Dolmens

Dolmens, random chests in overland areas, treasure chests from maps, group dungeons and random drops from enemies.

But mostly from Dolmens.

I'm at 42 and so far its been Abyssal Geysers and overland chests. I prefer geysers to Dolmens since I also get lots of alkahest and rubedo leather and a few of the new alchemy reagents.

Dolmens. Took about 8 hours.

mostly summerset dailies, with a strong dash of treasure chests and whatever dolmens i could manage, as well as whatever jewelry I got from doing daily writs on 10 characters. summerset dailies are not as fast as dolmens, but they are more fun and you have a chance for sapiach style and culanda laquer that way (I did feed my main all the stuff I got on alts also).

dolmens are probably the fastest, as in zerg group, you go through them very quickly and guaranteed at least one piece of jewelry per dolmen chest (rng is not kind to me, so from treasure chests and summerset dailies, I'd only get jewelry about half the time)

I did do some pledges, but I don't consider them a good source for me at least, as I have gone through several in a row without getting a single piece of jewelry to drop

Stealing, treasure chests, and even more stealing. Jewelry boxes in Vvardenfell and Summerset especially. Not that I ground it out, I steal and loot like this any normal day.

Mostly dolmens, it's been a mix of dolmens, trips on guild traders to find cheapest blue ones, vet dungeons to get purples, chests around while farming nodes gave me many blue-greens and dolmens again.
I spent a very low amount of gold and leveled to 50 in two days.

So I went for the less expensive method and it took short time enough (could have been even less time if I went after skill books), moreover it's not like I was missing out something huge for not reaching 50 immediately, master writs are trash and surveys can be spared until level 50 anyways.

On my "main alt" there is another story, I took it slower though.
I crafted for it white jewels level 150 with my main, the alt reached level 30-32 deconstructing those.
Then I've run some dolmens, farmed chests around and found a book in a delve that gave me one point in jewerly (that was lucky because he was level 46, pretty hard to advance at those levels), now it's level 47, but I've never been in a hurry with him, once I find pieces I can spare I give to him to get 50 or I can go after the other skill books.

VaranisArano wrote: »

I'm at 42 and so far its been Abyssal Geysers and overland chests. I prefer geysers to Dolmens since I also get lots of alkahest and rubedo leather and a few of the new alchemy reagents.

Quick question but does the Geysers go in a common pattern like Dolmens or is it pretty much random?

idk wrote: »

NewFordOrder wrote: »

How did you do it? Farm dolmens? Purchased from other players / traders? Bought them in Cyrodil with AP?

Dolmens. Buying them from players or any other source is a complete waste of gold.

Not a waste at all. I bought a ton of jewelry from farmers and re-sold most through guild store. I also used some of my stock to level to 50. I sold about 2m gold worth of jewelry gross, and walked away with maybe 700k in gold after the cost of acquisition, the losses from deconning part of my stock, and taxes. This was all from the first week of PC release.

A few hundred thousand may have been from things I acquired elsewhere, but nevertheless, buying was much better than grinding, an epic waste of time. Plus, it helped support my trade guild.

Sadly, the market isn't where it was so trying to repeat this would not be profitable.

Hammy01 wrote: »

VaranisArano wrote: »

I'm at 42 and so far its been Abyssal Geysers and overland chests. I prefer geysers to Dolmens since I also get lots of alkahest and rubedo leather and a few of the new alchemy reagents.

Quick question but does the Geysers go in a common pattern like Dolmens or is it pretty much random?

Neither. They're on a timer. That timer might be someone random within a range, but it's ABOUT ten minutes.

Hammy01 wrote: »

VaranisArano wrote: »

I'm at 42 and so far its been Abyssal Geysers and overland chests. I prefer geysers to Dolmens since I also get lots of alkahest and rubedo leather and a few of the new alchemy reagents.

Quick question but does the Geysers go in a common pattern like Dolmens or is it pretty much random?

Aren't dolmen just timed? It is possible only one is allowed to be up at a time (which experiences makes me thing is the case), but the only reason why it looks like a pattern in Alik'r is that people open them as soon as the timer finishes. When no one is grinding, people can restart the cycle in the opposite direction, depending on the order they visit the dolmen.

A mix of jewelry i picked up from quests/geysers, daily writs, and buying some.

DaveMoeDee wrote: »

Hammy01 wrote: »

VaranisArano wrote: »

I'm at 42 and so far its been Abyssal Geysers and overland chests. I prefer geysers to Dolmens since I also get lots of alkahest and rubedo leather and a few of the new alchemy reagents.

Quick question but does the Geysers go in a common pattern like Dolmens or is it pretty much random?

Aren't dolmen just timed? It is possible only one is allowed to be up at a time (which experiences makes me thing is the case), but the only reason why it looks like a pattern in Alik'r is that people open them as soon as the timer finishes. When no one is grinding, people can restart the cycle in the opposite direction, depending on the order they visit the dolmen.

It is true that only one dolmen can be up at a time but they usually go in a pattern. In Alik'r Desert they will either go clockwise or counter clockwise and in Auridon they go south to north or north to south.

I was just wondering if the Geysers in Summerset might work in a similar way as it makes it easier to grind if you can predict which one is going to be active.

I started dolmens then got bored. I was about lvl 22 then bought 20k ap bags......took 10minutes. Then did another toon from 0-50 by ap bags. Took about 10mil ap to do 2 toons.

DaveMoeDee wrote: »

Hammy01 wrote: »

VaranisArano wrote: »

I'm at 42 and so far its been Abyssal Geysers and overland chests. I prefer geysers to Dolmens since I also get lots of alkahest and rubedo leather and a few of the new alchemy reagents.

Quick question but does the Geysers go in a common pattern like Dolmens or is it pretty much random?

Aren't dolmen just timed? It is possible only one is allowed to be up at a time (which experiences makes me thing is the case), but the only reason why it looks like a pattern in Alik'r is that people open them as soon as the timer finishes. When no one is grinding, people can restart the cycle in the opposite direction, depending on the order they visit the dolmen.

Yes, they're on a fifteen minute timer and only one may be active at a time. HOWEVER, if all dolmens in the zone have been completed before that timer is up for any of them then the next one visited by any player will reset instantly, timer or not.

The geysers work the same way.

mesmerizedish wrote: »

No, dolmens are not just timed. Another one becomes available as soon as one is closed. Which one that is usually follows a pattern, but that pattern can change. On the one hand, it’s not always in the same direction, so there’s clearly some variance. On the other, sometimes the one you go to doesn’t spawn the cultists and you have to go to the other (this can occur even when neither has been started).

See above. I've tested this a lot. There is no "pattern" in that sense. When one dolmen is completed, the next one visited by any player in the zone will activate. This can cause the impression that there is a pattern of some sort because you'd visit your dolmen and nothing happened, so you travel to another one and find it active with noone around. What actually happened in that situation is that a random quester walked past it with no intent of doing it and triggered its activation and broke the "pattern".

If there are no active dolmens in the zone and you can't trigger one of them, it's probably because it's timer is still active while the other is not.