I need leveling help

[Yosei]

The phinos and kebings are up in the hills in FoT.

[Xylem]

Up until my level (27) I did no grinding or training whatsoever. I got to level 27 by purely doing quests and KQs. Right now, my only options are grinding, since the quests are too hard, and the KQs are impossible to get into. -sigh-.

After reading so many posts on parties, I lost the enthusiasm to join other parties to fight strong bosses such as marlone and such.

Oh yea, at lvl 18, just do quests and KQs.

[jacquin]

While I don't agree on avoiding parties (myself I love them, especially questing parties), I do agree that until about L26 you only have to do KQs and normal quests to level. In fact, I didn't even use KQs TO level with: instead of just did the KQ until I completed the sidequests (took 4 times with King Slime and a TON of times with Mara. Gold Hill only about 3 times since I can't do part 3).

After that point, though, your best option is to party and grind, since it's also that point when our damage starts to get outpaced by the enemy HP (though our tankiness stays: I can still hold back a mob with heal/pot/stone/invinc/recovery forever but killing is a whole other tale).

Probably the #1 best thing to do is to use the L20s and KQs to find people you like to work with and party with them. At those levels, it's very sensible to party to kill quest mobs together (even if they aren't doing the same quest, if it's in the same area it's still sensible) yet if you find yourself hating them, you could leave them and still solo fine. Also, many of the folks who won't remain in the game fall out at about the L20 spot (when money becomes a BIG issue and the difficulty rises) so it's a better chance that the folks you meet are in it for the long stretch.

Of course, if your quasi-anti-social like myself (love working and helping strangers, but have a hard time being a regular to the same people) things can get...interesting in a bad way.

[Xylem]

I get more money after I was level 20. The only money issues i ahve was when i first reached level 20, but after i got my hammer and armour, money starts to pour in faster than < lvl 20.

Plus, I've seen enough of parties... I was in Moonlight tomb once, we had 3 people in our team. Then along comes a high level cleric offering to help us level. The party leader then invited the cleric, and kicked this archer out of the party saying "we do not have enough space". I got pissed at him for doing that, then i left the party myself without saying anything. Parties consist of selfish people, from most of the experiences I have had. It's hard to find a good one, and there's not many good people in the game either.

[Spells]

There is a ton of good people in game, they're all just higher levels than you.