Advantages over water farming:

• Chances to socket your main¡¯s equipment because you will be reborning it over and over.
• Ability to bless your main¡¯s items.
• Lower overall startup costs versus water farming. (You only need one set of socs/don¡¯t need to be full soc to farm effectively.)

Disadvantages over water farming:
Your main¡¯s equips will be used, so if you want to level your main, you¡¯ll need some extra items to play around with.

Equips used for farming in the making of this guide:
Except for a +5 super ring, all other items were Elites in the +3-5 range
Soc percentage 40 drag, 30 rains.

Also if you are attempting this for the first time I recommend that you do no more than 2 warriors at once.

First thing to do is plan and strategize for next steps as to where to level and items you will need. This will help a lot with dealing with unforeseen things happening. (Credits to j.c. demon for mentioning this to me.) My brain just goes to plan mode without thinking. XD


LEVELING
Plvl/vps
You can get plvled until 50-60, but after that I don¡¯t recommend it. This is because leveling you weapon skill will then become a pain and you will be wasting time leveling up that skill. If you are having trouble leveling the wand skill of course tg is your friend. XD

Something that I do is when my warrs get to lvl 80 or so, I create new warrior noobs for me to plvl. This way I get vps that I need for lab and at the same time I¡¯m preparing the next batch of warriors that I will be farming.

Just Plain leveling.
HTA¡¯s superman guide gives a good range as to the attack you will need to 1 shot what mob with sm. SioKanla¡¯s warrior guide lists even more mobs for this purpose. These two links elegantly sum things up the way you¡¯ll want to do it. For those of you who don¡¯t want to read them all, do so. The information is invaluable. For those of you who still don¡¯t want to read, I included a small section of ideas to level after level 55.
HTA Superman Guide
http://bbs.conqueronline.com/showthr...hreadid=389405
SioKanla Warr Guide
http://bbs.conqueronline.com/showthr...hreadid=379874

Depending on you defense, upon reaching the 87-97 range you will want to have at least 2k vps to start going to lab. I¡¯ve attached HTA/Sumeshi¡¯s Lab guide. Again this is an invaluable tool that you¡¯ll need to reference.

HTA/Sumeshi Lab guide attached:
http://bbs.conqueronline.com/showthr...postid=5628957 - post5628957

Ideas/locations to level if you have better equips/want to save investing on lab 4 tokens.
With the advent of Potency, and the use of superman, you should be able to fight mobs of a much higher level much sooner, with the goal being early on to get to slowapes/snakemen by lvl 55 and hillmonsters/rockmonsters by lvl 60. These are the best places that I know of to semi-chain sm at low levels.

Upon reaching 67 to 70, if you have elite +4 to +5 armor, helm, and neckie, you may want to try leveling at birdmen. If you manage to chain sm, you will go from 67 to 70 in about 15-20 minutes. I know that it is possible with an elite +3 lvl 65 wand and elite +4 lvl 63 heavy ring (50 pct total drags). You will still take 80-140 damage, but should be able to pot it off as you sm.
You can level from 115-120 in lab 3 if you have trouble getting tokens to lab 4. I came close to cycling sm between the spawns at 579,410 and 690,445 at lab 3.

With the coming of patch 5022, the spawn sizes in Mystic Castle, especially red/bloody devils, and bats have increased in size. Making leveling at MC a semi viable option. (Especially if there is at most only 1 other person in the spawns you choose to use.) Another advantage is the fact that you may not need vps (or just less of them) and may need less lab tokens.