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I was reading in the "Kill Shot" post that you can use a high level toon and a DS to PL a lower toon. Mention was made of a mage pulling in a lot of mobs ( 12 as I remember)at a time. Where can you suggest that this approach would work well. Would need to be a place where you can easily round up a lot of mobs and have a safe camp fot the low level toon to hang out. It seems to suggest outdoor spaces. I have a 71 mage and would like to play around with ths idea.

Would this approach work to get toons through the difficult 50's or would the mobs needed be too high for the mage to handle?

Thanks for your input. I love trying new things in EQ.

For the lower levels, unrest is hard to beat, alot of mobs,most of them undead ( so they wont run ) and you can go to the mid thirties here. ( using the mobs in the basement.)
After that, try lower guk and pull to the entrances, or Sol has worked in the past also.

Ycir, sorry read post below...double post



Edited, Jun 12th 2007 1:23pm by yenwangweh

Say, your level on character killed a level 75 mob.

He would get the same exp as if he killed a level 15 mob.

It's just not efficient. To be efficient kill mobs that are just red to you, you get an exp bonus.

Edited, Jun 12th 2007 2:00pm by YCHIR

My 56 Paly PLed her lil' sis Shammy from 25-30 in about 3 hours in Unrest. They sat down in the very bottum spot of the basement. The mobs just kept rolling in. It was fun.

Generally speaking hot zones are best xp, followed by dungeons, followed by open hunting areas.

PLing in dungeons is not hard with a higher level toon PLing. Just need to clear a spot and go at it. Have the higher level toon pull as many as you feel you can handle at a time.

I am going to give Acrylia Caverns a try. Thanks for the suggestion.

ok. so im a lil appalled that this is in here. cause im sure its going to be nerfed. but heres how i rolled, PL'n my buds an anyone who would've paid me like 1k per level. an more so at higher levels.... get a druid. mages are less efficient.... set up some hotkeys so u can assist the druid. druid pulls with snare ( huge aggro) if a spell casting class it works better. then u yell "%T is incoming tag em"... noober tags em for as lil damage as possible to avoid over aggro'ing the snare. an then druid goes an gets another an yells "tag" again. do this with private tells. cause if your grouped u aint getting any xp... all u need to do is 1dmg if your the PL-ie, an the Damage shield on the druid does the rest. i had to sit alot as a druid for some lower level mobs to even hit me. which meant full damage from mobbs an extra heals. but theres always the super Ds's a druid gets w/ AA's an i think they cameout with a spell to rock a good Ds too. but i stopped playing my druid pre DON cause shamans own. so id just sit in pok, auction off powerlevels. an head to unrest. cause if snares wear off, normal mobs run. some peole would ***** they were missing out on offensive skill ups. an would suggest themselves being the meat shields. i would tell these people they sucks at life an wont get everything for free. cause its annoying when they die, cause some pos level 10 mob managed to interupt me. an their way is slower... so yeah, hoped this helped.... also.... i suppose any class with a huge aggro non damaging spell could use this method. just support your shaman with buying some DS pots. =)
GL, enjoy being a level 50 sk, with skill level of 25 1hs/2hs. lol. an when yer done, u can go buy some plat too online... lol.
Brian~
p.s. play your class, an stop cheating yourself from running from gnolls.

Edited, Jun 18th 2007 12:40am by thrakka

Shadow Knight works very well for this also due to the agro ability.

We did this in City of Mist. Mobs don't run, except for a rare few. The perons being PL set a key to "rotate through nearest NPC"(something like that). Spell casters use that key and a AOE, they do need to shift around some to hit different mobs. Non AOE characters just use auto attack and the key to cycle through nearest NPC. You can go to 50 easy here very fast.



Edited, Jun 19th 2007 8:54pm by Kortt

Yeah, I find an SK is a perfect chioce to give PL's nowadays. With the agro they can generate without doing any dmg they are awesome. Pull a nice train with no DS up. Use a good AoE agro spell to really work up the train to hammer on Sk... then your new toon walks in and either casts an AoE dd spell (lower level the better to keep agro down) or if you have a melee class you are working on just have it walk in behind the train and rotate through the mnobs one at a time. 1 hit / mob is all it takes to get the exp for that mobs death.

Once your new toon has hit the mobs he sits back and SK pops a DS potion and just sits as fast as possible to slaughter the mobs quickly. I know you gotta sit over and over all the time but mobs die real fast that way. I strongle agree with the other posts as well... undead zones are by far the best for pl's. I love that undead's don't run away... if you are in a none undead zone you will likly need a toon that can root (snare doesn't work since mobs stop attacking at 20% then). I prefer to go into the largest zone the new toon can barely hit a mob in (but it's all personal preference). Larger zones if the new toon gets any agro they will likely die fast (so best to get a few buffs from a clr before the lil toon enters any big zones). I find the best starting zone is FoB up to lvl 4'ish, then kurns Tower up to lvl 15'ish. From there I box toons for pl's and use a dru to snare/root while sk tanks and small toons hit mobs. OT (at skyfire ramp) is good location after Kurns tower since rhino's and the cats don't run away.

just one comment on this necro post. SOME undead do indeed run.
Ghouls, and the undead in Crypt of decay leap immediately to my mind.

Paludal Caverns gives it a run for the money. XP there is fierce.

Lower Guk is great from 22-42. I PLed my bar and mage there from 22-40 until I could bring my necro in (my necro was already 40 and I like having my toons ding around the same time). I would mass pull on my druid (the PLer) into the safe hall. From there, I would let them go to town. At 42, there were some greens-whites, there weren't many red cons. Druid kept enough aggro from the pull to where the pets could beat down their own mobs without being attack in return. Bard would pull aggro from druid so I could DS them down. At 43, I moved them to Nadox. The mobs are harder to kill there, however, the exp is like 8% per kill for each person in the group. Mighty nice exp for a 3 box PL party. =)

To each is there own though, lots of people play solo or box, everyone prefers their own zone. I admit guk gets old, but the exp is damn worth it.