Are you only doing the quests needed to satisfy Cadwell's Silver/Gold? I just hit VR5 in the third zone of Cadwell's Silver (and VR3 in the first zone of Cadwell's Silver on an alt), but I'm doing all quests, side quests, delves, and public dungeons (playing solo on my main, so no group stuff) including going to the starter islands. I've found on my main (VR5) and two alts (VR3 & L29) that doing everything always leaves me over-leveled. I do also have ESO+ now which give an extra 10% experience, but I didn't have it until VR4 on my main and was still over-leveled constantly.

If you're going to Malabol Tor, and have done all the quests to that point, I'm not sure what you can do at this point other then xp pots/enlightenment/eso+/grind.

Up to you how you want to progress, if questing is your preferred method and you've hit a wall in content then I guess your options would be:

Questing - going back and completing any unfinished quests

Grinding - good grind spot is the quickest way to gain XP

Public Dungeons - with the new patch, these are pretty good grind spots too and if there's any you haven't completed for the achievement then it might be worthwhile

Dolmens - if you even care about the achievement

Dungeons - especially the daily when it's easier to queue for a group

Level an alt - leveling a VR alt will give you more CP, which means your main will become more powerful as well

Take on the challenge - work with your build, your gear etc to try to make the current content doable and challenging which is, for me at least, more rewarding than blowing through easy content

V8 should be plenty for all but maybe the Public's even in VR10 Gold.

This assumes you're geared somewhat decently and have enchants, food, and a decent skill set?

You can always grind or repeat anything down to VR5 and still get full XP's accordingly if you wish to level up. With the XP increase, those little side quests payoff big.

EDIT: Also, if you've never completed the Group Dungeons (vet or otherwise), they give really good XP and a skillpoint on first completion.

Get a group and roll through them all.

Thanks folks, by the sounds of it I have missed a lot of content. I basically play an area until I receive the adventurer achievment/all points complete for silver/gold and then move on to the next zone. However I have done MOST of the delves in each area.

By world bosses do you mean the skulls on the map? (bit of a novice, sorry)

simo271 wrote: »

I am a VR8 Ebonheart Pact Dragonknight and have gained all of my XP from doing quests, I am not into PVP at all however would like to get the maximum out of my character in PVE. I am often finding that my level is too low to carry out certain activities in the areas that I am going through (Cadwells Gold - Malabol Tor).

My question is what would be the fastest/easiest way to gain some XP to increase my level to catch up with the quest areas?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I stick to caldwell questline, delves, dungeons, (discover all, but only fight some world bosses and dohlmens), discover all points of interest per map... move on...

My vr6 pre patch and vr7 post patch DK was above ground in final area of Malabol Tor Caldwell Gold farming. I even did a couple delves set to vr10 solo while at vr7. Post 1.7 patch, i had to rework some things, change up some skills, find better jewelry and even swapped a couple skills. I also built new armor as I was running outdated / crafted armor... so, post patch, stuff got noticably harder... but, I could still manage after an adjustment period.

Your next question is leveling... I think. If you want to really level quickly, go to Cyrodil and do the daily quests in the towns. There are basically 5 towns in Cyrodil (not Imperial city) just good ol cyrodil.

Look here at the circles - one is not shown here, in the North, south of Fort Dragonclaw:
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/af110/lgallastair1/Cyrodiil_zpsfe4b7d2b.gif

Each town has 2 quest givers and 10 quests. You can plow through the quests in a town in 30-40 min as you are learning them... They give about 3x the exp as quests completed in normal PvE land and it's all VR level stuff. You are level sync'd up too. Most folks are stuffed away into Imperial City, so gankers are at an all time low.... making it doable. Take a friend to help have one person log the quest and share them as picked up - so you are sync'd. Makes the trip more enjoyable. Can do 3 towns in 2-3 hours pretty safely... also, instead of running all over... just use the "help / get me unstuck" to fast travel back to way shrine when done with a town. Much faster than running all over the place.

Happy hunting.

If it helps at all, if I were going for 100% completion of a zone I would just follow the quest storyline and and be sure to pickup any side quests I come across, and just make sure I hit every quest hub. This is sort of the organic way. Might mix it up by doing some delves, dolmens etc when they're nearby.

Then after all quest hub icons are completed (filled in) I first check my skyshard achievements and lookup online any I was missing, every delve has a skyshard so that's an easy way to complete both skyshards and delves for that zone. Public dungeon, if you're going for the achievement, also lists which bosses you haven't completed for that public dungeon.