Vivitron
01-05-2022, 07:22 PM
I parsed how many xp messages I got in each zone levelling my bard 1 to 60 -- solo xp messages, group xp messages, and the total of the two. Here they are, sorted from most xp messages to least, and along with what I thought of some of the camps.
The Hole: I had fun eyeball pulling with my Singing Steel helm in some strong groups here. We usually had an enchanter, so after 54 I would catch them with ae snare and let the enchanter cc.
Velketor's Labyrinth: the spiders are good xp solo or with a small group, and the Thurg pot material drops make it an easy zone to check. With faction song you are not kos; never take a faction hit from Velketor the Sorcerer. For a small group, if you find Frenzy open I would take it. SK + Bard meleeing singles was a surprisingly efficient duo here. At ~57 or so your ae snare mostly stops getting resisted and it becomes feasible to ae the bottom floor. You can ae the rest too if you can pull them, but I never did find a way to pull them that I was happy with -- sometimes they get stuck pathing above.
Crystal Caverns, Nagafen's Lair (Sol B), and Droga: these three zones have camps with npcs in the 33-37 range which is perfect: 33 stays blue through level 45, and 37 is the last mob charmable with the mana-free charm. I recommend progressing the zones easiest to hardest, charm killing in pairs. At ~40 you can do geonids at the CC exit; at 42ish do Sol B greater kobolds (run through Sol A to the Sol B zone line marked C, then in Sol B clear towards the areas marked A and B); at 43-45 after you've built up some practice charm killing casters in sol b, you can move to Droga, starting on the bridge to the inner sanctum and clearing down -- eventually you can start nearer the EoE camp and clear it.
Howling Stones: solo you can ae kill at the entrance and the basement and later in the west wing -- bleed any harm touches using charm, and either lull or charm kill the casters to clear the way for ae. It's a fun zone to bring a group to too. Duoing with an enchanter or necro that is reverse charming is notably fun. I found it worthwhile to keep my levi cloak clicked and use an sow pot before zoning in when solo.
Tower of Frozen Shadow: I tried to solo near floor 2 exit but couldn't make it to work due to getting charmed too often. After I levelled past the range I discovered that the third floor seems significantly easier than the second -- 3rd floor seems to be only or almost only warrior npcs. The floor keys aren't soulbound so cr could be an adventure.
Eastern Plains of Karana: the ~11 gnolls by the haunted obelisk (#7 on wiki map) are an easy ae with a nice short pull and usually nobody else around. They do despawn/respawn as undead IIRC on a day/night cycle so you can sometimes lose a kite. Gorge hounds are fine too but you have to keep selos up and you have to run all over to pull. The spiders would be good too if you found them uncamped, but they were popular among non-bards.
Iceclad Ocean: the dervishes around TOFS are tailor made for bard ae (good till the bard is level... ~38?). There are ~26 dervishes around TOFS and roaming nearby, on 6:40 respawns. The area northeast of the gnoll camp is a safe area to kill them.
West Commonlands: you can ae the snakes near Kithicor. You can also lull the caster orcs, and pull out the melee orcs to ae.
CT: if you're mildly twinked and have an EB item you can charm kill the blue pool gators when you are IIRC level 30.
Solusek's Eye (Sol A): most of my soloing in here was charm soloing near the zone line that matches up to Sol B's Guano Collector, marked D on the wiki map.
There is some buggy pathing, and the mobs have a wide range of levels. Grouping in the bar area is a ton of fun though.
The Burning Wood: I aed the area around bees some, but I dislike these long pulls.
total grouped solo zone name
11336 5730 5606 all zones
1740 1732 8 The Hole
725 581 144 Velketor's Labyrinth
709 234 475 Nagafen's Lair
634 437 197 Howling Stones
478 36 442 Temple of Droga
462 66 396 Timorous Deep
386 0 386 Lesser Faydark
353 309 44 Tower of Frozen Shadow
344 0 344 East Freeport
331 0 331 Eastern Plains of Karana
310 0 310 Misty Thicket
296 2 294 Crystal Caverns
289 32 257 Iceclad Ocean
270 0 270 West Commonlands
262 240 22 Old Sebilis
261 147 114 Lost Temple of Cazic-Thule
255 13 242 West Freeport
255 209 46 Castle Mistmoore
252 221 31 Guk
226 108 118 Solusek's Eye
188 158 30 Infected Paw
175 134 41 Frontier Mountains
175 11 164 The Burning Wood
152 101 51 Runnyeye Citadel
139 134 5 Karnor's Castle
136 113 23 Ruins of Old Guk
124 113 11 Permafrost Caverns
90 75 15 Grobb
87 13 74 The Wakening Lands
87 74 13 Kedge Keep
85 68 17 Trakanon's Teeth
84 0 84 Butcherblock Mountains
79 0 79 Dreadlands
78 0 78 Befallen
78 50 28 Oasis of Marr
76 76 0 an Arena (PvP) area
70 52 18 Skyfire Mountains
67 14 53 East Commonlands
67 23 44 Southern Plains of Karana
50 17 33 Great Divide
49 35 14 The City of Mist
44 17 27 Plane of Mischief
37 35 2 Gorge of King Xorbb
32 0 32 Rathe Mountains
31 2 29 Dragon Necropolis
29 1 28 Kithicor Woods
28 0 28 Ocean of Tears
24 0 24 The Nektulos Forest
24 8 16 South Kaladim
21 1 20 Oggok
15 15 0 The Feerrott
9 9 0 Plane of Hate
8 0 8 Northern Plains of Karana
8 6 2 The Overthere
7 0 7 Rivervale
6 0 6 Southern Desert of Ro
5 0 5 Qeynos Hills
5 0 5 Kaesora
4 0 4 Western Plains of Karana
3 0 3 Cobalt Scar
3 0 3 Mines of Nurga
3 0 3 Neriak Third Gate
3 3 0 Western Wastes
2 1 1 Eastern Wastelands
2 2 0 Plane of Fear
1 0 1 North Freeport
1 0 1 Northern Desert of Ro
1 0 1 Lake Rathetear
1 0 1 Everfrost
1 0 1 Swamp Of No Hope
1 1 0 Skyshrine
1 0 1 Estate of Unrest
1 0 1 Lake of Ill Omen
1 1 0 North Kaladim
The Hole: I had fun eyeball pulling with my Singing Steel helm in some strong groups here. We usually had an enchanter, so after 54 I would catch them with ae snare and let the enchanter cc.
Velketor's Labyrinth: the spiders are good xp solo or with a small group, and the Thurg pot material drops make it an easy zone to check. With faction song you are not kos; never take a faction hit from Velketor the Sorcerer. For a small group, if you find Frenzy open I would take it. SK + Bard meleeing singles was a surprisingly efficient duo here. At ~57 or so your ae snare mostly stops getting resisted and it becomes feasible to ae the bottom floor. You can ae the rest too if you can pull them, but I never did find a way to pull them that I was happy with -- sometimes they get stuck pathing above.
Crystal Caverns, Nagafen's Lair (Sol B), and Droga: these three zones have camps with npcs in the 33-37 range which is perfect: 33 stays blue through level 45, and 37 is the last mob charmable with the mana-free charm. I recommend progressing the zones easiest to hardest, charm killing in pairs. At ~40 you can do geonids at the CC exit; at 42ish do Sol B greater kobolds (run through Sol A to the Sol B zone line marked C, then in Sol B clear towards the areas marked A and B); at 43-45 after you've built up some practice charm killing casters in sol b, you can move to Droga, starting on the bridge to the inner sanctum and clearing down -- eventually you can start nearer the EoE camp and clear it.
Howling Stones: solo you can ae kill at the entrance and the basement and later in the west wing -- bleed any harm touches using charm, and either lull or charm kill the casters to clear the way for ae. It's a fun zone to bring a group to too. Duoing with an enchanter or necro that is reverse charming is notably fun. I found it worthwhile to keep my levi cloak clicked and use an sow pot before zoning in when solo.
Tower of Frozen Shadow: I tried to solo near floor 2 exit but couldn't make it to work due to getting charmed too often. After I levelled past the range I discovered that the third floor seems significantly easier than the second -- 3rd floor seems to be only or almost only warrior npcs. The floor keys aren't soulbound so cr could be an adventure.
Eastern Plains of Karana: the ~11 gnolls by the haunted obelisk (#7 on wiki map) are an easy ae with a nice short pull and usually nobody else around. They do despawn/respawn as undead IIRC on a day/night cycle so you can sometimes lose a kite. Gorge hounds are fine too but you have to keep selos up and you have to run all over to pull. The spiders would be good too if you found them uncamped, but they were popular among non-bards.
Iceclad Ocean: the dervishes around TOFS are tailor made for bard ae (good till the bard is level... ~38?). There are ~26 dervishes around TOFS and roaming nearby, on 6:40 respawns. The area northeast of the gnoll camp is a safe area to kill them.
West Commonlands: you can ae the snakes near Kithicor. You can also lull the caster orcs, and pull out the melee orcs to ae.
CT: if you're mildly twinked and have an EB item you can charm kill the blue pool gators when you are IIRC level 30.
Solusek's Eye (Sol A): most of my soloing in here was charm soloing near the zone line that matches up to Sol B's Guano Collector, marked D on the wiki map.
There is some buggy pathing, and the mobs have a wide range of levels. Grouping in the bar area is a ton of fun though.
The Burning Wood: I aed the area around bees some, but I dislike these long pulls.
total grouped solo zone name
11336 5730 5606 all zones
1740 1732 8 The Hole
725 581 144 Velketor's Labyrinth
709 234 475 Nagafen's Lair
634 437 197 Howling Stones
478 36 442 Temple of Droga
462 66 396 Timorous Deep
386 0 386 Lesser Faydark
353 309 44 Tower of Frozen Shadow
344 0 344 East Freeport
331 0 331 Eastern Plains of Karana
310 0 310 Misty Thicket
296 2 294 Crystal Caverns
289 32 257 Iceclad Ocean
270 0 270 West Commonlands
262 240 22 Old Sebilis
261 147 114 Lost Temple of Cazic-Thule
255 13 242 West Freeport
255 209 46 Castle Mistmoore
252 221 31 Guk
226 108 118 Solusek's Eye
188 158 30 Infected Paw
175 134 41 Frontier Mountains
175 11 164 The Burning Wood
152 101 51 Runnyeye Citadel
139 134 5 Karnor's Castle
136 113 23 Ruins of Old Guk
124 113 11 Permafrost Caverns
90 75 15 Grobb
87 13 74 The Wakening Lands
87 74 13 Kedge Keep
85 68 17 Trakanon's Teeth
84 0 84 Butcherblock Mountains
79 0 79 Dreadlands
78 0 78 Befallen
78 50 28 Oasis of Marr
76 76 0 an Arena (PvP) area
70 52 18 Skyfire Mountains
67 14 53 East Commonlands
67 23 44 Southern Plains of Karana
50 17 33 Great Divide
49 35 14 The City of Mist
44 17 27 Plane of Mischief
37 35 2 Gorge of King Xorbb
32 0 32 Rathe Mountains
31 2 29 Dragon Necropolis
29 1 28 Kithicor Woods
28 0 28 Ocean of Tears
24 0 24 The Nektulos Forest
24 8 16 South Kaladim
21 1 20 Oggok
15 15 0 The Feerrott
9 9 0 Plane of Hate
8 0 8 Northern Plains of Karana
8 6 2 The Overthere
7 0 7 Rivervale
6 0 6 Southern Desert of Ro
5 0 5 Qeynos Hills
5 0 5 Kaesora
4 0 4 Western Plains of Karana
3 0 3 Cobalt Scar
3 0 3 Mines of Nurga
3 0 3 Neriak Third Gate
3 3 0 Western Wastes
2 1 1 Eastern Wastelands
2 2 0 Plane of Fear
1 0 1 North Freeport
1 0 1 Northern Desert of Ro
1 0 1 Lake Rathetear
1 0 1 Everfrost
1 0 1 Swamp Of No Hope
1 1 0 Skyshrine
1 0 1 Estate of Unrest
1 0 1 Lake of Ill Omen
1 1 0 North Kaladim