Classic: Levelling Guide - Darkshore 27-30 step 55 onwards (Razor Hill) observations

[TheSnowedOne]

Hi there,
Been playing and using the levelling guide - for the most part, I've been enjoying the layout and progression; it all tends to make sense.

However when you reach doing quests in and around Raven Hill in Duskwood - it seems to be a bit all over the place; with multiple steps returning you to kill the same or similar mobs after bits of hand-ins back in Darkshire which end up with a number of times going from one side of the zone to the other to do hand in of steps.

Now I understand that this seems to be the design of a few of these quests, but I'm wondering if there could be better optimisation here so that you don't have to kill the same mobs more than once.

In particular, there was one section where first I had to kill skeletal fiends. Next step had me killing skeletal horrors - these mobs are side by side, and it would have been good to know I should kill them all instead of working my way around them to pick out the ones I need for that step. In previous levels all these mobs were listed to be killed at the same time.

It might be worth revisiting this section of the levelling to see if perhaps the number of times you go back and forth all over the zone doing hand-ins could be reduced + the killing of the mobs for different quests better optimised.

[ZG Support 1]

This is done intentionally to get you more mob kills. That in turn helps to reduce the amount of time you will have to spend grinding mobs later.

[TheSnowedOne]

This is done intentionally to get you more mob kills. That in turn helps to reduce the amount of time you will have to spend grinding mobs later.

Okay that partly makes sense but it still perplexes me why some of the steps are not listing everything in the area that should be killed but instead dripfeeds you specific mobs you should be killing at that stage. I spend a lot more time targetting specific mobs than I would if I knew I should just kill everything in the area until the following quests/step objectives are done.

[ZG Support 1]

When using the classic guides you should be killing everything in your path as you move from place to place. That will get you some of those other kills (possibly meaning you don't have to go back) and will also be a great boon in reducing the amount of mindless grinding that will need to be done in the future.