Guide to Dungeons in Elder Scrolls Online

Dungeons are a big part of ESO’s PvE experience. They are placed between easier delves and harder trials – this middle position makes them the most popular among the 3 activities. Dungeons have lots of great loot for everyone to collect: it’s good both in terms of stats and in terms of looks. Naturally, newer and harder dungeons have better rewards. Completing them in the veteran mode yields even more powerful items.

So it’s basically that simple. But to make this guide more comprehensive for everyone – including newer players – we’ll go into more detail and do so step by step starting with the simplest things.

Dungeons are 4-player PvE activities. You fight monsters there, not other players. During your dungeon runs you receive various valuable loot, mostly from the so-called bosses. Bosses are especially powerful enemies that also have unique names.

There are lots of dungeons in the game and new ones are added regularly with DLCs. You are recommended to reach at least level 10 to start your dungeon adventures in ESO. Also, a group of 4 players is recommended for most of them. However, if you are well-geared, you can even try completing them solo.

And no, not all dungeons are located underground. It’s just a general term to describe all activities of this kind.

Dungeons can be divided into public and group ones. Public ones are generally easier and can be accessed by anyone. You don't really need a pre-made group for it, since it's not very challenging and you're likely to get some help from random players in the dungeon. Group ones take a pre-made or auto-generated group to complete, although it's possible to beat them with fewer than 4 players. If you're really confident in your skill and gear, you can even try completing them solo. That will bear you some unique rewards too.

There are more dividing lines too: for example, dungeons can be of different difficulties. Also, dungeons can be DLC-related and base game-related. We'll take a closer look at these types below.

There are 2 main difficulties: normal and veteran. As the name implies, the veteran mode is meant for players who already have some experience with the dungeon and with the game in general. You can only activate the veteran mode at level 50 which is currently the highest one for characters. Naturally, the veteran difficulty makes enemies harder to defeat and the rewards they drop are of a higher quality.

There’s also a third difficulty which is not present in all dungeons. It’s called “hard mode” and its conditions vary among instances. To better understand if a dungeon has a hard mode, check out the respective tab in the achievements menu. The related achievements usually have some rewards like titles, skins, or personalities. Activating hard mode often involves interacting with a scroll near a boss encounter site. However, there might be other ways to do it – it depends on the dungeon in question.

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