Journal of Wizard...

slowpoke68 · #1 06-15-2015, 08:22 AM

Think I finally picked my main and thought I would do a little journal of my leveling experience.

After many restarts, I rolled up an Erudite Wizard. I put 25 into Int and 5 into Agility. I know a lot of the posts say to put the stats elsewhere, but C'est la vie.

Started off just killing whatever in Tox forest and vendoring it all. First few levels went by pretty quickly although it is hard getting used to being so squishy. I played a cleric on Brell Serilis just after launch for a few years. Didn't do much alting at all, and never a caster.

After not too many deaths I made level 4 and left Tox with a full set of cloth, a Sr. Apprentice Robe, the bare minimum in spells and a cracked staff. Took the boat to Qeynos and got a bind. Luckily I was able to hitch a ride to Butcherblock with someone porting and turned in all my bone chips at the Paladin guild in Kaladim which brought me almost to level 6.

Next headed to Blackburrow and got into some nice little groups/duo trios. Made a few levels there and gathered a fair amount of fangs. One problem was the number of higher levels who would come around the bridge and kill our gnolls. Levels 9-11 stealing our level 4, 5, 6 gnolls that my little group of 5-7's were killing. This forced me to move deeper past the doors which was ill advised. Three deaths in less than a half hour put a damper on my progress.

Eventually turned in my fangs hit level 9 and was done with Black Burrow.

Started killing the Rabid Bear outside and again hit a little snag with three more deaths in a half hour. With this Wiz it seems like that is a pattern for me, haha. But got my rhythm down and with turn ins I ended up getting to almost level 13 and walked away with all my spells (the good ones anyway) and an extra 120 pp to spare.

At this point I am doing some leisurely wisp hunting on Erud's Crossing and typing this in between pulls.

Hit level 13 and will stay here a bit longer. Would like to walk away with 8 GLS and some LS too. Will turn into the Gypsy in NK. My next hunting ground will be to hopefully find a bandit group or partner in WK. Will turn in Sashes and bank more money then head to ECL tunnel to see if I can buy some earrings and rings.

Want to do this nontwinked and self found. Self found meaning hunt it myself or pay fair market value for all my gear.

Anway thanks for reading. Future updates should be shorter and less wall of textish.

Quintilius
Wizard of Erudin (13th Circle)

Zalus · #2 06-15-2015, 09:23 AM

Good luck in your adventures.

B4EQWASCOOL · #3 06-15-2015, 10:06 AM

What did you do with your non erudite wizard?

segreto · #4 06-15-2015, 09:42 AM

Greetings. I just started back a few days ago, too. I played for two years right when the game came out, and I have forgotten almost everything since then! Anyone happen to know the turn-in quests for the freeport and commons areas? I turned in for my monk sash, but don't recall any other low level (5-6ish) turn in quests.

Thanks,

Segreto

Vallanor · #5 06-15-2015, 10:20 AM

Great story so far. Wizards are a difficult class to start with untwinked, but I think they're a lot of fun. Keep the updates coming!

Morlaeth · #6 06-15-2015, 10:49 AM

Welcome!

I played a ranger called Zantes on Brell Serelis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Whirled · #7 06-15-2015, 11:27 AM

Good story & welcome, I'll take this sort of wall of text any day than most others.

mystang89 · #8 06-15-2015, 12:32 PM

Welcome, thanks for the story. Mine is fairly short for a ranger. It goes something like, made character, died died died died died died, somehow made level, died, deleveled, died, made level again,rinse repeat.

Is nice to read more uplifting stories like yours[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Riotgirl · #9 06-15-2015, 04:26 PM

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Welcome, thanks for the story. Mine is fairly short for a ranger. It goes something like, made character, died died died died died died, somehow made level, died, deleveled, died, made level again,rinse repeat.

Is nice to read more uplifting stories like yours[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

At least you know what to expect in later life when you're asked to take the HT [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In all seriousness - like Slowpoke68 - massive respect for rolling what you want to roll, and min/max be damned!

@Slowpoke68
Did you remember to perform the Lucie Dolan quest in Qeynos to snag yourself a pair of +3 INT earrings? The quest has a max level of 10 (Cuburt will not drop the tattered dress after you hit 10th level), and I only managed to snag one before I out-levelled the quest in Qeynos aqueducts.

slowpoke68 · #10 06-15-2015, 08:02 PM

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At least you know what to expect in later life when you're asked to take the HT [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In all seriousness - like Slowpoke68 - massive respect for rolling what you want to roll, and min/max be damned!

@Slowpoke68
Did you remember to perform the Lucie Dolan quest in Qeynos to snag yourself a pair of +3 INT earrings? The quest has a max level of 10 (Cuburt will not drop the tattered dress after you hit 10th level), and I only managed to snag one before I out-levelled the quest in Qeynos aqueducts.

I didn't. Should have, but the wiki made it sound like the earrings were a rare reward. I had a bad experience once in the aqueducts and have a bit of a phobia about that zone haha.

Made a couple of yellows this afternoon and left Erud's Crossing with 11 GLS and 11 LS. Of course 3 more deaths, but not too bad all and all. Got a little sloppy with my pulling. Back to Qeynos and on to NK to see the Gypsy.