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Questing exp is HORRIBLE in 1.5
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Vyle_Byte✭✭✭✭✭
✭In case you missed it from another thread....
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/138337/vp-vs-xp/p1ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »Hi everyone, we'd like to address the concerns with the change we recently made to experience points and gaining Veteran Levels. Update 5 introduced a new system where all Veteran Points were converted to use XP instead, as part of our phased rollout of the Champion System. The plan was for this to reduce the amount of time it would take to gain a Veteran Rank. However, we discovered an issue where you are not currently gaining as much XP as we intended. Fixing this issue is one of our top priorities. We are currently aiming to have this fixed in our next incremental patch, which will allow you to progress though Veteran Ranks at a faster rate than what you’re currently seeing in-game. Thank you for your patience and understanding!Member of the Old GuardMother of the Byte FamilyVyle Byte||Ivana Byte||Vyible Byte||Hakate Vampler Former EMPRESS BWB||Haan Zolo {Retired} (He swung first)||Lunari ||Wardyn Chalyk Tahno||Dirti Dianah||Bonnie||
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Garetth✭✭✭✭I have the wyykrd addon that tells you what percentage you have completed for each level. When my V8 Templar finished the V7 Stormhaven zone and moved into the V8 Rivenspire zone she was 26% into V8. That's where I stopped prior to patch.
Since the patch I have completed 29 quests, (three of the main ones), done all the dolmens, 4 of the 6 world bosses, cleared the public dungeon, all other dungeons but 4 and I'm now at 38% complete with level V8. A whopping 12% increase. Based upon previous experience I should be about 75-80 % complete if not more. There are only 48 quests in this zone if I recall correctly.
At this rate I will need the rest of Rivenspire, the next zone and probably some of the one after that to get to V9.
Ever since I started Caldwell's quests I have gotten the explorer and quest achievements in each zone and every single time I started the next zone I was always 20%+ into my next level when I started it.
Another total FU*KED UP patch!1 -
Garetth✭✭✭✭Just saw the post above from Gina.
What about those of us that should have earned a level since the patch?? Are we going to get the xp that we didn't get??3 -
Adhal✭✭✭poodlemasterb16_ESO wrote: »OK so I recently started making a character on EP to join some friends after having 3 vet ranked characters on DC so I am well versed in how long it takes to level questing. So I got 76% into vr 2 prior to the patch and was about 50% through stormhaven (vr2 zone) I am now almost done with all of rivenspire (including all but a couple dolmens side quests, ect) and I am only about 35% into vr 3. At this rate I will be lucky to hit vr 6 by the time I reach reapers march (vr 10 zone). The quest exp needs to be buffed pronto, questing is half as effective as it previously was.
Go back, do _all_ the quests in an area. There are enough quests to do a VR level a zone but you will have to look for some of them. Any area that's not filled in will have some quests hidden away. Go find em'.
How about you try questing in 1.5 before commenting, I already said I did 100% of a zone and that I had multiple VR rank characters, I have done every single player zone 100% a minimum of 2 times
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Mettaricana✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭In case you missed it from another thread....
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/138337/vp-vs-xp/p1ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »Hi everyone, we'd like to address the concerns with the change we recently made to experience points and gaining Veteran Levels. Update 5 introduced a new system where all Veteran Points were converted to use XP instead, as part of our phased rollout of the Champion System. The plan was for this to reduce the amount of time it would take to gain a Veteran Rank. However, we discovered an issue where you are not currently gaining as much XP as we intended. Fixing this issue is one of our top priorities. We are currently aiming to have this fixed in our next incremental patch, which will allow you to progress though Veteran Ranks at a faster rate than what you’re currently seeing in-game. Thank you for your patience and understanding!
this gave me some hope that this exp nightmare was only temp....
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Alphashado✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭ALL the XP is horrible. It's supposed to be faster lvling VR now? OMG what a freakin joke that is. I've been busting my ass since the patch doing everything from Craglorn quests to VR Pledges trying to get from VR13 to VR 14 and my XP meter has hardly even moved. Two days of solid questing and dungeons and I am still at 400k/1,400,000.
Nobody is grinding in Craglorn anymore because the bosses have all been nerfed to shreds. I get more XP killing a mob of 3 than I do from killing any kind of boss. Even dungeon bosses are giving me lousy 200-400 xp when I get up to 5k killing trash mobs.
I have the final 3 zones in Cadwells gold completed so I went back to the highest lvl zone with unfinished quests hoping to get some decent XP. Its a VR8 zone. I was getting 12, yes 12 xp from the mobs there and 10k from a quest turn in.
This is freakin ridiculous. Whoever thought this was gonna be faster CLEARLY didn't test it.
EDIT just read Gina's post. Good.Edited by Alphashado on November 6, 2014 4:18AM3 -
OtarTheMad✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭I am so glad that they noticed this and are fixing it because even leveling in Cyrodiil was horrible and just not really worth it.0 -
spoqster✭✭✭✭✭I really don't get why so many people in the MMO sector get so wound up about leveling. The enjoyment should be about the experience and not about some artificial level you get as a reward.
You should be doing the quests because you enjoy them, no matter how many experience points you get for completing them.
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I did the lost village public group dungeon in coldharbor yesterday, had done the quest and skyshard but not all the bosses earlier.OtarTheMad wrote: »I am so glad that they noticed this and are fixing it because even leveling in Cyrodiil was horrible and just not really worth it.
Soloed it as an VR13, good news is that I got loot, got around 10k xp , the weird thing is that I trashed the armor, yes I died sometimes but probably not more than twice before the armor was junk and i start dying often.
So apparently the armor degradation has not changed the way xp gain has.
Grinding just make you go in circles.
Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.0 -
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Maybe so, but along with that comes PVPer mentality which is more often than not a desire to grief others of far lower level than themselves and run away as soon as a 'fair fight' looks possible.in my opinion, PVP is more challenging than PVE because players are smarter than NPC's and the battles are more intense.
PVPers gank, PVEers can't.0 -
fromtesonlineb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭
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This change has made spending time level post-50 pointless, the progression one gets now is so pitiful only a botter will bother with it, even the mega-Korean grindfests like Lineage have a faster progression rate than this game does now, believe me, I play that from time to time (though not all that often now).They will remove the VR ranks with the introduction of the Championship System. The problem you are describing is just a temporary problem.
Edited by fromtesonlineb16_ESO on November 6, 2014 2:17PM0 -
Ashtaris✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭So I guess I'l just stop playing my main character until they fix the XP problem. No sense in trying to level the character when the VR points are borked.1 -
Cherryblossom✭✭✭✭✭
✭This has been answered now
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/138337/vp-vs-xp/p4ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »Hi everyone, we'd like to address the concerns with the change we recently made to experience points and gaining Veteran Levels. Update 5 introduced a new system where all Veteran Points were converted to use XP instead, as part of our phased rollout of the Champion System. The plan was for this to reduce the amount of time it would take to gain a Veteran Rank. However, we discovered an issue where you are not currently gaining as much XP as we intended. Fixing this issue is one of our top priorities. We are currently aiming to have this fixed in our next incremental patch, which will allow you to progress though Veteran Ranks at a faster rate than what you’re currently seeing in-game. Thank you for your patience and understanding!
also on the Known issues
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/138063/known-issues-for-update-5/p10 -
MornaBaine✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I had pretty much given up on leveling my VR3 main because it was so damn slow and boring. We were told it was going to be much faster now. I spent most of yesterday questing. Yeah, it's about the same as it ever was. Who are they trying to kid?Edited by MornaBaine on November 6, 2014 4:31PMPAWS (Positively Against Wrip-off Stuff) - Say No to Crown Crates!1 -
Nestor✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I have given up on Questing for now. I am currently grinding my characters in a dungeon to get Exp until they get this resolved. But no quests until this is patched. I got 100,000 exp last night in about an hour in one Delve running it repeatedly. Not fun, but it's all I have right now.
I was getting decent exp from the first town I went to in Malabal Tor, but I did not note if that was from the Mobs or the Quests. So I am not taking any more chances with this until this is resolved.Enjoy the game, life is what you really want to be worried about.
PakKat "Everything was going well, until I died"
Gary Gravestink "I am glad you died, I needed the help"1 -
Emeliana✭✭✭Good news is that opening chests give an average of 925 xp, so you only need to open 1549 chests for one Vet-level, plus you also get roughly 77.500 gold, over 1000 Soul Gems, thousands of items to decon or sell, possible treasure maps, glyphs and since most chests are camped out by mobs you'll also recieve some xp for killing them and loads of Hide. Almost guaranteed to get some Dreugh Wax from refining all them hides....0
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Nestor✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Cool as the Delve I grind has multiple chest spawns. I get 1 to 2 each run throughEnjoy the game, life is what you really want to be worried about.
PakKat "Everything was going well, until I died"
Gary Gravestink "I am glad you died, I needed the help"1
