Need some AA's

[Neomorpheus]

<p>Ok. I have  been playing EQ 2 on and off since release, but have been away for some time and recently decided to come back.  I have a level 57 Inq as my main and I came back to find alot of stuff has changed...I respecced to battle cleric so I could solo and quest some, but having only 33 AA's I keep getting pwned in pvp.  So is there something I can do to catch up my AA's to coincide with my level a little better without getting pwned everytime I step out the door??</p>

[Dareena]

<p>Ouch!  I'm trying to picture playing with that few AA anymore and it just hurts my head.  But here's the best advice I have...</p><p>Mentoring is good!  Really good.  To clarify, Chronomage mentoring is really good!  And since you're probably scratching your head, a Chronomage is a NPC (which exists in each starting city) that lets you auto mentor yourself down to a level that is a multiple of x5.  Therefore you no longer need mentoring dummies to run around the lower level zones.</p><p>Why should you mentor?  On the one hand, it's no longer needed since you can get quest AA from completing grayed out quests.  But on the other hand, they also revised the mentoring system so that you get a +% AA bonus on named kills (and AA items).  This bonus increases on a slider scale based on how many levels you mentor down.  I think that you have to drop at least x5 levels to get a bonus and it caps out at around x50 levels dropped.  (You'd have to find the old Update notes to see the exact scale.  It's been too long for me to remember it exactly.  But it starts to get really big.)</p><p>Case in point.  When TSO came out and I was grinding AA on my brigand main, the AA curve started to become really painful at around 160+ AA.  Yet by mentoring down from 80th and picking up some named AA kills that I had missed from RE1, I was getting around +4% per kill!  At that stage, +4% from a low level named is utterly amazing.  (RE1 named have always had a good AA return for their level, but the capped out mentoring bonus of around +200% AA really makes a difference.)</p><p>My suggestion is to see your AA slider to 100%, chrono mentor down, and start hunting all of the various named mobs that you've missed over the years.  In a change during the past year, all mobs that provide AA which you still require will now have a small star above their names when you target them.  This makes it easy to tell whether or not you've killed a specific mob in the past for AA.</p><p>Also try to start doing to various low level quest zones.  Any quest 10+ will provide a small amount of AA upon completion.  I'd tell you to zone into Timorous Deep and doing the quests on the main island and the Mok Rent island.  Then swing through Darklight Woods quests that start in the fair area.  Afterwards work your way up to Butcherblock Mountains.  And so on.</p><p>Another good way to grind up AA is to hang out in a dungeon zone.  Since dungeons provide a +% combat xp bonus (which is being converted into AA via your 100% AA slider), you can always grind lower level mobs if you've got nothing else better to do.  Or if you can hook up with another person or two, then easy old world dungeons like FG will go even faster.</p>

[Neomorpheus]

<p>That is some awesome advice, by looking around so far I had gathered a little of the information that you'd provided already, I had no idea that you could mentor yourself.  Thats great news!</p><p>One other question though, I have seen everyone talking about a 100% AA slider and the closet thing to that I can find is the Slider on the AA screen, yet it will only rise to 50% so if I wanna lock a level and just grind AA, by questing for example, I can't contribute any adventure exp to AA gain. This may have something to me being on a PVP server I'm not sure.</p><p>Anyway thanks for the great reply I will definately be trying it out.</p>

[Dareena]

<p>Yes, your issue is a PvP restriction.  In those servers, you can't level lock.  Setting your slider at 100% AA is a form of character level locking, thus it isn't allowed.</p>

[Hilt]

<p>You sir need to find you a decent Pillar of Flames run to grind AA...You could easily walk away with 15 to 20 more AA.</p>