Easy way to get to level 12/first spear in Istan

First of all im sorry if this is in the wrong forum, if it is then i hope a moderator will move it to the right place

Well we all know when starting a new character in Nightfall that when we're told to go away and gain level 12 with just quests offering 500 exp each and monsters that dont really hand out exp its gonna be a huge task.

but not any more.

I found a way to easily reach the 300 sunspear points it takes to advance in the quest. It doesnt matter what class you are, you should be around level 6 to start with and just by doing the primary quests you should have koss and the monk hero.

The first step is to head to the Astralarium, when you reach there head to the south west portal which leads to the Zehlon Reach.

As soon as its loaded turn a little left and talk to the scout and she'll ask you to kill bugs for the bounty. easy. The only bugs in this area walk around in 3's, there will always be 2 bladed termites and either a grub lance or a preying lance.

turn right again and head down the only path that leads west, just to your left will be a huddle of 3 bugs, take them all out. now facing west again youll see 3 dots both north and south. head south and lure the 3 bugs to you and kill these though make sure you lure them away from the corner further round as its swamped by corsairs. then head north and kill those 3 bugs and follow the path round to find 6 more though youll have to lure them out of the swamp so you dont draw the attention of the local scales.

if you follow that pattern you can easily get each trip to take less than 3 mintues, you start off with 15 bugs in all but once you reach a certain level sunspears will appear in the place of the first 3 bugs taking the total down to 12. these sunspears are the ones youll fight apon reaching 300 points.

also its good to note dying doesnt matter, after each trip fast travel back to the Astralarium and start again, after each fast travel healing signets will be restored and any minuses from points are taken away. all the bugs respawn apon loading, just make sure to remember to talk to the scout.

I was a dervish and by attacking either the preying or grub lance first you draw in the 2 termites and you can deal a lot of area damage to them all to save a lot of time. it even helps to bring another dervish henchman to increase the area damage.

you get 50exp per bug and i started at level 6 and finished just under 9. theres a lot of coin drops, i rarely left a trip with less than 50 gold and weapon drops are a plenty.

i hope this helps anyone also a bit stuck

thanks for reading

P.s this is my first post on these forums so im sorry for any rule breaks or if this is a repeat thread

Very well detailed and thoroughly explained, and gratz on a successful first post. I have no gripes with the content or presentation, it's absolutely spot on

I'm not sure who you're aiming this post at though. If it's at new players, they'd probably learn more about playing the game by playing the game through the levels normally, and if it's for experienced players, most of us have found our own way to quickly get through the grindy bits.

One way to overcome this is to create characters in factions and for the nf characters, it's still pretty quick to quest through the game and a bit more interesting than grinding bugs.

But then, I suppose there's only so many times you can do those quests before it's just like grinding to get off istan anyway so kudos to you for the detailed advice

The skale bounty farm outside of Jokanur Diggings is far superior compared to this run. Run takes 2.5-3mins total and yeilds 29 points.

i prefer doing this outside the great hall ~ usally lvl 7-8 when done

As you level up always remember that you can easily obtain up to 1000 points

by blessings along with double xp.on the Island.

A good post for new guys who may not know how to obtain points.