Can anyone help a noob understand Chardok?

[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).

[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.

[tristantio]

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

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.

Yea, that fat money i'm making off "their" project (the project that they're making off what was Sony's IP).

I would fill up 4 tink bags and go vendor (thanks firepots) at 210pp per bag, so I guess it was likely 800pp/hour and possibly took a little longer than an hour to clear (although I think the guard timers used to be less than they are now, although I know for sure they were 15 minutes or less last time I played p99).

Paineel guards are another hot spot (start soloing at level 15, can take you to 56 XP wise and it's around 8pp a kill for level 15 to 45 mobs, all on 5 minute timers) that lets you get close to 500pp/hour.

[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.

[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.

[eisley]

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

Its really not hard to come by 100k anymore

whether you agree with this statement or not probably also determines how you feel about chardok PL, and other similar things such as buying epic MQ's

[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.

[-TK-]

Step 1: Level enchanter (easy, and most often rotated)
Step 2: Get high enough to participate in AoE
Step 3: Make money (I did primarily weekends and weeknights sporadically)
Step 4: Spend said money to level other characters and/or
Step 5: Make friends at Chardok, trade pulls on alts, win, win, win

Honestly it's not that hard once you're around it for a bit, or at least that's how it was when I was doing it. I did a lot last year and only got tagged for taking dirty money once and it was quickly remedied because I kept a simple spreadsheet of who pays for what character, from what character, when they proxied, and how many pulls.