I completely agree with the OP on this, on my VR9, I have been able to solo many of the anchors myself if noone were around, even at low lvl, and when I come by an anchor in the lower lvls now, where I see people standing around I equip my resto staff and stand ready to throw some heals.

But it isnt just at the anchors that I have seen high VR people run in and smash all.

Have been playing on a new alt, and in Stonefells, Inner Sea Armature a lvl 8ish place, I often have found VR10 people running around killing Dwemer for the achievement.
Personally I fail to see how someone can feel it is an achievement to kill 800 of those instead of going to a place with VR5+ Dwemer and have some more fun with it.

Bazzakrak wrote: »

I completely agree with the OP on this, on my VR9, I have been able to solo many of the anchors myself if noone were around, even at low lvl, and when I come by an anchor in the lower lvls now, where I see people standing around I equip my resto staff and stand ready to throw some heals.

But it isnt just at the anchors that I have seen high VR people run in and smash all.

Have been playing on a new alt, and in Stonefells, Inner Sea Armature a lvl 8ish place, I often have found VR10 people running around killing Dwemer for the achievement.
Personally I fail to see how someone can feel it is an achievement to kill 800 of those instead of going to a place with VR5+ Dwemer and have some more fun with it.

My definition of fun is vastly different from yours.

Getting a grindy achievement in an MMO is like paying off a big loan. You feel relieved when it's done, perhaps even proud. You might value what having paid off that loan says about you as a person, but you definitely don't look back at the time spent paying off that loan as "fun."

Aeratus wrote: »

Vet players are spoiling the dolmens because the achievement is so grindy that it's ridiculous. I've heard people do over 350 dolmens to get it.

Well there is a 250 dolmen achievement so why is that unexpected?

We were all such good friends at the top of page 2, what happened?

I've been general chasing recently and have probably been guilty of this, I will try to tone down what I do on a dolmen to allow 'locals' more chance to notch up the kills.

The dwarven grind is a bit different, for dwarven constructs and ghosts there are really no suitable higher level areas that yield many... that is both why people do it down level and why they need to grind those ones at all, all the other kill ones you just notch up as you go.

apostate9 wrote: »

Oh, and "Towering arrogance" is another great example of hyperbole. You guys really are hilarious.

Just a small point. "Towering arrogance" is a metaphorical description. Hyperbole would be "it was the most outrageous display of arrogance anyone have ever seen, an arrogance of biblical proportions, an arrogance to shock even the gods."

Get it?

Srugzal wrote: »

Maverick827 wrote: »

You might value what having paid off that loan says about you as a person, but you definitely don't look back at the time spent paying off that loan as "fun."

To my mind, spending time in an MMO doing things you don't enjoy is just, well, lunacy. Especially if you pay for the privilege.

Not if it gives you a sense of accomplishment, and if that sense of accomplishment is worth more to you than the time you've spent doing things that you don't enjoy.

Maverick827 wrote: »

inspiral1 wrote: »

Do this to annoy them

there are 5 anchor pins, if your a NB vanish so they get agro and they hog the pins don't forget the one at the end.

i did this in a zone to wind them up but i was appropriate lvl, ended up getting the achievement colour before them and cradit from the anchors.

he /w me saying i was an ass**** because i vanished and he got agro and died while i still there spamming the pins, i cant tell you how much i lmao @ him, then /w him back linking the ach mwahahahhahha

this was more fun than doing the anchors lol

You don't get anything for activating the first four pins. There are no enemies left for the one at the end, so you don't really have an advantage in getting that one. I'm not sure what you think you were accomplishing.

if you get 100 pins you get the armor dye, you don't have to just get the one at the end.... You get all of them....lol

if you get the pins the vets cant, that was the point, to sabotage! Them and steal there pins.

UrQuan wrote: »

SirAndy wrote: »

Maverick827 wrote: »

You don't get anything for activating the first four pins. There are no enemies left for the one at the end, so you don't really have an advantage in getting that one. I'm not sure what you think you were accomplishing.

There is an achievement for releasing x number of pins ...
;-)

Yup, and that's one of the things that the VR players at low level dolmens will be there for.

Not so much, nor the the overall number closed, mostly it is the odd rare general. If it was simply pins or closed dolmens we'd be in the first zones bugging the level 10s not the later ones.

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

SirAndy wrote: »

Maverick827 wrote: »

You don't get anything for activating the first four pins. There are no enemies left for the one at the end, so you don't really have an advantage in getting that one. I'm not sure what you think you were accomplishing.

There is an achievement for releasing x number of pins ...
;-)

Yup, and that's one of the things that the VR players at low level dolmens will be there for.

Not so much, nor the the overall number closed, mostly it is the odd rare general. If it was simply pins or closed dolmens we'd be in the first zones bugging the level 10s not the later ones.

That's why I said "one of the things". There are several achievements related to dolmens, and the reason VR players are at low level dolmens is to get those achievements.

Well when i see vets racing for the pins its kinda a give away which ach they are after xD

Srugzal wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

Srugzal wrote: »

Maverick827 wrote: »

You might value what having paid off that loan says about you as a person, but you definitely don't look back at the time spent paying off that loan as "fun."

To my mind, spending time in an MMO doing things you don't enjoy is just, well, lunacy. Especially if you pay for the privilege.

Not if it gives you a sense of accomplishment, and if that sense of accomplishment is worth more to you than the time you've spent doing things that you don't enjoy.

Can't agree with that, not if the process isn't meaningful. If it isn't, for me the achievement is also meaningless. Different strokes.

I wasn't talking about whether it's meaningful for you. You said that it's lunacy. I pointed out that for some people the sense of accomplishment is worth it, and therefore it's not lunacy for them. If you can't agree with that, then you lack the ability to understand that different things are important to different people.

Well, I have a couple hundred more Dolmens to do, so even at one pin per Dolmen, that Achievement will show up before the 250 Dolmen or the Generals will.

Purple clashes with my eyes, so......j/k

The purple is awsome, goes fantastic with bright pink

Srugzal wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

Srugzal wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

Srugzal wrote: »

Maverick827 wrote: »

You might value what having paid off that loan says about you as a person, but you definitely don't look back at the time spent paying off that loan as "fun."

To my mind, spending time in an MMO doing things you don't enjoy is just, well, lunacy. Especially if you pay for the privilege.

Not if it gives you a sense of accomplishment, and if that sense of accomplishment is worth more to you than the time you've spent doing things that you don't enjoy.

Can't agree with that, not if the process isn't meaningful. If it isn't, for me the achievement is also meaningless. Different strokes.

I wasn't talking about whether it's meaningful for you. You said that it's lunacy. I pointed out that for some people the sense of accomplishment is worth it, and therefore it's not lunacy for them. If you can't agree with that, then you lack the ability to understand that different things are important to different people.

So you feel that it's necessary to attack me to make your point? Tsk tsk.

Unlike you, I'm not pronouncing universal truth here, just articulating my own opinion, and acknowledging that others have different views. You should try to do the same.

Um, what? How is anything there an attack? My entire point is that different people have different views, so it's unfair for you to say that it's lunacy for them to do something they don't enjoy, when it's possible that for them the payoff makes it worth it. You specifically said you can't agree with that. You're the one who won't acknowledge that other people have different views. Either you agree that it's not lunacy for those people (and you've said you don't agree with that), or you're saying that others can't have different views from you (which means that you lack the ability to understand that different things are important to different people). End of story, with absolutely zero attacks on anyone.