Seasoned Monster Slayer speedrun/grind

frogthroat · June 12

I wanted to find places where you can get those kills fast, without the need to wait for respawn. These are the places I found where the enemies respawn faster than you can kill them. Of course there are other places, but these are the ones I used.

Construct

Bthanual delve in Deshaan. It's a circle. Keep running the circle.

Daedra

Bestial - Brothers of Strife, Stonefalls
Humanoid - Court of Contempt, Coldharbour
Flame Atro - the area between Willowgrove and Willowgrove Cavern in Reaper's March
Storm Atro - the area between Willowgrove and Willowgrove Cavern in Reaper's March
Frost Atro - the area between Willowgrove and Willowgrove Cavern in Reaper's March
Flesh Atro - Abamath, Malabal Tor
Air Atro - Spellscar, Craglorn
Iron Atro - no idea

There's also plenty of atros in Craglorn.

Humanoid

Humanoids - no need for anything special. Kill all humanoids you come across with.
Goblin-kin - Dogeater Goblin camp, north-east of Stros M'Kai
Giant-kin - Honeystrand Hill in The Rift

Nature

Beasts - no need for anything special. Kill all animals you come across with.
Insect-like - west of Sren-ja Wayshrine, Reaper's March, between Dawnmead Ruin Camp and Thizzini Arena. Greenshade would also be a good place.
Lizard-like - the entirety of Shadowfen. (Ignore Lamias, they don't count)
Plant-like - east and then north of Vulkwasten Wayshrine, Malabal Tor. Not directly north, but the north-south path that is east of Vulkwasten.
Water-based - to east, down the hill from Serpent's Grotto wayshrine in Greenshade, or the Nereid lake in Craglorn, Snapleg Cave delve, The Rift.
Chitinous - mudcrabs around the coastline of Khenarti's Roost
Netches / Amorphous - all around Deshaan, Stonefalls

Undead

Skeletons - The Corpse Garden delve, Deshaan
Zombies - Quarantine Serk graveyard, Deshaan or Motalion Necropolis, Alik'r Desert
Ghosts - Glenumbra Moors, Glenumbra
Vampires - Moira's Hope, Rivenspire

Bonus tip for Challenge World Defender achievement

In Tamriel Tomes you have weekly challenges for world bosses. I was too late to get this idea, so I used this idea for the last 8 only, but it was much quicker this way. There are people camping those specific world bosses so you can ride from boss to boss and if you get the timing right, it's really quick. Every time a boss dies, go to the next one.

Corintthac the Abomination, who appears at the Accursed Nursery in central Wrothgar
Zandadunoz the Reborn, who menaces the Unfinished Dolmen in western Wrothgar
Qumehdi and Zaman, liches who inhabit the Telesubi Ruins in Bangkorai.
Macius Cento, a lich who beleaguers the Village of the Lost in Coldharbour.
The Storm Atronach World Boss Zymel Etitan, who terrorizes Pelda Tarn in Greenshade
The Storm Atronach World Boss Zymel Kruz, who dominates the Ancient Altar site in Stormhaven.

LunaFlora · June 12

thank you! this is a helpful post

Lokiator · June 12

Your best bet for Iron Atronachs is probably High Isle vents. There's always one in each of the 3 mini-vents, and then a random amount during the final boss battle (the longer it drags on, the more spawns you'll get a chance at). It was a bit grindy, but I finished it up over the course of 5 vents.

EDIT - Red Dragons in N/S Elsweyr might also be a good spot. They spawn a wave of Iron Atronachs periodically.

AryaWinterfell · June 12

Hi
for Chitinous creatures i tried a lot, but nothing counts
And yes, difficulty is the right one
Could it be a bug?

Arunei · June 13

AryaWinterfell wrote: »

Hi
for Chitinous creatures i tried a lot, but nothing counts
And yes, difficulty is the right one
Could it be a bug?

Chitinous has always been a very annoying one. Mudcrabs, Dreugh, Yaghra, and Dunerippers all count, but things like Spiders, Shalk, and Assassin Beetles don't.

Gabriel_H · June 13

AryaWinterfell wrote: »

Hi
for Chitinous creatures i tried a lot, but nothing counts
And yes, difficulty is the right one
Could it be a bug?

Dreugh as far as the eye can see ...

(Stonefalls. West of Ebonheart)

DestroyerPewnack · June 13

Awesome, thank you. This is extremely helpful. 😁

SkaiFaith · June 13

If you search this kind of infos online in 2026 you often find dated ones that don't take account for newer content released.

An example I can provide is: Chitinous always point to aldmeri starting isle, but since we now have Solstice with a delicious feast of chitinous creatures at a not-much-loved World Boss... It's super fast to farm them there, Tidewash Strand. Just don't kill(burn) the boss.

emilyhyoyeon · June 13

Mudcrabs don't count for chitinous. They count as ''water creatures'' for this achievement for some reason.

frogthroat · June 13

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

Mudcrabs don't count for chitinous. They count as ''water creatures'' for this achievement for some reason.

My achievement says otherwise. I literally ran around the entire Khenarti's Roost 1.5 times killing mudcrabs and got chitinous full.

emilyhyoyeon · June 13

frogthroat wrote: »

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

Mudcrabs don't count for chitinous. They count as ''water creatures'' for this achievement for some reason.

My achievement says otherwise. I literally ran around the entire Khenarti's Roost 1.5 times killing mudcrabs and got chitinous full.

This is what my achievement looks like after killing mudcrabs on Khenarthi's Roost for an hour. Red box is chitinous, yellow box is aquatic. I started with already 5/100 chitinous.

emilyhyoyeon · June 13

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

frogthroat wrote: »

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

Mudcrabs don't count for chitinous. They count as ''water creatures'' for this achievement for some reason.

My achievement says otherwise. I literally ran around the entire Khenarti's Roost 1.5 times killing mudcrabs and got chitinous full.

This is what my achievement looks like after killing mudcrabs on Khenarthi's Roost for an hour. Red box is chitinous, yellow box is aquatic. I started with already 5/100 chitinous.

(not to double post, but the edit option is gone)

My two theories are:

1-bug that counts differently based on which difficulty you're on (I'm on master)
2-bug related to the translation, if you're not also playing on the German localization

There have been a lot of UI errors recently in the translated game versions so I'm suspecting it's #2.

Necrotech_Master · June 13

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

frogthroat wrote: »

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

Mudcrabs don't count for chitinous. They count as ''water creatures'' for this achievement for some reason.

My achievement says otherwise. I literally ran around the entire Khenarti's Roost 1.5 times killing mudcrabs and got chitinous full.

This is what my achievement looks like after killing mudcrabs on Khenarthi's Roost for an hour. Red box is chitinous, yellow box is aquatic. I started with already 5/100 chitinous.

(not to double post, but the edit option is gone)

My two theories are:

1-bug that counts differently based on which difficulty you're on (I'm on master)
2-bug related to the translation, if you're not also playing on the German localization

There have been a lot of UI errors recently in the translated game versions so I'm suspecting it's #2.

as far as i can tell the edit option isnt gone, its just invisible (like the icon is failing to load but the button is still there), the gear icon in particular is gone from a lot of places right now lol

edit added a screenshot for where the button is:

frogthroat · June 13

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

frogthroat wrote: »

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

Mudcrabs don't count for chitinous. They count as ''water creatures'' for this achievement for some reason.

My achievement says otherwise. I literally ran around the entire Khenarti's Roost 1.5 times killing mudcrabs and got chitinous full.

This is what my achievement looks like after killing mudcrabs on Khenarthi's Roost for an hour. Red box is chitinous, yellow box is aquatic. I started with already 5/100 chitinous.

I think German translation might have those labels mixed up. If compare the numbers and what you explained, it's quite clear there are three labels in wrong order. So you are killing the correct creatures, but the label in that achievement is wrong in German.

This is in English and was correct:

I think ZOS needs to fix German L10N for U51.

DestroyerPewnack · June 13

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

frogthroat wrote: »

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

Mudcrabs don't count for chitinous. They count as ''water creatures'' for this achievement for some reason.

My achievement says otherwise. I literally ran around the entire Khenarti's Roost 1.5 times killing mudcrabs and got chitinous full.

This is what my achievement looks like after killing mudcrabs on Khenarthi's Roost for an hour. Red box is chitinous, yellow box is aquatic. I started with already 5/100 chitinous.

I got chitinous completed today by killing crabs in Khenarthi's Roost. It didn't count towards aquatic. I got aquatic done by killing wisps. I was playing on seasoned difficulty.