Why go lake of ill omen?!

[pickled_heretic]

loio sucks, i have only ever got raped by adds there. after giving loio a try i ended up back in guktop for my 20-29 run. i gained a level every 3 hours or faster sometimes soloing (with an occasional duo or group) in guktop even with an occasional death, but that was with charming. most classes can't solo that fast. however you can group effectively in guk from low teens to high 20's if you move your group around.

most groups only ever camp scryer or zoneline with the ocassional lord group but there are sooo many mobs in that zone it's a damn shame there aren't more people there. for instance you can move toward AC from the ZL with a 25+ group and still level very quickly.

after i hit 29 i went to SK and started doing paw. dangerous zone, but once again it's great exp.

[Ephirith]

Unfortunately I've kind of had to follow where the groups are, and it seems like people on this server have wacky notions of where to go. I find Oasis about equally as horrible as LOIO, but you can reliably get a group there, as you can in LOIO. People stay in Oasis waaaaay too late, often dinging 20 there, long after the exp is unbearably slow.

I tried going to Unrest several times in the late teens and only got one or two true groups, but when I did the exp flew about twice as fast as it did in Oasis. It's kind of a negative feedback loop imo, where people don't go because there aren't reliable grouping opportunities, and there aren't groups because people don't show up.

That said, LOIO has always been my favorite outdoor zone. I've gone 19-22 pretty quickly... but I have been poopsocking

Finistere

[FaranCleric]

Malloy, just come to Uguk so I can PL you.

Jeeeez.

[Atmas]

Originally Posted by Ephirith [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Unfortunately I've kind of had to follow where the groups are, and it seems like people on this server have wacky notions of where to go. I find Oasis about equally as horrible as LOIO, but you can reliably get a group there, as you can in LOIO. People stay in Oasis waaaaay too late, often dinging 20 there, long after the exp is unbearably slow.

I tried going to Unrest several times in the late teens and only got one or two true groups, but when I did the exp flew about twice as fast as it did in Oasis. It's kind of a negative feedback loop imo, where people don't go because there aren't reliable grouping opportunities, and there aren't groups because people don't show up.

That said, LOIO has always been my favorite outdoor zone. I've gone 19-22 pretty quickly... but I have been poopsocking

Finistere

Dungeons have a nice xp bonus. You can try to move groups there or form them yourself if you want to get away from outdoor zones. Another place you could try is Mistmoore, always a favorite of mine and usually has a couple of players whenever I swing by.

[gprater]

Ive wondered about the ZEM's as well. There have been plenty of posts about how they dont match with live, but I was wondering if the p99 developers kept the same relative rankings but just made the values different. LoIO has the worst ZEM on live like an above poster said. I recall its only 66%. So does that mean that LoIO on p99 also has the worst but just a different value>?