shrouding still work for regular exp?

[mroutlaw]

does shrouding down a toon to say level 55 and taking them to cod net better gains then a unshrouded 65? or have they nerfed regular exp on shrouds as well?

 

[Sollix]

you can gain xp on shrouds. i still do it occasionally.. but it looks like it's a lot less than what a toon of the shroud's level would make

 

[Dragonfire]

Between March and July of 2009, I took a ranger and cleric from 75 to 85. I shrouded the Cleric and played it about 50% of the time I did the ranger. The cleric reached 85 while the ranger was 83. The cleric was ONLY grouped with the ranger that entire time and never played in any other groups. There were three other alts on the clerics account I occasionally played in the group so the ranger was played a lot longer than the cleric. The ranger was always played as the puller/MA/MT. This was done in a 6 box arrangement using MQ and I am sure of the play time on both accounts. They both started at 75.99 as the message on both was that experience was all channelled to AA. I did not have all expansions until I started this. The ranger was never shrouded and the cleric unlocked all shrouds in that time.

 

[Gooberish]

So you got MORE xp on the sthrouded toon?

 

[Sollix]

what level was the cleric shrouded to?

 

[stdage]

I have not tried this sence last patch, But if you shroud a toon down to lvl 60 and put in grp with a lvl 85 and take them to the lvl 65 hot zone where most of the mobs will be gray to lvl 85 , the shrouded toon will get 1 xp every 10 or so kills and that takes of al about 30 secs if you have a good lvl 85 tank and pull 30 plus mobs at a time

Also can be done with shrouded toon at 55 and high lvl toon can not be any higher than 83 and go to the lvl 60 hot zone.

The more shrouded toons of same lvl in grp a little lesser the xp but it didnt seem to be that much maybe 1 more kill with a full grp

 

[Dragonfire]

The cleric was shrouded to 85. The experience was at least 50% better for the cleric shrouded than the ranger. The cleric actually did 84-85 shrouded faster than the ranger did 82-83 while always fighting in the rangers group and killing mainly greens. The ranger grouped several times for raids away from the cleric, so I have to say that the experience shrouded to a level 70 is MUCH highter than unshrouded.

 

[Gooberish]

That is very curious. Are you sure you aren't some ex-dev who is jaded about how piss poor shrounding was received and here spreading propaganda?! :P

 

[Birdman]

I know this is old topic, maybe someone has seen it before and I just missed it, but does shrouding a lvl 85 down to 70 and PLing with a lvl 100 work ? do they gain more exp faster then normal sitting in say TDS and PLing ?

 

[saar]

shroud exp was nerfed a while ago and isnt worth much now

 

[Sum1]

shroud exp was nerfed a while ago and isnt worth much now

I will say, though, that shrouds provide some interesting exploit opportunities when stuff is level dependent. Just have to play around a bit.

 

[saar]

fun thing to do is make 3 toons into a 65 rogue and sneak hide to a camp and put a camp fire down and have the rest of your fellowship port in, no more plowing to a camp....

 

[Sum1]

fun thing to do is make 3 toons into a 65 rogue and sneak hide to a camp and put a camp fire down and have the rest of your fellowship port in, no more plowing to a camp....

Yup, for sure. I like doing that with mages for Coth.

 

[InvisigothMT]

It's been a while since I've done this but at one time a good DS PL technique was to get the Pl'ee's go 5 so they could shroud and equip them with holgresh mojo sticks that did a PB AE. Take a bard with the AE snare and round up all you can in The Moors then park and have him twist in his DS songs. Druid and/or Mage DS will be good too but not before the shrouds have popped an AE. IIRC about 5 pulls from around the undead tower and mushrooms and the shrouded characters will be high 30's when they unshroud

 

[saar]

the exp gain was nerfed to 1/8th the exp gain while in shroud form. so after about an hour of ds plvling you might gain a lvl if that.

 

[Sum1]

Better off just leveling your PL'ees with a throw-away bard.

 

[aspire2008]

Better off just leveling your PL'ees with a throw-away bard.

I use a wizard, isn't bard ae song level 2? For some reason I always use a wizard, probably because after I level it along I use it for teleport bind bitches. I have like 20ish or so wizards around 75-95 level with teleport bind in 10-12 zones just for convenience. I have to refer to my google spread sheet just to remember which account and where they are bound.

 

[Sum1]

I use a wizard, isn't bard ae song level 2? For some reason I always use a wizard, probably because after I level it along I use it for teleport bind bitches. I have like 20ish or so wizards around 75-95 level with teleport bind in 10-12 zones just for convenience. I have to refer to my google spread sheet just to remember which account and where they are bound.

Bard ae song might be level 2, but its easy to "/bct bardname //twist 1" and he'll keep pulsing the song until all the mobs have been hit by it. You can then do a "/bct bardname //stopsong" and he'll stop. Its as easy as that.

For a wizard, you need to figure out a way to get them to keep casting the ae nuke, and unless the hp percentage drops to 99% you won't know if you hit everything. For the bard, you can see the song show up in the mob's debuff window for at least 6 seconds after they're hit because it has other effects besides damage.

 

[aspire2008]

Bard ae song might be level 2, but its easy to "/bct bardname //twist 1" and he'll keep pulsing the song until all the mobs have been hit by it. You can then do a "/bct bardname //stopsong" and he'll stop. Its as easy as that.

For a wizard, you need to figure out a way to get them to keep casting the ae nuke, and unless the hp percentage drops to 99% you won't know if you hit everything. For the bard, you can see the song show up in the mob's debuff window for at least 6 seconds after they're hit because it has other effects besides damage.

Thats simple use the same commands and only load that 1 spell , and leave the other 7 gem slots unmemmed. It will twist the ae spell over and over when its off cooldown.

 

[Sum1]

Thats simple use the same commands and only load that 1 spell , and leave the other 7 gem slots unmemmed. It will twist the ae spell over and over when its off cooldown.

Actually, you're right in that you could also use the /twist command to continuously cast the ae nuke until you've given the stop command. I guess I just like the bard becasue i can see when everything's been hit.

That's a good idea to use the wizzies as teleport bind hoes, though.