Welcome to our comprehensive EverQuest Leveling Guide! This guide will help you progress smoothly from level 1 to 120, ensuring an enjoyable and efficient gaming experience.
We’ve broken down the journey into specific level ranges, which will be covered in each section.
General Tips:
- Always keep your character’s abilities, spells, and AAs (Alternate Advancement) up to date.
- Make friends or join a guild to help with group content.
- Participate in events and holiday content for unique rewards and experience.
- Utilize mercenaries if you’re playing solo or need extra help in a group.
- Consider using experience potions or items to speed up leveling.
Hotzones: Accelerate Your Leveling
Hotzones are zones in EverQuest that have a temporary experience bonus, making them ideal for leveling up quickly. These zones change periodically, so it’s important to check which zones are currently active hotzones. To find out the current hotzones, speak to Franklin Teek in the Plane of Knowledge, or check the EverQuest forums and official website.
Bonus Experience: Making the Most of Your Time
Throughout the year, EverQuest hosts several bonus experience events, usually coinciding with holidays or game updates. These events provide a temporary boost to the experience gained from killing monsters, completing quests, and other in-game activities. Staying aware of these events and planning your leveling sessions around them can significantly speed up your progression.
In addition to the events, there are also experience potions and items available in the game, which grant a temporary boost to experience gains. These can be obtained through various means, such as quest rewards, loyalty point vendors, or the in-game marketplace. Be strategic in using these items, and try to stack them with hotzones or bonus experience events for maximum effect.
Levels 1-10: Learning the Basics
Starting Zone: Crescent Reach, Plane of Knowledge, or your race’s home city.
Quests:
- Tutorial (if applicable)
- Class-specific quests
- City delivery quests
- Hero’s Journey Achievements
Levels 10-20: Exploring the World
Recommended Zones:
- Crushbone
- Paludal Caverns
- East/West Commonlands
- Blackburrow
- Kurn’s Tower
Quests:
- Hero’s Journey Achievements (continue)
- Zone-specific quests
Levels 20-30: Building Your Abilities
Recommended Zones:
- Unrest
- Upper Guk
- Tower of Frozen Shadow
- Marus Seru
- Blightfire Moors
Quests:
- Hero’s Journey Achievements (continue)
- Zone-specific quests
Levels 30-40: Growing in Power
Recommended Zones:
- Lower Guk
- City of Mist
- High Keep
- Solusek’s Eye (SolA)
- The Overthere
Quests:
- Hero’s Journey Achievements (continue)
- Zone-specific quests
Levels 40-50: Gearing Up
Recommended Zones:
- Velketor’s Labyrinth
- The Hole
- The Howling Stones
- Chardok
- Old Sebilis
Quests:
- Hero’s Journey Achievements (continue)
- Zone-specific quests
Levels 50-60: Expanding Your Horizons
Recommended Zones:
- Grieg’s End
- Plane of Hate
- Plane of Fear
- Plane of Growth
- Veksar
Quests:
- Planar Progression quests
- Hero’s Journey Achievements (continue)
- Zone-specific quests
Levels 60-70: Planes of Power
Recommended Zones:
- Plane of Valor
- Plane of Storms
- Bastion of Thunder
- Halls of Honor
- Crypt of Decay
Quests:
- Planar Progression quests
- Hero’s Journey Achievements (continue)
- Zone-specific quests
Levels 70-80: Omens of War and Beyond
Recommended Zones:
- Wall of Slaughter
- Riftseeker’s Sanctum
- Muramite Proving Grounds
- Dragon Necropolis
- Serpent’s Spine Mountains
Quests:
- Omens of War progression
- Hero’s Journey Achievements (continue)
- Zone-specific quests
Levels 80-90: Seeds of Destruction and Underfoot
Recommended Zones:
- Oceangreen Hills
- Toskirakk
- Korafax
- Brell’s Rest
- The Foundation
Quests:
- Seeds of Destruction progression
- Underfoot progression
- Hero’s Journey Achievements (continue)
- Zone-specific quests
Levels 90-100: Veil of Alaris and Rain of Fear
Recommended Zones:
- Resplendent Temple
- Shard’s Landing
- Valley of Lunanyn
- Grelleth’s Palace
- Chelsith Reborn
Quests:
- Veil of Alaris progression
- Rain of Fear progression
- Hero’s Journey Achievements (continue)
- Zone-specific quests
Levels 100-110: The Broken Mirror and Empires of Kunark
Recommended Zones:
- Sul Vius: Demiplane of Decay
- Lceanium
- Scorched Woods
- Frontier Mountains
- The Temple of Droga
- Chardok: The Royal City
- Lceanium
- Scorched Woods
- Frontier Mountains
- The Temple of Droga
- Chardok: The Royal City
Quests:
- The Broken Mirror progression
- Empires of Kunark progression
- Hero’s Journey Achievements (continue)
- Zone-specific quests
Levels 110-120: Ring of Scale and The Burning Lands
Recommended Zones:
- Gorowyn: The Burning Lands
- The Plane of Smoke
- Stratos: Zephyr’s Flight
- The Sathir Line
- Aalishai: Palace of Embers
Quests:
- Ring of Scale progression
- The Burning Lands progression
- Hero’s Journey Achievements (continue)
- Zone-specific quests
Remember that leveling is just one aspect of EverQuest. Enjoy the journey, explore the rich lore, participate in tradeskills, and engage in other activities that make the game unique. Keep this guide handy as you progress, and happy adventuring!
Robert
Saturday 3rd of June 2023
You are dead wrong about the Shaman class. They are excellent solo characters. Perhaps the best in the game. They have the best DOTs, are a chain armor class as good as Ranger or Berserker and better that any pet class. The Shaman also can DD cast, even off tank. Along with healing themselves almost as well as a Cleric. You don't need a mercenary or your pet. To overlook all them shows a lack of familiarity with the class.