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Just a record on my experiences with the King Ranperre's Tomb at 54-56:
We were in the center, between the two Cutlass Scorpion spawns, and pulled Dire Bats and the Hecteyes there (I want to say there were called Thousand Eyes, not too sure about it). As a melee, let me say, the mobs there are pie to kill. I was having TP issues for the first time since Garlaige. The Hecteyes are hardly a threat, and are easy pulls since they don't link. They do cast Tier III -ga, and AM, so your RDM has to be on the ball with Silence. Make sure the tank turns around whenever the thing readies Hex Eye, to save some MP on Paralyna (Yeah, it's not much I know). Death Ray seems to be, despite any appearances or common sense, single target, and I'm given to understand is basically like Spirits Within. Try and make sure that the Hecteyes isn't facing the mages.. Hex Eye can get nasty if they paralyze everyone, as it's a fairly stron g paralysis. Note, that anyone who wants their Witch Hat is going to almost certainly see a Burning Eye or 4 drop if you exp on the Thousand Eyes.
Exp dries up a bit at 56, but I can't give a fair analysis as we had to share the camp with another party, every time. It EASILY supports one party, but two makes Chain 5+ a *****. If a third moves in.... leave.
Also, the Cutlass Scorpions tend to spawn in the way of the Bats, so try and save a Hecteyes or two for an emergency chain. You should be able to pull a nearby bat or two despite the Scorps' presence. They kinda make it interesting, I'd say.
On an unfortunate note, you may have to shift camp slightly; There is a Bat that pops nearby, on a fairly long respawn timer; Shouldn't interfere but once every 3 chains or so.

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I found this post to be very informative, and I like suggesting alternative places for every given level, to find XP. It's good to see someone thinking outside the "There's one place at every level, to go level up" mentality. Good job man! Good job!

I'd rate up if I could. Thanks for the info!

I think some of the levels here need to be adjusted.

You have stuff like velociraptors in valley of sorrows set as 59-61, when they are quite easy to take down at 57 and stop giving decent exp at 59.

Also you don't inlude leveling areas for bones or manaburn parties.

Hey, great guide and some informative stuff. Been looking for a good spot to XP with my ninja set. Not really looking forward to dealing Valley of Sorrows when Gustav stops giving xp--VoS always seems to be way, way too crowded and just not worth the effort.

Just wanted to clarify one thing about Bark Spiders in Boyahda Tree. I'm guessing you meant the ones in Dragon's Aery? If you camp right on the zoneline of Tree/Dragon's Aery, you can get some great xp off of Darters and Spiders here, particularly with a piercing-damage party (RNG,THF,or DRG). Darters are either about the same level as those in the Ancient Goobuue pond, or slightly higher. Spiders are a little bit higher than the Darters, and great to cap a chain with. Occasionally you will get a spider pop at camp, but it's nothing that can't be slept and dealt with. This is best for a single party, as you will probably want to be chaining high. There is another potential camp down the tunnel to the right, but it is a little more dangerous, and of course the flies link like crazy. Also, you may lose a few mobs if people are gathering for Fafnir and need to TP up on something. However, if you get to see a Fafnir (or Nidhogg) pop, it's fun to take a break for a few minutes and watch the fight ^^; I would say 68 is probably the lowest you'd want to go here without a bard, 70-71 max.

By the way, rangers will love being able to scavenge Darksteel bolt heads here :o yum yum

Manaburn parties: EVERYWHERE!!!

Heh... I actually wanted to say, Great guide! So good in fact, I printed it out. I've been trying out some of the less common campsites you mentioned, and while some ended in disaster, some turned out great. Regardless, it's nice to try new things, and to be able to convince people to try it with me by simply saying, "I've heard good things." ^^;

Edited, Tue Feb 15 14:53:41 2005 by Vrtra

Updated! Thanks Hunter. I put what you said verbatim in.

wow, this is great! rate up! i really needed this thread, it helped alot! thanks!!!

The new format looks great! I like it broken up by location instead of level stretches, but it's still easy to find the level range that I want. Thanks for all your hard work!

Bumped for information request.

Doh!

Bump! Looking for information for a level 63 PT.

Great thread.

Just a note. My static party of level 63 was fighting steelshells and processionaire in Boyahda Tree.

We decided to pull one of the Korrigan (the black mandragora) just for the hell of it. We loved them. Much *much* softer than the steelshells, if not a bit more annoying. They have the classic AoE sleep, and I saw one special that hit our DRK for 340ish damage, but other than that, they seemed great. We'll be intermixing them with processionaire on Tuesday.

Our party setup was as follows:

DRK/WAR, RNG/NIN/ THF/NIN, PLD/WAR, BRD/WHM, RDM/BLM(WHM)

Our PLD was using the earth staff.

The best place to pull them seems to be by the waterfall at Cloister of Storms, or on the way to the Ancient Goobue area in the tunnels.

Hope this helps.