Reaching for Titan and Demi

by Rodngar

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Rodngar2010-01-01 22:08:56
This has been really nice, thanks for the advice guys. From what I understand, there's just not a lot of good spots from my level to 80, then. sad.gif
Rael2010-01-01 23:14:46
Astral is great at level 70. You get something .2% per mob and when I exhausted my willpower I remember suiciding because it was so easy to recover the experience.

Hunting becomes noticeably slower at 75 and 80+ becomes excruciatingly slow compared to aetherbashing though.
Siam2010-01-02 00:07:06
QUOTE (Rael @ Jan 2 2010, 07:14 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Astral is great at level 70. You get something .2% per mob and when I exhausted my willpower I remember suiciding because it was so easy to recover the experience.

Hunting becomes noticeably slower at 75 and 80+ becomes excruciatingly slow compared to aetherbashing though.


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EDIT:
Whenever I kill myself, I do it with meteors biggrin.gif
Unknown2010-01-02 02:01:26
QUOTE (Rael @ Jan 1 2010, 05:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Astral is great at level 70. You get something .2% per mob and when I exhausted my willpower I remember suiciding because it was so easy to recover the experience.


Yeah, I do that with my caster alts too! Dying and recovering all wp >>>> idling away a long time doing nothing to recover it.
Rael2010-01-02 17:21:22
You could also consider merians on Nyalia, Grey Moors, and gorgogs. They yield decent experience, gold and karma and are close to Glomdoring.

I mostly alternated between astral and these three areas to get to level 85. Now I prefer to hunt kephera because they're plentiful and made of gold. The experience isn't nearly as good as astral but you're never stuck idling, there's no insanity, and you don't have to worry about afflictions if you have insomnia.

If you have an ability like cleave remember to use it.

But what you really want to do is go bashing with demigods or aetherhunting. content.gif
Unknown2010-01-02 21:17:40
Aetherhunting is made of delicious win and experience.

Please don't take it away from us pray.gif
Vathael2010-01-02 21:50:35
QUOTE (Xenthos @ Jan 1 2010, 03:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I never did.

I just spammed QW constantly and ran off to meditate every time I got 3 mil.

Oddly enough it seems faster when working with numbers that go up by the thousands instead of percentages. Even if the only difference is display.


We're talking about bashing to Titan and Demi, something you don't know about. -eye-
Xenthos2010-01-02 22:41:46
QUOTE (Vathael @ Jan 2 2010, 04:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
We're talking about bashing to Titan and Demi, something you don't know about. -eye-

Hey, I bashed 0 to 120,000,000 essence!
Rika2010-01-02 23:07:43
It is easier to bash with increasing numbers than slowly increasing percentages. You also didn't have demigod burnout. tongue.gif
Xenthos2010-01-02 23:23:17
QUOTE (rika @ Jan 2 2010, 06:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It is easier to bash with increasing numbers than slowly increasing percentages. You also didn't have demigod burnout. tongue.gif

No, I had trans-ascendance-burnout. That hurt.
Unknown2010-01-04 05:54:37
I just hate the fact I seem to always be low on essence, even when I spend time bashing like I did at Titan.
Atellus2010-01-08 16:38:27
I never really felt that astral payed off in terms of the risk vrs reward. I would always seem to get some hard or double spawn and die, which set me back far more than the small gain I received by killing things there.

I stayed in the undervault well into the late 80s, the sheer volume of things to kill there makes up for a lot. You want to work on your exp/hour rather than your exp/kill. Removing downtime by not getting killed and constantly having things to kill is the best way to do this. Of course when I was in the undervault I was still mostly unknown and I had a gem of cloaking, if you know you are going to get jumped a lot then it can be a dangerous place.

I forget when I switched over to Muud but that is where I did most of my 90s and beyond. At first I could not even come close to a full clear, and it took a while to learn my way through the place, but it was far more rewarding for me than astral. I would kill there until I was to the second level of insanity and then head back to the undervault while it cleared.

Also this was done as a monk which was (still is?) one of the better pve classes. You will want a nice health buffer before you try Muud. I would suggest getting a higher level friend to take you there first so you can get a feel for the dps and know when you can handle it.

Of course it has been a while for me so perhaps there are better options now.

Unknown2010-01-08 17:59:57
The best XP gain I ever got was on Astral. (I don't aetherhunt.) It was one or two ascendants, two or three demigods, and me (level 90 or so, at the time). We just linked and stood our ground, killing anything that wandered in, and I gained about five times faster than I would've hunting alone.
Unknown2010-01-08 18:33:00
QUOTE (Zarquan @ Jan 8 2010, 05:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The best XP gain I ever got was on Astral. (I don't aetherhunt.) It was one or two ascendants, two or three demigods, and me (level 90 or so, at the time). We just linked and stood our ground, killing anything that wandered in, and I gained about five times faster than I would've hunting alone.


That's really the only comparable way to bash xp wise vs aetherhunting. It's also a non-option for a lot of people since the little person has to be able to at least survive one round of getting wtfhit by a group of mobs. It is a fun way to bash, though, and great for filling reserves quickly for free. I have a lot more fun doing that with people than aetherhunting, even if aetherhunting is more profitable, easier, and with the right crew a larger/faster essence tool with little risk.
Xenthos2010-01-08 18:49:46
QUOTE (AllergictoSabres @ Jan 8 2010, 01:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
That's really the only comparable way to bash xp wise vs aetherhunting. It's also a non-option for a lot of people since the little person has to be able to at least survive one round of getting wtfhit by a group of mobs. It is a fun way to bash, though, and great for filling reserves quickly for free. I have a lot more fun doing that with people than aetherhunting, even if aetherhunting is more profitable, easier, and with the right crew a larger/faster essence tool with little risk.

(Or has been aegised)