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Graffe's Wizard Leveling Guide

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Hey guys, I've seen some people lately asking about exp spots and quadding strategies. I'm going to try and find that old quadding guide for all the various places and update it with new locations for the library. This is an old levelling guide from Graffe 1.0 Library. It's pretty accurate through luclin. If you have any additions to add to it, please lemme know.

There's a great thread here entitled, Wizards cradle to grave solo guide. I copy and pasted peoples posts, and combined them into one file. I use it for reference, and giving info to my friends when they ask where is a good place to hunt at X lvl (even some non-wizzies *gasp*). It lists the zones, and some of the original comments. Thought I'd post it in case others might find it useful. Includes lots of solo spots, but grouping spots as well.

Good hunting all !

Astacia Fierydoom Al'Kabor groupie

"The Lord giveth, and Ice Comet taketh away."

LVL 5-10

1. Butcherblock
2. Commons rules all, the orcs in grouping were best xp I ever had, turn in any DF belts you find
3. East Commons,
4. West Commons
5. Crushbone
6. Lfay
7. Nro - solo dervs
8. SRo
9. Steamfont- Elementals, Drakes, Skels, Harpies, near mino cave
10. Blackburrow

LVL 10-15

1. Blackburrow,
2. Butcherblock
3. Commons rules all, the orcs in grouping were best xp I ever had, turn in any DF belts you find
4. West common- Dervs, in group
5. Crushbone
6. Erud's Crossing- soloed wisps for a ton of Lightstones. Enough cash to pay for your spells, important to us first run toons.
7. Everfrost - grouped in the tundra
8. Upper Guk
9. NK-all beetles & griffawns
10. WK- mostly bandits
11. Lake of Ill OmenI moved to Lake of Ill Omen at 13 and stayed there until 29. Solo or Grouped
12. Lavastorm- soloing by the Najena zone; I found this to be excellent exp
13. Lfay
14. Nro- soloing as much as possible and getting a derv group occasionally
15. Oasis-Crocs of all kinds, solo or grouped
16. Ocean of Tears- Sister Isle
17. Permafrost
18. Qeynos Sewers- Smugglers
19. Nro- dervish groups
20. South Ro- Orcs
21. Steamfont- Elementals, Drakes, Skels, Harpies, near mino cave
22. Unrest- grouped
23. Paludal Caverns- group from levels 10-20.

LVL 15-20

1. Blackburrow- Solo Elites
2. Erud's Crossing, soloed wisps for a ton of Lightstones. Enough cash to pay for your spells, important to us first run toons.
3. Everfrost - grouped in the Tundra
4. Highhold- orcs and gnolls, in group
5. High Keep (Orcs outside till i could hit the goblins inside)
6. Upper Guk,
7. East Karana- spiders and dogs
8. North Karana- the giant beetles are very good xp and move slower than your natural speed so can be quad-kited without sow or snare, all beetles and griffawns-solo.
9. WK-mostly bandits
10. Lake of Ill Omen- Grouped or Solo, solo around windmill until about 20 and then moved closer to the Sarnak fort. At 30 i would group-kite sarnaks until 31
11. Lake Rathetear-Aviak guards
12. Lavastorm
13. Najena
14. Oasis-Crocs of all kinds & orcs
15. OOT-- Skellies then Gargs on Garg Isle, Gargs are a bit tough to manage solo until at least 20th. Collected a couple hundred plat in Garg eyes here. Sirens in OOT. Bar none this is the best exp in the game at these levels. Once you get the two spawn broken it is super easy exp. I did each level in about 4 hours total with NO powerleveling.
16. Overthere
17. Permafrost
18. Qeynos Sewers- Smugglers
19. orc highway grouped
20. Unrest

Lvl 20-25

1. Beholder-grouped
2. Cazic Thule- Grouped
3. Everfrost - Redwind's temple
4. Highkeep- grouped
5. East Karana- Spiders (solo), chasm crawlers and gorge hounds are easy kills. Might even get a PBB off an Evil Eye
6. SK- aviaks and gnolls solo, treants grouped;
7. Lake of Ill Omen- Grouped or Solo. , solo around windmill until about 20 and then moved closer to the Sarnak fort. At 30 i would group-kite sarnaks until 31.
8. Lake Rathe- Aviak guards, solo or grouped
9. Lesser fay- Saben trucross little gnome in hut.
10. Najena-grouped
11. Overthere
12. Warslik Woods
13. Mistmoore - yard trash solo, or grouped
14. Permafrot-grouped
15. Unrest- solo or grouped

LVL 25-30

1. Beholder - Evil Eye lords – solo
2. Cazic Thule- grouped
3. Everfrost - Redwind's temple
4. Lesser fay- Saben trucross,little gnome in hut
5. Frontier Mountains- Grouping at the giant camp
6. Upper Guk
7. Highkeep- grouped,(had a fun of fun here, and learned how to be an effective wizzie in lower lvl groups)
8. North Karana- Bard at spires
9. South Karana- aviaks and gnolls solo, treants grouped
10. Lake of Ill Omen. Grouped or Solo.
11. Lake Rathe,
12. Mistmoore -solo yard trash, grouped
13. Najena
14. OOT
15. Overthere
16. Permafrost
17. Rathe Mts
18. Sol A
19. Split Paw- grouped
20. Swamp of No Hope
21. Unrest- solo or grouped
22. Walsiks Woods- Brute caves near Dalnir zone. 5 spawns none assist each other.

LVL 30-35

1. Cazic Thule- (grouped, pyramid)
2. West Commons- (Valon and Colin)
3. Frontier Mountains- Grouped, giant camp
4. Lower Guk
5. Upper Guk-Ancient Croc
6. Highhold Keep, you NEED to learn group tactics inside dungeons and you can run to the guards if you have a bad group.
7. Iceclad- dervishes, cougars (learned to quad here),
8. North Karana -solo griffins
9. Sk- gnolls, treants
10. WK- Ulrich McManus
11. Mistmoore- Grouped
12. OOT- Solo at Dwarves, three spawns, tremendous exp
13. Overthere- solo and grouped
14. Paw- grouped
15. Rathe mountains- giants grouped, med/kite cyclops
16. Tower Of Frozen Shadow- grouped
17. Unrest
18. Grouped With Ranger - Sand Giants
19. Acquired Journeyman's Boots at level 35

LVL 35-40

1. Butcherblock- Dorfs
2. Cazic Thule- 2nd floor temple
3. West Commons- (Valon and Colin)
4. Crystal Caverns
5. DL- north wall grouped
6. Eastern Wastes-quad Ulthorks, walruses
7. Feerrott- single spectre by the fear cave
8. Freeport Guards- (solo)
9. Frontier Mountains
10. Great Divide- (quad kiting kodiak caves, did all of lvl 38 and 39 in one night getting almost 2 blue's per quad Drakkel Wolves, these guys are *cake* to quad at these levels, and pre-40 give 1.5 blue bubbles per pull
11. Lower Guk
12. Iceclad
13. The Overthere- Solo or grouped
14. Rathe Mountains- med/kiting Cyclops; Solo Cynthia gypsy camp near lake zone. 2 lvl 39 nukes will take her out. Hill Giants are fun, feels good to kill something that size. May have too much hp for your mana pool so get a group. You offer everything a group hunting HG's needs, snares, high octane nukes and ports for easy banking.
15. Solb- grouped
16. Steamfront- Solo gnome guards, watchman Halv
17. Stonebrunt Mountains- (Solo and occasional partner)
18. Nurga- The first spider sets as you leave the goblin area and head into the spiders/badgers. Spawn in pairs, so you will have to break the camp(s).

LVL 40-45

1. Butcherblock -female dorfs
2. Dreadlands- grouped
3. Easten Wastes- quad ulthorks
4. Feerrot- single hill spec in Ferrott, cause its 5 mins which is enough for me to med, decent loot. Solo/Grouped at Spectres
5. Freeport Guards- (solo)
6. Great Divide- Giants, Slow but effective exp, and I needed the faction. Plus helped a guildie do the shoulders quest in Thurg and have sold the other excess heads and toes for decent cash. Drakkel Wolves, Great quadding, solid experience, and even faction. Kodiaks,When not crowded this has to be the best place. I made it through 45 in less than a week. You don't get exp for all the Ferals in 45, but with another lower level group pulling from the front of the cave it works out good. Let them pull while you're medding up then ask to pull from deeper in. You can get 4 that give exp in this way.
7. Lower Guk- group, Rit spawn and Zol/Dars in the hall around Frenz/Magi area
8. Kaesora- grouped there with same friends entire time
9. Lake of Ill Omen- Bloodgill Goblins,GREAT exp all the way to 51.
10. Lesser Faydark- happ the magician
11. Overthere- Solo
12. Rathe Mountains- Horribly boring but you can can solo the two troll guards for wonderful xp. Keep resistant skin, elemental armor, and steelskin up at all time or their dots might kill you. Use your Eye of Zomm to take the SK's Harm touch. If you get dotted, port to NK and have the cleric in the guard tower heal you.
13. RM- Solo HGs
14. SolB
15. Steamfront- solo gnome guards, watchman Halv
16. Stonebrunt Mountains - Solo and occasional partner Wandering mobs include scarlet cheetahs, tro jeg, sunflowers, rockhoppers, bloodtribe guys, lightcrawlers, sun revenants (lots of hitpoints), and other alien looking guys. Good for levels 40-55 or so. May have to look around for the appropriate levels to fight (blues to 55 tend to be around the base of the mesa). Quadding is a pain in the arse, as the weird pathing in this zone tends to cause mob's to split up after grouping, take bizarre routes towards the kiter, etc.

LVL 45-50

1. BB- dorf merchants (quad kiting)
2. Cobalt Scar- wyverns
3. Dreadlands
4. Eastern Wastes- single savages/wooly rhinos
5. Emerald Jungle- near FoB zone. Solo.
6. Ferrott- Cydreela near the portal, Two well timed ICs while she's buffing will take her out if your luck
7. Feerrot- lone spectre
8. East Freeport- Solo/Duo Guards
9. Lguk- (solo or grouped ) (Rit spawn and Zol/Dars in the hall around Frenz/Magi area)
10. Hole grouped
11. Karnor's Castle
12. Lake of Ill Omen- Bloodgill Goblins, GREAT exp all the way to 51.
13. Lesser Faydark- happ the magician. Now that you have conflagration, Happ Dremblefold (sp?) is the best xp you could possibly hope to find, she's in Lfay right by steamfont zone, does not kill faction or anything either. She's a mage and has low hp, gives off great xp...Hit her with Conflagration, then either hit her with Tishan's Clash, and then Ice Shock (lvl 34 nuke) she dies unless she resisted, and boom, there you go, xp.
14. Ocean of Tears- cyclopses of all kinds, get jboots if you don't already have them.
15. Oggok- orge guards
16. Overthere
17. Rathe Mountains- (made a lot of pp!)
18. Seafury isle
19. Sol B
20. Tenebrous Mountains
21. TD- spirocs solo
22. Velks Lab- crystal spiders (grouped)

LVL 50-55

1. Burning Woods
2. Chardok
3. Cobalt Scar- Solo then quadding wyverns
4. Dreadlands- Singles of Increasing difficulty, kiting back to North Wall of Karnors.
5. Emerald Jungle
6. Ferrott- Cydreela that NPC near the portal. Two well timed ICs while she's buffing will take her out if your lucky or TD has some nice stuff to quad I'm told also. Easiest exp u can ever get as a wizard and not bad money cause she drops cash loot items like gems and such. I make about 1k a night off her which ain't half bad. Plus i get to do some work around the house as well.
7. Karnor's Castle- grouping and partnering at the zone.
8. Ocean of Tears- cyclopses of all kinds, get jboots if you don't already have them.
9. TD- Solo/Quad Spiroc Provens/Watchers. raptors (if only these things gave any kind of loot i'd be reeech)
10. Scarlet Desert- 53-60 solo/quading (or grouping).

LVL 55-58

1. Burning Woods
2. Chardok- Grouped
3. Charsis- Grouped
4. Cobalt Scar- quad wyverns for some exp and cash/gems
5. Howling Stones
6. Lesser Faydark-Brownies
7. Seb- Grouping
8. Skyfire- (need to get me some spells)
9. Timorous Deep- Quadding raptors , Pretty easy kills most of the time and good exp.
10. Velks Lab
11. Guild Raids
12. Dawnshroud Peaks - Those mean rockhopper guys at the cave. Go in from Netherbian, take a left, cave at the zone edge there will be 2 outside, and more inside... blue at 55. In order to quadkite, you'll have to invis and go inside to lure out 2, then grab the front 2. Apparently if the boss is killed (or some other trigger), some cavemen guys will spawn instead at that cave, until their boss is killed, then the rockhoppers are back.

LVL 58-60

1. Burning Woods
2. Charsis- Grouped
3. CoM- Goos
4. Cobalt Scar- (otters)
5. Howling Stones
6. LFAY- Brownie Guards. Worst boredom in the game since Phase Three Beta. Of course I was a cleric then which was also pretty boring.
7. Neriak- Solo doing Ogres/Trolls
8. Sebilis- Grouped
9. Skyfire Mountains
10. Timorous Deep- quad kiting raptors
11. Fungus Grove - AE grouping.

AE Grouping spots (50+)

1. Fungus Grove
2. The Deep
3. Old Sebillis
4. Chardok
5. Howling Stones (Requires key)
6. The Hole

EDIT: Changed the title and moved to Library. Special thanks to Vashanti, Aline, Jeshuah, and Xalos for helping update the guid (More updates to come hopefully). - Samadhi

Edited by: Samadhi BotS at: 2/4/02 3:49:52 pm