New drood Riverdale lvl advice please

[osbossanova]

Hello,

I quit live after PoP and played a monk, coming to p99 and giving a druid a shot i find a am getting my butt handed to me in Misty Thicket only level 5, should i be going after blues and greens or saving mana to target the whites?

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[Cillaz]

On p99, starting from scratch, you need to try and stick to blues, whites are too risky and the fight can go either way. My advice is target them from a distance and nuke til they are in mele range, to give you a bit of a head start. Once you get your first damage shield use it and let them damage themselves, it helps a lot at low levels. If I see you I'll chuck you some pp to buy your starting spells. Stick to ones that will help you most when monies tight : dd, damage shield, heal, dot, root/snare
In a level or two head to the goblins and save the warbeads and hand them in for xp, it's a big boost at those levels.
Keep all bone chips, bat wings and mq/hq pelts and sell them in ec. Sometimes ppl do shout in misty that they are buying bat wings and also keep an eye out for evil ppl who are killing guards, they might let you loot and spear and shield.

[NegaStoat]

Assuming a new account with nekkid toons, make a level 1 halfling druid. Run it to EC tunnel. Politely beg a mage to make you some 100% weight reduction summoned bags (6 slot or better) and a modulation rod (don't click the rod). Get on the boat for butcherblock. Run to Kaladim. Kill noob mobs with the mod rod, especially decaying dwarf skellys. Your goal is to get 6 stacks of bone chips.

Reach level 5. If you get 6 stacks of chips before you are 5, you can grab level 5 doing the Felwithe to Kelethin mail run for extra coin - the exp gains + gold reward are not classic. They're much higher.

Turn the chips in at Kaladim Paladin Guild (Gunlok Jure) to take you from level 5 to the bottom of level 8. Go grab Meditate and a few spells from Kelethin. Hunt in either CB for belts to sell, or Butcherblock with skellys or goblins to get level 9. At this point you can keep going wherever you want, really.

Store the no rent bags and mod rod you've been using to fight with on a level 1 alt corpse, dropping the bags on the ground and having the alt pick them up - and then punch out a guard to make the corpse. You can save the bags and rod in this manner between play sessions for weeks of use. Loot and sell everything.

[xarilzir]

I quite liked leveling in Misty for quite a number of levels if i remember rightly.

Stick to the blue mobs if you do not have twink items, you can be lucky sometimes in MT and find a druid who will buff you up some (however dont beg for buffs as generally people will not do it!)

Also as a new player you need to think about your bank roll, personally i would save those bone chips and silks etc and sell in EC tunnel.

Also in MT you might find a necromancer killing guards and they drop spears that are worth 10pp each when I was killing these I would ask low level players to sell and split the cash, worth keeping an eye out for early to mid 30 necros in zone.

Welcome to the server sir!

[Jimjam]

Kill the stuff that has a negligible chance to defeat you but gives the best xp.

It helps if you have a weapon with a decent ratio for the first few levels.

Soon you will be relying on spells to solo or getting into groups for xp.

[osbossanova]

Thank you all for the advise, I played live before luclin so my memory is shot. I made the run to freeport and felt like a kid at christamas filled with joy. I am not level 9 and been working as a mule for evil race in misty thicket selling their spears and shields for them in order to buy my spells. I believe i will take the suggestion and attempt CB after a few more levels or two, mana is still very low i rest almost after every fight.

Thanks again for answering a noob question.

[beev]

Stick to blues, whites are never worth the downtime. Tank and spank is usually the name of the game till 20 for a druid.

[loramin]

Stick to blues, whites are never worth the downtime. Tank and spank is usually the name of the game till 20 for a druid.

I recently got a druid to level 19 and I'd have to disagree with this. As soon as you get your first animal charm at 14 you can start charm killing in places like the karanas, and that gives much better XP than tanking. Admittedly you'd get even better XP if you could get a Goblin Ghazuli Ring, but unless you can borrow a higher level friend's account you won't be able to acquire one of those yet.

Also, I found the piranhas in the lakes of West Commonlands to be a great place to level once you get too high for Misty Thicket. Not because they're anything special, but because you can easily beg a chloroplast and maybe a damage shield or haste from someone in the EC tunnel, then run to the lakes and have reliable blue mobs to kill.

[beev]

Ah yes, It's been some time since I was in the teens on my druid. As soon as you can charm, I suggest heading toward EK and charm whatever blue animals are around you. You can get through quite a few levels doing that - also having the zone line so close to where you're charming is nice in case things get out of hand.

[Seredoc]

I recently got a druid to level 19 and I'd have to disagree with this. As soon as you get your first animal charm at 14 you can start charm killing in places like the karanas, and that gives much better XP than tanking. Admittedly you'd get even better XP if you could get a Goblin Ghazuli Ring, but unless you can borrow a higher level friend's account you won't be able to acquire one of those yet.

Also, I found the piranhas in the lakes of West Commonlands to be a great place to level once you get too high for Misty Thicket. Not because they're anything special, but because you can easily beg a chloroplast and maybe a damage shield or haste from someone in the EC tunnel, then run to the lakes and have reliable blue mobs to kill.

I agree here, using a charmed kodiak at one of the bandit camps, while slower than charm killing, was fantastic xp and great money because of the bandit sashes or headbands plus the stacks of human blood were selling good at the time