best place to level a weapon

[korndogg]

Hi everyone.

Bought a Blaze of Death and have been leveling it at Doom since I heard liches are a great source of xp. I also kill trash since I can whirlwind and kill 10 things at once. If i do things correctly, I can kill around 6 or 7 at once and survive.

Is doom the best place to level and do I have the right idea?

Id like another spot that does well so I dont get burt out on that grind since it takes a bit obviously to hit level 100? Also, is there a place that has a good xp gain, with the chance of an artie like killing mobs in Tokuno? Would be a plesant bonus, again, since there is so much killing involved.

Thanks!
Randy Marsh

[Kara]

Hiya. It's a rather unpopular idea, but when leveling an AOE whirlwind weapon, there is literally no "best" place. The trick is to go for quantity over quality. Sure balrons give around 80xp, but killing them with a halberd will take forever. Killing sheep, birds and other assorted wildlife will give around 4-6xp each, but you'll kill them all with one strike. So doom is good, tokuno is good, mongbats are good... any place, as long as they've got close-packed mobs, will get you there. My advice is get a runebook and fill it up with dungeon runes and then just cycle through them as fast as possible. As you get better gear you'll be able to kill higher level mobs quicker, which will open up a bigger population on which to level on.

[Cygnus]

Deceit, Fire and Shame and Destard have all been "stocked" to cater to the weapons leveler so I suggest you try those to go along with Doom. There a several spots in Tokuno to level, the Rune Beetle area is one of them, but most of the mobs there like to run away when damaged, which makes it harder when using a melee weapon. Dungeon Wrong in Trammel isn't a bad place as well. All of the places listed above can be recalled to if you wanted to set up a script to hop from place to place. As far as what gives good xp's I suggest you peruse my Compendium attached below which lists 95% of the mobs by xp's, gold and token drops.

Although lich's seem to be the popular mob to level on, (a couple of large rooms of them in Deceit), the best xp to gold to ease of taking down mobs out there are the Rune Beetle, Poison Elemental and the Shadow Wyrm. Each one giving over 90xp per kill. An occasional Rune Beetle may give you over 100. The next on the list would be the Devourer of Souls in Doom due to their fast respawn rate and and the "Hot" Gargoyles scattered throughout the shard which give between 75 and 85 xp's respectively. Ancient Lich Vampires also give over 90 xp and great fame and karma boosts but they are not necessarily a good mob to level on.

I hope this helps.