User:Belwyvair/Guides/Leveling Guide

Remembering how to play
For the truly new or those who have taken long breaks, it can be a challenge to remember even the basics. The best resource to draw you back into the Asheron's Call experience is to hook up with an alliance that reflects your playstyle. Some like to quest, some like to PK or PKL, some like to speak french. Whatever your persuasion, you can likely find a group. If you are starting from square one, you might consider posting on the official forums to find a group. Players are very willing to assist, to the point where you may have to refuse help ("Uhhh you leeched me to 150 overnight? Can you remind me what the jump button is?"). You're next best friend is the Asheron's Call Community Wiki (yup, you're lookin' at it).

Particularly, you will find these guides helpful to new and returning players. As mentioned, other guides deal with the 1-150 experience much better than I could, so we will just point you on your way:
 * New Player Guide
 * Returning Player Guide
 * Player Guides
 * Training Hall, Facility Hub, Contracts, Portal Network

With that out of the way, I can't let you go on unless you have exposure to some basic strategies for endgame play:

Apology & Compensation Rewards
Since you've been gone, Turbine has issued a couple apologies or compensation rewards that you may be entitled to. These rewards are generally given once per character, and thus for older accounts with maxed out characters slots, they can come in quite handy. There are three things I would advise you consider doing with these rewards: 1) use them for yourself 2) trade them for MMDs or 3) work out a cross server trade with a trusted middle man (alliance monarchs and officers in well respected alliances).
 * If your character existed before May 2008 you may be entitled to a Writ of Apology by talking to a Royal Guard (one time per character). This reward is intended as compensation for problems with game stability prior to that time.
 * If your character(s) were more than 15 days old at the time of the Master of Arms patch a gift of six Imbue Swap Coins can be obtained (one time per character) from the NPC Emissary of Asheron (Weapon Imbues) at 33.6N, 56.9E in Arwic on the 2nd Floor.

The End Game Grind
If you thought XP was all you had to grind, think again. There are a number of quests to complete/repeat, items to harvest, spell components to gather, and gear to acquire to get you back up and running in Asheron's Call. Many of these are annoyingly based on TIMERS so you will want to get started ASAP in order to get the most rewards (and develop the necessary addiction). Augmentation Gems Luminance Flagging 

Flagging
You simply have no choice. Flag for:
 * Bur Flagging
 * Vissidal Flagging
 * Caul Flagging
 * Dark Isle Flagging
 * Town Founder
 * Luminance Flagging

Other things to know about
Alt currency exchangers rare exchanger component exchanger? level 8 spells

Farming

 * MMDS
 * other things

Equipping
Equipping your toon is more important than leveling. There is A LOT of gear that is essential to end-game play. Here is a list.

Standard Equipment

 * Focusing Stone
 * Splitting Tool

Standard Spells

 * War
 * Tusker Fists
 * Life
 * Curse of Raven's Fury
 * Item
 * Creature
 * Void

Quest Armor
Quest Armor:
 * Prismatic Shadow Armor
 * Greater Olthoi Armor
 * Empowered Armor of Perfect Light Sets
 * Relic Armor
 * Armor of Darkness
 * Ancient Armor
 * Noble Armor

Loot Armor
Generally, most people try to create a high AL 5/4 set armor with as many epics as possible. This section will describe what that means, and describe standard combinations and a variety of alternatives.

Quest Weapons

 * The following items are useful (mostly full sets) to any character, though aside from Soulbound weapons you will generally find better loot items.
 * Soulbound Spectral Weapons
 * Red Rune Silveran Weapons
 * Aerbax's Prodigal Olthoi
 * Shadowfire weapons
 * Ultimate Singularity Scepter of Life Magic


 * Archers
 * Composite Bow


 * Mages
 * Saulandoi/Taulandoi

Slayers
You guessed it, no choice. Attain the following slayers:
 * Undead: Search for Lunnum
 * Olthoi: Aerbax's Prodigal Olthoi and/or Gaerlan's Citadel and/or Radiant Mana Infusion Quest
 * Shadow: Shadowfire Weapons and/or Radiant Mana Infusion Quest
 * Mukkir: Mukkir Aspect of Grael Quest
 * Ghost: Spectral Weapons