Can anyone help a noob understand Chardok?

[JDFriend99]

Originally Posted by firesyde424 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Or perhaps, leveling one character to the high 50's/60's is enough"classic" experience for you because, now that you have kids and a family and a life, you can't really afford the (insert random absurd number) hours it takes to level to 60.

Not and still have a marriage anyway.

I'll defend my guildie here in saying not everyone is a plat schemer or Red99 player. I am no longer married as of 9 yrs ago. When I started playing my kid was 3. And a new born had just arrived. I aso was the only one working for 5 yrs and worked 40-80 hr/wk.

I would do my husband duties i.e. clean the entire effin house cause my wife did not, help the kids get to sleep, then takes my suit off and put my wife to bed the fun way, and burn a pot of coffee till 3am playing.

In hindsight I rem this same tactic done by mine and one other guild on skyfire mobs at BW zoneline. I took advantage of this in 99. I was happy to have my necro boosted from 56-60 then. If I had the plat id have it done now.

Redoing 15 lvls again is a tedious task. Those that don't know me, I was once 59 here, I quit for 1.5 yrs and came back to lvl44. What happened I am not certain, but I am painstakingly gringing it all back.

Would I accept a lvl or two boost? Bet you asset I would! Hehe

Oh right.. my kid turns 20 next month and youngest is 17 ... I have time now. Thank Rogean for the ability to relive this game.

[Swish]

Originally Posted by firesyde424 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Heiro cloak and a copy of Torpor? Judging from the number of different proxies we see in Chardok, it's not too far fetched.

Maybe if you're sitting there soloing/duo'ing on your shaman you can pick up a heiro, but that's quite a time investment as well.

If you're playing casually then chances are you can't afford to fast track anyone unless you've been on the server a few years. That's why Chardok draws the RMT crowd.

[weaseal]

Awesome, thank you so much for the run down. I guess I'll continue to spam my LFG until I get lucky, since I haven't been on the server for long enough to have the kind of pp apparently required to buy-in!

[tristantio]

If you're a solo class you can easily grind about 1k an hour on Felwithe guards from 50 to 56 or so (when they start greening out).

At that point, you'll easily have spent at least 300 hours on them (and have 300k floating around).

Unless you blow plat on gear, you can get quite a few Chardok pulls from that (obviously depends on your class etc.).

Prior to nerfs, there were better spots (staff wielding guards in cab were ~150pp a kill due to dropping Staff of Battle 100% of the time, multiply by red to blue transfer rate and you could grind ~900pp on blue every 5 minutes by moving red plat to blue grinding there).

[firesyde424]

Chardok AoE is a legit tactic to level. If it wasn't, it would have been banned or nerfed into hell by now. Deal with it.

[perditionparty]

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

People drawn to this are typically the same people who point at the red XP rate (faster) and say bad things about it...making them hypocrites. You're allowed double standards though if you don't pvp, I think they made a rule on blue about it.

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[Swish]

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

If you're a solo class you can easily grind about 1k an hour on Felwithe guards from 50 to 56 or so (when they start greening out).

21pp per drop (sword)
6pp FS weapon

= 27pp

Assuming you get a FS weapon each time (which you don't) you're still looking at 37 guards per hour for that magic 1k.

That's roughly 1 guard every 97 seconds, and assuming you can clear every guard in Felwithe without going oom or needing to heal (which you can't), the long respawn timer will prevent you from hitting 1k an hour, by quite a way as there aren't 37 accessible guards.... more like 16 (at a ballpark guess).

I think the Google ad money you're making off the back of the devs project has gone to your head.

[Matalus]

Someone do the research to bring back skyfire AoE

[Pringles]

Its really not hard to come by 100k anymore, especially when velious launched (velious items selling for way over their actual value when velious first dropped). The economy is so inflated that 100k isnt very much plat to raise anymore. Even before velious, a few trips to Seb or HS at the right exp camps can quickly add up to 100k.

[Spyder73]

I did Chardok for half of level 58 and all of level 59. It was glorious....that being said, it appears to be an obvious exploit. All this crap about "a highly specialized and well oiled XP machine" is dumb. After seeing one pull any reasonable person can tell you EQ is not supposed to work this way. Its an unintended consequence of faction and game mechanics creating a perfect storm of retard XP gains.

But man o man is it nice just power housing through top end levels - its like leveling a Bard and having Selos all the time, once you have tasted that good life its hard to go back to how it was before. Chardok AOE makes every other XP camp in the game feel obsolete.