The following is how I level my characters, enjoy folks
(and no, I do not use nurturing packs for my main quests, I'm not THAT lazy heh)
TL;DR:
-do your awakening at 300... after that, a power level shouldn't be needed
-grind/get power leveled to each AR2 quest
-the last AR2 you should do before rebirth is the Store 2F one (level 575)
-do rebirth right at 600 each time if it is your first character, this gives you time to gear up so you don't end up killed easily (this makes leveling easier)
-once you are 600+ 4th rebirth, do the rest of your ar2 quests (next one is at 625 then 675)
-if you get bored of grinding, it is suggested that you do the main quest for the rewards! (plus AR 1 quests for when you are 600+ 4th rebirth)
-my method puts you over 800 with minimal effort (if you skip main quest) and much higher with main quest :) so thanks for reading the TL;DR!
NOTES:
NOTE: This will NOT have any pictures, sorry for that, I just don't feel like they are needed here :)
NOTE 2: This guide was made during the Grow Event, so if you lack levels to continue Darlene's quests, just go grind or seek a power leveler ^^
NOTE 3: I used the grow sphere from the event while I made this guide because I wanted to make this as fast as possible
(leveling guide itself should still be accurate/effective even when the event is not live)
BEFORE LEVEL 100
To start out, talk with Darlene and do Studying The Inside of Association quest
Go start the main quest in town and do that up until the Waterways part, and do that
Head back to the association, do the Association Library quest and then talk to Mission Agent before Darlene (only due to her being closer)
Complete and turn in the Season 1 (1) AR quest
Take the Season 2 (1) AR2 quest and complete it too
Talk with Darlene again, do her quests until you get to Delan's Secret Map (1)
Do her quests until Delan's Secret Map (3) is complete
~YOU SHOULD HAVE 10 ADVENTURER COINS BY NOW, GRAB A WEAPON FROM COIN SHOP OBERON~
Talk with Darlene again, and continue her quests
(upon talking with her this time, after doing Delan's quests, you will be given a Portal Sphere ticket, wait to use it though until I mention it soon)
Once you get to the Daily Quest part, take the Invasion option and then join a guild
Once you are IN a guild, take this time to go to the guild agent you talked with during the beginning, grab the quest for the Tantilis Site
At this point, ask for help or use a second account to go into the guild dungeon entrance (and open your sphere once inside)
Kill everything inside (beware of the hellfire swordsman (and the boss too actually, let the other person kill it or bring revival scrolls or something) though, he eats new adventurers heh)
If you do not have enough kills yet, go turn the Exploring Tantilis Site quest in and get it again, rinse and repeat until you have all 100 kills required for the Invasion quest
Go turn the invasion quest in, then talk with Darlene to get more coins
~~GO GRAB A GOOD CHEST PIECE SO YOU AREN'T SO PAPERY~~
Once you get to the part where she mentions attributes, you can just grab something else from the armor section instead of adding a prefix to an item, which is what I normally do first
~OPTIONAL: GRAB A GOOD HELM/CROWN (or just prefix your weapon, whatever you wanna do man)~
After you have your starting gear, go talk to the NPC that buffs you and ask her to go take you to Vissel so you can get an aura
~~I always go with dark/light for physical toons, or the corresponding element if knowledge character~~
Once you complete the aura quest, you will be a few levels shy of 75 for the next AR2 quest, so go grind those levels out and then go get the next quest and complete it
Talk with Darlene and get the Blessing quest done
At this point, you should seek out a power leveler or find a group to kill Colossus with (these are in Abandoned Mine B9) and get up to 125 for the next AR2 quest
(while the power leveling method is lazy, it is also effective)
That being said, those that join Damage_Inc may receive free power leveling if I am available to do so (I normally charge for this mind you)
LEVEL 100+
This section and ones after it will be short and sweet so you don't have to read as much
Once you are Level 125, do the next AR2 quest
am b10 spiders (shadows of death) til 175
175 = next ar2 quest
cursed tomb b1 lich (priest or high fire res required) til 225
225 = next ar2 quest
cursed tomb b1 lich til 275
275 = next ar2 quest
exhibition of past glories knights of death til 325
325 = next ar2 quest
porin watchtower commanders until 375
375 = next ar2 quest
baahel river death fiends til 425
425 = next ar2 quest
kingdom of dark elf dark elf generals til 475
475 = next ar2 quest
south porin road scorps til 525
525 = next ar2 quest
store 2f til 575
575 = last ar2 quest for now
600 = rebirth
POST REBIRTH 4
-continue killing the party bosses in the order listed above until 4th rebirth 600
-at 600 = go to molinar 4f rat kings
-at 650 = western def hills til 675 (ignore the eagle heads, they are higher than this map)
-at 675 = next ar2 quest (this one should be raid)
-at 700 start the strange customer quest in the bar (where raid is, but different NPC)
-keep doing ar2 til you can't anymore, keep grinding til 850
(might take a bit but its possible to just do raids/ar2 til 850 also lol)
-at 850, do the cemetery ghost stories quest line (it is in my quest guides)
-go to diamond golems (Aurhoin/Orion forest is best) and kill them until 880
-at 880 head to Abandoned Catacombs, stay there til 900 then rebirth to 5th rebirth
REBIRTH 5
-after 900 5th rebirth, head to Vaultish and do the transcendence skill quest so you can unlock those
-make sure to do your Dimension Hub before going back to Cata B1 (it's the NPC left of the raid NPC)
-stay in Cata B1 til 930 then go to B3 until 950
-at 950, head to Forgotten Underground Concentration Camp/Prison til 1k
-at 1000, head to Amem Island and stay there until 1030
-at 1030. head to either Seabed Temple B1 or Prison B3 (both are fine, I prefer Prison B3)
-at 1050, head to Seabed B2 and stay until 1100
-at 1100, do Hector Part II and then grind away in moon valley til 1125
-at 1125, head into star valley until 1185
-at 1185, head to wasteland and stay there til you get to 1250
-at 1250, you have completed the tutorial! Gz :D
Have any questions? Get ahold of me in the comments, pm me in game, or just add me on discord or something heh
