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Training Guide (1-250)

YonaxYonax
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edited August 2018 in Game Guides
On the old forum I had a training guide, which I like to continue here. Feel free to post any suggestions, I always look to update it and make it better!



In the video you can see all the mainspots and how to get there and a couple of alternative spots, for more funded players. All other alternatives can be found below, in case a map is taken or you just wanna switch training location to keep it from getting dull.

Training Spots
These are the recommended maps for low to mid level funding. If you are funded using starforce (SF) maps is highly recommended (list below)!.

► Flaming Golems - Golem Temple 3 (10-20)
► Curse Eye - Green Tree Trunk (20-30)
► Coconut Slime - Beachgrass Dunes 1 (25-45)
► Wraiths - (40-50)
► Wild Boars - Wild Boar Land (45-52)
► Mummydogs (52-56)
► Copper Drake - Silent Swamp (56-71)
► El Nath: White Fang (71-78)
► Sandrats & Scorpions - Sahel 2 (78-100)
► BOSS: ** Zakum ** (100-150, kill arms first, 2x a day)
► ** Monster Park ** (100+) 2x per day
► West Leafre Forest (100-106)
► Robo's - Apparatus Room (106-120)
► Moon Bunnies - Black Mountain Entrance (120-140)
► Yellow King Goblin - Goblin House (135-145)
► Leafre: Hidden Street - The Hidden Dragon Tomb II (132-145)
► Kerning Tower (145-160) - Quests are very nice exp
► Temple of time (140-160) - Required for 5th job prequest, by lack of better training spots
► BOSS: ** Horntail ** (150-180, depending on your damage either normal or chaos ht, be carefull for 1/1 and seduce)
► Mutant Snail - Henesys Ruin Market (160-167)
► Advanced Knight A - Knight Chamber 1 (167-180)
► Swollen Stump - Desolate HIlls (180-185)
► Sinister Steel Mask - Forsaken Excavation Site 2 (186-200)
► Chaseroid - Scrapyard Hill 5 (200-210)
► Arcane River (200-210)
- Sad Erdas (30 AF)
- Blazing Erdas (40 AF)
- Tranquil Erdas (60 AF)
► Chew Chew Island (210-220)
- Slurpy Forrest (100 AF)
- River map 3 (130 AF)
- Whale map (160 AF)
► Lacheln (220-225)
- Chicken Farm 2 (210 AF)
- Revelation Place 3 (210 AF)
- Clocktower 1 (240 AF)
► Arcana (225-250)
- Cavern Lower Path (360 AF)
► Moreas (230-250)
► Esfera (235-250)

Starforce maps (if you're well funded these maps train faster):
► Death Teddy - Forgotten Path of Time 3 (109-131) 26*
► Lion Kings Castle - 50*
► Dark Wyvern - Black Wyvern's nest (131-143) 65*
► Skelegon - The Dragon Nest, LB1 (143-150) 70*
► Kerning Tower - Floor 4 (145-160) 80*
► Oblivion Monk - Detour to Oblivion 1-4 (150-165) 90* (requires ToT quest done or hyper rock)
► Official Knight D&E - Drill Hall 1,2 (166-184) 120*
► Omega Sector - Corridor H01 (160-200) 140*

Other alternatives:
► Blue Mushmom (15-25)
► Golden beach: Rough waves (40-50)
► Golden beach quests (35+)
► Ellinel Fairy Academy (30-40) Theme Dungeon
► Kerning Swamp area (45-55)
► Riena strait (50-60)
► Orbis Gardens (60-80)
► Magathia: Lab area B3 – Iron Mutae (81-100)
► Magathia: Lab area C2 – Roids (85-105)
► Mushroom Kingdom (60-70) - Theme Dungeon
► Tangyoon PQ (PQ, 60-80)
► Romeo & Julliet PQ (PQ, 70-120)
► Ludibrium: Toy Trojans (103-123)
► Mu Lung: Practice Field: Beginner - Straw Target Dummy (116-136)
► Leafre: Dragon Forest 1 - Blue Dragon Turtles (117-137)
► Herb town: Pirate Den 3 – Captain and Kru (121-140)
► Dimension Invasion (140+) 5x * Mobs can be max level 180
► Evolution Chamber, EVO (125-170) 3x 15min * Mobs can be max level 160
► Zipangu: Armory – Bains (120-140) 55*
► Armory 1 (164- 184) 120*
► Forest Excavation Site 4 (186-200)
► Kritias - Corrupted Magician - Corrupted Magic Forest 2 (200-210)
► Reparoid & Salvoroid - Black Heaven Deck 1 (210-220)
► Megaroid & Xenaroid - Black Heaven Maze 5/7 (220-250)
► Upper Left/Right Stem (218-240)

Bosses:
These are all bosses you can do on a daily base, weekly bosses can give good Exp as well but are excluded from the list.

► Orange/Blue Mushmom (10-30) (Map boss)
► Easy zakum 2x (50+) **
► Zakum 2x (90-150), try to kill Arms for extra exp **
► Hilla 2x (120+)
► Ranmaru 2x (120+)
► Von Leon (130+)
► Hard Von Leon
► Horntail 2x (150-200, you can enter at 135)
► Krexel (140+)
► Bodyguard (The Boss) (160+)
► Commerci voyages (160+)
► Pink Bean (160+)
► Madman Ranmaru (180+)

** Shares entry counter

You can gain additional exp in the following ways:
► Bishop: Holy Symbol (Phantom, shorter duration or Beast Tamer) or Decent HS from node (200+)
► Kanna: Kishin (increased spawn rate, amount of mobs)
► Mercedes: Link Skill 10/15/20% exp
► Evan: Link Skill 30/50/70% rune duration
► Aran: Link Skill combo orb exp
► Zero: Character Card 6/8/10% exp
► 2x EXP coupon Cash Shop
► 2x Exp Event
► MVP Gold or DIamond Map buff 2x
► 1.5x/ 2x EXP coupon USE or Winter 1.5x / Legion Potion 2x
► EXP coupon ETC
► Gold MPE potion 10% exp
► EXP poition 10% exp

Pollo/Inferno Wolf - Spawn frequently in maps and give really nice exp!

https://orangemushroom.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/exp-rate.png?w=600

Please leave a reply to this topic if you have any information, which can help to improve the training guide for you all!
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  • MageOfBattlesMageOfBattles
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    edited September 2016
    Just as a tip, the top of the Dark World Tree mobs give me about as much exp as repairoids.
    Yonax
  • YonaxYonax
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    edited September 2016
    MageOfBattles
    MageOfBattles said:

    Just as a tip, the top of the Dark World Tree mobs give me about as much exp as repairoids.
    Thank you for your tip!

    I will take a look in to the Damien maps next week, when it's available for me to test it's exp out..
  • hongfunghongfung
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    edited September 2016
    I haven't been on in a while, but I know bosses like Zakum (at level 100+), Hilla (120+), Horntail (bout 130+), Pink Bean (160+) and Empress (170+) were good sources of exp. I know Zakum got changed so I'm not sure if his clear time or exp rates are the same.
    Yonax
  • KingofFurriesKingofFurries
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    edited September 2016
    Here's personally where i train my characters:
    1-10 job stuff
    10-25 blue mushmom (you want to try to get all 20 channels)
    25-30 coconut monsters in gold beach
    30-45 purple clam slimes in gold beach
    45-80 drakes in sleepywood
    80-100 sand rats and scorpions in ariant
    100-130 robots in ludibrium (i like the map all the way to the right, it has a big spawn and its all close together)
    I haven't really figured out what's the best past 130 yet, most of my characters i either stopped at 120 or my main i got to 210 a few years ago when stuff was different.
  • YonaxYonax
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    edited September 2016
    @Hongfung - Added seperate section for bosses

    @YiffyFurry - You're maps are already listed, added blue mushmom as alternative.
  • Warlocked200Warlocked200
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    edited September 2016
    There's a typo in your alternatives at the 30-40 range.
    It should be Ellinel Fairy Academy instead of Ellin Forest, which is what I use to get from 95 to 100 on most of my characters.
    YonaxReigningDemon
  • GummimonGummimon
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    edited September 2016
    Orbis Gardens are a nice alternative to drakes, the ones with all 3 of the Grupins, Lioners, and Cellions.

    Also, simple recommendation to get the most out of your Zakum run. Try and grab a rune before hand, and then quickly clear it (the main part to get the exp is destroying the arms, which I think most people are capable of doing solo).
    Yonax
  • bumbertyrbumbertyr
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    edited September 2016
    i haven't personally tested it, but the broken bridge in zipangu seems like it'd be a good place to level up.
  • YonaxYonax
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    edited September 2016
    bumbertyr
    bumbertyr said:

    i haven't personally tested it, but the broken bridge in zipangu seems like it'd be a good place to level up.
    I'm not a fan of any Zipangu maps, most of them have really bad spawn and the one map with actual decent spawn has plenty of others maps which are much faster to level.
  • SqampSqamp
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    edited September 2016
    Thank you! I've been looking for one of these!
    Yonax
  • SkyTheDestroyerSkyTheDestroyer
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    edited September 2016
    Monster Park Extreme is listed in there, but it's closed now.
  • YonaxYonax
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    edited September 2016
    SkyTheDestroyer
    SkyTheDestroyer said:

    Monster Park Extreme is listed in there, but it's closed now.
    It's still working in EMS and Mpsea, so therefore relevant.

  • AggraphineAggraphine
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    edited September 2016
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    YiffyFurry said:

    Here's personally where i train my characters:
    1-10 job stuff
    10-25 blue mushmom (you want to try to get all 20 channels)
    25-30 coconut monsters in gold beach
    30-45 purple clam slimes in gold beach
    45-80 drakes in sleepywood
    80-100 sand rats and scorpions in ariant
    100-130 robots in ludibrium (i like the map all the way to the right, it has a big spawn and its all close together)
    I haven't really figured out what's the best past 130 yet, most of my characters i either stopped at 120 or my main i got to 210 a few years ago when stuff was different.
    What you can do at 130 is go to Korean Folk Town and do all of the signpost quests. They give a buttload of exp and some mesos. There's one for Moon Bunnies, one for the Axe Stumps if you take the top right portal in the Moon Bunny map. There's one for the two different tiger dudes there(Don't remember names lol), one for Blinns(but this one is a pain in the arse, cause it only counts them when they're the rock-block dudes and not the little blue flame guys) and finally one for the three different colors of goblins.

    Once you get through that, you can grind on Moon Bunnies for a while cause that exp is pretty hella. Past that you can go to Shanghai and grind on the Poison Jiangshi til 150 or 160 or so. Past that, I really don't know, because 160 is usually where I start leveling purely from doing daily bosses lol
  • ZephyrusSpringZephyrusSpring
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    edited September 2016
    Commerci solo voyages give good exp up to level 190ish. It's a great half hour break from grinding at future ereve.
    Yonax
  • KerqxonKerqxon
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    edited September 2016
    Normal Zakum gives around 8mil a kill(its really easy to kill). Normal Horntail gives around 80mil(just watch out for 1/1 and seduce and you'll be fine) and Pink bean gives 90mil itself 3mil per statue on normal mode(does have Damage reflect so watch out) also Horntail gives a -1% exp per death unless you got a charm. I think Chaos Pink bean gives more and so does Chaos Horntail(if you have the range to KILL THEM.)
  • YonaxYonax
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    edited September 2016
    ZephyrusSpring
    ZephyrusSpring said:

    Commerci solo voyages give good exp up to level 190ish. It's a great half hour break from grinding at future ereve.
    It's definetely not the most efficient way of training, but it can be a nice break and still give a nice amount of exp. Will add it as alternative for 160+

  • KerqxonKerqxon
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    edited September 2016
    Well monster party is a good place for players 105 to 160 to due the high exp reward(you also get free 2 time exp coupons on 1 of the days)
    it's exp depends on the dungeon . it ranges from 1.5mil to 30mil a run. but you got only 10 minutes to clear it.
    and you can only do it twice a day unless you buy tickets( you get alot of free ones in the RP shop).
  • YonaxYonax
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    edited September 2016
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    Xerna said:

    Well monster party is a good place for players 105 to 160 to due the high exp reward(you also get free 2 time exp coupons on 1 of the days)
    it's exp depends on the dungeon . it ranges from 1.5mil to 30mil a run. but you got only 10 minutes to clear it.
    In EMS we still got the old MP for now, will test the new one as soon we get migration.
  • KerqxonKerqxon
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    edited September 2016
    Your from EMS? yes it got a massive revamp.
  • YonaxYonax
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    edited September 2016
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    Xerna said:

    Your from EMS? yes it got a massive revamp.
    I know it changed, I keep up to date with changes in the game. But it takes awhile before I see them in my server unfortuanately :-(
    Kerqxon