Leveling - SO you want to Powerlevel on your own?

[Razkle]

SO you want to Powerlevel on your own?
If you do NOT have a high level toon or toons to start with then this will be MUCH harder.


Section I : Recommended setup

• 100 Wizard or 100 Druid for porting and Powerleveling 70-100
• 100 Tank or hybrid tank to soak up damage as you Powerlevel 70-100
• optional 90-91 Mass killing toon to get you from 60 to 70, I use a monk
• 85 Herioc Mass killing toon to get you from 56 to 60 or 70, I use a monk

Lowbie needs to be non hated race or you will need to follow the faction section
For Bone Chips you will need around 600plat and 10 Extraplanar trade satchels http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=104079


Section II: Faction Fix
If you are an evil race or do not have the faction for Dwarves then you will need 250-350 faction to get to Dubious done with either Crushbone belts or Crushbone Shoulderpads Quest found here
The quests are :
Crushbone Belts +5 faction per belts quest
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=294

Crushbone Shoulderpads +5 faction per Shoulderpads quest
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=631


Section III: need a high level toon
If you do NOT have a high level toon Start a Wizard and a tank and set them on the Bone Chips full Auto until they ding 95 lol!
bone chips full auto http://www.redguides.com/community/showthread.php/27836-Bone-chips-full-auto?highlight=bone+chips


Section IV: Ready to Powerlevel now?
Decide on either bone chips or Lichen Creep and GO! KEEP your merc out he will gain AAs during this! AND as an alternative at 51 turn on 100% AA and you can get around 300 AAs at 70 and be that much farther on your max AAs.
For Bone Chips follow this guide:
bone chips full auto http://www.redguides.com/community/showthread.php/27836-Bone-chips-full-auto?highlight=bone+chips
OR for Lichen Creep Tasks
52 in minutes http://www.redguides.com/community/...ng-to-around-level-52-in-less-than-20-minutes


Section V: 56+
at 56 you can group with your 85 Herioc toon! Port to UNDERSHORE from your guild hall and park your 56 while your 85 murders the zone! You should be 60 to 65 here quickly! You can stay here till 70 if needed
OR if you have a 90 or 91 toon he can take you to Plane of Air and gather up the zone and murder it currently both UNDERSHORE and POA are HotZones so this may change. Basically park your lowbie invised at your elected spot and have your higher level toon run around and agro the zone then kill it all! Over and over, goes REAL fast btw

Once you hit 70 its time for the big guns! Take your 70 to Grounds or better with your 100 toon/toons and 3 box him to 100.


Section VI: 70+
3 Boxing is SO easy now with the right setup. It works best with J5 Mercs (requires Gold subscription, sorry) But with lesser mercs and proper macros its doable as well.
With 3 mercs at least 2 gold you can thrive in Grounds... 1 healer 1 caster and the 3rd a healer that may or may not be J5 as he is on your lowbie he really does not matter.
A good choice to make the killing faster is find an area with 3-5 mobs break in the camp and park your tank with his J5 merc where he will get hit 1st on spawns, then your 2nd high level toon behind him with his J5 merc and then permainvis your lowbie and park him in a cornor or on a wall.
Do not use your lowbie to loot as he will get agro over and over and you will lose time, always loot with one of your main 2. If you want to work on combat skills on your lowbie he can cast or melee at 75% so he does not draw agro but that can be risky


Notes:
I have now leveled 8 level 100s this way, I got my main up to 100, then my tank to 100 and now its cake to level a toon! My 1st toon was a Heroic Wizard made 95 on the bone chips on FULL AUTO! Took my SK tank along with me so both were 95 at the same time!
I use 2 monks for the lower powerleveling, 1 is 85 heroic and 1 is 91, they are both max Dex/AC geared. I will do a writeup on my 91 monk gearing next....

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Update! After 75 your toon can freely gain exp with your 105 people! Take my advice and do it somewhere other then TDS as the 75-100 will work but it does get less exp even though DBG says different. Take him to any COTF zone or if you want to truly see powerleveling I will release the best spot I have ever found! We shall call it the beach! Look for it soon...

 

[malphual]

Has anyone else tried this method? I"m curious as to how well it works for anyone else with lesser skills than razkle.

For me, The Grounds ran very well until about lvl 90. Then, it became very slow.

 

[Akatora]

the grounds till about 95 was good for me from 70, but i box about 10, and have a nice SK tank who could soak up tons of damage so I would pull huge trains and aoe like mad, lol he was getting 4-6 levels a pull for awhile

 

[malphual]

Akatora, how long ago was it when you self power leveled your SK in the grounds? Was it prior to Feb. 2014?

 

[Razkle]

I can say if you have a druid or a wiz heroic 85 DO THE BONE CHIPS!! Just get him there and let him go, its a no brainer to have your guy get to 95 with no effort!

 

[Akatora]

it was after feb, I was power leveling a rogue of mine lol, my group is a 2 group effort though but I only box 1 healer type.

100sk, 100bst, 100shm, 100brd, 100pally, 100mnk, 100enc, 100wiz, 100nec, and the rogue

I was boxing my friends 100 cleric just to get him some AAs and his 100 mage for DS buffs, I would pull 30-50 things and they would die in like 3 seconds while allowing him to get the full exp

 

[Razkle]

with bone chips gone, thought I would necro one of my old posts!

 

[Roy Donk]

with bone chips gone, thought I would necro one of my old posts!

bone chips
RIP my sweet prince

 

[underdog]

Im old school I still use the POK mission to get to 75. Burn some pots get a DS and solid tank .

Oil of fennin RO
Mage
Tank = Healer merc

After that I hit The Grounds till 85 then its HA's the rest of the way .


75 takes about 1 day
75-85 1 day
85-105 1 week

if steady and constant play time .

And after all said and done enough Alt Currency to buy your group merchant gear and NV gear . Even weapons

 

[riot]

What's the pok mission and how solid of a tank does it need to be? Im trying to get my group to 75 so i can PL them with a 105 but these last couple levels are killing me lol

 

[mcarpe]

I've always used a well geared bard and a baby bard to level a toon to 75+ish in a few hours. I'll take a druid with me also for added dmg shield/heals and ports but it's not required.

105 geared bard - trains mobs to baby bard + <character to lvl>. 105 bard will only play dmg shield and ae/snare songs. Baby bard sings 1 pulse of the lvl 2 ae dmg song and steps away. Sit/stand 105 bard as needed etc.. Watch the exp fly by.

 

[riot]

That's how I used to PL too except I switched servers now and only have access to a 105 SK. The druid I used to use is on the SK account but on a different server and I sold my bard like a year ago lol.

 

[underdog]

The NPC on the right side of Main bank . The missions scale to the lvl of the Mission leader . get mission on your lowbie , and once you have zoned in with your LOWBIE send your High lvl a Taskadd . ( NOT GROUP ) TA only .
pull whole zone to entrance with tank with Healer merc on Passive once tank drops to about 50% turn on merc to balance . if doing this with a class other than a tank to lvl 65 use high lvl class any class with healer merc same thing pull mobs to zone with merc on passive and then once 50% turn merc on REACTIVE so merc gets healing agro with DS on merc . AND....Don't forget to use OIL OF FENNIN RO at about 40% of mobs life . Continue this until lvl 70-75 depending on tank or class your using , to the grounds and as stated above . its nice PLing because you can run mission and zone back out once mobs are dead and save your XP POT so one pot last forever no wasting it in an open zone , DO NOT complete mission just kill mobs . I suggest starting these at lvl 20

 

[psimoon]

I didn't know that Bone chips leveling was gone.

What about the exp penalty for the lowbie grouping with the 105 characters in pre-COTF content?

 

[underdog]

Is why you TA only do not group .

 

[psimoon]

Underdog, sorry I was commenting on Section VI 70+ above about the grouping with the 105.

I am very familiar with the practice of PLing using that instance. I had to stop using it after the nerf to Shining line. Shining no longer works for grey mobs, so once again, clerics get the shaft.

Now I need to figure a way to get a toon from 85 to 100 without the COTF HA dailies.

 

[underdog]

Farm the VOA missions and progression . That's not bad xp .

 

[playj]

Could wait until January when COTF will be open to all :P

 

[psimoon]

Thanks UD and Playj.

UD, I assume you are talking about VOA progression or ROF? I was kind of hopeful of saving the ROF exp for later in the late 90s.

It is the 85 to 95 that is giving me fits. Usually I do mid 90s in T1/T2 ROF merc and partisan quests. Those are like min of 11% per partisan and like 5% per merc. Shards, Grelleth, EW are pretty easy and quick. It is the later tiers that are only 2-4 %. It was sad to see the trend carry over into TDS. I guess ROF spoiled me for exp in partisan/merc quests.

Anyway, that gets me close to 100, then COTF daily HAs to 105. I have done them soooo much that they are getting annoying and boring. I have done every single HA in COTF at least once, most way more.

THanks again.

EDIT: clarification... those percentages are for lvl 100 to 101.

 

[underdog]

ROF is actually what I meant hehe not sure where VOA came from.