This is the final leveling phase in Elder Scrolls Online. It can go by rather quickly or rather gradually– all depending on how you choose to level. Questing and exploring the story is still an option, of course, and is a solid way to gain both rewards and discover the world, but mob farming and dungeon completion are also extremely solid options during this level range due to the fact that both methods will net you rewards that may last a little longer than quest rewards.

Acquiring dungeon drops is one of the best ways to begin gearing for endgame. This method can be used for various MMORPGs such as leveling in blade and soul. ESO’s early phase of endgame largely revolves around gaining Veteran ranks and exploring the other zones in the game that are ramped up in difficulty. Obtaining better gear prior to moving to this content makes the move much easier. Farming mobs whether in a group or while running around in a public dungeon is one way to quickly build up large amounts of gold. This gold can be used for purchasing endgame gear or save it for material for crafting.

The method of leveling you choose (or any combination of methods) should depend on your playstyle and endgame goals. Keep in mind that completing the main story quest is a requirement in order to access Veteran content.

General Leveling Tips

During this level range you may find yourself short on experience at certain points if you haven’t explored the game fully or participated in public dungeons and/or instanced dungeons. To catch up, you can farm mobs. In most cases, the mobs most worth farming are those found in public dungeon or world boss areas. You can often group up with other players to farm for experience quickly.

If you’re interested in becoming a Vampire or Werewolf, now’s a good time to do so as the quests are scaled for players at around levels 38-42. Here is a short guide on how to go about becoming a Vampire or Werewolf:

Vampire – You’ll need to get bit by another player or by a Bloodfiend mob that spawns in certain areas in these zones during the nighttime: Bangkorai, Reaper’s Marsh or The Rift. After you’re bit, you’ll either appear at the ritual shrine or have to head to the shrine to start a series of quests to complete.

Werewolf – You’ll need to get bit by another player or by a Werewolf mob. Werewolves are located in a variety of areas, but only the ones located in high level areas can transfer the bite. The three best zones are Bangkorai, Reaper’s March and The Rift. After you’re bit you’ll end up at a ritual site where you’ll begin a series of quests.

Ebonheart Pact

During this level range you will finish up in The Rift which generally lasts until around levels 43-44. Afterwards you will be sent to Coldharbour which is shared between all three alliances. This is where you should hit level 50.

Recommended Dungeon: Blessed Crucible

Levels 40-44 – Located in The Rift

Grunt the Clever
The first boss is fairly straight forward. Grunt is a giant that does a ton of damage, but luckily most of it can be blocked with no problem. He’s got a slow charge up on his power attack, just make sure not to let it hit you.

Nusana, Snagg gro-Mashul, Dynus Aralas, Kayd at-Sal
The second fight is with four different bosses at the same time. Snagg will occasionally cast a whirlwind AOE attack and Nusana has a melee range fire shield and castable fire snake. This is on top of the basic light and heavy attacks each boss will do. Once a boss is at about half health, they’ll transform into a werewolf, which makes them much more powerful and agile.

Teranya the Faceless
Teranya will start the fight with a lot of adds. Aside from that, she’s got some gruesome power attacks that need to be blocked and a whirlwind melee attack that can be easily dodged.

Stinger
Stinger will periodically shoot poison at ranged random party members. He’ll also stick his stinger into the ground, causing poison geysers to erupt at random locations around the battlefield.

Captain Thoran
Thoran will summon all sorts of fire patches throughout the fight that need to be avoided. He’ll also summon lava atronaches that will channel a spell that creates a fire shield around the captain, so make sure to take these guys down quick. He’ll also occasionally cast a dark comet spell that does a lot of damage in a large circumference AOE.

The Lava Queen
The final boss in this dungeon will shoot fireballs at random players throughout the fight. She’ll occasionally turn into a lava geyser that will cause swaths of lava to emanate and pulse in all directions. The key to dodging these fire swaths is to stand in between the two of them; don’t try to out run them. She’ll also summon lava atronachs, like Captain Thoran, that will channel a fire shield around her. Throughout the fight, lava comets will randomly fall to the ground for a small radius AOE.

Tips for Main Story Quests

The level 50 story quest entitled God of Schemes only becomes available upon reaching level 50 quickly and is necessary to complete in order to reach Veteran Rank 1 and begin Veteran content. The quest ends with you facing Molag Bal in combat.

This fight can be a little difficult if you are not prepared. Make sure to maximize your gear as much as you can before taking him on. Dungeons drops are a good place to start. You may find that it’s better to increase your survivability rather than increase your damage output. Use consumable food and have a stash of health potions.

You may also find that using a restoration staff for your secondary weapon is a great way to both heal yourself during the fight and restore Magicka if you are sufficiently leveled in the skill line. Play it safe and concentrate on avoiding ground AoE effects and choosing your moments of attack wisely. This is one of those fights where longevity often comes out on top.

Elder Scrolls Online is a massive, multi-player game that can give you hundreds of hours of engaging game play. However, because it is such a complex game, it can also be very challenging.

Online strategy guides can help you navigate some of the trickier aspects of the game to help you break through plateaus or to unlock the secrets of the game. You have dozens of options for online strategy guides. To help you cut through the maze of choices, we’ve put together a list of some of the top online strategy guides to take your gaming to the next level.

Note: The list below is based on my personal preference:

Killer Guides’ Unofficial Elder Scrolls Online Guide (www.killerguides.net/games/the-elder-scrolls-online/leveling)

My top-choice guide was put together by several expert gamers who had access to the game’s beta, and it offers step-by-step information from insiders on every aspect of game play, from quests to builds and skill rotations for all 4 classes.

Providing in the guide is a detailed road map for how to get to level 50 in just four days — three days faster than other guides. You won’t have to spend your life in front of your computer screen to level up. The guide shows you how to level up fast by playing as efficiently as possible. The guide also mention quests and zone that are worth completing considering from amount of rewards and experience provided. Gold making strategies are also included in the guide.

If you’re the kind of player who likes to spend time exploring all the nooks and crannies of the game and to immerse yourself for months, then this guide may not be for you. But if you want to gain a foothold in the game fast — whether you are a newbie or a veteran gamer — then this guide can show you how.

The Elder Scrolls Online Guide (theelderscrollsonlineguide.com/)
Clueless newbies and veterans who find themselves stuck in the game are encouraged to take advantage of this comprehensive guide, which is loaded with detailed information about the game and advice about how to level up quickly. Like the Killer Guides’ book, this guide promises that you can reach level 50 in under a week — this time in 7 days. This detailed and easy-to-use guide covers the important strategies that you want to learn the most, like how to make gold quickly. where to find elusive skyshards, how to use class to advance your character, and how to master the PvP battlefield. You’ll find specific strategies for every aspect of the game. The guide is completely up to date, including information for the latest patch.

The guide doesn’t include information about expansions, but you can get that information for a nominal extra charge. By the time you’re ready for expansions, you may not need a guide at all. By following the strategies listed in The Elder Scrolls Online Guide, you’ll be a master player in no time.

Elder Scrolls Online All-Stars (esoallstars.com/)
Though this guide is shorter, it provides the important information that you need, touching on leveling, gold and PvP. Elder Scrolls Online All-Stars focuses on building strength and skill as you progress slowly, though there are some strategies for leveling quickly if you are interested in that.

This All-Stars guide shows you how to differentiate your game play, changing up your strategy as you encounter unique situations within the game. Strategies are also broken down by class and goal.

Newbies may be a bit intimidated by the broad scope taken on in this guide, but so long as they take it step by step, they should feel confident and empowered as they move through the guide and the game.

Elder Scrolls Online Speed Leveling (elderscrollsspeedleveling.com/)

For those who want to reach their goal as fast as possible without all the other distractions, this speed leveling guide is a good choice. You won’t just be running fast when following the tips from this guide, you’ll also be learning the most efficient strategies for each class to level up quickly. However, the results from this guide — level 50 in 7 days — are still slower than the results from Killer Guides.

Like some other strategy guides that focus on leveling quickly, this guide doesn’t offer much room for deviation. If you want a more immersive experience, you may want to spend time exploring on your own.

Elder Scrolls Online is such a rich and extensive world that you can spend hundreds of hours playing. However, you want to make sure that each of those hours is engaging and joyous — not filled with tedious tasks like wandering the countryside or performing rote chores to earn gold. These top strategy guides can help you get the most out of your game play and reach your gaming goals much more quickly.

The Elder Scrolls Online Veteran content is what other MMOs would describe as their end game content. Once you hit the max level (level 50), you’ll immediately enter the Veteran Rank system starting at Veteran Rank level 1, where essentially the rest of the game opens up to you. There are a total of 10 Veteran Ranks, and each new Veteran level grants you an increase in stamina, magic and health. Every Veteran rank also gives you access to improved gear. Where previously through levels 1 through 50 the gear was labeled with a minimum level requirement needed to be worn, it will be replaced with a Veteran Rank instead. Essentially once you hit level 50, mobs, NPCs and even gear will be Veteran Rank.

Each faction has a different story you get to experience, and now you can finally fill up on your achievement points. There are three ways to progress through Elder Scrolls Online Veteran content. You can do quests, participate in Cyrodil or you can do group content.

Questing through Veteran Content consists of choosing one of the other two factions to start leveling through. This doesn’t mean you’re choosing a new faction, but it does mean you can experience that faction’s quests and story-line. You won’t come across enemy players of that particular faction either, you will only come across players of your own faction.

The experience offered from killing mobs was never high from levels 1 through 50. In contrast, the experience gained at Veteran Ranks is even less. You will only gain about a quarter of the experience you obtained through questing 1 through 50. On top of that, some experience gained from perks, such as opening chests, have been removed in the Veteran Ranks.

While questing through the new faction, you won’t be experiencing “lowbie” content–the quests are scaled to your Veteran Rank and increase in difficulty as you progress through the other factions’ zones and story. You’ll find that mobs now have their own Veteran levels. They also have more health and do more damage than regular mobs.

If you choose to PvP, you can enter Cyrodil and encounter enemies of different Veteran Ranks. In this zone, PvE mobs don’t offer experience once you’re a Veteran. However, the PvE quests in Cyrodil do grant you experience, including the repeatable quests. PvP how you like to earn Veteran Ranks; enter a large scale raid to do siege work, secretly steal the other faction’s resources with a smaller group of players, or quest and collect resources like Skyshards.

Upon hitting your first Veteran Rank, new versions of the lower-level dungeons open up to you. These dungeons still require four players, but the stories in these dungeons are continued and the mob difficulty is increased. There are also challenging achievements that can only be done in the Veteran Rank dungeons.

You can also participate in Craglorn, Elder Scrolls Online’s version of a raid zone. All of the content in this zone is created around a party of four. Craglorn comes with several events that have their own story-line, all contained in one zone. It also leads players to the largest group content in the game, called Trials. Trials are timed challenging raids that are made for a group of twelve players. Groups who complete the Trials with the best time end up on the Trial’s leader board.

As you can see, it’s at this stage of the game where the world is really opened up to you. The Elder Scroll’s Online Veteran Content offers an astounding amount of varying activities for you to complete, at a challenging level MMO players seek once they hit the level cap.

When you start off at level one after choosing your class and creating your character in the Elder Scrolls Online, you’re dropped into the game’s huge, open world. What will you do? Where will you go? Can you handle PvP? All these possibilities swirl around your character and eventually coalesce as you undertake your adventure, but what if you want more control over your character’s destiny without having to play through the entire game once or twice to get the hang of things? This guide, The Elder Scrolls Online Leveling Guide from KillerGuides is just what I needed. In order to convey just how helpful this guide was, I’ll be briefly examining several different aspects of the guide.

First, since the guide is titled as a leveling guide we’ll examine that aspect. If you’re familiar with the Elder Scrolls series, you’re probably aware that in previous games you leveled up by using certain chosen skills. This time around there’s a more traditional experience based system. But there are several ways to earn experience and some are more efficient than others. Where are the best areas to grind for experience? Which quests and dungeons will best reward your efforts and which ones can be skipped? The information found in this guide, if you choose to follow it and have the time to devote to the game, can have you going from level one to fifty in about a week, regardless of your experience in MMO’s or RPGs.

The guide doesn’t stop there, however. There’s a lot of detailed supporting information that you’ll need as well. For instance, let’s say you’re into PvP; and really, if you’re playing online you probably are. After you’re done playing through the game for its story you’ll probably want to build a PvP character from scratch. Learn what skills to employ, which builds work best in which situations and what class you’re the most comfortable with. Learn how to balance strengths and weaknesses to arrive at the right mix for your play style.

On the subject of PvP, if you already have a character that you’re attached to that isn’t performing as well as you’d like, you may need to make some changes to be able to compete on a level playing field. Maybe you need to switch out some skills or replace your weapons and armor. Or maybe your loadout is fine but your tactics need some work. In my case for instance, I tend to get attached to my existing equipment and am reluctant to swap it out unless it provides across the board (including visual) improvement. This is not always the best approach.

Elder Scrolls Online offers a deep crafting system with an abundance of crafting materials available. If you’ve never played the game before it can be a little confusing at first. If you’re an expert the guide offers detailed instructions on the where and how’s of crafting the items and equipment you need. If you’re new to the idea or genre, it’ll hold your hand through the basics until you’re at that level.

Just like the real world, the world of Elder Scrolls Online runs on gold, and as the saying goes, “He who has the gold makes the rules.” In this case, more specifically, he who has the gold rules, at least where it comes to monsters, dungeons and PvP. High level armor and weaponry, if you have to buy it, tends to be very expensive and to be able to kit out your endgame character you’ll need to have amassed a fortune. This guide will tell you how and where to do that as quickly and efficiently as possible.

That isn’t all this guide offers, but I think I’ve made the case that The Elder Scrolls Online Leveling Guide is more than just suggestions on how to level up. If this were a general guide I’d like to see more depth in some of the other areas that don’t specifically deal with leveling; but then again this is specifically a leveling guide, so you’re actually getting far more than the title claims. Plus, it’s a great value for the amount of content packed into it. Finally, it comes in .pdf format so you don’t have to worry about shipping time and charges and you get to be green by saving trees and you get free updates as well. What’s not to love? Get your copy of the Elder Scrolls Online Leveling Guide from KillerGuides today.

The Elder Scrolls Online is intentionally different than many of the other massively multiplayer online role playing games out today. This is apparent from the outset of a player’s journey. As a result, much of the conventional wisdom gained through years of playing these types of games is not relevant to this new and different experience. Some of the tried and true tactics, however, are absolutely relevant.

To begin with, there is a distinct absence of “kill ten of this monster, then return to me” quests and quest givers. This will be a bit of a departure for many massively multiplayer online role playing game veterans, as simple “kill quests” as they are often called make the bulk of the leveling experience in most gaming environments.

Instead, the developers of The Elder Scrolls Online have purposely designed the beginning levels as a mechanism to draw players into the game world and the lore behind it. Therefore, many of the quests that new players will encounter involve listening to stories and interacting with citizens of the world. Finding certain non-player characters and hearing how they contribute to the current situation is paramount. Players will find themselves understanding more about the world as a result, but will develop at a slower pace in the initial leveling sequence.

Another major difference in the leveling mechanism is exploration.

Since the world of The Elder Scrolls Online is such an expansive and immersive creation, a premium is placed on physically exploring the surroundings. While questing is always the quickest way to achieve higher player levels, exploration is always much more lucrative than simply grinding experience by killing monsters and beasts. Even at lower levels, when players are most vulnerable, exploration is a completely viable option for leveling.

This combines to create a more open structure than most initial leveling mechanisms in this type of game. Players have the ability and the freedom to level up in a number of different ways. Also, given the game’s take on character advancement, it is more beneficial to think of following a number of guidelines instead of a specific leveling path.

One tip is to loot everything possible. In most games, low level loot is more of an annoyance than a necessity. This is not the case in The Elder Scrolls Online. Since players will need to utilize a wide variety of different weapon and armor types to keep their skills current, looting everything possible allows players to have these options earlier than if they did not. It is always much easier to keep weapon and armor skills current than it is to purchase a different set at a high level and train the skill up from zero. Also,