Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Still do! Begin murdering worgs, turning the quest in every 20 worgs. If you don't like the scenery, zone over to City of Dranik. I have added it in now. SOME DISCLAIMERS: First I want to point out that Almar's Guides are pretty good and he lays out a pretty fantastic path to getting to max level and getting geared along with plenty of other advice. Your merc will also use buffs that are in his level range to buff you and your group. I updated that page so that it has a link to almost every single EQ guide I have written; laid out for you by expansion & easily navigateable with Ctrl + F. It'll provide a better alternative to people who just want information about a specific zone rather than a leveling guide. Find Tyrinam and take the Reducing the Threat - Worgs quest. EverQuest Cheats & Guides. Thread starter kyle123; . There are also a ton of really good twink weapons to be had here, which can sell for tons of plat depending on what server you're on. Available types are Tanks, Healers, Melee DPS, Caster DPS, and Support mercenaries. If you aren't saving for something in particular, consider taking these. Llux's guide to warrior swarming v3. By this point you should have gear that can hold up and healers who know what's what. If it's not up on the rotation, skip it. 46-67 Veksar (PoK>Firiona Vie>Lake of Ill Omen>Veksar) - If you're a paladin, you really should consider living here through these levels, as most everything is undead. Once level 4-5, go over the bridge to the north and kill young pumas, bears, and more drakes. The final two zones drop Glowing Reis, which gives you good armor from 85-90. So now if you and a friend want to do an LDoN you'll have a group of 4 and will have no need to find a 3rd for the LDoN. Just be careful as everything has a huge aggro range and the pathing can mess your world up. There is a big open courtyard almost as soon as you zone in. It is easy to get overwhelmed at lower levels, especially with the ratmen who frequent the middle of the zone. I recommend you donate to him for his grinding guides as well. Everquest, Everquest Leveling Guides Since leveling speed in Everquest is determined by Hotzones, which changes every now and then it's hard to find a leveling guide for Everquest. Everything is pretty spread out and it's dead simple to pull singles or just wander and kill. 1. Erudin also has a LOT of undead which are very concentrated in a few areas, making Paladin swarming much easier as well. Stance: You're allowed to set the stance that you want your mercenary to be. !1111, (You must log in or sign up to reply here. The merc will cast a rez (When out of combat) to anyone in your group who is dead. At 35, push into the area around frenzied ghoul and up toward Ghoul Lord. Some players are reporting trouble verifying their email address. Assist: Your merc will help DPS. At 45, start killing the spiders and gargoyles on the ground, then slowly work your way up. Stay near the entrance until 49-50 then move toward the "disco" areas until about 52. Second I want to point out that while boxing isn't a must, and subbing isn't a must, it makes this game exponentially easier. Go. Here are some suggestions as to how to use these areas to hit max level. You should easily average about 25% of an AA for each of the light blue mobs while at the South or North Camp. A: Oh yes he did! More of the same, except a larger portion of the zone is friendly. If you're a new player then you'll be able to find a Mercenary Liaison right in Cresent Reach (granted if you Start there). When do I have to upgrade him? The south camp is the three rooms near the Nobles Causeway zone line. A: When you shroud the mercenary is suspended, when you have enough money to pay for the mercenary you may unsuspend him. The east wall outside the citadel area offers constant spawns of cockatrice and a few yeti, as well as access to the two named cockatrice. You essentially get all the levels while doing things you would do anyway. This is Tier 4 for Veil so things hit hard, but not that hard. A guide specifically for Clerics and Paladins is my next endeavor. I hope this just expands on his already awesome work. Passive: Your merc will not attack or heal anything. End of Underfoot (Volska's/Convorteum)(88-92) - You can level here if you feel like pulling your toenails out, but I don't recommend it. Lots of nameds spawn here, so be careful if you don't have a good group or a good box team. In both places, just clear the zone. All the gear that levels up with you from 75 to 105 makes life hugely easier. You dont really explain where things are/how to get there. Also keep in mind that if you hire a mercenary from a female Mercenary Liaison then your mercenary will be a female. Kor-Sha Laboratory (105-110) - Only really worked 2 camps in this zone. Look at my map in comparison to your map to see the location. Bastion of Thunder (62-68)(PoK>Plane of Tranquility>Torden, Bastion of Thunder) - The giants and bees of Thunder are excellent exp. For an AFK camp, 100 AA a day isnt too bad. There are only a small handful of places where you have to fight more than one mob if you don't want to. After that though it's single pulls non stop. It's Hills of Shade all over again. The mob density gets much thicker in both places, so it can be dangerous. I prefer to stay out of the fields if at all possible. Burn (On Some): Your merc will focus primarily on damage, always assisting the main assist. If you don't mind having to fight your way in every time you zone in, murder farmers. Field of Scale theme - Journeyman Rank IV. You can pull the first floor starting about level 20 and move into the second floor about 24. With fire. The key zone for AFK leveling and AA grinding in the 65 to 80 level range is Wall of Slaughter. It looks pretty though. They are undead and you will reap them with Slay Undead/Ward Undead line spells. Posts: 1,338. What i mean is if you do Field of Scale, you'll have the rank IV merc, not the III or II. So max out at lvl 82 and grind all your final AAs here. The optimal quest guide lists Old School RuneScape quests in an order that allows new Members to progress in an order that minimises the amount of skill training. Also see the alphabetical command list or emotes . A second thing to do would be to spend 10 dollars on Daybreak Cash. Depending on your classes ability to swarm pull, these zones gain a lot of extra life for swarm pulls for SKs and the like. Don't accidently attack Lhranc if you see him. You will be teleported to Ethernere Tainted West Karana and now attuned to the Dead Hills. In comparison to their equivalent in Underfoot, the mobs are vastly easier. I played a cleric for 9 years until I finally left. When first starting out a healer merc may seem logical, well it's not. You get to experience every bit of content across 110 levels, hundreds of zones, and 24 expansions. BEST (78-83): Ashengate, Reliquary of the Scale (PoK>Blightfire>Goru'Kar>Sunderock Springs>Direwind Cliffs>Ashengate) - I want to make it clear that the run out here is nuts. Keep clearing until you reach the bridges over water in the northern most area. The exp is ludicrously fast thanks to low HP mobs and repeatable quests. 2.1 General Commands 2.2 Chat Commands 2.3 Spell-related Commands 2.4 Emotes 2.5 Guild and Fellowship Commands 2.6 Pet Commands 2.7 Group, Raid and Task Commands 2.8 Leadership AA Commands 2.9 Window Toggle Commands 2.10 Bard Song Commands 2.11 Tracking Commands 2.12 Warrior Commands 2.13 Mercenary Commands Grouping is still one of the best ways to get experience, but the mercs help you when you can't find a group. You will need invisibility, levitation, or balls of steel. Your destination is the top right corner buildings, which contains a ton of animated hands. Korascian Warrens(82-87)(PoK>Talk to Herald of Druzzil Ro to TP to Plane of Time>Walk around the pillar and click on glowy portal to The Void>Toskirakk>Korascian Warrens) - I used to enjoy leveling here quite a bit. Entire house is pretty much open at 26. The gear starts becoming available at 75 and is bought with Marks of Valor from Ethernere Tainted West Karana. everquest afk mercenary leveling guide. He drops a key to access the first black reaver room and open up access to the second floor. Right click anywhere on this box and select "Puller" as your Main Roll. You can hire a Mercenary at any Mercenary Liaison. Also adding a few notes about Sarith and Resplendant Temple as I spent some serious time in them lately but really just came to my conclusions about them. It just depends on gear if solo and number of boxes/size of group if not. I have never played F2P so I can't tell you how to negotiate that. Chapterhouse of the Fallen (96-100)(PoK>Freeport>Commonlands or Once you do attunement quest from Shard's Landing, Guild Hall>TP to Shard's Landing>Portal to Chapterhouse) - I love this zone as a paladin. There is a new set every 5 levels but it isn't really worth getting more than maybe a set for a healer merc at 75, 85, and 105. Check the sidebar of the subreddit for where to get them. (Intelligence level, Upkeep and all that). He will very likely murder you if you do. Outside the city are critters which can be pretty easily just wander killed. Make me want to fire up the game again! With a group of three actual players though, you can steamroll this place for GOBS of experience. BACK TO ACTUAL ZONES THAT CHANGE!! EQ Test Server: Play for Free as a Gold Member, A Site Dedicated to EverQuest (EQ) and the upcoming EverQuest Next (EQN), Phinigel TLP Server Leveling for Human Paladin @, EverQuest AFK Leveling (and AA) Guide: Its all about 3Boxing, Camp Info AC: 25 Aug Flameshield Stone Pyrilen Riftseeker @, Camp Info AC: 20 Aug Ground Murkglider Eyes Blind Hunter Rekamu MPG Expansion: OOW . Let the mercenary do all the work for you. Journeyman is an order of magnitude better than Apprentice and is only available to people who pay for Everquest. For a quick example, an Apprentice Tier V mercenary caps out at a 90% rez where as a Journeyman Tier I mercenary will have a 96% rez. At 20, open your map and begin trekking out toward the Stone Hive zone line. At 6-7 go into the middle cave and kill pumas. The boost they provide isn't significant but it is really nice and certainly speeds up the lower levels. Velkator's castle houses the highest level guys, mostly golems and gargoyles and you should come here around 52 and stay until about 55. Hardest part of this zone is not dying in the fields. Additionally, the mobs in Wall of Slaughter have a larger agro radius than the Plane of Fire mobs which helps. Go through a little valley into the south side of the zone though and it becomes Tier 2. Old Bloodfields (84-88)(PoK>TP to Plane of Time>Portal to The Void>Old Bloodfields) - While it won't be as good as it was as a hot zone, OBF is still a pretty good place to pick up these levels. Very easy to set up a spot and pull away on the gorillas and birds. The other room is basically in the exact same spot except on the left side of the map. You can do 2 pathings in this patch (13.1B): The mob level goes up to 92-94. With a group of actual people, this place is awesome though. House of Thule armor is pretty damn good for it's level. Loot isn't spectacular but with a decent group, you will shred mobs and the exp will flow like water. At 82 or straight away if you have a group, head down through the mansion to the basement area. I honestly think it's kinda trash because either you're killing "relatively weak" classified mobs or the creatures just have too many HP, but from 30-35 it's ok. Spend 48-52 in the area around where you zone in and the northern areas of the zone. Stay at the entrance until you get to 80, then you can push into the north pathway. Along the way, most players are going to need to grind a few thousand AAs in order to be effective at 80+ when playing their character. A: Your merc will Dismiss himself. If you still need to eat up more time, head back to ETWK via the black portal and go to the camp where you buy gear. Mostly you'll be killing oashim rats and wraiths in the bottom right portion of the Tier 2 section. BEST (90-96): Valley of Lunanyn (Guild Hall>Buy Chunk of Argathian Steel>TP to Argath, Bastion of Illdaera>Valley of Lunanyn) - I sincerely hate that this is still true, but the Valley is still hard to beat in this range mostly because of the unique way the zone is setup. NB Loot is rubbish but you don't have to buy any armor until 65. I know there are a LOT of mobs you can access off this area, but have no idea what nameds if any are common here. Don't ask me for how you do each HA. A single heroic 85 is all that is really needed to roll over the content though, which shouldn't be hard to find on any server you're on. The run isn't terrible, but all of the SoV outdoor zones are enormous so it's further than it looks. This works out to 4 AA (6 AA on Test) an hour while AFK. Air sucks for dps and tanking in classic, can be useful in groups against casters, in Lower Guk for example. If you're a damn the torpedos type, you can pull the fire troops around the giant Solusek Ro, who is standing there in all his glory. Multiple mercs with heals, buffs, and DPS and you can soar through here. From level 1-100 and from Luclin to Call of the Forsaken, all AA's but crafting are given to you for free. This zone is sometimes a hotzone. Don't know how popular that still is, but it's still not hard to get anything done. Is it really AFK XP if the only people gaining any experience are the mercs that are doing the work? The mobs in four of these level boosted zones drop Glowing Athlai and Othni armor pieces, which can be turned in for armor that is great from 71-80. This should be a priority. Once you zone in there is a monster bridge. All leveling guides post SoD have a different format and are written for players leveling with Mercenaries. Stay near the zone lines until 85, then push out. When you come back Re-summon him and he will be your level again. Do they take up a group slot? These are also really nice for Rangers to headshot since they are rootable and don't summon. Or at least a bunch of boxes with healer mercs. When people return to EverQuest from an extended absence, they always ask wheres the best place to level and grind AAs. Any of the weapon and armor loot from nameds will sell for 300-400 plat. You can get a little more life out of the zone by acquiring one of the temporary keys that let you teleport up to Grieg's spawn point. This disparity increases with levels. The goal is to get the three Clean Up the Farm quests from Siggik at the gnome camp near the Steamfont zoneline. Reactive: Your merc will react better depending on the situation. A NOTE ON GEAR: Up til now, the Defiant sets of gear have been pretty spectacular. When you rez your mercenary you will immediately be charged the Upkeep cost on him. #everquest #project1999 #sinnycool 2 MINUTE SPAWN AFK CAMP to 60 / Everquest Project 1999 green / Update since V5.5 patch what changed? The mobs have varying levels of HP, but don't hit that hard in comparison to even other TDS content. The Fortress Mechanotus Zones(75-85)(Guild Hall>Buy Dragonscale Faycite>TP to Dragonscale Hills>Fortress Mechanotus>Gyrospires/Meldraths/SHIP/Steam Factory) - This area isn't one of my favorites and I haven't spent a considerable amount of time hunting in them. This format works best for me and it's much easier to update than what I used to do. We have updated our Privacy Policy. There are a lot fewer mobs as you go up in levels and it's much easier to head to City of Mist at 42-43 and crush out the last few levels really fast. I will provide some quick ideas if that's not the direction you wanna go. I avoid the crystalline horrors as they sap mana like wild. As of the Terror of Luclin expansion, the best mercenary equipment is "Vigilant", which is obtained in The Burning Lands zones. It's very very easy to do, easily completed solo by all classes. If you have access to it, the TBM Crypt-Hunter gear is comparable to every expansions group gear until 105 and you can upgrade it with augments so that it levels with you in 5 level blocks. Never a good idea to go fully afk. There are numerous groups in Empires of Kunark, but lets say you're not feeling up to that yet. you will only be able to select an Apprentice Mercenary. This will easily take you to 56-57. All of the tier 3 House of Thule zones work here, but I like Fear Itself since it's mostly just a revamped Plane of Fear, which I have fond memories of dying in. Mob HP is ridiculously low since this is a vanilla zone and these levels go by without much attention having to be paid. Also during spell cooldowns they will use agro reducing abilities. A great place to solo for a lot of classes at 105 for AAs. It doesnt matter if you have no interest in playing the new characters when they reach the high end game. It's also a hot zone and that makes it really worth it. Worth about half a level in that range. I fully admit that there are abilities some classes have that completely lower the bar for entry to a zone or extend the life of a zone a couple of levels. Loping Plains(75-80)(PoK>Steamfont Mountains>Loping Plains) - At 75 come here and head around past Bloodmoon Keep. Up to about level 35 a red con gave me 10%-25% XP. (Using ISBoxer is useful to this; please reference my other guide for info) It doesnt matter what the composition is of your 3 box team. But first about the zone. Leveling/Setup This guide covers zones up to Omens of War. These levels will go by in a flash, but watch out for the spiders. Resplendent Temple is awful in my opinion, with it being nearly impossible to pull singles, and Pillars of Alra is hard to get to (you have to run through a lot of angry Alarins who can see invis in Resplendent Temple) and easy to get yourself killed in, for much the same reason. You can stay here until you ding lvl 83. The key zone for AFK leveling and AA grinding in the 65 to 80 level range is Wall of Slaughter. If you're looking for the old information that used to be on this page you'll find those guides along with all my other EQ content here. ). You may finish them and have 30-45 minutes to wait. Kill them all. Will be updating soon to include Ring of Scale. This zone is very confusing to get into from the "front door", but if you're coming here at 48 then it's the best place to go. Joined Feb 1, 2009 Messages 62 Reaction score 0 . Edited in general directions to each zone and a blurb about the benefits of being on a live server. Leveling up in Everquest 2 is very quick these days compared to before, but . I realize that I didn't add directions, just general sense of direction. Mercenary Leveling and Equipment While mercenaries are quite adept at walloping the occasional moss snake, even the most adroit sell-sword can be taught a thing or two by an experienced adventurer. Honestly feel like it's impossible to beat the exp you can get here from 30-35. It's a very easy zone to level in without much drama. But the real advantage is when you want to grind out AAs while also leveling from 65 to 80. I strongly recommend you choose a guide from this list though as these will be the guides I will continue to roll out updates to as time goes on. In this Project 1999 EQ video I show a 6 minute spawn camp that can take you all the way to level 60! You must log in or register to reply here. You will decimate all. They are in the places where the guards used to be. Q: Can I bring my merc on a LDoN or my guilds CoA raid? The difficulty comes in finding a safe spot to set up camp, thanks to terrible pathing and wandering mobs. There are 2 nameds plus a named treant you can easily access if no one else is killing them. It's a matter of gear and group/box team composition. Kill dragons and drakkin on the north path until 81-82, then shift to the east path. ALTERNATIVES: 25-32 Crypt of Dalnir (PoK>Field of Bone>Warsliks Wood>Crypt) - Really love this zone. Usually you can kill 5 or more mobs in the 15 minutes it takes between Upkeep's. In order to hire a mercenary meet at least one of the following conditions: Own the Age of Discovery expansion (having purchased when it was a new release). It's by far the fastest and is almost as easy as the Gribble missions. While it is fastest to level in Hotzones, it is always good to have options on where to level. I'M NOT QUITE READY FOR EOK/ROS (100-105) - This is very much dependent on gear and group. When you get a new mercenary, it starts at Level 1 with only a single ability. PL ALTERNATIVE: 'Hatching a Plan' mission next to PoK standalone bank. You can stay here until you reach level 77. Do the research on your own on Allakhazam. Lower HP, but hit hard. Posted on February 24, 2013 by Almost Gaming. It's accessible at level 75, so you can have J5 mercs 10 levels early. BEST (84-92): The Grounds/Erudin Burning (PoK>Feerott, the Dream>House of Thule, Lower>The Grounds/Erudin Burning) - I love both of these zones. The westside is still gangster though, so you can kill most of the stuff there. Making it doubly worth it. The ramps leading down into each area of The Grounds are great camp spots and there are halls and nooks of the various buildings in Erudin Burning that you can set up in without much fuss. The key to AFK grinding is to not die rather than maximize exp per hour. All EverQuest servers, and all website pages and services, will be taken offline for scheduled extended maintenance and game updates on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. PST*. Talk to Marla Gaslow. Hitting Ctrl+R to walk is very good idea here. WHY PLAY LIVE? I will add something in about him. A: Yes they do! From the time your mercenary dies to the time you can Rez him is 5 minutes, just like when you'd suspend him. With EverQuest free to play, returning players can easily add additional accounts. ALTERNATIVES: Argath (88-92)(Guild Hall>Buy Chunk of Argathian Steel>TP to Argath, Bastion of Illdaera) - I only put this here because it is a hotzone and because of that, isn't bad. Really good guide. In the event Trakkanon is up, he will probably eat your face, so stay out of his room if he is until that friendly farmer shows up to farm him. Kill everything here until 68ish. Favorite area is the Queen's castle area. I also find levitation to be a must as the zone is divided by a giant canyon and you spawn on the wrong side of the canyon. He couldn't have made it THAT easy. ALTERNATIVE: 8-20 Kurn's Tower (Crescent Reach>Blightfire Moors>Plane of Knowledge>Field of Bone>Kurns) - I really like leveling here with paladins, clerics, necros, and SKs. I also ding to 57 at this camp in the video including the sweet ding noise and a cringey. IN ADDITION: Recently, much better versions of mercenary gear have been released that make your mercs WAY more effective. Not much changes between 'minor' expansions in each leveling guide and you'll notice that the biggest change between leveling guides is Seeds of Destruction. When you complete an HA you are given a three hour lockout timer for THAT PARTICULAR HA. Inside Dead Hills, look for a gnome named Gribble Grobblenobber. You can push to 86-87 here by going into the west corridors, but the exp falls off a cliff at 83. everquest afk mercenary leveling guide everquest afk mercenary leveling guide Home Realizacje i porady Bez kategorii everquest afk mercenary leveling guide. There is also a pair of undead graveyards here that can offer some decent exp in this range for Paladins, but the mob density is all that and you're better off in another zone. 54-60 Plane of Nightmare (PoK>Plane of Tranquility>Plane of Nightmare) - Things hit very hard here. Mobs run on live side so ignore it. If you're a returning player you can find Mercenary Liaison's in PoK. I like to use to portal room for quick evacuation. The Call of the Forsaken expansion introduced mercenary equipment, gear you can put on your mercenary . After 75, you get much stronger gear so you can quickly kill the minotaurs at the minotaur fort. Find something else. Welcome to our Everquest 2 Leveling Guide! Third, get yourself maps immediately. These Mercenaries can be good options to level up first unless you have access to some of the most powerful Legendary Mercenaries. Also his armor and weapons will get better as he levels up. unsure if they removed it or not). Chat Combat Corpse/Looting General Graphics Group Guild Pet Raid Sound Spell Task Track References What commands do you wish you knew a long time ago? The reason you select Journeyman is because the Journeyman mercenaries are better, stronger, faster and more advanced (Literally). With a group you can pull them pretty easily and have access to a HUGE number of mobs. RUN EVERYONE INDIVIDUALLY OR CALL OF HERO THEM IF YOU HAVE A MAGE. Let the mercenary do all the work for you. Kill these guys, turning in the quests as you finish them and then getting them again, until 75. See below for the final bit of the guide. Playing live has a few benefits. If you'd like to see every single zone in the game that I have a guide for, head over to my Everquest Index Page. It's also a MONSTER of a run as Jungle and Trak's Teeth are enormous zones. Fear Itself (88-93)(PoK>Feerott, the Dream>House of Thule, Lower>House of Thule, Upper>Fear Itself) - Even before this place was a hot zone, I loved this place. The respawn rate is also ludicrously high. Pretty much everything is undead and the zone is very easy to get to. The big marquee nameds are almost always camped and killed on a timer, so you probably wont see Maestro or Innoruk up. The number of mobs for straight grinding is also really impressive. everquest afk mercenary leveling guide how to measure inductance in multisim trahan funeral home bay city, mi June 29, 2022 errol flynn rory flynn 0 decriminalize nature seattle