Request - Macro for PLing

[Narrock]

I know it's been done time and time again with bone chips, red wine, etc. But most of the strats are nerfed. Was wondering if anyone has found an efficient way to level 1-59 almost completely AFK? If so, could you share this and possibly your macro? Thanks.

 

[TheEld3r]

Hatchery mac is one I can think of you'll need a higher level sk unless you modify the macro to another class. You'll need a bard and w.e toon you want and once their about 15 you can run it till about 65 before its not worth it. Your higher sk would need to be 85+ ideally 100 if you want to go to 65 with ease

 

[eqtrader74]

Yeah Hatching a Plan instance from PoK is the most common. Using a damage shield on a high level tank and the low levels have to do at least some damage to each mob before the DS kills it. Using a lowbie 2 bard in the PL group works as they get a AE dmg song that is less resistable by higher lvl mobs. Wizards also get PBAE at low levels but theirs are more resisted. Alternatively you can get "Throw Stone" ability from a monk trainer for many melee/tank types and use HitAll.mac to make that toon do 1 dmg to all nearby mobs.

These are the two common macros: Note you'll be spamming entry phrases in PoK, so using it AFK during prime time will attract attention.

• Hatchery.mac by droidyourlookingfor
• dannuic's Hatchery.mac

Some other tips from a previous post on Hatch PL:

2) I could aggro/DS tank on my 110 Conflag SK in the PoK Hatching a Plan instance (nerfed now) with a 110 cleric/105 druid healing me until mobs were lvl 80. That was pulling the whole zone onto me, so 30+ mobs. At lvl 80, they'd occasionally kill me even with heals. Lvl 79 was still cake, but 80 started getting tough. You can also equip no-dmg steins from /bazaar if you don't want to riposte or shield bash kill anything.

Honed Wurmslayer from FM makes the lower level DS'n easy. I had my Hatch macro set to make the SK repeatedly sit at low levels too so the mobs would hit him faster.

DS Stacking - Mages and Druids get single target super big DS's if you have either of those classes available. Bard songs are the other good stacking DS. I wound up buying one of the Visage illusion items that also give a small stacking DS illusion benefit too.

Note: You can also get another "DS" from the cleric's Blood auto-spreading reverse DS on mobs, but this damage does count to the tank, so not good until the PL guys are doing some real dmg.

3) I found DS tanking PL method slows way down around 55-80. I wound up buying a Heroic and getting a 85 Pally (credit to Raz for his guide.) Your alts can start grouping with the Heroic around 56 or 57 (can't remember exactly.) Set them up some place with green mobs to the pally and let the pally grind. Set the pally to 100% AA if it's on a Gold account and it will stay 85 quite awhile. I also had a necro setup at the pally bind to sacrifice them back down if needed. Goes much faster than DS tanking unless you have a super strong support team.

I was doing:
2-60 = PL'd by out of group DS tank. Bard ae song in PL group is easiest, but wizards also get AE spells early. If needed, you can also get hitall.mac for a melee to tag each mob, but it's much slower. Actually a 105 or 110 Druid can handle up to the 50s as the "tank" even. Self heal or PBAE snare for aggro.
60-80 = Group with a Heroic knight class who's killing green-cons to themselves. Healer merc is nice, but Heroic should be over-geared for this content really.
80-110 = Toss them in with EoK/RoS exp group. Add them to fellowship for alternate group, not the one they are in.
108-110 = Almost always move to RoS for these levels.

I had AFK capable macros for it, but I only ran these while I was there, so maybe 8-10 hours a day. I could do levels 2-50 in half a day, but 50-80 was another 2-3 days. 80-105 was another 3 days and 105-110 was 4-5 days. There was probably alot of optimization stuff I didn't run though. Using the pre-nerf Hatching a Plan meant you had to stick to 6 toons max until 80, so I ran 3 110's for survival and 3 toons being PL'd. In an open zone you can run more buffs/DS/healers and outside DPS once the PL group can start adding dmg.

Another option is do a similar DS strat, but move from undead area to area based on level. Look up a pally leveling guide as those focus on undead camps.


Further reading:

• Power leveling inside of an instance
• Would love some detailed advice on power leveling a new full group of 6 with an old full group of 6.
• Best way to PL in end game
• Using fellowship exp bonus to accelerate powerleveling