Most players are focused on levelling skill lines and many are doing it with random dungeon runs. Once the dust settles, I'm sure there will be regular Falkreath Hold farming again.

You might have better luck queuing as a tank. And considering you've done alright soloing, surely you can slot a taunt, maybe use jewels of misrule and try tanking a run with your current build. An ice staff would probably be the only gear adjustment you might want to make for a normal, but it's optional.

Kudos for choosing to solo it. That's a great way to improve at eso, plus you're taking ownership of the issue.

Also, if you want to learn more and aren't opposed to joining discord communities, DM me and I can point you in the right direction. There are some big trial-based discords that also have dungeon LFG/LFM channels.

If anyone needs help on PC-EU, you can msg me ingame

I did the same thing, soloed my way all the way through, then realized as some already stated you don't need to do that. There are always two chests that spawn. I just ran it as a vampire for the stealth option at stage four, ran until stealthed and run from one known chest spawn to the other(it helps to have the scribing ability that lights them up) and ran it up until the boss that has the skeletons. I can solo him quite well but there really aren't that many chests after that anyway. Rinse and repeat. Still took me 32 runs though.

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

I did the same thing, soloed my way all the way through, then realized as some already stated you don't need to do that. There are always two chests that spawn. I just ran it as a vampire for the stealth option at stage four, ran until stealthed and run from one known chest spawn to the other(it helps to have the scribing ability that lights them up) and ran it up until the boss that has the skeletons. I can solo him quite well but there really aren't that many chests after that anyway. Rinse and repeat. Still took me 32 runs though.

Map pins showes many possible chest locations, but I have never seen an extra chest.

ImmortalCX wrote: »

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

I did the same thing, soloed my way all the way through, then realized as some already stated you don't need to do that. There are always two chests that spawn. I just ran it as a vampire for the stealth option at stage four, ran until stealthed and run from one known chest spawn to the other(it helps to have the scribing ability that lights them up) and ran it up until the boss that has the skeletons. I can solo him quite well but there really aren't that many chests after that anyway. Rinse and repeat. Still took me 32 runs though.

Map pins shows many possible chest locations, but I have never seen an extra chest.

I could be mistaken but from what I've read and experienced there are a lot of possible chest spawn locations in dungeons however only two will ever spawn in an instance. I've never seen more than two chests in any four man dungeon. Once you get two you might as well quit and start over once it resets if that is what you are after. Sometimes in this dungeon there are none before the skelly boss but it's rare. Sometimes one before that and if you are lucky both are before that boss. I did run it I think 32 times I think I even posted a complaint about it lol. Aside from the Coldharbour chest lead that was my worst one.

Once you know where the spawn spots are just run from one to the other while invisible, no need to kill most of the mobs.
Since the OP is after PON they may want to go the full route and kill all the bosses as on the final you can only get the jewelry and weapons(also from chests) but you still avoid almost all the mobs by being a vamp stage four.

I’ll always remember soloing that dungeon for the Pillar of Nirn set because the very very last piece that dropped for me and completed the entire sticker book for that dungeon was the Pillar of Nirn dagger. 😂

ImmortalCX wrote: »

When it took you 32 runs you must be talking about getting the weapons too?

You usually play Nirn on the weapons. As a proc set you use it on front bar and combine it with a back bar arena weapon
the body set then is a flat increase set like Coral or Ansuul which is up all the time.

So most people farmed for the weapons - namely the infamous nirn daggers :-).

You can use it as body set of course too - thats just the min/max addition.

I am surprised you find no chests in the village - I used to get plenty of items from there and I agree - soloing beyond the first two bosses is not really worth it until you go for the last curated items.

Thysbe wrote: »

ImmortalCX wrote: »

When it took you 32 runs you must be talking about getting the weapons too?

You usually play Nirn on the weapons. As a proc set you use it on front bar and combine it with a back bar arena weapon
the body set then is a flat increase set like Coral or Ansuul which is up all the time.

So most people farmed for the weapons - namely the infamous nirn daggers :-).

You can use it as body set of course too - thats just the min/max addition.

I am surprised you find no chests in the village - I used to get plenty of items from there and I agree - soloing beyond the first two bosses is not really worth it until you go for the last curated items.

Yeah, I suppose a proc that applies on the front bar stays on target when weapon is switched. I am going to start out using it to replace briarheart to see how much it improves my dps.

I guess I could figure out how to solo the last three bosses and hunt for the weapon, but that seems like it would take forever. Frist two bosses can be farmed in 10 minutes. The village and the third boss seem to take another 10-15.

I could probably die/sneak past the rest of the trash and then learn the last two bosses, but I think the whole run would be 30+ minutes.

ImmortalCX wrote: »

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

ImmortalCX wrote: »

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

I did the same thing, soloed my way all the way through, then realized as some already stated you don't need to do that. There are always two chests that spawn. I just ran it as a vampire for the stealth option at stage four, ran until stealthed and run from one known chest spawn to the other(it helps to have the scribing ability that lights them up) and ran it up until the boss that has the skeletons. I can solo him quite well but there really aren't that many chests after that anyway. Rinse and repeat. Still took me 32 runs though.

Map pins shows many possible chest locations, but I have never seen an extra chest.

I could be mistaken but from what I've read and experienced there are a lot of possible chest spawn locations in dungeons however only two will ever spawn in an instance. I've never seen more than two chests in any four man dungeon. Once you get two you might as well quit and start over once it resets if that is what you are after. Sometimes in this dungeon there are none before the skelly boss but it's rare. Sometimes one before that and if you are lucky both are before that boss. I did run it I think 32 times I think I even posted a complaint about it lol. Aside from the Coldharbour chest lead that was my worst one.

Once you know where the spawn spots are just run from one to the other while invisible, no need to kill most of the mobs.
Since the OP is after PON they may want to go the full route and kill all the bosses as on the final you can only get the jewelry and weapons(also from chests) but you still avoid almost all the mobs by being a vamp stage four.

I cleared the little town once and didn't get any extra chests. Honestly, even if there is a chest its not worth the effort, resetting and doing the first two bosses is probably more time effective.

I already have five pieces and just need the legs. As they are curated legs will probably drop in the next few runs. Will use weapons/jewelry from the other set.

When it took you 32 runs you must be talking about getting the weapons too?

Hmm I didn't know legs were curated. I thought only items that drop off the last boss? No sadly I was after a mythic lead that came from chests in Falkreath. I ran it 32 times and was thinking it was bugged. Got really good at soloing it until I realized I didn't have to go past the skeleton boss lol. If you are after PON, looking for chests probably isn't the best use of time but you can look for those that are OTW to bosses. That skelly boss was a pain at first, the one trick is to make sure to kill ALL the tiny skeletons when they appear, THEN go back to the boss. It's easy once you learn that.

Everest_Lionheart wrote: »

Honestly I’m surprised that PON is still meta after all these years. At some point the wheel of meta was spinning wildly every 3 months while the game tried to figure out what it wanted to be. Right up until Arcanist came out and it’s been all beams ever since.

I doubt its meta, but its easy to get the five pieces and it might be better than what I have.

Took less than two hours.

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

ImmortalCX wrote: »

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

ImmortalCX wrote: »

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

I did the same thing, soloed my way all the way through, then realized as some already stated you don't need to do that. There are always two chests that spawn. I just ran it as a vampire for the stealth option at stage four, ran until stealthed and run from one known chest spawn to the other(it helps to have the scribing ability that lights them up) and ran it up until the boss that has the skeletons. I can solo him quite well but there really aren't that many chests after that anyway. Rinse and repeat. Still took me 32 runs though.

Map pins shows many possible chest locations, but I have never seen an extra chest.

I could be mistaken but from what I've read and experienced there are a lot of possible chest spawn locations in dungeons however only two will ever spawn in an instance. I've never seen more than two chests in any four man dungeon. Once you get two you might as well quit and start over once it resets if that is what you are after. Sometimes in this dungeon there are none before the skelly boss but it's rare. Sometimes one before that and if you are lucky both are before that boss. I did run it I think 32 times I think I even posted a complaint about it lol. Aside from the Coldharbour chest lead that was my worst one.

Once you know where the spawn spots are just run from one to the other while invisible, no need to kill most of the mobs.
Since the OP is after PON they may want to go the full route and kill all the bosses as on the final you can only get the jewelry and weapons(also from chests) but you still avoid almost all the mobs by being a vamp stage four.

I cleared the little town once and didn't get any extra chests. Honestly, even if there is a chest its not worth the effort, resetting and doing the first two bosses is probably more time effective.

I already have five pieces and just need the legs. As they are curated legs will probably drop in the next few runs. Will use weapons/jewelry from the other set.

When it took you 32 runs you must be talking about getting the weapons too?

Hmm I didn't know legs were curated. I thought only items that drop off the last boss? No sadly I was after a mythic lead that came from chests in Falkreath. I ran it 32 times and was thinking it was bugged. Got really good at soloing it until I realized I didn't have to go past the skeleton boss lol. If you are after PON, looking for chests probably isn't the best use of time but you can look for those that are OTW to bosses. That skelly boss was a pain at first, the one trick is to make sure to kill ALL the tiny skeletons when they appear, THEN go back to the boss. It's easy once you learn that.

All generic set items from bosses are curated. Named items are not curated and are often exceptions to their bosses’ generic loot pools anyhow (like named jewelry coming from non-final bosses). Since named items originally interfered with curation, the devs changed it so if a named piece drops now, it drops in addition to a curated generic piece.

One of the reasons people think only the final boss of a dungeon or trial is curated is because only the final boss has generic weapons and jewelry in their loot table. All the other bosses drop armor, divided as explained above into subgroups based on whether that boss is a mini-boss or not. With all but one boss giving armor, and there being fewer armor pieces than weapons, the armor items in the sticker book generally fill up much faster than the weapons and jewelry. Once all the items in a boss’s loot table are collected, curation has nothing left to curate and so the game drops a randomly chosen item from that boss’s table. So armor stops being curated long before weapons and jewelry in most cases. (IA is a different matter, as the armor sets come in all three weights and thus outnumber the corresponding weapons from each set, while the loot tables are much more equally divided.)

ETA: Another reason is that curation can only check what you have collected. Since there are multiple non-final bosses in a run, if people don’t bind their uncollected armor between bosses, the game can’t know they have it and can drop it again. Weapons and jewelry get bound more immediately, as there is no further opportunity for curation after the final boss. This is not an issue when soloing, however, as all BoP items bind immediately when solo.

That technique did not work for us on the skelly boss. As long as the tank’s mender was up, the boss would reset. Only if the tank let the mender run out and did not recast it before the boss returned would the fight continue. There may be more than one cause for the same symptom.

I haven’t pugged this one in a while, but when I do, I wait for it to be one of the pledges. Still probably a half hour wait for a group.

I soloed this one on my stamblade with Bastian as tank on normal many times years ago. I was totally blown away that Bastian was able to handle the last boss. This was before they fixed companions from taking so much aoe damage too.

I always found the town area to be the worst. Those fireballs can instantly kill you and you don’t get much warning. I try to check for chests quickly and stay out of the open. Of all the bosses, the mammoth one was the hardest for me to solo. I think I might have lost Bastian routinely during that fight and had to finish the boss on my own.

I’d recommend doing all the bosses since you get weapons and jewelry and it’s quite doable if you pick up on the mechanics. With decent dps you can just burn through the dead guy boss after the colossus (before you need to purify), and last boss stand behind pillars for the shout and focus atro adds when they come out.