Newbie MP Grind guide...

Been doing Mp for long enough that I think I have come up with a fairly decent angle on grinding. Feel free to comment and/ or add anything you think should be added or taken away...

Very first thing to do as a freshly, umm, birthed monster is to do the scouting quests. You get them in the starting loc. Go ahead and grab everything in Grams that have a ring, but the key quests are:

Report to Dar-Gazag, maggot

Report to Lugazag

Get to Grothum, maggot

To Tirith Rhaw

Into the Grimwood

To Tol Ascarnen

Also important to nab while doing your scouting quests are:

Mash and Poisoning the Hoardale

How I run the scouting missions... Any other ideas are greatly appreciated.
The trick with all of the scouting missions is a death by your Creep makes you have to return to Grams and retry the quest. So avoiding any heavy fighting with the signatures is strongly encouraged.

1. Head out of Grams and proceed to the North West side of the map. Enter Isen through the western entrance. Scout around and you will be able to find a couple of quests, one involving the Group grind to be discussed later. Head east through the eastern exit and into Grothum. Talk with Bok. Easy 125 DP! Also grab any quests available here.

2. Open your Map (hotkey - M) and look at Grothum and where the Horedale runs out of it. I follow fairly closely that path down to the waterfalls where you can Poisoning the Hoardale . You have to slow- mo walk every time you drop but, it really beats doing the run around.

3. Once the Poisoning the Hoardale is done. Drop down the waterfall and into the water. Be careful here.. There are some places around TA that kill you if you drop.. Suiciding off the waterfall does not. Just makes you real slow for a min or so.

4. Proceed east out of the water and at some point you will get a message that To Tol Ascarnen is complete.

5. Head due east out of the water and tag TR. You will have to talk with the bad guy on the second floor to finish To Tirith Rhaw Two quest givers here. Both show up as Eye of Sauron's so nab them both.

6. Head south and west down to the LC to finish Into the Grimwood We control LC currently so you can get more quests here.. The LC quests are part of the solo grind to be discussed next! If we don’t control it, then simply run the perimeter until you get a message saying it has been scouted.

7. Now head a strong west, north of HH and proceed to Dar- Gazag where you can turn in your Mash quest if you took the time to lick some slugs. This is where all of the HH quests are turned in and will be explained in detail in a later post.

8. Head north and slightly east, just on the base of the Steps of Gram and tag Report to Lugazag

9. Finally, return to Grams, talk with the first Eye of Sauron, then the second and you will have enough DP to level a few of your beginning stats. You will also have the very convenient Map to Gramsfoot which comes in handy for the solo grind to be discussed later.

Final thoughts
It will be discussed more in the solo grind portion, but anytime you see Sun- Touched Trolls, saplings, logs and piles of wood that are selectable, take the time to grab them. These fill various quests later on down the road and are well worth the time to farm them.
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