Shadow Missions vs. Hard Mode Dungeons for Exp.

• Flonne wrote on 2010-06-05 16:34
  I'd say the wiz int solo is only good if you have an almost lagless connection+ very good pet control. Otherwise, you might feel frustrated with wizards or archers juggling you in a corner with their ranged skills.
  
  Stones of Sliab is only worth it if you have a good duo lvling partner willing to take a seperete route and meet at golem. I can solo this but the golem at the end takes a bit too much time even if I have enough crit to critical it 30% of the time.
  
  With that said, most of the time I'm restricted to soloing Shadow Warrior Hard. Maybe moving to Tara if the zombie mission is more efficient in kill speed/exp/risk.
  
  Sometimes, there's a organized group run for Shadow Wiz adv/hard that can complete the whole sms in 20-30ish mins and I join them when I get bored of soloing.
• Phanterz wrote on 2010-06-05 17:36

  Quote from Fumy;55144:

  350k exp in 30 minutes is pretty slow o.o With a good lvling partner you should be able to do Stones of Sliab hard in 4-5 minutes and thats like 100k exp each run if you get the golem finish = 500-600k exp in 30 minutes and its much easier :O

  
  
  But, that means your cheating your partner out of golem's EXP. Eventually he/she will be the one getting it.
  In SoS hard with 2 people, each person gets 75k-80k exp, in about 5 minutes. But it's 1 minute to travel to get the mission, and occassionally you have to restock or put money in the bank or repair or whatever. Soloing is probably better.
  
  Also, shadow wiz is pretty pot consuming.
  
  I would say getting 7 RELIABLE partymembers to raid different levels of Shadow wizard is easy and lazy exp and money, and relatively fast, but not the fastest. I guess it's hard to set up though.
• Yogurticecream wrote on 2010-06-05 18:23
  Are you kidding? 350k exp for 30 minutes is really a lot.
  
  70k mission + 50k zombie exp for Hard Mode zombie (Their way) mission. It used to be better before the nerf (it was x2 of the current rates). Zombie is extremely safe, but boring. I only grind for that spare bit of AP there if there are no parties available to join into.
  
  Lifting the City's Shadows is easily one of the fastest for party exp. 65k mission exp Hard Mode wise, however, the Doppelganger gives 14k exp per party member assuming that you have the full 3-person party. Another 4k from shadow ghost and estimate of 15-18k exp from the regular mobs. You can complete this in 8-13 minutes as well with a good party. That's about 98k per run for 3 people, which I think is decent. If you do it solo or with 2 people, I think you'll have a lot more exp. However, I think it's efficient only with 3 people.
  
  For Tara castle missions, Fomor Raid is extremely popular now. You definitely can earn from this mission (21000g and 155000 mission exp per successful run), however, it takes about 30-40 minutes for this mission and I hate the glowing statues. This mission is really pot-consuming as well, but you should be able to afford pot costs.
• Archibald wrote on 2010-06-05 21:17

  Quote from Yogurticecream;55241:

  
  
  For Tara castle missions, Fomor Raid is extremely popular now. You definitely can earn from this mission (21000g and 155000 mission exp per successful run), however, it takes about 30-40 minutes for this mission and I hate the glowing statues. This mission is really pot-consuming as well, but you should be able to afford pot costs.

  
  
  I like the sound of that one. I'll have to look into soloing that. Or duo.
• Osayidan wrote on 2010-06-05 21:36
  I did a bunch of shadow warrior ones and find it a bit slow. If it didn't take so long to get to all the orbs it would be awesome. I haven't tried those berry things yet though, is that how people spam the mission so quickly?
• Zatrox wrote on 2010-06-05 22:22

  Quote from Osayidan;55331:

  I did a bunch of shadow warrior ones and find it a bit slow. If it didn't take so long to get to all the orbs it would be awesome. I haven't tried those berry things yet though, is that how people spam the mission so quickly?

  
  
  There is a modified SM map that shows all possible orb locations.
  
  Or:
  http://mabination.com/mabinogi/guides/641-guide-taillteann-shadow-missions.html
• Trigger wrote on 2010-06-06 02:03
  Nobody needs Arat Berries when there's modded minimaps. =P
• Yogurticecream wrote on 2010-06-06 06:38

  Quote from Archibald;55315:

  I like the sound of that one. I'll have to look into soloing that. Or duo.

  
  DK and pot poisoning playstyle is excellent for soloing that one.
  And I think that's kind of broken. I wish they did more to encourage party play.
  
  Magic is a bit too slow, you might get killed by the statues due to lack of speed, unless you can tank it well.
• Juno wrote on 2010-06-06 06:59

  Quote from Osayidan;55331:

  I did a bunch of shadow warrior ones and find it a bit slow. If it didn't take so long to get to all the orbs it would be awesome. I haven't tried those berry things yet though, is that how people spam the mission so quickly?

  
  
  By this point I've memorized every possible orb location. Shadow warrior takes me ~5 minutes to complete.
  
  I don't really like stones because the mobs have obscene protection, or at least the boars. Mixed spawns are always fun too. I'll go with a partner, but I prefer just about anything else for solo.
• Archibald wrote on 2010-06-06 19:50

  Quote from Yogurticecream;55692:

  DK and pot poisoning playstyle is excellent for soloing that one.
  And I think that's kind of broken. I wish they did more to encourage party play.
  
  Magic is a bit too slow, you might get killed by the statues due to lack of speed, unless you can tank it well.

  
  
  Well if you read my mana master guide you'd know...I'm a hardcore tank x 10