DDOCast 680 - Updated Heroic Leveling pt 1

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Epic joins Patrick this week to talk about Hardcore Season 6 and start our Updated Heroic Leveling guide!

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[FuzzyDuck81]

Judging by the graphic they're using to promote the latest hardcore season, I think a feywild/wild hunt theme is likely, I also think they may not just have feywild champions but have hunting hounds spawn in addition to regular mobs in a similar manner to reapers; could potentially even be acting as a trial for a new "hunting season" style event for the live servers?

Something to consider with levelling now even more than ever is the monster manual - with all the new low level quests it's quite easy to get a number of hunter (number of different ones of that type) deeds for some extra little hits of XP & there's a handful that are very easy to max out for a significant chunk of XP, monstrous plants in particular comes to mind right now thanks to the feywild, as well as mudmen. They can also help make up the difference in otherwise slower or lower XP quests.

I usually do a relaxed run on hard through ToEE & slave lords at about level 9/10 - the XP is still decent, especially with the MM deeds from having lots of different enemies & the other reason being the loot, which is great TR gear; ToEE weapons, particularly cranium cracker club, elemental bloom quarterstaff (add shadow imbue from illusionist so their fragility is no longer an issue) & sapphire sting longbow in particular are fantastic with expanded critical profiles & powerful proc effects & the crafted ones' AoE procs are great, slave lords crafted items are excellently versatile & the symbol of the slave lords trinket & the hardened helm will often see me through to 20.