I'm primarily trying to find out if there is anything to do in this game at higher levels if you're not interested in PvP at all, and can't stand SL if Scheol is typical of it.
I'm primarily trying to find out if there is anything to do in this game at higher levels if you're not interested in PvP at all, and can't stand SL if Scheol is typical of it.
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And no, the rest of the Shadowlands is not like Scheol. The Adonis quest, while quite a bish, is tolerable with the right people, and Adonis/Penumbra are pretty spiffy looking.
There is a lot on RK to do and see. Missions for tokens and cash is a decent way to avoid Scheol.
You should understand that Scheol is not typical of the higher Shadowlands, nor are any really. Nascense is a bit of a mix, Ely a pastues and hills, Scheol is mountains and ravines, Adonis is mixed waterworld and islands, whilst Peumbra is a beautiful snow and ice bound lannd that just need a wickid witch offering turkish delight and an inconguous lamppost to make it quite narnian, and Inferno is all lava and volcanos, just imagine Frodo and Sam trekking through Mordor.
I think many would rate Scheol their least favourite, but there are alternatives as noted above.
You might also engage in some Ely Heck teaming. That would get you 130 so you can circumvent leveling in Sceol entirely.
When at a loss for what to do visit AO Universe and click on the Classic and Shadowlands links under the Knowledge heading on the left. There you will find guides to quests and encounters which you can see the level range for down the right hand side of the list. I've spotted several things unknown to me in that list and I've played for many years.
Last edited by Phyxrphyxr; Jan 24th, 2010 at 17:57:46.
Ah, Scheol. The single best example in all of AO of what could have been. From a landscape design perspective, it is the coolest zone besides Inferno in all of Shadowlands. In terms of pain in the neck, uhm yeah, Scheol tops that list. But I have leveled 4 toons solo from around 90ish to 120ish in Scheol, both outdoors and statics. Lots of good places, if you know where to find them, and how to circumvent the pains in the neck.
And like I said in another post about Scheol, one nice thing about it is being left alone, since everyone else seems to avoid it like the plague. It's like a big instance where nobody bothers you. You'll see the occasional novictum farmer near Ergo, but outside of that, Scheol is pretty peaceful.
I leveled my MP from 92-103 soloing the Temple Bog rafters, and saw one person the entire time, and that was a 220 headed to the catacombs for Tier 1 farming. Nobody bugs you in Scheol.
I have to agree that sheol is one of the better SL zones. Except ofc sheol quest line that is simply horrible. Just take your time and enjoy, there is a lot to do. You can got and farm some dynas for PB parts for example.
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I really hate scheol for a number of reasons. Other than actually getting to Ado the first time, scheol is the worst.
Once you get to Ado and have a garden key, things are much easier. Ado and Peumbra aren't all that bad. I dislike the shadowlands, being my main is a fixer, but don't let schoel turn you off. I didn't even bother getting a garden key for Schoel.
Scheol is such an amazingly designed zone. It's just let down by the crappy game mechanics issues.
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ppl are forgeting Dust Brigade 1&2, Dreads, the whole Xan Expansion, AI Sectors including 42, and I bet I missed a lot of stuff here..
north scheol is imo the most beautiful part of all SL (that's just me though).
From a purely aesthetic standpoint, Sheol is lovely. From a design standpoint, it sucks. But I would not classify it as "typical" of SL. If you've made it to Sheol, then I'm hoping that you explored Nasc and Ely a bit. Personally, I think Ely is a beautiful zone to just wander around in. Of all the zones, Ado is my least favorite purely because of the need to swim. ::shudder::
Ah, but once you get to Penumbra, that's where you see something really special. I still remember the first time I stepped through the portal and saw my breath fogging in front of me. Great work there. And there is so much to do past the level where you can access Sheol in both RK and SL, that you won't be bored (except for that 190-215 range).
I finally got around to doing some quests in Scheol and while it is "cool looking" I absolutely hate playing there. I kept falling inside the mountains, unable to sit, unable to cast, unable to use /stuck.... was a nightmare to travel there because of that.
Am I like the one person who has never had any trouble in Scheol?
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I must have found all the holes in the geometry that you missed. I honestly got so stuck that only thing I could do was /terminate multiple times in an hour. I wouldn't complain half as much if simple /stuck had helped.
Rarely have any problems in scheol, and i spen't many hours there, lot of the time in dungeons sure but a lot of running about questing to.
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I loved it the first time around, because myself and my favourite martial artist on all of Rubi-Ka had the entire zone to ourselves.
The second time, not so much. Doing those new quests at 205 was tedious. And all the new mobs wandering about the place and NPCs relly detracted from the desolate isolation of the place.
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Well scheol is fun in that way since the zone is crawling with mobs after a server reset, they added new mobs just below the entrance from elysium but after reset there are way more mobs all over.