Question - 0-85 Powerleveling

[an_image]

Happy Saturday All,
Our server's power-levelers on the 0-85 range have gone MIA. I'd usually tip a krono or two to get 5 toons up to 85 in 2-3 hrs...but since they're MIA it's going to fall back on me. Any of the pro-'s familiar with how it's done care to share the strategy?

I've been pwlvl'd enough to know it's done with a sk and bard...the bard usually starts at 1 with the new toons but I'd appreciate it if someone could do the walkthrough. Running out of 110-115ish to work on...need a new batch raised to 85...

Thanks in advance!

 

[Oldman66]

Check out Hatchery.mac. Also, I would grab the ground item in Icefall Glacier that you hand in to Librarian Hemfar in Crescent Reach will get your guys to level 12. Hatchery is a little rough getting an AoE to land until approximately level 18ish.

If you want to avoid the hatchery then use your SK. Have him round up as many mobs as you can and drag to your toon that has an AoE(mag/brd/wiz I think get at lvl 1) and cast agro spell. Once the AoE has landed(your x-target windows will be full) have your SK cast his DS and sit. If you have a honed wurmslayer it's a bonus.

 

[Hulkman]

For levels 1-85

all you really need is a 115 druid or 120 druid and he casts " Wrath of the wild" which is like 120k damage shield for 10 hits .

recast time is 2 minutes I believe if he has his AA

You can level ultra fast one toon at a time if he is solo. Experience per kill goes up like crazy

 

[Ninjapickle]

Check out Hatchery.mac. Also, I would grab the ground item in Icefall Glacier that you hand in to Librarian Hemfar in Crescent Reach will get your guys to level 12. Hatchery is a little rough getting an AoE to land until approximately level 18ish.

If you want to avoid the hatchery then use your SK. Have him round up as many mobs as you can and drag to your toon that has an AoE(mag/brd/wiz I think get at lvl 1) and cast agro spell. Once the AoE has landed(your x-target windows will be full) have your SK cast his DS and sit. If you have a honed wurmslayer it's a bonus.

Hatchery xp was nerfed, it's pretty much a waste of time now

 

[playj]

Has it been nerfed again?

I still see groups doing Hatchery.

Similary Red Wine is nerfed but still good for a quick pop up to 20. You could do it for more xp but regular PL will be much faster.

Just find an empty zone and go to town.

 

[Oldman66]

I seem to recall clerics using the "Mark of XXXX" line to PL as well. I am not familiar with that personally.

 

[Phalanx]

Man if someone has an efficient way to get 1-85, I'd be very interested. I do the SK and BRD method.... SK with wurmslayer pulls a shit ton of mobs. Cast AOE agro spells on SK. Then have AOE toon cast a few times, then start the bard melody. Stuff dies fast. To do this efficiently, I never leave the SK screen and have hotkeys to do these tasks through dannet. That being said... going from 1-85 for me take a while. Like 10 hours so I don't have it down. (Edit: Also nice to have a cleric in the group at higher levels to prevent deaths and buff the AOE toon with HP buffs)

 

[Silverback]

Man if someone has an efficient way to get 1-85, I'd be very interested. I do the SK and BRD method.... SK with wurmslayer pulls a shit ton of mobs. Cast AOE agro spells on SK. Then have AOE toon cast a few times, then start the bard melody. Stuff dies fast. To do this efficiently, I never leave the SK screen and have hotkeys to do these tasks through dannet. That being said... going from 1-85 for me take a while. Like 10 hours so I don't have it down. (Edit: Also nice to have a cleric in the group at higher levels to prevent deaths and buff the AOE toon with HP buffs)

SK + Mage DS PLing is the shiznit. Have a Bard in the group you're PLing to play the lvl 2 AoE damage song. There's a couple guides in these forums on DS PLing that has some good info on zones and areas at various levels. 85 to 90 is a bit of a chore though.

 

[an_image]

Man if someone has an efficient way to get 1-85, I'd be very interested. I do the SK and BRD method.... SK with wurmslayer pulls a shit ton of mobs. Cast AOE agro spells on SK. Then have AOE toon cast a few times, then start the bard melody. Stuff dies fast. To do this efficiently, I never leave the SK screen and have hotkeys to do these tasks through dannet. That being said... going from 1-85 for me take a while. Like 10 hours so I don't have it down. (Edit: Also nice to have a cleric in the group at higher levels to prevent deaths and buff the AOE toon with HP buffs)

You can get a 4 hr free exp potion from marketplace free of charge. The dudes that did it in my server had a cool set-up, I always did 5...they did a baby bard....mages/wizard to get you from a to b fast....man i seriously miss em. Best 1-2 krono best spent...they'd get you done literally in under 3-4 hrs.

 

[Wild Beagle]

If you dont have to have it done in 3 hours and you are lazy (aka dont want to run around through a lot of zones) get a druid to park in a zone with mobs at lvl 95-100ish and bind in a camp preferably a clear one. You can then use the druid to tp to bind all the PLee's and the PLee group bard, cast the long term druid ds on the tank/rounder upper and use the druid/merc/whatever to keep that char up. Go round up 30-50 mobs Bard aoe song and/or melee attack on and cycle through mobs and away you go. First few pulls will be slow while the char levels up their melee attack/singing (unless you did this prior with the bard) From there once it gets going you can get the chars up to 90 in a matter of a few hours with no potions at all (bonus at end if you do have them). Using this method you can PL a bard and 5 characters with the bard. You can do it other ways if you want and they may be marginally faster. But if you do it this way you can level up most of a group to 90 and if you have a few more hours you can move the same chars through to around 110-115(bonus with a potion). The characters other than the bard are going to have no skills and no spells. The bard will have melee/singing stuff maxed even more so if you hand over stuff along the way. Then its a matter of gearing/spelling/aaing the characters to usable, figure a krono each 250k pp and gear and they are in say full snowbound/waxing and 110 or 115 with around 25-30k aa.
Clearly this option gets characters up to level fairly fast but it does leave them needing to do some fairly intensive spell buying and 3-4 hours of skill up on on most every usable skill. On the other hand you have a free to play character near free to play end game and within sight of subscribed end game in a very short time.

 

[Oldman66]

One thing that I didn't see mentioned, the bard/mag/wiz needs to be able to land his/her song/spell. You're not going to be able to drag a level 20 and expect to land on a level 75-100. One thing you can do is get the Golden Pick from Blightfire Moors and use the hit all mac. The pick is unresistible and the mac will cycle through targets. https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=53552

 

[Wild Beagle]

One thing that I didn't see mentioned, the bard/mag/wiz needs to be able to land his/her song/spell. You're not going to be able to drag a level 20 and expect to land on a level 75-100. One thing you can do is get the Golden Pick from Blightfire Moors and use the hit all mac. The pick is unresistible and the mac will cycle through targets. https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=53552

Just about any weapon will do once skill hits about 30-50ish you are going to get hits pretty regularly when cycling. Choosing a zone where mobs dont run is a bigger concern generally and setting up the tank so that they dont riposte/kick/kill mobs that you generally want to go to the lowbies. You arent going to land for damage any spell on a mob more than 20 levels higher than the plee. Even the 'unresistable' oil of fennin ro gets resisted on more than about 15 level difference. Pair up the djinn mask and wurmslayer to not get hit with the first 500ish points of dmg taken.

 

[an_image]

Thanks all, appreciate all the tips. Druid is a no go for me…only one i have i abandoned back in 09…got sick of that class. I’m going to give the sk/bard +5 a go see if i can get them into their 60’s fairly quickly and see what i do from there

 

[Nuyrnoyyrt]

Personally I use a druid to PL the toons to lvl 20 and then do the Golden pick quest.

The Golden Pick III

Everquest Quest Information for The Golden Pick III

everquest.allakhazam.com

Unresistable DD that procs almost every swing, then just use the "hitall.mac"

I use a lvl 115 SK and pull 50-80 mobs, AE taunt them group the SK with a 115 bard, equip wurmslayer, he won't take any dmg up to lvl like 85ish mobs.

Once mobs in camp, do a "/mac hitall" and once char has hit all, start playing DS songs with bard" and viola a few hits later 80 mobs dead

 

[Fueil]

So, my PL is a little different
However, level 75 is the highest I've used the druid method.

Anyhow, I use a Plee team. I use ita few different ways and tanks.
One team. Rng, mage, druid, enchanter, bard, Sham. So, I use the slow/heal process buff from the Sham to get my ae aggro on the ranger, plus I always pull with as snare. I sent bct to mage, druid for emergency ds and regular. Bard isn't officially running songs till about lvl 20, things just die too fast. The other tank is an sk of course.

I've yet to try the higher level mobs yet, but it definitely sounds like something I'd like to try. I know this doesn't apply to lvl 85, but im assuming it can still be used, as max level is now 120.

I always create a new bard with a team. Also, I don't use my lesson till I'm at 30. The exp at lower levels is so high, no sense in wasiting it, and you can probably go as high as 40 to be honest.

I've also tried this with my pally, it just didn't go as well.

I know 0 to 75 takes me about 4 hours. But, I've not done this in awhile, not sure how valid it is, but it used to be pretty quick, or at least I thought it was.

 

[Turaj Steelfist]

I use a clr to do my PLing up until about 65ish.
step 1: take clr and PL'ees to Cresent Reach to the bridge to the highest lvl undead.
step 2: park one toon visible on the bridge and make sure you temperance him and leave any others IVU.
step 3: make sure clr has zero DS on and then run around and aggro undead (you might need to start with smallish pulls unless you geared the toon.
step 4: stand about 80 feet away from the bridge and let all the mobs catch up to you. target lowbie toon and cast heal over time then target one mob and cast blood of whatever (you really want the clr to be at least lvl 95 for this).
step 5: rinse and repeat until lvl 25.
step 6: take your PLee to blightfire moors. You have two options here. Undead in NW of map or bees on far east side.
step 7: if you chose undead you will need to pull no more than 5 at a time and run them back to the toon, root them using your AA root, move away then case mark of whatever, then attack them with the PLee. Rinse and repeat until 35. The reason I say no more than 5 is because your root will break and then the clr will get the kills. If you choose bees then run your guys to that area park them in a safe spot and round up all the bees that are kos, some are not and wont attack so ignore them. bring the train back to your toon and cast some heals on self, make sure to disable your aggro reduction AA. use your PLees lowest pbaoe spell a couple of times (make sure you don't get aggro and don't sit him down until all are dead). Once all have been hit have clr pop his DS from his cloak and let them die to it (helpful if you have a mage or clr for additional DS but not required).
step 8: if you chose bees, then after 1 or 2 pulls go into the hive place next door and do the same pull trains and repeat until lvl 35-40 (you will probably get bored at 35)
step 9: take the team to gunthak and go the area just before dulak, there are a lot of mobs there. repeat the bees method, make sure you get the mobs up near nadox zonein.
step 10: go into nadox over to the undead side. DO NOT waste your time with the live trolls, too many will gate and waste your time.
step 11: if your clr is high enough you can pull the entire undead side in one pull, you will need to walk them back because it will lag out the zone. repeat bees method. you can pull the alien type guys too, but i usually make them a second pull to allow the undead to respawn. Do this until 52-55.
step 12: take the toon to black feather roost and just use root / mark and let the toon do the killing. you should be able to keep 2-4 in camp at a time and it goes fast. do this until 60-65 depends on your patience.
step 13: buy spells and work skill ups for the next 2 years.

This is by no means the quickest way, but if you don't have an sk, bard, druid this will work fine.

 

[knave23]

I use a clr to do my PLing up until about 65ish.
step 1: take clr and PL'ees to Cresent Reach to the bridge to the highest lvl undead.
step 2: park one toon visible on the bridge and make sure you temperance him and leave any others IVU.
step 3: make sure clr has zero DS on and then run around and aggro undead (you might need to start with smallish pulls unless you geared the toon.
step 4: stand about 80 feet away from the bridge and let all the mobs catch up to you. target lowbie toon and cast heal over time then target one mob and cast blood of whatever (you really want the clr to be at least lvl 95 for this).
step 5: rinse and repeat until lvl 25.
step 6: take your PLee to blightfire moors. You have two options here. Undead in NW of map or bees on far east side.
step 7: if you chose undead you will need to pull no more than 5 at a time and run them back to the toon, root them using your AA root, move away then case mark of whatever, then attack them with the PLee. Rinse and repeat until 35. The reason I say no more than 5 is because your root will break and then the clr will get the kills. If you choose bees then run your guys to that area park them in a safe spot and round up all the bees that are kos, some are not and wont attack so ignore them. bring the train back to your toon and cast some heals on self, make sure to disable your aggro reduction AA. use your PLees lowest pbaoe spell a couple of times (make sure you don't get aggro and don't sit him down until all are dead). Once all have been hit have clr pop his DS from his cloak and let them die to it (helpful if you have a mage or clr for additional DS but not required).
step 8: if you chose bees, then after 1 or 2 pulls go into the hive place next door and do the same pull trains and repeat until lvl 35-40 (you will probably get bored at 35)
step 9: take the team to gunthak and go the area just before dulak, there are a lot of mobs there. repeat the bees method, make sure you get the mobs up near nadox zonein.
step 10: go into nadox over to the undead side. DO NOT waste your time with the live trolls, too many will gate and waste your time.
step 11: if your clr is high enough you can pull the entire undead side in one pull, you will need to walk them back because it will lag out the zone. repeat bees method. you can pull the alien type guys too, but i usually make them a second pull to allow the undead to respawn. Do this until 52-55.
step 12: take the toon to black feather roost and just use root / mark and let the toon do the killing. you should be able to keep 2-4 in camp at a time and it goes fast. do this until 60-65 depends on your patience.
step 13: buy spells and work skill ups for the next 2 years.

This is by no means the quickest way, but if you don't have an sk, bard, druid this will work fine.

Turaj posted this in another thread and I've been following it from 1-20 for a while. It works great!

After that I do the golden pick on one character, then take them all to the grounds where I have my sk with wurmslayer round up big pulls, use the hitall.mac on the toon with the golden pick (gotta watch for AEs from a couple certain nameds but SK can just blast them to death) from 20-85. It slows down in the 80s, but gets the job done. You could move somewhere else though, I just like the quick spawns at the Grounds. The thing I do different than most is instead of DS, I kill with my necro. I cast the remote sphere line on the pile once hitall is done, and then fd. Then the PLee gets all the experience.

 

[Phalanx]

Man I gotta try this golden pick method. Going from zone to zone sucks.

 

[knave23]

Man I gotta try this golden pick method. Going from zone to zone sucks.

It really is one of the best tips (of which there are many!) I've gotten from these boards.

 

[519helvis]

i use my high level sk and mage

i do 25 to 35 in blightfire moors
35-46 in gorukar mesa
46-60 in Plane of innovation
60-65 in lxanvorm
65-72 in pofire
72-85 in fort mech


just round up the zone and ae agro everything than cast a form of aoe song spell or clicky from your exp group

than dmg shield your sk from the mage ...


sit the sk and voila

wont give a time status on 85 as i am on test and have the exp mod as well as too many dustys on copy to really know what live would be like


PS - can camp to char select between zone spawns to save potion or lesson timers as well

 

[Wyntyr]

Are there any edits needed to the hitall.mac? I got it on my zerker at level 60 and tried it in pofire c2. It didn't cycle through the mobs, just hit 1 continually.

 

[Nuyrnoyyrt]

Are there any edits needed to the hitall.mac? I got it on my zerker at level 60 and tried it in pofire c2. It didn't cycle through the mobs, just hit 1 continually.

Hi Wyntyr,

it has been a few months since I last used it, but not to my knowledge, I just did a /mac hitall and it started, do you EQBC with the other chars so you can see how many it has hit?

 

[Nuyrnoyyrt]

Hi Wyntyr,

it has been a few months since I last used it, but not to my knowledge, I just did a /mac hitall and it started, do you EQBC with the other chars so you can see how many it has hit?

oh and have you tried restarting it?

 

[Gareldar]

1. 1x115+ Druid/Mage
2. 1xBard to go with the Toons
3. 4xToons to Power level

Then take a look at these guides:
https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/new-toons-leveling-guide-wip.77542/
https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/wiki-grinding-farming-guide.37493/
https://www.redguides.com/community...-1-3-or-more-characters-level-1-to-110.68598/

 

[Wyntyr]

oh and have you tried restarting it?

Yes, I have a kotkey on my sk that I hit when I have the mobs rounded up. The zerk runs in and starts beating on the mobs, when they die to the ds I usually only see 3 or 4 xp messages despite having my extended target window full.

 

[knave23]

Yes, I have a kotkey on my sk that I hit when I have the mobs rounded up. The zerk runs in and starts beating on the mobs, when they die to the ds I usually only see 3 or 4 xp messages despite having my extended target window full.

Is your ds on the whole time? Your zerk might just not have time to hit everything before the DS kills the mobs if so. If this is true, just click off your SK's DSs until the zerker has hit everything then recast them.

If you have an older version of the hitall.mac it might not have the trigger for the golden pick, but I'm pretty sure the current version does.

I guess another sanity check is you're rerunning the macro every pull, right? You should be pulling, AE taunting, running zerker close to the group of mobs, then /mac hitall

 

[Wyntyr]

I copied the text from this thread. I have the damage shields off during the pull.

https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/hitall-mac-for-dspl.50267/

I use the 2 sk ae hate aa's once the mobs are rounded up, move close to the zerk and use the hotkey. The zerk is definitely engaging because I see all the mobs on the target window with the first hit. Activate the ds on the sk and the mobs die. Sk has a firebeetle eye in pri/sec and has his back to the mobs.

 

[an_image]

Meh...i twinked out a war/enc/cleric with 3 mercs and let em rock and roll on hunter mode in a few zones...fungi war is da boss...they're in their 50's after about a day

 

[knave23]

I copied the text from this thread. I have the damage shields off during the pull.

https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/hitall-mac-for-dspl.50267/

I use the 2 sk ae hate aa's once the mobs are rounded up, move close to the zerk and use the hotkey. The zerk is definitely engaging because I see all the mobs on the target window with the first hit. Activate the ds on the sk and the mobs die. Sk has a firebeetle eye in pri/sec and has his back to the mobs.

Hmm.. if you watch the MQ output window on the zerk's screen does it go through a list hitting each mob? For instance if you pull 3 mobs it should say something like "hitting 3 mobs" and then count as it goes like:
[1] a_mob_1
[2] a_mob_2
[3] a_mob_3
and eventually it'll say done and start over if you let it. I'm paraphrasing since it's been a bit, but it should be close to that.

Another sanity check: you're letting it run and not assuming it's done once you see all the mobs on zerk's extended target window? They could all pop on there at once due to social aggro, but zerk hasn't actually hit them yet.

And >> this << is the version you're using?

 

[william12]

1-85 in hatchery mac takes like 9-10 days now.

 

[One Cool Trick]

I haven't seen it said yet, BUT... the best 0-85 PLVL in my opinion is Heroic Character for 3500 DBG coins or Tradeable: Level 85 Heroic Character Boost; fastest time I know of, INSTANTANEOUSLY go from 0-85, have full level 85 Heroic Gear/Weps/Shied, and full spells 0-85 as well... LOL :P... #LazyLevelerGrinderHere

Just my two cents.

 

[Knightly]

I agree but don’t buy one now, level 100 is likely coming out next month.

 

[Silverspaceman]

I am digging this thread. I can get a group up to ~70 in about 6 hours using the SHD DS/HW swarm method with a BRD in PLee group, so I suck compared to most of you. My strat is similar to Helvis, so that's about a day-long project to hit 85. Sounds like I need to minimize travel time! I have also been too lazy to set up efficient hotkeys for PLing, such as sending my BRD instructions to start AOE/pickaxe rotation once I have the swarm primed.

[...] best 0-85 PLVL in my opinion is Heroic Character for 3500 DBG coins or Tradeable: Level 85 Heroic Character Boost [...]

PLing yourself is really fun, especially in the 30-65 range IMO, though. Gotta love all those dings.

 

[an_image]

I haven't seen it said yet, BUT... the best 0-85 PLVL in my opinion is Heroic Character for 3500 DBG coins or Tradeable: Level 85 Heroic Character Boost; fastest time I know of, INSTANTANEOUSLY go from 0-85, have full level 85 Heroic Gear/Weps/Shied, and full spells 0-85 as well... LOL :P... #LazyLevelerGrinderHere

Just my two cents.

Yea definitely don't do this...waste of $$$ and/or any Krono you trade for it. Check your gen/chat guarantee you there's folks on your server who can do this. If you do decide to buy ... buy the cwtn plugins for enc/cleric, buy a fungi in-game and just rock-and roll a team with a fungi tank...takes a minute but it is the best tv show evah....

Fungi War 4 life!

 

[One Cool Trick]

Yea definitely don't do this...waste of $$$ and/or any Krono you trade for it. Check your gen/chat guarantee you there's folks on your server who can do this. If you do decide to buy ... buy the cwtn plugins for enc/cleric, buy a fungi in-game and just rock-and roll a team with a fungi tank...takes a minute but it is the best tv show evah....

Fungi War 4 life!

It's not really a waste if you got the $$$ to do it... literally... ALL OF US pay for this game with our time and/or money :P just sayin' ... and I'd rather save my time, than my $$$ I guess :P... think about it this way... even IF you can get it done in 2-3 hours... that's $45-54 (minimum wage)... and it only costs you $35 for the Heroic Upgrade... logic and what I'm really praying here is... that you're an older person with a job better than minimum wage because then it becomes REALLY obvious which is better :P

 

[an_image]

It's not really a waste if you got the $$$ to do it... literally... ALL OF US pay for this game with our time and/or money :P just sayin' ... and I'd rather save my time, than my $$$ I guess :P... think about it this way... even IF you can get it done in 2-3 hours... that's $45 (minimum wage)... and it only costs you $35 for the Heroic Upgrade... logic

Well...if you're just jumping 1 char ... i guess. I roll 5-6 at a time now...so don't really wanna waste time with 1 oddball dude/dudette sitting out of a group. Building towards my golden 54

 

[One Cool Trick]

Well...if you're just jumping 1 char ... i guess. I roll 5-6 at a time now...so don't really wanna waste time with 1 oddball dude/dudette sitting out of a group. Building towards my golden 54

I can hear that , but again for me it's just pure laziness as well LOL... rather throw my money at it than my time :P (not to mention running around for spells, building up skills, etc... it's just plain done already... esp since the /bazaar purchases @ those levels are weak)

 

[an_image]

I can hear that , but again for me it's just pure laziness as well LOL... rather throw my money at it than my time :P

Hmm...work smarter...not harder. Literally takes 5 mins to get the two plug ins, another 5-10 to create 5-6 chars...then you go, get yourself a fungi...equip your new badbot/tank...drop 50k on each ... (tank/enc/cleric)....and go /mac kissassist hunter on the tank (preferably a hobbit or gnome war....because we're cool)...everyone else goes /mac kissassist tank 99, /chase on, and for the two cwtns you just go /class mode 3...then just go to your 2nd monitor to binge you favorite series and watch things get owned. When you 5-10 get yourself a campfire on all your toons, and every 5-10 /Lua run scriber on the tank/enc/cleric...done

 

[One Cool Trick]

Hmm...work smarter...not harder. Literally takes 5 mins to get the two plug ins, another 5-10 to create 5-6 chars...then you go, get yourself a fungi...equip your new badbot/tank...drop 50k on each ... (tank/enc/cleric)....and go /mac kissassist hunter on the than...everyone else goes /mac kissassist tank 99, /chase on, and for the two cwtns you just go /class mode 3...then just go to your 2nd monitor to binge you favorite series and watch things get owned. When you 5-10 get yourself a campfire on all your toons, and every 5-10 /lua run scriber on the tank/enc/cleric...done

key word was "work"... i don't care if it's smarter or harder LOL... it cost me nothing making money at my job anyhow to throw it at this game LOL... can't take it with me, might as well spend it how we enjoy it

 

[Knightly]

The benefit of heroics is also not having to do the progression stuff that's already done for you. It really depends on what you want to do though. If you enjoy that, then you're doing what you enjoy.