This guide is for all mystics 1-20. Although you may have found a better hunting place, I played a Dark Elf and a Light elf, and found these places to be most worth while.
This guide assumes that you have a higher level character and so money is not a problem for you, but you do not have a buffer, since with Empower and zerk, different mobs will suit you.
Rules
Always have Haste Potions and Magic Haste Potions on.
Always use BSpS NG
Always kill the best monster that you can 1 hit K.O
Equipment
Top NG Weapon
Devotion Set
TopNG Gloves and Boots
Reason for not wearing Magic Set is +15% Cast Speed beats the 20 odd mana difference in MP Robe bonus.
Okay!
1-8
This really doesn't matter right now, you can easily level without running out of mana, and so replenishes itself.
Remember to get your skills.
9-14
Okay! Get over to the Dark Elven Lands. Head over to the Swampland. Festering Bats will die in one hit, and are swarming everywhere. All over there are patches of about 15 bats, in small areas, which are great levelers. Every level will require a MP rest, 13-14 may require two, depending on how fast you nuke.
14-18
Hop over to the Elven Lands. Now take a teleport to the Elven Forest, not Fortress, Forest. Head west a bit, and you will run into spiders. Stay at the first spiders, Hook and Crimson. These will die in one hit and shouls give 510-540 exp. This is plenty for the while, and will easily get you to 18.
18-20
Head over to the spiders area which is teleportable from Dark Elven Gatekeeper. These spiders should fall in one hit, if not, at least the Prowlers will. Stick with these until you hit 20. Remember at 19, you should have completed your class change quest, in which some Exp will have been awarded for killing the required monsters.
Thats it! These monsters should have you from 1-20 in a day! They did me! 17+ does get a bit tedious, but patience is a virtue.
Wow! delayed response if I say so myself. I hope you do enjoy the guide, as it was good exp for me. You'd also like to know the spiders drop tons of animal bones lol
25-27 (not sure if it's for all classes but it is for SO)
EG using dirupt undead you can one shot most things on the upper level. there is only one mob there taht is not undead. it's a spirit that looks like the Fines in EV. wind strick those once and then tap them with you staff and down they go.
make sure you get empower and disrupt undead 4 at lvl 25.
Also, there are mobs in the outskirts that are wind weak around Ruins of Despair, they are Ruin imps, Scavenger Bat, and Ruin Bat. They give around 700 xp. Great spot to level around 20. Maybe even 15-16 if you have a buffer because you can one shot easily with empower. :)
Hop over to the Elven Lands. Now take a teleport to the Elven Forest, not Fortress, Forest. Head west a bit, and you will run into spiders. Stay at the first spiders, Hook and Crimson. These will die in one hit and shouls give 510-540 exp. This is plenty for the while, and will easily get you to 18.
actually if you stay in DE swamp and head deeper in the red eyes bats, lesser dark horrors can be one shotted for more xp. Then you can hop over to spider nest as OP said for 18-20
You could also try just outside the abandoned camp, the ol mahum novices you can one shot for about 650xp from about level 15 onwards and there are loads there, plus the others that are hanging around you can take out in 2 shots with one main nuke (wind strike) and one sub nuke (ice bolt)
the thing i kidnof like about SODA is that you don't have to run through to get near the end you can just find the mobs and jump down*better land in an empty spot
Cruma swamp from 20 - 35 is pretty easy, just start at the horror mist rippers and the tremmors look-a-like things, then slide over to the crimson ants and stakatos, then the wasps', stakato workers. finallt the drones, soldiers, marsh spiders. if yer lucky and have and SE with you, you can one-shot the rippers at lvl 18 with top NG, then once you hit D top D either mith or knowledge. if you got a high OE weapon use mith, if not use knowledge. then from 35 to 46 with SE can do portas (2 shot) still fast kills and lots of D gear drops to crush or sell.
from 46 on i spent alot of time at forsaken plains, if you go necro or sh, can CDL gargoyls in DV one-shot, endlessly. all the way to 58, then from there VoS, CDL if able too. one shot those also. not so much now with nuke fails/misses, but if cast speed is up, no worries
i truly belive, you should NOT solo in a game like L2 no matter how beneficial it is to do so.
When after a specific drop or spoil I always solo, except if it is a clan or friends group. However last time I found someone to party with before level 20 was like 2 years ago.
25-40 on 1/2hp mobs at FOS is you have good equipment works well, I'm there now with my sps+se and i can get 25% pbefore resting without any herb drops, With good herb drops i can get 100-150% before rest.
Using +7 SoL and Knowledge set with nooby buffs. all mobs are 1 shots with the non-overhit skill (aqua swirl i think it was)