I spent alot of time over by Dev castle farming inf ore and lvling crystals good income. Well use to be anyway. Probably most of my 50's. Im sure there are better areas but I didn't have access to any buffs or a recharger. This was before erbs to so im sure it would be even better now.
I did Devestated Castle for most of my 50s as well. I pretty much chose that area because of the crystal quest, but that was before they changed it. (Now anyone can make a crystal cuz they don't break. Before I was making a couple of million adena every leveling round.) Also, many of the mobs are undead and your overhit skill has sacred properties, so it will do more damage.
Valley of Saints is the best spot for a SpS starting around level 60. You can stay there until your low 70s, the areas closest to the entrance have the lowest level mobs and as you go back you run into higher level mobs.
After that head over to Forest of the Dead. Many FOTD mobs are weak against sacred attacks. Just watch it because during the game's night time, the normal mobs disappear and are replaced by other mobs. I always had one spot for daytime xp and one spot for night time. It seemed like the spots that offered great xp during the day gave sucky xp at night and vice versa w/ the night time spots.
I suppose you could go to FOTD in your 60s, but I found that I made better xp in VOS at those levels than in FOTD.
There are some good quests in all three of those areas, just killing the mobs you're going to kill anyway. Make sure you pick them up.
My SPS is lvl 50 at the moment, from 20-30 i did Raid bosses (best way to lvl, 10 lvls in a few hours ^^).
From 30-40 i did field of silence (1/2 HP mobs, with some decent gear and Blessed Spirit Shots you can 2 them at 30, and 1 hit them around 34.
From 40- 52 Alligator Island is the place to be. The first mobs you encounter you can 2 hit for 5.5 k XP, and one hit for 2.5k xp. Lvl 48-52 switch to the Swamp Tribe group of mobs towards the Skull on the map: One sleep cloud, and 2 shot each mob in the group. You get about 10k xp per mob, and there are about 8 of them, so thats roughly 80k for each group.
I would kinda caution on killing swamp tribes. i believe there are 5 of them and they hit like a truck. Even with a recharger/healer if you miss one sleep you are 95% dead.
Warriors do drop PL boot Parts though :p
Ya i should mention I`m doing the Swamp Tribes with a Dual box`d SE for recharges, and yes I am using Cbsps (dont leave town without em). At lvl 40 -48 you should be fine on Aligator Island even without a recharger, you`ll just have to take mana breaks. The Swamp Tribes burn your MP up fast though, so I wouldnt reccomend it without a recharger.
Hummm.. I did 20-40 on RB, then switched to mobs outside Hunters village till 45. Then it was off to the bugbears north of IT till about 50. Then i hit Cem, before they added more mobs, till about 55. From there i was at Forsaken Planes till 58. Then Vally of Saints till 70, which is my current level.
Sinnar Im assuming your using a +10 Homu/acu hunting at aligator island. It's good to let people know what wep you have and if you have an SE. Makes a world of difference when lvling.
If you don't have access to an SE I would stick to mobs that drop herbs. That way you minimise the down time for MP regen. Search some other forums out there. THere are some good web sight that have tools you can use to maximise you xp return. Tells you what mobs to hunt at what lvl.
with clan hall buffs and +3SOM/ACU I have been xping in FOTD since lvl 65. I wore Demon until lvl 68. But at 66 you should be able to 2 shot the mobs guards and Knights using over-hit. The hill behind the Necromancer at the port in area is a good place to grind. They spawn at a good rate for soloing. Once you hit 67/68(when guards turn light blue) you should move on to the bone mobs. Hunt the areas right around the port in spot. Some are a bit higher lvl and take 3 hits unless you have emp 3, then there should be no problem 2 shoting them.
I've started a SPS-SE duo for when i want a bit of solo time to get away from my sws's grind. So far there only late teens so i haven't really got into any goods skills or area's yet but i do have some questions about pre40 skills. i was researching what skills pre-40 carry on in the SPS main class and there is only 1 active skill (curse weekness) the rest all fall into oblivion after 40, so anyway before i go on any more what spells did you use pre-40 to get from 20-40. ???
Aqua Swirl and Solar Spark (I think that is what it's called)
Yep.. The rest aren't worth much for pve, unless you like to do AOE parties, then go fore the AOE fire spell, can't remember name.. I did use it alot with my SH, but i had a 69 SE to pull a bunch of low level aggro mobs, the lizards and spiders outside of gludio. Not sure if an SPS has the power to 1 shot them though. But i made alot of SP doing that quest and most of us know that a nuker needs ALOT of SP..
Flame strike I think. People use to use it when mobs like golems didn't cast spells and weren't magic resist, and when lirens were really slow and didn't cast either. Not really useful any more.
Flame strike I think. People use to use it when mobs like golems didn't cast spells and weren't magic resist, and when lirens were really slow and didn't cast either. Not really useful any more.
Well the golems outside Dion aren't magic resist.. And it is still good against the half HP lizard men and spiders outside of Gludio.. I know a dark wizard, in knowledge, with emp3 could 1 shot the half hp guys with flame strike, just not sure if an elf wizard with same setup would be able to go it..
Elven Wiz also can 1 shot most of the mobs.
King spider/lizardman sharman and matriatch took two shots, if I recall correctly.
I leveled there from 25-30 to get some extra SP.
Well 2 shotting never would have worked for the way i was doing it.. I would use my SE to gather up about 30+ aggro mobs, then run over to a rock, switch to my SH and flame strike them. If i forgot to turn my dbsps on, then it ended badly for my SH..lol So i guess an elven wizard would need a decent OEed SoL to try it..
I got a +7 Top D weapon in stock i'm gonna change to a SoL for 20-40 should help. gonna stick with the Aqua swirl and solar spark seems to work well. cant wait till my SE gets 30 then i can recharge :)