Relaxing druid leveling path. (blue)

[pijan]

I'm looking for some relaxing druid leveling suggestions! I am in no rush to level ASAP. I am currently level 10 and trying to figure out a fun path to take while watching movies with my SO. Any recommendations for the most fun spots you leveled? A spot you either found relaxing or just really fun! I read through the guides but wanted some personal opinions from people. This would be all solo leveling or at most a duo.

[loramin]

I know what you're thinking, but really, check out the Per-Level Hunting Guide (link in sig) ... and I say that as a personal opinion.

I like relaxing spots too, and I leveled a Druid to 60, so if you click the Druid filter on the Per-Level guide you're going to find lots of such spots. Mostly they'll be "relaxing" in the sense that you'll charm fight two mobs (or maybe do two such fights in a row, depending), or do a quad of mobs ... and then relax and meditate ;).

If you want relaxing in the "root/rot one mob while being completely safe the whole time" sense ... I think you'll find that's mind-numbing slow compared to charming/quadding (or even grouping), and as a result it will be hard to find people who've done it.

But all that doesn't start until you really get into the class and can start charming, which I remember being a "late teens in the Karanas" deal (although I guess some people charm mammoth calves in Everfrost earlier?) The point is, at 10 you're still kinda in Wizard mode, so the class plays differently, and you just want to do whatever, wherever, to get to "real Druid" levels.

Finally, to answer the "really fun" part: alligators in Cazic Thule. I stayed in that zone for like ten levels and wrote two mini-guides for the "alligator pit (http://wiki.project1999.com/Cazic_Thule_Alligator_Pit)" and "alligator alley (http://wiki.project1999.com/Cazic_Thule_Alligator_Alley)" because I loved them so much. It's not relaxing, but it's great/fast XP, keeps you on your toes, and really teaches you how to charm fight well, use Harmony to pull well, etc.

[plzrelax]

I really enjoyed charming in stonebrunt. I started there at 40 but I think you could begin there as early as 35.

Charming in Oasis is fun too (snakes and gators).

Some people might recommend OT around 30 but it wasn’t for me. Too many resists, too many adds, and too many bards. But quadding there is certainly an option if you have the mana.

50+ I really enjoyed soloing BnB in solb. By then I had a few clickies that made the job a lot easier.

[aspomwell]

Get your ass to WK, the spot marked 3North on the map (approximately +1000, -7000). http://wiki.project1999.com/Western_Karana

There are 4 bandits that spawn there and don't roam. There are a couple more that path just south of them. Sit to the north and nothing will aggo you, you can afk for an hour.

Harmony will let you single pull them. You can stay there until 16. I'm now looking for a new spot that was as relaxing as that was (although currently doing the http://wiki.project1999.com/The_Acolyte quest, eruds crossing and freeport zombies dropped flesh in first couple kills, killed 20+ greenblood zombies and nothing yet...).

Gonna try charm kiting in Everfrost once I'm done with that. My CHA sucks balls though (base 50 for halflings) but I'm not sure if that influences druid charm or not (I've seen both sides argued).

[aspomwell]

A little more info for that camp.

Get a bind in Qeynos at the bank. About 1 in 4 bandits will drop a bandit sash. Turn them in to this guy: http://wiki.project1999.com/Bandit_Sashes

You'll get a random bronze weapon and xp, the weapon will sell for 1-6 plat. About every 6 bandits you'll also get a bronze weapon to sell (seems most of their weapons are rusty though, just let those rot). You can make pretty decent plat for the level there.

The only time I encountered another person at the camp was a shaman that came in and blew everyone up before noticing I was camping them. She was very sorry but we both laguhed it off. Point is, even some higher level PCs will come by and farm them for some quick cash if they're passing through.

[Snaggles]

If you are grinding lazy (like I do) on single mobs and alt-tabbing over to watch Youtube you need a high xp modifier zone and a safe place to do it.

Kurns, Upper Guk, Unrest, Sol B, Highkeep, etc.

Blackburrow isnt the best but you can hand in the fangs if you can sneak or have the right faction. Sadly I spent 9 levels there and couldnt with my wizard.

[aspomwell]

I don't think any of the druid races start off with bad enough faction that they can't turn in gnoll teeth, but halflings at least get sneak. Don't think the other ones do though.

[BlackBellamy]

I'm looking for some relaxing druid leveling suggestions! I am in no rush to level ASAP. I am currently level 10 and trying to figure out a fun path to take while watching movies with my SO. Any recommendations for the most fun spots you leveled? A spot you either found relaxing or just really fun! I read through the guides but wanted some personal opinions from people. This would be all solo leveling or at most a duo.

There are 4 gators spawns in upper guk next to the spiders. They're all lv 10-13. If you sit by the scryer room you can farm 3 of them then run to the alcove to get the 4th.

Once you're done there, head to 3way, there's 2 crocs there and another 3 closer to the AC spawn, they're all lv 13-15. Another 2 gators by Tempus if you want to walk. You can ding 19 there easy.

After that Aviaks in Lake Rathe. There is a single spawn always lv 18, and the doubles are lv17/20. You can split them easy with lev and harmony. Lots of room to kite.

Then north to South Karana, kite gnolls by the spires and turn in gnoll scrolls. This can take you to 50 if you want, although it will take you like 40 scrolls per level in the high 40s.

[pijan]

Some awesome suggestions so far. Never tried a few of these spots so will give it a go! Started off with the orcs in south ro. Those were pretty fun and ez.

[kjs86z]

Gonna try charm kiting in Everfrost once I'm done with that. My CHA sucks balls though (base 50 for halflings) but I'm not sure if that influences druid charm or not (I've seen both sides argued).

It doesn't.

[Worrisome Whortleberry]

You can do 8-16ish in Western Karana as there are lots of spots to go AFK suddenly, or just camp out and jump back in, plus there's a lot of things to fight which makes it easy to just run forward for a few seconds kill a random roamer or two and then run backwards and AFK while you med up. Super chill.

Similarly, you can do 18-27 in Eastern Karana, which is connected by running through Northern Karana, and you can just AFK on the bridge. From there, you can med up and charm solo for a few kills, and then skip back to bridge toAFK while you med up again. You can start with the weaker wildlife and then graduate to just Griffons, Stalkers and Hounds. There's a lot of roamers, you can always find something to charm and another thing to fight a few seconds aware from the bridge. At 24, when you get creeping crud, you can go to the Craig Spiders, which are in the same zone and there are enough there to support two people soloing. You can AFK on the ramp or up on the cliff, then just run over zap a few spiders and go back to the sage spots to meditate.

As a Druid, being outdoors is cool and fighting with animals or killing giant bugs is a lot of fun to me. Relaxed, but fun times, out in the Karanas.

[kaluppo]

lvl 10-14 Nro (anything blue). 14-20 Oasis (crocs or orcs). 20-30 LoiO (anything blue just avoid casters). 30-39 FM giant fort (giants). 39-44 DL (yetis). 44-52 DL outside KC (anything blue just avoid spiders). 52+ BW (scoriae hornets or wurms stay blue till 60).

Root/rot works great for slow but safe/steady XP. 34+ you can quad FM giants, DL yetis and DL outside KC mobs. XP is faster quad kiting and plenty of down time as you have to med from 00m. But if don't want to quad kite you can root/rot all the listed mobs one at a time getting 1-2 kills per mana bar.

[Shrubwise]

Fatdog's Somewhat Helpful Leveling Guide for the Casual Druid (https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=291085) will help you get to level 23 (and then abruptly end) Enjoy!

[sacman08]

Charming animals is by far the easiest chill solo exp in game. 1-20 is easy, just do Crushbone if your on Fay, Befallen bear Freeport or black burrow near Qeynos. At 15ish you can do Unrest or start charming gators in Oasis. As Loramin posted, check the guides there are all helpful for where to level.

[kfde]

14-20 doing wisps in Erud's Crossing is very chill - and it'll net you a lot of money and an extra level or 2 off Greater Lightstones when you leave.

[Kipnol]

If you are not worried about dark elf faction, the bridge guards in Nektulos Forest are perfect for low stress root-n-rot, in the late teens and early 20's. They are spaced apart, so single pulls are easy. The other mobs in the area are all low level and non-aggressive, so there is ample opportunity to kite and med, as needed. They are close to the EC zone line, in case of emergency. They are all melee types, so no stress from casters and they all drop bronze weapons, which can be sold to the innkeeper (who sells food/drink), just inside EC. It is also a short run to Freeport for banking and EC tunnel for buffs.

A good low-stress spot in the late twenty's is the Brute caves outside of Dalnir in Warsliks Woods. These Brutes have a super low aggro range, so single pulls are easy and there are no roaming mobs. Again all melee, no casters. They drop lots of gems to sell to vendors and a fair amount of HQ hides to auction, if you can handle the weight. Dalnir zone line is close, for emergencies.

(As mentioned in previous posts) In the low 30's, you can make the run over to the giant fort in Frontier Mountains. Easy single pulls, no casters. They can drop 40-60pp items to sell to vendors and also drop Forest Loops. There is not a whole lot of room to kite, as there are aggressive mobs roaming outside the fort, but there is a small area just north of the fort entrance, about half way up the hill, that is safe to med with no risk of aggro from wandering mobs. Lake of Ill Omen zone line, for emergencies. As others have suggested, this is also a good camp for transitioning into quad-kiting.