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After spending hours and hours grinding with a 9 gap and then deleveling, I decided it would be best to start again and just go for a constant 4 gap throughout. If I 4 gap all the way to the 90 cap, I'll get 537k SP and my build requires 560k. I'll make up the extra 23k through dying and changing my gap.

I was just wondering if you guys thought it would be a good idea, because I hate getting pfarmed, I like playing the game. This way I'm levelling up, getting SP, and I'll always have enough SP to max me out at the mastery 4 levels lower than me.

Also, how long would it take me to reach around lvl 64? (I've never had 8D before) I'll be playing around 3-4 hours per day every day during summer. I have no premium or GT. The time I spend playing doesn't include logging in btw. I'm a pure STR bow (90 Pacheon, 90 Fire, 90 Force, 30 Light)

What do you guys think?

I like your build

This would work alot better if you have a gold ticket or skill ticket (skill ticket is best, if you just have that, you could probably 2 gap the whole thing). Gapping is annoying though, maybe it would be best for you to just 0 gap to cap then farm.

If you can grind fast and you do this 4 gap thing (4 gap is the "mystery" gap btw, it's not beneficial for xp or sp, it's like equal. That's why you have a good amount of sp, but you're gonna level pretty slow), then it's gonna take a while to hit 90... And I mean a long while, but if you can stick with it, it'll take less than a year .

Ok thanks for the info dude, I like the idea with the skill ticket. The only problem is, I'll probably need to buy premium as well. Some days I might not be able to get on and my ticket will go to waste, but if I had premium it would sort this issue out. Skill ticket is also very cheap, so I might just buy it without premium... hmmm...

EDIT:

Lol, 2 gapping with a Skill ticket will get me 683k sp =P So it means I could probably afford to one gap some of the way... am I calculating this right? I used nivlam to check how much SP I would get 30-90 with a 2 gap (341,544 sp) and then doubled it...

SECOND EDIT:

Why was my post moved somewhere else then moved back here o.o ?

im not 100% sure but im pretty sure its alot faster to farm ur sp with a 9 and 0 gap the rest of the way.
and u can use the sp-gap calculator to see how much sp you would get from when your done farming to 90 with a 0 gap and subtract that from the total of sp needed so you wont have to farm as much.

when ur farming at a 9 gap just dont think about ur lvl just the sp

Ermm dunno if you read my second post. That's exactly what I done. Please read carefully dude, don't just respond without reading. I've already tried 9 gapping to get SP, it's boring. I want to play the game and progress at the same time. I'm sick of getting to lvl 28 and then going back to 20, when I can go to 28 and then keep going with a 4 gap. When I get my skill ticket I'll only need to 2 gap and I'll be done in no time.

I would rather keep levelling and work towards the next level instead of going up and down and up and down.

It won't be double unless you only level while on the 3 hours of premium time/sp ticket.

I know gapping sucks, but 4-5 gapping will be even worse. Trust me, I tried that before.
You'll level slow and your SP goes up slowly as well.

Here's what I'm going to do.

0 gap to 26. (yes it's an odd number, but meh. I have lvl 17 skills and cba to delevel them)
9 gap at 26 while getting some SP's. (Enough to get my basic skills to 43'ish)
0 gap to 52 while leaving skills at 43 and upping 1 mastery to 51.
9 gap at 52 to grab the skills I didn't got before.
9 gap at 52 to get skills to lvl 63 and more.
0 gap to 72 while leaving skills at 63 and and upping 1 mastery to 71.
9 gap at nachals to grab skills I didn't got before.
9 gap at nachals for 90 cap (only need 2 trees after lvl60 thus things will work out faster)
0 gap to lvl 90 and probably farm a bit at the cap if needed.

As you can see I switch between 0 gap and 9 gap often enough to make SP farming bearable.

Mobs
26 > whatever my quest tells me to grind on.
52 > shades (or penons/sonars if I can find a nice spear)
72 > nachals

^All with gold ticket (might buy prem for the extra SP quest, but that's undecided atm) and gold skill ticket.

Yup, that's why I said you could probably 2 gap it, sometimes you might grind for longer than 3 hours, but even then, you should still be able to make it.

Imo, if you're going to gap, this is the way to do it.

A better way is to 9 gap from lv 19-29 on ongs once, and then you can try and 1 gap it, because you'll get alot of sp at the ongs (keep in mind, you'll be gaining sp as you build up your gap as you level from 10-19). If you plan on perma-gapping a character, it's best to have it a 3 gap or less, 3 gap is even big, 2 gap is fine, 1 gap is ideal (if you're gapping, of course 0 gapping is best).

1.i read everything, 2 u said nothing about 0 or 9 gap in ur second post, you did say it in ur first. when i typed that i was thinking you were asking the fastest/best way to be full farmed 90.

Binning, is that 4 gap with Premium + 4 week SP ticket as well? Or just without any silk items at all? I've been doing the same thing as you have, 4 gapping all the way up to 90; but with just a regular Premium Gold + SP ticket and doing the Premium Seed Quests.

By the way, I'd like to know who you are ingame as well since you're in Odin as I am too.

The 9 gap was the first thing I mentioned ^^

Well I'll only really be grinding 3 hours per day, that's all I can make time for, so I'll be using all of my skill ticket. I'm not using any sort of premium, I just don't think I should reward Joymax for their bot infested game =P Just Skill ticket for me.

My in-game name currently is 'Acula', but when I switch to my Bow account I'll be going under the name of 'Durge'.

So which one should I PM? If you want I can help you out there in my spare time when I'm not on my tickets. I have them set up to start up at night then in the morning I usually find a decent Niya Guard PT to use them up and such. By the way, I would still get a Premium Gold in addition to that SP ticket. I only have a 4 gap and on regular mobs my level, I get one full SP point and then some. (400 SXP = 1 SP correct?) But only with those two combined. If they werent, I'd get about half that.

If you can afford it, its not that bad really.

Depends on you...it'll take you a long while to farm at a 4 gap.

I usually play Euro's so they go up faster, but I've typically done similar to what Takolin described.

0 gap to ~18-20
Open a gap till I'm 22-23, gives me anywhere from 4-6 gap
ONGS ONGS ONGS pfarm whatever amount. Adjusting gap to 9, delevel where required. 3-4 hours per day - 5k per day easily w/ no ticket. Right now I am pfarming a lvl 22 and he gets about ~1k per hour with a 7 gap at ongs. It'll depend on your pfarmer. I used a lvl 64 cleric so he kills kind of slowly. I'm sure a high-level nuker will just blow that SP gain away.
Leave a 2-3 gap pretty much the rest of the game. Whatever is left adjust gap to 5-6 according, farm on penons/sonars or snipers later on.

Oh, and go for a premium silver at LEAST. I hear gold is nice, but I've never bothered with it.

Alright, I currently have 26k after being Pfarmed at Ongs. I'm lvl 30 with a 4 gap. I'll keep the 4 gap up to 42, then open a 9 gap. Then I'll get pfarmed at Penons from 42-45 which will get me 75k SP. All in all, at lvl 45 I should have gained around 122k SP in total, leaving me 438k left to farm.

Then, I'll 4 gap up from 46-63. At that point I'll 9 gap from 64-65 (Probably on nachals or something, it will take ages I know. Maybe I can get pfarmed at 64, but it will cost a lot). Then I can 2 gap from 66-90. So here's the plan

0 - 22 (0 Gap)
23 - 27 (9 gap)
28 - 41 (4 gap)
42 - 45 (9 gap)
46 - 63 (4 gap)
64 - 65 (9 gap)
66 - 90 (2 gap)

Gets me 591,087 SP in total.

How does that sound?

Thanks for the offer Rhe7oric, but what do you mean by help =P ? I won't be able to start this until the summer because I'm going on holiday on Friday and I'll just be stalling to get enough gold to start when I get back.... btw PM me on Durge, it's the most active right now.

As for the silver premium... I might get it. I don't mind spending a lot of time on this. It's not like I want to get it done right away. I might by premium if I start to think that things are getting REALLY slow but that won't be until around 42-46.

Thanks for the help everyone!

I'll help powerlevel you up some, not often though because I myself have a busy schedule these few weeks coming up. Although, I'm gonna stay away from Samarakand Ongs because Supergirl (level 90 wiz/cleric_ from _OrdreSacre_ keeps on spawning slave watchers on EVERYONE there, regardless if they are legit or not. He is pretty much the new server asshole now =/

It's too late for me to go to Ongs anyway, I'm too high a level. The next thing I'll be getting pfarmed on is Penons. Thanks for the offer dude =) I won't pester you into plvling me. Just send me a forum PM if you're on and have free time or something, then I'll try and log in. Thanks a lot dude, much appreciated =)

in all honesty if your going to start again i would suggest you pfarm all the sp you need at ongs. if you can afford it buy a prem and a gold sp ticket and find a high lvl buddy who can plvl you at ongs. in a bout a month with a prem and a gold sp ticket you should have anywhere from a few hundred K sp to 600K (if you can find a bot to plvl you 24/7) which will allow you with most builds to 0 gap to 90 and be fully farmed or nearly so.

in all honesty if your going to start again i would suggest you pfarm all the sp you need at ongs. if you can afford it buy a prem and a gold sp ticket and find a high lvl buddy who can plvl you at ongs. in a bout a month with a prem and a gold sp ticket you should have anywhere from a few hundred K sp to 600K (if you can find a bot to plvl you 24/7) which will allow you with most builds to 0 gap to 90 and be fully farmed or nearly so.

Nobody seems to understand why I want to do it this way though -_- I hate levelling up then delevelling, I don't get a sense of achievment. I've never been able to use the higher skills, I wouldn't mind just getting up to like 72 and using that account to pfarm my other chars at Ongs. With the way I'm doing it, it means I NEVER have to delevel, thus, I'm always going up and up and up. Getting Pfarmed at Ongs is boring and there's no effort involved, I want a sense of achievment when my char is a high lvl and fully farmed.