What a night?! ugh....

[Rabekis]

So much for 51 and splurt..... Ended up dying 4 times last night, lost my level, and need some advice.

With the geonids help in Crystal Caverns along with the high side of Echo Caverns, I rocketed through my 40's pretty quickly. I hit 51 and Echo just isn't doing it for me anymore. The gnomes are dark blue (and us Iksars loving killin them) but the exp is much slower and just plain lacking. Time to move on.

Good ol' NecroTalk.com, I peek in here to see where I should go to hunt. Well I have two choices from the looks of it, bards and nobles in Highkeep, or head over to Dulak and get some exp and components for Auspice and Comatose while I'm at it. Let's go bards and nobles....

I haven't been to Highkeep in about 3 years when my lowly Monk was in search of a Shralok Bag and I sat on "the list" to kill goblins for hours. Never been upstairs, but decided to venture up there. I read how to pull, etc, etc, but man is it ever cramped in there, and EVERYONE hates Iksars. Well, first pull goes bad, SOW is blinking as I madly run around trying to get out of that horrible maze of rooms and hallways, dead end, dead end, 10 guards beating on me, you can see how this ends....... And let me tell ya, what a pain to have to run all the way back there to get my body.

So, I figure, man, have to look that up again, why dont I go buy some spells in Overthere, easy right? wrong. I go uninvis, right click on the vendor, and about 5 dragoons obilerate me in one hit. *sigh* Travel to Innothule Swamp to get the same spell, and would like to personally thank casters realm for putting the wrong info on spell locations.... argh!

Anyhow, finally get the spells in Cabilis Shaman guild of all places, and decide to hit Dulak. Never been there, but hey, lets try it out, the Luggad Caves, or whatever they are called. Well, Paineel became a problem......ended up down an elevator, lost in the city trying to get to the Warrens (yes, I know thats the wrong way), 50 greens take me down, and my body is stuck somewhere. CR time, slip off the cliff, float down to the hole, and DMF doesnt stick when you zone in and fall to my death....Welcome to Level 50.

Anyhow, had to hire a necro to summon my body..... how embarrasing. I guess its time to hit Split Paw to get that Summon Corpse spell, eh? So, finally get my body, and head over to LoY. Invis and make my way to the Dulak zone line, test the waters on a few dark blues, and damn, its hard! Not sure I can take that stuff alone very efficiently..... so my question, where can I go to hunt? I hear PoN is a little easier, but I always took pride in the fact that I could find these little camps no one knew about that were DB to me, but easy and get about 30% exp an hour or so. So , suggestions????

TIA!

[Nigyl]

If you can find an easy solo camp in the 50s that gives 30% of a level in an hour, let us know :). The mobs in PoN will probably give you at least that if you survive, but I'd hardly call it easy (resist, resist, resist, FD, lose pet, /q, log on, summon pet, med up, resist, add, FD, fail, die, get rez, etc)... and most other spots with dark blues will probably be much slower.

PoJ might give decent solo XP at 51 if you can get there when it's not camped enough to make finding mobs to kill difficult. They're only 45-50 and don't resist too much... just pull them down the stairs and aggro kite around the bottom, watching out for adds at your level (most adds stop at 55, AFAIR, and the pet will cause adds up to LoZ unless you leave it down the stairs).

[Jebasiz]

Go to burning woods. Thank me when your 53 k?

[Rabekis]

Originally posted by Jebasiz@Feb 18 2004, 04:30 PM
Go to burning woods. Thank me when your 53 k?
I actually did Burning Woods at the Giant Fort with my monk when I was in the low 50's, and it was soooo slow. I mean like maybe a blue a night, horrible. Is it better now?

[Salizarr]

Originally posted by Jebasiz@Feb 18 2004, 04:30 PM
Go to burning woods. Thank me when your 53 k?
/agree

Go to BW at the Giant Fort. The spawn rate is insanely fast and you can easily get to 52 and push to 53 if you want.

I am 52 and currently camped in Dulak Harbor at one of the ships (forget the name, D something) and killing everything on that ship.

Sal

*edit*
Forgot to say that you can easily fear kit tose giants using Invoke Fear. They are not sociable, however, if you pull one that's near another and they are both on their aggro range against you, they will both come. Just root the add and smack the other :)

[Jebasiz]

The undead were actually better exp then the giants iirc, but it's been quite a while.
The monk not getting good exp is probably due to umm...they solo like sh**. You should be solo'ing almost none stop there, Giants, undead, wurms, wasps mmm mmm Hotwingz faction!(joke) Anything there besides gullerback and maybe that one named wurm should be cake, and by that I mean an absolute joke... so even when some con light blue to you, chain pulling them isn't horrible exp... It might not be what your looking for, but if your recent difficulties tell you anything, your expectations just MIGHT not be reasonable. /shrug....50-53 was cake in BW, there's some necros I know that like it so much they actually aa there too heh. Go ENJOY dominating your domain a bit and give the exp race your in a rest, levels ALL eventually come, why rush...(even though the exp here is very good imo, it may not be what your looking for)

[AanuuarVF]

/echo on

Burning Woods sir... it's good until 55 if you can stand it.

The Giant Fort is great, I leveled from 48-52 there, but when they start turning ltBlue/green walk off of the hill and find the path... not sure of direction, but it's right in front of the ramp.

Set your pet up there and watch Dark Blue after Dark Blue just walk up and say, "kill me please, here's some exp for you!" It's such cake it gets really boring, one of the easiest Fear/Kite spots in the game... the money isn't horrible either. And from there, you can pick off an Ancient or two that spawns at the bridge.

And I don't know about your server... but, I'm on Bristlebane (top 3 population) and if I see more than 3 people in zone, I'm stunned.

~~EDIT~~
Gullerback is the only thing in the zone you should have trouble with... I haven't faught him lately, but iirc he's 99% + Spell Resistant. Entalon is the named wurm, you can handle him... Gorgel Packlok is the named Giant, if you can handle him, you can handle anything in the zone (I think I took him down at 48 or 49?)

AND - Best exp for time spent... is the Hornets. They fly slow as hell, there are a few different names of them, but very low hps and high exp hit. (This is because they hit very hard) Still dark blue at 55.

[Nigyl]

Anything there besides gullerback and maybe that one named wurm should be cake

And the level 50 named skeleton for the Mage epic... I don't think it's classed as undead, though I didn't try slowing it for the pet to tank, just root-dotted. However, they're indifferent to all, so provided you don't attack them they won't trouble you.

I'm on Bristlebane (top 3 population) and if I see more than 3 people in zone, I'm stunned.

And one of them will probably be me, farming the epic drops for my Mage :).

[Nigyl]

Entalon is the named wurm, you can handle him..

No, there are four named wurms in the zone, and Entalon isn't the tough one in my experience. Nezekezena is the one to watch out for... they can summon if they spawn at level 51, whereas the others are 45-49 I think and have quite a few hit points but aren't otherwise any tougher than the normal wurms.

[Jebasiz]

If burning woods isn't to your liking go try wyverns in Cobalt Scar/spiroks in Timorous Deep or seafuries in OOT, but there is probably alot more competition for those spawns then burning woulds....which sucks imo. Lower Guk is another place you *could* try, but I would think that'd be more work then BW and slower exp. Heh, if I was level 50 again I'd be in burning woods...no doubt in my mind.

[Jebasiz]

ok no more guessing....Don't agro http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=6357 and http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=4460 and you should be fine.

[drewz21]

Just my 2 cents worth. I'm with Jeb. I hit Burning Woods, Undead Fort, not giant fort since Fear-kiting right now doesn't work 100%. Easy and safe to do as long as you look around every so often for the wanderers.

I used our great undead spells. I could rest the dead on the things in the fort and pull them singly.

I'd pull with <insert the one you like to use> Darkness. Back up a bit.
Splurt. Slow with Shackle. Asytole. Sic pet. Sit down until dead.

I never healed my pet. I would wait until he was down to about 1 bubble of health and sit him down. If my mana was ok, I'd pull one and root/rot it. By that time my pet was full or close to it.

Of course, I'd Bond of Death as needed and I pretty much stayed in Lich form the whole time.

Your 49 pet can destroy the light blue ones after you slow them and the undead don't run either which is nice.

I killed Gullerback 2 times and almost died to him 2 times so I wouldn't mess with him. Besides, on my server I can only get about 100pp for his mantle that he drops. Not worth it.

For fun I occasionally killed Sarnaks, wurms, and the occasional giant.

I left there at 52, got a bit too slow for me, and went to my new favorite place....The Scarlet Desert.

Hunting on the plateau against the Sun Revenants is great. They are undead which is always handy, and most times I'm the only one in the whole zone. There are several different named ones and the drops from them sell pretty well. Not counting those rare drops, I can bring in about 500-600pp in 2-3 hours of hunting. I've been doing 50/50 on XP/AA and I've dinged to 53 and gotten 2 AA's since being there. The toughest ones there are the Sun Reavers which are Necromancers themselves and have our same spells. Since they are all undead, they are pretty easy.

However, I recommend aggro kiting as they hit much harder than the BW mobs even when slowed with Shackle. I just turn off my pet's taunt and stack 3 DOT's, including darkness, and once it's down to about 90% life or less, sic my pet on it and let it pound on it's back while I run around. When you get your 53 Rogue pet, they drop even faster. I love watching that backstab message. heh

Again, not hard, it's fairly safe to do, and you can make a bit of plat while hunting.

Good hunting.
Jos.

[Salizarr]

Originally posted by drewz21@Feb 18 2004, 05:18 PM
I hit Burning Woods, Undead Fort, not giant fort since Fear-kiting right now doesn't work 100%. Easy and safe to do as long as you look around every so often for the wanderers.
It's true that fear is kinda broken, but i leveled in BW from 49-52 and using Invoke Fear instead of just fear, in only had maybe 5-6 mobs poofing on me.
Inovoke fear lasts long enough and when it ends, the giant is either already at "run away mode" or about to enter that.

Just be warned that if you fear them near the ramp on the fort, they will climb it and sometimes get stuck in the walls.

I never tried the hornets neither the undead there.
Dulak is pretty good atm at 52. I thought about going to Scarlet Desert to hunt reavers but people say that they resist a lot more than usual....

Sal

[AanuuarVF]

No, there are four named wurms in the zone

You're right on that one...
But, if you're at the Giant Fort, Entalon is the only you'll encounter... I never saw the others roaming around there.

[Nigyl]

For fun I occasionally killed Sarnaks, wurms, and the occasional giant.

Actually that was the main reason I avoided BW as an XP zone, I didn't want to trash Chardok faction. Now the Sarnaks in BW are non-KoS to me from all the salt and skin turn-ins it's not a problem.

[Rabekis]

Thanx for the advice, I'll hit BW, I've spent a lot of time there in the past and being familiar with a zone and the mobs walking paths takes a lot of the uneasiness out of the equation. What's the best way to get there from PoK?

[Nigyl]

I go OT, Skyfire, Burning Woods: I think it's the fastest way from PoK and probably the safest (don't think anything sees invis until the undead in BW).

[necropheliack]

spirocs u can do in td and if those are light blue or so u can go to raptorz after a long swim but once u get there there is no one ever at raptorz its sad so by the time u clear em all they others should just be about to pop or already popped few wiz buddys grinded raptoz till 60 dont know how they could stand it but they did it and its one of the biggest brain dead zones i honestly think if someone leveled a necro to lvl 20 and knows there spells alright they could solo a lvl 50 plus toon in the zone easily thats how brain dead it is

[Gruzzen]

Something people don't realize is that after 39 the undead in BW is much faster XP then the giants. I did BW for 2 levels 40 - 43.

I fought Giants from 40 - 41 and it was fast.
AT 41 I realized that If I sensed the dead and charmed an undead ape,, then sense the dead and attack a skele. AFter 2 skele's the ape is down to about 10% health. Break Invis and Kill old pet.

For 1 bub of mana I charmed a pet and killed 2 mobs and then the pet. I basically sat the whole time and meded. I used hungry earth to root, and kept an eye on the pet. Very fast xp.


Gruzzen

[Salizarr]

Originally posted by Gruzzen@Feb 19 2004, 06:46 AM

I fought Giants from 40 - 41 and it was fast.
Are these giants the ones near the fort?

Because, to me, they conned DB at 49 with the named mostly conning yellow. I imagined they would con red at 40, no?

Sal

[Rabekis]

Tried it for a bit last night, looks like it's work, although its a pretty long run, and yes, I died once LOL The spawn rate is insanely fast and had a few ancients pop on me right when my SOW dropped, thems the breaks I guess. But got about 10% in 20 minutes or so, so that'll do pig, that'll do.

[Rabekis]

Goes really slow, tried the undead fort area near the southern part of the zone, and while its fast, there are just too many adds and the exp still goes really slow, even on dark blues. 25% in 2 hours, not good.

PoM w/ my friend who is a 62 druid, and we aggro kited the yard trash, which was mostly red or yellow to me, and I get about 1% a kill, which equates to a bit faster than BW. But I cant solo that. Not sure what to try, LDoN is faster than this.

[Jebasiz]

PoM w/ my friend who is a 62 druid, and we aggro kited the yard trash, which was mostly red or yellow to me, and I get about 1% a kill, which equates to a bit faster than BW.

/e tries to look surprised.

Imagine that being Power leveled is faster then earning exp....

[Rabekis]

Well yes, but the giants are still as slow as they were really, you can just solo them a lot faster as a necro, than my old monk.