This may have been discussed before. But I have not yet come across it so here goes:
Background: I generally three box a warrior, shaman, and wizard. However this forum has really opened my eyes to the power of bards and I decided to PL one into the lvl 40 range before actually playing a bit. (I will solo to get over the learning curve)
I do not use mq and do not use any of the gear/stat hacks so this is completely "safe".
First thing I did was to take a couple hours running around the newby zone of Freeport for a few levels. Next I escorted the now lvl 5 bard to Maidens Eye wher I boxed Radir, Zethniac, and Rumblecrush with my normal three to give him a good headstart in equipment. I also killed The Va'dynn for the same reason.
I played around with my equipment a bit in neth lair generally just slowing with shammy and killing with the bard to level 13. Most of this time was testing out the songs, weapons ect.
Dawnshroud:
At level 13 I took the bard into Dawnshroud and 4 hours later he was level 26.
I set up my bard (13) Shammy (70) and wiz (70) at the Seru entrance. There I buffed the bard up and disbanded. I used ether shin on the wiz and grabbed 4 mobs and ran to the zone. Snared them on inc and hit jylls static pulse. This puts the crawlers and small zelniacs at 20-30% The wiz hit each one a cpl times till they were under 10% and they turned to run (snared) and gated.
The bard then just chanted his aoe dam spell and hit at them till dead.
Very, very easy. Once the crawlers arn't red I would make short work of them and pull the regular zelniacs or large ones. These took either 2 statics or one larger aoe before turning.
13 levels in 4 hours (a little less but close enough)
Background: I generally three box a warrior, shaman, and wizard. However this forum has really opened my eyes to the power of bards and I decided to PL one into the lvl 40 range before actually playing a bit. (I will solo to get over the learning curve)
I do not use mq and do not use any of the gear/stat hacks so this is completely "safe".
First thing I did was to take a couple hours running around the newby zone of Freeport for a few levels. Next I escorted the now lvl 5 bard to Maidens Eye wher I boxed Radir, Zethniac, and Rumblecrush with my normal three to give him a good headstart in equipment. I also killed The Va'dynn for the same reason.
I played around with my equipment a bit in neth lair generally just slowing with shammy and killing with the bard to level 13. Most of this time was testing out the songs, weapons ect.
Dawnshroud:
At level 13 I took the bard into Dawnshroud and 4 hours later he was level 26.
I set up my bard (13) Shammy (70) and wiz (70) at the Seru entrance. There I buffed the bard up and disbanded. I used ether shin on the wiz and grabbed 4 mobs and ran to the zone. Snared them on inc and hit jylls static pulse. This puts the crawlers and small zelniacs at 20-30% The wiz hit each one a cpl times till they were under 10% and they turned to run (snared) and gated.
The bard then just chanted his aoe dam spell and hit at them till dead.
Very, very easy. Once the crawlers arn't red I would make short work of them and pull the regular zelniacs or large ones. These took either 2 statics or one larger aoe before turning.
13 levels in 4 hours (a little less but close enough)
