Trouble levelling properly in the level 1-50 zones? This could help you out.

Moonshadow66 · April 2015

Here's a good way most people might not know about, I think (and that's how I've done it with the last 2 of 8 characters):

When you get the first message to meet the Prophet in the Harborage, do it. Otherwise he'll remind you everytime you enter a city, no matter where.
Then, just start doing the zone quests and "forget" about the mainquest for now.
Grind (even just a bit helps) between one quest and another when you notice it's worth it. As long as the enemies are not more than 5 levels below, you'll gain XP. Do this up to the point where you notice you can't level in the current zone anymore and all quests are done, just go on to the next. But don't kill any Guar, they're lovely
When all level 1-50 zones are completed, continue with the mainquest. Each one of these quests is on-level, always, they scale with your level. So when you hit level 45 during the home-zones (47 is possible, too, or even higher), you'll still have a way to level even further. But if you do the mainquest earlier (every 5 levels), there's NO way to gain any more progress.

I think you can gain about 2-3 levels more when you do it afterwards, so you'll be close to VR1, or even VR1 already when you enter the Coldharbour zone.
Beyond this, complete the Coldharbour zone before entering the Citadelle. The last character I've done it with was VR2 when facing Molag Bal. It's possible

What I did not test is leaving out the Mages/Fighter's Guild questlines until the end, but I think it works as well since their quests also scale with the player level.

What about the missing skillpoints when you wait with the mainquest?
Here's a way to get these, though:

What I've done with my last character was doing a few normal zone quests first, then I started sneaking through the zone, and even the next (Stonefalls and Deshaan), to get ALL skyshards which are standing outside. You can't beat the enemies anymore after they exceed a certain level. As a single player, that is.

I did this when my character was level 6, and made it even all through Deshaan (where enemies are level 20+). Besides of getting many skillpoints, this also adds a certain thrill to your gameplay! I died only twice, maybe I wouldn't have died at all if I would have watched out a bit more

Good luck, and please leave some feedback, I'm really curious how you guys do it (besides of the "normal" way), or if you've tried it my way as well :-)

UrQuan · April 2015

If you really are having trouble leveling, this isn't a bad idea (and yes, it works with the Fighters Guild and Mages Guild quests too, as they scale with you).

Having said that, if you're having trouble leveling through the 1-50 zones, then you're missing a bunch of stuff. By exploring everywhere and doing all of the quests and delves (as well as most of the world bosses and dolmens, but not all, and only some of the group dungeons), I always end up about 2 levels above the mobs & quests by the end of the first full zone, and I'm then consistently 2-5 levels above them until Coldharbour.

I've never been lower than level 46 by the time I finish the last zone of my alliance - usually 47 or 48, and I've never been more than halfway through Coldharbour before hitting VR1. And I never grind, and almost never venture to Cyrodiil.

Edit to add: actually even if you aren't having trouble leveling, this really isn't a bad idea at all, because the rewards you get for the quests are scaled to your level as well. A lot of those rewards are blue jewelry, so having them at high levels can be handy - and the Prismatic Weapon from the Fighters Guild quest is a purple item from a set, so that's nice to have at a high level too.

Moonshadow66 · April 2015

@UrQuan Yeah, I don't have trouble levelling either (on the contrary), but I tested this out just for fun since I've seen so many threads about problems with levelling

Leggi · April 2015

That's funny cause two days ago I've finished the Cadwell's sliver with my VR1 char and was wondering about if it's possible to do before getting veteran level.

The best XP for non-vet chars is gaing when grinding +5lvl fat and controllable mobs (incl. anchors): lurchers, flesh atronachs, kagoutis, etc
Non-vet PVE is a piece of cake, no need to be higher than zone.

Faugaun · April 2015

Leggi wrote: »

That's funny cause two days ago I've finished the Cadwell's sliver with my VR1 char and was wondering about if it's possible to do before getting veteran level.

The best XP for non-vet chars is gaing when grinding +5lvl fat and controllable mobs (incl. anchors): lurchers, flesh atronachs, kagoutis, etc
Non-vet PVE is a piece of cake, no need to be higher than zone.

Vr1, I'm impressed....I finished silver but was vr3 not sure where I would remove exp to drop it lower either...maybe more stealthing and less mob killing? Anyways vr pve isn't that difficult either ...just slower if you're under geared/leveled.

Leggi · April 2015

Faugaun wrote: »

Anyways vr pve isn't that difficult either ...just slower if you're under geared/leveled.

If you sneak a lot, you kill quest bosses only.
The only issue that bothers me: more the difference = more the misses.

Tandor · April 2015

I think you missed what's probably the most important (and most over-looked by new players) point, which is to be sure to complete the starter island i.e. Khenarthi's Roost and other corresponding alliance areas before doing any quests in the main starting city/zone. That way, with all skyshards and exploration achievements in the bag, you ought to be around level 8 or even 9 before going to the Harborage for the first time. That gives you a great advantage over those who ignore the option to go to the starter island and find (a) the initial mainland quests are tough and (b) they're too low level when they run out of stuff to do in the initial mainland zone to move on comfortably to the next zone.

Omenpapa · April 2015

I'm sorry, but I don't entirely understand the purpose of this topic. What do u mean by "levelling properly" ? My personal issue with leveling is that I'm always waay too high level compared to the zone, and thus "forced" to kill mobs w/o actually gaining xp a lot. Usually at least half the zone is undiscovered for me when I reach the point of not gaining any xp from the mobs.

That is w/o ever going pvp, any grind, any extra dungeon runs(I only did once all the dungeons for the skill point reward). Also no mara or sub xp bonus.

When I read the title I assumed we gonna get some pointers that we should skip that and that part to not be overleveld.. ^^ Seems like this topic is the exact opposite

Moonshadow66 · April 2015

Tandor wrote: »

I think you missed what's probably the most important (and most over-looked by new players) point, which is to be sure to complete the starter island i.e. Khenarthi's Roost and other corresponding alliance areas before doing any quests in the main starting city/zone. That way, with all skyshards and exploration achievements in the bag, you ought to be around level 8 or even 9 before going to the Harborage for the first time. That gives you a great advantage over those who ignore the option to go to the starter island and find (a) the initial mainland quests are tough and (b) they're too low level when they run out of stuff to do in the initial mainland zone to move on comfortably to the next zone.

Haha, you got me there, I did forget to mention the starter islands, thanks for adding this :-)

Amsel_McKay · April 2015

I did the Main Quest line, Mages and Fighter's Guild at VR1 and all the quest awards scaled. I was VR2 when I finished them and kill MB at VR2... I am trying to figure out a way to get VR14 options of the items... I may get VR1 then PVP to VR14 then do all the quests.

Ourorboros · April 2015

Omenpapa wrote: »

I'm sorry, but I don't entirely understand the purpose of this topic. What do u mean by "levelling properly" ? My personal issue with leveling is that I'm always waay too high level compared to the zone, and thus "forced" to kill mobs w/o actually gaining xp a lot. Usually at least half the zone is undiscovered for me when I reach the point of not gaining any xp from the mobs.

That is w/o ever going pvp, any grind, any extra dungeon runs(I only did once all the dungeons for the skill point reward). Also no mara or sub xp bonus.

When I read the title I assumed we gonna get some pointers that we should skip that and that part to not be overleveld.. ^^ Seems like this topic is the exact opposite

I also thought the thread would be about how not to overlevel. I also find doing the content results in being over leveled well before finishing a zone. Even skipping some content, I still level too quick, without grinding. I'm still trying to decide if it's better to miss some quests or do everything. I'm looking ahead to when every XP is needed to gain veteran ranks.

zeitzbachrwb17_ESO · April 2015

You can always just mudcrab until 50 before they nerf it.

Even easier if you're a Templar with decent health pool and magicka pool. You can solo FG with someone to craft the gears for you to stack regen + magicka and just spam Puncturing sweep with decent crit to outheal the damages. The first boss is derp easy. The second boss is just shield and heal + DoT. Skip the first Dreugh boss and head straight toward crabs. That was what I did when I felt like just skipping from 35 right into Vet. You can even abuse that to gain some early Vet as well if you are willing to use some crown repair because the EXP goes from "This is amazing" to "haha this is bad" when it goes from level 49 to VEt 1. (like, 90% drop and monsters are 5x stronger)

You can just collect the quests later. It's alot easier to collect quest if you 1 or 2 shot everything and it also gives you some EXP. With every quest done until Eastmarch (Cause I didn't try crabgrind until 35), I was nearly VR3 by the time I finished all the rest of the main quest and every quest up to Cold Harbour.

Get a friend as well if you want to abuse this even more. Get the level 10 friend to go in and set the scale to level 10, switch to level 49 and clear it until Crab then switch back to the level 10 to abuse it with a pal.

Hadria · April 2015

I've never understood how people have trouble lvling! There's no thought process to it. Do quests, dungeons, dolmens, WB.

Of course not just one time at each place.

Moonshadow66 · April 2015

Yeah, actually why bother trying to help the ones who still have problems levelling, since apparently everyone here knows this since the 60s already.

Epona222 · April 2015

Amsel_McKay wrote: »

I did the Main Quest line, Mages and Fighter's Guild at VR1 and all the quest awards scaled. I was VR2 when I finished them and kill MB at VR2... I am trying to figure out a way to get VR14 options of the items... I may get VR1 then PVP to VR14 then do all the quests.

I am pretty sure that the mobs and quest rewards for main quest and guild quests top out at VR12

EDIT: How do I know? I started a VR14 template character on the PTS before Update 6, and did the first few FG and MG quests - all scaled to VR12 and rewards given were VR12. MQ was blocked off, but I cannot imagine that it would scale up more than VR12 given that nothing else does.