Power Leveling, Power Drops
Posted: December 23rd, 2005, 7:13 am
Goal: Get insane XP and loot for your alts.
Prerequisites:
0. Requires two accounts, so you need to double box or work with a friend. I prefer working with a friend.
1. Level a main to T6. All the way to 60 for best results. I like Guardians because it is almost impossible for a lower tier warlock to steal aggro if the Guardian knows what he's doing, but we've used Wizards too.
2. Start any high DPS class, get it to sublcass. Twink up the attacks and gear that gives you better attacks through stats, don't worry about defense. We've done this with a Warlock, an Assassins and a Monk.
3. Take your level 20-25's to Fallen Gate. From 25-31 go to RoV, from 31-38 I recommend Runnyeye, from 39-45 head for Cazic Thule, after that Permafrost. It won't work beyond Permafrost right now. Use grouping to grey out stuff you don't want to fight. Remember to ungroup before you pick off the named mobs.
The method:
Key to this is that the high level toon must be positioned to take control of the mob after the low-level toon pulls. The high level Guardian in our Guaridan/Warlock method would position himself directly in front of the warlock between the warlock and the Golems in RoV. The warlock would pull and pause, the guardian would taunt and use Maddening Defense. It roots the Guardian but the mob generates nice encounter-wide hate with every attack. The warlock takes a breath, let's the guardian lock it in for 10-30 seconds depending on how scarey the mob is, and starts whacking away with every damage spell she's got (get them to Ad3, it makes things go much faster).
Our warlock, at level 26 was getting 9% / golem in RoV and it took 2-3 minutes to take it down. The golems were yellow and the drop rate was insanely high.
We did this same thing with an Assassin and Wizard in Fallen Gate. The Assassin was level 25 and the Wizard was level 60. We got 3 master drops in 30 minutes and the Assassin got 50% of level.
It won't work on Epic mobs but only because Epic mobs automatically lock the encounter to prevent outside help.
For epics (like Ladon yesterday), we use mentoring because a level 55 Guardian mentoring to 29 is a lot tougher than the level 29 Guardians we're seeing running about.
Prerequisites:
0. Requires two accounts, so you need to double box or work with a friend. I prefer working with a friend.
1. Level a main to T6. All the way to 60 for best results. I like Guardians because it is almost impossible for a lower tier warlock to steal aggro if the Guardian knows what he's doing, but we've used Wizards too.
2. Start any high DPS class, get it to sublcass. Twink up the attacks and gear that gives you better attacks through stats, don't worry about defense. We've done this with a Warlock, an Assassins and a Monk.
3. Take your level 20-25's to Fallen Gate. From 25-31 go to RoV, from 31-38 I recommend Runnyeye, from 39-45 head for Cazic Thule, after that Permafrost. It won't work beyond Permafrost right now. Use grouping to grey out stuff you don't want to fight. Remember to ungroup before you pick off the named mobs.
The method:
Key to this is that the high level toon must be positioned to take control of the mob after the low-level toon pulls. The high level Guardian in our Guaridan/Warlock method would position himself directly in front of the warlock between the warlock and the Golems in RoV. The warlock would pull and pause, the guardian would taunt and use Maddening Defense. It roots the Guardian but the mob generates nice encounter-wide hate with every attack. The warlock takes a breath, let's the guardian lock it in for 10-30 seconds depending on how scarey the mob is, and starts whacking away with every damage spell she's got (get them to Ad3, it makes things go much faster).
Our warlock, at level 26 was getting 9% / golem in RoV and it took 2-3 minutes to take it down. The golems were yellow and the drop rate was insanely high.
We did this same thing with an Assassin and Wizard in Fallen Gate. The Assassin was level 25 and the Wizard was level 60. We got 3 master drops in 30 minutes and the Assassin got 50% of level.
It won't work on Epic mobs but only because Epic mobs automatically lock the encounter to prevent outside help.
For epics (like Ladon yesterday), we use mentoring because a level 55 Guardian mentoring to 29 is a lot tougher than the level 29 Guardians we're seeing running about.