Now that I am awakened, I have no idea where the decent hunting spots are. So far, the bloody swamp seems to be the only spot, but it's going sooooo slow. Is there a better spot? Do I need to do party leveling now, instead of soloing? I'm getting about 3% per hour or hour and half. That really sucks. :( Help?
Kartia will be your best exp, harnak will be your best grinding area, soa is rarely used to grind but if you can find a decent repti party I often feel its faster than harnak!
NC Coin is there to help you as well. Being able to do Kartia grp and solo twice a day really helps. (12% a day from kartia group with it @ 88)
Kill them fairies, SOA solo and most important of all... don't stand in town looking for a party. Always be grinding that XP.
An 85 nuker doesn't belong in Fairies. The damage penalty will own him at that level.
Soa repti is best XP with a ton of groups. Rare downtime and good xp!
When god launched, many pts i see, still see many pts there today.
Harnak 3 can be better than SoA with a decent group, and he's right SoA is barely used to grind you spend most of your time replacing peeps who get in groups for the daily quest and then bounce. I tend to avoid it for that reason. You end up wasting too much time especially when a tank leaves (have fun camping party matching for half an hour or longer depending on the time of day).
Kartia will be your best exp, harnak will be your best grinding area, soa is rarely used to grind but if you can find a decent repti party I often feel its faster than harnak!
NC Coin is there to help you as well. Being able to do Kartia grp and solo twice a day really helps. (12% a day from kartia group with it @ 88)
Most groups will not take an 85 Feoh to Reptilikon. I sure wouldn't, not after seeing how my damage went up as I leveled up. It's almost wasting a DPS slot. The damage penalty is still significant there at that level. Most will take something else, and it's hard to find a party matching room that isn't setting the low bar at 88 and 87 in uncommon cases - unless that group is just going there for the daily (but most daily groups will do Croak).
nothing like a newbie whining cause xp so slow after 85 :p
Well, it IS slow at 85+ in SOLO areas unless your class has OP mechanics for that areas (nukers AoEing fairies, Summoners killing higher XP MOBs that are pink to them with ease and auto-defend pets, etc.). Those solo areas seem designed to be terrible solo XP rate and only to facilitate Power Leveling and the daily quests.
The comical thing is that group places aren't really all that much better unless your groups is pretty good. Even though Harnak gives 2.5x the XP of a Swamp MOB if the group isn't killing 1 MOB in the time you can kill 3 in swamplands you'll still XP just as fast soloing than in that group. This is why there are still a ton of people in those solo areas, which admittedly give bad XP.
The AVERAGE GROUP isn't really all that much better than soloing, once you look past the higher XP/MOB and examine how much XP you're getting over equivalent spans of time.
The Kartia instances have at least mitigated that a bit, though, at least at the lower levels.
Harnak 3 can be better than SoA with a decent group, and he's right SoA is barely used to grind you spend most of your time replacing peeps who get in groups for the daily quest and then bounce. I tend to avoid it for that reason. You end up wasting too much time especially when a tank leaves (have fun camping party matching for half an hour or longer depending on the time of day).
I'm talking clan parties, on NAIA there are still many parties on soa repti, all clan obviously. I actualy still get good xp at bistakon (or biskaton w/e) at 91.
I'm talking clan parties, on NAIA there are still many parties on soa repti, all clan obviously. I actualy still get good xp at bistakon (or biskaton w/e) at 91.
The fact that it's a clan party doesn't automatically make it good, though that generalization makes me smile everytime I see it. SoA rept is decent. H3 is very good in a good party - clan or otherwise.
Never done bistakon before, people only tend to do Croak and Rept here depending on character levels, and without clannies I don't even touch H3 cause there are too many low IQ players that have no clue what they're doing going there.
At level 87 I was tanking repti, took a bit more work to keep aggro but it worked out fine.
bistakon on the other hand... place is a death trap far as most parties I have been in. They spit these ranged balls every few seconds that could easily kill a healer or DPS. Probably the most gear dependent portion of soa.
I have done H3 with many random parties, its not hard. Tank stands in middle and spams whatever he or she can to hold aggro. Doing their best to pull mobs back in. Everyone else spams aoe and does their best to kill fast.
Harnak is like cokakron with less chance of wiping. So many things can go wrong when pulling 3 groups(getting stuck for instance) but in harnak you dont have to pull.