XP Farming sheepFollow

I don't know about the xp being better, actually its below avg, but I did lvl my Arc and Arn 36-39 off them but that was because I needed to get my Wvr to 42 and fleece is expensive as ****.

Problem is since fleece is so pricey folks are there just to get it for AH/$$$ purposes so its best to find a time there is not a lot of folks.

Around the southern entrance of Camp Dragonhead is the only place I've seen them. There is also a levequest that activates near the Raw Jade mining points that spawns Karakul, you see people doing it all the time - probably for that reason.

Oh ok, so it's the Ornery Karakul or w/e?

I've seen those. I knew they dropped skins, as I have a few, but didn't know they dropped fleece too. No wonder they're over farmed ><

How did they break it?

I thought they just added mobs. I hadn't heard of them changing the amount of exp you get from them.

more sheep can be found NE of Dragonhead. A FATE where you kill Orges happens in the area. You have to run up and around to get to the spot. I saw 5 there.

I think the OP is trying to start a discussion about whether or not chain farming mobs in general is good for xp chains, using sheep as an example. If sheep are not a viable option, what about chain farming other mobs in a party setting for xp, like in XI? I too heard it was a viable option if you keep the chain going and have a good sized party, but I havent tried it.

I can definitely see the merit to this early on. Where simple monsters give you 200-300 exp per kill, and where a FATE gives you perhaps 4k exp at most.

I'm pretty sure once you reach coerthas and get 10k to 40k from some of the 1-2 minute lasting FATEs, there's really no point to this anymore.

Still, this whole exp mentality has been happening ever since XI. People absolutely refused to kill anything but the Incredibly Tough monsters, which netted the party 600 exp in a chain. While they could have simply been mass-killing lower level monsters for 200 exp per kill, just 10 times as fast. It wasnt till the later years that they finally realized that "Oh, we make more exp just killing trash".

If you are soloing the sheep, in one of the good spots, the sheep could give decent exp/hour. At level 40 each sheep cave me 250exp. The only problem is I was never alone at each of the big spawn spot as there were people there farming for fleece (easy to tell, if they are lvl50, they are farming :p).

If you are in the area and in need of levels, the best would be to join a FATE party. I assume these happen on NA servers. Up until yesterday there could be 3-4 full FATE parties running around (xfers, didnt seem as many people in the area last night). In a FATE party you get cred for killing the target mob(s) and usually the max reward at the end of the FATE (10k+). If you do the 3 part one, you easily get 50k (there is an escort, and fight a bunch, and then a big dragon to end it [it alone will give 20k]).

From what I have read: the three parts to Svara give live 8k then 10k then 20-25k. The Eyes Have It is the other big one with +20k and a minion. Along with the dozen other FATEs that pop around there.