Best XP Quests for Leveling: A Reference Guide

[Goldeneye]

Best XP Quests for Leveling: A Reference Guide
by Krythan

I: Introduction
II: Best XP Quests for Leveling
III: Rating System
IV: Links
V: Special Thanks

I: Introduction

What quests should I run to level up quickly? This question comes up again and again. The answer is normally one of the following:

• List all the quests off the top of your head
• Star's Path to 20 by Lithic (The Completionist!)
• Mr. Cow’s Diary of a True Arcane
• Mr. Cow’s Diary of a True Divine
• Mr. Cow’s Diary of a True Melee
• Zenako’s Experience Listing for Quests
• Xirxx’s XP per Quest Based on Level Spreadsheet

DISCLAIMER: This is a guide in progress!! Many sections have room for improvement and may contain factual or spelling errors.

II: Best XP Quests for Leveling

Here is a Reference Guide that combines only the best quests. My goal is to not create new information, but rather combine the available resources that already exist into 1 quick reference guide. I've broken down the quests by where they are in Eberron, and what Adventure Pack they are. I've also added in my 2cp: stars next to each quest which rates how fast it is to get xp in the quest. 1 star being slow, and 5 stars being a must-farm. All comments and feedback are welcome.

Korthos Island - (1-3) {F2P}

• Storehouse *****
• Collaborators***
• Misery’s Peak **

Harbor - (1 - 5) {F2P}

• Kobold's Ringleader *****
• Info Is Key ***
• Haverdasher ***
• Water Works ***
• Durk's got a Secret **
• Stealthy Repossession**
• Haverdasher***

Market: Shan-to-Kor(4 - 7) {The Seal of Shan-To-Kor }

• The Cloven Jaw Scourge (Part 2) **
• The Halls of Shan-to-Kor (Part 3) ****

Tangleroot (3-7) {Tangleroot Gorge}

• The Deadly Package: The Stronghold KeyQuest (5A)**
• The Deadly Package: Agent of the DarguulQuest (5B)**
• Doom of the Witch-doctor: The Way to Zulkash (6A)*****
• Doom of the Witch-doctor: Zulkash, Herald of Woe (6B)***

Three Barrel Cove(5-7) {Three Barrel Cove}

• Ghost of a Chance ****

House P (5-6) {Phiarlan Carnival}

• The Big Top ***

Delera's (5-9) {Delera's Tomb}

• The Missing Party (Part 2) ****
• Thrall of the Necromancer (Part 4) *****

Necropolis I (5-9) {Necropolis I}

• Tomb of the Immortal Heart ****
• Bloody Crypt ***

House Phiarlan (5-8) {F2P}

• Tear of Dhakaan *****
• Gwylan's Stand ***

House Deneith (6-9) {Sorrowdusk Isle}

• The Temple Outpost: The Libram of the Six ****
• The Fane of the Six: Cleansing the Temple ***
• The Sanctum: Quench the Flames ***
• The Sanctum: Church of the Fury ***
• Sorrowdusk Rares ***

House Deneith (7-9) {F2P}

• Stormcleave ***
• The Pit ***

House Kundarak (8-12) {The Vault of Night}

• The Jungle of Khyber (VoN 3) ****
• Haywire Foundry (VoN 4) ***

Necropolis (8-11) {Necro II?}

• Shadow Crypt! ******
• Shadow Knight **

Invaders - Harbor (10-12) {F2P}

• Invaders **

Droamm: Part 1 (11-12) {F2P}

• Framework ****

Droamm: Part 2 (13) {Assault on Stormreach}

• Siegebreaker ****

Sands of Menechtarun (9-14) {Demon Sands}

• Offering of Blood ***
• The Chamber of Raiyum (Wiz King) *****
• Maraud the Mines ****

Gianthold (11-14) {The Ruins of Gianthold}

• Cry for Help **
• Trial by Fire ****
• The Crucible ***
• Prison of the Planes ***
• Madstone ***

Orchard of the Macabre(12-16) {Necropolis IV}

• Inferno of the Damned **
• Flashmakers Lab **
• Temple of Vol ****
• Ghosts of Perdition****
• Litany of the Dead!******

Vale of Twilight (13-17) {The Vale of Twilight}

• Rainbow in the Dark***
• Running with the Devils*****

The Subterrain(14-19) {The Vale of Twilight}

• Hound***

Reaver's Refuge(14-18) {The Reaver's Reach}

• Enter the Kobald ****
• Monastery of the Scorpion*****
• Prey on the Hunter ***

Inspired Quarter (16-19) {The Path of Inspiration}

• I Dream of Jeets ***
• Mindsunder ****

Dreaming Dark (16-19) {Dreaming Dark}

• Reclaiming Memories ***
• Mining for Ancient Secrets ***

Amrath (17-19) {Devils of Shavarath}

• Wrath of Flame ***
• New Invasion **

III: Rating System:

Here is the rating system I'm using. NOTE: 1 or 2 stars isn't a bad rating.

1. *: Not bad XP. Run once or twice.
2. **: Decent XP. Deserves a spot on the list.
3. ***: Pretty good XP. Worth farming.
4. ****: Great XP. Run until your fingers hurt.
5. *****: OMG XP. DO NOT FORGET TO RUN THIS

IV: Links

• Mr. Cow’s Diary of a True Arcane Divine Melee
• Zenako’s Experience Listing for Quests
• Xirxx’s XP per Quest Based on Level Spreadsheet
• Impaqt's Best Optional XP in the game.
• The fastest way to farm exp, and when to level up.
• Best Mid Level Quests

V: Special Thanks

Thanks to dragon.star for his work on the Definitive rewards thread, and for providing the styles that I use.

EDIT: Updated info. Edited Descriptions, and added quests. Thanks to all the responded!

[Goldeneye]

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[Goldeneye]

When I get the time I'll add some comments to each section. Quests such as Tear of Dhakaan and Wiz King, the majority of the xp comes from optional objectives, which should be noted.

What do you think?

• Do I have anything incorrect?
• What quests am I missing?
• Do you disagree with any the ratings?

[Lithic]

2 stars for VON3? A decent goup of level 7-10s can do the whole quest in 15 minutes and get almost 30k exp on normal. A GOOD group can do it in 10, and still hit all the optionals.

Also, the parts of tangleroot worth running are 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b.

New Ringleader is by far the best xp at lvl 1-4. You can hit 1k/min if you have 2+ people, and thats almost impossible until ghost of a chance or tomb of the immortal heart at lvl 5.

CO6 is worth farming pt 2, 3, 5, 6.

You also have enter the kobold (2 stars) and monastery (3 stars) way under starrred. Both of those can net you over 100k exp in an hour with a moderately competant group (though kobold is a faster farm and easier if you have 3 players or less).

Edit: Why does weapon shipment get 4 stars? I think I don't understand your grading system as weapon shipment is something like 250xp/min. The rest of Amrath is much better.

[Goldeneye]

Thanks Star!!
If anyone knows about leveling quickly, or playing ddo at work - it's you!

I'm not at home atm, does anyone know the names of the Tangleroot and Cult of the Six quests!

[jkm]

tear is only efficient if the party can split up because there is a lot of backtracking at the beginning. we normally have a group get the first set, a group get the second set and 1 person continue forward.

the ability to split up makes a ton of quests more efficient -> WW1, WW3, DT2, Irestone, Bloody Crypt, Shadow Knight, Stormcleave, VON2/4

there is also the question of quests in relation to their slayer area. 3BC is loathed by the player base, but it has a ton of easy to kill mobs on the way to some decent XP quests (Ghost of a Chance, the Stones Run Red)

other quests like CO6 are made much easier to farm if you use game mechanics. for example, throwing a ddoor at Hragg to zoom back to the quest entrance and shave 2 minutes off each quest.

edit: also adding that it helps a lot to have a character that is on bloody crypt and shadow crypt so you can bypass some of the other lower xp quests in the chain.

[MrCow]

I'm not at home atm, does anyone know the names of the Tangleroot and Cult of the Six quests!

The Deadly Package: The Stronghold Key
The Deadly Package: Agent of the Darguul
Doom of the Witch-doctor: The Way to Zulkash
Doom of the Witch-doctor: Zulkash, Herald of Woe

The Temple Outpost: The Libram of the Six
The Fane of the Six: Cleansing the Temple
The Sanctum: Quench the Flames
The Sanctum: Church of the Fury

[zed1]

Here are three quests that have great XP/min ratio if you have invisibility and haste spell/potions/clickies:

The Gateway to Khyber, The Chamber of Rahmat, The Chamber of Kourush

[Hobgoblin]

nice guide.

would give you rep but apparantly i already have recently lol, so quit posting good ****! so i can rep you again.

i may be wrong about this, but isnt ghost of a chance in 3bc pack?

hob

[sirgog]

Dreaming Dark chain - Reclaiming Memories - 1250-1500 xp/min solo or small group on an arcane, 750-1000 in a typical group. Less by teh time you flag for it and run there. Mining for Ancient Secrets is about the same.

Sins of Attrition - ~1000-1250xp/min solo on a Favored Soul (~500 with good chances at Devil Scales if you do a Conquest run). Less on a Cleric, but still speed soloable.

A New Invasion is worth 5x normal 1x hard on a TR (~750 XP/min), and is soloable on builds that can self-heal in large quantities (i.e. pretty much FvS or Clr). Soloing elite is ugly but a fun challenge.

[Bolo_Grubb]

thanks for the info

+1 for all the good info in all the post here

[Goldeneye]

Thanks guys!
I just updated the list with some more quests/correction!

[sirgog]

Oh and I also agree with taking Weapons Shipment totally off the list.

It's a low XP quest that cannot be zerged due to quest mechanics.

[sweez]

Maraud the Mines in the Sands is pretty decent xp-wise IMHO if you've got a group of toons that can split up and take care of themselves.

[Nezichiend]

New invasion should definately make the list - 15k first run and it can be done in about 12min max if you know whats up. 6 min if you are lucky.
2 stars for vol? With a caster it is great xp, bump it up to 4 at LEAST.
Also if you have 4 people bloody crypt is pretty good as well.
I would also add in mining for ancient secrets from dreaming dark pack.

[Goldeneye]

Thanks! I added suggested quests, and fixed some names!
Could anyone help me fix up my necropolis quests? I know I have the adventure packs wrong.

[Reversion]

Inferno of the Damned is 10-12 minutes/run. I would grade it higher than 2 stars.

[sirgog]

Inferno of the Damned is 10-12 minutes/run. I would grade it higher than 2 stars.

Even at 8 minutes (my personal best), it's still 1.2k XP per min roughly. Three stars max.

[Goldeneye]

I put Inferno at 2 stars since it's much harder to get a group for. Not many people want to run it at-level.

Quests such as New Invasion, and Inferno I tried to take into account that most people don't know how to speed run them... thus lessening their score.

[Runningaway]

Stealthy Repossession - Used to be a very good source of exp, DA knocked it back a bit, but still a solid source of exp. 2/3 minutes tops runs, just mind the shamans.