I've had a lot of fun there (nice exp, excellent cash, some nice drops), so wanted to post locations for other newbs. They aren't easy to find, so please add to the list!
Nascence Wilds
location 510, 1456 - level 41 or so (armor you can get here is nice)
location 579, 1306 - level 54-61
Misty Dreams Border
location 1400, 578 - level 46 or so
Core
location 1506, 991 -level 54-61
Luckily for lazy peeps like me, someone has already done the hard work. Have a look at http://www.jexai.co.uk/anarchy/sl_nascense.html for a guide to Nascence (and other) statics. Loads of good stuff there.
Note: All statics beyond Nascence are total rubbish. Don't waste your time there. Ever. Seriously. I'm not kidding. I just live in them for ...ummm... research purposes. Yeah, that's it, research
Jellyfunk - giv my perl
heheheOriginally Posted by greldik
Jellyfunk - giv my perl
*Note to self: Insert obligatory life's-not-easy-on-a-bowl-of-rice-a-day comment here*
FC, please increase droprate on mystical force gear kthxbye!
also a few places i go to when i roll a new alt are....
1-8 in training area
9-12 in the nasc frontier pit. With all the spirits an such.
13-20 Either the spiders or mallah's.
21-30 crip cave
31-40 the dungeons in the crip cave
41-70 nasc hecks.
71-95 tiigs or cold rock spiders (elly)
96-145 elly hecks
146-185 ado hecks (better xp/hour than pen)
186-200+ pen/inf/w/e you feel like tbh
Just some of the fastest ways of killing. All places are easy to find teams in. So i pretty sure those spots are currently the best xp/hour right now in terms of team availibility an mobs. ofc theirs hundreds of other ways to level. Those are just a few "good" spots i think work well.
I died of boredom and heckler overload just from *reading* that. You couldn't pay me enough creds to actually live it.
Dogeared: their fix will probably eliminate the 'sploit that allows you to pass through ''doors'' from one playfield to another. <-- zomg, she was right!
Cool, thanks! The Nascense ones are greening out now, so nice to have info on the Elysium ones too.
And thanks for the tip about them being rubbish beyond Nascence. I'm kind of a ... ummmm... researcher myself, yeah, that's it, researcher.
Seriously, the ones in Nascence are pretty empty, except for the obvious one near the cripplers in Nascence Wilds. Which is too bad, since researching them can be lots of fun.
The level 60 ones can be kinda tricky for a caster to solo though, since there are mobs who drain nano. Not a problem for a keeper, although if they debuffed me, that would really hurt. And probably not a problem for a caster if they can find someone to tank (hold aggro) for them.
Edited note: I feel like Funcom gave a party and no one showed up. And that maybe it might be because people couldn't find it. :/
In less than 4 hours, I gained 4 levels and well over a million credits in a static dungeon that is way green to me, and ran into only one other person there, who was red to me. When Funcom throws a party, check it out.
Last edited by Tommara; Oct 12th, 2006 at 05:43:53.
Scientific curiosity! \0/I'm kind of a ... ummmm... researcher myself, yeah, that's it, researcher.
Bit of a warning for statics in Elysium and beyond:
People sometimes farm them for Weird looking nanos and Arul gems, which drop from chests and dungeon bosses (past Ely) respectively. To maximize their farming, they want the dungeon to reset as often as possible. If the dungeon is occupied, it resets every 2 hours or so. If it's empty, in 6 or 12 (I can't remember) minutes. Guess how welcome you are in "their" static...
I do a '/list' when I enter, and, if I find there's someone else, either leave or shoot them a tell. Depending on how nice they are, I'll try find another static, arrange to log for a bit every 20 or 30 minutes or just stay & level - the XP is much sweeter when you know you're annoying a genuine f**kwit at the same time
Rofl.
Couldnt agree more.
Farming dungeons is one of the most selfish things in this game full of players with "me me me and only me" attitude.Scientific curiosity! \0/
Bit of a warning for statics in Elysium and beyond:
People sometimes farm them for Weird looking nanos and Arul gems, which drop from chests and dungeon bosses (past Ely) respectively. To maximize their farming, they want the dungeon to reset as often as possible. If the dungeon is occupied, it resets every 2 hours or so. If it's empty, in 6 or 12 (I can't remember) minutes. Guess how welcome you are in "their" static...
I do a '/list' when I enter, and, if I find there's someone else, either leave or shoot them a tell. Depending on how nice they are, I'll try find another static, arrange to log for a bit every 20 or 30 minutes or just stay & level - the XP is much sweeter when you know you're annoying a genuine f**kwit at the same time
Everyone has same right to get into static dungeon and kill whatever.
If I find any farmers I would gladly just leave my toon in, go /afk and take a 3-4 hours nap.
You snobs!Rofl.
Couldnt agree more.
Roaring around the Bay at 120-ish with a Horror on long charm, a Heckler on short and a really kickass team - enough risk from pets, adds and idiots around you to keep you focussed, enough damage to carve through the hecks and enough breathing space to have a chat while doing it - that's some of the best fun I've had in this game. I may have to roll another alt...
Never said it was the "only" way to lvl or that you had to like it
just was mentioning good spots with lots of peeps around.
btw the dungeons around crip cave you can normally get ur team to go. Or solo. for the hecks just go lft, an in ooc. should be easy to find a team.
ok,,,so how exactly is say a doc,,,farm his weird looking nanos?
how is this selfish?
Did you read in few posts above:
Trying to keep complete dungeon empty just for yourself so you could farm over and over something someone else may want to find too I consider very selfish indeed.To maximize their farming, they want the dungeon to reset as often as possible. If the dungeon is occupied, it resets every 2 hours or so. If it's empty, in 6 or 12 (I can't remember) minutes
that's why i purposely go in there some times just to break it up if they are a jerk about it. hehe i dual logged and left a char in there to do recon for me ...... no... it wasn't to piss the guy off and ruin his resets .. not at all .. the char was doing RP stuff not afking .. i swear
and <3 /anonymous hehehe they can't do a list ... and a nice little leeted concealed agent is pretty tough to find :P
"If you say 'plz' because it's shorter than 'please', I'll say 'no' because it's shorter than 'yes'."
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ewww.
People farming who want the whole dungeon to themselves, that's icky.
But what in the heck was Funcom thinking when they designed it that way?
Sorry, doc. I won't deliberately do things to cause you grief. But I won't wait around just so you can farm. You need to look to Funcom to fix that for you, not other players.
Why don't you just buy the nano in the gardens? or roll it? both are faster.
The nanos we are talking about are not buyable and not rollable. Once you found them you can sell them for nice amount of credits too.
Check the market forums for "weird looking" nanos.
One could say that about more things than one in this game
Heh, no doubt. It can be said of most other game developers, too.One could say that about more things than one in this game
On the other hand, I've played AO off and on since August 2001. The game has improved immensely since then, and it really seems like Funcom has taken player criticisms to heart and tried to fix them, although obviously not perfect yet. Unlike Sony (Everquest and Star Wars Galaxies) who seem to actively despise player input. Not quite up to Blizzard standards, who won't release a game until technically perfect and seem to focus on making a game fun above all else (which makes perfect sense from a financial viewpoint), but somewhere in between.
So I haven't given up on them, like I have Sony games. I come back to AO every two years or so, and the changes they've made in this last two years are really awesome compared to how it began.
They really are listening to us, I think. Though I may fade out again soon if I stop having fun, I'll come back in another year or two to see if they've fixed things - Funcom deserves the benefit of a doubt, in my book.
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