there are several 'optimized leveling' threads on the motherboards

Very easy is invis running 2/day Shadow of a Doubt and Missing.
Caravans and rats in Orchard is always a good option. Desecrated Temple of Vol. Elite GH saga.
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noamineo wrote on Feb 20^th, 2015 at 2:51pm:


Adventure Compendium, descending sort by level, run once on heroic elite in order.  Only bank levels if you’re not done with a level of quests.  You can even hold onto the Three Barrel Cove and Gianthold saga rewards for later if you want.  You can skip the raids, but I’m sure you can at least duo most of them at level.

(I guess what I’m saying is: With the reduction in the heroic TR XP table and all the newer quests, leveling isn’t hard.  So, you might as well max out those favor rewards.)

Also, if you do all the stuff in order, you can ride the heroic elite streak into level 23.

noamineo wrote on Feb 20^th, 2015 at 2:51pm:


yes, even made a script to run a few of them... Let my script for 100 favor dash spamming loose a few years back, though hvnt updated it with my new-found skills (thanks to fr8o).

For a rough sketch of what i ran a with during my last play spree:

All of Korthos Town quests x1 on elite, Run the Inn on Elite, hard, and normal x1 each.

All of Korthos Wild quests x1 on elite for the favor mostly, though all of them bring you to level 3 (with a large heroic tome)

All Harbor quests, regardless of the quest level, x1. This will give you your first inv tab. At this point, you should be nearing lvl 6, I would run Waterworks until you reach level 8 (might go over 8.. thats fine). 3 run throughs on Elite, and then 1 run each on hard and normal.

From here, Run through Catacombs once on elite, full chain. Should net you a little over lvl 9.

Head to Necro 1, full chain, Ignoring crypt (for now)

Run Necro 2 flags, Due to the high xp from Shadow Knight (All the traps first time should give ~9k xp on elite), Id advise soloing this (if a trapper) a few times, doing just traps, without completing the mission. Once done with the flags of necro 2, run necro 1 crypt 5-8 times on Elite, then hard and normal, followed by Necro 2 crypt 5-8 times elite, then hard/normal. Should be pushing 13 at this point

From here, i typically head to Gianthold, gather all explores and 400 of each zone kills (with a major slayer, only need to kill 100ish mobs of each faction, can be done in less than an hour and nets way more xp than if you were to quest during that same hour). If your running a 50%, should be nearing 15. Run all walk ups once (Due to the changes, Cabal is now lvl 14, so runable at 16.. Technically only 5 "Walk ups" now. Run them all once), at 16, do Cabal Elite, Crucible/Pop/Madstone Elite x3 (if you desire, the xp is worth it, but not needed). and then Hard/Norm. Follow up with Gianthold Tor elite for saga, save it though.. you shouldnt needed to use the xp from it.. But if your desperate, use it. Pushing middle of 17 at this point.

From here, its users choice.. Personally i head to Necro 3 for the favor and run all 5 elite once, which puts you in range of 18. Alternatively, you could go to necro 4 for the BB streak and run them all once, then come back to 3 for the rest of the favor for silver flame potions. Either way youll be lvl 18 when your done.. Just in time to spam litany

Run litany ~10 times on Elite, If your saves suck (force maze just before dragon), run once elite, then ~13 times hard, followed by normal and casual (the only quest i ever run on casual.. 2 mins for ~20k xp.. cant beat that)

Run Vale x1 elite on all 5, Run Running with the Devils x5 on hard, then 1 on norm.

For your last bit of milking xp, run Asylum (marketplace, next to northern tavern) on elite 3 times, hard ~7 times, and then normal. (If your good with the puzzle, takes approximately 3 mins for each run

If you still need a bit more xp, run vale explorer/rare/slayer..


It would take me about 14 hours of actual game play (not sitting around bullshitting), to complete each life with the above.. I only run 50% pot once i get to gianthold, i could probably shave an hour or 2 off it..

DropBear wrote on Feb 20^th, 2015 at 10:15pm:


My days of doing 18 hour runs were all but run out last year... I managed at most 3 hours, which allowed for the ransack reset on various quests.. Though, one could reduce any that are over 3 runs on a specific difficulty and instead fit in von 1-4 around lvl 11 prior to ransacking the crypts...

But to answer your question, yes. this list was mostly from my script files, some incomplete, others outdated.

DropBear wrote on Feb 20^th, 2015 at 10:15pm:


Even at -80%, Litany is still a fair chunk of change for 5 minutes of work.

My favourite quick/easy xp quests at lvl 16+ are Sane Asylum H, Lords of Dust E, and Running with the Devils H.  Generally I'll run most of the 16-19 quests once each, then repeat those three until I cap, interspersed with Orchard and Vale slayers up to ~400 when I'm feeling like I need mindlessness.

I'm definitely not a super-fast TR guy, but I have more time to play than the average working man, so efficiency isn't at the top of my list.

noamineo wrote on Feb 20^th, 2015 at 3:10pm:


if you're TRing GH is easy mid-level xp that has another 46k xp saga reward.

GamerE wrote on Mar 18^th, 2015 at 3:42pm:


Completion times are the penis sizes of online gaming.

I'm pretty sure NOT having an achievement system was a pretty smart move on DDO's part. Do we really want to add "achievement hunters" to the list of annoying behaviors we already get?

Funny thing about DDO: completion times are like penisis, especially in the part where everyone lies about their length.

Gringo wrote on Mar 18^th, 2015 at 6:48pm:


I'm a collector.  I like things like that just for their own sake, not for a visible trophy.

The monster manuals were my favourite addition to the game, for example.

It's just giving players one more number to increase and a very important one since it would be showed to every other player.

There's no way to rank players in DDO, at least visibly. No achievements, no PvE or PvP ranks, no titles, nothing. The only numbers that could mark some sort of difference between new and old players used to be the number of reincarnations or number of alts of one person (EDIT: and favor), which is why those people usually put both things on their bios.

Epeenises just increase the longetivity of online games in general, it's pretty much a representation of the whole concept of MMORPG games imo.

there were quite a few and I personally used OR's version back in the day, but ever sense xp pen decays it has gone out the window, now its hit up the big farm spots as soon as possible and do them twice a day, even doing some 3-4 levels over can still net good xp depending on the quest.