AoE grinding v QuestingFollow

the only possible answer: try it for yourself and see.

i can say from experience that i don't know of any area where you can really AoE skinnable mobs... in theory you could AoE some yetis, but they're so spaced out you would only be killing ~3-4 at a time, and that's hardly eye-poppingly efficient.

humanoids being the vast majority of things placed in close groups, you will be gathering much more cloth than anything else.

there comes a time when you will need gear upgrades =P for that, there's always instances i guess. after all, most quests don't give blue rewards. and on the other hand, if you quested, you wouldn't have to buy your gear. either way, you aren't gonna somehow "break" your character =P

well what you do is you do both ill aoe grind one night and quest the next night which is faster well i think they are about the same ill tell you what next weekend ill record my exp per hour titan bar ftw when aoe grinding and questing so you can decide i can prob post it next monday =).

I tried AoE grinding and it seems that questing is faster. Most quest require you to grind a bit anyway. But I find that AoE grinding makes you a lot more money, plus most humanoid mobs drop cloth of some sort which can sell for alot on AH. Of course im noobsauce, so what do I know?

AOE grinded my mage up to 58. 65 right now. This mage is the first true caster I've had so I have had little exp with anything other than questing. AOE was amazingly fast and I made more $$ than I could spend off of drops ( 2 epics along my way just avg. mobs, est. over 20-30 boe blues and on average 1 green drop per every 2 aoe pulls avg 8-12 mobs a pull) I only quested on qsts that A> gave gear I really wanted/needed or B> could accomplish as I aoe'd. At 58 in hellfire aoe stops, qst rewards and xp too great but if I had to do it again.... oh yeah!!!! AOE frost baby!!!

P.S. I see this often "AOE is boring. The same thing over and over." Other than the place that you stake out to grind, this is far from true. A good aoe pull is hardly ever the same twice. There are many factors such as: adds (arg!), mob resist (double arg!) terrain, ranged mobs that happen to get mixed into pull (ARG ARG ARG!) not to mention that I am on a pvp server so I am an easy target during or just after a pull. A AOE grinder is always adapting and over coming (or running back to his/her corpse). This way of leveling was by far more interesting than the avg. qst: "go to X and kill X many of X and bring me back X as proof of your acomplishments and I will give you 7 copper and this crappy piece of plate that you will have to pay a vendor to take off of your hands." Another note to an up and coming AOE artist may want to know is this. AOE grind = alot of deaths, plain and simple. The smallest mistake in timing or distance or any of the above mentioned factors can easily result in a dead mage. Just be sure to test your limits to know what they are from time to time and keep them in mind as you go and dont get discouraged when a pull fails and you have to bail or die. Just dust yourself off and try again. GL to all of you whichever your play style is.

Edited, Apr 24th 2007 4:26pm by Eatingualive

After comparing aoe grinding to questing yeah if you have ALOT of quests than yes questing is faster if you only have 2 or 3 quests its not as good however i would say that you should do a little bit of both go find the questing areas do some quest when you start to run out of quests or cant do the quests without a group go aoe grind simple as that.