Total Excellent XP

[Pyecrust]

Ok i know not all of you have platinum tree's but if you can afford to do it i have a nice littel XP earner. It takes a lot of hard work and is only recommended if you really feel confident in youre ability as a necro. It only works if you have access to multiple EQ accounts or 2 freinds of a similar level willing to help.

step one: Go to the bazaar and buy a few sets of pet weapons and focus items, also buy a staqck of sow's unless you have the Jboot's. Secondly i recommend buying the DS potions if you can afford them or have a shammy friend make some for you like i did.

Step two: head to PoK or which ever is you buffing zone (server dependant) and get youreself a temperance and clarity to get you started and it helps to get a shammy rack for extra proc chance (weapon dependant).

Step three: Head to youre favourite LDoN camp and gather youre to friends or load up youre 2 second accounts. Choose a mission i prefer slaughters of 59 or less and collects of 27 or less( i find i can usually complete these with very little hassle). Then once mission is selected and accepted head over to the dungeon entrance making sure you have full mana and Hp.

Step 4 zone in only with the youre toon and have the other 2 disband from group once youre in.

Step 5 enjoy a train free XP environment.

Tactics ive used i get up Banshee aura, Vampyric embrace and drink a damage sheild potion then i get toe to toe with 3 mobs at a time while good ole kobaber is giving the mobs what for in the rear with his little hands of ixilbit. I find having the clarity for the first 25 mins or so of the adventure helps with not having the added hp drain coming from youre hp/mp conversion line of spells.

Ok now you may all think im mad, full of BS or a bit of both but ive went from level 22 to 34 doing this using the above tactic and verious others. aswell as some light fear kiting in MS and DSP.

But like i say you need to be confident and it helps to have a lot of twinkage and some plat lying around. i have close to 2.5k hp's with a full rack of buffs and you really do need it for the tactic im using now. yes i have failed a few wona few and given up on a few but at the end of the day at my level the points are not worth bothering about its the train free solo enviroment i like about it. Now i just cant wait to get my level 39 undead slow so i can do some single pulling and pet tanking methods.

Have fun and remember im not crazy give it a go.
/emote pyecrust puts down the crackpipe

[Doomfir]

I wager that is pretty good if you are a twink and can handle it for your level.

Unfortunately at 65 it would be a shear pain to solo in an LDoN camp cause they are so full of living as well as undead even in MMC. I would rather just go to Veksar and solo the theater where I know all the mobs are about the same level as LDON mobs and are all undead and therefore subject to my slow and mez.

[xeether]

Originally posted by Pyecrust@Mar 3 2004, 08:33 PM
only recommended if you really feel confident in youre ability as a necro.

i get toe to toe with 3 mobs at a time while good ole kobaber is giving the mobs what for in the rear with his little hands of ixilbit.

ive went from level 22 to 34 doing this using the above tactic and verious others. a

This sounds more like having confidence in being able to tank and hold up rather than more confident and elogant Necromancer tactics. You may find this to work at the lower levels but as you go up in levels if you're still doing then then you're fighting mobs way to easy (not good xp). Not to mention you're not really learning to play a necro to his full potential.

I'm not trying to flame you, but first off it sounds like you're using an exploit, and second, it sounds more like a tactic geared for an SK rather than a necro. Not that necros can't tank. We can. We can tank well under the right circumstances, but this doesn't really seem to be necro style play to me, but taht just my opinion, not canon.

[Pyecrust]

dont get me wrong i am under no illusion i can keep this up for much longer but its fun.:)

[Thromia]

not a flame, but sounds like one too many "what ifs" in that scenario.

[Whispers Quietly]

/emote pyecrust puts down the crackpipe
maybe you should have put this down a bit quicker......

[Pyecrust]

Ok you guys can flame me all you want but if you aint tried and most of you wont as it only really feasable to if youre level 20 to 40. Dont knock it and im sorry but xeether if we were not meant to tank certain situations we would not have been given vampiric embrace and our DS spell and im sure i would rather raise my skills on low mobs as apposed to fear kite 24/7 it makes for an exciting and challenging change.

Because my tactic is a little unorthodox does not mean im not playing a necro tactic and on the up side when im level 65 and have dodge, defense and my blunt skill maxed im sure it will be all worth it.

Any way to all you flamers out there watch out there is a moss snake with an extinguisher out there waiting for you.

I was under the impression this board was differnent to the other stupid full of flaming fools obviously i was wrong. wise man once said to me dont knock it till youve tried it!

Pyecrust Theblackened .....coming soon to a bakery near you.

[Persephonae]

I'm a little skeptical... but I know that my baby chanter and my boyfriend's pally trio'd level 20-25 high risk LDoN with a cleric twink and didn't even break a sweat doing it. (We had one mid 20s collect that the three of us finished with 63 min to spare)

And I've seen for myself a level 65 necro friend aggro kite adds in Miragul & Rujark as ghetto CC in a level 65 High Risk while the tank & bard got rezzed back in... the rest of the group thought he'd made a run to zone till we saw the XP messages.

So this might not be as totally insane as people think... or he could be smoking crack *shrug*

[wyntyr]

I don't think it is crazy at all (ok, maybe just a little). It wouldn't be my first choice for solo xp as I do LDoN's for the points not the xp.

Gratz on "thinking outside the nine dot's." My old boss used to say this and nobody had any idea what he meant.

[Kompressor]

[QUOTE] It wouldn't be my first choice for solo xp as I do LDoN's for the points not the xp. [QUOTE]




thats what most people do, but i dont like havin losses on my ldon record B)

[xeether]

I'm pretty sure I said I wasn't trying to flame you...


Yup, after reviewing my post it distinctly says I'm not trying to flame you...

[Thromia]

I remember reading something about maximizing LDoN xp by going in as a group of 3. There was also something about making sure the highest level of the group was either a melee or caster, but I forget which one. Can anyone verify the validity of this theory and if it matters what level your melee is in relation to the rest of the group?

[Schaeffer]

You want the melee to be the highest level. Your healer can be the minimum for the zone because ain't nobody gonna resist their heals. DPS casters and slowers need to be the right level, because the resists on slows and nukes will create some high aggro and then you're toast. As long as you have a healer and a slower, you can use the lowest melee because melee DPS sucks and its all about the casters baby. Melee is for meatsheild and as long as your healer can heal and your slower can slow you should fair well.

[Jebasiz]

heh, I "duo'd" with a 3 boxer for a bit, he lost power one night halfway through a slaughter 59, and it wasn't too difficult to win. This is doable imo, although pofire smokes ldon exp at 65.

[Thromia]

thanks schaeffer! it's hard to find a single repository of useful LDoN info. i'll try and see if I can pull stuff from around the forum and internet into a single sticky sometime.