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Question - 0-85 Powerleveling

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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!
 
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I'm waiting to see how these heroics workout, ive got a bunch of free ones saved up, unsure if they'll make the new 100's. But, I plan to use or buy one for a newer tank I made. I just don't want to do all the old stuff for progression again. Definitely do not waste money right now, wait and see.
 
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Fueil said:
I'm waiting to see how these heroics workout, ive got a bunch of free ones saved up, unsure if they'll make the new 100's. But, I plan to use or buy one for a newer tank I made. I just don't want to do all the old stuff for progression again. Definitely do not waste money right now, wait and see.
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Been trying to save my $$$ too. Just looking ahead besides the Heroics there are currently the TDS collectors bundles (ends Aug 30) and then after the Heroics (Sept) we will have the current expansion going on sale (need to upgrade to collectors from basic on those for cheap) and then the next new expansion. And I am sure there will be a marketplace sale in there somewhere!!!
 
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The best and ultimate way of pleveling is this :

I have many toons - for example I have a level 50 toon to group with a level 34

or a level 75 toon too group with a 50 toon

You get the idea , use the merc and the higher level toon to do the easy killing
 
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So, this is my way, may not be the most efficient but it works for me solid. Just gives other people some options, it may not me the best way, but 3 weeks max can be 120 and I don't play every day and I don't AFK kill with the teams
I use bard plus whatever toon i'm PLing. I use a SK for PLEE lol

1-5 in tutorial
5-25 in CR (Bears till 8/10 then Gnolls and alligators till 13/14, beginning skeletons for 14/17 then the other nokk area from 17-25)
25-32 in Blightfire (go to sporali farmers for 1 giant pull, then to decomposing sporalis 1 pull, then rats and some hedges 1 pull, then can either go to gourka or go to skelly undead area for 1 pull)
32-45 in Gourka Mesa (once 37 I switch to a higher-level bard for giants etc} (bears / wolves first, then go to the fairys, then giants)
45-58 in Steepes (higher-level bard about 58-60 makes it easier for here) (just pull zone in with earth guys, **AVOID the goblins they FD PLer**
58-62 in Wall of Slaughter (I use a 68 bard here) (pull entire zone)
62-85 in The Grounds (I have raid geared toons Ranger and SK at level 90 to kill in these zones)
85-95 in Deadhills
95-105 in Sathirs Tomb
105-110 in Frontier Mountains
110-115 TOV missions and the easy Progression (TOFS and Velks)
115-117 TOL mission
117-119 TOL progression
119-120 TOL collects (Will ding you from roughly 30-40% in level to healthy into 120)
 
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Birdman said:
So, this is my way, may not be the most efficient but it works for me solid. Just gives other people some options, it may not me the best way, but 3 weeks max can be 120 and I don't play every day and I don't AFK kill with the teams
I use bard plus whatever toon i'm PLing. I use a SK for PLEE lol

1-5 in tutorial
5-25 in CR (Bears till 8/10 then Gnolls and alligators till 13/14, beginning skeletons for 14/17 then the other nokk area from 17-25)
25-32 in Blightfire (go to sporali farmers for 1 giant pull, then to decomposing sporalis 1 pull, then rats and some hedges 1 pull, then can either go to gourka or go to skelly undead area for 1 pull)
32-45 in Gourka Mesa (once 37 I switch to a higher-level bard for giants etc} (bears / wolves first, then go to the fairys, then giants)
45-58 in Steepes (higher-level bard about 58-60 makes it easier for here) (just pull zone in with earth guys, **AVOID the goblins they FD PLer**
58-62 in Wall of Slaughter (I use a 68 bard here) (pull entire zone)
62-85 in The Grounds (I have raid geared toons Ranger and SK at level 90 to kill in these zones)
85-95 in Deadhills
95-105 in Sathirs Tomb
105-110 in Frontier Mountains
110-115 TOV missions and the easy Progression (TOFS and Velks)
115-117 TOL mission
117-119 TOL progression
119-120 TOL collects (Will ding you from roughly 30-40% in level to healthy into 120)
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Good Information right here! :)
 
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Birdman said:
So, this is my way, may not be the most efficient but it works for me solid. Just gives other people some options, it may not me the best way, but 3 weeks max can be 120 and I don't play every day and I don't AFK kill with the teams
I use bard plus whatever toon i'm PLing. I use a SK for PLEE lol

1-5 in tutorial
5-25 in CR (Bears till 8/10 then Gnolls and alligators till 13/14, beginning skeletons for 14/17 then the other nokk area from 17-25)
25-32 in Blightfire (go to sporali farmers for 1 giant pull, then to decomposing sporalis 1 pull, then rats and some hedges 1 pull, then can either go to gourka or go to skelly undead area for 1 pull)
32-45 in Gourka Mesa (once 37 I switch to a higher-level bard for giants etc} (bears / wolves first, then go to the fairys, then giants)
45-58 in Steepes (higher-level bard about 58-60 makes it easier for here) (just pull zone in with earth guys, **AVOID the goblins they FD PLer**
58-62 in Wall of Slaughter (I use a 68 bard here) (pull entire zone)
62-85 in The Grounds (I have raid geared toons Ranger and SK at level 90 to kill in these zones)
85-95 in Deadhills
95-105 in Sathirs Tomb
105-110 in Frontier Mountains
110-115 TOV missions and the easy Progression (TOFS and Velks)
115-117 TOL mission
117-119 TOL progression
119-120 TOL collects (Will ding you from roughly 30-40% in level to healthy into 120)
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I would inject that short cut leap to level 13 by picking up the artifact in Icefall and then turning it into Librarian Hemfar in Cresent Reach. Although I only got bumped to level 12 last time:confused:

And you do need the higher level alt to kill the mobs around it so its safe for your level 1 guy
 
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Redmonkey said:
I would inject that short cut leap to level 13 by picking up the artifact in Icefall and then turning it into Librarian Hemfar in Cresent Reach. Although I only got bumped to level 12 last time:confused:

And you do need the higher level alt to kill the mobs around it so its safe for your level 1 guy
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High level Druid or Wizard + Teleport Bind

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Wow. Finally got around to using the Golden Pick. This works extremely well. The grounds has fast respawn (like 10 min) and is great. Went from 50-70 in about 1.5 hours just while figuring stuff out. I have a few issues that I was hoping to get some help figuring out. For some reason when I pull on SK, I'll sometimes lose exp on a few mobs. Maybe riposte? Also, I was trying to make a "sit down" mac to get the damage shield going. The /cast 1, 2, 3 are my AE agro. Any suggestions?


[CODE title="AutoSit"]Sub Main

/declare x int local 1


/while (${x}==1) {
/if (${Me.Standing} && ${Me.PctHPs}>80) {
/sit
}
/delay 1
/cast 1
/cast 2
/cast 3
}

/return[/CODE]
 
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Make sure to equip something like fire beetle eyes on your sk in your main and secondary slots and then you won't do any damage via riposte. There are also some SK buffs that will do other damage types besides DS make sure you don't have those up. Also, make sure your pet isn't up made that mistake a few times.
 
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Cybris said:
Make sure to equip something like fire beetle eyes on your sk in your main and secondary slots and then you won't do any damage via riposte. There are also some SK buffs that will do other damage types besides DS make sure you don't have those up. Also, make sure your pet isn't up made that mistake a few times.
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Hey yeah. I can't seem to find it in my logs, but some buff is doing weird procing damage maybe? Is there anything on my cleric that I should avoid too? Sorry for dumb questions, but having trouble figuring this out.
 
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With the key class, you can PL in 25-27 hours of game up to level 110. (faster if you "play" 24/7)
I think my best chrono is 0-110 with 10K AA in 2 days (Week-end double XP)

Level 1-18, Cresent reatch (bears,puma, mushrooms) then Undeads, more undeads and collect some more bonned head.
Pok, for buy your spells and start cast for train your skills.
Level 19 - 60 : PoK the task giver at MAIN bank.
PoK, buy new spells and train skills.
Level 60 - 85 : Forteress machanotus
Visit PoK, make a sandwich, go to the small SK room and return to work, pussy you are strong.
Level 85 - 105 Frontiers mountains (ROF) XP and get some not prestige armor set. you cna push to 110 in this zone, but over level 105, XP become more slow. XP is XP !

Your puller tank can pull with the hands full of items who do not make her ripost or do damage will she pull. One the train is done, return to your camp, show your back to mobs and equip your Wurmslayer (a MUST HAVE). So she do not take any dammage ant all. SK have some AE with no dommage for keep agro on her. Make ONE alt who have an AE show his magic skill. One you the alt think he did 1 point of damage on ALL mobs. Just DS the puller and watch the rain of XP comming.
 
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Basically Frontier Mountains is the best XP from 80 to 110

at level 108-110 thats is when it gets slow

I have gauged it at level 100- 105 its every 3 kills 1 % and level 106 to 107 its 4 kills per 1%, at 107 - 108 its like 5-6 for 1% and at 108 its like 8 kills for 1% and 109 to 110 its like 10 kills for 1 % approximately

If you kill fast , which you should at higher levels , it goes pretty fast
 
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Silverspaceman said:
You don't need to mess with beetle eyes or light stones or weapon switching. Just duck as you collect mobs and you won't riposte or bash with the SHD.
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While this might work, I would still suggest swapping out the weapons. It is just too easy to mess up and lose a couple of pulls to accidental damage. I use TS trophies.

My advice remains the following:
1..16 - Red Wine for Lady Shea in WFP.
-> Go get a Golden Pick
16..80 - DS method in The Grounds. I posted a guide a while back here.

At 80 it gets a bit tricky unless you saved a lower level PL toon. The Grounds works to 85 but gets slow. Once there, I use a 115 Rogue and just kill Dracnids in Lceanium for 30 minutes until they can group with level 120 mains. Then just slaughter stuff in Lceanium for a few hours and they will be 106. Then its just some progression and collection work.

I recently leveled a new tank to 120 in 2 days (bonus weekend), and this worked well enough.
 
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The "intervention" line on clerics does a feedback spell on the targets target. I've had better luck just making sure my target is a PC to avoid this issue. I don't think the mercs cast this spell though.

Duck is good tip. Definitely the golden pick is the best way to go. I went from 10-50 in the grounds in 3 pulls of 20-30 mobs. More tonight.
 
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I use a shield and the hero forge tome in my primary. I always have my back turned too the mobs anyhow, so I try to stay on a mount. Plus, with your back turned you take more dmg, so ds does more dmg.

I also feel that well for me at least 1 - 40 is so fast. I just stick too the old method with a bard. I do need to try out this golden pick. How fast can it be done?

I've not tried the cleric reverse dmg shield line. But, im assuming that it can go in combination with the regular ds method? Just cast it on a mob like per normal?

Cheers
 
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Fueil said:
I do need to try out this golden pick. How fast can it be done?
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It's relatively quick using Hitall mac. You get a counter so you can see how many mobs you have hit and you can decide when you want to cast your DS. I have never had a cleric until recently so I used druid for low level DS. Having a cleric now, I am a HUGE fan of using Blood of the Vicarum for low level work. One monster pull, drag mobs near your toon to be PL'd and cast on any mob. Run past your PL toon and let mobs hit and die. You need to be using undead mobs for this method as they will stop chasing you and attack the toon you dragged them over. It's awesome imo.
 
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Turaj Steelfist said:
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.
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How does this give the lower toon xp?
i thought reverse DS (blood) gave the kill cred to the player the mob is targeting, im very confused. New to using clr to PL
 
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Autumn said:
How does this give the lower toon xp?
i thought reverse DS (blood) gave the kill cred to the player the mob is targeting, im very confused. New to using clr to PL
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the mobs are damaging the lowbie. you run the pile over them and since they're undead they attack the closest pc
 
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I've done the Golden pick route many times. I usually go straight to Fort mech once I have it. Once they can group with my SK I clear out kaesora library a few times with the noobs invisible and move on from there.
 
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Also, if you have a decent mount on the noob account you run to pok, click the mount, suicide yourself, and enjoy being almost unkillable for the easy grooming tutorial.
 
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Silverspaceman said:
You don't need to mess with beetle eyes or light stones or weapon switching. Just duck as you collect mobs and you won't riposte or bash with the SHD.
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Make 2 spell set, "Normal" spell set and "AE PL" spell set. Normal to get your usual spell and when you are in PL session, the AE PL.
Spells to memorise :
  1. a life tap instant (Dichotomic Fang)
  2. a stat tap (for tap STR, AC or what ever you can need)
  3. 1st instant DoT if you have to kill a mob will you are kitting/pulling
  4. 2nd instant DoT
  5. 1st PB AE with NO damage (Wave of Enfeeblement)
  6. 2nd PB AE with NO damage (Disgust)
  7. 3rd PB AE with NO damage (Repugnace)
  8. 4th PB AE with NO damage (Burst of Sprite)
  9. 5th PB AE with NO damage (Revile)
  10. 1st DS (Drape of the Magmaforged)
  11. 2nd DS (Helot Skin) Requires a pearl when cast, BUT NOT CONSUME IT !
  12. Pet spell to tank a summuning mob if you pulled one
  13. Emergency PB AE with damage (Insidious Denial)
Make 2 bandolier :
  • "NODMG" with Journeyman's Compass and your shield
    With the compass, you literally do ZERO ripost.

  • "Wurmslayer" with Honed Wurmslayer" and your shield
    The Wurmslayer protects you against 100% of incoming melee damage, up to 1750 points of damage PER hit.
    If a mobs hit you for less than 1750, you take ZERO dommage !
    You can sit your character will NOT STAND if none of the mobs you have pull hit you for less than 1750.
EVER take time to check this BEFORE START ANY PULL !
You will "lose" 10-30 seconds before every pulls, but fail a pull make you lose XP and the time it toke you for your alts to kill the mobs.
I suggest you to follow the process STEP by STEP.

Pulling process :
  1. IF your puller use a mec and/or pet, merc must be in passive mode (/stance passive) and pet in "Ghold". You do not want your merc or pet to agro and kill mobs you are pulling.
  2. DOUBLE check and remove ALL your DS buffs
  3. Activate bandolier "NODMG"
  4. Check again, if you got your HP buffs up (once avery 1-2 hours)
  5. Go pull
  6. When you got all mobs you wanted, stop running and use bandolier "Wurmslayer". All mobs must be in your back as you can ripost. Wait for all mobs to be on you ans cast 1 or 2 PB AE on them for build enough agro on you.
  7. Start to run to the alts camp, (ever keep mobs in your back, face to a wall corner if there is one.
  8. Activate "Wurmslayer" before mobs arrive to your puller and show them your back.
  9. You can activate your merc if you really need now, but not on Reactive if you can.
  10. Wait for them to be on you, then start to cast 1-2 more PB AE to be sure to keep agro on the puller.
  11. ONE alt can start to cast dammage PB AE for do any dommage on ALL mobs. You can use a level 1-4 spell, as you do at last 1 hit on all mobs. You can use a bard and level him with your alts if alts do not have PB AE spells (pur melee for exemple). Sing 1 song, move the bard near mobs and wait, bard will chain sing PB AE.
  12. Once you are sure to have hit all mobs, stop sing and return the bard with other alt and sing invis
  13. Now on the puller, cast your DS. If you have a mage in PULLER group, use his DS too.
Your alts may have a shower of XP, ever check if the last mob flee, then snare or life tap him if your SK have lose some HP and need a heal.
 
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Phalanx said:
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)
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Personally if I'm starting a new team I start them from lvl 1 and run the red wine quest. I modified the ini file to make it buy 67k bottles of red wine . Filled all backpacks up and lvl turn them in until lvl 60 or so.

It cost around 250k plat and then I lvl them with a lvl 80 toon in the steppes. Red wine quest will lvl u up insanely fast. I dont know of anything faster than that
 
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afortner87 said:
Personally if I'm starting a new team I start them from lvl 1 and run the red wine quest. I modified the ini file to make it buy 67k bottles of red wine . Filled all backpacks up and lvl turn them in until lvl 60 or so.

It cost around 250k plat and then I lvl them with a lvl 80 toon in the steppes. Red wine quest will lvl u up insanely fast. I dont know of anything faster than that
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Thought I read somewhere recently (within the last month) that a player turned in 28,000 bottles and only went from level 1.5 to 10.5 and he spent 24000 plat. Another also mentioned he did not get expected levels but it worked for faction

Just made a new rogue so might run over and check it out and see if it got nerfed or something.
 
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When u go to the bartender right near lady shay just highlight the red wine in the merchant window and type /buyitem 1000 since they stack at 1000 it will save u so much time. And then turn in 4k bottles to her and u will lvl super fast. Not to mention u will max out factions quickly lol
 
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I wanted to follow up on my thread above about it possibly not working. Think I know why it didn't for that poster.

I took a level 2 Rogue down to Lady Shae along with my 120/Ranger and they were grouped for the Ranger's cammo since all the Rogue had was sneak. But when we got there the bartender would not sell anything to the Rogue but the main was able to buy the red wine at 6 plat per 100.

Could not get the /buyitem 1000 to work but no big deal

So bought 1000 red wine and gave them to Rogue who turned them in and got nothing but faction.

Thinking about it a bit I realized that a level 2 with a level 120 is not going to get any exp that's for sure. So I disbanded them and now when the Rogue did turn ins, he got exp (.0189) per 1000 turn in and faction.

So its possible the player who did not get any exp was grouped with a higher level or maybe even his merc was sucking some of the exp?. I did not calculate the cost that closely but it does work. I think I like the Icefall boost better.
 
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I've seen a few folks talk about the SK PLer + bard/PLee group method and this is what I use. Here's the method and the zones I use, which are slightly different than what I've seen posted so far.


Step 1: Round up as many mobs as I can. How many depends on the zone mob population/distance/repop timers, lag limits, and PC population. Always as many as possible while trying to minimize downtime. I equip a non-dmg item in my primary and shield in my secondary just to be safe.
Step 2: bunch em all up and cast AE hate AAs and spells.
Step 3: bard runs in singing Chords of Dissonance
Step 4: once most/all mobs are hit by the bard, SK casts DS (Tekuel Skin). If I'm able to corner myself, I'll turn into the corner and equip HW and sit.
Step 5: click off DS, swap to non-dmg weapon, go back at it.

Zones:
1-20: Crescent Reach. I work my way up from the entrance and mushroom/puma/bear tunnels to the back skeleton caves.
20-30: Blightfire Moors. Pull all the sporalis, then the skeletons in the NW.
30-46: City of Mist. My druid is bound there, so a quick Teleport Bind gets everyone through the hellish run through Kunark zones in short order. I pull every mob in the zone except for what's behind lockpick doors.
46-57: Plane of Innovation. The pull is a bit of a chore because of mob pathing, but I'll pull the whole zone.
57-60ish: Crypt of Decay. Pull the all the rats.
60ish-70: PoFire. If the birds aren't up, I'll pull C1, then the field, then C2. That's usually enough.
70+ I've struggled to find a good spot, but if I'm not distracted, I can usually get a group to 70 in about 4 hours.

I've seen some good suggestions for places to try from 70-90 that I'll give a try.
 
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I’ve seen some good variation in this as well, don’t forget the SoD zones, one is a hot zone - blood fields - not great mob density. Field of scale works well, with dragons and ikkies all lined up.

Combined with golden pick and hit all, it’s very nice once your little ones hit 10 and can proc. 10-75 in about 25-30 mins, which pulls everything in the main part of the zone.

Slows down after that, saw a guy in VOA the other day training the whole lower valley - using a Necro to sphere and SK tank, should be 2-6% per kill into the mid 80s.
 
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For those of you using the golden pick, is there a trick to getting it quickly? I think I spent about an hour doing it the first time, but I was also trying to learn it. I'm thinking maybe I could use a high-level bard to plow it with bardspeed? Are there other tricks I'm not considering?
 
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