Fast leveling in Parties - hot spots

[Carth]

The problem with FoV is the XP bonus is too weak to compensate for the very little xp given from Mobs once you hit T or lower. FoV is also designed for 6-main parties, which means slower kills. This is why there's three main hotspots at the moment. All of them being GoV.

~12-32 Gusgen
32-60 CN
60-99 BO

You never have to leave BO for Abyssea because even at level 99, the leeches are EP and thus give EXP, and 4100 EXP per page makes up for the ~1 EXP given from leeches. Granted, Abyssea Worm parties is faster.

The problem with the GoV camps in general is if there's no party going, you're stuck with soloing or asking someone to powerlevel you via pages from Zeruhm Mines or BO. FoV really does need to be updated to make it more comparable.

[Luvbunny]

Remember that the Gusgen, Crawler Nest, and Bosta are all alliance style party, fast level but can get hectic sometimes. In the meantime, you still can do the old school solo using Field of Valor page if you want to level at leisurely pace. Using xp ring, you can get 150-200 xp per kill on easy - decent mob, sometimes more. At low levels this will get you up to speed quite fast. You don't have to always do alliance style. Boyahda Tree is also great to trio at level 68s-70s before Abysssea. You are going to go back here to skill ups anyway. Zeruhm is great at 85 and up to solo, 75-80 to duo for faster kill, or join the mule central alliance there.

[Carth]

Those are all viable, but I wouldn't call them "hot spots". From what I gathered, the OP wants to map out where parties usually go to, and out of all the choices, the "Alliance Style" parties are the most used because they're by far the fastest. If you want to level at a leisure's pace that's cool, but unless there's no other choice I don't see why you would.

[Amaroq]

Alliance
12-32 Gusgen
32-60 CN
60-99 BO

Solo or small party
69-70 Boyahda Tree (trio)
75-80 Zeruhm (duo)
85 and up Zeruhm (solo)

Using xp ring, you can get 150-200 xp per kill on easy - decent mob, sometimes more. At low levels this will get you up to speed quite fast.

I just recently upgraded from chariot to the empress ring. One thing i noticed is the 15sec timer counts down but the other timers on the ring dont, and i never lose a charge. I was usually getting about 120 xp per kill.

Boyahda Tree is also great to trio at level 68s-70s before Abysssea. You are going to go back here to skill ups anyway. Zeruhm is great at 85 and up to solo, 75-80 to duo for faster kill, or join the mule central alliance there.

Wish i could do trio party's for anythying to be honest but havnt had any luck getting an invite to a LS. Thats why i wanted to plan out where the alliances were. Ill check out the mule central alliance!

[nyheen]

not gonna call them "hot spots" exp pts, but if this what the new kids alliances pts think it good then i must be old school

GC is a great place for duoing tro around 40, (or lvl 34 6 man pt) i was chaining tough, even match 400+ exp or so without ring + page 2 + skilling around my lvl cap, dont know about you guys but that a big win then spaming easy with only 7 exp a kill etc

i could think of a alot of good spots but no one camp there anymore

[Amaroq]

GC is a great place for duoing tro around 40, (or lvl 34 6 man pt)

Problem is finding a LS for new players isnt so easy...the pockets of alliances offer away around this. Can level up to where you can solo most of the missions. Id rather do it the old school way but not given much of a choice right now.

[Mayoyama]

I recently levelled smn on my 2nd account... 10-67 completely in gusgen in less than 48 hours (on a weekend... during week the mines are usually dead).

I have also completely soloed PUP on my main account 1-76 doing GoV books to about 67 (took a couple weeks on and off), then campaign from there on.

Main difference between the two is that the SMN came out with about 20 smn skill at 67 (should be about 210) ... my PUP was basically capped skills for everything (even ranged, magic and melee on the automaton) at 67

My suggestion to OP is to try some GoV soloing to compliment GoV party burns to keep the skills levels going up and not finding themselves heavily gimped on skill due to fast levelling

[Mirage]

With the exception of automaton and summoning skills, skilling up after leveling up is probably not gonna take more time than slowing down the leveling to let skilling catch up. In either case, you get around a lot of this problem by not staying at 20-sync parties all the way to 70, but instead change to parties where the sync is at 35-55 (CN) and 65-72(Bostanieux). At those higher levels, skill levels will increase a lot by just playing. I'd usually come out with just 50 points below cap at lv70 after bostanieux.

[Glamdring]

I've done the Shitadel GoV, it IS viable, your problem will be finding anyone to go with you. CN is preferred because-at least on Ragnarok-there is an almost constant alliance there, like the sewers at higher level. GoV is simply preferred because the prowesses are awesome and the XP yield is a bit higher, plus better buffs available. But the advantage to GC if you can get people is that the only competition you are likely to face are soloers, and a party can frequently drive those away by the simple expedient of killing all the suitable prey.

[Mirage]

Not just a bit better, it's up to twice as much exp per page after a short while.