Why are you power levelling?

There’s fundamentally no difference between the type of content you can do on the way to L50 and the type you do once you’ve got there. If you don’t enjoy the journey, you’ll never enjoy the destination.

Endless rounds of monotonous zombie slaying sounds like exactly what you should be doing.

hmsdragonfly wrote: »

heartburnkid wrote: »

Playing the new class after a long break. Is Zombie farming the fastest way to power level with xp pots? I hate questing in this game since it takes forever to max level.....would take months the way I play and hate the long, drawn out quests.

if you are rich (having 10 million gold or smt like that), then alchemy master writs.
if you are not rich, but can manage training gear, xp pots and stuffs, then farming zombies in skyreach, spellscar, verrant morras etc etc
if you dont have any gold at all, then farming dolmens in alikir, but that will be boring af.

You don't really need that much gold. It takes 100-150 writs to go all the way up, and they cost about 1k gold each. Even assuming that you're buying them overpriced, let's say 1.5k gold, it'll run you 100-200k gold, and if you have existing characters, you likely already have ingredients.

hmsdragonfly wrote: »

John_Falstaff wrote: »

hmsdragonfly wrote: »

heartburnkid wrote: »

Playing the new class after a long break. Is Zombie farming the fastest way to power level with xp pots? I hate questing in this game since it takes forever to max level.....would take months the way I play and hate the long, drawn out quests.

if you are rich (having 10 million gold or smt like that), then alchemy master writs.
if you are not rich, but can manage training gear, xp pots and stuffs, then farming zombies in skyreach, spellscar, verrant morras etc etc
if you dont have any gold at all, then farming dolmens in alikir, but that will be boring af.

You don't really need that much gold. It takes 100-150 writs to go all the way up, and they cost about 1k gold each. Even assuming that you're buying them overpriced, let's say 1.5k gold, it'll run you 100-200k gold, and if you have existing characters, you likely already have ingredients.

Yeah ingredients will probably be a big problem, so i think it's gonna cost 300k in total?

If you start without ingredients whatsoever - yes, it will cost some extra; alternatively, you can try to avoid buying writs that rely on most expensive ingredients used to create weapon/spell power potions and tripots. Another thing that will aid is to also use enchanting writs, they're about as cheap. It takes about 200 blue glyphs (created on another character) to fully level enchanting first, and runes, not counting Kuta, are typically a dime a dozen. I used both enchanting and alchemy writs back when I leveled a new character.

hmsdragonfly wrote: »

heartburnkid wrote: »

Playing the new class after a long break. Is Zombie farming the fastest way to power level with xp pots? I hate questing in this game since it takes forever to max level.....would take months the way I play and hate the long, drawn out quests.

if you are rich (having 10 million gold or smt like that), then alchemy master writs.
if you are not rich, but can manage training gear, xp pots and stuffs, then farming zombies in skyreach, spellscar, verrant morras etc etc
if you dont have any gold at all, then farming dolmens in alikir, but that will be boring af.

I agree with this, but for variety:

Daily dungeon
Group events in public dungeons (1 skill point for group event + 1 skyshard, so may as well get those done)
Daily quests in Cyrodiil, particularly Cheydinhall (short and sweet)
Blue sewers zombie loop in Imperial City
Normal Maelstrom

Don't dolmens give you extra XP the first time you do one? In other words, don't go around the Alik'r loop, but travel the world.

Also, while Skyreach is particularly good for Fighter's Guild, I believe it's XP was nerfed, compared to overland, a year or two ago. The benefit of doing Skyreach with two is regrouping and getting a fresh instance every time, however I believe if there is no activity in Spellscar (e.g. at 5am ), then that is better. I find Spellscar hard to beat. There are other grind spots, but not all have Daedra / Undead to make sure you level Fighter's Guild.

Ideally you want training gear and you want to level your Provisioning at the very start to get the Conoisseur passive, which will extend the duration of Mythic Aetherial Ambrosia from 30m to 50m. If you have the gold, make sure to use a 150% XP boost. Don't get locked into a 50% or 100% one.

If you're relying on your own damage, I recommend getting / making 2 full sets of training gear, but not weapons. Use whatever weapons you find at your current level. The gear will last a while, even 20 to 30 levels. Weapons do not. They lose a lot of effectiveness as you outlevel them.