So. Dark Ruins.

[Dragonwell]

Greets.

so I've been lurking this and AO's board off and on since I quit, and I notice that in one of the more recent patches an instance called Dark Ruins was introduced. You can either solo it or in another version run it with a team; the solo side in particular nets nice XP for TL5 toons.

That sounds awesome but from what I've gathered the solo version is quest-based and can only be done once. oO is this true? To be perfectly honest, leveling in general started to become a turn-off for me in AO, especially in that TL5 - TL6 range (Started around 125 - 130, though, in reality). So CAN YOU run DR more than once (i.e.: As much as you want)? I've heard the XP gains there are stellar given that it's totally solo XP. Doesn't quite match ado heck XP but comes reasonably close. I like the sound of that. Meddle could use some research XP!

Also, hai, I is posting in your boardz. Inactive people posting in your boardz ftw!

-DW

[livesinglory]

Dark ruins has nice xp, better then ado hecks imo.

anyway you can do the solo instance once, gives about 80m xp?
then yo ucan do the team instance as much times u like, however finding an team can be tricky.

[Cryto]

problem is, DR eats up my 145 fixer pretty darn fast. Would have to kite all the mobs. will have to try it again, its a pain for my higher level nt..

[Demoder]

I managed to do all of dark ruins, including clearing the pf, up untill the part where you escort someone through a spirit run, on my agent whe she was a 150 gimp.

It's not impossible, but it's hard. and the only reason I managed to do it on agent is because I FP's soldier and cast TMS.
So obviously, it's easier for some professions than others.

[Dragonwell]

wtb: repeatable solo version. oO

They said they wanted to add viable solo XP. Viable solo XP isn't one-time.

[livesinglory]

<----- agrees with dragonwell