Worst Leveling Progression Spots

[skarlorn]

lets move away from "efficiency" and move back towards ignorance.

lets abandon the idea of cruising your way on EZ street and embrace getting crushed by a white con monster in an unused dungeon.

If you had to suggest the WORST places to level, in terms of efficiency, danger, least populated (i.e. hard to get a group)... what would you say?

[azeth]

Tower of Frozen Shadow at an appropriate level per floor without gimmicks/twink items

[Nibblewitz]

Can't wait!

[skarlorn]

I've always found lavastorm to be particularly grueling as a levelling newb

[Sorn]

I'm an expert at these!

3-9 Butcherblock (going from gfay zoneline towards crossroads)
9-14 Steamfont (near lfay zone)
12-20 Butcherblock chessboard
14-20 Lavastorm
20-24 Lake Rathe (gnolls)
24-30 SK (anything you can pick up)
14-30 Najena (working your way in)
30-37 Iceclad cougars
37-45 Iceclad dire wolves + frost giant scouts + frost giant elites (also in GD)
45-51 EJ by TT zoneline
51-56 I did normal things like kill wyverns in CS, bear pits, etc, so this doesn't count
56-60 (my game plan!) Rat maze in PoM, the two drolvargs outside of KC (ravishing drolvargs), wasps in BW in SW portion of zone, random pick-up raids ( [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] ) where I sneak into the exp group AKA have a rogue in group with me

[jolanar]

Originally Posted by Sorn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm an expert at these!

3-9 Butcherblock (going from gfay zoneline towards crossroads)
9-14 Steamfont (near lfay zone)
12-20 Butcherblock chessboard
14-20 Lavastorm
20-24 Lake Rathe (gnolls)
24-30 SK (anything you can pick up)
14-30 Najena (working your way in)
30-37 Iceclad cougars
37-45 Iceclad dire wolves + frost giant scouts + frost giant elites (also in GD)
45-51 EJ by TT zoneline
51-56 I did normal things like kill wyverns in CS, bear pits, etc, so this doesn't count
56-60 (my game plan!) Rat maze in PoM, the two drolvargs outside of KC (ravishing drolvargs), wasps in BW in SW portion of zone, random pick-up raids ( [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] ) where I sneak into the exp group AKA have a rogue in group with me

That's actually a pretty solid leveling path to be honest.


I'd say Nurga/Droga are probably the worst 2 zones in the game for leveling. Outside of 3 drops there is zero reason to go there and the exp isn't even good unlike other zones like Dalnir that have really good exp to offset the horde of caster mobs. Cazic Thule, Swamp of No Hope, Toxx Forest also come to mind as horrible leveling zones.

[Choking Victim]

Originally Posted by Sorn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm an expert at these!

56-60 the two drolvargs outside of KC (ravishing drolvargs)

^lol brutal

[Sorn]

Originally Posted by Choking Victim [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

^lol brutal

It's literally the worst, do not recommend. The wasps in BW are better.

[nyclin]

Also Dalnir or Kaesora at an appropriate level.. Dalnir has lots of tightly-packed mobs and nearly everything in there is a caster of some sort. Kaesora is slightly more forgiving but is also a 1-way dungeon, so you have to bring a porter or crawl your way out.

[thufir]

Tower of Frozen Shadow was suggested above, but deserves a second. It looks cool but the xp is just so bad, and frequently you'll be gated by the idiotic key system and have to kill xp greens for awhile to advance. Bonus points if you die on an upper floor where you can't /corpse it and have to waste a lot of time finding a way up to it.

(I liked Dalnir and Kaesora, very good ZEMs and if you have a solid group you can really cruise. They do require you to break past their hard outer shells to get to their delicious chewy centers, so a lot of people don't like these zones.)

Any outdoor non-dungeon zone deserves an honorable mention here. Why xp in a low ZEM outdoor zone when you can go to almost any dungeon and get a better rate of return per mob? Particularly bad is the Gorge of King Xorbb, but hey, if you want to get Runnyeye faction go nuts. All the mobs in the Gorge have a lot of hit points and the evil eye undercons will absolutely ruin your day. The incredibly low rate of xp is just an added "bonus".

I imagine Kithicor is probably the worst zone to XP in in the game, after the Bloody Kithicor event anyway. On green server I desperately want to XP in here before the event ruins it.

And hey, if you want inefficient, City of Mist fits that bill, it just happens to be square on the "optimal" leveling path, for absolutely no reason. I went there twice with my cleric and it crushed my soul with its super slow XP gain. You have a bunch of high 40s full groups competing for xp green mobs, kill six or so and then you're waiting for respawn again. I understand why people come here, but it is probably the least efficient place you could go for the level brackets that go there on this server (high 30s to low 40s would be fine, but that's not how it works here). The Overthere would probably be better.