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Originally Posted by Goregasmic
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Real talk though, mid/high 40s you could charm in a couple of places but is there anything that beats quadding wyverns? The exp there is insane and the money is alright.
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Kedge! Kedge! Kedge! Kedge!
It's such a great zone. Underwater so you either gotta deal with casting EB every half hour or buy worn EB. 22 minute spawn timer so no single camp is worth staying at, you need to make like a shark and keep moving. Every hit interrupts casts unless you're in a corner, where only every fourth hit interrupts casts. There's mobs hidden in ceiling compartments so you need to be looking around in 3 dimensions, not just two. If you sit down a level 5 fish will aggro and prevent you from medding or swapping spells, and if you kill it it might proc a 500dd aoe.
When you inevitably die it's far enough off the beaten path to make getting a rez challenging. And when you do get a rez, you'll be sitting underwater unable to move and without any mana for EB. And on the CR, since EB takes fish scales, you first have to detour to the bank to get some money before going to EC and hitting up Katha Firespinner. And if you bind just outside the zoneline, any extended AFK risks accidentally de-leveling back down to 5.
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Originally Posted by Snaggles
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If I had enough for a gobby ring and a few main spells that’s what I’d do at the expense of any other gear. I would charm in Oasis then move to Overthere for a bit, then Velious cougars in Iceclad and off to GD for Kodiaks and Drakkel wolves.
The advantage of quadding is not speed but quality of life. You can blow your whole mana bar and then sit and go make a sandwich. At 46 with a Lumi staff you can easily xp in Highkeep, Oggok, and Grobb off single targets. It seems like a silly click but level 45 I couldn’t clear all Grobb ent before repops and with it at 46 I was speeding through them and Nobles have even less hit points. Really, it just opens up places to go if your quad or charm spot is taken. Later this approach is replaced by dot rotting.
I don’t know about speed. My guess is if you have a lock on bear pits nothing comes close. Quading wyverns and then suits or raptors is tolerable for those AFK breaks. Dot rotting is a 3rd but lets you think outside the box. I did some charming in Chardok and it was ok I guess.
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I'm a little surprised by that charm path. OT/IC/GD over the CT gators? You just like the open space versus the cramped conditions with the gators? Single target Lumi kills in Oggok/Grobb sounds super painful to me but glad you liked it, maybe I'll give it a shot. Did you dot, or just root and lumi?
I thought charming in Chardok was great, didn't feel a need to leave for the bear pits. I liked that there's tons of farming enchanters coming through so you often get drive-by C2, and if you drop some regens and heals you can make a lot of friends with them and the necros. The loot is also decent, with a lot of the drops being zone-wide. I got a Stave of Shielding off entrance trash once, for example. I also found it a great spot to really perfect a lot of niche charming tactics, especially since you have to manage the mix of dogs and sarnaks. A simple example is using lull to keep a dog from aggroing while you root the adjacent sarnak before charming the dog. More complicated tactics would be rooting and snare-parking two sarnaks at the entrance, lull-splitting and snare-pulling one of two dogs further in, bringing it back to entrance, then gating to drop aggro before coming back in to charm. So now instead of having to root rot the two sarnaks and charming the dogs against each other you have two dogs on two sarnaks. Things began to green out at 59 but I was able to clear both entrance and exit wings and it still felt like it went pretty fast.