Hello guys, Just wanted to share my leveling path for new characters (if you have a high level main) with you guys, and honestly I dont know if this is best or not...its just what i do, and it seems to work fairly well...
I goto Blightfire moores. this works VERY well if you have access to a high level cleric!, I use a level 94 cleric for Shining armor. It works great for generating hate so you never lose your swarm when powerleveling your newb.
i damage shield the powerleveler then cash shining armor on them. I usually cast a lower level damage shield on the powerleveler because i dont want to kill them so quickly if i am using a melee class that can only throw stones...in that case i need to try and throw a stone at everything in the swarm, or go to solb and buy the 5 charge AE pots from zordic ragefire, that also works.
if you are powerleveling a Wizard, they get numbing cold at level one, so easy, same with magician, they also get Fire Flux at level 1. bards get Chords of Dissonance at level 2, Clerics get word of pain at level 9, and necromancers and druids get AE around level 20 ( i will get the names of those spells and post back on this thread)...
LEVEL 1-20:
so I start out swarming the gnolls on the right side of the entrance of blightfire. there is a literal shitload of them and they seem to spawn as fast as i can kill them.
i do this until around level 20ish, maybe 23ish...or as soon as they turn blue or light blue.
LEVEL 20-35ish:
I then move on to the skellies on the left side of blightfire as you zone in. they are also in abundance and i can pull a shitload of them and they spawn fairly fast. I kill here usually until around 35ish.
LEVEL 35-43ish:
I then move to gorukar mesa. In gorukar mesa, i swarm giants, the same way i have swarmed the gnolls and skellies.
I usually do this 43ish sometimes a little higher, depends on when they turn blue. if i dont feel like moving yet i sometimes will stay until the first one turns light blue then i move. the reason for all this is because there is no point doing this if your newb's AE spell is just going to get resisted. After i ding low 40's.
LEVEL 43-60ish:
I will then move to next zone over in the Roost. do the basic kill quests for the second and third island on the first island at the quest giver next to the big griffon standing next to the nest. you can swarm a few pulls the same way we have done the others thus far for some XP just until we complete the first and second quest so we can move to the next islands. after your able to get to the second and thirst island you can swarm the harpies for great xp until you ding level 60, i swarm one island, move to the next, swarm the next island, then move back to the other island etc.
LEVEL 60-70:
After you ding 60, you can move to PoFire. great swarm xp in pofire. me personally i usually do all this with a level 85 mage and a level 94 cleric for the shining armor...makes a huge difference. you are GOD mode more or less with shining armor. When i move to POFire, i just put the powerlevelee in the group with the powerleveler finally. at this point i can swarm the entire zone of PoFire with the 85 mage using shining armor on both mage and pet just in case of aggro bouncing while your pulling the swarm. you can clean out the entire zone of fire in literal minutes with this method, damage shield from mage, shining armor from cleric, and pet dps'ing, you will never die, doesnt matter how many mobs you pull, you will never die as long as your shining armor doesnt fade. and honestly you can use any class you want around level 80ish or 85ish as long as you have a cleric with shining armor (level 94 spell) after about 45 minutes or so, depends on how fast your killing and the respawns, you will go from 60 to 70.
LEVEL 70+:
After you hit 70, you can group with anyone in the game, 70 can group with level 100. at this point i take one of my powerleveling mains. normally a monk works extremely well for this, you take a high level monk or high level sk with a nice number of aa's, cast shining armor on them and pull the entire zone of Fort Mech. awesome swarm xp, and like i said, with shining armor on you, you should never die.
I usually swarm fort mech until about level 85. then from 85 on it gets a bit more complicated, swarming fort mech is only good until around then because the mobs are going to be fairly low level. my other path is to swarm the grounds with a shadowknight or decapping zerker for mega xp since its current hot zone.
On the other hand, 100 ranger can headshot The Cooling Chambers for pretty awesome XP as well! dont bother headshotting Feerrott the dream at the temples. the xp is lame, green mobs to level 100 most of them, and usually camped by everyone. The Cooling Chambers is an awesome headshot zone since people rarely go there and all the mobs are still light blue to level 100 ranger and with ranger you dont need to use a shining armor spell from a cleric. usually during all this powerleveling,
I keep an alt parked at the parcel guy that i continually buy taskadds from any chance i get at 75+ so i can get aa's while im powerleveling regular xp, just dont forget to turn aa xp to 100 percent before you click the reward for the taskadd. then just turn it back down to 0 when you accept the reward.
Im sure all of this is prob. common knowledge to most high end players in the game. and you can work this method in many different ways with many different classes i am sure. but this is just what works for me, and it seems to go fairly quick and i can have a level 85 with a few hundred aa's in hard day of grinding doing it this way. then if i dont want to buy xpacks for the newly powerlevel'd character, i just throw a full suit of Tier 1 Veil of Alaris gear (http://everquest.allakhazam.com/wiki/eq:Veil_of_Alaris_Armor_Guide) and non vis T1 veil of alaris gear on them (all from bazaar relatively cheap) and bam, you got a pretty sweet new character that can do a lot for being a Free To Play account with no xpacks.
I will try and update this guide with other methods or new ideas as well for you guys as I think of them! thanks for reading.
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P.S....This is more of a "Power Leveling-Level Guide" than a Leveling Guide i suppose.
I goto Blightfire moores. this works VERY well if you have access to a high level cleric!, I use a level 94 cleric for Shining armor. It works great for generating hate so you never lose your swarm when powerleveling your newb.
i damage shield the powerleveler then cash shining armor on them. I usually cast a lower level damage shield on the powerleveler because i dont want to kill them so quickly if i am using a melee class that can only throw stones...in that case i need to try and throw a stone at everything in the swarm, or go to solb and buy the 5 charge AE pots from zordic ragefire, that also works.
if you are powerleveling a Wizard, they get numbing cold at level one, so easy, same with magician, they also get Fire Flux at level 1. bards get Chords of Dissonance at level 2, Clerics get word of pain at level 9, and necromancers and druids get AE around level 20 ( i will get the names of those spells and post back on this thread)...
LEVEL 1-20:
so I start out swarming the gnolls on the right side of the entrance of blightfire. there is a literal shitload of them and they seem to spawn as fast as i can kill them.
i do this until around level 20ish, maybe 23ish...or as soon as they turn blue or light blue.
LEVEL 20-35ish:
I then move on to the skellies on the left side of blightfire as you zone in. they are also in abundance and i can pull a shitload of them and they spawn fairly fast. I kill here usually until around 35ish.
LEVEL 35-43ish:
I then move to gorukar mesa. In gorukar mesa, i swarm giants, the same way i have swarmed the gnolls and skellies.
I usually do this 43ish sometimes a little higher, depends on when they turn blue. if i dont feel like moving yet i sometimes will stay until the first one turns light blue then i move. the reason for all this is because there is no point doing this if your newb's AE spell is just going to get resisted. After i ding low 40's.
LEVEL 43-60ish:
I will then move to next zone over in the Roost. do the basic kill quests for the second and third island on the first island at the quest giver next to the big griffon standing next to the nest. you can swarm a few pulls the same way we have done the others thus far for some XP just until we complete the first and second quest so we can move to the next islands. after your able to get to the second and thirst island you can swarm the harpies for great xp until you ding level 60, i swarm one island, move to the next, swarm the next island, then move back to the other island etc.
LEVEL 60-70:
After you ding 60, you can move to PoFire. great swarm xp in pofire. me personally i usually do all this with a level 85 mage and a level 94 cleric for the shining armor...makes a huge difference. you are GOD mode more or less with shining armor. When i move to POFire, i just put the powerlevelee in the group with the powerleveler finally. at this point i can swarm the entire zone of PoFire with the 85 mage using shining armor on both mage and pet just in case of aggro bouncing while your pulling the swarm. you can clean out the entire zone of fire in literal minutes with this method, damage shield from mage, shining armor from cleric, and pet dps'ing, you will never die, doesnt matter how many mobs you pull, you will never die as long as your shining armor doesnt fade. and honestly you can use any class you want around level 80ish or 85ish as long as you have a cleric with shining armor (level 94 spell) after about 45 minutes or so, depends on how fast your killing and the respawns, you will go from 60 to 70.
LEVEL 70+:
After you hit 70, you can group with anyone in the game, 70 can group with level 100. at this point i take one of my powerleveling mains. normally a monk works extremely well for this, you take a high level monk or high level sk with a nice number of aa's, cast shining armor on them and pull the entire zone of Fort Mech. awesome swarm xp, and like i said, with shining armor on you, you should never die.
I usually swarm fort mech until about level 85. then from 85 on it gets a bit more complicated, swarming fort mech is only good until around then because the mobs are going to be fairly low level. my other path is to swarm the grounds with a shadowknight or decapping zerker for mega xp since its current hot zone.
On the other hand, 100 ranger can headshot The Cooling Chambers for pretty awesome XP as well! dont bother headshotting Feerrott the dream at the temples. the xp is lame, green mobs to level 100 most of them, and usually camped by everyone. The Cooling Chambers is an awesome headshot zone since people rarely go there and all the mobs are still light blue to level 100 ranger and with ranger you dont need to use a shining armor spell from a cleric. usually during all this powerleveling,
I keep an alt parked at the parcel guy that i continually buy taskadds from any chance i get at 75+ so i can get aa's while im powerleveling regular xp, just dont forget to turn aa xp to 100 percent before you click the reward for the taskadd. then just turn it back down to 0 when you accept the reward.
Im sure all of this is prob. common knowledge to most high end players in the game. and you can work this method in many different ways with many different classes i am sure. but this is just what works for me, and it seems to go fairly quick and i can have a level 85 with a few hundred aa's in hard day of grinding doing it this way. then if i dont want to buy xpacks for the newly powerlevel'd character, i just throw a full suit of Tier 1 Veil of Alaris gear (http://everquest.allakhazam.com/wiki/eq:Veil_of_Alaris_Armor_Guide) and non vis T1 veil of alaris gear on them (all from bazaar relatively cheap) and bam, you got a pretty sweet new character that can do a lot for being a Free To Play account with no xpacks.
I will try and update this guide with other methods or new ideas as well for you guys as I think of them! thanks for reading.
- - - Updated - - -
P.S....This is more of a "Power Leveling-Level Guide" than a Leveling Guide i suppose.
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Let me know if you guys have further questions. Cyah!
