Echo Caverns - the XP HOTSPOT!

[Mikiky]

This is not a cheat, but just some info that I've gathered of the past few weeks. After Echo Caverns had been turned into a hot spot, I had taken my chanter there to see just how good the xp was... well, I can tell you that from level 18 to 30, I played in the "easy" side with the boglings and needlites, and from 31 to 49 I went to the hard side with the underbulks etc. All the way through, up until around 44, I got around 4% or 1 blue bubble per kill. I have just reached 49 there, the xp has slowed a little, but they all still con DB and I gp with my 66 mnk, I still get 20% xp by doing the 3 camps, the underbulks, the taskmaster and the camp near the zone in to The Deep. By the time you kill the last camp, you can go back to the first and by the time you get there, you can stop for about 30 sec and watch the camp repop and go on with the whole scenario again. I have actually managed to gain a level after five rinse and repeats of the above, and a time frame of which I estimate to be about an hour per level (I usually only play for about an hour and a half, once I played for 2 and a half hours and gained 3 levels there).

The strange thing about this is even though it is now a hotspot, I am unlucky to see another 2 players in the zone at all while I am there.
If you are feeling particularly nasty (and who doesn't??) you can go and slaughter the kings of above and below and really go forward on the xp.
Last night at level 49, I went to see if it was still worthwhile to go there and after one round of killing through the 3 camps (and ignoring the kings) I still gained a yellow (20%) after the 3 camps, my downtime is now about 5 minutes at the end of the 3rd camp so I guess I'll kill the kings and see if it is still worth going there after 50... if at 51 the xp is ok, i'll see how they go.

Also, the stonegrabbers here can carry up to 9pp each, after doing the camp here for a couple of weeks, after the pp, the underbulk claws (which can be sold to the tinkerer merchant near the kings for over 3pp each, so to me this is a dream zone because of the merchant that is inzone, and the main reason I haven't killed the kings camp more than once ), and some of the other drops here (the phosphorus fibre from the taskmaster sells for nearly 50pp) I have realized that I am now carrying over 1200pp from this easy zone.

I hope this is of help to some of you that are wondering what to do without mq2, But after 50 (ish) I plan to have a look at the ToFS or the hole and see what happens with xp.

 

[Mikiky]

Updated: currently lvl 50 and doing the 3 camps above, I get 16% for the next level (or 4 blue)...so now the xp is starting to drop off a bit more, still DB but also killing a lot quicker. Going to add the camp near the lifts and see how it goes, but I may just add the kings camp as well as the lifts and then see what the wipeout of the zone gives me for xp

 

[duexe]

heh, I PL my alts and guild members at the base of the taskmaster camp all the time.

However, be warned.

There I was. I wasnt running MQ, 3 boxing and had a couple other guild members with me AFK while I lvl'd them. I had cleared the taskmaster room about 5 times. It was about 2am my time (I was tired). Then, I noticed a 'Thought Horror' had spawned where the Taskmaster usually does. Well, I had my 35 twink ranger, lvl 30 Enchanter, my lvl 66 Cleric and other toons there that I was AFK lvling. I try to pull the thought horror, no luck, untargetable. So I walk up to it and it gives me some vision of an Iksar begging for forgiveness and asking for help, bla bla bla. It then despawns and some other mob pops up. Its a named (Xilniov). This mob was targetable. I conned it with my ranger (RED) but most mobs there con red to my low lvl ranger. All of a sudden, my ranger is charmed and starts beating on the other party members. I shake off my drowsness and realize this was no normal mob. I con it with my cleric and it DB. So I start healing and then engaged it with my cleric to try and pull it away from the otherwise helpless AFK lowbies (who cant run).

I sucessfully pulled it away, but my cleric ended up dieing (I didnt have any combat spells up for high lvl mobs up). I hurriedly start loading my other high lvl toons to engage this mob, but it despawns before I can make it to the zone.

Lesson learned, have some of your high level toons camped in this room in case this guy shows up. Have your MR up, it wasnt able to charm my cleric (MR 225).

 

[CrazyHorse]

That mob has been part of zone since it went live, I don't recall off hand cause havent pleveled any alts there in along time, but it has something to do with killing all the skeletons and the lizard dude in a certain amount of time.

He depops after 10-20 minutes if you get him, just leave him alone he'll disappear soon enough

 

[Mikiky]

Sorry, and thanks for pointing that out... I never thought to mention about Xilniov, I have only seen him up twice in all my time here, conned DB to my 66 mnk, went to get a conviction so i could have about 8000 hp, just in case he went to town on my butt (mnk is EP/time equipped), but, by the time I returned, he had depopped... I have since done a little research on him and discovered that he only hangs around for about 10 minutes, I now just ignored that room while he was there and when I returned from my round of slaughter, he had gone. Maybe I should just see if the mnk can solo him, but then, thats not why I am there

 

[Mikiky]

Ok, discovered that xp drops off considerably once you hit 51, all the mobs con LB. So, I have levelled here from level 18 if my memory serves me until level 51, and the xp was great for 33 levels. I have now moved my 66 monk to The Hole to have a look and see how the xp is there, it is also a hotspot for xp from 40 to 60, but I had gained 10% level to 67 from a stay of 1 hour here. At this rate I am guessing the xp will be awesome for the 52 Chanter. Will keep all informed if interested which spots I find and how much xp/loot I find.

Looks like its great xp for high levels here too..yay!! Might get my monk to 70 one day :p

Oh, and btw, I couldn't find an exit from the hole so I had to port out... luckily I had the means to do so...