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Old 01-14-2019, 08:32 PM
zaneosak zaneosak is offline
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Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
TLDR: Don't believe anyone (including me in the Per-Level guide) when they say a zone has X ZEM. No one but Nilbog and Rogean know the true ZEMs, and it will forever stay that way until enough motivated people take the time to research P99's actual ZEMs.
I tend to think the Wiki values are pretty close. I have a spreadsheet from around here that I stole from someone, maybe even you put it together, who knows, but you can put in ZEM, Race bonus/penalty and level of mobs (average) you are killing, it's almost spot on. My main example was doing Bloodgills in LOIO for 1 whole level in one sitting, it was like within 9 mobs of being exactly the number I needed.

I don't take them as the XP bible or anything but they seem very accurate at least as a comparison. Like.... The Hole is definitely better than most of the Kunark 85 ZEM dungeons, just killing 10 mobs here and there. That being said -- we don't really use it as an 100% we go somewhere, we kill for 1 hour, see our % per hour and if it sucks we do something else.