How to lvl an EE quickly

[Listof]

Well, after two years of L2, I finally figured out how to lvl my EE quickly. We all know how undesirable they are for xp parties. It's not impossible to find parties, but in a world of "GLF SE" you do spend some time twiddling your thumbs.

I give you Adelei's Method for Leveling an EE ™

1. Realize that your EE sucks at soloing.

2. Buy a second account and roll a nuker.

3. You have two options on this one - if you have a fast computer and can switch between characters quickly, roll an SE on your EE's account. If not, buy a third account and roll an SE.

4. Level Nuker and SE up to the level of your EE. If you want, you can stop leveling your SE after 52 and use your EE oop to powerlevel your nuker the rest of the way.

5. Duo your Nuker and EE with your SE oop for empower. Use lots of BSpS.

Enjoy! :D


LOL Before any of you start yelling about grouping, EEs, single-player MMOs, etc., I made this post as a joke. Well, half a joke. I am partying my EE and SpS w/ empower from my SE. And I have found it to be GREAT xp. About 2x to 3x the xp I get in parties. But as tempting as it is to solo 100% of the time, I do try to not be too anti-social. I just find it funny that, after a year and a half of laboring to level my EE up to her mid-sixties, I roll a nuker and then am able to xp on her easy as pie.

This also supports my belief that EEs would have an easier time getting parties if empower came in a bottle, like acumen and haste, or in a scroll, like party recall and resurrection. :p

[Jute]

I'm actually in the same boat with my EE and that's exactly what I'm thinking of doing, but with my Spellhowler and not my SpS.

Oh..and there are Empower scrolls but as far as I know they are only from the L2 Day stuff.

[Listof]

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I'm actually in the same boat with my EE and that's exactly what I'm thinking of doing, but with my Spellhowler and not my SpS.

Oh..and there are Empower scrolls but as far as I know they are only from the L2 Day stuff.

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Yeah, I don't really count them because they are too expensive to be economical. Magic Haste Pots are so cheap, if your party doesn't have a prophet, it's nothing to just keep popping them. But empower scrolls from the events are just too expensive for that. There's also a limited supply of them. If everyone used them a lot we would eventually run out, until the next event.

[Cytis]

I know of a quicker way but you may not agree with me...

Instead of useing a nuker you should try a warlord and AoE. This way you don't need the SE for Empower. You can simplely buy alacrity pots for haste and the EE can give you the rest the buffs you really need like might, shield and resist shock for those nasty mobs in the catacombs. Sure you don't get DW or Guidence but a friend of mine does this for about 3 hours a day and lvls up both of his characters faster then I can lvl soloing 4 hours a day on my Sorcerer boxing an SE for Empower.

You may not agree with me that it is the fastest but I can tell you it is effective and works for lvling Bishops as well.

*Disclaimer* I do recommend you try this when you have 2 computers running instead of 2 clients on one computer for the sake of healing your warlord.

Oh and a final thought on this, you will make ALOT of adena and crafting mats, the xp is god-like, and you have a better chance of full drops since you will spend most of your 60's in the catacomb of the witch (uber BW and Doom drop rate and if you are really lucky you might even score a DC drop). You can always have nukers join you with their boxed SE for faster kills and social interaction, you will be the one everyone loves to see login and the topic of conversation at the L2 water cooler.

[CantoScav]

Polearm AoE with an EE? Not a chance. If you dont have VR, I dont even think about doing AoE.

[Crawlerin]

VR is NOT vital for AoE. It helps, true, but not vital. Any healer that could outheal damage is good. Make smaller pulls if you die a lot.

[Cytis]

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Polearm AoE with an EE? Not a chance. If you dont have VR, I dont even think about doing AoE.

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Did you not read my post? If you did then maybe it was to complicated for you to understand. As I stated previously, I have a friend that does this on a daily basis. He is lvl 7x and his EE is 7x. It works very well. If you have to have VR to survive your pulls then maybe you shouldn't bite off more then you can chew. kk thx and have a good day :)

[MalineII]

Joking or not, I am glad that some healers are making DD slaves about constantly complaining about getting replaced by a box. ;)

[Johnboy]

we made an extra BH for aoeing buff toons to 52+. works very well and he's making alot adenas btw ;)
his sineater prevents him from delevling ,lol

[Champa]

TBH it's not biting off more than you can chew if you do good with VR. VR is an awesome buff for polers.
I've powerleveled a few of my friends' toons with my SE, and I see their HP jumping up every time they crit.
But no doubt EEs are good too. Or Bishops for that matter. What SEs lack in casting speed, they make up for with VR. (And tattoos, but that's a different topic).

[ElmoRules]

So basically if you can't pay 30-45$ per month for 2-3 accounts dont bother playing an EE? I feel that you're sadly mistaken, if you're such an ****** that you cant find a clan/party as a healer then you should quit Lineage ][ permenantly or reroll a class that can solo. IF you can however afford the a 2nd account or 3rd account go ahead and roll an archer and a dorf (dorf for making SS and selling it while you are busy. Simply root and shoot you bum! Your dorf should cover the costs of using soulshots with a bow and make leveling a lot easier/cheaper. Until you're level 78 as an EE with prophecy of water, EE's arent really all that useful to mages except for the occasional recharge. Archer + EE = mmmm xp ;)

[shine123]

regardless of the post being a joke or half a joke, it took u 2years to find this out? thats .. .....

a polearm group or bigboom would be easier than what u just said.

[Aranya]

EE's aren't that hard to level, geez. Find a clan that loves you, and you'll always get invites. I'm sorry, it sounds corny, but it's true. It's a matter of making friends. :)

[Listof]

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So basically if you can't pay 30-45$ per month for 2-3 accounts dont bother playing an EE? I feel that you're sadly mistaken, if you're such an ****** that you cant find a clan/party as a healer then you should quit Lineage ][ permenantly or reroll a class that can solo.

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I rerolled a SpS because I wanted a SpS. I permanently retired my EE. Then I got my SpS up to about my EE's level and I thought, "hey, I bet I could duo these two." I like the way my EE looks better than my SE and everyone knows my by my EE, who was my main for a year. So then I started duoing my SpS and EE and realized that it was better xp than grouping, even without empower. I never said don't bother playing an EE if you can't do those things. I played my EE for a year, getting her up to her mid-sixties, with only one account.

However, people are constantly posting about how EEs suck at PvE and how hard it is to get a PvE group. Even if you're in a PvP alliance where they want high level EEs, a lot of times people are selfish and want the best xp possible, so they'll take an SE over an EE.

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regardless of the post being a joke or half a joke, it took u 2years to find this out? thats .. .....

a polearm group or bigboom would be easier than what u just said.

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AOE was not a big thing until C3. I quit my EE shortly after C3 came out. My first AOE group was actually on my SpS. I played my EE during OB - C2. Prelude-C1 was ok, but C2 was the "we must have a perfect 9 person party with a BD and SwS" chronicle. Going solo and doing small groups weren't worth it back then. And it's not like I sat at the computer for two straight years, banging my head on the keyboard trying to figure out how to best xp my EE. Nor am I claiming that this is the only or best way to xp. I just thought it was ironic that I was actually xping on my EE again, using my own DD.

[SithMaster]

You will love your ee again in C5.

[Andothe]

Another option is just use your SE oop to get parties with your EE. That way, you have vr and emp for your group, but you still get to play your toon.

[Jute]

I love my EE now, but anyone who isn't realistic about how difficult it is to get parties is either very lucky or doesn't actually play an EE.

Yes, if you have a clan that loves you, things will be fine. And yes, a good healer can get groups but you have to get enough groups to get a repuation as a good healer.

I've played all of the healers except Bishop and it's INFINTELY easier to get a group if you are an SE or even a Prophet.

[MalineII]

I have heard/seen higher level bishops and EEs shout for groups literally from when I set out on a hunting trip to when I came back.

On the other hand - I've always been turned down when I offer either of the two classes at a similar level a duo with myself.

I think bishops and EEs, maybe, just as much as groups, are too picky about their experience (although anyone who's actually duoed me has later PMed me for more, yay ^^).

[Vyxenn]

Dunno how it is for elven elders but as for my bishop, at 65th, whenever i decide to group i have one in the following 60 seconds... Thanks to my clan and friends that liked my style. If only I had more fun healing I'ld level muuch faster...

[EllieBelly]

Sometimes the exp is so slow and boring in a duo that we'd rather just sit in town. Especially with a summoner, I know I've tried it. It's only fun in that situation if it's a good friend (<3 Emina, 76 arcana lord)

[Danielle]

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Dunno how it is for elven elders but as for my bishop, at 65th, whenever i decide to group i have one in the following 60 seconds... Thanks to my clan and friends that liked my style. If only I had more fun healing I'ld level muuch faster...

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There's that clan and friend thing again lol. I've been playing EE recently also, and I will say from experience it is infinitely easier to find parties as SE than EE or prophet. As was noted in this thread already, clans and friends will be the exception.

[Mortova]

Im on Teon and my main is an EE, and ive only ever seen people yell for an EE twice in TWO YEARS, thats how much people prefer SE's over me. Groups do normally take me after a while when they realise there are no SE's around so they think "what the heck, ill ditch him when an SE is here". So i end up getting used and abused :mad:

When i made 52, i went to Apostate, and parties were asking for and i QUOTE! "GLF SE or PP" I told them i was an EE and they said "I'd rather have a level 30 SO with vamp rage 1 then an EE". I also see Bishops struggle to get groups sometimes, but they are more accepted. Only thing people like ME for is Resist Shock....

People are so ignorant these days, i wish vamperic rage was never made, it ruined the Bishop / EE classes.

/sigh

[Lothlian]

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Polearm AoE with an EE? Not a chance. If you dont have VR, I dont even think about doing AoE.

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Did you not read my post? If you did then maybe it was to complicated for you to understand. As I stated previously, I have a friend that does this on a daily basis. He is lvl 7x and his EE is 7x. It works very well. If you have to have VR to survive your pulls then maybe you shouldn't bite off more then you can chew. kk thx and have a good day :)

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Why would anybody duo with a EE, especially two box? They have nothing to offer to anybody... :rolls eyes:

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People are so ignorant these days, i wish vamperic rage was never made, it ruined the Bishop / EE classes.

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Even if VR were removed, EE would still be broken, as they have no offensive buffs, which are 100% more important than defensive, espeicially with the limited buff slots for melee.