TR2 Bravery to lvl 9 - Thoughts

[redraider]

As my journey with my 4th life Sorc continues, and i continue to try to level without really repeating using the Bravery Bonus, I have arrived at lvl 9. So far it's really good.

Around lvl 5 I had to repeat a few quests to get to 6 (staying at lvl 3 quests elite) but I had not sucked down any xp pots. Bravery gets you to 5.3+ with no pots, no repeats.

Lvl 6 quests elite (effective lvl 8) then easily gets you to 9 with a 20% pot running and no repeats.

But lvl 7 quests elite (effective lvl 9) ... won't make it even close to 10. No, not even close. That means repeats or sadly, moving to lvl 8 elite quests (effective lvl 10) which means that this is about where the Bravery stops being leveling effective.

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[voodoogroves]

Bravery streak is awesome in that it helps cut monotony for a great many players. More content is still the ultimate answer though.

[MrCow]

For the most part, as long as you don't mind extending the limit of the quest level you do for the Streak bonus (such as doing a level 6 quest [on normal, 8 on elite] at level 7) you can get around level 11 or 12 before you need to consider quest repeats, on a 2nd or higher True Reincarnate. The level 8 and 9 quests (and level 10 by forced completion in Threnal to do the level 9 quests in there) are pretty chock-full of EXP.

[Monkey_Archer]

Ive been trying this method as well... so far my repeats are:

-Durks Nx3/H, Stealthy Repossession Ex4/H/N, Ringleader Ex3/H/N, STK part 3 Ex2, TR part 5 Ex6 (did these out of habit.. I quickly realized this was mostly unnecessary)

-Pit H/N, Tear of Dhakaan H/N (for level 10)

-VON3 Ex3/H, SC H (for level 12)

-Threnal Library series (Coyle... )

-Desert Caravan H/N
-Dreams of Insanity H/N
-OOB Ex2
-WK Ex3/Hx3
-Eyes of stone series (did this in group after soloing it once)
-Framework Nx6/H

Getting to level 10 and 12-15 does take a few repeats if you don't starting doing over-level quests. It looks like level 16-20 will still require quite a bit of farming.

[redraider]

What lvl are you now Monkey?

[sirgog]

I did this as well, also with a few repeats but not many.

Slightly slower than regular levelling, but a lot more fun. Especially for some of the chains noone does on Elite at level, like the Carnival and Sentinels.

9-11 elite Into the Deep might be interesting. That Hezrou is nasty enough even on Normal.

[BlackSteel]

9-11 elite Into the Deep might be interesting. That Hezrou is nasty enough even on Normal.

ItD was a pretty easy run, I was a little intimidated with the hezzy fight too when my 9-11 group got to it. As my entire party was fairly squishy, most of the party between 100-150 hit points, with my lvl 11 arti ~220. But the wizard in group did a fantastic job keeping the portals closed, while I literally shot Mr. Happy point blank into his big fat face. was a fairly good run.

I honestly had a worse time of it in elite claw at level, but only b/c some kid in party decided to open the skele's treasure after being warned not to. found out that the skele boss has a pretty tight leash, and will rubberband if he gets near the exit door

[Monkey_Archer]

What lvl are you now Monkey?

Just hit 16, and add TBF/Feast Ex6/H/N to the repeat list...

9-11 elite Into the Deep might be interesting. That Hezrou is nasty enough even on Normal.

This is one of the few places I died... got it down to about 25% but got tripped at a bad time

[mystafyi]

although i have tried to not repeat quests this tr(currently 8/banking 9), I have farmed a few. delera's part2(w/opt), bloody crypt(5-6 min runs, couldnt resist), kobold new ringleader. some quests are just too good to not farm out. looking back at my quest list, i have many un-run quests(3bc im looking at you!)

edit: agree with sirgog, seems slightly slower leveling but way more fun. havent calculated xp/min overall yet.