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Sunday, June 9th 2013, 9:49pm

Zones and Levelling Questions

Hey guys. I'm a 64/43 Mage/Druid on Reni, and I've recently come back from a long break. I was last playing when Chapter 3 came out, and I've just gotten back in a few days ago.

With the addition of Coast of Opportunity and Xaviera, I know that lots of people have been able to rush to level 55 very easily. My main question here is that, suppose I'm starting a new character, do I even need to go through the "classic" route (being Silverspring, Aslan, Ystra, etc.) or would I be able to get both of my classes up high enough and then go to Thunderhoof Hills?

Another side question I have is that since I've messed up with my questing very far back. I had been splitting the quests in Silverspring onwards between my two classes, and that sort of messed up my XP rate for each of them. Should I bother going back to a lower level region and doing the quests for my 43 Druid or just get my Mage to 80 and then go back to my Druid?

Sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance.

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Sunday, June 9th 2013, 11:52pm

You don't need to do the "classic route". Just get to level 54 and then go to the guy near the Aotulia Volcano Snoop and he will give you a quest to go to Thunderhoof. Most players only go back if they are really bored, looking for items such as cards/titles, or are trying to complete the storyline

I suggest getting to 80 first or to a point where you can run your minigames easier (like lvl 70 and then buy a cheap lvl 70 wep). You'll probably be able to get your Druid to about level 54 or so after completing CoO and Xaveria.

They added this really good daily quest in Xaveria in the Inferno gardens area of the map called Catch the Butterflies or something like that. Its in your best interest to do the max 10 of these everyday (Daily Reset Tickets will allow you to do 10 more each ticket, but are from the Item Shop) because the exp is very good

I suggest trying to find some old friends as they'll be able to get the new information out to you quicker

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Monday, June 10th 2013, 1:31am

I suppose that explains the lack of people in the lower level areas, haha. I think I'll get to at least 70 with my Mage, and then work on levelling my Druid.

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I suggest trying to find some old friends


I think there's maybe two people from when I was playing way back when that I've talked to. My guild has basically been disbanded since no one's logged in for over a year. :D Thanks for all the help though.

Another question that's kind of been bugging me is that ever since maybe NoM in Aslan, I was never really geared enough to do any instances. This became a problem by the time I reached Hoto since I couldn't really do runs to farm equipment. Is it just the mage from two chapters ago that was bad, or is it actually impossible to do any instances on quest gear alone? I've stated some gear using Mementos from DoD runs while I was part of a friend's guild, but that's about as far as I've been able to get gear wise.

I've reached the point in my quests where most of my leftover quests in SJF, NJF and Limo are the ones for their respective instances.

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Monday, June 10th 2013, 1:38am

Oh, and just for clarification. If I made a new toon, Coast of Opportunity and Xaviera will be enough for both classes to get up to 54-55 or just one?

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Monday, June 10th 2013, 1:54am

Using CoO and Xaviera, splitting quests between both classes without double exp, you can get both classes to about 50/50. You may need to fill in with daily quests or "old zone" quests at some points, but there's really no bottlenecks. Using Weeping Coast, Savage Lands, and Aotulia Volcano (with the recent exp additions to all quests in those zones) and splitting quests between both classes without double exp, you would definitely get to 55/55 or even 56/56.

Basically the highest you can go with splitting quests is about 58/58. SJF, NJF, and Limo have a very severe exp bottleneck and you won't have enough for both classes there. If you try to split quests in SJF and NJF you'll have to do dailies to get to 60/60 (since you shouldn't even start Limo until around level 60).

That's just what my own experience has been because I had made a new char about a month ago and that's how I leveled it. You can always go back to old zones if you need to fill in some exp before level 50, but for the most part you don't really need them anymore.

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Monday, June 10th 2013, 2:06am

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Oh, and just for clarification. If I made a new toon, Coast of Opportunity and Xaviera will be enough for both classes to get up to 54-55 or just one?

i thin its closer to 45/45 because you get to 51-53 i think on one class

Wait for an exp event if you wanna split is my advice. I've got whole ZONES in the higher level ones since I waited for events

There aren't too many people who run instances how they were run before when those instances were the highest instances. Now people just power-run you through many of them

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Monday, June 10th 2013, 2:09am

instances aren't meant to be soloed at level in quest gear...that's the whole point of them...but any who, find some friends to run with, it will make leveling more enjoyable...

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Monday, June 10th 2013, 2:59am

No I didn't mean soloing the instances obviously. But even with a full party of six at level with quest gear, even the Knight won't likely survive very long. But I mean really though. Quest gear should be able to get you through the instances, even if it's difficult, you should still be able to. There are those that can buy puris and make clean statted equips, and those that don't really want to spend money on it. The best you can do is using dirty stats.

I might be getting a few friends IRL to play with me, so I wanted to be sure of the optimal questing route. Thanks for all the advice. I really appreciate it. I think I'll go with what EsxCape suggested and try that out with an alt.

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Monday, June 10th 2013, 3:10am

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No I didn't mean soloing the instances obviously. But even with a full party of six at level with quest gear, even the Knight won't likely survive very long. But I mean really though. Quest gear should be able to get you through the instances, even if it's difficult, you should still be able to. There are those that can buy puris and make clean statted equips, and those that don't really want to spend money on it. The best you can do is using dirty stats.

I might be getting a few friends IRL to play with me, so I wanted to be sure of the optimal questing route. Thanks for all the advice. I really appreciate it. I think I'll go with what EsxCape suggested and try that out with an alt.


Thats how the company gets their money unfortunately :P but once you get to endgame you're going to need to clean tier a lot of items :/

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Monday, June 10th 2013, 4:19am

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Thats how the company gets their money unfortunately :P but once you get to endgame you're going to need to clean tier a lot of items :/


or go the "cike" play style...

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Monday, June 10th 2013, 5:39pm

Getting to 50/50 by doing the CoO/Xaviera route is certainly achievable if you don't try to do it all in one weekend. Just remember that you need to be 20/20 to get to CoO (or have someone port you there). From there you go to Weeping Coast and there is an NPC that "gives" you a complete set of blue armor/weapons for level 50 that is better than quest gear. As you then move on there is another NPC that "gives" you a complete set of OD blue gear/weapons for lvl 55 in Thunderhoof. And so on for level 60 in NJF also. All from memory so forgive me for any wrong details.
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Monday, June 10th 2013, 7:20pm

Thanks for all the input guys.

So from what I've pieced together, It would be best to get to 20/20 in Silverspring and Sascilia Steppes, and then port to Heffner. From there, you can split quests between your classes each time you level up. Am I far from how it is?

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Monday, June 10th 2013, 8:05pm

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From there you go to Weeping Coast and there is an NPC that "gives" you a complete set of blue armor/weapons for level 50 that is better than quest gear.

The Weeping Coast armor set is the same as the final quest gear-set you pick up in Coast of Opportunity & Xaviera. There is a chance at Rune Slots from the reward pack in WC though, but I personally recommend you take the armor set that might suit your second or third class better.


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From there, you can split quests between your classes each time you level up. Am I far from how it is?

Nope. There is enough quests to get one class to 50-ish, maybe 52.
However, the XP reward per quest in CoO & Xav is so much higher that levelling a second & even third class to 50+ on dailies is very easy.

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Tuesday, June 11th 2013, 1:46am

Ahh I see. High daily XP rate will be useful in either case.

When y'all were levelling, how did you go about doing it? Did you go up one level in one area, port to the other area for your secondary and do one level, then go back and forth like that, or is there a more efficient way to go about it?

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Tuesday, June 11th 2013, 2:20am

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Ahh I see. High daily XP rate will be useful in either case.

When y'all were levelling, how did you go about doing it? Did you go up one level in one area, port to the other area for your secondary and do one level, then go back and forth like that, or is there a more efficient way to go about it?


I just stayed in CoO and Xaviera for both classes and as soon as one leveled up, I switched back to the other. Some of my friends have a rule of thumb to keep their classes within 5 levels of each other. Then I have other friends that really don't care about secondary or third classes at all and just leave them at 60 or something. I don't think any method is better or worse than another. For questing you just have to keep in mind that you need to be within 10 levels of the quest in order to turn it in (so like if you pick up a level 50 daily on your primary class, you would be able to turn it in on a level 40 secondary class).

Of course other people just skip the quests and get some powerleveling. xD That's probably the fastest way to speed through low levels. If you have a high level friend willing to powerlevel your secondary then you won't have to worry about quests on that side for a while. :D

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Tuesday, June 11th 2013, 4:10am

Speaking of zones and leveling, I just finished up Tergothan Bay, and just starting in AKOR. I noticed the quest exp is much lower, like 680k per at the beginning, yet in TB I was getting around 1.3 mil exp per quest.

I thought the opposite would be true if I am advancing to a new higher level area. Is this intentional for the exp to be much lower in AKOR, or are my quests bugged?

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Tuesday, June 11th 2013, 4:47pm

No, that is the way it is....sigh

Also, you do know that you can complete quests on one class and turn them in on the other as long as the other is within 10 levels? So, no porting from one zone to other just running to housemaid before turning in. Also handy is to do all the dailies on the higher class at the highest level daily possible then turn in on the lower class.
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Thursday, June 20th 2013, 2:20pm

there is about 3 mil xp from yellow quest in coo+xav, which equals enough to get one class to around 50. Add in the butterflies for 2.66 mil per a day until the akorn dailys to continue leveling up. As a m/d, you might want to get the 60 elites.
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Monday, August 5th 2013, 6:26am

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From there you go to Weeping Coast and there is an NPC that "gives" you a complete set of blue armor/weapons for level 50 that is better than quest gear.
I have an alt that I leveled to 50 through other means than questing. Do you have to complete the quest line up until this point for the NPC to give you the armor set? Thanks.
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Monday, August 5th 2013, 6:31am

no you dont. the same goes for the 55 and 60 set - the set for level65 is hidden behind some quests of the main quest line. dunno about 70+ stuff though.

you really want to do atleast the mainquest line which has its starting point at some strange guy near the porter in Aotulia Volcano and then continues through every zone from then on. (Thunderhoof>SJF>NJF>Limo>LoM>Redhill>Tergothen>Rorazan>Chrysalia>Merdhin>Syrbal) the lvl65 set is hiden behind the mainquests in redhill i believe.

and you *need* to complete the main quest line until the end of tergothen bay to gain access to the level72+ zones _on your own_ (without using someone elses portals etc)
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