VoS THE place to lvl for a nuker.....

I'v been lvl'ing in Valley of Saints (VoS) for some time and I must admit it's one hell of a place to level.

I'm lvl 59, Spellhowler with top OOP lvl58 PP + lvl56 SE buffs, and a nice Avadon robe set + Homu +8 Acumen.
I also have tats +4 WIT / -4MEN +4 INT / -4 MEN

With this set up and the use of over-hit (ending with Shadow Flare) I get between 9.500 - 11.500 XP pr. kill..... and I can easily 2-shot mobs there.

With this kill speed/ XP I can make lik 20-25% an hour, which is quite good in that lvl.

I know there is going to be a lvl wall when I hit lvl60 (or 61), so where would the next good lvl'ing place be? .... Forest of the dead?

Wisdom of Splendor (62 lev, 3.2k HP) =>9.3k XP without overhit => best HP=>XP mob in game.

I was leveling on them to 67.
Next you can still stay on VoS but move to higher level mobs (same XP than Wisdom but lev 64-67 so not XP penalty).

made 61=>70 lev here in 2 weeks with my HE (with buffer) and around 60mln worth loot (6-7 BW Tunic recipes 100% - drop from Blade of Splendor 61 lev).

After 70+ lev you will miss VoS alot - I dont found any better XP place (was trying FOM, farm, BS etc - finaly I stick with Hot Springs).

Fod is good 70+, or even 65+ as a nuker.
i lvld in vos until high 60s, then when mobs were green/blue i had to move.
Started near necromancer in fod, and moved in as lvls rose.
At 74 i was near cursed village, getting 8-15k xp a mob for 2 hits still.

You may just want to stay in Valley of Saints. If you move in towards the center, you're good in there until 70. At 71 most of the mobs are blue and I was getting xp penalties, so I had to leave. You may also want to try out the areas around Goddard. If you go out the NE gate of Goddard and follow the road East you'll come across 1/2 HP mobs that will give you ~5k xp. If you can't 1-shot them now, you'll be able to in a couple of levels.

61->70 in two weeks!?

My dwarf needs half a year for that.
Somethings wrong with this game :s

Stay in VOS until you can get the 2 quests in FoD, at the very least. I think they're level 65 & 66 or level 64 & 65.

61->70 in two weeks!?

My dwarf needs half a year for that.
Somethings wrong with this game :s

Nah - game and you are ok ^^

I start leveling my main - Fortune Seeker in beta and end month ago so took me 2 years level him from 1 to 76.
Also made ~1 bln cash on spoil, trade, train bots.
When I made HE sublass (month ago), leveling was much faster - 40-71 in month, another one month and will be Sagitarius.
But this subclass cost me:
- majestic set (300mln)
- soul bow (150mln)
And I made only 80-100mln while leveling HE - 10x lover than my main char in same level range.

If you have "unlimited" cash (I mean - enought for top stuff, GHP, GSA, SS), knowledge from previous char leveling, high level buffer for 2box etc etc etc => grinding isnt big problem.

I'm playing everyday 4-8 hours but not "in row" - mostly log to game 2-3 times per day for 2-3 hours.
With BH I was alvays waiting for group (looking, forming, moving on spot) => finaly half my time was "wasted".
Now if I dont have invite in first 5 min - im going solo/duo and play on spots where I rest only for bio irl :)

Anyway... want to say: you CANT compare leveling your first char with someone who doing this "second time".
Also some chars level solo faster than other even in good groups - nuker and archer (both with SE or prophet for buffs/recharge) can kill same time 5x mobs than your dorf can.
In VoS area good geared and buffed HE need max 3 shots to kill mob worth 9k+ XP (or just ONE if crit and crit alot) and poor dorf need to hit same mob 20x with his low crit and low dmg blunt.

Rofl?

Stay in VoS until mid 60s.

Yes stay in VoS until atleast 65. Do all 4 quests in there its atleast 200k more xp or 100k adena per quest. Two of the quests you can do over and over. I stayed there tell 65 then move to FoD. Actually I hunted in FoD one week and VoS the next week when I could port there from the Dawn priest.

Wisdom of Splendor (62 lev, 3.2k HP) =>9.3k XP without overhit => best HP=>XP mob in game.

What about those transforming shamans in forsaken plains? Something silly like 14k exp, and they're in their 50ies so should have lower HP (and ya, transformation only takes one tap).

I'v also been at the transforming-shermans, and they to do give good xp, mut the distance between them and the respawn time is much greater then in VoS.

In VoS I can almost nuke from the same spot, and do it none stop, thus only use walking mode and that way benefit from the "clear mind" skill.
With a SE lvl56 I can get recharged all the time, and kill speed is very good.... every mobs is two-shot.

But yesterday I was testing out the "Cursed-death-link" spell in DV, hunting Cave maidens, drakes, cave keepers and such, I I could easily one shot those (but only had like 250-300 HP left).
They gave me like 5200-5800 XP for each kill and the CDL spell only cost 54 MP.... like the hurricane.
So now I can actually kill even quicker in DV, but of cause its more risky du to the low HP.
So fact is in VoS the avage XP incl. over-hit is 9500XP but use 54+67 = 9500XP/123MP = 79XP/MP.
And in DV the avage XP excl. over-hit is 5500XP and I use 54 MP = 5500XP/54MP = 102XP/MP.
Also the spawn time and distance between mobs in DV is very good, so there are almost no downtime.

So basicly the "less-good-area-DV" is actually more then 20% better then the "better-area-VoS" ..... all due to the fact that the appropiate skill/spell is used in the right situation/area.

.... I hope tha above dident get TO theoretically :)

at 58 or so you should be able to 1shot everything in FP w/ CDL, provided you have emp3...

I stayed at VoS til 70, the harder mobs are all green at the lvl. Not sure about 71, but i think at least a few light blue mobs will pop up then.