CP Grinding Dolmens. XP from 35k down to 9k??

bg22 · June 2018

Does enlightened make THAT big of a difference?

Makes me want to quit...

Again.

God I hate grinding levels.

strangeradnd · June 2018

Yup, it does. 4 times the xp.

AlienatedGoat · June 2018

bg22 wrote: »

God I hate grinding levels.

So stop grinding? If you just play the game normally, you progress just fine.

What's the rush?

Rex-Umbra · June 2018

When that change?

Olen_Mikko · June 2018

Play. Do things you like instead of dull grind, if you don't like it. You'll eventually get there.

Or quit playing, no matter.

KingofAnnwn · June 2018

Just do some questing. It breaks up the monotony of dolmen running.

bg22 · June 2018

strangeradnd wrote: »

Yup, it does. 4 times the xp.

Holy crap.... so lame.

bg22 · June 2018

I only PvP... so, playing “normally” doesn’t give cp for crap, and makes you significantly weaker than max Cp.

THAT’s the rush.

testd4n1 · June 2018

bg22 wrote: »

strangeradnd wrote: »

Yup, it does. 4 times the xp.

Holy crap.... so lame.

How about HOW NICE! The enlightenment that I get 400,000 of every day ensures that I gather XP at 4X normal rate. It even STACKS if I don't use it one day and WILL STACK with XP boosters!!!

That is amazing to help those of us who don't no life the game catch up!!!

Edit for typo.

Kawall · June 2018

Well, i didn't think i would see a day people complaining about enlightenment.

MLGProPlayer · June 2018

Dolmens are the slowest grind available. Grind Skyreach or overland mobs. Dolmens are only for new players that can't solo anything.

And why are you even grinding CP? Just play the game. Enlightenment will take care of the rest.

Chilly-McFreeze · June 2018

bg22 wrote: »

I only PvP... so, playing “normally” doesn’t give cp for crap, and makes you significantly weaker than max Cp.

THAT’s the rush.

No CP PvP is a thing. Come over here, we're having plenty of fun as well.

Priyasekarssk · June 2018

bg22 wrote: »

Does enlightened make THAT big of a difference?

Makes me want to quit...

Again.

God I hate grinding levels.

Just craft full training gear. Enjoy overland content and questing. For public dungoens quests drink XP pots before start .
You will enjoy the game and level up faster as well. Problem is grinding for gear/materials sucks in this game.
Jewellery crafting failure is epic.
After all you paid money for game. Leech every bit of game content. Trust me, ZOs made some epic and legendary gaming experience buried inside the game in PVE. PVE content alone worth your money , almost need 1 year to complete it. Dont miss it.
Notable ones are Orsinium, Rivenspire , AD questline , Stonefalls ,Vvardenfel , Reaper's Marsh, dunmer...... might have missed something.
Dont just go by the complains in the forums. Forums is mainly used for complaining only. I do complain a lot in forums, after all no game without concerns.
Use grinding only in case no other dailies to do.

ESO should have been one of the great games of all time if some downsides are ignored.

Juju_beans · June 2018

bg22 wrote: »

I only PvP... so, playing “normally” doesn’t give cp for crap, and makes you significantly weaker than max Cp.

THAT’s the rush.

Play the sotha sil campaign (no CP) then until you max out.

Hammy01 · June 2018

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Dolmens are the slowest grind available. Grind Skyreach or overland mobs. Dolmens are only for new players that can't solo anything.

And why are you even grinding CP? Just play the game. Enlightenment will take care of the rest.

I always wondered if grinding Crimson Cove would be any good? Tons of NPCs and easy to round up and mow down.

Back to the enlightenment.. I think the more characters you have over 50 the more enlightenment you get? I know on first character on my first account grinding CP took a long time but once I got more characters over level 50 my CP started to fly.

I am now on my 2nd account and just about to get my 2nd character to lev 50 because I need some fast CP... I may have to get my 3rd character to level 50 as well so my CP will go even faster.

Colecovision · June 2018

I'm always surprised at how far I level just getting skyshards. There's a lot of xp to be had in the delves and dungeons, including the quests. You need the skill points anyway.

I do want to add one thing about dolmen grinding for stam dps. I thought I'd skip it entirely this time with a new toon. Now my stam sorc needs rearming trap from the fighters guild line and I'm out there in the dessert with 750 cp. I feel like billy madison throwing dodge balls at kids. The one saving grace is the jewelry mats, but I wish I'd focused on the FG leveling earlier.

Edit: I missed that you are specifically asking about cp grinding. My comment is more for leveling new toons. I'm sure you have the skills you need on your main.

Hurtfan · June 2018

Priyasekarssk wrote: »

bg22 wrote: »

Does enlightened make THAT big of a difference?

Makes me want to quit...

Again.

God I hate grinding levels.

Just craft full training gear. Enjoy overland content and questing. For public dungoens quests drink XP pots before start .
You will enjoy the game and level up faster as well. Problem is grinding for gear/materials sucks in this game.
Jewellery crafting failure is epic.
After all you paid money for game. Leech every bit of game content.

I did the same and the public dungeon is a win win win. You can grind there, get gear there and also make gold from selling stuff you get from them.

phileunderx2 · June 2018

Go get skyshards and kill every mob you encounter. Much better than grinding dolmens.

JumpmanLane · June 2018

Skyreach and Alikr (not the dolmens).

Anotherone773 · June 2018

I have 150 unassigned CP levels, thats how important i think they are. Just play the game, why turn it into a job?

akredon_ESO · June 2018

@bg22 Dont dolmen grind its not cost effective its boring as hell. theres better places, skyreach Catacombs is good tons of mobs. And other places Dolmens are just Bleh

abigfishy · June 2018

Dolmens do give jewelery so you are making probably 2k gold per Dolmen when you add it all up.

bg22 · June 2018

abigfishy wrote: »

Dolmens do give jewelery so you are making probably 2k gold per Dolmen when you add it all up.

That’s why I do it... made 200k gold today just from grinding cp from jewelry lol

zaria · June 2018

Kawall wrote: »

Well, i didn't think i would see a day people complaining about enlightenment.

You could hand out free gold bars and some would complain they are too heavy.

More realistic: you will get complains if you hand out free wine or beer as adverting as some both get drunk and some of them will complain.
This one does not understand Humans at all, an benefit of the Aldmeri Dominion is that we have few humans, unfortunately Bosmer might be more insane.

bg22 · June 2018

zaria wrote: »

Kawall wrote: »

Well, i didn't think i would see a day people complaining about enlightenment.

You could hand out free gold bars and some would complain they are too heavy.

More realistic: you will get complains if you hand out free wine or beer as adverting as some both get drunk and some of them will complain.
This one does not understand Humans at all, an benefit of the Aldmeri Dominion is that we have few humans, unfortunately Bosmer might be more insane.

I’m not complaining about enlightenment...

I’m complaining about how crap xp is WITHOUT enlightenment.

Geniuses...

GawdSB · June 2018

Phage wrote: »

bg22 wrote: »

God I hate grinding levels.

So stop grinding? If you just play the game normally, you progress just fine.

What's the rush?

Having max CP kind of adds a lot to someone just reaching 160 CP or even someone 600 CP.

It matters, and it takes forever when you "just play the game normally"

Not to mention ZOS increases the CP every update so for some it's a never ending climb.

Chilly-McFreeze · June 2018

GawdSB wrote: »

Phage wrote: »

bg22 wrote: »

God I hate grinding levels.

So stop grinding? If you just play the game normally, you progress just fine.

What's the rush?

Having max CP kind of adds a lot to someone just reaching 160 CP or even someone 600 CP.

It matters, and it takes forever when you "just play the game normally"

Not to mention ZOS increases the CP every update so for some it's a never ending climb.

The total amount of XP needed to reach the CP cap stayed the same, no matter if it was 501 or 750. You earn lower cp faster than you did back then. Can you imagine the grind back in the days? Or even when vet ranks were a thing? It's intentional that you can't grind your way to 750 in rocket speed. Quit whining.

GawdSB · June 2018

Chilly-McFreeze wrote: »

GawdSB wrote: »

Phage wrote: »

bg22 wrote: »

God I hate grinding levels.

So stop grinding? If you just play the game normally, you progress just fine.

What's the rush?

Having max CP kind of adds a lot to someone just reaching 160 CP or even someone 600 CP.

It matters, and it takes forever when you "just play the game normally"

Not to mention ZOS increases the CP every update so for some it's a never ending climb.

The total amount of XP needed to reach the CP cap stayed the same, no matter if it was 501 or 750. You earn lower cp faster than you did back then. Can you imagine the grind back in the days? Or even when vet ranks were a thing? It's intentional that you can't grind your way to 750 in rocket speed. Quit whining.

What are you talking about? Who is whining? I'm explaining why some people grind and why they don't like it. And are you saying that if someone was one cp away from max before the latest patch hey still have the same amount of experience to gain as they would've getting to that one cp than they would for the extra 30 added? Interesting.

If I wanted max CP (I'm CP 620 atm iirc?) I'd have it by now I've been playing for about 2 years now, I don't expect to grind to anything in rocket speed, I don't grind anyway I just play and get xp that way. Get off your high horse kid, you'll keep your status as being elite if someone other than you has max cp.

Chilly-McFreeze · June 2018

GawdSB wrote: »

Chilly-McFreeze wrote: »

GawdSB wrote: »

Phage wrote: »

bg22 wrote: »

God I hate grinding levels.

So stop grinding? If you just play the game normally, you progress just fine.

What's the rush?

Having max CP kind of adds a lot to someone just reaching 160 CP or even someone 600 CP.

It matters, and it takes forever when you "just play the game normally"

Not to mention ZOS increases the CP every update so for some it's a never ending climb.

The total amount of XP needed to reach the CP cap stayed the same, no matter if it was 501 or 750. You earn lower cp faster than you did back then. Can you imagine the grind back in the days? Or even when vet ranks were a thing? It's intentional that you can't grind your way to 750 in rocket speed. Quit whining.

What are you talking about? Who is whining? I'm explaining why some people grind and why they don't like it. And are you saying that if someone was one cp away from max before the latest patch hey still have the same amount of experience to gain as they would've getting to that one cp than they would for the extra 30 added? Interesting.

If I wanted max CP (I'm CP 620 atm iirc?) I'd have it by now I've been playing for about 2 years now, I don't expect to grind to anything in rocket speed, I don't grind anyway I just play and get xp that way. Get off your high horse kid, you'll keep your status as being elite if someone other than you has max cp.

I don't know the exact curve but let's say it took, i don't know, 500 mil XP to grind form cp0 to cp501 when that was the cap, it still takes 500mil XP to get from cp0 to cp750. How steep that xp curve is... who knows.

This has nothing to do about being "elite", as I revert to playing no cp pvp only, it has something to do with people complaining about things that are simply not true. As in

GawdSB wrote: »

Not to mention ZOS increases the CP every update so for some it's a never ending climb.

Rawkan · June 2018

This is good. Dolmen trains are bad for the game.

Coggo · June 2018

PVPer here: I level up ("grind") doing circuits of IC sewers. Loads of xp with the added benefit of TV stones, keyshards, skyshards and the exciting threat of pvp every once in a while.