Suggestions for levelling/progression

[Dobian]

Hi, I've had a monk on this server for about a year and got back to playing him again this week. He's level 10 and in Malencia. Any ideas on where to go? Seems like I'm always stuck in the areas around Malencia, where things are very low xp, but to the left past the Sleeth foothills through the forest the disciples are too tough (at least to solo). I do have the local quests I can do, but wanted to venture out some.

[DM_Sultan]

You can go to Beyrn and ride the Dragon to Avendell Crossing. From there, to the Dark Forest and then up the mountain trail to fight the Ogres and Giants. Take your time and watch for hostile factions.

You could also go toward the Mountain Trail through the forest way and fight the bugbears as you go. You're looking for the Old Trade Route to get to the Mountain Trail and Avendell that way. It helps if you have some help because this way is more difficult, just in finding the transitions. There are plenty of good folks in Melencia to help you find your way.

Sultan

[frogofpeace]

head south and east until you get to the Dark Forest just north of Avendell - to the east of Dark Forest is Ogre Pass and Giant Mountain, the main levelling areas for L10-15. (Torm beat me to it)

If you keep heading south past Avendell Crossing, you can eventually make your way to other areas - Gnolls is good from 10 to even 20 or so (although most people head to Frostdale at 16) and the Mezzoliths around Ash Mountain are 10ish to 15. Stop in and raze Menzo on your way

If you head over toward Daeron, there is an area of of the Highlands map (south of Daeron) with Undead Minotaurs - good for 10- maybe 15.

That should get you started. There are area maps that will get you headed in the right direction, on the wiki. Lots and lots of stuff on this server.

[Bargeld]

I'm not sure about Melecia/TC, but the SL & MA jobs tend to direct you out of town rather well. Your first jobs are usually close to the central cities and with each new job, as you progress, they take you farther out of town. Eventually you get to a pretty obvious road and can't help but follow it to explore. I would guess that TC and the other factions are the same.

Get to work! Do your jobs!

[mining]

TC jobs merely take you through the forest, Daeron jobs merely take you through the hinterlands of the Northern Coalition, MA jobs mainly deal with MA territory (iirc). RK/SL/AO jobs, no comment ;p.

[Dobian]

Thanks. I'm doing the third empath job now and I'm at 36% but I can't find any more runes (it's hard to keep looking down all the time, haha). I guess there are only a few, looks like you only need 8 or 9 to finish the quest. Are they all within two segments of Malencia?

Edit: I found some tips in an older thread, but I know I'm still going to be pulling my hair out locating them all!

[Rufio]

Ok, i get this question a lot, so i made a crude map. there is 1 rune stone in each map with an "X". 2 of them are in the wild wood area, and one in each enchanted forest and melencia forest map, but not melencia pass (the map that leads to sleeth foothills). They are often hidden in nooks of the maps, but they are there.

. . . . . . . Byrn
. . . . . . . .|
. . . . . . . .X . . . .Sleeth Foothills
. . . . . . ./. .\ . . . . .|
. . . . . . O --X. . . . O
. . . . . . .\. ./. . . . /
. . . . . . . .O. . . . X
. . . . . . . .|. . . . /
. . . . . . .Mel --- X
. . . . . . . .|. . . .|
. . . . . . . .X --- X
. . . . . . . .|
. . . . . . . .X --- X --- Nigawa camp
. . . . . . . . \. . ./
. . . . . . . . . .X
. . . . . . . . . .|
. . . . . . . . .old trade route

[Dobian]

Cool, thanks. I didn't know there was a route north out of Melencia, it doesn't show on the maps I saw and I guess I missed it in the game. I always seem to be heading south or east then north.

[Bargeld]

Both routes lead you to a main road, heading into the wide world beyond

[Shadowalker]

one rune stone per zone, and as the map above shows.. not all zones have one.. a cppl are somewhat hidden, behind a tree, in a cleft of the stone face, etc

Can always ask a Tiwg fro directions, the last stage of empath helps you to discover the boundaries of our bonnie forest.

[Dobian]

I was on one of the wild wood maps that's supposed to have one and looked all over it about 20 times and couldn't find it. I got tired of looking so I hopped on the blue dragon and now I'm at some camp somewhere down the silver road way across the map, after being chased by gnolls, lol.

[frogofpeace]

haha you're getting to where you want to be. Take that same dragon, but select 'Avendell' instead of 'Western Slope' Head East into the city one map - merchants with up to L13 gear. Head north then east, and you're on the way to giant mountain. Or look aroud where the gnolls were - a littel tricky and a couple maps away to get into theyre main area, but good levelling there. Or head north from where you got off the dragon and you'll come to the mezzoliths - also good levelling