Power Leveling

[Jovhato]

I was in a LDoN group last night with a 22 shammy. She said she just created that character 4 hours prior to the raid. Her quote was "Paludal Caverns rule." This raid lasted about an hour and I got half a level at 25. I figured in that one hour, the shaman should be 27 by now ;)
At first I thought maybe she leveled by giving bone chips to the Paladin in Kaladim but then her skills would be very low (which they weren't).

What's the fastest you've leveled? Should I believe the shammy?

[Macab]

Well it sounds hard to believe but its actually rather simple to do. Get a high level druid to hang out with you in paludal caverns. At first level you should stay by the zone line at all times and if your twinked thats a big plus. Have the druid buff you to max and if you can get temperance that is a big plus also. Have druid pull a mushroom to zone line and beat it down to 55% health, then root it. Druid zones out and clears agro. Druid zones back in and gives you thorns. You attack mushroom. Thorns do most of the damage, but you have to hit it atleast once to get xp ( Hitting it is the hard part). Druid heals you as you get beat silly. You kill Mushroom and gain a couple of levels in one shot. So it can be done in a very short amount of time, but as you gain levels you get less xp as you well know. Paludal is a great zone since you get great xp until 26. After that it slows considerably. Very good spot to power level. I have done it with my Tank this way, so i can guarantee success. B) Good luck Power leveling and hope this helps.



Macab Dreamweaver
Shen 'An Calharr

[Sepulturah]

22 in four hours..wow.

On my own (ie, no PLing) I did 1 to 30 in 3 days, probably didn't break any records but for me that's fast. I did it with a HE Paladin:

Day One:
1-5 Freeport West
6-9 Qeynos Hills
10 Blackburrow
11-17 Kurn's Tower

Day Two:
18-26 Paludan Caverns

Day Three:
27-30 Highhold Keep

I kept my 1hs and 2hs nearly maxed, while bash didn't really keep up til i hit 40ish later on. 2hbash and piercing are (at lv 45) hovering around 140 skill.

I probably could have leveled my Necro up faster, but I have less RL time these days than I did with my Pally. Necro is more fun, though - only thing I miss out on is not having buffs that can work on others, but that does not eclipse being hell on wheels as a necro.

[Eudoxia]

1-30 in 7 hours

[Methisto]

I have heard that all classes can PL others in their own particular way. Anyone have any suggestions or techniques (spells/locations/stratagies) that a 52 NEC could use to PL others?

Thanks in advance.

[Schaeffer]

Well, PLing is best done by healing classes and classes with damage sheilds, that's what makes druids so good at it. The way to PL is to make sure the PL'ee is getting constant Kills with the least down time and the most XP. The best thing about the PL'er is being able to single pull MoB's that are too high for the PL'eeI usually keep a heal over time on the person to make sure they don't die, and give a small nuke or two at the end to help the MoB die faster. Only problem with this is that our heals cost our own HP so we need to tap every so often, and we don't have targetable HP buffs and/or damage sheilds. It still can be done with any class, you just have to use the abilities you're given and be creative.

[Nox]

Fasted I ever levelled:

Click on 'Test Server' icon, instead of regular EQ icon.

Wait for test server patches to get applied.

Create toon and log in with toon.

/testbuff

Ding 25!

Not only that, you get some twink gear with it. Warriors, for example, get a Centi Longsword and Shortsword.

[Kompressor]

I have drood / necro / cleric which i can 3 box at any particular time.. I pl'd a chanter friend 1-50 in a week or so.. and pl'd myself on a few occasions.. Some say its hard to pl a caster, but its all about the lvling, and skillups, as long as they re casting with meleeing (a lil bit) casters can be pl'd just as efficient as any other class, (although melees are a bit easier to pl for mana/downtime sakes) If you find your skills for casting on certain areas to be subpar, what most peeps do is get clarity in PoK and sit n cast on pets till the skills are up to par.

Pl'ing caster was fun, I could of done it with just the drood, but having the necro there feeding him mana was key.. Least they could nuke/dot at their leasure w/o havin to sit n med too much, having both toons to pl friends with made pl'ing much faster than just havin one pl'er but it was overkill to a certain extent lol

What I told my pl'ee is to get lvl 5 first, (people who get pl'd usually have enough money to be fekuber twinked), run around noobie zones and thrash on mobs having temperance buff.. after they hit 5, I take em to CB till lvl 9-10ish, from there, I take em to Unrest yard trash (best xp I have ever seen period, not to mention mobs there are undead) Then from 15-20 ish take em to paludal caverns (also very good xp but I still think Unrest beats it)... from 20-32 ish, I pl in unrest basement.. Now, people talk about hk and highpass n all that as being good xp, but till you've seen the dungeon bonus in the unrest basement, you'll think otherwise.. My Xp% (lvl 20-29) I gained in the basement ranged from 7-15 % per kill.. for lvls up to 29.. when u hit 30, most are db, some still white, but u still get around 5-7 % per kill.

As far as myself with my necro, in Unrest Using DC on a Darkboned skele, or skele monk was uber.. My necro leveled here from 25-30 but just pl'd in the sense of having a buffer there, and the occasional save from pulling a train, but I didnt need druid to thorns or heal like most do) I didnt need my cleric to do much else since but temperance me so soloing the basement using DC was easy as pie.. some people milk the basement till 36 ish as some mobs are still db.. I prefer GD, or EW camps for xping or pl'ing because, 1) 3-4% xp, 2) nice faction hits.. from basically 32ish to 45 I lvl'd at the Ry gorr fort killing orcs, interchanging to giant fort, my faction with coldain is max ally, and Cov is amiably.. There I mostly duo'd with another partner.. at 46 I went to plane of justice, and was able to solo there once I got my 49 pet, and lich form.. I am sittin at 54 now, and soloing Plane of Nightmare,solo xp there is pretty nice at 54 I get 3% per usually (duo'ing will make life much easier there) but group xp kinda sucks there for some reason.. I am not startin AA's till I get at least 62, as I usually carry sow potions, and have the zlandi heart, so aa's are not as important to me at 54..
lvls > aa in general anyhow..

Myz Kompressorz 54 nec of tarew Marr
http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=876746

[Cristo]

I did 16-20 last night in about 2 hours in Paludal with no twink gear and no help at all> I also did that with my monk


I play Cristex on maelin And i autojoin the channel so when im on either my wizard or my necro ill be in there

[Dredji]

1-54+3AA = 4days 28hours - hot stuff, solo. good gear though.