DN 1-24 Guide

[BobYoMeowMeow]

Level 1-12: Do the main storyline using your empowerment stones. Skip the side quests. Do the dungeons on normal mode to reduce stones and time spent. Takes 1-2 hours.

Level 12-14. Now you do side quests. The most grindy part of open beta. Also do commission board quests.

lvl 14-16 Job advancement gives 85k exp. which is 45% of 15 which will help you a lot. Do temple of sleepers commisions until the masters one that is repeatable.

16 to 18: Do main storyline quest. If you use stones, then you'll definitely reach 18. Do it on normal mode to reduce stones and time spent. It'll take about 1-2 hours.

18 to 24: Do Astral Coven Labratory commisions until you reach the masters commision. This is repeatable which will jump you easily to 24. Party on masters until you can solo spider masters in 3-4 minutes. Eles should be able to solo within 2:50 to 3:40ish. Mystiqs in 2:40 or lower.

optional 22-24: Sanctuary Nexus commisions will give a lot of exp and good drops.

Good luck
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[Science]

Finishing all those quests is so hard to do in such little time @.@

And imo, 14~16 is biggest grind. No quests at all really.

Aaaaand, SM's can solo Astral masters in 2:40 and less starting at Lv21, 2:20 at Lv23. OP class makes OP grind 9000x more OP.

[Sleeperdial]

The funny thing is since this is OB I see people gloating about all their level 24 players. I'm like lol 24 isn't that hard. I guess this just proves that people will brag even if they have nothing to brag about.

[Gintoki]

At lvl 5 you might want 2 get +6 - +8 gear so u can breeze through all the low lvl dungeons.
Saves ALOT of time since you 1hko everything.

Quality of the gear doesn't matter till lvl 15+ish. You can go with white/green from lvl 5-10, but i highly recommend that you pick up greens at 15.
At lvl 16 you might want to attempt to get a +8 rare weapon/sub weapon but i don't recommend getting lvl 16 rare armor cuz upgrading them is a waste of crude onyx.

At lvl 23 switch over to +8 or higher greens and hunt for lvl 24 gear when you need them.

[Conor]

c00l.
This halps hehe

[Joker]

i reccomend... not doing any major spending on equipment ... till after official release as most ppl will speed ahead of you and drop their once uber stuff in the market for cheaper then its worth due to overflooding of the same items..
all dem pro...people that wont stop playing... mang....~looks at gintoki~ ~trollface~ :3 <3 u trolololol

also ... as much as i know servers crashed on argenta..

[qaccy]

Um...levelling ain't that hard.

Experience:
-Make sure that you're never inside a dungeon without at least one quest for it.
-Run dungeons on normal to conserve PWR for quest hand-ins (PWR boosts quest rewards as well). Once you run out, bump it up to Master for the increased exp.
-Commissions are great. Don't forget to pick one up every time you dive into a dungeon.

Equipment:
-Enhance your armor to at least +6 for the HP/MP, weapon/offhand try to get +8 or better.
-Don't bother with the level 16 stuff, despite the increase in quality it's hardly better than level 15 greens and definitely not worth the enhancement costs.
-Don't forget to spark! Weapons, offhands, and rings can all get +damage (get whichever one your class uses); other slots can get the four core stats so go with whichever one helps your class most. Since spark drops can be kinda random, I recommend waiting until at least level 15 before really starting to use them.

This is what I did for my cleric, and I breezed through to 24 fairly easily. The toughest part was just at the end, where I ran out of quests (excluding commissions) about halfway through 23. All solo, btw. So, yeah...not too hard to level, just keep your gear upgraded so you don't suck.

[MrMs]

Nice guide