BlackHeart
Dalayan Adventurer
When I finished Parlin's Codex of Power 2 last month on Mar 14th, I looked back at the records I keep to see when I started and was pretty disapointed to find that it took me almost 4 months to Complete that tome.
I consider myself a casual player, but 4 months was still a bit much. I thought of what I had been doing for those 4 months and decided I could reorganize my play time to make the most of it and vastly improve my completion time for Codex 3. I would concentrate on XP and not worry much about loot to see how much more quickly I could get through it.
I usually don't get to play for long stretches at a time so raiding is pretty much out of the question, and even a lot of grouping isn't in the cards either. Playing on weekends is usually pretty much impossible for me as well but sometimes I do manage to sneak in some time here and there. So, mostly I am forced to box and solo.
I set my goal at 2% a day for Codex 3, hoping to be able to complete it in 50 days. I tracked my progress each day and actually finished today, 3 days ahead of schedule.
I discovered that in the right zone I could effectively solo and gain 0.50% (One half of a percent) in a codex in roughly 30 minutes. So, all I needed was about 4 or 5 of these sessions each day to accomplish my goal.
I have about 6 different zones where I can efficiently solo for xp, and to make things easier I set up hotkeys to do a /w all for each zone to know where to go and get there fast. Another advantage is having a lot of gate clickys and alts that can port of course.
I am not posting this to boast, and I am not trying to belittle the accomplishments of those who raid and group. I know that raiding and grouping are by far more efficient in advancing your toon and wish that I could raid and group more often myself.
I just wanted to post this as encouragement for those people like me who LOVE the game, but just cant dedicate long hours at a single setting to it. You can still advance your character.
I consider myself a casual player, but 4 months was still a bit much. I thought of what I had been doing for those 4 months and decided I could reorganize my play time to make the most of it and vastly improve my completion time for Codex 3. I would concentrate on XP and not worry much about loot to see how much more quickly I could get through it.
I usually don't get to play for long stretches at a time so raiding is pretty much out of the question, and even a lot of grouping isn't in the cards either. Playing on weekends is usually pretty much impossible for me as well but sometimes I do manage to sneak in some time here and there. So, mostly I am forced to box and solo.
I set my goal at 2% a day for Codex 3, hoping to be able to complete it in 50 days. I tracked my progress each day and actually finished today, 3 days ahead of schedule.
I discovered that in the right zone I could effectively solo and gain 0.50% (One half of a percent) in a codex in roughly 30 minutes. So, all I needed was about 4 or 5 of these sessions each day to accomplish my goal.
I have about 6 different zones where I can efficiently solo for xp, and to make things easier I set up hotkeys to do a /w all for each zone to know where to go and get there fast. Another advantage is having a lot of gate clickys and alts that can port of course.
I am not posting this to boast, and I am not trying to belittle the accomplishments of those who raid and group. I know that raiding and grouping are by far more efficient in advancing your toon and wish that I could raid and group more often myself.
I just wanted to post this as encouragement for those people like me who LOVE the game, but just cant dedicate long hours at a single setting to it. You can still advance your character.
