Do you have access to all dlc? If so wrothgar is a great place to grind, there are 2 public dungeons there with good loops and you get battle-leveled. If you have gold you could but xp pots to help.

IMO Wrothgar is the best current grind spot if you have DLC. Stay away from the IC sewers if you're soloing at VR2. Unless you want to be ganked repeatedly and constantly spend your time respawning and travelling backwards and forwards. Wrothgar is great for World Bosses, public dungeons and delves, has the full package for VR right now.

Well I say 'constantly', but last time I was in IC sewers I got ganked 3 times in less than an hour, couldn't get anything done, couldn't get my flow on! It's does provide solid grind spots, but only if you're in a group and willing to take the risk. Find the quietest campaign if you can!

Normal maelstrom. Piece of *** to smash on 30 mins and gives you just under 1/3rd vet level per run, pop an xp pot and you'll do it an hour hassle free, plus Decon all the loot and in 15 runs or so you'll have enough for a serious crafting boost on your toon.

Where do you get the xp potions?

Thanks for all the info. Hadn't even noticed I never did the starter quest for provisioning or the other two that go with it. Never tried fishing before either.

One thing though, I did run Rkindaleft solo, but like I said in my op, I don't care for grouping at all, but when I go in there I keep getting invitations to group up. What's the etiquette for situations like that since I don't want to group? Do I do an emote? Do I leave and go do something else? Just seems that every time I go in there the invitations come. I play on the xbox, without a mic, so not sure what to do.

And yeah, I know, I'm antisocial...lol.

Thing about grouping is I won't usually play constantly for an hour, I'll clear a room then check my texts, clear a room and then go get coffee, etc. So being tied to someone else when I don't do a straight full on run for an hour seems like more of a hassle then a benefit. Just wondering how to decline properly, guessing there's a No emote?

Maelstrom is indeed a good grind spot--not the best, but it's your own private instance.

Make sure that your difficulty setting is on "Normal" and not "Veteran". There are two versions, and the latter is the "die horribly" version.

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It never asked me which version I wanted, it must have been the normal one though, made it to stage 4, the flywheel one. Being a squishy vampire sorcerer though, not helpful.

Edit...Not sure if it was the normal version, my journal says it's level 50, but then everything in my journal says level 50. Whichever maelstrom it was, was def not for this character.

Just extremely frustrated with this game right now, I can play for six hours straight and seems like my levels are the same as when I started.

You have to open the group window and make sure that the dungeon mode is set to Normal. It doesn't ask you for the difficulty--you have to set it yourself.

You can see what version you're on, though, by checking the quest log. If it's Veteran difficulty, the name of the quest will have "(Veteran)" in it.

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Maelstrom Arena is out because on normal difficulty I die way too much. Cadwells Gold is out because the next quest step the mobs kill me almost instantly.

Um, if you're getting killed in normal Maelstrom and dying to mobs in Gold, then, at the risk of sounding harsh, you need to stop trying to grind and spend your time learning how combat works in this game.

The difficulty of nMA and the open-world zones is a joke, and if you're dying in these places, then you have far bigger problems to worry about than the speed of your leveling. Grinding up levels is something that people do on their alts after they've leveled and learned how to play on their main character. Play the game. Learn how to play. Now is not the time for grinding.

I would just have fun in the game, whatever you like, the levels will come without realizing it, rather than staring at your xp count every few minutes. Kind of like farming for columbine, can never find it, but as soon as I forget about it and go questing, they appear all over the place.

Also, what the guy above me said, you will out level the content to the point that it is just plain boring (don't take long) so your solo experience afterwards will go down the tubes and you end up starting another post titled:

"So, I am V16, so now what do I do?"

Ignoring esorecon & code65...

I'm trying to level fast so I'll be vr16 when the changes hit. I don't trust at all that non vr16 characters won't be gimped somehow after the June change goes through.

Honestly, I really don't care at all if I'll be bored later or if I am skipping content. Right now fun isn't my concern, finding a spot where I'll survive grinding without tons of people running through is my only concern.

Maelstrom just isn't for me, I went in with a bunch of grand soul gems, abandoned it with zero after dying over and over. Spent eight hours ingame overnight and and am still vr3. I just can't find a place to level. I'm just repeating info now, it's all the same info as I wrote earlier.

My gear is cheap stuff gotten off the random guild vendors. I don't have the gold to spend yet on full matching sets, not after resetting skills twice, buying slots, and wasting gold on potions.