I did this back in gms, but I love grinding on elder wraths while slowly killing a hh in the background. I started doing this once I got meso guard, and its funny how fast you gain exp. Gained about 5 levels in 3 hours while chatting. So Probably only 2 hours of grinding lol. I died a bunch too since I was out of practice at lvl 70 with no meso guard. Also killing a hh in a few mins while pinning them with meso bomb is hilarious.
I don't really see a chief bandit guide talking about a lot of training options, but bombing at the map Along Ulu is amazing. At lvl 97 I get about 2%* per explosion and from the mob total I get close to 8%* per mob I gather. Very high risk, and high reward sort of training. The enemies do about 900-1300 with meso guard, so be careful! They won't attack you in Dark Sight either! I'd say training here is better than elder wraiths for exp, but its very risky and costs more. At lvl 30 meso explosion I stack 750 mesos, so I don't know how about it would cost for lower levels! Hope this helps all the Chief bandits out there! Edit: Bombing Monstrecers/Plant cars is good too and for some reason typhons have like .5x the drop rate of gms. I used to train on these guys for the amazing dagger drops they had, but after killing hundreds of them. I only got 2 lvl 100 bowman gloves and rarely any feathers. So if you want great exp with no profit. Go there.
What's the percentage or XP an hour? I feel the reason why people don't go there is because Dreamy Ghosts have the superior XP and map layout for ME.
I'll test it out soon. I just found this yesterday and have been fooling around with it. I'll let you know sometime within the next 2 weeks. Also himes are still probably better.
Nice guide! It brings back memories! I just joined this server because I can no longer play Global since I live in Japan now. I really miss my Shadower and wanted to play again! And even though I went through all of this already, with all the updates over the years, I found myself at a loss of what to do all over again at the beginning! I remember I was upset with all of the Shadower revamps, taking away skills I loved (like BoT) but then we got some pretty awesome stuff too (like shadow partner... I'll miss that guy! And hyper skills). I was really excited to start this new server with memories of the past but now I think I might just get disappointed... But then there is BoT and it kinda makes me think everything will be better again. Thank you for the thorough guide! I will come back to it often!
Shadowers do fairly well in zak since they can bomb bottom arms and body. You should be able to white most people at body (Just watch out for weapon cancel and remember to keep an eye on your dark site and meso guard timer). Shadowers are generally seduce mules for pre-heads at ht so they're not doing much there. Even if you're not seduce, most shadowers don't have enough hp, even with meso guard, to bomb the head so you're limited to low dps. However, most shadowers will solo most of Head A by bombing it and then proceed to bomb Head B. How well you do at either boss is mainly determined how quickly you can drop bags. If you can drop insanely fast, you should have one of the highest dps regardless of your level. (Protip: drop $200 on a new keyboard @Whale)
Could you be more specific on your bombing training locations regarding the vague Crimson wood keep suggestion ? Id love to see you list specific maps and monsters to bomb, as I'm not very familiar with Masteria. Edit: I've heard that The evil dead is a good map.
Question : if i have 4.5k hp at 120, can i stop hp washing? i know really shad's don't have to wash, but i've invested 80 ap into int and kinda want to be strong now. is it recommended i stop?
You can stop at 4.8k ot 5k. As you say shadower don't really need washing thx to meso guard. With out washing, you can getv5k at lvl 145 ~150 but with 4.4k washin, probably you will get like... 7-8k so i recomend stop at 4.8~5k.. Ht will not kill you with one TKO
This guide is great! Very in depth! But I do have a question. Are the training locations early on still viable? I ask this because I know Bandits mostly have single target skills at low levels, and from level 30-50 it says Cave of Evil Eye, im curious if training their from 30-50 is possible/good? I mean why there? Why not teddies or something?
I've got some questions about the thread "DPS Calculator (LV200...)" Not sure about where to post it since it's specific about shadower but it's about that thread it's content ><, but anyway the question. There you said that shadowers excel at grinding but I can't really see how. Could you eleborate? And what is Mesos explosion + assisinate? I can understand bstep + Nate but ME + Nate? The ME damage is calculated with what bag size and drop rate ?
There really isn't much talk of the blood bandit experience. Are there any blood bandits here that can talk about what it's like, if you regret going that route, things to expect, etc.?
How many mesos would it take on average to solo krex, also how long would it take? Just to get a good estimate please also I'm level 134 but it doesn't matter really because all id be doing is meso explosion lol.
Personally, it takes me around 70-75m to solo krex and it takes about 70-80 minutes with 5k mesos per bag. Of course, this depends primarily on your dropping speed.
