Level 21 pure fighter trying to find a decent spot to get XP

[ARHicks00]

*Looks at the responses.* *Sighs loudly.*

What is your build exactly? What feats do you have? Got a weapon with fire and acid damage? How is your strength score again?

Anyhow... From Nexus:

Soubar -> North to Boereskyr Bridge

At Boereskyr Bridge you have two choices, either you take the northern area transition or southern area transition point.

If you go North, there is an area with Hobgoblins, Manticores, small Dragons, Dark Treants and bat like creatures. You can move in this map quite freely, the mobs tend to spawn in groups of 1 to 5, so if you can kill them fast the experience adds up. North of this map you will find the moors, which have Vampires that have something like up to 20/DR. If you go East you will reach Misty Forest which in turn has quite a number of Grey Orcs for you to slaughter if you just run along the path up and down. The Orc Shamans can have a nasty high AC when they shapeshift, but over all they are not too dangerous.

- The Shimmer Cloak for its 32 DR is quite necessary for the above areas. The Hobgoblins have two caster classes and Spell Resistance will negate most of their spells. The vampires also have few spell casters, and again Spell Resistance is handy. Oh, and the Grey Orcs too have spell casters, and Spell Resistance becomes quite handy. These there areas have been where I have found most of my Mithral Full Plates, etc... There have been some loot-table changes though, so not sure if you still can find such there.

If you go South, you can go to the combined Troll Claw Fjord map. You can start by entering the Elder Ogre Fortress on the North-Eastern corner, then the Ogre Cave Proper while taking a peek at the Titan Fist mines before returning to the surface, or if you want more Upperdark Exploration then the Kro's Labyrinth areas might still be available to a surfacers. Anyhow, you return to surface, you run around every passage of Troll Claw Fjord, pop into the Troll Cave, and then head south to the Fields of the Dead to loot it too. You can visit the easier crypt on the North-Western side of the map. Then take the Eastern exit to some bugbear area, visit the cave with vampire bats etc, and return back to Boereskyr Bridge where Soubar is just one transition away.

- Shimmering cloak will help in the above, but high AC and stacks of Healing Kits will get most of the job done for you with ease. There are bosses like the Ogre Chieftain that can be nasty with Level Drain, but you can pretty much just ran past him. The experience per regular mob will be something in between 5 to 35, but you can easily get few thousands of experience points in an hour or so, not mention tens of thousands worth of loot when sold to NPC merchants. Not to mention that since you just running through areas, the grind will be considerably less boring for you.

Now as for the late epic levels, you got the gnolls somewhere... But if you can kill the Troll Cave trolls fast, and you got the Track Feat with cross-classed survival... Turn on Track Mode, see where trolls are, turn it off and run to your next kills. It gets the job done rather fast. But if you want role-play you will not find it in the Troll Cave. Either you encounter the entirely OOC Zerg Parties that just Zerg Forth for the sake of Zerging Forth, or the silent XP leechers who send party invites without any semblance RP, or probably some group of players who wish to initiate PvP in order to claim the map for themselves, and if you fail to appease these type of players they will complain to get you banned. I wish I was kidding...

But yeah, that is a road map to reaching level 30 on the surface, solo. Now, to write the post I got here to actually write...

Trying to fast track to level 23 to 25.

[metaquad4]

If you have a decent enough build, you should be able to dance between Reaching Woods and Corm Op, though Corm Op might prove to be challenging without the ability to tank for long periods of time, or decent AoE CC.

If you have access to Teleport, moving between the Reaching Woods and Troll Claw Cave (when the Reaching Woods goes on cooldown) is also a good idea. Though since you are a pure fighter you won't have the UMD for this and it'll require grouping up.

Other than that, running pure troll claws is ok, but not as great as reaching woods and troll claws. The Misty Forest is also ok, though I haven't run it in a while so I don't know the state of it.

Once you get to level 24-26, start looking into the Snake Hills to see if you can do that. Once you can do Snake Hills, stick with that till 30.

[ARHicks00]

Well I am back and my build is...

Level 21

Attributes
Strength - 24/+7
Dexterity - 16/+3
Constitution - 16/+3
Wisdom - 10
Intelligence - 14/+2
Charisma - 8

AC: 49

Fort Save: 20 (22 on spells)
Ref Save: 19 (21 on spells)
Reflex: 18 (20 on spells)

Main Hand AB: +35/+30/+25/+20/+15
Off Hand AB: +31/+26/+21

Main Hand Damage: 1d8 + 15
Off Hand: 1d6 + 13

Shield Feats
- Shield Bash
- Agiled Fighter
- Shield Focus: Tower
- Shield Specialization: Tower
- Weapon Specialization: Tower
- Greater Specialization: Tower

Save Feats
- Steadfast Determination
- Iron Will
- Lightning Reflexes
- Epic Reflexes.
- Luck of Heroes

Weapon Feats
- Weapon Focus: Longsword (Would love to have a Bastard sword, but can't find +4 Keen Bastard Swords)
- Improve Critical: Longsword (Same as the above)
- Greater Weapon Focus: Longsword
- Weapon Specialization: Longsword
- Greater Specialization: Longsword
- Melee Mastery: Slashing

[Ithilan]

The troll cave in the troll claws is the ideal spot for you XP wise at the moment, if you are just looking to grind. RP is usually the best XP flow in epic levels though.

You can also go serpent hills and the lower temple (black dragon area), it has very frequent spawns and slightly better XP I think? A handful of casters too though, with IGMS and worse to make your life a pain. It is not as equally fighter friendly id say as the trolls.

Best advice however is to find a group, engage in adventure and forget about the all mechanics and OOC elements of XP gain and what not. Just enjoy the ride!

And welcome back I suppose peace

Edit: to add to metaquad's post, the reaching woods is almost identical in XP to the troll cave, it just has fewer spawns, with more HP, more AB and AC. Casters in the mix that aint really scary, but summoned mummies that knock you down can be an issue for some builds. Reaching woods is IMHO. less favorable than the troll cave, but certainly a viable alternative. Corm Orp is more a party grinder I suppose.

[ARHicks00]

Thanks and I tried the Basilisk area. Decent XP and very fast spawn rate and rather easy to kill enemies. Very few undead. Going to do Troll Cave next.

[ARHicks00]

The best place is the Basilisk area of Durlag. All XP is the same everywhere after you get pass 20.

Also sometimes the Basilisk will turn each other into stone.