Where to exp

[Jebasiz]

Alot of the "prefered" hunting spots pre-60 are very different from what I used, so I'm starting with 60 since my experiences may actually be able to help people currently exping and wondering where go.

Level 60:
Almost exclusively in Plane of Nightmare at the gargoyle camp. Pick a wall and kill 3-4 per spawn cycle and the exp comes in pretty fast, it was also decent cash from gem/cash drops, and parchments. I got about 20aa here as well, 5% a kill for aa upto level 62, it was quite good. I did exp a bit in Plane of storms killing the frogs at zone in, but I found that more annoying to split, and camped very often.

Level 62: Halls of Honor- I started at the zone in, killing the guardians of marr etc, very good exp, a little low on cash, but it's PoP heh....there is no cash.

level 64: The crypts in HoH, scribed embracing darkness and dinged 65 both in HoH. It's about as good/easy exp as I can remember outside of plane of fire.

level 65: I still exp in HoH, sometimes plane of fire, alot of the time Ldon(grouped of course) Tactics is very good exp, and may even be easier then HoH, definetly better cash drops.

I do vary my hunting to break monotony but for straight exp that's the best way I can think of, and the way I exp'd myself. It's alot like the old "FM, OT, DL, KC" pipe-line, people used kunark era, anyway, I just thought I'd share, enjoy.

If you have any questions about how to hunt in these areas, I join the channel often, just ask.

Jeb

[Xavier]

Loc to PoN gargoyles please....been trying to figure this one out for awhile. And a discription of how you broke spawn and your kill tech. Do they summon and so fourth.

[Jebasiz]

The gargoyles are opposite the hedge maze event on the back wall. The two on the end pillars are single pulls from either side wall, the wall on the corner, has 2 middle spawn which will have to be darknessed, and split with fd...scorned banshees WILL come and they WILL kill you, if you don't fd. After it's split and the banshees reset it's straight agro kiting with jabober beating the gargoyles from behind. The other wall has 3 single pull able spawns, as your looking at the wall from the hill(back to the hill) the two pillars to the right are single pulls, and then the corner left pillar is a single pull. There's less room to kite here, and normally have to fd after you run past the spiders and the corner spawn to be in the kite area. I almost always agro'd something, a big spider, ghastly bat, or a gargoyle...fd and wait a minute or two, and then get to work. Sow and DMF help immensely, keep root memmed incase you can't land darkness before it's worn off. Most of your dots should land, and it's decent exp til 62.

[Xavier]

Kewl thanxs.

[Silenka Wishbringer]

IMO at 65 the best and easiest place for exp and cash lewts like highly polished gems wich i sell for a average of 17k ea on Drinal is agro kiting Diaku in PoTactics, it only gets scary if a Diaku Death Knight snares you or the pesky Diaku that will resist your snare 5 or 6 times in a row, otherwise its pure cake about 5 or 6 % aa per kill

[Jebasiz]

I agree bigk, but that's also why it's camped alot. I did mention it as a place I frequent, but honestly if I were after the BEST exp all the time I'd be in pofire constantly, and nowhere else. The cash drops are decent, and it's the fastest exp I've ever had, about 14% aa per kill, and take about 1.5x longer then a diaku, so even if your going 1 soldiers for 2.5 diaku, you still win in pofire.

[Zarkos]

Where are the best places to solo in Tactics? Also what is the best method to slay these nasty ogres?

I had a test run in there last night, darkness pulled into the little room before the big pit straight from zone in, I ran the big guy around the room blasting with nukes&dots. This took quite a whiLe (and alot of mana) but i did not have the pet as it was just a trial run.

Oh and which are the SK's....think ill stay clear of those bad boys.

[Silenka Wishbringer]

for tactics zone in , invis up run to pit and go left to big room, this is a safe room with no spawns, pop out ur lvl 63 rouge pet and turn off taunt, buff him up with rune of death( i use clicky planes armor pants ). tHE SPELLS I HAVE loaded up are touch of mujak for quick 850 pt lifetap (the only nuke i use here) sarynns kiss , funeral pyre of kalidor , blood of thule splurt your 2 min darkness dot your besr root and deathpeace. Pull with darkness, then splurt then blood of thule send in pet then funeral pyre and sarynns kiss and just kite him around, i rarely ever have to reaplly darkness but occasionally u will, the only hard part here is the death knights who nuke dot and snare , and mobs resist your snare semi freqwently so u need to run em around outer wall until u can l;and a snare or just FD . Its actually a very nice solo spot ..make alot of other classes jelous :D

[Zarkos]

thanks bigkilla i'll try that out tonight.

[Jebasiz]

I have, ToM, embracing darkness, greater immobolize, horror, death peace, fpok, sk, and BoT memmed for tactics. I do use the 63 pet with taunt off as bigkilla mentioned. If it's camped you *can* do the room to the right, but it's a bit tricky as their are 3 spawns and a roamer there (possibly more then one /shrug). I normally clear the wall on the opposite side of the room, around the pit, and then kiting the room spawns/roamers up and down there, and once the room is clear, I kite there. Unlike the left room, the right room has the added benefit of a hallway with lots of big fat ogres who are just standing around waiting to die (read, there's more mobs available in this room, that are much more convenient). I will say though that this is can be challenging at times, and I've found myself killing 2-3 and sometimes 4 at a time...so it can get a bit hectic. The upside is, it's good exp if ya live through it and a bit more fun then one at a time. Although single kiting is entirely possibly, you just have to keep track of spawn times here. The right room (probably due to difficulty) is camped far less often on my server, and usually by groups if it's done at all.

Mobs that seem to resist darkness the most, in order: sentry's, death knights(1k+ HT when it lands, gives ya a nice little booboo) anything that is dual wields, warriors, oracles. maybe a slight variation. I haven't really tracked this, it's just the impression that they've left on me over time.

[Hawkoftheknight]

Jebasiz, I have a question for ya. You say that the gargoyles drop parchments. do you know about what the drop rate is on them? I have killed about 100 of them and have not seen one :blink:

Thankyou
Hawk

[Jebasiz]

I usually got 1-2 parchments per exp grind...but PoP was kinda new then and thus the drop-rates have changed quite a bit. It's still part of their loot table, but probably less frequent.

[Meulaven]

is there a tactic to killing the zone in area in HoH at 62 just dinged a couple days ago and havent tried the zone yet

[Ralnec]

The Zone In mob camp is referred to as the Grave Yard most of the time, the large area to the left of zone in is the grave yard, just run around in a big circle. This is a good place to learn the ropes of agro kiting if your new to it. Once you get the hang of it and get your upgraded darkness spell do basement mobs 6% aa at 65 per kill not sure what it is at lower levels. Oh and Sentry mobs are not snareable so do at your own risk.

Basic Kite

1) Apply Darkness (Visit Timermod (http://www.timermod.com) for a good counter set it for 2 minutes so you know when to reapply)

2) Blood of Thule

3) Send in pet with pet taunt off

4) Splurt

5) Fire dot

blah blah blah

You will seriously get sick of kiting after awhile. Hundred AA's later I'm so glad I never have to go back to that zone.

[Godwrath]

I had gone to basement (is it crypt?), but i dont know where ,what is good to be killed there, just wanting to know a bit more about mobs at that zone. Thank you all anticipated.

[Ezzaral]

Originally posted by Godwrath@Oct 6 2004, 11:04 AM
I had gone to basement (is it crypt?), but i dont know where ,what is good to be killed there, just wanting to know a bit more about mobs at that zone. Thank you all anticipated.
Everything you need to know about hoh basements can be found in this thread:
http://www.necrotalk.com/index.php?showtopic=2478

(a search for "hoh basement" would have shown you this.. )

[Godwrath]

Thank you, and btw i did, that way i got this post too :P

[cryptseeker]

There's actually a few different rooms to solo kite in..one's in NE corner of zone..one is SW i think. Anyway, it's awesome place to solo exp and occasional parchment drops. As someone stated earlier, the sentries cannot be rooted or snared, I usually wait until room's cleared and kite them last from one corner to the other..with spell haste and range items, of course :P

[Bails]

Level 62: Halls of Honor- I started at the zone in, killing the guardians of marr etc, very good exp, a little low on cash, but it's PoP heh....there is no cash.


I tried this spot for the first time last night. The very frst 2 guardians were easy to splitt/kill, but I was having trouble with the others further in. Maybe my timing was off or something but everytime would get a dooming to land I would run a ways back then FD and as soon as the add reset I would wait a few seconds then stand. My problem was that 75% of the time the 'reset' mob would come running back at me. After 3 tries my Dooming wore off and I would have to wait to try and split them again. Did you ever have this problem at the zone in?

Thanks

Hieroglyph
62 terris thule.

[Yamahammer]

Im not exactly sure which room in PoT that im suppost to be pulling to, iv never xp'ed in PoT but after this i read this post i went there to see what it was like. I pulled to a small room not far from zone in, its on the right of the hall that u zone into right before the big open room with the pit, i dont think this is the right room because its pretty small, which makes me nervous.. if i had a darkness wear off or something.

[Persephonae]

Yama~

That room in Tactics is doable, tho with it being tight quarters, I tend to get beat up a lot more. especially with the occasional chain resists on Darkness.

My preferred room is to go past the room on the right, down the few steps and turn left. if you keep going forward you will come to a room that's often nicknamed the "sandbox". This is 2-3 x the size of the same room near zone in and is much nicer kiting.

One thing to note, especially if there are other people soloing Diaku while you are. If you go right after the steps you will come to a similar looking room. However this room has a spawn in it which might make your kiting "interesting" if it pops on you mid kite.

GL.. hope it helps!

[Ezzaral]

Yes, the room that Persephone refers to is the one you want to kite in. When you come to the edge of the pit, go left. It's on the south end of the pit area. There are no frequent spawns there, though a single gladiator or lost soul can spawn very infrequently - not often enough to be a concern, but it can catch you by surprise on the rare occasion. You'll find that room a lot easier than the tight quarters of the smaller room near the zone in.