Lvl 1 to 28 - Wilderness S/R/E only

[Zarquine]

A 1st life character needs 8,500,00 XP to get from level 1 to 28. According to the above linked Wiki page wilderness areas can give over 8,019,379 XP without repeating rares, so with XP boosts and repeating rares it should be theoretical possible to get to level 28 with wilderness areas only.

The only problem (except from time and finding the will to live while doing it) may be the level distribution of the wilderness areas, but even if you are over-level for an area you can still get some XP.

[Shadow7375]

You can't get into the Demonweb until you've done Portal Opens.

Oh yes, you're right ... Another one ... Forgot about this one.

[Saekee]

Shadow, what build are you using? I HOPE it can stride fast.
It would be interesting to theorycraft a wilderness runner. I imagine 0 trap skills, solid range power (really fun to pick off mobs from a distance), high spot skill, burst DPS for rares (although in general wilderness mobs and rares are not that strong)--what else? Feels Ranger/druidic from PnP perspective anyway.

BTW 3BC heroic used to cap at 1500 kills. Not sure if this was changed.

[Shadow7375]

Shadow, what build are you using? I HOPE it can stride fast.
It would be interesting to theorycraft a wilderness runner. I imagine 0 trap skills, solid range power (really fun to pick off mobs from a distance), high spot skill, burst DPS for rares (although in general wilderness mobs and rares are not that strong)--what else? Feels Ranger/druidic from PnP perspective anyway.

BTW 3BC heroic used to cap at 1500 kills. Not sure if this was changed.

I rolled a ranger, i enjoy using a bow and if i need to can TWF .... As you said, 0 trap skills, maxed out spot. Got manyshot by now which is nice ^^ So far it's been working well. Yes, 3BC capped out at 1500 slayers.

[Shadow7375]

So, managed to get through my 2nd day .... Did Tangleroot, 3BC, Searing Heights as well as Sorrowdusk Isle. That got me to level 7.

Searing Heights was a blast. I actually had someone join my S/R/E lfm and that guy knew that wilderness area by the back of his hand ... It helped so much and we got it done in no time. Was great.

3BC gave me a headache. There are like two or three explorers I didn't manage to find and I am still short a whole bunch of rares. I got so tired of 3BC that I moved on :-)

[Saekee]

Sounds fun and stress-free! Keep posting! When you get to the Sands, use the LFM since a lot of people do the slayer runs. The rare loot that drops there is very good.
Ataraxia includes a spa so you can post a pic chilling out there.

[Marrow]

3BC gave me a headache. There are like two or three explorers I didn't manage to find and I am still short a whole bunch of rares. I got so tired of 3BC that I moved on :-)

The lost treasure in the underwater cave is a pain to find... so easy to get lost!

[Shadow7375]

Woot, I managed to handle another day of S/R/E .... Spend all day in Red Fens ... Had an LFM up the entire time and again got lucky and some folks join me to help out :-) Need another 1200 kills or so to max it out and then move on to Ataraxia. Also, I took level 9.

[Saekee]

bummer that you won't get favor rewards or TP points

[Qhualor]

Yes it has been done though it might have been 1-20 and not to 28, I can't seem to find the thread about it now

Stoner81.

i read the same thread a long time ago and the guy did it from 1-20 when that was cap. he maxxed out his slayer before moving on to the next wilderness, got all rares and explorers and actually ran around the map not using some of the tricks to get fast kills like Rats and Caravan or Spider rare.

hope the guy got a medal for it.

[Shadow7375]

Alright, got my 7500 kills in Red Fens and got 70K xp for that ... It seems like as if the xp bonus affects xp gained in wilderness areas as well.

Anyways, took level 10 and gonna move on to Ataraxia now.

[Saekee]

I rolled a ranger, i enjoy using a bow and if i need to can TWF .... As you said, 0 trap skills, maxed out spot. Got manyshot by now which is nice ^^ So far it's been working well. Yes, 3BC capped out at 1500 slayers.

Often wilderness fights have decent pauses between them--the deepwood line might be better for you than the AA. Especially exposing shot.

[Shadow7375]

Often wilderness fights have decent pauses between them--the deepwood line might be better for you than the AA. Especially exposing shot.

I went AA, never played around with the sniper one .. Will have to give it a try at some stage.

Day 4: Finished Red Fens as well as Ataraxia today. Also managed to finish half of Sands by now. Got me enough xp to take level 12. Again had a couple of helping hands today, which is always appreciated :-) I skipped Restless Isles ... I might have to reconsider and go back and get those done too, all depends on how much xp I got once I am done with Sands and Gianthold. The Isles are up to level 14 so I still got time ^^

[Saekee]

4 days?!? How many hours each day? Wait--don't answer that...
Relics drop in the wilderness rare chests in Gianthold. Very handy.
You have Vale coming up.

[Shadow7375]

4 days?!? How many hours each day? Wait--don't answer that...
Relics drop in the wilderness rare chests in Gianthold. Very handy.
You have Vale coming up.

haha .... am on holidays right now, so got lots of time on my hands ^^

[harry-pancreas]

I assume you are talking about the xp for rares never falling past a certain amount ?
Yeah I'm aware of that. But was thinking more on the lines of a more "natural" approach.
Head in get explorers , clear for kills , pick up rares in the trip around kind of thing.
Kill till the last kill X reward and move on kinda thing.

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So just started this evening.
Even if you skip the korthos story line you still have to do heyton, storehouse , crystal and collab to get to the wilderness. So ran each on casual.
Have to run hips to get to restless isles and I think that is the only other quest you have to do to get to an explorer area.
Argh nope will have to run the evening start flags to get to kings forest.

Any others I'm missing ?

the KF chain is so you can enter the underdark (prerreq to acces KF is just being level 20), and then you need to run the Sschindylryn quests to get into the demonweb, but i think that's it

edit: You might want to check if you need to run the reaver's reach flaggin quests to acces the last tiny wilderness area, i can't remember (save those sventusk gems and the like!)

[Shadow7375]

Wow, managed to get Sands done faster than I thought. Had again some helping hands :-)

But Sands has way to many gnolls around. I maxed out gnolls at 3000 whereas undead and scorrows didn't even get close to 1000 each. Somewhat that ratio is wrong if you ask me ... Anyways, got it done and took 13. Gianthold next. That will be 3000 kills in each camp to max it out ....

[whereispowderedsilve]

Wow, managed to get Sands done faster than I thought. Had again some helping hands :-)

But Sands has way to many gnolls around. I maxed out gnolls at 3000 whereas undead and scorrows didn't even get close to 1000 each. Somewhat that ratio is wrong if you ask me ... Anyways, got it done and took 13. Gianthold next. That will be 3000 kills in each camp to max it out ....

GH might be brutal not a lot of density of mobs, iirc in there so. Thank goodness you can reset the wilderness area's now(I think? Right?).

Good luck on your quest & journey! Cheers! :P! ! !

Also what server are you doing this on btw? I am curious/just wondering.

Note: I am taking a self imposed exile/vacation/break from DDO for a number of reasons so.

[Shadow7375]

GH might be brutal not a lot of density of mobs, iirc in there so. Thank goodness you can reset the wilderness area's now(I think? Right?).

Good luck on your quest & journey! Cheers! :P! ! !

Also what server are you doing this on btw? I am curious/just wondering.

Note: I am taking a self imposed exile/vacation/break from DDO for a number of reasons so.

Am on Khyber .... And yes, the RESET button is awesome ... Makes it a lot easier ^^

[Shadow7375]

Managed to get 2/3 done of Gianthold today ... Need round about 1000 slayers in each section to max it out. Am 45K short of level 15 ... Moving along nicely so far ... Managed to get a couple of monster manual deeds along the journey .... Nice side effect :-) .... Guess I'll finish GH tomorrow, take 15 and move on to Orchard.