Sever slow down around level 100?

[wulfster42]

Hi, I'm new to the game, things were going ok for the first few days. I started late enough last week to not be able to get most of the weekly quests (just got the non-boss weekly quest). This week I'll be able to get them all, but I won't get the last few for like 3 more days.

Thing is, initially I was going up quite a few levels a day. I've been playing pretty much all day while watching tv shows, but today I literally went from level 95 to level 101 total.

I used meteorites to max out the firestone % (it's at 7% now), got some attack etc, and am working at unlocking tier 2 equipment on my characters (have unlocked it on 2 of them, but have not gotten any tier 2 equipment yet sadly).

I have focused most of my training on make it rain and am getting close to maxing it already.

But basically I'm not moving forward hardly at all even with waiting till I have at least 2x as many firestones (not double, but 3x base) before resetting.

This last time I reset after finally beating level 100.......which was very anti-climatic Imight say. It was a hard boss (couldn't even hurt him at first). I reset to have 3x the firestones I had (I used speed scroll + damage scroll + 60 minutes of gold right before for a huge boost). I got back up to 101 and that is still the last stage for me to kill consistantly with. The boosts from having more gold are not helping enough to make me get much further.

Is it going to be basically 1-2 levels higher per day? The next character isn't till level 200...that would take FOREVER at this rate. I am almost 30 so I'll get the merchant thing soon at least, but I'm really bummed I didn't get squat for reaching level 100 *sigh*

Am I doing something wrong? Missing something? I do all the quests, havn't missed one. I don't seem to have any luck on the random chests from them (I just get normal ones). I only get the rare ones from completing weekly quests pretty much.

I do have a few uncommon and rare tier 1 pieces of eq, but, I don't have the power level yet to get tier 2 opened on my other 2 characters (till I get better eq for them).

Seem to be hitting a serious wall here....any advice?

[elitenoob]

Focus on attack items (wrists and relic) Most important are the rings for gold find so enchant them first. You need to unlock t2 and t3 on every hero asap. Sometimes you get a huge jump and you are able to go much further than 1-2 lvl

[wulfster42]

Thanks, yeah sadly I have unlocked 2 heros tier 2 slots, but have not gotten a tier 2 item yet from any chest:(

I keep 3 normal chests as backup to make sure I have enough to do each days missions, but other then that have used them all. I don't get many that are not just common though, and those so far have not given me any tier 2 items (and pretty much almost never anything above uncommon at that.)

Hopefully when I get the weekly chests in a few days (which have a higher rarity) i'll get at lest 1 tier 2 item...so I can actually boost one of them. I have not used any of the crystals to boost any of the equipment so far because it would only affect one character.

I still ended up around the same level (I was able to fight at 101 fairly well, with my last run...but I just keep hitting a same wall right around then. I guess enough times resetting will eventually break it, but if something doesn't change soon, it's going to keep getting slower and slower for me to advance...and take like forever to get a new character:(

[wulfster42]

Well, I found a way to speed it up a tiny bit. I upgraded the weapon slots for my 4 characters 1 level (doubling the bonus), it cost 30 void crystals each (120 total), and some of that may be a waste later on if I don't use these characters, but i figure I'll end up with alot of void crystals from duplicates anyway.....and for right now it effectively doubles the damage done by them all (outside of the other bonuses).

I'm also getting my last make it rain firestone training right now to 25, and will go back and boost the offensive one at the start (left it at 5), which will happen much faster and I should double the bonus from that pretty fast as well (effectively giving me 4x the damage as before outside of the normal bonuses).

That hopefully will get me moving up again fairly well. I have all the tier 2 slots opened except for the dude with the shield (he's at 1300 power out of 1400 needed....due to having just common items in each slot and the sword slot upgraded once).

I am considering using my meteorites to upgrade things on that tree, perhaps working towards the make it rain skill (already have the firestone one maxed). It requires 2 more armor and 3 of the lower gold cost to advance characters first, which will use up all my meteorites...but I only really need enough to unlock 1 more characters tier 2...and it'll be awhile till I can start on tier 3 (their power is too low).

If I do that, perhaps that will push me towards advancing more per day. I have gone up to level 110 though today (used 3 1 hour gold carts (with speed + power scroll), to help me along.

I'm out of gold cart thingies, and sold a bunch to the merchant (mostly totems etc), to get the level 1 make it rain from him. I'm heading towards 32 quickly....and then I hopefully will have enough/be able to get enough to get tier 2 of make it rain and tier 1 of attritubtes at the same time.

Still seems slow....even with everything I did today, I really only seemed to jump about 5 levels total...but maybe these last changes (just made them) will boost that.

[Zothos]

upgrade your item slots to lev 3 as fast as possible. I had the same issues with lev 100 but after i get the items for the slots it goes much better.

[mikeydsc]

Its not how much money you can generate, its about making money but still adding into the skill trees.

1 - Get the firestone, raining gold, and skipping waves upgrades.

2 - Every 3rd research or skill upgrade you always need to get 1 att or defense upgrade because as you race up in levels the gaps become obvious. Those creeps keep growing exponentially and money will not make that go away. You need to keep adding attack and defense as well.

3 - The above advice does help (about opening up gear slots) but I found that getting the meteor gathering skill maxxed, it really speeds up the meteor research trees. It also speeds up gathering to open up all the gear tiers too.

[wulfster42]

Ahh, ok, I will start working on the meteor gathering skills. I did get 1 normal wrist and 1 armor tier 2 equipment now at least, it helped a bit!! I'm working on attack mainly right now in the tree...but I am going to start working on armor as well soon.

[wulfster42]

Wow just logged in and got super lucky!! Got a random blue chest from the quest, then got an epic sword for borris (shield guy), which made him able to open up his tier 2 finally (they are all open) he is just 1 eq upgrade away from tier 3 even!!!.

Also got a purple upgrade for the armor tier 2 item which boosts armor.

But that's not all. I had enough for the tavern and ALSO got a borris enhancement there, along with the spell caster chick and a spell user upgrade card.

So that is going to help big time!!!

I was running with Borris as my leader before, but now I switched it to the archer dude, because he is the lowest damage now. Makes them all be able to one shot higher stuff evenly.

Bet I'll get alot farther after those upgrades though!!!