Cadwell's Gold - AD leveling

BBSooner · December 2014

I recently sent my alt (an Imperial 2h Sorceror) through Grahtwood as a part of my Cadwell's Gold quest line where it is a VR7 zone. After completing it I am concerned with the leveling pace of Cadwell's Gold after the change in experience.

My Sorceror began Cadwell's Gold as a VR6, approximately 8-10% in to the level, where I immediately went to Khenarthi's Roost. I completed every quest in Khenarthi's Roost, as well as every quest, skyshard, point of interest, delve, dolmen, world boss, and public dungeon (including the group challenge and the boss slayer achievement) in Auridon. That however left me still VR6 (which is already a concern), though luckily upon reaching Grahtwood I was able to kill 4-5 enemies on the shoreline of Haven to achieve VR7 without having to do any quests.

Once in Grahtwood I did every quest, collected every skyshard, found every icon on the map, opened every chest, and solo'd every delve, dolmen, world boss (except for Thugrub - there was another player with me), and public dungeon (including the group challenge). I made an active effort to kill every enemy in my path, farm the group dungeon a bit since fighting those groups as a 2h solo was actually pretty fun, and made a special effort to go out of my way to kill every Troll in sight (just because). There were times when I would stay in an area just killing mobs on mental autopilot while I was paying attention to things around me (fiance, netflix, etc). Sadly, as I finish the zone I am standing at the entrance to Greenshade sitting at 893,250/1,000,000.

I feel that after clearing an entire zone and farming mobs more than a regular quester would I shouldn't still be over 100k to gaining another level. I realize that the removal of VR is not coming with the next update, and we have no notion as to when they are finally being removed, so I would like to request additional time go in to balancing the experience gains for the Cadwell's Silver/Gold zones. Completing an entire zone 100% (110% if you want to put a value to the extra enemy farming) should result in a level up - whereas not getting one is frankly disheartening.

@ZOS_GinaBruno‌ Please pass this on so another look can be given to the VR experience gains so we can at least walk away with a 1:1 level per zone experience.

MissBizz · December 2014

This is interesting to read as my VR is just entering The Rift so it shouldn't be long before I start my gold in Daggerfall. You seemed to be on par with the 1 zone per level previously correct? If nothing is done I will be sure to come back and let you know how things go. Possibly it is to be expected you also complete the vet dungeons? Do you normally take part in these?

drschplatt · December 2014

I just started Gold as an AD character and I'm having the same problem. Leveling is just painfully slow.

Blud · December 2014

This is why a lot of people are just leveling alts to 50 and then waiting for the Champion System (i.e. part 1 of the Jesus Patch series) to be implemented. I hope our faith has not been misplaced.

Gyudan · December 2014

My templar is VR10, with 750,000 XP and still hasn't finished The Rift (last zone of Caldwell's Gold)
I've done a few quests in Lower Craglorn, some undaunted pledges but no pvp.

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO · December 2014

VR rank leveling was supposed to be "slightly faster" with this flat rate 1,000,000 XP per VR rank, but I really don't see how that could be the case. Even with some pretty heavy farming for Dwemer motifs and scraps, probably adding up to 250,000 XP or something by itself, I only barely got a full VR rank from a more or less 100% completion of Deshaan, and it looks like I'm not going to get a full rank from Shadowfen either.

I'm not sure how the developers can fail to provide enough total XP in a zone to level up appropriately for the next zone, but it certainly looks like that is the case. No big deal for gameplay, I can take on mobs with an underleveled character if I have to, but this does make it pretty hard to level to VR14, and it makes the Gold zones even more unrewarding than they were before.

It's almost as if they don't really expect us to play until the next big patch.

MornaBaine · December 2014

My DC character is in Greenshade now and just hit VR5. I was slightly overleveled due to grinding and hit VR5 just by doing the dolmens, world bosses and solo dungeons and killing whatever was in my way as I went after skyshards and lorebooks. I still have 1 or 2 lorebooks to get and, I think, 3 skyshards. I've barely touched the quests in the area and plan to hopefully ONLY do the ones that are necessary to complete the Cadwell's requirements before moving on to the next zone. We shall see.

MissBizz · December 2014

Gyudan wrote: »

My templar is VR10, with 750,000 XP and still hasn't finished The Rift (last zone of Caldwell's Gold)
I've done a few quests in Lower Craglorn, some undaunted pledges but no pvp.

This seems right to me.

hopefully I have no issues as I was always one to out level content in the 1-50 zones.

Robocles · December 2014

This issue was hotly debated for weeks when they changed the system to XP. They don't care. The only fix we got was the reduction to 1mil per rank, which, as you have discovered, is still more than some zones have available.

BBSooner · December 2014

MissBizz wrote: »

Gyudan wrote: »

My templar is VR10, with 750,000 XP and still hasn't finished The Rift (last zone of Caldwell's Gold)
I've done a few quests in Lower Craglorn, some undaunted pledges but no pvp.

This seems right to me. hopefully I have no issues as I was always one to out level content in the 1-50 zones.

I was as well, which is why I'm confused. I complete every zone 100%, so not getting a level through the entirety of Grahtwood is odd. It's definitely a change considering 1-50 I'd out level the content the content by 3+ levels (I'm consistently 47-48 when I enter Coldharbor on my characters), fairly on par throughout Silver, and now 100k under level by the end of my second zone in Gold.

It may be just a difference in the Cadwell Silver/Gold experience gains for this faction, or Grahtwood just has a low experience ceiling compared to the other AD zones, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't bother me to not level after a whole zone (by that much as well).