Need to Powerlevel a New Toon?

[Mikiky]

This is a very quick guide on how to power-level a new character up, without any cheats/hacks etc (well… you can use cheats and hacks to make it go even quicker!).
I have PL all of my toons from 1 to 20 in a very short space of time. The fact is that if you bring a completely new character and do this, you will go for 1 to 8 in the first run through, then 8 to 10 in the second and so on. Even at level 20ish, it still only takes 3 - 4 runs to get a level.

WHAT: The Great Caiman Issue

WHERE: South Ro, Southern side of lake at location +2483, -2661

WHO: Dimbwicket Middifoodle

The task is simple - kill 15 caimans and go and hail Dimwicket. The beauty of this task is that you can groups your level 1 toon with your level 80 Killing Machine…. That's right, no level worries here, because it is a task, not a mission.
When the high level toon kills the caiman (in about 2 hits), it updates the task that the new toon has because you are grouped together. You don't even have to touch the new toon except to hail for completion of task and to get the task again.

This task is great for raising the faction in Freeport, and is especially useful for raising those with KOS faction (ie the ‘evil' races)! The following factions are raised:

Citizens of Freeport
The Freeport Militia
Coalition of Tradefolk
Knights of Truth
Priests of Marr
Dismal Rage
Steel Warriors

You also get a nice chunk of experience and a whole 1 PP 

A big hint to save a lot of time is to make a hotkey with the following phrase:

/say I will help you clear the beach

Remember to target Dimwicket first before saying this.
The reason you should hotkey this is that when you complete the task and hail Dimwicket for your reward, a giant croc spawns (Razortooth) and chases him up the beach, and this can take about 3 min until he repops again and this is enough time for you to kill another 15 caiman to get another level. I have even done it so that I have killed 15 caiman and still had to wait for him to spawn again! If you target him to hail to complete the tasks, there is a 2 or 3 second gap until Razortooth spawns and that is enough time to get the task again before Dimwicket hotfoots up the beach with a giant croc chasing his ass!!

The crocodiles along the beach are also placeholders for the caiman.

This is the quickest way that I can get my new toons a few levels, now the big problem is you will probably get to level 25 or 30 before realizing that you haven't raised any skills or even bought any of your spells! It really does only take a short amount of time before you reach a high enough level.

This is also a way to get AA experience at level 51 up, when I was level 60, I was getting a ‘blue' per task, which was pretty reasonable.

We all know that MQ2 will go down after a patch, and this is what I do on patch nights, no mq2 required and all the mobs are found along the beach.

I hope you enjoyed this little walk-through and find some use for it.

 

[Learningcurve]

Nice Guide, well thought out and written, very informative and even had the tip about the hot-key so you can finish and start a new task right away.
Redcent

 

[[email protected]]

you can go from 1 to 12 by doing the charm quest that starts in creasent reach from libraian Hemfar, then get going to Icefall Glacier and pick up the ground spawn (shattered Krithgor Keystone at -2035, -1155. ) you will need to invis for most of the trip, but it's relatively easy. nearly all the pieces in gorukar mesa are easy to get if you have hotkeys set up to open and loot. 1 is doablw with out dieing if you path and invis properly (undead) 3 of them you'll have no problem getting (wind willow areas, and the cave with oozes), the others you will die as soon as you open the item (bones/chest) but at lowest level is no real problem. the full write up in Alla is very well written.

 

[Hooah]

Redcent coming at you....very well written and useful.

 

[sebastienjuly]

That's cool, would help me a lot cuz sometimes it's very hard for me to switch back and forth a lot, cuz my comp sucks.

and the no skills thing is easily solved with a night of afk fighting my bst's pet on pet hold (old trick). you can get defensive skills up in the reverse by constantly healing. but i find that way more difficult. and the spells, well that's not problem at all i usually spend so much time in prep work for my alts i got all my spells from 1 - 60 before i ding level 3.

anyways, thanks for the tip, i'll be getting my new cleric this way. and you say it's good till 51is even?

 

[Mikiky]

and you say it's good till 51is even?

lol, i got way sick of doing this at 38, and just started killing normally, if you could do it with a macro, it would be much easier. Good at 51 is pretty subjective I think, I saw the xp bar move a tiny bit

 

[arch]

well at 57 the AA xp appears to be 1.5 'ish %

I did this using my mage to level up a new druid and he would get 1% AA then 2% AA and this pattern held for like 15 tasks before I got bored.

on a side note anyone know if there is a way to make a pet go attack if it is "out of Range" ?

 

[Gooberish]

It would be super if some leet coder would make a macro for this (with or without warping - without being better since it is an open zone).

 

[thenameless]

Ok, here something i threw together.

| Caimans.mac
|
| The Great Caiman Issue Macro 
| Author : thenameless
| Usage :/macro caimans 
| Requirements: Be in South Ro and next to Dimbwicket Middifoodle
| also recommend using some hunter macro for your killing machine            
|-----------------------------------------------------------------


#Event CaimanCount      "#*#Your task#*#"
#Event GainedXP 	"You gain#*#"
#Event TaskRecived      "You have been assigned#*#"


Sub Main

/declare LDExp float outer ${Me.PctGroupLeaderExp}
/declare AAExp float outer ${Me.PctAAExp}
/declare Exp float outer ${Me.PctExp}
/declare iCount int Outer

/echo The Great Caiman Issue Macro.
/call GetTask
/return

Sub GetTask
/varset iCount 0
/call TargetDimb
:Gtask
/say I will help you clear the beach
/delay 2s
/doevents
/goto :Gtask
/return


Sub TargetDimb
:TDimb
/target Dimbwicket Middifoodle
/if (${Target.Distance}<=20 && ${Target.CleanName.Equal[Dimbwicket Middifoodle]}) {
/face
/echo Dimbwicket Middifoodle has ben targeted.
/return
}
/goto :TDimb
/return


Sub Hail
/call TargetDimb
:FTW
/delay 1s
/hail
/delay 1s
/doevents
/goto :FTW
/return


Sub Event_CaimanCount
/varcalc iCount ${iCount}+1
/if (${iCount}<= 15) {
/echo ${iCount} of 15 dead Caimans!
}
/return


Sub Event_GainedXP
/echo ** XP-Delta: REG (${Math.Calc[${Me.PctExp}-${Exp}]}%), AA (${Math.Calc[${Me.PctAAExp}-${AAExp}]}%), LDR (${Math.Calc[${Me.PctGroupLeaderExp}-${LDExp}]}%)
/varset LDExp ${Me.PctGroupLeaderExp} 
/varset AAExp ${Me.PctAAExp} 
/varset Exp ${Me.PctExp}
/call GetTask
/return

Sub Event_TaskRecived
/echo Task Recived: The Great Caiman Issue
:count
/doevents
/if (${iCount}== 15) {
/call Hail
}
/doevents
/goto :count
/return

 

[toejam]

I'm getting :

Failed to parse /if command. Could not find command to execute.
caiman.mac@41 (TargetDimb): /if (${Target.Distance}<=20 && ${Target.CleanName.Equal[Dimbwicket
caiman.mac@29 (GetTask): /call TargetDimb
caiman.mac@24 (Main): /call GetTask
The current macro has ended.

I don't know what to do here. Any ideas?

 

[Czarman]

I'm getting :

Failed to parse /if command. Could not find command to execute.
caiman.mac@41 (TargetDimb): /if (${Target.Distance}<=20 && ${Target.CleanName.Equal[Dimbwicket
caiman.mac@29 (GetTask): /call TargetDimb
caiman.mac@24 (Main): /call GetTask
The current macro has ended.

I don't know what to do here. Any ideas?

Try saving the code attached here. There was a word wrap in a few places that could have caused a problem.

 

[thenameless]

hmm, is it from pasting it? Sorry i didnt attach the file. Ill add it to my post

 

[Mikiky]

hehe, anyone have a decent hunter.mac that they can share, or PM me to try?

 

[thenameless]

i use the oldschool one that is on mq2 vip and it does the job

 

[Epochalypse]

Ok this is a great task to quickly get to level 20.
Does anyone know of similar tasks at progressively higher levels? (I.E. 20s, 30s, 40s, etc.)
My main is an 85 SK and Im trying to PL a shaman bot.

 

[meeskino]

Exyl, I have a good guide only for classes that can cast DS.

if you have some type of damage shield you can cast on others, I can explain.

If I need a new char I make it upto 56 lvl in 3-4 hours. at 56 can group with 85. also 55+ can go CoD wich is still awesome exp to powerlevel with DS out of group.

 

[unknown405]

I play on Test so I just make a new toon on Mayong and /testcopy !

 

[Epochalypse]

Exyl, I have a good guide only for classes that can cast DS.

if you have some type of damage shield you can cast on others, I can explain.

If I need a new char I make it upto 56 lvl in 3-4 hours. at 56 can group with 85. also 55+ can go CoD wich is still awesome exp to powerlevel with DS out of group.

I actually read thru your guide when I found it with the search here. I dont have a DS casting toon unfortunately. Might bribe a guild mage or druid to help me lol.
Even though I have been on EQ for 8 years I have never truly PLed a toon. I do know all the old school places to get good xp (Paludal, Highhold Keep, etc) and now the hot zones will be helpful too.

 

[meeskino]

I'v done it this way

1-20 Kurns tower. Have random mob agro my low level, cast blood line spell on it. have lowlevel run throu kurn tower agroing all shit. blood hits everything in zone, they come in hit twice and die usualy takes 15 minuts to get lvl 20.

then I take lvl 20 to TOFS. agro 3-4 floors. use magician with ds+cleric merc. have lvl 20 toon with 10 zordak ae pots. takes few rounds to about lvl 40.

then agro craploads in nadox to lvl 45.

then POI to 56.

then CoD upto 70.

btw, CoD upto 70 with 500-600 AAs takes about 10 hours I think. lessons burn yields about 60 AAs i think at 55-59 levels.

I should check my SK. He is 75 with about 1200 AAs and last time I checked he had 2 days played. As I used him to farm vox/naggy and MMs I guess half of the time were spent there. Oh and camping tulwar in water

If you want, I can post the details on DS+merc healer tactics. once agro goes to merc, u can hit out of group all mobs for about 400-500 damage before they touch you. hence the 2-3 AEs to make sure you hit everything.

 

[Epochalypse]

What are Zordak AE pots? Not seeing that on Allaz's. The fact that shaman dont have an AE is slowing me down some. Well and also I am only using skinspike pots on SK atm since I dont have a DS casting toon. But if i could AE on the PLing shaman atleast I wouldnt have to be cycling through the mobs to nuke or hit them.

Thank you for the help too Meeskino.

 

[Gooberish]

They are AE nuke potions you can buy from Zordak (when he's up) in Sol B.

 

[nyghteyes]

you can go from 1 to 12 by doing the charm quest that starts in creasent reach from libraian Hemfar, then get going to Icefall Glacier and pick up the ground spawn (shattered Krithgor Keystone at -2035, -1155. ) you will need to invis for most of the trip, but it's relatively easy. nearly all the pieces in gorukar mesa are easy to get if you have hotkeys set up to open and loot. 1 is doablw with out dieing if you path and invis properly (undead) 3 of them you'll have no problem getting (wind willow areas, and the cave with oozes), the others you will die as soon as you open the item (bones/chest) but at lowest level is no real problem. the full write up in Alla is very well written.

This seems to be nerfed now, poofs when picked up.