AA Strategy with Auto Mentor Inc

[Lokked]

(recently re-subbed with all new accounts. Yay RAF)
I too am struggling with not /lock'ing in order to clear all named in each zone for maximum AA. When I last played, I 5-boxed, and having 30+ AA on each of my lvl 35s was completely OP.

But, I got so bored from the lack of progression and the tedium involved in flipping back and forth from EQi to EQ2Maps to make sure I got all the named in a zone, I quit.

This time around, I'm going to use my RAF to its full advantage and speed my boxes through instances (still attempting to kill as many named as possible, but screw quests and forget camping named).

Look at it this way: AA doesn't benefit from RAF while leveling. If you are on RAF, you are wasting your time /lock'ing. You could level 2 separate groups to cap not caring about AA faster then you could level 1 to cap /lock'ing while tediously scraping the content for AA xp.

Once RAF is gone, you will level 3x slower and could progress with less /lock'ing while going through all available content.

Just my advice. I've done it once being a nitpicker with content - maximum Quests, Named/Placeholder Camping, completing all Collections. It just makes the game boring. I'm trying it Noxxy's way this time around. All in all, I think a progression from level 1 to 80 is not meant to experience all content in that period anyways. It allows replayability to vary.

[Twiz]

I'm still /locked at 18 in order to get my AAs up to speed but will probably start grinding with GU53. The AA slider should make it so you can earn AAs while grinding, so I can explore, quest, and grind to my heart's content.

In addition to the AA slider, the Chronomagic functionality will allow me to mentor down later on to pick up quests and/or named kills.

Edit:

Just my advice. I've done it once being a nitpicker with content - maximum Quests, Named/Placeholder Camping, completing all Collections. It just makes the game boring. I'm trying it Noxxy's way this time around. All in all, I think a progression from level 1 to 80 is not meant to experience all content in that period anyways. It allows replayability to vary.

I think you are probably right. I was astounded by the amount of content at the lower levels. I never got to the point of keeping track of everything (gah), but I was trying to hit the main questlines in a handful of zones and found myself getting bored at times. All in all, it was good to get the AAs going (21 aa's at level 18) but I'm ready to start plowing through new content.

[mesmerise]

hum auto mentoring is the devil IMO, just look how EQ market is ruined, so you wil see lv 80s people farm zone with zero risk and run over peeps with the right lvl ?, they will just kill all named for full master chests and then stop mentoring to skip trash?.....i dont understand why they will put this kind stuff in EQ2, for me its just stupid.


edit : well GU 53 went live this week ,i didnt know!! guess i have to see how aumentoring works now...

[Lokked]

You need to use an NPC is the major cities to Auto-Mentor down. You can unmentor at any point (when not in combat) but you need to return to the NPC in order to Auto-Mentor again.

So no unmentoring to skip trash. Still, for lower level dungeons, skipping trash is not necessary (Trash leashes, just run the adds out) (I do this right now with my appropriate level team in the low level dungeons, so I don't think its going to matter that much).