NNN Breaking News: Freeport levelers out leveling Qeynos levelers

[Jibartik]

Hello this is your news caster Jim, we've got some reports in from our man on the street Dijin, Dijin, whats the situation out there?

WELL JANET IM DOWN HERE RUNNING FROM QEYNOS TO FREEPORT FOR THE 3RD TIME IN A ROW AND IM SURE ITS HARD TO HEAR ME THROUGH THE SOUNDS OF WHALING GNASHING OF TEETH FROM ALL THE EXP GOING ON OUT HERE.

Dijin, Its very difficult to hear you, what's going on exactly?

I TOLD YOU EXP! LOTS OF IT! I GOT SOW AND THERE ARE EVEN PEOPLE BINDING DONT ASK ME WHY I DONT HAVE ONE.

THERE ARE EXP GROUPS EVERYWHERE IN THE DESERT OF RO AND EC HAS MOBS UP EVERYWHERE WITH 88 PLAYERS IN IT, ITS REALLY THE PLACE TO BE.

Well, Dijin, that sounds very exciting!

IM GETING ATTACKED BY ANOTHER SAND G-- *signal lost*

Hmm, we seem to have lost him. Well you heard it here folks, Freeport is outlevelling those Qeynos hoyti-toytie citizens by a pretty good margin, if you're having trouble finding groups out there, pack your bags and head west!

Thats it from this update from the Norrthian News Network

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[garfo]

Next level bandit sash greed tactics going on here, i see

[Jibartik]

Even in Norrath, the imitate reaction to news is "it's fake" lol

[Kirdan]

the high levels near freeport came from qeynos

[Jibartik]

Yeah all these level 11 full raw silk monks are just risking the CR's to exp on skeletons over here instead of over there.

Getting a level 9 melee to freeport from qeynos on a fresh server is SO possible after all. :eyeroll:

[Kirdan]

nah, we got binds from our necro, almost every high lvl monk started in the qeynos sewers for netted and some sweet cuburt xp

[Jibartik]

I don't think you understand what this post was about at all.

Well here is the facts for players to decide where to go since my color confused your feeble mind Kirdan:

All the newbies in Qeynos are standing around with rusty weps and no armor

All the newbies in Freeport are dressed in raw silk and full banded killing any of the many pathing decaying skeletons and tons of exp grinding going on in north ro.

[garfo]

I don't think you understand what this post was about at all.

Well here is the facts for players to decide where to go since my color confused your feeble mind Kirdan:

All the newbies in Qeynos are standing around with rusty weps and no armor

All the newbies in Freeport are dressed in raw silk and full banded killing any of the many pathing decaying skeletons and tons of exp grinding going on in north ro.

what's so special about north ro?

[Jibartik]

Its jsut that there are a ton of mobs out here and in EC compared to the qeynos area, so there are like, tons of people pugging and grinding together, there's just mobs everywhere.

Its still difficult to get spawns to kill for the vast majority of players out there.

EFP is just a candyland of mobs.

[Wallicker]

It’s quite simple to run from Freeport to Qeynos or vice versa at lvl one

[Jibartik]

It’s quite simple to run from Freeport to Qeynos or vice versa at lvl one

Tell me how?

Do you go through the KOS gnolls & orcs?

Or is it the KOS creatures in the gorge you walk past without fear?

Or is it maybe the Undead and living KOS creatures that block the path from SK that you just walk past at level 1?

Are you trying to tell me that this is a trick question and you mean a rogue with sneek? :mad:

Becuase yes I did see 1 rogue, with sneek, walking through NK last night and it was super hilarious.

But other than that can you please teach me this power? Because I am pretty sure it is not possible.

[Tecmos Deception]

It’s quite simple to run from Freeport to Qeynos or vice versa at lvl one

Is it really "quite simple"?

You either need to pass through gorge, highpass, or lake rathe. There's a lot of KOS dudes in all of those places (everything in gorge, gnolls on one end and orcs on the other end of highpass, and undead gnolls as you enter lake rathe and maybe more i forget) without a lot of space to sneak around... right?

It's one thing to cross the karanas or the deserts and oasis at level 1. But tight quarters with level 15+ mobs that aggro seem like quite a death sentence to a visible level 1 character.

[Wallicker]

Lake Rathetear is easy to pass through during the daytime

[Jibartik]

Lake Rathetear is easy to pass through during the daytime

KOS mobs daytime too.

[Wallicker]

Hmmm have you tried it apparently not

[Jibartik]

I literally just did it at 2pm game time.

[Wallicker]

I snuck right through not a single mob aggroed me

[Jibartik]

I snuck right through not a single mob aggroed me

https://i.imgur.com/UuCDtKVg.png

[Wallicker]

Just hug the west wall by SK zl

[Wallicker]

Didn’t use the skill sneak I legit just ran right through

[Wallicker]

Plenty of other people did the same

[Jibartik]

There's nothing worse than someone who got lucky thinking they did something with skill.

[Cen]

Im now in Nro as a 9 human ranger

[Jibartik]

Yeah and you look extremely powerful.

Im telling you folks the action is out west!

(Roll the dice and strafe run past the NPCs in lake rathe at level 1! :rolleyes:)

[Jibartik]

https://i.imgur.com/ukTNMz5.png

https://i.imgur.com/I27zdTZ.png

Trust me if you're indifferent, chose Freeport :P

[Gustoo]

The lake rathe rathe mountains route is the elite correct third path to get from West to East.

Most of us classic guys somehow came from faydwer or Freeport to the katanas via highpass because it was part of normal progression. Less people remember or know about the rathe pass which is pretty damn roomy and doesn't require bum rushing gnolls and orcs.

Man I love vanilla eq. Wtb custom vanilla progression server that just custom back fills vanilla content for extra depth.

[wildstar]

Im still level 5. Nektulos is rough

[Bondrake]

Even in Norrath, the imitate reaction to news is "it's fake" lol

You're a weirdo

[Jibartik]

which is pretty damn roomy

I wanted to be sure because I was pretty sure it was tight enough to not be able to avoid agro, but it is true you can squeeze through if you go up the wall right here. Roomy is not the word I would use, if you dont drop down from the wall I got agro every time, so you have to be careful going east to west more so than west to east because of the zone-line. I also fell for 64 points of damage going from West to East but yea it is doable without invis which is nice.

Also btw these gnolls conned 1 blue, many yellow, and a couple red at level 8 and there was no group there, it looked lush with exp :D

https://i.imgur.com/DRkXw1g.png

(The arrow indicates collision that you cant climb up but then can and must to avoid aggro going east west)

I conceed its dooable but not that its easy! :p

Edit: But anyway the point is, go west to exp there is many mobs! (or stop at the orcs obviously)

[Tethler]

I'll probably make the trek at level 9 on my ranger when I get camo. Qeynos area is a shitshow atm. I wanted to try it because I never leveled through the Qeynos area before and it was pleasant on the green beta. Now, there were 60 people in blackburrow when I poked my head in with like 10 people camping individual spawns on the top level. Noped right the f out of there.

[unleashedd]

theres all kinds of multi-culti single mob spawncamping outside kaladim... lvl1 mobs... i almost regret running from rivervale to kaladim 3 times, but that scarab armor is totally worth it

[Bisonzabi]

Qeynos has always been the inferior human city compared to the mighty player hub of Freeport. Only reason to ever roll in Qeynos is to take advantage of the gnoll pelt xp boost and since that's nerfed on this server, you might as well just go to Freeport.

[Kanuvan]

then whats with the smelly dwarves and even gnomes i see running around in qeynos hills? gnoll teeth quest just too tempting for these superior kaladim and fp levelers??

[Bardp1999]

At level 11 I have abandoned Halas for a more tropical setting in the Oasis of Marr.

No regerts

Hail Frostbane for a SoW

[unleashedd]

turnin quests (chips, belts, teeth...) are nerfed into uselessness. travelling for them seems unwise

[Tethler]

turnin quests (chips, belts, teeth...) are nerfed into uselessness. travelling for them seems unwise

Not all of them. Yesterday, I was still getting half a yellow for 1 gnoll tooth at level 5. The big xp in Qeynos is the rib bones from the putrid skeletons. Turn in once to a guy in the hills for a solid half yellow, then receive a bag to turn in in the pally/cleric guild area for another half yellow. 4 pelts from rabid wolves, 2 putrid rib bones, and a handful of gnoll fangs got me the entirety of level 5. I can't say if its worth it at higher levels, but level appropriate turnins are worth doing.

[sentinel]

Crushbone belts still give a ton of EXP

[Jibartik]

2 gnoll teeth gave me half a yellow at 8

[Yoite]

While the gnoll fangs are still pretty good, i think Qeynos biggest downside right now is around lvl 7-10. BB is full. There are like 4 bandits camps in WK. If you are not in a BB or WK bandit group there is like nothing to kill. I ran around WK a lot yesterday waiting to get into a bandit group and i was shocked at how little animals like grizzly bear/spiders/etc there are in WK compared to like WC

[BlackBellamy]

The Quenos to FP run via Rathe is easy even for a level 1, it's just tedious. You're hugging all the zone walls, waiting for stuff to path out, like why even bother. Just roll where you gonna be.

[Bardp1999]

The Quenos to FP run via Rathe is easy even for a level 1, it's just tedious. You're hugging all the zone walls, waiting for stuff to path out, like why even bother. Just roll where you gonna be.

If by tedious you mean 15 minutes of gaming then I guess you are right

[Jimjam]

You missed out a zero.

[Jibartik]

BREAKING NEWS:

This is pam here from NNN we just got some word in from our man on the streets Dijin about the state of Freeport newbie leveling! Dijin?

THIS IS FISTWAR I KILLED THAT LITTLE CULT BOY ANYWAY I GOT SOME NEWS FOR YOU

THERE ARE NO SKELLIES ANYWHERE, IT IS A GHOST TOWN! THE SPAWN RATES ARE BACK TO ALMOST NORMAL IT SEEMS!

oh my. Any tips on leveling out there?

GO BACK TO QEYNOS ALSO F@#^ HER RIGHT IN T--

--uh pam here, sorry about that, this Fistwar guy must worship innorruk. Ok well, the man sounds like he has high INT so head on over to Qhills for those EXP quests, cus the spawn rates are dropping fast!

This ends this NNN breaking news update!

:o

[Jibartik]

Hey! You down there, you find anything?

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[Khorza]

This thread is big fake news. Notice the people around Freeport/EC. They're Barbarians, Erudites, and a handful of Humans.

Qeynos boys are also much richer (and more attractive) from that bandit money. We literally stimulate your economy when we travel over and buy up all your banded armor and forged weapons.

Cause Qeynos is terrible for tradeskills. We're too busy laying arms against the great gnoll menace to be concerned with arts and crafts.

[Lamil]

I enjoyed this

[Jibartik]

This thread is big fake news. Notice the people around Freeport/EC. They're Barbarians, Erudites, and a handful of Humans.

Qeynos boys are also much richer (and more attractive) from that bandit money. We literally stimulate your economy when we travel over and buy up all your banded armor and forged weapons.

Cause Qeynos is terrible for tradeskills. We're too busy laying arms against the great gnoll menace to be concerned with arts and crafts.

We want you on that wall. We need you on that wall. Hold back that menace or they will destroy all our lands :D

[Bisonzabi]

While the gnoll fangs are still pretty good, i think Qeynos biggest downside right now is around lvl 7-10. BB is full. There are like 4 bandits camps in WK. If you are not in a BB or WK bandit group there is like nothing to kill. I ran around WK a lot yesterday waiting to get into a bandit group and i was shocked at how little animals like grizzly bear/spiders/etc there are in WK compared to like WC

WK is around three times the size of WC in scale (see: https://i.imgur.com/Zd2hZyn.jpg). From a game design perspective, it was probably one of the first overland zones Verant created before realizing that the Karanas were too damn big before making the more refined zones that didn't over stretch a 32x32 res ground texture over a larger amount of grid space.

[Yoite]

WK is around three times the size of WC in scale (see: https://i.imgur.com/Zd2hZyn.jpg). From a game design perspective, it was probably one of the first overland zones Verant created before realizing that the Karanas were too damn big before making the more refined zones that didn't over stretch a 32x32 res ground texture over a larger amount of grid space.

i havent seen that map in AGES! thank you for the link