Isn't that the achievement for taking down all of the special bosses that can spawn at Dolmens?

I think I have 4 left to go on my main, really must try to put in some effort on that at some point!

Getting this to pop naturally is kinda hit or miss. Farming it can be done in an afternoon. Well, in my case I finished up the last five or six at 2am, since I didn't want to snuff a bunch of dolmens on a vet 12 when there were actual leveling players running around.

The way it works is simple. The first four on the list spawn in your second zone (Stormhaven, Deshaan, or Grahtwood), the second four on the list spawn in your third zone (Rivenspire, Greenshade, or Shadowfen). The next four spawn in A'likr, Malabal Tor, or Eastmarch, and the last four spawn in the final leveling zone (Bangkorai, Reaper's March, or The Rift.)

Any Vet zone dolmen can spawn any one of these guys, as can Cyrodiil's. But if you're banking on those producing the one you need from one of those... good luck.

With a little luck and planning you can finish this one off before you down your fiftieth Dolmen. If you decide to just sit there and farm one Dolmen, you can take four of them out, but any effort after that is wasted. And, I have seen people sitting on Auridon, Glenumbra, and Stonefalls trying to farm these guys up... Unless you're in the silver or gold version, I'm sorry, but that will never work.

EDIT: on timing, as a high vet among leveling dolmens, you can solo them. If you go in a circuit on the zone you need, the first one you took down should be about to reset, by the time you've finished the third. And you can just bounce from dolmen to dolmen. Needless to say, this is pretty disruptive to the leveling crowd, you're going to be one shotting most enemies you encounter. But, it means you can finish this very quickly, if you're willing.

Siluen wrote: »

Sometimes I wake up screaming at the repressed memory of doing this achievement.

Seriously, rotate through the dolmens in a zone. The change of scenery helps. I tried doing the sit at one and farm routine with Deshaan...

Not happiness.

starkerealm wrote: »

Getting this to pop naturally is kinda hit or miss. Farming it can be done in an afternoon. Well, in my case I finished up the last five or six at 2am, since I didn't want to snuff a bunch of dolmens on a vet 12 when there were actual leveling players running around.

The way it works is simple. The first four on the list spawn in your second zone (Stormhaven, Deshaan, or Grahtwood), the second four on the list spawn in your third zone (Rivenspire, Greenshade, or Shadowfen). The next four spawn in A'likr, Malabal Tor, or Eastmarch, and the last four spawn in the final leveling zone (Bangkorai, Reaper's March, or The Rift.)

Any Vet zone dolmen can spawn any one of these guys, as can Cyrodiil's. But if you're banking on those producing the one you need from one of those... good luck.

With a little luck and planning you can finish this one off before you down your fiftieth Dolmen. If you decide to just sit there and farm one Dolmen, you can take four of them out, but any effort after that is wasted. And, I have seen people sitting on Auridon, Glenumbra, and Stonefalls trying to farm these guys up... Unless you're in the silver or gold version, I'm sorry, but that will never work.

EDIT: on timing, as a high vet among leveling dolmens, you can solo them. If you go in a circuit on the zone you need, the first one you took down should be about to reset, by the time you've finished the third. And you can just bounce from dolmen to dolmen. Needless to say, this is pretty disruptive to the leveling crowd, you're going to be one shotting most enemies you encounter. But, it means you can finish this very quickly, if you're willing.

even farming it took me 3 days and over 1000 dolmens RNG is a *** sometimes

lathbury wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

Getting this to pop naturally is kinda hit or miss. Farming it can be done in an afternoon. Well, in my case I finished up the last five or six at 2am, since I didn't want to snuff a bunch of dolmens on a vet 12 when there were actual leveling players running around.

The way it works is simple. The first four on the list spawn in your second zone (Stormhaven, Deshaan, or Grahtwood), the second four on the list spawn in your third zone (Rivenspire, Greenshade, or Shadowfen). The next four spawn in A'likr, Malabal Tor, or Eastmarch, and the last four spawn in the final leveling zone (Bangkorai, Reaper's March, or The Rift.)

Any Vet zone dolmen can spawn any one of these guys, as can Cyrodiil's. But if you're banking on those producing the one you need from one of those... good luck.

With a little luck and planning you can finish this one off before you down your fiftieth Dolmen. If you decide to just sit there and farm one Dolmen, you can take four of them out, but any effort after that is wasted. And, I have seen people sitting on Auridon, Glenumbra, and Stonefalls trying to farm these guys up... Unless you're in the silver or gold version, I'm sorry, but that will never work.

EDIT: on timing, as a high vet among leveling dolmens, you can solo them. If you go in a circuit on the zone you need, the first one you took down should be about to reset, by the time you've finished the third. And you can just bounce from dolmen to dolmen. Needless to say, this is pretty disruptive to the leveling crowd, you're going to be one shotting most enemies you encounter. But, it means you can finish this very quickly, if you're willing.

even farming it took me 3 days and over 1000 dolmens RNG is a *** sometimes

This is either lie of terrible exaggeration.

Even without trying to get general executioner achievment i had half of the boss killed just from random dolmen killing.

Then just checking where to farm which i located where i should get missing bosses (used my own faction area for AD it was first 4 in grathwood, next 4 in greenshade, another 4 in malbar tor and last 4 in reapers march) and farmed them in my own faction zones for lowest lvl possible.

I finished that achievment in lower number of killed dolmens than i needed for dolmen destroyer achievment (250) i think i found my last boss at around 225 dolmens destroyed.

starkerealm wrote: »

Getting this to pop naturally is kinda hit or miss. Farming it can be done in an afternoon. Well, in my case I finished up the last five or six at 2am, since I didn't want to snuff a bunch of dolmens on a vet 12 when there were actual leveling players running around.

The way it works is simple. The first four on the list spawn in your second zone (Stormhaven, Deshaan, or Grahtwood), the second four on the list spawn in your third zone (Rivenspire, Greenshade, or Shadowfen). The next four spawn in A'likr, Malabal Tor, or Eastmarch, and the last four spawn in the final leveling zone (Bangkorai, Reaper's March, or The Rift.)

Any Vet zone dolmen can spawn any one of these guys, as can Cyrodiil's. But if you're banking on those producing the one you need from one of those... good luck.

With a little luck and planning you can finish this one off before you down your fiftieth Dolmen. If you decide to just sit there and farm one Dolmen, you can take four of them out, but any effort after that is wasted. And, I have seen people sitting on Auridon, Glenumbra, and Stonefalls trying to farm these guys up... Unless you're in the silver or gold version, I'm sorry, but that will never work.

EDIT: on timing, as a high vet among leveling dolmens, you can solo them. If you go in a circuit on the zone you need, the first one you took down should be about to reset, by the time you've finished the third. And you can just bounce from dolmen to dolmen. Needless to say, this is pretty disruptive to the leveling crowd, you're going to be one shotting most enemies you encounter. But, it means you can finish this very quickly, if you're willing.

You must have been incredibly lucky. I have a guildie who did this and it STILL took her over 400 dolmens to get them all. i'm still a long way off from getting it.

If anyone needs 1000 dolmens to get this achievement, you're doing it wrong.

Each of your faction's zones has a higher chance to spawn one of for generals, for 20 total in all five zones. I think they follow the order of the list on the achievement, i.e. the first zone has a higher chance to spawn generals 1-4, the second zone spawns generals 5-8 and so on (the details may be off a bit, I don't really want to look up the guide I followed for this). While it might happen that you get a general that typically spawns in another zone, if you grind the dolmens in each zone until you get the 4 generals that usually spawn there before moving on to the next zone, it will take far fewer than 1000 dolmens to complete the achievement.

I did this after I'd finished Cadwell's Gold, don't remember how many I had when I started to farm generals specifically, but I remember I got the generals achievement even before getting the 250 anchors achievement.

If you're having trouble with any achievement, google it before throwing a temper in the forums. Chances are there will be a guide that will make your life easier.

A couple minor details...

daemonios wrote: »

Each of your faction's zones has a higher chance to spawn one of for generals, for 20 total in all five zones.

Sixteen, not twenty, and the first zone (Glenumbra, Auridon, and Stonefalls) has no general spawns.

daemonios wrote: »

While it might happen that you get a general that typically spawns in another zone, if you grind the dolmens in each zone until you get the 4 generals that usually spawn there before moving on to the next zone, it will take far fewer than 1000 dolmens to complete the achievement.

They don't do that. Or at least in ~400 dolmen kills, I've never seen non-vet generals migrate to the wrong zone.

In vet they spawn where they want, when they want. But for non-vet, they're always locked to the appropriate zones. This can result in things like remembering that you fought a boss in the wrong zone, because you were in a silver zone. Like the bosses I've encountered in Glenumbra... except it was silver at the time. If you forget about that detail a couple weeks later, it makes the entire system seem a lot more random than it actually is.

Minnesinger wrote: »

I did it on my main when I felt there is time for it. I just went across Cyrodiil doing the same 3-4 dolmens in a campaign where I could transport quickly. Few times I did some dolmens in pve zones when I got tired of Cyrodiil. I had to do around 150 dolmens. I had around half of the generals killed when I started my hunt. Cyrodiil dolmens drop Coldharbor siege and treasure maps as reward. Well it is done I doubt I bother to do it again.

At least the dye is snazzy. I might do it on some alts for the title. General Executioner sounds disproportionately badass, and Monster Hunter takes a stupid amount of busywork.

This is my favorite achievement in the game. It gives you a title and a great dye, and I'd say I got the greatest sense of accomplishment from it of any of my achievements. Probably 60% of the generals I I got for this achievement were ones that I just got naturally while completing dolmens as I played the game. I solo'd all of the dolmens in Cyrodiil (I think I would have been VR8 when I was doing this), and it felt like each time I did I got a general (I know it wasn't as often as that, it just felt like it), and after having an epic battle with the son of Molag Bal that's when I decided to actively go and try for the achievement.

starkerealm wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

This is my favorite achievement in the game. It gives you a title and a great dye, and I'd say I got the greatest sense of accomplishment from it of any of my achievements. Probably 60% of the generals I I got for this achievement were ones that I just got naturally while completing dolmens as I played the game. I solo'd all of the dolmens in Cyrodiil (I think I would have been VR8 when I was doing this), and it felt like each time I did I got a general (I know it wasn't as often as that, it just felt like it), and after having an epic battle with the son of Molag Bal that's when I decided to actively go and try for the achievement.

I can't tell you how many times, with that fight, I've seen someone mistake the draugr that spawns for Molag Bal's son, run in, and then have the titan land "on" them.

lol I remember when I had him spawn I saw the draugr and thought "well this is a bit underwhelming". Then this freaking massive titan landed and I had a very serious "oh ***" moment... One of the few times in this game I've seen an enemy and actually been in awe...

I'm still looking for one of the Dremora spawns on my main I've done it on three alts, but they never show up for my main. On the flipside I feel like I'm fighting that stupid vampire every other dolmen. I hate the RNG.

UrQuan wrote: »

theroyalestpythonnub18_ESO wrote: »

I'm still looking for one of the Dremora spawns on my main I've done it on three alts, but they never show up for my main. On the flipside I feel like I'm fighting that stupid vampire every other dolmen. I hate the RNG.

So you're basically being stalked by a vampire? I'd be a little concerned if I were you... If Twilight taught me anything (and it didn't) it's that having a Vampire stalk you leads to an unhealthy mentally abusive relationship and pregnancy.

Don't forget the sparkles!