The one on the east in Bangkorai is like 'don't even bother traveling to it, just hope somebody is over there camping'.

I don't think ZOS planned to create quests that would send people to all three dolmens, so I don't think they thought about 'distance' when placing them. I think they expected people might complete them once and never again, so their location really was an afterthought at the time of game creation. However, it would be nice if ZOS removed Greenshade and Glenumbra from the daily guild quests so people aren't forced to spend more than twice as long to complete them.

Brrrofski wrote: »

That bottom one is miiiiiles away

Not if you enter from Deshaan (Quarantine Sherk Wayshrine).

For me it was a coin toss between Alcaire in Stormhaven and Drowned Coast in Greenshade to take the crown of the most inconveniently placed dolmen.

However as far as the whole area goes Stormhaven takes the biscuit. At least in Greenshade you get Green's Marrow relatively close to a Wayshrine and without the need of swimming.

Daenia in Glenumbra is also in the AEoN but one can somewhat get around it with access to the harborage depending on what alliance the character did the main quest with or by owning Daggerfall Overlook.

I wish they'd change them to make it easy to tell which one goes off next. I don't feel like memorizing 14 rotations to guess if next one is clockwise or counterclockwise.

Glenumbra takes it for me, slightly edging Greenshade because Greenshade has at least one dolmen near a wayshrine. Glenumbra? "Run through these fields of adds to get to the dolmen before it explodes. Good luck."

kojou wrote: »

alanmatillab16_ESO wrote: »

[snip], now Dolmens are too far from wayshrines.

You wonder why the devs don't interact with the forums any more? [snip].

Given that they chose to make Fighter's Guild quests the best way to build rapport with Mirri this shouldn't be unexpected. Nobody cared about those quests before this.

Beyond that: I actually did run these dailies from time to time. When no one else was doing them, they were fine, because your chances of a five-plus-minute horse ride, potentially fatal cliff jump, and/or long swim only to JUST miss the dolmen were slim. Now, it's practically guaranteed.

I find every zone easy enough for the FG daily since I just go to the 'best' one and camp it for 3 cycles. Average dolmen respawn time is 9 minutes though I've seen it range from extremes of 6 to 12 minutes. The only zone I don't like for FG dailies is A'likr because the dolmens are so loaded with players.

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

ADarklore wrote: »

I don't think ZOS planned to create quests that would send people to all three dolmens, so I don't think they thought about 'distance' when placing them.

They have made changes in the past, Grahtwood for example the southern Anchor used to be a sheer cliff to its closest wayshrine so people who ported there still couldn't reach it. Later on they changed it from a long cliff drop to an actual path so you can actually go up to it.

I wondered about that... because when I first started playing years ago, I thought that it was impossible to reach that dolmen from the Greymire Wayshrine and you had to go the long way around (or start from Elden Root)... now I know I wasn't losing it.

hcbigdogdoghc wrote: »

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

I find every zone easy enough for the FG daily since I just go to the 'best' one and camp it for 3 cycles. Average dolmen respawn time is 9 minutes though I've seen it range from extremes of 6 to 12 minutes. The only zone I don't like for FG dailies is A'likr because the dolmens are so loaded with players.

Iirc Dolmens don't "respawn", they go on a rotation.

So dolmen 2 only becomes active when dolmen 1 goes down, and dolmen 3 only becomes active when dolmen 2 goes down, etc. This is how Alik'r farming works.

Meaning that when you do Greenshade dolmens, unless someone swims for 5 minutes and go do the broken coast dolmen, the other 2 will never spawn....

I'm pretty sure a dolmen will despawn if no one comes and does it. The crowd of NPC summoners will spawn in and then gradually despawn. I've come across some dolmens with only two left, though I never thought to try and camp out to see the dolmen despawn, so I could be mistaken. Such a mechanic makes low pop zones still have activities if you are just running by and see a dolmen pop up rather than it being stuck on a spawn that is difficult to access.

Edit: Typo

Any with Islands off the coast line that you have to swim out to.

Two of the three in Reaper's March are kind of out of the way.

There is one that I hate because I always take a route that leaves me below the dolman wondering if I have time to run all the way back around but don't recall the zone off the top of my head.

I don't mind going some distance to get to them but always going the wrong way through a maze of invisible walls gets old.

even though I've gotten better not getting lost, Glenumbra for me, for sure. all 3 are out of the way and the one on a coast is just... extra special.