VOS for Archer/HE?

Finally dinged 58 last night on the HE and I'm burned out on the Cemetary, Outlaw Forest, and anything that has Cata or Necro in it's designation. With midlevel SE buffs and my current setup, I've found that I can do some areas of VOS quickly and efficiently, even though most mobs are yellow or pink. Are there any other (more or less "new") hunting areas that I should try? Sorry for the lazy question, but during the week I really don't have much time to play/explore. As always, your responses are greatly appreciated.

forsakin plains is always an option (get stolen inf ore and if you have it kali's coin quests up)

frozen plains is a 2nd option (get ice merchant quest)

devestated castle is a 3rd option dunno what quests for there off the top of my head

if none of those work well for you...dunno :P

How fast did you level up that HE?

How fast did you level up that HE?

Not very fast at all. I started the HE in C4, but I take turns playing all of my toons, so she was mothballed for a month or two, while I leveled the human mystic and DE dagger. It wasn't until the middle of C5 that I decided to commit all of my time to leveling the HE to A grade...and beyond?

Depending on what/where I'm hunting, I get around 7-8% XP per buff round now. I know that I can improve on that, though, once I bring home the laptop and start adding OOP prophet buffs (Zerk mainly) along with the SE.

I wouldent suggest VoS for a archer, hawk eye especially since they have low mdef.

I would head to forsaken plains, or try FG might still be a bit low for FG but give it a try.

Go to Forsaken Plains and hunt the Shamans that turn into the tiger. You will get more than 10k xp from them and you can stay there till you get to a grade. An SR in our clan leveled very fast on them. :cool:

VoS can't beat Forsaken Plains before 65. After that you can do it, of course you will get a magical crit once in a while close to 2k in the beginning, around 1500 when you move up.

Forbidden Gateway is like the worst place ever. Wartags, no herbs, bad xp, and mobs with slight high pdef.

You can do VoS for a veeery long time.

HE can exp in VoS decent enough, a clanny of mine does it, but imho not worth it unless you're a nuker ^^

I've been there as a melee, decent exp but still, it is like made for nukers.

VoS can't beat Forsaken Plains before 65.

My only issue with Forsaken Plains is that there are almost ALWAYS a bazillion other people there trying to level -- live and automated ones. It's not like several Chronicles ago when I was leveling my SH there. But who knows...maybe I'll get lucky tonight and have the place all to myself?

I've been there as a melee, decent exp but still, it is like made for nukers.

Archers can do ok if they are familiar with the mobs, strike at range, and watch their backsides. It's not a great place to be for ordinary melee types, though. I've gone there with both the SK and the BD and it's not quite as much fun.

I remember when they made VoS back in C4, and I went there on my HE on the PTS..got owned hard core, and I had a OOP SE. I was 70+ at the time.

then I tried it on my Necor, and I still didn't like it..

Any how, I lvled up my HE supper fast in frozen lab (FL), but that was before they made the change in C5 with the patch that lowered the mobs respawn.

I think 58-61 in FL is best place ever, just get GHP's, and PP buffs, and solo the mobs, stand in the middle of a area and shot, don't snipe tho, you will need to kite the group bears.

Also make sure you stock up on Bss, cause no one sells them in schugartt. (atlest not when I lvled there)

After you hit 61, either go to beast farm, or lvl in FoTD. FoTD is great will take you all the way to 76. then best place to solo is WoA's.

what about fod?
archers seem to love that place

what about fod?
archers seem to love that place

I certainly don't, VoS is faster, cheaper and less dangerous.

...It's not a great place to be for ordinary melee types, though. I've gone there with both the SK and the BD and it's not quite as much fun.

BD is a support fighter and SK a tank ;)

Try it with a Tyrant or a Destroyer, you will notice the difference.

ES+Destroyer duo was fun, nonstop grinding. Only ES buffs and haste2 from pots.

And with SE/PP buffs it is a viable "solo" spot too. But I like other places more to really exp in VoS, and it is full of nukers 2 shotting everything they see so, better hit the catas.

I did lv61 to 73 on my HE sub, with Prophet buffs though (resist fire is very helpful) and a Soul Bow + Plated Leather (1hit crits). I dont think theres any other spot that matches the exp of VoS for 6x, and have hunted there on my SH (with SE+PP in party) and HE (so a total of around 40 levels). The blades are the biggest problem as their evasion is high you will find you miss them quite often, especially the second spawn. Just be careful and you should be good hunting there once you reach A grade.

at 58 go to FP until 63-64 then go back to FG (seal of shillien??) and do those until about 67-68 then graduate to the pits of shrine of loyal/WOA until 75 or do blazing from 68-73/74 then do WOA. (i say blazing because of reagents quest which you need for the subclass quest~)

VOS is meh....it's ok for mid/high 6x but the mobs nuking you over and over again isnt very fun.
Take care~

at 58 go to FP until 63-64 then go back to FG (seal of shillien??) and do those until about 67-68 then graduate to the pits of shrine of loyal/WOA until 75 or do blazing from 68-73/74 then do WOA. (i say blazing because of reagents quest which you need for the subclass quest~)

VOS is meh....it's ok for mid/high 6x but the mobs nuking you over and over again isnt very fun.
Take care~

Getting 6-7k per mob in FG is not much fun compared to the 9-11k from VoS either.

The second blade (? the one that splits) mob must be brutal for an archer :eek: ++evasion.

I went to VoS on my WC with a HE when we entered the VoS level range. The HE was promptly murdered by one of those; I opted to sleep aggros and soe, and the HE returned to village :p
But you would probably do better than we did, if you are familiar with the area and all its quirks.

what about fod?
archers seem to love that place

FoTD = forest of the dead.

yes, because that place owns, really fast mob respawn, great XP, mobs are easy to kill.. with a PP you have haste zerk, and most important holy weapon. comes in very handy cause all almost all of the mobs there are undead (some vamps aren't), so you will do like 200 more dmg on those mobs.

and you can go from 63-75 there.

and they have good XP. Seal of Sshilien sucks for XP (mobs mp drain), swamp screams sucks mobs are way too hard for archers (run away, pull more mobs, high eva, high P df).

sure a HE could do BS, but it's just ok.

Beast garden is decent....area just out side godad town.

but all in all, HE is just best staying in rune from 63-80.

61-73 FoTD: 73-80 pagens: 76-80 primevil island (dino island): 61-68 beast farm: 69-74 angels in back of VoS.

personally, as a archer I'd do this:
40-52 A dagger and stay in Cata's, or Bow/dagger and AL.
50-55 oren- bandit strong hold. (or FoM's, Dragon valley)
55-61 schugartt- frozen lab. (GC bridge is good, but they stun)
61-63 Rune- beast farm, or Seal of shilien/dev castle area.
63-74 Rune- FoTD.
74-76 Pagens, or WoA's (small parties, OOP buffs).(BS would work from 70-75, good for 3rd class quest (regents))
76 for solo, mobs at shrine of loyal. till 78.(also need these mobs for 3rd class)
at 78 subclass....or Pagens/ MoS/ Ketra orc/sillenos, IT, PI (dino)...till 80.

The second blade (? the one that splits) mob must be brutal for an archer :eek: ++evasion.

I went to VoS on my WC with a HE when we entered the VoS level range. The HE was promptly murdered by one of those; I opted to sleep aggros and soe, and the HE returned to village :p
But you would probably do better than we did, if you are familiar with the area and all its quirks.

Yes, I've been there a while, the most annoying for me is that Flame-debuff DoT that eats you alive.

How fast did you level up that HE?

Not very fast at all. I started the HE in C4, but I take turns playing all of my toons, so she was mothballed for a month or two, while I leveled the human mystic and DE dagger. It wasn't until the middle of C5 that I decided to commit all of my time to leveling the HE to A grade...and beyond?

Depending on what/where I'm hunting, I get around 7-8% XP per buff round now. I know that I can improve on that, though, once I bring home the laptop and start adding OOP prophet buffs (Zerk mainly) along with the SE.



Thanks for that answer. I was curious because I have heard these toons level very very fast.

Thanks for that answer. I was curious because I have heard these toons level very very fast.

Oh, don't get me wrong...the HE does level quickly, especially with my current setup. I get quite a few one-shot crits and most mobs drop in 3 strikes. It's just that I have so many other diversions that it has taken me this long to really put in the effort.

Plus I'm always hedging against the HE. Sure, they are great in PVE and PVP, but I'm always tempted to roll a PR or an SR anyway. Especially now that I have a RoQA. Dying to know how quickly I could level a PR with that ring equipped.

Oh crap, I sense another re-roll in the works.... :D