TaoMagicDragon SC's Leveling Guide

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~Leveling Guide~

Levels 1-5:
Run through the Training Academy.

Levels 5-20:
Weapons:

• Melee – Use Atlan Wepons or Explorer Weapons
• Missile – Use Exquisite Elari Wood Bow or Explorer Weapons
• Mage – Use Taulandoi, Saulandoi, or Explorer Wands

Farm In
Olthoi Arcade

For extra experience do the following quests:
Harvester and Gardener Pincers,
Hunter Quest (Blood Shreths),
Alfrin's Stolen Supplies,
Moarsmen on the Shores (Redspire Quest),
Hunter Quest (Small Fledgling Mukkirs),
The Beacon Quest.


Levels 20-25:
Weapons:

• Melee - No Change
• Missile - No Change
• Mage - No Change

Farm In
Matron Hive South


Levels 25-45:

• Melee – Fire Atlan Weapons or Armor Rending Fire Weapon -
• Missile – Low level Composite Bow with Enchanted Fire Arrows or Deadly Fire Arrows
• Mage – Critical Strike Wand using Flame Bolt (Spell)

Farm In:
Black Spawn Den
Tusker Barracks (40+)

For extra experience do the following quests:
Hunter Quest (Tusker Guards)


Levels 45-50:
Weapons:

• Melee - Lightning Rending, Fire Rending or Cold Rending Weapon
• Missile - Lightning Rending, Fire Rending or Cold Rending Weapon
• Mage - Lightning Rending, Fire Rending or Cold Rending Wand with respective spells.

Farm In:
Abayar's Laboratory

Levels 50-90:
Weapons:

• Melee - See "Farm In". Consider grabbing an Sanguinary Aegis.
• Missile - See "Farm In"
• Mage - See "Farm In"

Farm In:
Abayar's Laboratory (Lightning Rending, Fire Rending or Cold Rending)
Crystalline Crag (Better for ranged characters) (Slash Rending)


Levels 90-110:

• Move into the dungeon at the Crystalline crag (it’s 70+ but dense with spawn) or 90+ fiuns or 90+ eaters, if you go the final rout drop magic def and spec melee defense. Use slash rends for everything in this “tier”

Levels 110-130:

• Same as above, improve weapons, instead of 90+ eaters head to 110+ eaters

Levels 130-140:

• Vissidal: Slash Rend/Lightning Rend (mages should perch or kill golems, or go back to crag, archers perch) Archers/melee should lay an imp down with a runed weapon then use rends, slash on everything but rems and golems, use lightning on those.

Levels 140-150:

• Stay on Vissidal or move to Egg Orchard (melee defense is helpful here, use bludge rend weapons (or pierce-rend/paradox weapons), or Path of the Blind (mages imp, melees use lightning rend).

Levels 150+:

Dark Isle

• Mages: Soulbound Staff for Sleeches/golems, Shadowfire wand for shadows

• Archers: Mukkir Slaying pierce rend, Lightning rend, Undead Slayer fire (or acid if you have olthoi arrows), imp then fire away

• Sword: SoLL-shadow on shadows, Bloodscorch on undead, Pierce-rend bandit on golems, Pierce-rend mukkir slayer on mukkir, Lightning-rend on remorans (may not be worth killing those due to debuffs). Royal runed for imps, life magic/phials for fire vulns and purple rift orb to tattercoat shielded shadows.

• General Melee: Mukkir-Slayer Pierce-rend, Undead-Slayer Fire-rend (or bludgeoning), royal runed for imps.

If you have the resources:

Hero Token – Ice wand – wand monkey by perching by the viamont staging area to hit 50 quickly then continue in fiuns or, if you have the rares and are not a mage, pop a weapon rare then wield a spectral weapon to move through the crag. Should be able to get you through to 110 before the spectral weapon goes away.