The Best way to level and its NOT FATEs

[Drakzen1]

Next is the Will-o'-the-wisp Camp
Which is absolutely full of mobs

Starting level 31-34
Directly North of camp tranquil outside AK

Trents 39
Will o the Wisp 38-39
Rats(the name escapes me) 38-39

Spawns are fast but be carefull of wisp fire at lower level
Pretty firm location because of amount of mobs till 40

[Drakzen1]

There are multiple camp variations to the ones listed and i will list the lower and higher level camps if people want later

[EQBallzz]

After grinding to 50 in a day or two what do you do after that? Let me guess..grinding the forums with statements about no end game and nothing to do?

[Drakzen1]

Well im not sure i would suggest leveling to 50 in one day lol

[delphinius81]

After grinding to 50 in a day or two what do you do after that? Let me guess..grinding the forums with statements about no end game and nothing to do?

I'm thinking this is meant more for leveling classes other than your main.

[Krisan]

I'm honestly shocked it's taken people this long to figure this out. Factor in the waiting time of FATE's - FATE's can be random in when they choose to pop - this is time spent idling for most people.. Also factor in travel time, a lot of FATE's require a good bit of travelling to get to even while mounted. Add that time up, along with the time it takes to complete the FATE and see what your reward is.. It's actually not that great. lol

If you spent all of the same amount of time you do on FATE's, you'll make at least the same amount of experience, if not usually much much more. I've done this before with people when leveling my main, and we were just RAKING in the experience points.. Mind you, if a FATE did spawn near us, we'd do it, but if it was far off we wouldn't bother with it. Really this whole FATE zerging obsession people have is based off one thing and one thing only.. instant and easy gratification. People go in, do not work terribly hard, and see a big pretty number. People figured this was exploitable and decided to start spamming them, end of story. Fact is though, FATE's are not the best method to leveling.. Old fashioned grinding is, and it always will be. The only downside to grinding is you don't get seals, and you're making less money - you might also be suffering some gear damage too in an efficient party.. But eh, if we're talking about purely leveling classes, then those things don't really matter so much.

Also as for the naysayers mentioning mob respawns being inconsistent.. actually it's quite the opposite. Mobs all have relatively short respawn timers, remarkably fast even for an MMO in some cases. Mobs are also on very exact respawn timers.. FATE's on the other hand do not appear to be exact as to when they appear, and there seem to be a lot of factors we don't currently understand (and may never understand) as to what causes them to appear. I've honestly spent several solid minutes idling in town while waiting on FATE's before, whereas other times they're up back to back to back in different areas of the map. You're going to have a much easier time relying on mob repops than FATE repops.

[jbizzi]

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So you or a group you noticed is making large amounts of xp grinding mobs? Awesome, I will get a group together and do that there as well. Then there will be another group doing it, cuz its faster right?

You see where I am going with this? There is only so much room for a group or even two at any particular spawn point otherwise there just aren't enough mobs to go around. I was doing my Archer hunting logs and went to kill some Akkulpa's (sp?) and noticed a group there xp grinding. I killed 5 of them and it completely threw there routine off.

Last I checked, everyone gets the same xp from a FATE (level capped of course).

[Krisan]

So you or a group you noticed is making large amounts of xp grinding mobs? Awesome, I will get a group together and do that there as well. Then there will be another group doing it, cuz its faster right?

You see where I am going with this?

There's more than one camping spot in the game. lol
Hell there are multiple zones for every level range even.. People have worked this out in countless MMO's in the past too, you know? Grinding levels off mobs is not unusual in MMO's, so you should realize this isn't that big of a deal. There will be competition in some spots sometimes, yeah. And I'm not saying you can't still FATE grind, just because this is better doesn't mean FATE grinding isn't viable.

Your example suggests as though EVERYONE is only going to ever go to a single place and try to do exactly the same thing. That's not how it works.

[jbizzi]

There's more than one camping spot in the game. lol
Hell there are multiple zones for every level range even.. People have worked this out in countless MMO's in the past too, you know? Grinding levels off mobs is not unusual in MMO's, so you should realize this isn't that big of a deal. There will be competition in some spots sometimes, yeah. And I'm not saying you can't still FATE grind, just because this is better doesn't mean FATE grinding isn't viable.

Your example suggests as though EVERYONE is only going to ever go to a single place and try to do exactly the same thing. That's not how it works.

Talk to a Pygmy Goblin and then get back to me.

(If you don't know what I am talking about, then don't bother replying)

[Krisan]

Talk to a Pygmy Goblin and then get back to me.

(If you don't know what I am talking about, then don't bother replying)

No I don't know what you're talking about, and you kinda need to explain your arguement rather than use a one-liner and just try to shut down the other person if they aren't informed. Otherwise you're not really helping progress the discussion here. Regardless though, I'm not arguing that a camp spot can't have its issues sometimes - I even pointed out competition can happen. But there are a lot of zones and most of them are huge.. And not everyone is going to adapt or even WANT to adapt to pure grinding. So.. Yeah I don't know what you're on about.