Strategy Guides/Tiny Guide to Powerleveling

So you've started a new character and your options are wide open as to what build you want.

This tiny guide will help you make those crucial early decisions and will enable you to put off your long-term goals while you build a hybrid that competes well in all areas. There are certainly other ways to build your character, but this early mini-powerlevel build gives you the opportunity to choose your direction and gives you a good start in all aspects of the game early on. In addition, with the addition of Solara and 900 energy, you will have a good amount of stamina each time you level up for stamina-intensive activity!

Step 1: Go straight to 900 energy. Do not add to anything else, do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars. i. This baseline of energy is your powerleveling stage. With vast amounts of energy the earliest you can get it, you can powerquest, gaining more skillpoints and leveling yourself up as fast as possible early. Later on, your base of 900 energy helps in the same way, and gives you the added benefit of being useful against monsters as a forifier. With one simple trick, you can fortify to farm loot. ii. As you do quests, add the additional skillpoints into energy. This is a baseline rule, that if you have a goal in a stat to reach always add bonus skill points you gain from achievements and PvP/monsterhunting into that goal stat. The earlier you arrive at a goal the earlier you can start on the next goal. iii. Do Land of Fire until you get the Gildamesh Orb from Heart of Fire quest. a. Completing Land of Fire opens up all the subquests in Land of Fire. This is important, as all the subquests are low energy high skillpoint yield quests. b. Do all the subquests. c. Pray to each demigod to open up the first demiquest. Eg. 200 demipoints in Malekus for the Return of the Dragon demiquest. Demiquests are also low energy high skill point yielding quests, and completing one demiquest opens up 2 subquests each. d. You will attain the complete 5 quests to level 4 achievement. iv. Continue with Land of Earth, completing it to obtain the Colossus Orb and opening up Earth subquests. a. Pray to each demigod to 500 demipoints each. This nets you 10 favor points. b. Doing Land of Earth quests to Vesuv Lookout gives you the do 25 quests/level 4 achievement for another 10 favor points. v. Spend your stamina on PvP. a. Do the training with Celesta first. You get +1 attack for duel and +1 invade for invasion. You get 30 xp for completing each training program. If you remember this early you can level up faster. b. If you concentrate on PvP early your opponents won't have any att/def either. c. Your goal in PvP is 100 duel wins, 100 invasion wins, 10 straight duel wins and 10 straight losses. You will gain some potions, skillpoints and favor points. d. As you duel and invade you will get training bonuses. Level up duel skill to 5 and invasion skill to 5. You will have 6 att/6 defense for free. e. Your goals are also to gain early ranks in PvP. If you can get to Rank 5 that's 20 skillpoints! Avoid the temptation to add to stamina but praying to Azeron will give you a few stamina to play with. f. Try to enter the Festival Duel Champion early, after getting attack to 6. You have 4 goals in FDC at this stage, level 1,2,3, and 4. Go as far as you can for ranks, as you get something for each rank. vi. At each breakpoint do a festival feat for free energy increases. If you are buildig your army at the same time do the army feats as well for extra skillpoints. a. 50,100,150,200,275,375,510,725 are your breakpoints for energy feat. b. 50,100,200,400,600,800,1000,1200 are your breakpoints for army feat. vii. As you level up and build your army you need at least 40 army at level 30 to gain all the reinforcement equipment. This stuff will help you early so put this as one of your goals. viii.Here are your expected stats after reaching energy 900. attack 11 defense 11 energy 900 stamina 15 health 105 level 100 favor points 45 demipoints 550 each ambrosia, malekus, corvintheus, aurora, azeron PvP rank 5 FDC rank 2 ix. You can attack some monsters but you won't get much loot. You can spend some energy to fortify serpents and such to collect atlantis maps early, but it's not a requirement as yet. Step 2: Stamina to 100. i. Again, do not add to anything else but stamina. In addition, pray only to Azeron. ii. As you get more and more stamina your horizons open. You can PvP, Festival Duel, Monster Hunt, or WAR! iii. Not mentioned before but you should still advance in questing by completing the land quests then doing the subquests. Your goal is to do 50 quests to level 4 for the achievement. iv. You haven't spent any favor points but you should now think about building your WAR council of generals. Buy all the free generals, acquire Sephora, Valiant, Celesta, and Kilgore. a. Buy Maalvus.- he will be your main monster hunting general b. Buy Solara - she gives you extra stamina on level up if you've achieved your questing goals early. +90 stamina! v. Your goals for this step are: attack 11 defense 11 energy 900 stamina 100 health 105 level 110 favor points 0 demipoints 575/575/575/575/1500 PvP rank 8 FDC rank 3 WAR rank 2 vi. Start experimenting attacking monsters until you feel you are comfortable with it. Loot not so important in this step, you will get more later. You have reinforcement loot still for now. Step 3: Attack to 350. Defense to 100. Stamina to 150. i. You can start splitting up your skill point allocation to these three stats. Maybe 3 attack, 2 defense one level then 3 attack 1 stamina the next level. ii. Once you get the 50 quests at level 4 achievement you can start trying to complete lands for the summoning orbs rather than completing subquests. This is because you'll want to get Kiera as a general and need her orb. iii. A balanced approach to PvP and monster hunting has the effect of adding to your skillpoints and loot for WAR for invasions/duelling/and more WAR. iv. Read my Tiny Guide to Newbie WAR -- http://www.castleageforums.com/cforum/showthread.php?t=57229&highlight=tiny+guide v. An option is to level up with attack/defense and pray to azeron for stamina vi. Keep an eye out for PvP ranks, WAR ranks, FDC ranks, Arenas and increase those when you have the opportunity. vii. Go for generals like Kiera, Vincent (join a guild), Nautica (hunt serpents), Medius (hunt ragnarok/genesis), Leon Ironhart (hunt dark legion), etc to build your WAR council viii.Achievements for monsters open up for you with enough stamina. These gain you skillpoints and favor points. ix. Spend favor points only on oracle generals for now. A good third choice is Scarlett or Dolomar.

Step 4 and beyond: You now have a build that you can direct to any other type of build you want, be it slayer, monsterhunter, power leveller, glass cannon, wall, or whatnot.