You can level from 30-60 in Dreadlands if you wanted to. Some of the Ravashing Drolvargs are dark blue even at 58.
Benefits:
*Large variety of mobs to choose from and the only casters are the spiders.
*Firiona Vie is a zone away to bank, sell, buy malachites, etc.
*There are usually plenty of porters and clerics that wander through to KC if you need a rez or port.
*Along the North and East walls are usually safe places to hunt.
*Mobs (except for Ravashings) have low hitpoints compared to dungeon mobs and Velious mobs of the same level for faster kills.
*You never have to waste time trying to find a group. Mages are usually not the #1 class people look for so when you're trying to get into a dungeon group, you're going to get picked near last if at all.
*If you do die, CRs are cake. I recommend binding at the DL/FV zoneline.
Drawbacks:
*You don't have as big of a zone bonus multiplier like the cookie cutter dungeon leveling most people do (Crushbone, Unrest, Mistmoore, COM, Sol B, Karnors, Seb). BUT you also don't have the downtime of trying to find/get into a group or messy CRs.
*Bards like to kite most of the zone. When this happens, there's fewer mobs to choose from. Plus, the idiot ones drag the mobs close to the KC wall which can aggro on you if they die (and they do) or zone. If you see this happen, just log out and in to clear aggro to be on the safe side.
*Loot is generally poor.
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