Everquest Leveling Guide 1 – 120

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!