Question - Velious leveling 50-60

[crumpshot]

Now that Velious is open on Ragefire, anyone have any suggestions for Velious leveling from 50-60? And I'm asking specifically in the context of outdoor KA puller mode working well. And nets faster xp gains than burning woods.

Thanks for any tips.

 

[playj]

I wonder how crowded otters are in Cobalt Scar on Ragefire. They were not fantastic xp but easy and that was back in 2001.

Failing that some corner of Western Wastes perhaps but mobs were rather sparse there so not too good for KA.

 

[nyghteyes]

There seems to be plenty of room, Velks/Kael usually have 2 to 4 instances spun up. Velks is probably the best exp for low hp mobs. Why are you stuck with outdoors? Plop yourself in the middle of upper dogs and pull pull pull.

Cobalt Scar is probably ok, not really that many mobs tho and really far apart unless doing othimirs.

 

[AutomateEverything]

Have you considered Dragon Necropolis? It's one of my favorite under-utilized Velious zones.

While it's not outdoors, it does have several large areas with plenty of mobs around to reliably pull. I wouldn't think line of sight would be a problem in the second large spider room, before you go downstairs, for example. Depending on how close you are to the 50 end of that 50-60 it may be a bit challenging, but by mid-50s I would think you could carefully (mind the traps) move to the lower Chetari city areas, which are both much more out of the public eye and probably have more mobs.

Failing that I'll echo Western Wastes as another zone I love from that expansion and spent a lot of time in. Could take some positioning and ignores to get going, and the pulls will be infrequent, but bear in mind the pelts and such off the wolves sold really, really well in that era, so that could make up for it. Same with the silks from those giant worms, though they are a bit nasty/annoying.

 

[nyghteyes]

DN is a mean ass zone. And I found out the hard way there is a lvl 65 Whelp Kidnapper or 2 in the tunnels that is not really friendly at all. Waved at him one time and wiped my group of 18 without breaking a sweat.

I don't think you can beat Velks for low HP and drops of Gems ect are great.

 

[AutomateEverything]

Yeah, DN isn't forgiving, but it's pretty super for out-of-the-way and mob density, especially lower down. And it actually has quite a few open areas for a dungeon.

I don't think it gets especially challenging until you go down the tunnel, though. I used to solo kite in there on my druid during Velious. And brought in friends to trio pretty frequently, tanking the mobs with me healing (war/rogue/druid). All in the low 50s or so.

Besides, the spider Poof is way too much fun to avoid!

 

[Rustycat]

DN is a mean ass zone. And I found out the hard way there is a lvl 65 Whelp Kidnapper or 2 in the tunnels that is not really friendly at all. Waved at him one time and wiped my group of 18 without breaking a sweat.

I don't think you can beat Velks for low HP and drops of Gems ect are great.

Not sure I'd suggest trying anything with autopulls but Velks used to be amazing just to set up on the lower floor in one of the safe corners, then just pull as fast as you can kill and run up the ramps and bring them down. Depending on group make up and ability to CC, you used to be able to bring hordes down, AE mez and then just kill, kill, kill. After some slow grinding in GD, I used to duo in Velks for months. Just enjoyed it there for some reason and always rewarded well. One of the better ore farming areas too that were amazing trader sales back in the day.