The Simplest Leveling Guide 1-59 (Part I)

Hi everyone! FatalLace here, just wanted to share with you an AWESOME leveling guide created by RikoRain.  The guide has been featured on the forums and has received tremendous positive feedback.  Since I'm often asked about stuff like this, I figured I'd reach out to RikoRain and see if I could use her guide, she agreed.  No sense rewriting the bible right?

The all-inclusive guide will be broken down into three parts covering levels 1-59, 60-89, and 90-114.  The guide has been updated numerous times to include the most recent quests and strategies for maximizing your playtime.

Just be advised that I AM NOT an advocate of powerleveling.  So if that is your answer to your leveling issues, this guide is not for you.  However, if you want to play and work at your craft, learn your class inside and out through in-game experience (not following along on the back of a Hobby Horse), then please stick around and read through these great guides.

My contribution to the guides will be some of the screenshots, artwork, and videos.  The text comes courtesy of Riko.  I may make my own notes here and there to give some extra insight.  That all being said, let's go!

Beforehand Notes:

• KQs will be listed in detail on the first level available, and abbreviated from then on.
• PVP KQs will be listed on the first and last levels they are available for only, with a mark to their range.
• PVP KQs will not be listed until the first available (level 35).
• Repeats will be listed every level, but detailed only on the first level they are available for.
• Instances will be listed every level they are available for, if there is no instance available, it will be listed on the first level that no instance is available until one is available.
• Instance listings will not be shown until the first instance is available (level 20).
• Due to the quickness of these levels, they are bundled into groups of 5.
• Hidden Mine is for all levels, so I will not bother listing it for level specifics.
• Event specific or Temporary KQs will not be listed.
• Daily quests (for fame) will not be listed.

Important Note: Sometimes the level ranges of Instances change. As of April 15 2013, they are accurate.

Tactic: Pick up your initial Baby quests and the "walk through" chatter beginner quests. Equip your weapon, and go kill Slimes, Mushrooms, and Imps until you hit level 6.

Notes From Fatal:  Definitely pick up the Daily Quest from Town Chief Roumenus as well.  I would suggest going with the 10% Drop Rate Increase.  Some of the early level cards, especially the Slime S Card, which gives you the Warrior of Roumen title, can be financially lucrative.

KQ: King Slime's Counter Attack (5-16) (King Slime KQ)
KQ Video:  King Slime's Counter Attack - Archer
Quest Repeats:
Working for Julia (6-10) - Collect 1 Sea Mushroom and Two Starfish
Beat Speedy Honeyings- Defeat 5 Speedy Honeyings (6-8)
My Favourite Clam 2- Obtain 3 Clam Meats (8)
Blue Crab Dish 2 (8-10) - Collect 12 Blue Crab meat
Despicable Little Ones (8-10) - Defeat 5 Little Hobs

Tactic: Pick up quests if you like. Pick up Essential Gift from Town Chief Roumenus for a free 7 day hobby horse that is faster than the basic one upon reaching the milemarker. As soon as possible, join King Slime’s and attempt to win. Otherwise, do repeat quests or pick a monster and grind.

Note: Be sure to add a higher level player as your Master at level 9 (before reaching level 10), as well as joining the active Academy of your choice also at level 9. The rewards from both of these begin as soon as the player actively levels into 10 from level 9.

KQ: King Slime
Quest Repeats:
The Mini Greenky (11-14) - Deafeat 5 Mini Greenky
Disease Carriers (12-17) - Defeat 5 Ratmen
Medicinal Herbs (12-15) - Collect 1 Herb Leaf and Defeat 15 Ratmen
Working for Karl (12-15) - Collect 10 Broken Blade
Clam Chowder (13-16) - Defeat 5 Boogy

Tactic: Use the Teleport Gate and complete The Mini Greenky and Disease Carriers over and over until 15, at which point continue to complete Disease Carriers repeatedly until 18. These two are wonderful for creating a stock of Roumen and Elderine town scrolls to help you later. 

Notes from Fatal:  In Bijou, these teleport scrolls can sell for anywhere between 100-150s a piece.  This is a pretty lucrative quest early on.  The other servers are probably pretty close.


Notes from Fatal:  Unfortunately, it's rare that the Slime Kingdom Quest fills.  If you're fortunate enough to be able to get through it with a party, great!  However, be prepared to just keep questing.

 
KQ: Mara Pirates' Rage (17-25) (Mara KQ)
KQ Video: Mara Pirates' Rage KQ Mage Solo
KQ Video: Mara Pirates' Rage KQ Tanking
Quest Repeats:
Clam Chowder (13-16) - Defeat 5 Boogy
Joker Kebings 2 (18-20) - Defeat 17 Joker Kebing
Speedy Boogy 2 (18-21) - Defeat 20 Speedy Boogy
Ruined Garden 2 (20-26) - Defeat 7 Prock Zone

Tactic: Continue to complete Disease carriers until you reach level 18. At 18, join Mara KQ. Each success will grant you one level until about 22. If you cannot complete KQ, simply complete the other repeats. However, avoid the Ruined Garden 2 (its experience is too low).


Notes from Fatal:  Again, like the Slime KQ, it's rare that the Mara KQ fills.  However, with a decent enough gear, a little know-how, it can be done with minimal participants.  If you're extremely well-geared, the Mara KQ can also be used to farm both the Mara and Marlone A and S cards, extremely valuable.  From here on down, please be aware that KQs may not fill, it's best to continue focusing on your quests and finishing up your levels in the Abyss.

KQ: Mara Pirates' Rage (-25) and Gold Hill Adventure (20-32) (Gold Hill KQ)
Instance: Tower of Iyzel (20-70)
Quest Repeat:
Speedy Boogy 2 (18-21) - Defeat 20 Speedy Boogy
Ruined Garden 2 (20-26) - Defeat 7 Prock Zone
Working for Raina (21-22) - Collect 5 (each) Red, Yellow, and Blue Petals
Poor Merchant (22-23) - Defeat 20 Silver Slime
Kid Woz's Small Wish (23-24) - Defeat 20 Skeleton
The Marlone Clan Megaton (23-24) - Defeat 25 Marlone Megaton
James' Request 2 (24-25) - Collect 1 Prism Powder
Herb Plant Set 2 (25-27) - Collect 5 (each) Herb Leaf, Stem, and Root
Insomnia 2 (25-27) - Defeat 15 Glow Wolf

Tactic: Complete Gold Hill KQ (and Mara if you please, but more-so Gold Hill) for quicker levels. Please remember to take a pickaxe! Each completion will grant you either a level, or a notable amount of experience. Do the above repeats between KQs for added experience boosts.

KQ: Gold Hill
KQ Video:  Gold Hill KQ - Tanking
KQ Video:  Gold Hill KQ - Cleric
Instance: Tower of Iyzel (20-70)
Quest Repeat:
Herb Plant Set 2 (25-27) - Collect 5 (each) Herb Leaf, Stem, and Root
Insomnia 2 (25-27) - Defeat 15 Glow Wolf
Frozen Ice Cream 2 (28-29) - Defeat 20 Ice Vivi
Roumen's Security Issue 2 (29-30) - Defeat 20 Cave Archmage Book
Hobby (30-31) - Collect 1 Sticky Spider Web

Tactic: Keep doing Gold Hill. You will notice you get less and less per success as you level up, but it is still good experience. Do quests in between. If you dare, you can also grind in the abyss.

KQ: Gold Hill (-33), The Millenium Robo Plot (33-45) (Robo KQ)
Instance: Tower of Iyzel (20-70)
PVP KQ: Amateur Fighter (35-49)
Quest Repeat:
Roumen's Security Issue 2 (29-30) - Defeat 20 Cave Archmage Book
Hobby (30-31) - Collect 1 Sticky Spider Web
Working for Wishis (32-33) - Defeat 30 Flying Staff
Purging The Moonlight Tomb (33-34) - Defeat 20 Bat, 15 Zombie, and 1 Zombie Master
Eyes for the Magic Staff 2 (33-35) - Defeat 25 Magic Staff
Ruby's Request 2 (34-35) - Defeat 30 Grave Wolf
The Wild and Master (35-39) - Collect 1 Wolf's Claw

Tactic: Do repeats, KQs, and quests in between to help level. At 33, Robo will offer quite a bit of experience. At 35, PVP KQ is by far one of the best ways to level up. A few Tower quests done at this time also provide a nice chunk of experience and are easy enough now that you are 10-15 levels higher.

KQ: Robo, Mean Giant Honeying (40-50)
Instance: Tower of Iyzel (20-70) and Devildom Mine (40-50)
PVP KQ: Amateur Fighter (35-49)
Quest Repeat:
The Wild and Master (35-39) - Collect 1 Wolf's Claw
The Oppression of Ghosts (37-38) - Defeat 30 Ghost
Harvest 2 (38-40) - Collect 40 Hoes
Bitter Old Myzen (39) - Defeat 30 Bone Imp
Bone Imp Bags 3 (39-40) - Collect 35 Bone Imp Bags
It Drives Me Crazy 2 (40-42) - Defeat 20 Earth Spider
For My Friend (40-50) - Defeat 1 Storm Citrie and 1 Ice Citrie (Instance repeat)

Tactic: Join Robo KQ every chance you get in an attempt to complete the KQ Questline. Also, join PVP KQ when you can. Between, complete repeats, grind in abyss/dungeons, or complete other non-repeat quests. Generally save the non-repeats for levels with no repeats, but this should not hurt you too much.

 

KQ: Robo (-45), Honeying (40-50)

KQ Video:  Mean Giant Honeying KQ - Tanking

Instance: Tower of Iyzel (20-70) and Devildom Mine (40-50)
PVP KQ: Amateur Fighter (35-49)
Quest Repeat:
It Drives Me Crazy 2 (40-42) - Defeat 20 Earth Spider
For My Friend (40-50) - Defeat 1 Storm Citrie and 1 Ice Citrie (Instance repeat)
Ugly Goblins 2 (42-43) - Defeat 50 Goblins
The Prock's Poison 2 (42-44) - Defeat 40 Prock
A Bet with Marty 2 (43) - Defeat 50 Goblin Swordsmen and Collect 20 Goblin Sword
Strange Cave of Wind 4 (43-46) - Defeat 50 Cave Archmage Books, Collect 10 Windy Cave Maps and Silver Ores: 10 LQ, 5 MQ, 1 HG
Fantastic Items (44) - Collect 22 Werebear's Claws
Best Broomsticks 3 (44-46) - Collect 50 Werebear Armpit Hair

Tactic: If you have not completed the Robo KQ Questline, now should be the time you press on to do so. Join PVP KQ as well, of course doing repeatables between KQ, and normal quests between repeatables. Should those fail, abyss, dungeons, or normal map grinding will become the default. Notable repeats are Ugly Goblins, Fantastic Items, and Best Broomsticks. 

KQ: Honeying (-50), Lost Mini Dragon and Lost Mini Dragon (Hardcore) (46-60)

KQ Video:  Lost Mini Dragon - Tanking

KQ Video:  Lost Mini Dragon - Archer

Instance: Tower of Iyzel (20-70), Devildom Mine (40-50), and Devildom Barracks (50-60)
PVP KQ: Amateur Fighter (35-49)
Quest Repeat:
Best Broomsticks 3 (44-46) - Collect 50 Werebear Armpit Hair
Athlete's Foot (46-48) - Collect 10 Sand Mushroom's Heads
A Secret Request (47) - Collect 30 Goblin Captain's Helmet
Mannequin Lips (49) - Collect 10 Mini Lips' Lips
Release from Pain 2 (50-60) - Collect 20 Feather of the Foras Tribe (Instance repeat)

Tactic: Mini Dragon KQ will provide optimal experience. If you choose to join (you should), please remember to participate fully and avoid leeching at all costs. Aside from MD, complete the repeatable quests. Each one has a decent amount of experience reward, as well as a set, specific, and well-placed spawn point for the target monsters.

KQ: Mini Dragon

Instance: Tower of Iyzel (20-70) and Devildom Barracks (50-60)
PVP KQ: Brave Warrior (55-69)
Quest Repeat:
Release from Pain 2 (50-60) - Collect 20 Feather of the Foras Tribe (Instance repeat)
Grandma Myzen's Wrath (51) - Defeat 80 Weakened Ogre
The Unbreakable Chisel (52) - Collect 10 King Donkey's Tooth
Delivery Delay (53-54) - Defeat 100 Vampire Bat and 20 Lighting Vivi
Escape from Concealed Prison 2 (55) - Defeat 120 Prisoners

Tactic: Mini Dragon KQ will still provide notable amounts of experience. Repeats at every level will make saving the normal quests easy (as you should save them for 56-60). This level is all KQ and repeats.

KQ: Mini Dragon

Instance: Tower of Iyzel (20-70), Devildom Barracks (50-60), and Crystal Castle (60-69)
PVP KQ: Brave Warrior (55-69)
Quest Repeat:
The Master Criminal (57) - Defeat 50 Senior Torturers
Castle Lords's Goods 2 (60-61) - Collect 50 King Spider's Webs and 10 Queen Spider's Claws

Tactic: Since you only have 1 repeat at only 1 of these 5 levels, join PVP KQ and in between complete normal quests. At 57, do only the repeat as much as possible. For 57-60, do any and all quests while joining in PVP and Mini Dragon KQ. Usually you will reach 60 by completing all quests available - if not, you should be incredibly close. For the extra bit needed if you do not reach 60, simply spam KQs.
 

Fiesta's Worst Quests - Part II

Once again, we delve into the land of horrible quests.  I talked about this in the past here, but these ugly adventures just keep popping up.  I even listed this particular quest on that other blog posting, but I'm just so frustrated at this point that this particular quest deserves a second mention.

Ironically, or possibly intentionally, this chain of quests is called "Final Rest".  Each quest in this four-part series requires just a single drop.  Easy right?  Ho ho ho, no.  You would think that, but it just get progressively worse and worse.

Buoyed by the ongoing Attendance Event, I find myself playing my alts a bit more trying to use their mandatory 1 hour of in-game time to its fullest.  I've spent time picking herbs and toadstools, soloing low level KQs like Mara, chatting and dancing in Elderine, and also questing.  Since my Trickster is now 92, I decided to finally do the Final Rest, or "Luna" as I call it, quest chain.

The first drop, "Luna's Breath" isn't so bad, you do have to travel all the way into Flaming Mine to kill some Cursed Knights, but that's simple enough.  At least we can now ride a mount in Flaming Mine, we used to have to hike it back there.  The Cursed Knights die quickly and if there's nobody farming that particular land bridge, there are an ample number of them to slaughter.  There's also an added benefit of scooping up some Bellow Knight or Titanic Bellow Knight weapons while you try to attain that elusive quest drop.  Took me about an hour to get this.

The second drop, "Luna's Eye" is a bit harder, you now step up to the Cursed Knight Silvers a little further in.  They're a bit harder, but not by much.  Unfortunately there is nothing of value that they drop aside from maybe a license and a "B" rank card if you're a collector of such.  I think this took me about 2 hours.

The third drop, which I'm now stuck on, is the "Luna's Heart" quest drop.  This particular quest requires you to kill Cursed Knight Golds.  They are much harder than the Silvers, they hit harder and they have a lot more defense and HP.  On a lucky day, you may get some level 95 jewelry from them, but it's unlikely.  I've now been doing this quest for five days straight.  Five days, over one hour each day.  Not a single drop.  To add to the ridiculousness of this quest, I've now picked up 16 Cursed Knight Gold "A"-rank Cards.  I've already registered one on each of my characters on my main account and have this many remaining:

This is a pain.  I blow through SP stones really quickly on my Trickster and even more so when I happen to wander a bit too close to the Cursed Knight Lord, with whom I'll do battle with in the last part of the quest chain.

I don't remember this quest being THAT bad in years past, it was frustrating, but never to this extent.  I had a 105 Wizard friend help me out today for about 30 minutes, but to no avail, still no drop (thanks Lorcan!).  I know the last part will be particularly bad, especially with the 10 minute respawn time of the quest mob, but I need to get that far before I can complain about it. Wish me luck!

Stupidly Easy Part II - A Naked Mage? The Level 20 Promo Dissected

Alright, so the naked Cleric experiment wasn't all that impressive, I mean I have three options to heal myself, Heal skill, HP Potion, and HP Stone... so being naked wasn't all that bad, plus I had a shield.  So what if I didn't?  And what if I went one step massively further and upped the ante by going with the squishiest of them all?  Think it can still be done sans armor?  Let's find out!



Okay, now to be completely honest, I tried this promotion probably over 10 times testing various methods and sort of practicing.  Each time I gained a bit more insight into what I can take away or handicap myself further with.  And here is what I came up with....

Stupidly Easy - The *NEW AND IMPROVED!* Level 20 Promo

 Alright, I just don't get what people's problem was with this quest.  If they had been at all actually playing this game from level 1 - 20, they should be fairly versed in how to use their class at this point.  Granted going into the Shadow Dungeon the first time blind, without knowing what to expect, you could be in for a rough time.  But OutSpark and OnsOnSoft went just a bit too far.

The Shadow Dungeon oftentimes is the budding new player's first glimpse at hardship.  Working to overcome hardships like this builds character and a sense of pride in your character that you went in, maybe failed a few times, but figured it out on your own and got the job done.  Now, it's a walk in the park.

Ask Fatal: Simple Questions With Not So Simple Answers

Time for another round of questions.... These are mostly questions that I've gotten asked in my chat box that I just can't answer in such a limited amount of space... So here are a few I figure I'd tackle today since the servers were down.

Even at 106, You Can Still Learn Some Things....

So I'm back to my SharpShooter now, the Warlock has pretty much been shelved.  I didn't get to the 50-60% I had hoped for, although she currently sits at about 25%, I'm still satisfied.  With the Ascendence of Heroes Event finally winding down, it ends on March 31, I figured I may as well try to solidify my spot within the top 5 for Bijou's Archers.

Busy Busy Busy

Wow a post! xD

Sorry to have been lax on my posting recently, I've just been really busy and excited about the new repeatable quests that OutSpark added in last week's maintenance.  These quests were really what I needed to get motivated and finally get my Warlock's butt to 105.

And guess what?  I did it!

I was so excited to finally be able to wear a new set of armors, the pixel obsessed part of me is satisfied!, get some great new skill upgrades, and twirl around a fancy new wand!

Fiesta's Worst Quests

The names alone recall hours upon hours of torment and frustration... With each name, a shiver runs down your spine... Karasian's Hair, Bright Golden Bat Hair, Dark Crystal of Ratman Knight, Linous Horn, Phouch's Needlecoat, Gleaming Orb, Music Box, Ruby Guardian's Hair, Fragment of Memory, Luna's Breath..

Brings back painful memories doesn't it? And for those of you that yet to experience these quests, I wish you the best of luck.

So as I sit here waiting on a couple of Living Stones to respawn, it got me thinking... "What are your worst Fiesta quests?" Were they listed above? Maybe you just dread repeatables?