ewoksrule
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http://www.riftjunkies.com/2011/02/23/a-rift-junkies-healthy-guide-to-max-level-and-the-head-start/
Interesting thoughts on how to stay ahead of the pack. I will quote the good stuff.
Interesting thoughts on how to stay ahead of the pack. I will quote the good stuff.
1. Stay Ahead of the Pack
It’s no secret that the newbie areas will be jam packed as soon as the servers go up. If you’ve experienced any of the early Beta Events you know there will be plenty of spots where you’ll be waiting around for mobs to spawn. Your objective in the first few hours is to speed past everyone else.
In order to do this, get through the tutorial as fast as possible. The tutorial is easier since it’s instanced, and only allows a certain amount of players. Once you’re finished, get your butt moving to the closest mail box. You should have some of your pre-order rewards, including a mount, waiting for you.
Since there are so many new players and just a finite number of quest targets you might have to skip ahead. You can easily level past a few of the introductory quest areas if you focus on Invasion and Rifts. From our experience, the order of best experience per hour is Rifts and Invasions then Mob Grind then Questing.
While you’re progression kill every mob along the way. Typically 10-15 mobs are equivalent to the quest experience reward. One Rift is approximately worth one quest. The more people doing a Rift the better, as you’ll get the completion experience faster as well as clearing out Bonus Stages as well. Instead of thinking of quest experience as your main vessel of experience gain, think of it as a bonus doing for doing other activities.
Remember: Drop whatever you’re doing when a zone-wide Rift Invasion happens.
Doing this will get you ahead of the initial rush of players where you won’t have to be competing for quest targets.
2. Run Instances In Every Zone
Every single zone has a dungeon attached to it and clearing it out does three things for you. It gives you amazing experience, probably close to a full levels worth, it gives you upgraded blue gear which speeds up leveling, and it gives you Notoriety. There are some Notoriety rewards that are definitely worth getting and usually running a dungeon once or twice in combination with doing all the quests usually nets you the higher rewards.
If you don’t have a static group of people to rely on to do dungeons as you’re leveling, our suggestion is as soon as you are nearing the end of the zone to start looking for a group. All of the dungeons have quests inside them already so you don’t have to worry about bread crumbs or missing any outside quests.
3. Essences, Essences, Essences
Build up your focus. While doing Rifts and Invasions, save up your planarite for a nice big focus and use the blue and purple raid currency to buy some of the more powerful Greater Essences. The additional procs and stats help your character out tremendously, giving you a significant power boost along the lines of upgrading your weapon.