Here's the approach I've settled into. I play on Hard and I tend to be a bit sloppy, so you may be able to hit these areas sooner.
Level Progression
I don't mind grinding an area, as long as it's not for too long. It's fun to spend a few levels on an area because at first it's hard and you may have to skip some parts, but in a couple levels you crush it. So you get a great sense of progress just in three levels.
Strategies
Anyways, that's how I do it. What are the other approaches?
Level Progression
I don't mind grinding an area, as long as it's not for too long. It's fun to spend a few levels on an area because at first it's hard and you may have to skip some parts, but in a couple levels you crush it. So you get a great sense of progress just in three levels.
- 1-4 Goblin Mine
- 5-7 Bandit Cave (near Kingsbridge). I'll sneak in quests for The Three at this pointa s well.
- 8-10 Urzuganar Liar (the orc dungeon near Kingsbridge)
- 11-14 Mercian Royal Crypt. I typically burn 3 to 5 potions per run when I first start it, but the money is still insane. This is also where I start using a scroll of recall to save myself the walk back.
- 15-18 Mausoleum. Ruined Dragoon Boots and Rings of the Red Sorcerer.
- 19 Collect black shards
- 20 Sunken Citadel. I stay until I get 100+ Elixirs and a full set(s) of Ashen Armor.
- 21 The Ark (except the main upper level) until I get the full Ark gear.
- 22 Sewer of Horrors, finish the Ark.
Strategies
- I like to get Varsilla and The Three reputation early and then get Hirge her Flaming Warhammer early with a potion of speed.
- Make sure you get at least +1 reputation with the Golden Hand. I give the medallion to Fritha but then use potions of speed and a scrolls of recall to get the tomes from the Mausoleum and Castle Bluerock. Give these two tomes to the Grey Library and you can start buying mana potions at level 10. It's a bit easier than getting access to Icemist and way more convenient for the Mercian Royal Crypt. I'll have Hirge burn through 3 or 4 of these per run when I first start the crypt.
- Another reason to get access to the Grey Library: to buy the Gloves of the Explorer. You'll use these until you get the Automated Gloves in the Ark. I wish my cleric could use them.
- Get death resistance early for quests for the Three. By the time you start Mercian Royal Crypt you'll want at least 100+ to survive that first wave of wraiths.
- For Clerics I tend to level up on Undead almost exclusively, so focus on the various tombs instead of the Bandit Camp and Goblin Mine.
Anyways, that's how I do it. What are the other approaches?