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I'm afraid I'm going to have to call Shenanigans on you now. It seems just a little TOO coincidental that you ended up with the same experience both times. It seems far more likely that you Photoshop'd the same display into two screenshots.

You had me with the first one, but now I'm not buying it. maybe he got the charcter to both places?

lol ..

I'm afraid I'm going to have to call Shenanigans on you now. It seems just a little TOO coincidental that you ended up with the same experience both times. It seems far more likely that you Photoshop'd the same display into two screenshots.

You had me with the first one, but now I'm not buying it. Why would you think it's false? Outside of pre-searing, Sanctum Cay to Amnoon Oasis is the only place I'd be forced into any kind of XP.

Let's see.. the route..

In pre-searing, I attacked 3 skale and completed the 'save Gwen' quest. I ran around collecting other primary skills but not completing the quests. I completed the quest for taking on a secondary class and then ran around getting the other skills for it, but not completing the quests.

Here's an important part to preserve 0 deaths...

I logged out (sorry team!) during the academy PVP fight and then logged back in. This put me after the PVP and into the mission. I then would aggro the grawls and back away, letting them piss off Rurik who killed them and kept my XP gain low. He also killed the end group (with the boss) so I gained no XP there either.

Quite by luck, I ended up just over 1000 XP left to level 2. I didn't really think much of this, since I was intending to go through the Divinity Coast mission and then the Sanctum Cay mission which is 2k and thus level 2 (but not level 3, which is fine by me).

After getting myself squared away, I logged into a second user profile on XP and brought in the warrior I have access to from a friend at work. Then, I started running her to various places.

I used a method I like to call "loading time" to prevent her from being logged in until the very end, to prevent a mob roaming too close and killing her (this HAS happened a few times and it aggravated me to no end.. like the damn hydra that roamed to the outside of Grendich Courthouse).

Ascalon, Piken, Grendich, Yak's. Traveled through the annoying upper path area to Ice Tooth Cave then down to Beacon's Perch. My prior run with her had her @ Amnoon @ level 2 and I was content with the armor there, but now I had a chance to get her to Droknar's @ level 1 so I played around with it a little bit but had no luck (the post above about the Drift entrance being near impossible without dying).

So, I continued on to the Gates of Kryta, Lion's Arch, D'Alessio Seaboard, Beetletun, Divinity Coast. I was going to run Divinity Coast but I wanted to get Bergen Hot Springs first.. and I also decided.. it would be nice to get to Amnoon @ level 1 this time around. I HAD tried to get her to the Temple of the Ages a while back but got decimated on the run (this warrior has only sprint, so very hard to run through that damn area). I get her to Bergen, then attempt another run to the Temple of the Ages and I make it! So I load up a party of 8 and take her down to Fisherman's Haven (incidently, I get to keep the party of 8) and then over to Sanctum Cay. I run the mission on Sanctum Cay and get 1k experience. I post the first screenshot.

Having read the reply about the Drift, I decided to give it a few more tries and I discover that it CAN be done (on the first successful attempt, an idiot aggro'ed creatures back to me at the beginning of Snake Dance).

I eventually make it to Camp Rankor and then to Droknar's Forge. After that, I ran the Divinity Coast mission (which leveled me to 2) and took her to a couple more places, ending at Riverside Province.

Long post. Sorry

..and to the person asking what the point of this is..

Why do I need ANY reason to challenge myself?

What's the point of getting all your characters to level 99, a gold chocobo, all the summons, and beat Ruby and Emerald in Final Fantasy 7 when you can beat the game at level 50 with none of those? ..because it's a personal challenge you set for yourself.

My personal challenge started as a desire to see how far I could take my character (which ended up being the monk as I looooove her) with 0 deaths. It then blossomed into a desire to get the best armor possible to assist with the PvE grind and help make the job of 0 deaths a little easier. It then turned into a desire to see if I could make it to Amnoon @ level 2 and that then left the challenge of.. well, what about level 1? For my goal of best armor possible at the lowest level with the least amount of deaths, I can't do any better than level 1 with 0 deaths. It took a god awful long time and alot of frustrations to pull it off so don't rain on my parade.

It's just a personal goal that I'm sharing with people who may think it's cool.