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Hello SRFer's.
Today, I d like to share with you my latest achievement. I believe quite a few have done it, so I thought I would share it with our legit forum. Through my story, I will be introducing a few new concepts which
did play an important role in my current progress. First, here is a screen-shot of me getting to level 101. =)
Many will ask, is it really possible to get 101 legitimately? The answer is yes. How?
The process of leveling no doubt takes months, however a list of things which can change the duration depends on many factors, which I am going to list now explained to a certain extent.

1- An active guild, with an active union.
2- Helpful members.
3- Friends.
4- Luck.
5- Gold.
6- Quests.
7- Premium.
8- Server parties.
9- Bot parties.

An active guild with an active union:

This plays a major part in the process of grinding. Having an active guild increases the opportunity to have an auto share party which no doubt increases the exp gain much more than solo grinding. This grants you the chance to level up faster or either farm with a gap. Of course your guild members won’t mind if you are farming, because most of them will be, however the reverse case occurs in parties from other guilds. They will only want full farmed players, so they can achieve the maximum damage possible. Not to mention, if you are disconnected, your guild members will wait for you, other parties wont. Also the character handling of you and your guild mates plays a major role, for instance if a cleric or a bard gets disconnected, how your party can handle the situation by experience and try to survive also contributes to the leveling process.

Helpful members:

If your guild members are always there for you (Not Botting) the chances of getting a complete party, or either a perfect grinding is optimized. Also, if one party member loss occurs, a replacement is available from the guild mates as long as they are not AFK. Other sorts of help could either be, they could lend you gold to buy gear, gift you any drops they don’t need, stall your cash items once they are AFK, and so on.

Friends:

In most of the cases, having friends either real life or in game for long periods, are incomparable with guild members. If you have a beautiful list of friends 20/20 perhaps , you can break the grinding cycle, by either PvPing together, hunting unique, doing a trade run or even switching characters. (If he’s a friend you really trust)

Luck:

By luck, I mean the frequency of getting drops. As we know, the higher the degree you get, the lower the drop rate gets, for instance during the 3rd Degree, you could get up to 20 drops to inventory full during 1 run. At the 11th Degree, you ll be a lucky person if you could get a drop per day! Of course that low drop rate is divided among 8 players, so it’s extremely low and so are the tablets. Once your luck reaches its full extent, you may get a SOX drop and that will be of a major benefit if it’s luckily a weapon which you can wield or a gear item you can wear, and that of course will increase the damage/survivability and hence the grinding speed or demand of partying.

Gold:

Gold usually depends on luck. The amount of gold you from monsters, is quite low, not even enough to compensate the loss of gold from HP/MP pots. Through being lucky and getting quite an amount of drops or even SoX, you can stall them or make a huge profit by hungry addicts who want to get all pimped up with sealed items or people who love collecting them. Other miscellaneous drops, you could either stall them or sell to an NPC. Of course during this cap, stalling items outside the 9th – 11th Degree range will be a waste of time, and thus decreasing the leveling speed.

Server parties:

The server you are in could also be a factor which can determine your leveling speed. Some servers consist of just botters. Some consist of both legit and parties, where some members’ bot, some members use a key presser while others are forced to lure by hand. (Warriors: P) Parties drastically increase the EXP/SP gain, even at high levels; I highly recommend it whenever available.

Quests:

The 110 cap quests are very rewarding and easy. Example: You are required to hunt 300 mobs of a certain type; the reward is 2,800,000 EXP and 250 SP Points. Btw, this quest can be done unlimited times.

Premium:

Having a premium is a must. 5 hours of double EXP and SP will greatly decrease your grinding time, especially if you manage to get a party during these 5 hours; I guarantee you at least 25% in a decent party at 107 – 110 monsters.

The last part, Bot parties:

A new concept, I have noticed that begun during the 110 cap which is, the bot parties. What is a bot party? A bot party as the name implies, consists of only botters, which consists of a Full STR cleric, 2 bards 1 for dance and 1 for tambour and the rest are wizards of course. A Chinese version also exists, usually with 1 bard and 1 cleric. Basically, the party fails, if the cleric or the bard which does the tambour disconnects, nevertheless if the cleric is back he can resurrect all the party, since they have Auto accept resurrect and auto party on.

Honestly, the only way to get going through the cap, with the huge amount of EXP/SP requirements is joining these types of parties, legit or no, it’s the only way. Basically, the euro parties have been eliminated and replaced by bot parties and that’s the biggest problem. Legit or not, that’s how you can do it, at least I am enjoying my role in the party, as a wizard or as a cleric, I don’t mind what else people are doing around me. At night, I usually leave because staying pretending AFK for more than 30 minutes will result in a ban, plus a death.

Side Notes:

1)Spoiler: At level 100 – 101, a party at 110 monsters with ticket on gives you 250,000 EXP!
2)Some quests give you 9,000,000 EXP just by talking to someone or delivering a letter.
3)Some quests can be repeated unlimited times, for example Becoming a deity 1 & 2.
4)5 turns at the Beginner tomb, accessed by level 100+ players, give you about 7% with ticket on.
5) Current leveling speed is, 4% per hour with ticket on and 1.30% without ticket on, at 106 monsters.

NB: I really don’t mind if you consider me non legit by joining bot parties or so, but I am glad to be one of the first legit hand grinders (if not the only) who made it to the start of the 110 cap.

I hope you enjoyed reading the text, and I wish everyone the best of luck in leveling. I also hope that this wall of text did help some of you figure out why leveling takes forever, and how it should be done.
I really hope the text I wrote wasn’t boring and to some extent well informing.

NB: More screen-shots will be added soon, the thread will be updated! Please inform me what parts did I miss and I will add them, well explained, but I guess the thread is too long to be read already. Thanks for your reading, and hoping for a nice feedback and no flaming.

P.S: Screehshots still not added yet.

I have a question about that quest .
U ghet 2,800,000 xp and 250 sp .
If u grind normal for 2,800,000 xp u ghet more than 250 sp ?

Screenshots will be updated in this post.
More Screenshots will be added.
Sorry, name was blocked for private reasons, you can PM ask for my IGN though, and if you are on my server, we can always talk.

Depends on the gap you have and your level against the level of mobs, so it needs some calculations. However, I ll tell you at my current situation. I am level 100 at 106 monsters with 0 gap and with 0 gap, during the 2.8 Million EXP, by calculation, I get 74 SP points. So, at my current situation, the quest gives me more SP than normal grinding does. Hope I have helped somehow.

Partying with bots has always been a no-no for the legits on Greece so I can only extend our feelings to this topic...

not legit imo.

The general rule was..

accept any player into party, if botting - ban
mostly because one thing leads to another and you end up going afk and getting powerleveled..by a bot, or you do half the work because the people your with don't/can't notice.

Congratulations. I would never have that much patience (probs one of the reasons why I have partly quit) But yeah, all in all, good job. Only part which looks a bit sus is the name but meh, if you don't wanna share your name, don't. Again, congratz.

You can never go AFK in a bot party, because once the leader notices that, you ll automatically get kicked and replaced by a bot. So you have to stay active as possible to show them somehow you are a bot.
It is not that I am partying with bots, it is, the only party form that is available. As I explained, the European party system has been completely eliminated, replaced by these bot parties. Ah thank you. You reminded me of clearing out an important point. As an INT Euro, you can't solo any monsters above level 104 unless, you have a full NOVA set +7. Joymax probably made the monsters so strong so only Chinese players can solo them and euro's have to party to be able to grind them. Also, I stated that if you don't consider me a legit, that's your opinion. I am not here to discuss am I legit or am I not? I am still glad to be one of the first hand grinders that have reached level 110.

If you play on Odin, you can PM me here asking for my name, and when you log in we can speak in-game. And thanks a lot, wish you the best of luck too. Honestly, this cap's quests is amazing and keeps me going!

Thanks, but no thanks. I think my time has come to stop. (migrated to MW2 ) But yeah, got any more screenies for us ?

I am approaching level 101, 97% now! I wanted to make the thread when I hit level 101, but I was too excited to make the thread, so I rushed and did it with the level 101 screeny. I ll post another one when I hit level 101, plus some quest screenshots, and perhaps a tomb picture. Stay tuned and thanks for your supportive posts.

No problem dude. I'm hittin the hay in a minute though, the screenies will have to wait till morning, or even after a long day hopping around at school because of my leg Just keep it up ! And you'll be 110 in no time

Thnx , i've asked u this because most of low lvl quest gives only xp and only few gives sp , so i sad i will never do quests because while u grind that xp that u ghet rewarded from quest u ghet much much more sp

Couple questions.
And don't you find it insane that you have to grind 5 hours with premium and perfect party at higher level monsters to get 25%?!

4%/h with and 1.3%/h without...why is it going slower without ticket on? It's not like you loose stats or something.

Well, if you think about it, a level up in 4 days, isn't that bad, plus the quests and going to tombs, give extra %, so that breaks the sweat.

It usually depends on the number of giant party's that spawn and party complications. Somehow, at night when my ticket is on, the number of giant parties are a lot, so it somehow improves the EXP gain significantly.

Hope I cleared the question!
P.S: Haven't seen congratulations except from 1 person.

Hehe true enough...Well grats and don't care about the being not legit when pt-ing with bots..It's almost impossible to find a full legit pt rofl.

On top of that, Euro parties don't even exist anymore. The only way you could find a legit party, is when you go to the tombs, or a unique such as Medusa.

P.S: 1 more screenshot added.

I think that hardest part would be finding a guild at all.

Anyway, grats

Lvl 101. Atlast!

I'm in a bot guild/union oh noes!

Grats on 101 but meh...No Knight or Baronet? :/

Too lazy to do it. Some people told me it could take 4 hours or more. I guess I ll try it on a day where I am unlucky with parties.

Why do u hide ur name Aeonic?
Nvm good job for level 100 and have fun reaching 110

I just did it for some private reasons, but I had no problem in sharing it with people on my server. Thanks for that, and I d like to know your IGN too. Curious about that!

If he wanted to hide his name for private reasons, why did you have to expose his ign then? i dont understand why people do that.

@Majin Im not playing silkroad anymore

So how did you know that I am Aeonic?

rev6?

Not possible, I aint the only level 101 in the guild!

I'm not sure if the question was answered clearly here but I'll try to help. There's unlimited quest you can take and the quest is mainly to kill certain number of mobs. The numbers he posted is just the reward for finishing the quest which means you'll get this on top of the exp/sp you got from killing those mobs.

Btw, congrats in reaching 101 would be nice if you're Pluto. Me and my gf are, I think, the only high lvl legits there and we're currently at lvl 104 maybe 5-6 days and we're 105. Can't wait for Job Temple to Sp farm. We don't join 24/7 bot pt. We only pt with Guild/friends that bots but only do this for like 3-4 hrs a day, just to finish our daily prem, at 109 mobs. Yup, not 110 mobs. With lure, you'll get more mobs to kill in 109 than 110 mobs. We also pt just the 2 of us and we get almost the same exp/sp so doesn't really matter which pt we do a day, just more fun with friends. Specially when we're killng 5x 109 Gps with several pt mobs and cleric stopped healing for a sec then we all die, lol. When you get to 103, Intermediate Dungeon will be helpfull too. When our prem is done and got nothing to do, we go there,just the 2 of us and just kill 2 uniques per entry. Besides the exp/sp, we also after silver coins. Kinda slow now for exp at our lvl, like 4-5% a day. We don't have Prem Plus anymore, just Prem Gold cause we thought 5hrs is too much.