[Guide]For fast leveling at PQ3

01/04/2012 14:35 ptdk#1
Im here since a long time, yet didnt contribute anything, so thought i would make this. Credits go to Smurfin and others who posted on the other forum, and for Swoosh's pGrind, and his script. - I've only put those things together.

U can get theoritically unlimited exp, practically i would say 20-30 millions of exp ea day. - This is a time consuming method, the more time u let it run, the more exp u get.

U will need
- At least 1, at most 5 characters lvl95+.
- Either access to pGrind(with scripting part avalaible), or mediocre programming skills to write a fairly simple program. (the program needs to automatise digging the ballistas, i believe its fairly easy to do with injection, but i cant make a program for that)

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There, hundreds of mobs waiting to earn u millions of experience.

1. Bring the characters to Chapter 3 quest giver. Take the quest and finish the first pahse(killing 5 officers).

2. Make sure all of the characters inventory is full. Take the quest with all of them, and make sure their graphical settings are as low as possible. It doesnt matter what PC u have, u can get the most of of this on the lowest settings.

3. Position them each above a "Cloud Ballista", and dig it once. Make sure the quest item gets dropped on the ground showing a small "ERR" thing(as it doesht have texture for being dropped set), and that the mobs which spawn cant hit them.

4. Open pGrind, hook em clients, and go to scripting(no need to set anything anywhere else). Add new script, and insert this after begin:
{ pGrind Script file , created @ 6:50:01 PM 1/4/2012}
Program CloudBallistaFarmer;
var
Repeat_count,i : integer;

Begin
Repeat_count := 150; //Set this to the number of repeats you want.
for i := 0 to Repeat_count -1 do
begin
GatherMaterial_Name('Cloud Ballista');
Sleep(13000);
end;
End.

This takes 13 seconds each. Set repeat count to ur needs, for example 150 makes a 30 minute session(when u kill the mobs before starting to respawn em)

Now depending on with how many characters u dig, u should set something from 10-50 minutes. After a certain number of mobs the client will crash on any computer, and at that point it could crash again when u reload it. Just dont get too greedy, ive let it run on 3 clients for 20 minutes without problems.

The number after sleeps determines its waiting time after it started digging. It could be lower, becouse i think it takes only like 8 seconds to dig that shet, but setting it lower could cause ur character to move to an other ballista for some reason. If it moves, the mobs will reach it, and u could be a R9 full +12, u will die without a charmtick.

5. Make sure that everything is running, and the quest stays at 0/20. Go afk for however long ur session is.

6. Come back, set hyper, opneshot mobs from air, go back to point 5 : )

Twoshotting works also with fast channeled skills.(psy's sandburst+glacial)


The only problem with this method r the effin braindead droids, who tend to do PQ, but do not finish it. After the catapults part u have to deal with a handsome amount of mobs, and a nasty boss with 28 mill hp whose aoe hits hard, and interrupts BB.

Check PQ frequently, and if its at first or second phase, blast ur activations on it for a relatively easy 10-20-30 mill exp.

If u find out anything about enchancing this method, or have questions, please post it.
01/04/2012 19:15 Sᴡoosh#2
Nice trick, i'll try this for one of my chars later when i get home :)

As for the script part : It crashes most likely because of stack overflow on VM (something I have fixed on the complete rewrite of pgrind which will be out soon).

And you dont need to copy/paste the whole thing 150 times o_o.

Code:
{ pGrind Script file , created @ 6:50:01 PM   1/4/2012}
Program CloudBallistaFarmer;
var
  Repeat_count,i : integer; 

Begin
Repeat_count := 150; //Set this to the number of repeats you want.
	for i := 0 to Repeat_count -1 do 
	begin
		GatherMaterial_Name('Cloud Ballista');
		Sleep(13000);
	end;
End.
That should stop the crashing on the current version (which sucks, I know!) :)

Cheers
01/04/2012 22:17 TurboGolom#3
anyone want to level me xD I dont have a lvl 95+ cha xD Server:dreamweaver
01/04/2012 22:29 ptdk#4
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sᴡoosh View Post
Nice trick, i'll try this for one of my chars later when i get home :)

As for the script part : It crashes most likely because of stack overflow on VM (something I have fixed on the complete rewrite of pgrind which will be out soon).

And you dont need to copy/paste the whole thing 150 times o_o.

Code:
{ pGrind Script file , created @ 6:50:01 PM   1/4/2012}
Program CloudBallistaFarmer;
var
  Repeat_count,i : integer; 

Begin
Repeat_count := 150; //Set this to the number of repeats you want.
	for i := 0 to Repeat_count -1 do 
	begin
		GatherMaterial_Name('Cloud Ballista');
		Sleep(13000);
	end;
End.
That should stop the crashing on the current version (which sucks, I know!) :)

Cheers
Yeah i knew there must be a way around that, but couldnt read that out from the examples and there is no list of commands. Tryed to combine the few commands i red out of examples with my basic php knowledge but only got errors.

It didnt crash for me thou, sometimes it doesnt want to start digging(than it randomly does?), and sometimes it changed ballista which results in the death of given character, but that happens rarely enough.

Thx

Quote:
Originally Posted by TurboGolom View Post
anyone want to level me xD I dont have a lvl 95+ cha xD Server:dreamweaver
yeah its not too useful for lower levels, but makes it fairly easy to get to lvl100, and get even to 103 if ur willing to do this and there arent mindless droids on ur server like on mine.
01/06/2012 21:31 ptdk#5
So got a chance today too, made 29 million xp using 9 activations digging on 2 characters in ~5 hours. (so if ur digging with 5 u can get same in ~2 hours)

the script doesnt fail anymore, and with this u can lower sleep time to 8500 ms.

So got a chance today too, made 29 million xp using 9 activations digging on 2 characters in ~5 hours. (so if ur digging with 5 u can get same in ~2 hours)

the script doesnt fail anymore, and with this u can lower sleep time to 8500 ms.
01/06/2012 23:44 santaclaus62#6
What is PQ3 in PWI and Cloud Ballista
01/07/2012 11:50 redsnake#7
Pgrind out yet? the one you have to pay for?
01/07/2012 16:48 ptdk#8
Quote:
Originally Posted by santaclaus62 View Post
What is PQ3 in PWI and Cloud Ballista
privat quest chapter 3 and some shet u gotta dig

Quote:
Originally Posted by redsnake View Post
Pgrind out yet? the one you have to pay for?
it is, surrosoft.com



on other note got around 35 mill exp in 5 hours on 2 chars today with only 5 activations.

will post some SS and tips later
01/08/2012 00:11 Sᴡoosh#9
ptdk,

A Friend of mine would like to know when exactly you recive the EXP? When digging or when killing the mobs? I can not check because I do not play anymore and wouldn't have a 95+ char anyways.

Cheers :)
01/08/2012 08:02 Smurfin#10
does anyone know how much exp can you get with a squad of six (5 of them will dig) ?
how much exp will each mob give ?

since this bug has only one spot and there will be people coming and ask to join, we won't have a choice but to accept them or else they might be angry and continue the quest, hence the bug will fail. Just want to know the exp outcome if that happens and do the bug with a full squad of six.

Quote:
Originally Posted by ptdk View Post
So got a chance today too, made 29 million xp using 9 activations digging on 2 characters in ~5 hours. (so if ur digging with 5 u can get same in ~2 hours)

the script doesnt fail anymore, and with this u can lower sleep time to 8500 ms.
@ptdk : did you share the exp with your other char in a squad or kill the mobs for single char ?


note:
*it's not me who found the bug, I just gathered what people told me, but I don't think they'd like to be mentioned here anyway, so tks for putting the credit and with this post I readdress it to the anonymous ppl who found it first. :handsdown:
01/08/2012 09:34 ptdk#11
yeah i know it wasnt u finding it out Smurfin, but u r the one who decided to publish it, while others kept it for their guilds.

im not worried about people wanting to leech, becouse many wont be able to use this stuff.
1. they wont have a character which can oneshot dem mobs
2. they dont have a 95+ char to dig dem pults
3. they wont have access to a script which can automatise this
etc

as for the exp. each mob gives around 6.5k exp hypered. 1 dig gives 3 mobs, so 5x3 is 15. 5x3x6,5 is 97,5k exp in 8 seconds.


Swoosh, u get the exp from the mobs. Digging the pults doesnt give u anything, but spawns the mobs
01/09/2012 22:46 hanzo2#12
Remember guys mobs that you kill while they are reseting dont give exp
01/10/2012 11:17 ptdk#13
Just tried that out ona single mob and it gave exp.
01/10/2012 22:13 hanzo2#14
Quote:
Originally Posted by ptdk View Post
Just tried that out ona single mob and it gave exp.
you mean while it was reseting?
01/11/2012 08:38 ptdk#15
Quote:
Originally Posted by hanzo2 View Post
you mean while it was reseting?
Yes.