Leveling Guides

Some of the following information was taking from a post by Taomagicdragon_SC on turbine boards.

~Leveling Guide~

Levels 1-5:

• Melee- Academy
• Missile- Academy
• Mage- Academy

Levels 5-20:

• Melee – Atlan Weps or Explorer – Harvester/Gardener Pincers, Blood Shreth/Borgard’s Note/Axe Quest, Drudge Robber Baron, Redspire Moarsman Fort, Small Mukkir Squasher, Sanamar Light Beacon, Finish up in Olthoi Arcade.
• Missile – Equisite Elariwood Bow or explorer weapons - Harvester/Gardener Pincers, Blood Shreth/Borgard’s Note/Axe Quest, Drudge Robber Baron, Redspire Moarsman Fort, Small Mukkir Squasher, Sanamar Light Beacon, Finish up in Olthoi Arcade.
• Mage – Gaerlan Wands or explorer weapons - Harvester/Gardener Pincers, Blood Shreth/Borgard’s Note/Axe Quest, Drudge Robber Baron, Redspire Moarsman Fort, Small Mukkir Squasher, Sanamar Light Beacon, Finish up in Olthoi Arcade.

Levels 20-25:

• Same weapons as above but for all three head to 20+ hive in nanto.

Levels 25-45:

• Melee – Fire Atlans or AR fire swords - Tusker Guard task, start in BSD then at 40 move to the tusker guard dungeon.
• Missile – Low level Composite Bow with enchanted fire arrows (or crafted ones) - Tusker Guard task, start in BSD then at 40 move to the tusker guard dungeon.
• Mage – CS wand with fire spells – Tusker Guard task, start in BSD then at 40 move to the tusker guard dungeon.

Levels 45-50:

• Use Lightning rend for all three,(fire works too) then head into Fiuns (Abayar's Laboratory).

Levels 50-90:

• Continue in Fiuns or move to Crystalline Crag (better for ranged characters), if you’re a melee consider speccing Magic def for now and grabbing an aegis. Use slash rends at the crag, fire (or any elemental) on the rest.

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.

Original Information

This is a quick rundown of how to best level up newly created characters.

1-30

• White Phyntos Wasp Wings - 7500 and a C note per turn in. Other xp turnins, such as from gambling, also work.
• Lady Aerfalle Quest - White Fire Infusion and Blue Fire Infusion, requires help.

30-50

• Tusker Guard Kill Task - Hit a BSD or Tusker Barracks if you're over 40. 20 million reward will get you to 50. Use any rend, honestly, though fire works best.
• Stone Fists, one of the Colosseum Bosses - 50% of level, 23 hour timer.

50-90

• Viamont Staging Area - There are three locations outside Glenden Wood (the locations in the Viamont Staging Area quest) which spawn monsters instantly as long as the Pillars are not killed. A high level will typically fellow with a level 50, who sits in town. The high level can kill monsters at an extremely high rate, leveling the lower level character from 50 to 90 in one day.

90-110

• Fiuns - Lightning works best here. They cast a lot of magic.

110-140 - 60 mil/hr

• 110 Eaters dungeon (Ravenous Vault) - All melee, acid/pierce/slash/bludgeon. Melee D approaching 470 is around when they can never hit you. Slash works best on them.

140+ - 100-200 mil/hr

• Egg Orchard dungeons - Similar to eaters - all melee, acid/pierce/slash/bludgeon. Use piercing or bludgeoning damage.