Elyos Leveling Guide

### Levels 1-9

The first 9 levels are spent in the starter zone Poeta. This section is fairly straight forward, the goal is to get to level 9 and then immediately do the yellow Ascension campaign quest that pops up, as it pay enough XP to fill your entire bar to level 10 (approx 70k XP!). You can come back to Poeta once you have completed your Ascension question to finish any campaigns as well, so don't put it off.

**Tip:** At the start, kill random level 1 and 2 mobs for a while to quickly gain the first couple of levels.

**Tip:** It's not a bad idea to level up your gathering as you go early on. You are rewarded XP and there are many quests as you go that require items gathered in the local area. You can also just buy the material from other players from the Auction House as well.

### Levels 10-11

1. Return to Poeta and finish yellow Campaign quests.
2. Go to the Kabarah Strip Mine and complete any blue quests. These are obtainable from **Melponeh's Campsite** and from **Pernos.**

### Levels 10-12

**Tip:** Verteron leveling is a fairly straight forward themepark MMO experience, you basically complete the quests in your area and then move around in a clockwise direction to the next area when done. There is no PVP on this map at all so it's a good idea to stay and milk it until it's not worth the XP anymore.

1. Go back to Sanctum, there are a number of quests there to complete, including the quest at your class trainer which rewards a green weapon. It's recommended to choose whatever gives you the best DPS for early leveling, for example get the staff for both Clerics and Chanters to speed up leveling.
2. Complete the quest called **Summons to the Citadel** (to meet Brigade General Spatalos). Use the teleporter where you first arrived at Sanctum to teleport to **Verteron**.
3. Pick up all of the quests around Verteron Citadel, except for the Manastone swap quest (unless you really want to do it). Complete all of these quests around the Citadel area. There is a quest from a friendly Tog called Galone, who wanders around the beach in a circle around the Citadel. The quest is repeatable and requires you to kill 9 Mud Potcrabs. It's worth picking this quest up a couple of times as you complete the others.
4. There is a campaign quest in the middle of the Citadel above you on a platform. You can fly in this area, so spread your wings and complete this quest as well.
5. Once you have completed these quests, pick up all the other quests in Vereron Citadel including the follow-up quests.
6. The quest **Masked Loiterers** you will need to kill Spies to collect 5 x Revolutionary Symbols. Make sure to loot!

### Levels 12-13

#### Verteron Citadel

1. Once you have completed the Verteron Citadel quests **buy 1 x Verteron Pepper** from the Food merchant and then head down the path to the right, leading out of the main gate of the Citadel. The path snakes around and you will come up to a small camp outside a farm on a corner. Hand in/pick up the quests from Gano and Ondanius and complete them. Return to these NPCs and hand them in once done. One of the quests is timed, this needs to be handed in at Tolbas Village which is further down the main road. It's not a bad idea to set your Return Point here at the local **Obelisk**.
2. Head into the farm where Nola the Abandoned ScareCrow is near the NPC farmers. Complete the quests he gives you which includes rewarding you the **Straw for Brains** title. Complete the follow-up quest called Belbua's Treasure, the treasure is located behind a barn near the coast of the map.
3. Once you have completed all of the quests from Nola, Gano and Ondanius, head further down the road to Tolbas Village

#### Belbua's Farm

1. Pick up all the quests in Tolbas Village and complete them. Do your campaign quests as well that you can appropriate to your level. Prioritize the quests closer to your level before attempting the higher ones. You may need to grind a couple of mobs to make up some XP here to level up a bit in order to attempt some of them.
2. In the Lepharist area you should run across Belbua's Diary. Click the diary to complete the Belbua is Missing quest.
3. **Cavil** is found in the building near the coast in the Lepharist area. He can be a little tough to kill so make sure you are ready before you engage him. Once you kill Cavil, go into his building and click on the **Suspicious Document** inside on the wall.

#### Dukaki Mine

**Tip:** you may need to over to the Geolus Campsite area before heading to the mine to grind some mobs if you are not high enough level.

**Tip:** some of the quests may be higher level (13-14) then you currently are. Leave these for later. Includes quests to such as recovering the **Stolen Village Seal.**

1. Head into the **Dukaki Mine** which is further down the main road to the north. Complete the quests you picked up from Tolbas Village in here.
2. The quest to collect Silver Ore requires level 35 gathering skill. If you don't have this either skip it or buy the ore from the Auction House if you wish.
3. The Supplies are found in small brown boxes towards the back of the mine. When you get all 3 return to Tolbas Village and hand in the quest. Pick up all the new quests then return to the mine.
4. Poppy is another pig, this time however he is not for dinner yet and you need to escort him back to Tolbas Village to the quest giver to complete it.
5. Kill a **Tursin Bigmouth** to obtain a **Striking Rod** for the **Odiuum in the Dukaki Settlement** quest. These mobs are tough so be prepared.
6. Once you obtain the rod, head to the back right of the mine up the hill where you should find some large caldrons on a hill. At the bottom is a gong, go to it then open your inventory, click on the **Striking Rod** and be prepared to fight Overseer Redtum (the large Kolbold that spawns). You can then complete this quest by going up to the cauldrons and using the **Solvent** in your inventory.
7. Head back to Tolbas Village to hand in your quests.

### Levels 13-14

#### Geolus Campsite

1. Head over to Geolus Campsite and complete the quests in this area. There are several campaign quests here to complete as well as quests further up the hill in the contaminated area.
2. Frillneck Eggs can be found in the large covered nests at the base of trees in the area.

#### Dukaki Mine

1. Head back into the Dukaki Mine and complete the other quests, these should include Stolen Jewelry, Stolen Village Seal and Missing Poppy (if you haven't yet completed it).
2. The stolen items can be found on the far left hand side of the mine. There will be a large Pile of Items that you need to click on. When you click the pile, the Shugo in the cage will talk to you. He is in love with a named Kolbold called **Mimiti.** You need to aggro Mimiti and kite her back up to the cage for the quest to complete.
3. Once you complete the Poppy quest, pick up the quest called **Lighteningfoot Tuka.** **Lighteningfood Tuka** is a fast running mob that runs fast around an entrance of the mine. You will need to slow and CC him to kill him as he'll de-agro if he gets to far away from you and reset. This quest rewards a nice title that gives you a movement speed boost.

**Levels 14-16**

#### Southern Tolbas Forest

1. Head back out of the mine and pick up the other quests in the forest area. There are several campaign quests to complete here as well.
2. **Geolus** gives you a quest regarding Contaminated Fluids that needs to be handed in at Sanctum once you have the **Contaminated Fluid Sample**s and talked to the NPC at Verteron Citadel.
3. While in sanctum, if you haven't been leveling your gathering skill (to at least 45) buy **12 Targena** from the auction house (optional)
4. Head back to Tolbas Village and hand in your quests. You can either use your Return skill if you set your return point to the Obelisk or teleport out and run back to the village.
5. Head back into the forest and kill **Trandila**. Some classes may need to find a group of a couple of people to kill it.
6. Once you have completed all the quests return and hand them in

#### Headless Stone Statue

1. Head back to the Dukaki Mine and go to the right, following the path around to the back exit of the mine. You should come across a bridge and a **Headless Stone Statue**. Pick up the quest and loot the head in the water below you then talk to the statue to hand in the quest.
2. Continue down the path to the next quest area

#### Pilgrim Quests

1. Pick up the quests from Considerate Lagos, you will need gathering skill 45 to gather the Targena to complete this quest or have bought it from the auction house.
2. Watch out for the Abexes, they will group aggro if they are too close to each other when you attack one.
3. Pick up the quests from the pilgrims on the other side of the bridge from Lagos and complete them.
4. Continue down the path until you come to an area with a tent and 2 NPCs. Pick up and complete these quests
5. You may need to grind mobs here in order to reach level 16 to continue.

**Tip:** When doing the campaign quest to kill **Poisonous Bubblegut**, use the potion in your inventory to remove his shield so that you can damage him. You have two of these potions to use and you will likely require help from other players to kill him. You can also wait until you are a bit higher level to come back to kill him too.

### Levels 16-17

#### Pilgrim's Respite

1. Continue down the path to **Pilgrims Respite**. Complete the quests in this area.
2. Kill mobs to reach 17 if needed.
3. Pick up the quest to go to Miraju's Holy Ground.

### Levels 17-18

#### Miraju's Holy Ground

1. Head down the main road until you get to Miraju's Holy Ground and hand in the quest to Lunax. You can fly in this area and will need to fly up to the platform to reach Lunax.
2. Pick up any level 17 quests and anything else that you can complete and do them.
3. The quests to go into the Tursin Outpost mostly require groups to complete as the mobs you need to kill are elite. Look in LFG for a group and join it, you will level fast as they pay a lot of XP. There are a number of important campaign quests to complete in this group including the quest that has you collect Krall Marks.
4. If you really can't get a group (which you need for campaign quests) you will need to either:
	1. Grind elite mobs solo (if you can)
	2. Grind regular mobs
	3. Grind the repeatable coin quest available at the platform (recommended). There are Fly to the vendors that sell decent gear for coins on the platform too.
5. Once you have gotten to at least level 18 and hopefully completed the quests to obtain Krall Marks, head back to Verteron Citadel. You can fly there from the platform where the quest givers are too.

### Levels 18-20

#### Veteron Obeservatory

1. Fly from the citadel to Verteron Observertory
2. Complete all the quests there including the follow up quests.

#### Theombos

Theombos is another map that has multiple areas for different level gaps and is also free from PVP. You can head to this map via the Teleporter at Vertron Citadel. Going to this area is optional and may not be needed until after level 20 if you are able to find a group to complete the Krall elite quests instead.

1. Pick up the quests in area where you teleport in at Meniherk Excavation Camp. Most of them are repeatable quests you can do.

### Levels 20-25

You have a choice here where you want to level. The game tries to direct you to **Eltnen** which offers plenty of quests, however is the first open PVP zone where you will find gankers regularly that you will not be able to beat. However, you can instead go to **Theombos** and level there instead free from gankers.

**If you choose to go to Eltnen**, teleport to Eltnen and complete quests around the Citadel. You can fly in this area as well. You can complete quests in the Putrid Mire and the forest just outside the citadel as well.

**If you choose to go to Themobos**, teleport to Themobos and complete the quests and repeatable quests at Meniherk Excavation Camp multiple times. Once you hit **level 22** you can go around to the **Crimson Barrens** and complete quests there as well.

The **recommended** way to approach this is to head to Themobos from 20-22 then head to Eltnen at 22-25. You can also head back to Theombos at any time as well if you find yourself unable to quest due to gankers.

### Levels 25+

#### Abyss Attunement

At level 25 you want to head to Eltnen Citadel and complete the campaign quest **Abyss Entry Quest** chain to unlock the Abyss. This includes the quests **Testing your Mettle**, **Testing Flight Skills**, **Deliver on Your Promises** and **The Abyss Quiz**.

To enter the abyss once you have completed the above, just fly to a portal and click on it. The portals are at the main citadels including Verteron Citadel (above) and Eltnen Citadel (below).

#### The Abyss

At this point you now have three options, continuing in Eltnen, continuing in Thermobos or going to the Abyss. It's recommended to level in the Abyss as it's a far more compelling environment although there are no restrictions at all when it comes to PVP.

**Tip:** After completing the initial quest chain in the abyss you'll gain access to **Nochsana Training Camp.** This instance pays insane XP compared to anything else as well as AP and can reward your first blue-quality weapon. Look in LFG and join a group or make your own group. There is however a lengthy cool down on entry to the instance.

1. Continue the quest chain that you received after the Abyss Entry Quest chain. First talk to Michalis and accept the follow up quest. This will send you to a ring still within the safe area where you will be taught about various aspects of the Abyss and how they work. Hand in those quests and pick up all the quests from the NPCs standing outside the ring as well as quests inside Teminon Landing. Note that you probably won't be able to do all of these quests straight way.
2. TBC