Stilin
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I was always a decent low level power leveling using the DS method but stunk when I got to higher levels. I maxed out my characters by sheer will and determination. Automation surely helped with that, but the timing component was significant enough that I took risks that got me in trouble when I wasn’t at my keyboard. My analogy to automated boxing was like passing in a car on a two lane road; with a fast car you may drive very quickly to get around your obstacle, but for a short period of time. To do the same thing in a slow car leaves you vulnerable to a head on collision or cop radar for a much longer period of time.
Fellowship vitality is that fast car. Using it was confusing and it’s unnecessarily buggy which made the learning curve even more complicated. Once I got the hang of it, I was leveling toons just out of curiosity of the class and then transitioned to spinning up my own raiding crew. I have over 60 level 120 toons with max AA to give you an idea of the scope of what you can do once you get the method down. Maxing out a crew should be trivial. How quickly? It takes me about a day and a half to get from 85 to 120.
Fellowship xp is rewarded with vitality which you cash in at 5x the normal XP rate or 3x if you are doing AAXP. Both of these are huge rewards. They are capped at a max of 10% per kill for normal XP and 5AA per kill if for AAXP. You can store a vast amount of regular XP vitality (up to your max level?) but only up to 100% of AAXP vitality. Both forms of vitality are burnt at the same time so you could have a years worth of regular vitality saved up and if you switch your XP to AAXP you will burn it up in an hour or so of grinding. You can check how much vitality you have with the following commands you can make an EQ Social hotkey with: ${Me.Vitality} ${Me.PctVitality} ${Me.AAVitality} ${Me.PctAAVitality}
How do you get vitality? There are a few rules;
1) You must be in the level range to be able to group and share XP. At the level 120 cap, you must be level 90 to share xp or vitality. This will change with the Laurion’s Song expansion to level 95 minimum. You must have fellowship xp sharing turned on.
2) You cannot be in the same group to receive vitality. You can be in the same zone, but I have had it bugged before that I had to zone (or logout) for it to start working. Since this time is valuable, I usually always grind in two different zones. I also recommend this to be more anonymous. (different areas to grind, different guilds, etc)
3) To push vitality you must have fellowship XP sharing on and be showing up as capped. To get to capped you must have max regular XP (you do not need to be max AAXP) and you need to have fellowship XP pushed to you for one tick. For the fastest vitality push you need a full group that is super high dps and all capped.
4) You also cannot receive vitality if you are showing up as capped. (You can only push) If the PLee is at max regular XP and capped you must die to get under max regular xp to be able to receive vitality for grinding AAs.
Vitality is awarded every 20 minutes. It takes it from everyone that has fellowship xp sharing turned on and distributes it back to people that are not in the same group that have fellowship xp sharing turned on. Every kill in the non-capped group with sharing turned on, will get a chunk of this vitality pool. What I normally do is turn sharing off on everyone but the one character I’m trying to level up so they get 100% of the vitality gains. During XP bonus weekends I’ll bump it up to PL two at a time. Anymore than that you burn through the vitality much faster than you can receive it.
You can use this vitality in many ways; solo, one group, two groups or three groups. If you only play six accounts you can have the PLee logged out and still push vitality, log him in every hour or so and burn through it, then repeat.. If you do this you want to turn xp sharing off while he is in your main group so you are getting max vitality awards and not sharing back to anyone else. I’ve done this and it was faster but I questioned the effort versus the reward because the PLee is not actively XPing while receiving vitality.
My favorite way, by far, is two full groups. The push group (all capped/sharing on) and the PL group (all sharing off but PLee). The faster the PL group can kill mobs the better. You should be on regular xp vitality about half of the time getting 5x experience. Lesson burns cap regular xp at 10% of a level and cap AAs at 5 aaxp per kill. When you are at max level and you switch to AAXP you should be getting vitality kills 100% of the time at 3x aaxp. (so 5 aaxp per kill) So the faster you can kill mobs, the faster you acquire AAs.
In theory, you can use 11 toons to push vitality to the 1 PLee, but I haven’t felt the need to do this and it would require 3 full groups which adds to the complexity.
You do not need to be a sub’d account to generate or receive vitality. You could potentially spin up your groups just for this purpose, but raid gear makes it significantly faster. If you go the f2p route, casters generally out dps melee.
I have tried many combinations of toons to try and find the perfect group and my favorite setup is pal, nec, mag, bst, brd, shm. In the PLee group I hope the toon is one of those classes, if not i drop the bst. This group keeps mana up easily, has a plethora of pet dps and has 3 rezzers which is fantastic to keep it going.
Hopefully this post will help you utilize one of the best tools that EQ has given us.
Fellowship vitality is that fast car. Using it was confusing and it’s unnecessarily buggy which made the learning curve even more complicated. Once I got the hang of it, I was leveling toons just out of curiosity of the class and then transitioned to spinning up my own raiding crew. I have over 60 level 120 toons with max AA to give you an idea of the scope of what you can do once you get the method down. Maxing out a crew should be trivial. How quickly? It takes me about a day and a half to get from 85 to 120.
Fellowship xp is rewarded with vitality which you cash in at 5x the normal XP rate or 3x if you are doing AAXP. Both of these are huge rewards. They are capped at a max of 10% per kill for normal XP and 5AA per kill if for AAXP. You can store a vast amount of regular XP vitality (up to your max level?) but only up to 100% of AAXP vitality. Both forms of vitality are burnt at the same time so you could have a years worth of regular vitality saved up and if you switch your XP to AAXP you will burn it up in an hour or so of grinding. You can check how much vitality you have with the following commands you can make an EQ Social hotkey with: ${Me.Vitality} ${Me.PctVitality} ${Me.AAVitality} ${Me.PctAAVitality}
How do you get vitality? There are a few rules;
1) You must be in the level range to be able to group and share XP. At the level 120 cap, you must be level 90 to share xp or vitality. This will change with the Laurion’s Song expansion to level 95 minimum. You must have fellowship xp sharing turned on.
2) You cannot be in the same group to receive vitality. You can be in the same zone, but I have had it bugged before that I had to zone (or logout) for it to start working. Since this time is valuable, I usually always grind in two different zones. I also recommend this to be more anonymous. (different areas to grind, different guilds, etc)
3) To push vitality you must have fellowship XP sharing on and be showing up as capped. To get to capped you must have max regular XP (you do not need to be max AAXP) and you need to have fellowship XP pushed to you for one tick. For the fastest vitality push you need a full group that is super high dps and all capped.
4) You also cannot receive vitality if you are showing up as capped. (You can only push) If the PLee is at max regular XP and capped you must die to get under max regular xp to be able to receive vitality for grinding AAs.
Vitality is awarded every 20 minutes. It takes it from everyone that has fellowship xp sharing turned on and distributes it back to people that are not in the same group that have fellowship xp sharing turned on. Every kill in the non-capped group with sharing turned on, will get a chunk of this vitality pool. What I normally do is turn sharing off on everyone but the one character I’m trying to level up so they get 100% of the vitality gains. During XP bonus weekends I’ll bump it up to PL two at a time. Anymore than that you burn through the vitality much faster than you can receive it.
You can use this vitality in many ways; solo, one group, two groups or three groups. If you only play six accounts you can have the PLee logged out and still push vitality, log him in every hour or so and burn through it, then repeat.. If you do this you want to turn xp sharing off while he is in your main group so you are getting max vitality awards and not sharing back to anyone else. I’ve done this and it was faster but I questioned the effort versus the reward because the PLee is not actively XPing while receiving vitality.
My favorite way, by far, is two full groups. The push group (all capped/sharing on) and the PL group (all sharing off but PLee). The faster the PL group can kill mobs the better. You should be on regular xp vitality about half of the time getting 5x experience. Lesson burns cap regular xp at 10% of a level and cap AAs at 5 aaxp per kill. When you are at max level and you switch to AAXP you should be getting vitality kills 100% of the time at 3x aaxp. (so 5 aaxp per kill) So the faster you can kill mobs, the faster you acquire AAs.
In theory, you can use 11 toons to push vitality to the 1 PLee, but I haven’t felt the need to do this and it would require 3 full groups which adds to the complexity.
You do not need to be a sub’d account to generate or receive vitality. You could potentially spin up your groups just for this purpose, but raid gear makes it significantly faster. If you go the f2p route, casters generally out dps melee.
I have tried many combinations of toons to try and find the perfect group and my favorite setup is pal, nec, mag, bst, brd, shm. In the PLee group I hope the toon is one of those classes, if not i drop the bst. This group keeps mana up easily, has a plethora of pet dps and has 3 rezzers which is fantastic to keep it going.
Hopefully this post will help you utilize one of the best tools that EQ has given us.
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It's very important if you are running 2 groups to have the "feeder" group capped, of they will take XP from the smaller toon.