LDoN IssuesFollow

I haven't been impressed with this rather unique expansion. I got it with expectations of a fast and fun way to level from around 25 to 40, but it hasn't really proven to be either for me. I'm not going to rant about all the petty little details, but what are you guys' opinions about it? I've just found that it takes too long to get a group(my friends and I have trouble getting together often, due to work and some of us attending school), and when I do get a group it seems like I'm only getting 1-2 bubbles of experience for the 90 minutes of work. Anyways, I'm getting offtrack(kind of). Please post any opinions. Thanks

I think it will also depend on your level relative to the others in your party. If you are level 32 and everyone else is level 25, you're not going to get much experience. And if you're level 25 and everyone else is level 32, then you can get halfway through a level or more. But it gets worse as you level up--I have heard that the 50s is especially bad for LDoN experience, perhaps less than 10% of a level per adventure. But that's only hearsay, I just dinged 50 myself, and at 49 I did a LDoN and got about 30% experience, which I was pretty happy with.

At low levels, LDoN is mostly about the experience and the money loot (you can do better on loot, but generally not while getting the same good experience). At high levels, the item loot is pretty good, and the money loot is okay, but the experience isn't as good. However, at high levels you actually get a decent amount of points per adventure, so you can afford the LDoN items which are actually decent but require lots of points to buy.

Game on,

The Oneiromancer

As you mentioned LDoN experience mid 40's is quie good, but to me the whole point of it is the loot/drops while getting decent experience. After 50 the experience does drop off a bunch, was getting about 8% per adventure, but if you put that into AA's instead was getting about 30% AA per adventure which isn;t bad at all. Recently I have been doing only high risk adventures and at lvl 57 have found the experience much better, about 20% per adventure as well as more adventure points and way better loot. The high risk ones are definilty harder as the mobs hit harder and have more hp but with a well balanced group can be torn through just like the normal ones. If you are concerned about the exp, try a high risk one next time out.

I think that everyone should be required to play several dungeons in LDON before they are allowed to reach level 50....I know that in my case and several others,it helped me learn my class properly and my roles in a group....There are too many people powerleveled to high levels that know nothing about their class....And in my opinion,besides pop or PC,its the best exp in the game...

I think you guys have confirmed what I thought. Exp seems to be about 40% per adventure. Is it bad? I dunno, it's okay I guess, but I could solo or group elsewhere for more. Granted this would be very nice at 40+, but the characters I use in LDoN are all in the 25-40 range, hence why I said it.

I guess I fell victim to the hype. I was on a three month vacation from EQ during the release of LDoN due to computer problems I didn't bother resolving for awhile, and when I got back I was hearing a lot about LDoN being the fastest way to 40. The loot is pretty good, and I can see why someone with a lack of funds might choose to do LDoN adventures(i.e. a new caster), but that doesn't really make me want to play it. I don't just play to level like a madman, but I guess LDoN isn't something that struck me as fun(not to start a riot =p). Anyways, this was an opinion post, so thanks to those that posted.