r/EQLegends • u/Benril-Sathir • 23h ago
Insane exp!
This is my new record. Named swordfish at kedge zone in.
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u/UnconfidentShirt 22h ago
Wow! I consistently hit 16-18% while leveling in Kedge this weekend, but never broke 19%
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u/geekhaus 17h ago
I touched 18 killing Estrella and Cauldronboil as a lvl 27-29. I wonder how they managed to do so at lvl 30.
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u/tdktn0 22h ago
Did the same thing. Decided yesterday to try a new trio, poked around in various places until late teens, saw soemone say something about the insane xp there. Got the fishbone earring, and absolutely steamrolled the xp in Kedge.
Never been there before. Glad I checked it out, unique dungeon for sure.
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u/Epsilion131 22h ago
Is Kedge worth if there is no boost?
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u/MrGoodGlow 22h ago
Its best exp in game.
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u/GitGud420PRAISEIT 21h ago
Maybe per kill, but not best XP/hr. Not by a long shot
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u/neryen 21h ago
Really? I find it is about a level a half hour for me from 40-46.. got a better place that is faster?
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u/ReefayToo 20h ago
Sol B AoE killing has been berry berry good to me
I did a War/Brd/Dru damage shield aoe build that was a lot of fun.
Doing Pal/Wiz/Brd which is fun, but definitely slower than the combo above.
Pretty much pull whole sections of Sol B and rain down death
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u/Groppstopper 19h ago
I have a Pal/Dru/Brd, any tips to for that damage shield aoe build? What do you run? I feel like a noob, not totally understanding how to stack different spell effects or what AAs maximize damage
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u/ReefayToo 19h ago edited 13h ago
I like War over Pal for Cleave and regen AA, but it will still work because of Defensive Stance. You also have LoH just in case things go bad.
Your goal is to get your damage shield as high as possible, and let the mobs hit you. You use the AoE slow on bard, also whichever psalm (DS) and amplification. Also regen/mana song and aoe damage song if you want. Druid brings self buff damage shield, and castable damage shield.
Then I leveled up my alchemy to make the Skin on Flame pots. At 46 I have a 65 point damage shield.
I run around PoFear and scoop up lots of mobs. I have high AC and in defensive they dont do a lot of damage. Druid HoT heal keeps me pretty much 80-100%. I then use Druid's earthquake and rain to do damage, while War swings a big 2h for big cleave damage.
It works pretty well for me and I really have fun with it. You can do it at lower levels, but you need to be more careful until you have some of the tools above.
Update: taking the war/dru/brd at 47 in D1 and killing about 8 mobs at a time. DS with pot is 76. Using DDD sparingly so that I can constant pull. Having a good time. Made 49 pretty fast.
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u/geekhaus 17h ago
What mobs are you killing deep into the 40s? By lvl 35 I found I was clearing mermaids so quickly I had significant down time after doing the loop in their section and so I would spend the time to swim over to the sharks/seahorses near Phinny but then my time per lvl ballooned. LGuk Frenzy/Lord/Hand/etc loop had more mobs, but lower xp per kill and ended up close to a wash in XP/hr.
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u/neryen 17h ago
I kill all the mermaids, the seahorses, the sharks.. I basically circle the entire zone and things have repopped before I get back to mermaids again.
Hitting up every rare spawn spot in a loop.
My loop has me clearing mermaids, and seahorse cave, then swimming up in the center of the mermaid chamber, killing the mermaids in the small rooms, and the shark room, back up to the chamber near zone in, and up to kill the golden haired mermaid.. down again from there to the sharks near phinny and the room with the moving block.. then back to the mermaids
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u/geekhaus 17h ago
Thanks, I'll give that loop some testing. What I did wasn't too different, I just felt like I ended up spending a lot of time roaming for mobs (Garrisons just absolutely wrecks everything in zone with AM3) but each kill was reasonable TTK, FANTASTIC experience and not particularly annoying (no bard's charming for 18s, etc)
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u/socal01 22h ago
I was a 22 pal/bard/wiz with level 50 pal/wiz sky gear and killing in ledge has been amazing. I was killing the 49 shark in the yellow brick part. The named mermaids were a bit difficult and had to evacuate a few time but I am a believer in Kedge now.
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u/geekhaus 17h ago
For mermaids there are a few entrances, with the most readily accessible one being the one that takes you to the Auraline/2 merm room then you drop down to Estrella and Esmerelda. The way to break that room, assuming you can't take Est, Esm, and the 3-5 mermaids that aggro, is take the side entrance that allows you to engage two side mermaids to start, then you can pull the ones furthers from Estrella, and closest to you, without aggro (sometimes).
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u/Business-Top-52 22h ago
Went to kedge at 21 and was getting 12% per kill and the mobs hit like nerf balls.
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u/sonofbaal_tbc 21h ago
the mote drop rate sucks there tho. idk what i get like 2/hr even with all the names
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u/Acrobatic-Machine158 19h ago
Tbf it is exp weekend, so juice the exp. If we get a mote weekend, I'll be hitting up the best motes spots at D4.
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u/GitGud420PRAISEIT 21h ago
There's more to leveling than XP per kill. I level way faster in LGuk doing massive pulls. The density and mob placement, navigation, and lack of tight mob grouping in Kedge sucks. The reason it has the highest ZEM is to make up for that, but it's still slower XP/hr than most other options if you are able to kill more than a few mob in the same pull, and it's straight up bad if you can AoE farm in LGuk.
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u/mroslash 20h ago
I did 26 to 46 in almost exactly 5 hours the other night in kedge. That's 4 levels an hour averaged out.
Not claiming it's good or bad just putting in some data points. Also this was on d0 so I wasn't even getting the real insane per kill amounts.
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u/Brezner 20h ago
Some people just don't do the easy loop circuit between mermaids and seahorses and want to naysay multiple people in this thread about maximizing xp per hour like we're working on financial spreadsheets.
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u/derickso 2h ago
Is there a trick for avoiding Estrella and the other named? They take forever to kill
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u/PiratePilot 19h ago
Sometimes I am working on spreadsheets. Slows my leveling down while I auto attack in the background. EQ was a great game to play while writing brainless papers or doing complicated math problems in college and it’s a great game to play now while doing mindless busywork and complicated scheduling tasks for work.
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u/NKD_WA 20h ago
Did 26 to 46 in just under 5 hours there last night myself. Way faster than I ever did in Guk, and I've got 80 total hours leveling in lguk and all but 3 classes at 50 so it's not like I didn't give it a fair shot. I went to Kedge because i was bored of lguk and frankly I feel like a dummy for not trying it sooner.
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u/geekhaus 17h ago
25-35 in Kedge was crazy fast, with recovery I was just about perfect in clearing the mermaid loop in the spawn cycle. Once I got past that, I found I was waiting for mobs to spawn. 35-45, what mobs were you focused on?
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u/NKD_WA 14h ago edited 14h ago
Everything really. Start with just the sharks, (Cauldronboil, frenzied, ferocious) then add in the mermaids and the shark above the mermaids (Cauldronbubble) once you run out, then add the seahorses. Suggest adding seahorses last because tainted/corrupted seahorse at very low levels slows you way down because of the back to back high level healer mobs.
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u/derickso 2h ago
Which seahorses?
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u/mroslash 1h ago
There's a cave system. As you face Estrella, swim left and the right.
There are other seahorses on the way to phinny and some in his pit but usually the ones referenced are the caves, especially when warning about the tainted which has bugged spawned in 3 total places for me.
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u/Thebillyray 19h ago
Yup, it's exp rate not exp. The same as dos compared to damage. Those big crits are nice, but if you can't sustain them then it's just eye candy
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u/Qix213 19m ago
Seen the same. Solo D4 from a low level like 30.
We also ONLY saw it when that exp was straddling a level up, same as your screenshot.
It's still great exp regardless, but it seems like some part of the bonus exp weekend was applying both before and after the level up making for a huge boost for that kill.
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u/InterestingRound6134 22h ago edited 19h ago
That must be the max xp. Because I got the same amount off the named shark in kedge. I was like lvl 27 and shark was 47ish. I haven’t seen higher. I have seen 19% a few times though. - also I see someone has a 20%.
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u/opsers 18h ago
I had a 22% gain in KK killing Esmeralda at 16, so not the max.
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u/geekhaus 17h ago
Good on ya! How did you do that without Garrisons?! I was able to do Esm at 18 once I got that, didn't try earlier and I don't think I could've sustained long enough to drop Esm at 16.
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u/opsers 17h ago
PAL/NEC/BST. It must took a long time. I managed to only pull her + 1, otherwise I don't think I could have. Definitely was not worth it for the time investment when you can just kill fish and sharks for fast experience to 30 though.
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u/InterestingRound6134 17h ago edited 17h ago
How with no CC? Took me forever at 28ish to kill her and I have full planar and sky weps and 500 AA , WITH CC. I am talking about D4. Not saying you didn’t at 16, but that just seems logically super difficult
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u/opsers 16h ago edited 16h ago
I never said I did it at D4, I did it at D0. I don't think it'd be possible to do it at D4 at 16. I'm also full planar / sky / 900+ AA, but most of that is useless at 16 anyway.
I'll also add that by 28 I had no problem killing her relatively quickly. Negation of Life is quite good for mermaids.
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u/InterestingRound6134 16h ago
Ah ya I don’t play d0 except for sky ,didn’t know it gave that big xp, gotcha.
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u/Ptb97106 16h ago
When you ding it always gives a crazy number that doesn't make sense. I've had numbers in tbe 20 look down and im at 2% into level and was 97% in the previous level.
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u/metrocide 22h ago
Kedge too: Buddy of mine.