How many hours a day are you averaging?

I'm 30 after a month, at about an average of 2 hours per session with maybe 3 sessions a week? It all depends on your play time and what you do with it.

If you are power leveling......this is reeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaal slow. Level 12 should be obtained in a few hours.

Lorgend wrote: »

Lvl 12 after 4 weeks..... thats erm... xmmmm. i play for 3 weeks and have 1 character vr4 and another one vr2. and no i dont rush content or grind xp i make all quest achevements bosses etc.. so yea bro you are doing something wrong... xD

They aren't doing anything "wrong." They may not play as much as you. Or they might enjoy taking their time.

I think I was level 12 after my first day or two of playing the game, and that was with reading quest text, picking flowers, chopping wood, exploring too far and being ripped in half by things twice my level, BSing in zone chat, creating/deleting different characters, trying to wrap my head around crafting and inventory management, along with any number of other non productive things.

You might not be doing anything wrong, but you might not actually be playing the game, either.

It's ok, I'm 44 after 4 month

Venereous44 wrote: »

And then there are the people who exaggerate... a lot. 12 levels in 3 hours? Yeah, right....

Even if they can achieve that, they can't be enjoying the experience.

@Rogue5‌
If this is your very first character on the game then I would say there's absolutely nothing wrong with level 12 in 4 weeks.

By that measurement, I would assume you're probably taking your time by reading & listening to quest conversations, probably gathering every resource you run across, trying your hand at some (or all?) of the crafts, and even likely chatting it up from time to time in /zone, eh?

I can't say it took me too long to get to 12 on my first character, but that was in beta. What I CAN say is that it felt like a ridiculously long time to get there on my first time.
... and I'm a minmaxer.


If it's bothering you and you're feeling impatient about leveling, shoot me a note on here or reply with an @ before my name (like I've done above with yours) and I'll be happy to send you some of the links I've gathered on leveling fast.

Beware though - you will NEVER get to do your "first time through" again. I strongly recommend what others here have suggested: take your time and do what you enjoy. You can always rush through on future characters.

late levels is when you see how crappy this game turned out; trust me, take your time.

It is slow since you asked. If you are having fun though it's not a problem.

Nestor wrote: »

Thing to remember, Quests are how you get levels, mobs are just things to deal with. You get Exp from Mobs, and Loot too, but the Exp from killing mobs is small compared to what you get from Quests.

So, if your just grinding mobs, then L12 after a month is pretty good (assuming a couple of hours a day/most days of the week).

However, unless you have a burning need to get to the max level, then it really does not matter how fast or slow you level. As long as you are at the levels you need to be to do the quests you get assigned.

If your not getting enough quests, look for the Black Arrows and talk to those NPCs. You don't have to act on a quest you get assigned, but you will see the Level the game wants you to be at for the quest. You can be a couple levels lower (for survivability) up to 5 levels over (more than 5 levels over the mob, you get no Exp or Loot for killing them or the Boss, just Quest Exp for turning in the quest)

Actually you can grind faster than quests. People got to vr1 in 24 hours game time grinding at release I'm sure it would take less time now.

Haha, this reminds me of my new friend who joined the game about three weeks ago and was completely green. Now he's VR1 and will probably soon outlevel my main character. Funny how it goes.

I'm a slow leveler myself, I've played since early access and my main is VR2. I took a couple of breaks though, they added to a bit over a month. Still, when everyone else was complaining about VR difficulty, broken nightblades and whatnot, I was just running around lowbie zones, collecting mats, reading books, taking screenshots of every location. It was fun.

Your progress is quite slow, but it's not a problem. As long as you enjoy the game, who cares? Unlike powerlevelers, you are at a very low risk of burnout. You won't leave the game after a month because you have nothing left to do. So don't worry about it. Unless you really just don't know how to level up and need advice, then don't hesitate to ask.

purple-magicb16_ESO wrote: »

Are you doing a lot of crafting? Crafting and farming will slow your leveling big time. I craft a lot plus I play alts. I've been playing since release and my main is only V2 b/c of crafting farming and playing alts but I don't concern myself too much with levelling.

Have to complete quests as fast as possible if you want to level fast. Gotta chase those arrows. ;-)

hmm I am max craft in everything and vr12, with some low level alts that I ground out 28 provisioning in for the grocer and have hirelings on.

Crafting never felt like it slowed me down, if anything, it came organically with my levels and frankly, I think it's too easy to level.

Now playing alts will slow you down a lot.

UrQuan wrote: »

kitsinni wrote: »

Nestor wrote: »

Thing to remember, Quests are how you get levels, mobs are just things to deal with. You get Exp from Mobs, and Loot too, but the Exp from killing mobs is small compared to what you get from Quests.

So, if your just grinding mobs, then L12 after a month is pretty good (assuming a couple of hours a day/most days of the week).

However, unless you have a burning need to get to the max level, then it really does not matter how fast or slow you level. As long as you are at the levels you need to be to do the quests you get assigned.

If your not getting enough quests, look for the Black Arrows and talk to those NPCs. You don't have to act on a quest you get assigned, but you will see the Level the game wants you to be at for the quest. You can be a couple levels lower (for survivability) up to 5 levels over (more than 5 levels over the mob, you get no Exp or Loot for killing them or the Boss, just Quest Exp for turning in the quest)

Actually you can grind faster than quests. People got to vr1 in 24 hours game time grinding at release I'm sure it would take less time now.

I'm not so sure about that. I think a lot of the things people were grinding in early access and shortly after release were seen as exploits by ZOS and nerfed in order to prevent such super fast leveling.

0 cost bat swarm ftw.
Pryda was carried by a guild and reached VR super fast by AoE grinding. This tactic could still be at least partially replicated, but it would probably be affected by changes made in the game since. Exp reductions, fixes to whatever bugged abilities people may have been using... If I remember correctly, it was never proved he used exploits. But there was a looping quest which could be used as an exp farm, so yeah, many of those easy exp sources are gone now.