Too long ago. I think I was supposed to be healing it since I was a templar

Wow, that's a long way back. I, too, was new to MMOs and so I didn't know all the terminology. Spindleclutch. I think my character was something silly like a stamina Breton DW NB ... something. Calling it DPS is too generous.

There were four of us and we couldn't find a healer. Someone in the group wanted me to respec to be a healer. We started twice and got wiped on the first mob both times. Finally, we found a healer and got rolling.

The boss at the end wiped us like three times. Looking back, it makes me smile to think of how "new" we were. Somehow I kept pulling the agro from the tank and he ended up focusing on damage. Our healer kept throwing out jokes that would make me laugh and sometimes die. When we were finally done, we stood outside talking about ESO (that was before ESOTU) and other games for like an hour.

I think two of that group are still on my friends list. Good times.

My first was Fungal Grotto. I was a level 16 DK damage dealer. I had no idea what I was doing but had fun learning. Our group made it through without a single wipe. We had a level 12 healer who did an amazing job.

I played a heavy armor sword and shield Stam DK Tank. I knew what it was and I lead our group through Veteran Banished Cells back in the first month of the game. We hammered away at it and we had a blast figuring out what we had to do to complete it.

Fungal Grotto for me too. I only had one ESO playing friend so we did it 2 man.... got smashed so many times :P~ good times.

Level 14 NB healer in Fungal Grotto. Surprised the group pretty well too. It was difficult at the time as I wasn't entirely used to the role and unaware how to reach my full potential, just spamming healing springs with rapid regen. Didn't use funnel health much but we ultimately cleared it with only a handful of death, mostly to the midcrab boss due to his adds swarming us and lack of much AoE.

Spindleglutch at about level 14 on my first character, someone picked me up as I was outside the entrance - completely overwhelming. I died a few times in the run but thought I did well to actually complete it without realizing it was probably the rest of the group that carried me through as I had no idea what I was doing and had a rubbish build.

This character was still a rubbish build using unmatched dropped gear when he was at level 49 as I still did not know what I was doing!!. Being someone who played on my own and had no idea about guilds and grouping, I didn't go into a group dungeon again on that character until he was vet level.

I also remember the first time I went into a leveled dungeon - my character (1st alt) was about level 32 (still with no CP) and I grouped up with someone outside the dungeon (Fungal Grotto). When we went in and were confronted by a mob of vet16 enemies, which I had no idea how to combat, I instantly died and could not get out of there fast enough. We thought the dungeon was broken in some way when this happened again and again and then gave up.

My first was Veteran Spindleclutch... i had no idea there was a difference between Vet and Normal.. i actually didnt' even know there was a Vet or a normal... thought a dungeon was just a dungeon...

I was the healer and didn't even know food was basically mantatory for dungeon runs... i died sooo many times and got revived and died again right after being rezzed......

It was a PUG and thinking back on it now,... i must have been super lucky to have understanding peeps that basically carried me through the dungeon. lol!!

Now i'm a super OP healer in Vet Dungeons

I remember doing Fungal Grotto in beta. There was some really immature player who said some very disturbing and inappropriate things involving young children. I often wonder about that person to this day whenever I'm tempted to do another dungeon.

M my first dungeon run which was Spindleclutch. I was not in a guild yet. I did know what dps, dd and all the acronyms ment though since it was not my first mmo. I was a bowblade back then wearing random loot drop armor. Man, the noobdays are the most fun of any mmo.

This is my 1st multiplayer game, but I generally follow the same strategy I use in other games - when leveling my main I cleared everything in each zone, before moving to the next. I grew to 6 levels above the highest level enemies in the area in the process, at which point there is a cutover in kill XP gain. The group dungeon was the last thing I cleared, because finding groups was pretty hard before group finder came about, at some point in November last year. So my first 3-4 dungeons were run with PuGs from zone chat or simply asking random people queued at the door. I was level 21 when I first entered Fungal Grotto. I was in my level 15 self crafted green heavy set, a combo of ashen grip and death's wind as I had already researched the first 2 traits on sufficient items. The run was actually pretty smooth. Just taunted everything - didn't know what a tank should do but just used that ability because it was the first unlocked - and the others killed the mobs. I think there was a higher level one, since back then there was no battle leveling in dungeons and they only scaled to leader. Got the skill point from the quest at the end and was pretty happy I fond the group.

Darkshade in the next zone was pretty easy too, though I had to ask for hours in chat for someone to group. By the time I reached the next zone, the group finder was implemented and I tried grouping for Arx Corinium but got very bad DDs who spent like 20 minutes trying to kill the snake boss. Each time I hit a snag in a dungeon I toggled the game window, opened a browser and searched for tips, as I do for any other stuff, then shared with the group. We dragged on to the singing lamia but there people were just not paying attention to the snake, we wiped again and again - I was the only one running under the shield, told the others to do the same but they would not listen. The group disbanded and I ran the dungeon next day with no troubles with more experienced people that played by the mechanics. Direfrost Keep was similar, with people not blocking Droda's attack, just filling her health back up. 5 minutes into the fight I was basically spamming the chat with "block" "block" "block" each time they were caught, but to no avail. 30-40 minutes later I finally gave up. Finished the dungeon next day without issues, just like I did the previous one. In The Rift I reached level 45, received the Undaunted invitation, then took up the silver pledges. Didn't bother to complete the dungeons in order, just followed the daily progression - I've been doing the pledges daily for the last year, with just about one week off in total. A few days later I had reached level 50/VR1 and also started doing the gold pledges. My 1st one was veteran Spindleclutch on 23rd November 2015. I finished all veteran dungeons during the 1st rotation (not VICP and VWGT though as I did not have the DLC), the only failed one being Veteran City of Ash, which was probably DPS/mechanics fail since I was the last man standing, with everything aggroed. Finished that next week, at VR4, though it was strange, since the reward item for the quest was VR14. This dungeon was definitely harder than the others, and failed the pledge 2 more times until I reached VR16 mid January, each time due to insufficient DPS. By that time I had CP 240 and had stashed all obtained chest keys. I opened about 60 of them that day and had to make a bank char to stash all the loot. Since then it has mostly been routine.

Between TG launch that added the random dungeon reward, and DB which added the cooldown, I ran 6-10 random veteran dungeons a day in order to gain CP fast, farm the monster heads and materials for CP160 armor at the same time from deconstruction - I had no DLC and no source besides deconstruction. By March 18th I had completed all veteran dungeon challenges. By April 25 I had enough materials to finally craft my gold VR16 (CP160) gear. On 21st May I reached the CP cap, 6 months after reaching the veteran ranks. That day I bought IC and started running those dungeons too as gold pledges. The first few runs were hard, but they smoothed out over the first couple of weeks. On July 31st I finally completed the Imperial City Challenger. The next day SotH was released, and I completed the dungeons for gold pledge with some friends, getting most achievements in the process over the next 3 days. We got the hard mode boss fight on both in the 1st run, but I haven't been to get both gold keys out of the pledges since, as most groups don't have the required discipline to beat the hard mode. I still have difficulties tanking Velidreth, but in time I will learn to better time my ultimates, roll dodges and interrupts, just like the other bosses.

Spindleclutch...had only been playing for a couple of weeks and had no idea it was a group thing. Honestly tried to do it solo about 5 times, dying as soon as I hit the first mob. Thought to myself I'd come back to it later when I had leveled up. Was not long after that I realised it was for groups. Major duh moment!!

Thankfully I have an awesome guild who got together a group to take me through a dungeon and teach me the ropes. They're the best.