I am trying to get my AA's up more quickly and was wondering where I can solo with my measly number of AA's. I have been farming Acrylia Caverns safely for so long, but unless I go into the Inner Sanctum (which is tough to solo due to the wanderers and ADD's) I get very little AAXP. I tried those darned GoD zones but the XP stinks in comparison to the risk involve (I hate getting my butt kicked by a damn Lt. Blue). Any suggestions? You can check out my equipment on my Magelo Account (think it is a little out of date since I bought an item or too since the last patch). Any advise would be appreciated!
Grieg's End and Torgiran Mines are really some of the best AAXP places around for solo 65 beastlords. Lots of threads about them on the boards, so look those up, but some quick advice, for GE invis past the first room to avoid a 3-pull, and for Torgiran invis past the bridge to the fort area with the bloodguards, almost everything is single-pullable. Safe and fast exp.
Droga is often given as an option but I don't like it as much, the mobs take too long to kill, they run too fast, and too many casters for soloing (in my opinion).
Game on,
* Deep into Nurga.
The easiest, mobs are lower level than the others spots (1/4 are lblue). The kill rate makes it worth it.
here's a guide
http://pub116.ezboard.com/fcouncilofzarchonfrm4.showMessage?topicID=4.topic
* Torgirian mines
Mobs have about 12k and give about 1.5 AAXP
you can find a great guide (thanks Feralize by the way :) )to this zone here :
http://www.beastlords.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1924
* Grieg Ending
Mobs hit harder than the 2 other but still quite easy. It's a hot spot now.
http://www.beastlords.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=864
I've been ravaging Plane of Hate now. Around 2% AA per kill, and the pet practically solo's them after Sha's and a DoT or two. You have to literally STEP on the critters to agro as their agro radius is almost completely nil, and none of them run at all! In addition to AA, you can make 1kpp in a KEI with the gem drops and the armor drops that you can turn into the guildmasters in PoK for random gems. Its a cakewalk, and very quiet. :)
Just make sure you have a way out too... gate potion, item, or a porter.
Oh, and if you try Griegs, do it from the SD zone instead of DSP. There is no break-in or invising, its safe to hunt from zoneline here.
Nurga is a hot spot, too.
For a low AA beastlord, I'd recommend Nurga, too. Griegs is a little tougher, but worth a try - SD entrance stands a chance of being clear of hot spotters. I haven't soloed in Hate, but fully intend to :).
Expect an AA in Nurga to take 2.5 - 4 hours, solo, depending on how many AAs you have. One advantage of Nurga is that you end up being able to easily access Chardok B, which is a fun AA solo zone, too. Similar exp rate to Nurga/GE et al, but a little tougher.
I started soloing in Droga at 62 with less AAs than you, so you can definitely do fine in there. Just invis and run to a good spot to start off. If you are 65 and keep Fero up, between that and your stunning pet you will get hit with very few spells; in fact I find the casters to be the easiest and the rogues/sks to be the toughest. Also there are a multitude of phs, so you can get some decent drops that generally sell around the 4k mark on my server at least, not to mention that every goblin drops between 10 and 20 plat. XP is on par ith Grieg's imo; I've always thought it to be slightly better than Torgiran - goblins have less hps than the bloodguard.
Another bonus is that you get to work Chardok faction while you're at it - xp, money, questing... what more could you want!
I'd recommend the restless souls camp in natimbi. The exp is kinda slow, but you can pick up some 20hp/20mana augs there, which should help out. Nothing runs, its all easily single pulled, and close to a vendor to sell off the junk you pick up.
Quote from: tkynI'd recommend the restless souls camp in natimbi. The exp is kinda slow, but you can pick up some 20hp/20mana augs there, which should help out. Nothing runs, its all easily single pulled, and close to a vendor to sell off the junk you pick up.
I don't know.... I was in Natimbi the other day for the first time.... some ugly dude (lt. Blue almost killed me)... not good! Then I get fragged by the damn Crag Queen... first death in weeks! How tough are they compared to those ugly dudes running up and down the stairs near the Wayfarer's Camp?
Souls are easier. Last time I went there to camp silly aug I'd clear the whole camp in ~10 mins and then afk for another 10 waiting on repops. Didn't have to heal or anything, but with that big of a cushion even if your dps/aas/gear were less you've got plenty of time to go at a slower pace and space them out a bit more. The named can do some decent damage solo I guess, but nothing insane. They actually aren't bad aa per kill for how hard they are and how fast they die, but there just aren't enough imo hehe.
When I did the restless souls camp around your AAs it took me about 15 minutes to clear them all, and then I'd spend the other 5 pulling random wanderers.
The other night when running to Riwwi, Natimbi was empty so I checked and I got two nameds, a fierce cragwalker and Tumia Lehio (the restless soul named). Both were hitting up to the low 300's, so they've been beefed up a bit from before. Got my health down pretty far, actually, since I wasn't expecting such hard hitters.
In any case, if you focus only on restless souls you'll only have a chance at the +20 hp augment (which I did get that night). The +20 mana aug drops from another named...could be the fierce cragwalker, I don't remember for sure.
Game on,
Named reef crustacean, begins with a V, I think. Spawns in the river aroud the island the restless souls are on.
I finally printed out a map of the zone and the Spirit camp is right at the bottom of the stairs those damned nasties (that can nuke) keep going up and down.... will they agro if I camp there?
The best place to camp (in my opinion) is on the North side of the fallen pillar that is next to the shoreline. It's on the opposite side of the pillar from the wandering hynids, cragbeasts, etc, so no adds from them. The only problem with that location I have found is that people hunting in the open area to the South (just West of the Wayfarer's Camp, where the aforementioned adds can be) can't see that someone is camping the restless souls and so they'll pull your mobs...of course "there's no such thing as camps in EQ" so up to you if you want to deal with that...
Game on,
Their aggro range is so small that I never had an issue. One of them wanders furthers down than the other, but neither ever added on me. I used to sit/afk facing the camp with the stairs on my at about 10 o'clock to me. Then I'd pulled the first 2 toward the bottom of the camp and then move across and kill the other, then move up and kill others, then move back to where I would med/afk. Never had an add or got jumped by stray aggro. Randomly smacked around mobs as I was bored, but that was about it.
Sirens Grotto isnt half bad either + you might be able to solo Swirlspine for that belt
Quote from: OneiromancerThe best place to camp (in my opinion) is on the North side of the fallen pillar that is next to the shoreline. It's on the opposite side of the pillar from the wandering hynids, cragbeasts, etc, so no adds from them. The only problem with that location I have found is that people hunting in the open area to the South (just West of the Wayfarer's Camp, where the aforementioned adds can be) can't see that someone is camping the restless souls and so they'll pull your mobs...of course "there's no such thing as camps in EQ" so up to you if you want to deal with that...
Game on,
I tried there last night... got 3 gold AA bubbles before I had to run out of the zone for my life. There are at least 2 spirits that will ADD on me, and did on 3 consecutive spawn cycles. The last time (had to zone), both were Drk Blue. One took on my Warder... the other chased me to the Magus! The loot is crap, I make more off of my Grimlings, but the XP is much better (As everyone has said). Any idea if there is a better spell for me to pull with? What using either the 65-slow or highest Ice Spell.
There were a couple spot in the souls camp where I'd get multiples breaking the camp, but then once it was split I didn't have a problem. If you aren't able to keep it all clear you might want to just pull it so once it's broke the re-pops won't add on pulls. The loot btw can be very good, but not usually. The souls can drop the shell inlaid collar. They do drop the essances for quest weapon that some offer to pay for, but I just let whoever wanted have for free. Mostly just research items though and spells that don't fetch too much. Lots of other spots to try if this one isn't working out for ya. 8)
That's true, there was one place where it was a double-pull if they were both dark blue. Since for me it was around 50-50 dark blue/light blue I only had to worry about it occasionally.
At the time I just put pet on one while tanking the other, both slowed and dotted of course. And just watch that spawn the next time around so that you always pull one before both spawn.
Game on,
I have camped the souls long enough to get the ft1 caster item 4 times and the 20 hp aug about 5 times. I have never had one of the stairs mobs agro on me, nor have the crags or hynids been an issue as they now con dubious since the zone was retuned. The stairs mobs dont hit hard but can proc chaos claws about 6 times a fight. I find that I resist chaos claws about 75% of the time and I can place agro on my pet fairly easily by dragging the mob across him once on the pull. This area is an easy camp, but the drawback is that you will run into alot of downtime due to the absence of mobs, not a loss of mana. It can get very monotonous as the named soul seems to have been nerfed on her drops and she drops a crappy helm or ring with a level requirement of 45 that seems inaapropriate given the quality of the drop.
I solo camp this area when I want mindless entertainment with the possiblity of hitting a home run on loot (the ft1 necklace sells for about 70k on mith marr :D
Quote from: OneiromancerThat's true, there was one place where it was a double-pull if they were both dark blue. Since for me it was around 50-50 dark blue/light blue I only had to worry about it occasionally.
At the time I just put pet on one while tanking the other, both slowed and dotted of course. And just watch that spawn the next time around so that you always pull one before both spawn.
Game on,
After practicing... if there are 2 Drk they will automatically ADD... if one is Drk Blue you need to pull it first and the Lt. Blue won't help. I got pissed off last nite because after I broke the camp some Monk from Altered States came in a FD'ed in the center of the camp and stole all the spawns, claiming there are "no camps in everquest... who ever gets agro owns the spawn!" what a a**hole! I may go back to a more "civil" zone!
Yeah, there's definitely a difference between 2 people pulling from the same camp, sharing the mobs, and one person aggroing everything and claiming them all (even if he can handle them). I am sure that is against the "Play Nice Policy", although good luck getting that enforced. If you explain that you'd be happy to share the camp but pulling every single mob is excessive, you could probably get him a warning or something.
And yes, you are learning about pulling light blues vs. dark blues. :) Light blues don't get assist aggro. It's lots of fun in Velks casting Slow on a named from several levels up and watching it run through tons of other mobs without aggroing any of them. If you knock it off the ledge and your pet follows it though, watch out...
Game on,
Just a quick update of my previous post.
The 11/08 patch has just hit Sebilis (french sever) and with it, the new hot spots.
Torgirian is not one anymore and the xp is 15% down from what I said before. On the other hand, Nurga is now one and the xp is really good. With KEI, I can make an AA under 1H30 which is pretty close to my best group-xp rate. I haven't check GE yet.
Quote from: alkyJust a quick update of my previous post.
The 11/08 patch has just hit Sebilis (french sever) and with it, the new hot spots.
Torgirian is not one anymore and the xp is 15% down from what I said before. On the other hand, Nurga is now one and the xp is really good. With KEI, I can make an AA under 1H30 which is pretty close to my best group-xp rate. I haven't check GE yet.
I have been spending the last few nites in Torgirian and I like it as the Drk Blues right near the rope bridge can be single pulled and they are pretty weak for a Drk Blue. I just hit AAXP #50... based on other posts in the AA Forum I have been working on BF. Went from BF1 to BF3 since reading.... these forums are quite helpful!. After reading this post I think I may go and visit Nurga next!
I'd like to try Restless Souls sometime, but it's permacamped on my server. (To the point where any time I run through I can pretty much count on hearing an argument over spawns or who's camping it.) Ah, well - I prefer less popular places.
Quote from: KinashI have been spending the last few nites in Torgirian and I like it as the Drk Blues right near the rope bridge can be single pulled and they are pretty weak for a Drk Blue. I just hit AAXP #50... based on other posts in the AA Forum I have been working on BF. Went from BF1 to BF3 since reading.... these forums are quite helpful!. After reading this post I think I may go and visit Nurga next!
You can single pull all the way into the fortress in Torgiran, almost every single spawn point, all the way to where the dreadguards turn into deathguards. The aggro radius is laughably small. And the Nadox zoneline behind the invisible wall is right there just so you can test this out. :D
Game on,
CoD entrance is nice AA at 4% per kill @ 65. 60 aa's or so.
However, I doubt any 65 will be chain pulling.
I don't have the greatest gear, but I'd kill 3 or 4 then med up.
Rinse/Repeat.