Level 1-50

ducket1 · January 2016

Is it quicker to rank from 1-50 in the sewers or do the first set of quests ?

Oreyn_Bearclaw · January 2016

There is fast leveling and then there is effective leveling. If you pop XP pots and grind with a partner, you can get to level 50 very fast. 4-5 hours as stated above seems low, but you can certainly do it in about 10.

I think the "best" way to level quickly is to clear the first 5 zones. What I mean is to grab all the skyshards, grab all the lorebooks, kill all the world bosses, clear all the dolmens, clear the public dungeons (or at least do the group challenges), and do the main quest line. Each zone has a fairly obvious quest line that is continuous through the zone. It generally nets 3 skill points for the zone and gives good XP. I also think it makes sense to do the main story. It can be done pretty fast, and again, gives a ton of skill points. More importantly, it opens up the next set of zones. I still like to burn through the Silver quests on each toon, so the whole map is open.

I find I can do a full clear on a zone in 2-3 hours. That way when you get to vet level, you have a ton of skill points and your mages guild is up there as well (you need to basically get all the books in the first 10 zones to get Comet). I find you still need to do a little grinding here and there, but not nearly as much. The alternative is to grind fast, then go back to under-leveled zones to farm up skill points anyways.

LadyNalcarya · January 2016

Well, if you just grind, you can reach vr1 in 4-5 hours or so, without even entering Cyrodiil. But this way you wont get any skyshards or lorebooks so you can just clear the maps and grind the rest so you can proceed to the next map.
And grinding sewers would be slower imo, since even with scaling low-lvl char wont have abilities/passives. And even in bwb there are enemy players.

LostRedden · January 2016

Sewers, you can get there in about 20-40 hours of grinding.

Nestor · January 2016

There is one for each faction

https://rakashieso.wordpress.com/category/guides/leveling-guides/

ValkynSketha · January 2016

Well what i do is grinding mobs in first map to the highest level possible, then collect skyshards, complete delves, dolmens and world bosses, and move on to the next map, without any boost to xp this will take you 24-30 hours.

LostRedden · January 2016

HADungeonKeeper's way would be the more beneficial grind for you.

Lightninvash · January 2016

ducket1 wrote: »

Is it quicker to rank from 1-50 in the sewers or do the first set of quests ?

sewers are great but as a low level id say bring someone preferably a guild member that is vet ranking to help like me I am a low level dps so if I bring a Templar/ healer with me I am invincible in sewers almost haha. being battle leveled gives my toon 37k hp and 26k stam being base 11k hp and 10k stam its a huge increase in survivability to me. though after grinding in sewers going back to regular grinding is way easy because it takes 2 secs to burst down vs a couple extra seconds due to not having extra passives, morphs, ect. so take it for what it is could be more xp but take longer to kill in sewers vs less xp and faster kills

TheShadowScout · January 2016

Grinding may be quick.
It will also make you miss a LOT. Skyshards, mages guild books, legerdemain advancement, quest skill points, and of course all the story goodieness...
Oh, and it will make your brain cells comitt suicide en masse until you are barely as smart as the average [censored for security reasons]

Just say no to grinding.
Just play the game.
Even running from 1-50 for the eight-ish time is no big hardship (I would know, I done it - all you have to do is not do it all at once, but in bits and pieces alternating with main character activities), and soon enough the veteran rankls that really put many people off after this will be gone, and the full champion system will take over...

But hey, if you really, really want to... go ahead, waste hours of your life in mindlessly repetetive actions like a worker ant or borg drone. Your characters, your choice how you play them.

phbell · January 2016

Having 6 VR characters V13 or above IMHO the quickest way to level up is questing. My favorite(and most recent) character was leveled to V16 in less than 30 hours and was V14 at the end of Cadwells Gold.

Remembering that I play just a few hours a day the methodology I found best was...

Follow the main Faction storyline
follow the main story line (5 Companions) and the Fighters and Mages Guild.
Do all caves/delves/dolmens/WB and get the shards.
Avoid the side quests.
Use XP pots.

Using this formula I was Lvl 50 in about 7 hours of play (or a little over 1 hour/zone) Granted, I have done all the storylines so many times that I can recite the dialog in my sleep, so I just plow through it. It really isn't that bad. This method is a "grind", in a way, but what most people refer to a "Grinding" produces much less XP in my opinion.

LostRedden · January 2016

TheShadowScout is a liar Precious.

The grind will make it happy, precious.

Don't forsakeses the grind.

Shelgon · January 2016

Sewers, also what campaign are you grinding in so i can prevent you fro-.. i mean, help you get to 50.

LostRedden · January 2016

I did all the skyshards, all the questing and all that on my first alt. every quest, I didn't just pick and choose, no exp pots, also did fighter's guild and Mage's guild quests, with ESO plus and by the end of Caldwell's gold on my main I was v13.

I took my second character from lvl 10 to vet 16 in a weeks worth of playing time.

The sewer grind is faster.

If this is your first toon do the story and quests, second or third char do the grind. If you're leveling quicker off the quests, faster than the sewer grind, then you're doing it wrong.

RizaHawkeye · January 2016

KoshkaMurka wrote: »

Well, if you just grind, you can reach vr1 in 4-5 hours or so, without even entering Cyrodiil. But this way you wont get any skyshards or lorebooks so you can just clear the maps and grind the rest so you can proceed to the next map.
And grinding sewers would be slower imo, since even with scaling low-lvl char wont have abilities/passives. And even in bwb there are enemy players.

Wow, I have not had the experience of reaching V1 in 4-5 hours by grinding. I've heard people claim this but I cannot replicate it. No matter what I do, my characters do not level that fast, and that includes having the sub bonus and using exp scrolls.

RizaHawkeye · January 2016

TheShadowScout wrote: »

Grinding may be quick.
It will also make you miss a LOT. Skyshards, mages guild books, legerdemain advancement, quest skill points, and of course all the story goodieness...
Oh, and it will make your brain cells comitt suicide en masse until you are barely as smart as the average [censored for security reasons]

Just say no to grinding.
Just play the game.
Even running from 1-50 for the eight-ish time is no big hardship (I would know, I done it - all you have to do is not do it all at once, but in bits and pieces alternating with main character activities), and soon enough the veteran rankls that really put many people off after this will be gone, and the full champion system will take over...

But hey, if you really, really want to... go ahead, waste hours of your life in mindlessly repetetive actions like a worker ant or borg drone. Your characters, your choice how you play them.

I have to agree with this. I tried to do the rush thing, but it almost ruined the game for me.

Kudos to the players who can rush through the game this fast, but I really enjoy some of the quests in ESO. If I'd rushed through it all, I would have missed it.

Case in point: I'm about to finish, for the first time, the Ebonheart Pact main questline. I've read on the forums people who claim this is the weakest, most boring line of quests. But now that I'm almost finished, I can't wait to do it again. And what makes it cool is that my original plan was to grind away at EP so I wouldn't have to do the quests. Now I'm glad I took the time.

RizaHawkeye · January 2016

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

There is fast leveling and then there is effective leveling. If you pop XP pots and grind with a partner, you can get to level 50 very fast. 4-5 hours as stated above seems low, but you can certainly do it in about 10.

I think the "best" way to level quickly is to clear the first 5 zones. What I mean is to grab all the skyshards, grab all the lorebooks, kill all the world bosses, clear all the dolmens, clear the public dungeons (or at least do the group challenges), and do the main quest line. Each zone has a fairly obvious quest line that is continuous through the zone. It generally nets 3 skill points for the zone and gives good XP. I also think it makes sense to do the main story. It can be done pretty fast, and again, gives a ton of skill points. More importantly, it opens up the next set of zones. I still like to burn through the Silver quests on each toon, so the whole map is open.

I find I can do a full clear on a zone in 2-3 hours. That way when you get to vet level, you have a ton of skill points and your mages guild is up there as well (you need to basically get all the books in the first 10 zones to get Comet). I find you still need to do a little grinding here and there, but not nearly as much. The alternative is to grind fast, then go back to under-leveled zones to farm up skill points anyways.

This actually makes sense.

I watched a couple of videos of people grinding 1-50 and one even admitted it wasn't an efficient use of their time or resources. It just gets you to level V1 fast and then you still have to go back if you want the skyshards or achievements for that character.

I wish I could clear a zone in 2-3 hours, even doing what you do. When I enter a zone, like the Rift last night, the first thing I do is run around grabbing all the teleport shrines (I'm going to need them anyway and it gives me greater flexibility in getting around). Also, it only takes like 10-15 minutes.

Then I do any guild quests I have in that zone. Then I do the main quest line. Then I do the group dungeon. From, there it's anchors or dolmens and world bosses. Finally, if there are any skyshards I don't already have, I go get them.

It still takes me closer to 4-5 hours to clear a zone and what I find is that I've basically done everything in the zone except for maybe a few side quests. If I really take my time and try to grab everything in the zone for use later, search every delve and every container, it's more like 6-8 hours.

And the first zone always takes longer.

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