see repeated grinding by anyone single, or in groups on dense mobs worth enough e x p and which respawn often enough to have a good ttk ratio?

I've seen groups grinding mobs in pretty much all of the public dungeons. No idea if they were doing it for loot or xp or both.

Personally I don't understand people who grind. To me that's boring and just not fun. Having said that, I don't see anything wrong with it either, as long as it's not an obvious exploit (and most grinding is absolutely not an exploit). If people want to grind, let them. I won't be doing it myself, but other people are allowed to like different things from me and play differently from me

Join a guild, build a group from your guildmates. Stop relying on PUGs = problem solved.

NEXT!!!!

UrQuan wrote: »

Anastasia wrote: »

1.) May I ask please lord: Where else in this MMO in levels below 50 did you see repeated grinding by anyone single, or in groups on dense mobs worth enough e x p and which respawn often enough to have a good ttk ratio?

I've seen groups grinding mobs in pretty much all of the public dungeons. No idea if they were doing it for loot or xp or both.

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Or for fun! Or they are running from one boss spot to the next because one of their guildies is missing them to get the achievement.

Running through public dungeons is one of my favourite group activities. :-)

craglorn is a failure in my opinion. Between the phasing issues that I keep hearing of(and have experienced myself) and the fact that all people want to do there, is grind, the zone is a failure. I will give upper craglorn a go regardless, hopefully its not like this craglorn.

cromica81_ESO wrote: »

Hope this is taken care of by the time I get up there.

Don't count on it being fixed. The devs are so friggin stubborn. In some ways that's a good thing. When it comes to phasing, it isn't.

I wish they would make the dungeons for groups larger than 4. I was running around with friends last week and we were 4 already and trying to get skyshards and this other player asked to be added to our group, but then we wouldn't have been able to get into a dungeon together.

:-(