Post by melek ta'us on May 26, 2009 9:49:27 GMT -5
forum.12sky2.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=4770
SPEED LEVELING GUIDE (Basics)
(guide is not designed for new players, because new players should first get to know the details of the game, newbs go to this guide - viewtopic.php?f=24&t=1151 )
1. Choose attack type weapon(Saber, Spear, L. Sword) - some guys may say oh defensive DB or H. Sword is so much better, don`t listen to them they are wrong (ofcourse you can grind with any type of weapon if you wish, but you wont be as fast). Attack weapon is FASTEST in leveling. period. (i am talking about leveling up to 112 or 113 a.k.a. A1, later things can change, but later you wont have problems learn both weapons and try it out)
WHY ATTACKING TYPE IS FASTER? Attacking type weapons have 20%+ attack buff, they have more base dmg on same level weapons, they get more % to attack from skills, they have more attributes dmg, they get more base dmg from str points. You just simply kill faster a lot faster.
2.BEGINING. First 10 lvls put all to str. Get in team if can. learn only atack multi hit skill. Put all points in multihit skill only! at about lvl 15 u should have 10 vit to survive minibosses and do good in wars. at lvl 20+ learn runing skill but do not put points in to it. NO CHI NO DEX NEVER! some masters can sweet talk you to put 20-30 chi...DON`T (at lvl 90 u have enough chi to buff ironskin and u start geting chi elixers from bosses)(chi = spirit)(there is contraversy should you put some chi for 1800 to be able buff star reflection, but i would say don`t even think about that untill you Get the star reflection, then you get it you can decide if you want to put that. And at A5 lvl with A5 rare necky you will have close to that chi anyways)
Try if you can kill only minibosses definetly fastest way up to 80 lvl. if there is lots people kill hard mobs while walking around looking for some miniboss. Have enough vit to tank first red miniboss everything else to str. at lvl 30+ learn buffs do not put points in them untill you have maxed your 30 lvl multi hit you should have found them already(clear first multihit with reduction sutra). DRINK PILL, MULTI, DRINK PILL, MULTI on hard red mobs and minibosses, no aoe, no caves up to 70+lvl. yeah people in caves will be like oh i found 45 rares lots of them !! SO what? while they 45 lvl you already 70+.
oh DO QUESTS they give lots exp
Don`t try accumulate quests and use them all at lvl 112 you will get just about 30% from all 1-112 quests. It is faster to do them trough all leveling. Besides of speed they give some relax to mind from repetitious grind.
you should be level 70+ in like 6 hours, depends on how intense you grind , even if you grind slow chating and going afk often you should get lvl 70+ in two days. You dont need rares, perfectly can do all this with uniques put some upgrade on them if you have money and mats, sell everything else and buy pills. Pick up money mobs drop, in long time they accumulate and pay for your pills. Pick up all you can and every time going town sell it. Pill money can get tight sometimes so you should not waste things.
3.70+LVL GRIND. At lvl 70 its ok start going cave and killing with aoe, because minibosses start to give less and less exp. Just find good spot and stand and aoe hardest possible mobs you can survive, spaming pill button all time . If get bored, go do quests, kill some minibosses, try make 5 member team, go to war... at lvl 80 it starts being harder and harder get exp. you need harder mobs but there are none up to lvl 90. so fastest way is kill last mobs on last map, one by one with multi not aoe - they hit hard. And just go from one to another non-stop, kill minibosses inbetwean. Do not go to cave it is a lot slower.
4. Finally you hit 90. Now you can enter lots of new maps. And there is real bosses in ghost valley cave!! Not minibosses. Those spawn once in 3 hours and drop lots of mats, money purse, sometimes, prety often, rares and elixers, they hit about 5k vital depends on your defense, so if you want kill them i recommend having 5k hp at lvl 90. If you win dragonfall you can enter special cave, it is good at 90- 95 lvl. Well from now on you can grind in caves on hardest possible mobs you can survive. At lvl 100 you should grind on power pushers. At lvl 103+ go to cave with serpentines it is named differently in each faction so i cant tell name because i know only in two factions XD. At lvl 112 go to River map. At lvl a1 river map or if you win dragonfall enter abyss(advanced) cave.
btw in river map because mobs are so high level you fail lots of atacks to speed up this its very cool get into 5 member team and do hitrate and dodge formations. They last 6 mins so you just have to run to some spot every 6 min to reform ~ it helps to kill faster! And you quickly spot lazy teammate XD
Some more points:
* You should try to get dodge cape at lvl 105 and upgrade it to 60% - it gives huge defense boost.
* Do not wait to win war for quest if you are outleveling the war, it is not worth it.
* Get bosses spawn time. Come every 3 hours to kill them. 90-99 boss is in ghost valley cave bottom part, you need about (depends on your defense) 5k hp to tank it. 100-112 boss is in forbbiden(name is different in each faction) bottom part, you need about 7k hp to tank it.
A1+ boss is in river map bottom part, you need about 9k-10k hp to tank it.
* In boss maps you no longer can jump on anything so ranged weaponsz are DOOMED muahahahahahahaa
* BUILD. As i said you must have enough hp to survive red miniboss vitals. For example then you hit lvl 24-25 you should have about 700 hp for war scepter miniboss in second map. And keep it growing like this, when scepter goes pink go to next red one and have enough vit to survive it. It`s cool to have 5k hp at lvl 90, you will survive in wars and surviving is very important you will be able to team up and gank all enemy , you also will be able to kill bosses.
* TEAMS. If you level like this guide tolds you will be leveling faster than 90% of other players. So you constantly will be outleveling teams at begining of game. Unless you find some good grinders team... But at 100+ lvl grinding starts geting slower so you will have teams in caves, no prob . And at lvl 112 lot players don`t leave serpentines cave, because they have full teams there and don`t want to leave . That`s not a good idea. You really should go grind to river map with team or not. Serpentines give like 0.001 per kill, muckers in river give 0.005 per kill and those other aggro mobs give 0.006 per kill. Yes they are harder to kill, but even with more time to kill you get at least 2x-3x faster leveling and team in serpentines cave is not faster, unless you just stand there and chat XD
* 105 rares are nice, but once you hit level 112 better sell them and use 112 uniques, upgrade them ofcourse if have money and mats you even can try going way past 60%, because they are a lot easier to get than rares. 105 rare attack weapon (perfect) has 777 dmg and 96 attributes dmg - 112 perfect unique has 844 dmg and 113 atributes dmg. I even calculated that 105 60% +4 aoe weapon does less dmg than 112 unique 60% +1 aoe.
* Skill learning order.
lvl 3-5, learn multi hit from trainer in town.
lvl 20-21, learn runing skill from trainer in town, all other points in multi hit you should have 19 points in multi hit and 2 in runing. You should have enough chi for multi with good necky.
lvl 30-32, clear first multi hit and learn 30 lvl multi hit from book. You may not have enough chi for maxed 30 lvl multi, don`t worry, put as many points as you can to use it - about 28 points probably. Soon you have enough chi for it, don`t panic and don`t put spirit XD. Learn attack buff, one which gives % to your dmg. Do not put points in it, maby a few - still not worth to max, first get your multihit maxed. Get untistun or/and stun skills for PvP , do not max them, they just will help you a bit.
lvl 40+, You should have maxed 30 lvl multi hit skill by now. Put rest points in attack buff. When attack buff maxed learn speed buff and shura skill. When you have maxed all these buffs and untistun you can learn 30 lvl one hit skill for PvP. Should max runing too.
lvl 60+, now there is lots of skills you want badly XD, Inspirational strike: rises your chance of doing vital hit by 40% (works only with onehit) if you have 60% rare ring your critical chance will be 34%. 30 skill points to learn.Iron skin: gives shield of 50% your hp, like if you have 4000 hp shield will be of 2000 hp, you will get hit 0 dmg from normal attacks untill shield is destroyed, you still get atributes dmg. 30 skill points to learn. 60 lvl multihit and onehit skills, those give about 25% more to your attack than 30 lvl skills
. 40 skill points to learn each.
lvl 70+, you can learn tenon`s prayer, skill gives +50% to your luck, good skill for upgrading! 30 skill points to learn.
lvl 80+, you can learn some nice skills you make from colecting 4 different relics. There are 3 such skills, but i tryed only one of them - star reflection, gives 5% chance to redirect enemys blow back to him. 100 skill points to learn.
lvl 90+, you should learn jump skill you will need it for ghost valley, dragonfall formation.
Why keep runing skill at low points in a begining, i wont be able run fast around? Reason is simple, in PvP you will be more powerfull having more points in multihit, dudes with 10 points in runing at lvl 20 won`t kill anyone.
WHY VIT IS BETTER THAN DEX. 1 dex = 1.6 def, 1 vit = 20 hp. Yes dex gives more dodge, but you still will get hit eventualy. FAST leveling is all about how hard mobs you can survive. Yes you will spam pills, but you will not die. Dex reduce dmg mobs do to you, but sacrificing vit points for dex is not worth it. Remember we talk about SPEED leveling. In slow leveling and no PvP dex can be an option, but this games is all about PvP and in PvP vit is so much more than dex. If you want be tank you can use this guide: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=4277 .. being tank means you can`t kill unless you stun enemy(but its hard to stun because with low str you have low hitrate). You are slow leveler, but you use less pills. You are support type in wars, no domination and sloughter XD. Dex for tank pays off only then you are attacked by loads of enemy like 6 and more.
EXPERIMENT
Did miniboss experience experiment. Experiment was held in time of 10%+ exp from dragonfall formation. Experimented with 50 lvl, 224 defense character, just simple unique armor, no upgrade, no dex, no def buff.
PIG miniboss, was pink. 14,043% exp. ~1100 dmg vital (not max vital, average). Drops 59-60 lvl items. (third map)
NOHEAD HORSE miniboss, was red. 16,659% exp. ~1300 dmg vital. Drops ~66 lvl items.(third map)
CRAB miniboss, was red. 23,841% exp. ~1600 dmg vital. Drops 76-79 lvl items.(4th map)
SPEED LEVELING GUIDE (Basics)
(guide is not designed for new players, because new players should first get to know the details of the game, newbs go to this guide - viewtopic.php?f=24&t=1151 )
1. Choose attack type weapon(Saber, Spear, L. Sword) - some guys may say oh defensive DB or H. Sword is so much better, don`t listen to them they are wrong (ofcourse you can grind with any type of weapon if you wish, but you wont be as fast). Attack weapon is FASTEST in leveling. period. (i am talking about leveling up to 112 or 113 a.k.a. A1, later things can change, but later you wont have problems learn both weapons and try it out)
WHY ATTACKING TYPE IS FASTER? Attacking type weapons have 20%+ attack buff, they have more base dmg on same level weapons, they get more % to attack from skills, they have more attributes dmg, they get more base dmg from str points. You just simply kill faster a lot faster.
2.BEGINING. First 10 lvls put all to str. Get in team if can. learn only atack multi hit skill. Put all points in multihit skill only! at about lvl 15 u should have 10 vit to survive minibosses and do good in wars. at lvl 20+ learn runing skill but do not put points in to it. NO CHI NO DEX NEVER! some masters can sweet talk you to put 20-30 chi...DON`T (at lvl 90 u have enough chi to buff ironskin and u start geting chi elixers from bosses)(chi = spirit)(there is contraversy should you put some chi for 1800 to be able buff star reflection, but i would say don`t even think about that untill you Get the star reflection, then you get it you can decide if you want to put that. And at A5 lvl with A5 rare necky you will have close to that chi anyways)
Try if you can kill only minibosses definetly fastest way up to 80 lvl. if there is lots people kill hard mobs while walking around looking for some miniboss. Have enough vit to tank first red miniboss everything else to str. at lvl 30+ learn buffs do not put points in them untill you have maxed your 30 lvl multi hit you should have found them already(clear first multihit with reduction sutra). DRINK PILL, MULTI, DRINK PILL, MULTI on hard red mobs and minibosses, no aoe, no caves up to 70+lvl. yeah people in caves will be like oh i found 45 rares lots of them !! SO what? while they 45 lvl you already 70+.
oh DO QUESTS they give lots exp
Don`t try accumulate quests and use them all at lvl 112 you will get just about 30% from all 1-112 quests. It is faster to do them trough all leveling. Besides of speed they give some relax to mind from repetitious grind.
you should be level 70+ in like 6 hours, depends on how intense you grind , even if you grind slow chating and going afk often you should get lvl 70+ in two days. You dont need rares, perfectly can do all this with uniques put some upgrade on them if you have money and mats, sell everything else and buy pills. Pick up money mobs drop, in long time they accumulate and pay for your pills. Pick up all you can and every time going town sell it. Pill money can get tight sometimes so you should not waste things.
3.70+LVL GRIND. At lvl 70 its ok start going cave and killing with aoe, because minibosses start to give less and less exp. Just find good spot and stand and aoe hardest possible mobs you can survive, spaming pill button all time . If get bored, go do quests, kill some minibosses, try make 5 member team, go to war... at lvl 80 it starts being harder and harder get exp. you need harder mobs but there are none up to lvl 90. so fastest way is kill last mobs on last map, one by one with multi not aoe - they hit hard. And just go from one to another non-stop, kill minibosses inbetwean. Do not go to cave it is a lot slower.
4. Finally you hit 90. Now you can enter lots of new maps. And there is real bosses in ghost valley cave!! Not minibosses. Those spawn once in 3 hours and drop lots of mats, money purse, sometimes, prety often, rares and elixers, they hit about 5k vital depends on your defense, so if you want kill them i recommend having 5k hp at lvl 90. If you win dragonfall you can enter special cave, it is good at 90- 95 lvl. Well from now on you can grind in caves on hardest possible mobs you can survive. At lvl 100 you should grind on power pushers. At lvl 103+ go to cave with serpentines it is named differently in each faction so i cant tell name because i know only in two factions XD. At lvl 112 go to River map. At lvl a1 river map or if you win dragonfall enter abyss(advanced) cave.
btw in river map because mobs are so high level you fail lots of atacks to speed up this its very cool get into 5 member team and do hitrate and dodge formations. They last 6 mins so you just have to run to some spot every 6 min to reform ~ it helps to kill faster! And you quickly spot lazy teammate XD
Some more points:
* You should try to get dodge cape at lvl 105 and upgrade it to 60% - it gives huge defense boost.
* Do not wait to win war for quest if you are outleveling the war, it is not worth it.
* Get bosses spawn time. Come every 3 hours to kill them. 90-99 boss is in ghost valley cave bottom part, you need about (depends on your defense) 5k hp to tank it. 100-112 boss is in forbbiden(name is different in each faction) bottom part, you need about 7k hp to tank it.
A1+ boss is in river map bottom part, you need about 9k-10k hp to tank it.
* In boss maps you no longer can jump on anything so ranged weaponsz are DOOMED muahahahahahahaa
* BUILD. As i said you must have enough hp to survive red miniboss vitals. For example then you hit lvl 24-25 you should have about 700 hp for war scepter miniboss in second map. And keep it growing like this, when scepter goes pink go to next red one and have enough vit to survive it. It`s cool to have 5k hp at lvl 90, you will survive in wars and surviving is very important you will be able to team up and gank all enemy , you also will be able to kill bosses.
* TEAMS. If you level like this guide tolds you will be leveling faster than 90% of other players. So you constantly will be outleveling teams at begining of game. Unless you find some good grinders team... But at 100+ lvl grinding starts geting slower so you will have teams in caves, no prob . And at lvl 112 lot players don`t leave serpentines cave, because they have full teams there and don`t want to leave . That`s not a good idea. You really should go grind to river map with team or not. Serpentines give like 0.001 per kill, muckers in river give 0.005 per kill and those other aggro mobs give 0.006 per kill. Yes they are harder to kill, but even with more time to kill you get at least 2x-3x faster leveling and team in serpentines cave is not faster, unless you just stand there and chat XD
* 105 rares are nice, but once you hit level 112 better sell them and use 112 uniques, upgrade them ofcourse if have money and mats you even can try going way past 60%, because they are a lot easier to get than rares. 105 rare attack weapon (perfect) has 777 dmg and 96 attributes dmg - 112 perfect unique has 844 dmg and 113 atributes dmg. I even calculated that 105 60% +4 aoe weapon does less dmg than 112 unique 60% +1 aoe.
* Skill learning order.
lvl 3-5, learn multi hit from trainer in town.
lvl 20-21, learn runing skill from trainer in town, all other points in multi hit you should have 19 points in multi hit and 2 in runing. You should have enough chi for multi with good necky.
lvl 30-32, clear first multi hit and learn 30 lvl multi hit from book. You may not have enough chi for maxed 30 lvl multi, don`t worry, put as many points as you can to use it - about 28 points probably. Soon you have enough chi for it, don`t panic and don`t put spirit XD. Learn attack buff, one which gives % to your dmg. Do not put points in it, maby a few - still not worth to max, first get your multihit maxed. Get untistun or/and stun skills for PvP , do not max them, they just will help you a bit.
lvl 40+, You should have maxed 30 lvl multi hit skill by now. Put rest points in attack buff. When attack buff maxed learn speed buff and shura skill. When you have maxed all these buffs and untistun you can learn 30 lvl one hit skill for PvP. Should max runing too.
lvl 60+, now there is lots of skills you want badly XD, Inspirational strike: rises your chance of doing vital hit by 40% (works only with onehit) if you have 60% rare ring your critical chance will be 34%. 30 skill points to learn.Iron skin: gives shield of 50% your hp, like if you have 4000 hp shield will be of 2000 hp, you will get hit 0 dmg from normal attacks untill shield is destroyed, you still get atributes dmg. 30 skill points to learn. 60 lvl multihit and onehit skills, those give about 25% more to your attack than 30 lvl skills
. 40 skill points to learn each.lvl 70+, you can learn tenon`s prayer, skill gives +50% to your luck, good skill for upgrading! 30 skill points to learn.
lvl 80+, you can learn some nice skills you make from colecting 4 different relics. There are 3 such skills, but i tryed only one of them - star reflection, gives 5% chance to redirect enemys blow back to him. 100 skill points to learn.
lvl 90+, you should learn jump skill you will need it for ghost valley, dragonfall formation.
Why keep runing skill at low points in a begining, i wont be able run fast around? Reason is simple, in PvP you will be more powerfull having more points in multihit, dudes with 10 points in runing at lvl 20 won`t kill anyone.
WHY VIT IS BETTER THAN DEX. 1 dex = 1.6 def, 1 vit = 20 hp. Yes dex gives more dodge, but you still will get hit eventualy. FAST leveling is all about how hard mobs you can survive. Yes you will spam pills, but you will not die. Dex reduce dmg mobs do to you, but sacrificing vit points for dex is not worth it. Remember we talk about SPEED leveling. In slow leveling and no PvP dex can be an option, but this games is all about PvP and in PvP vit is so much more than dex. If you want be tank you can use this guide: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=4277 .. being tank means you can`t kill unless you stun enemy(but its hard to stun because with low str you have low hitrate). You are slow leveler, but you use less pills. You are support type in wars, no domination and sloughter XD. Dex for tank pays off only then you are attacked by loads of enemy like 6 and more.
EXPERIMENT
Did miniboss experience experiment. Experiment was held in time of 10%+ exp from dragonfall formation. Experimented with 50 lvl, 224 defense character, just simple unique armor, no upgrade, no dex, no def buff.
PIG miniboss, was pink. 14,043% exp. ~1100 dmg vital (not max vital, average). Drops 59-60 lvl items. (third map)
NOHEAD HORSE miniboss, was red. 16,659% exp. ~1300 dmg vital. Drops ~66 lvl items.(third map)
CRAB miniboss, was red. 23,841% exp. ~1600 dmg vital. Drops 76-79 lvl items.(4th map)
