I grind in spurts, whenever I get a hair up my ass that I need to level more. hit 54 last week and haven't really done much but a few dailies since, maybe 5% in. I know I should of taken more advantage of the exp event but ultimately it's only 30%. between loyalty scrolls and Milk Tea I can hit 55 in a reasonable amount of grind time, when I choose to do it.
Instead I've just been dicking around with money making ventures, Contribute Points, and decided I wanted to finish off World of Knowledge VII. I was about 13 energy short of the 300 I needed and after an afternoon of amity and hunting down rare mobs i'm at 302. Surprisingly there isn't a World of Knowledge VIII quest in game yet. I was mostly curious what they reward would be, since VII gave 10mil. There's easily 150+ more knowledge currently available, not sure why this isn't in yet? I'm sure it'll come with Valencia but so will a ton of new knowledges. the knowledge tree itself lists up to World of Knowledge X currently, but the black spirit doesn't offer the quest.
Ive been wanting to go through and find all the knowledge for Pre-Mediah. I just hate those stubborn ass Amity NPC's where you gain less than 30 amity over 3 rounds. Figured the next time I decide to dive hard core into Amity again like you, I would just get all the Amity+ buffs and Costume so it wouldnt be but so bad. Im no where near your Energy level. At 183, I thought I was doing "okay" haha!
If you max out a level 10 node and have +5 luck, any common farm spot like Hexe or Treant is good money. The easiest way to achieve that is to make sure you have all your character slots full of alts so you can have their energy to dump into a node. From there, find yourself a bed on the AH. The beds able to be bought with silver have durability, where as the cash shop bed has no durability (as of right now). When you actively rest in a bed, your energy increases substantially quicker. I then use "Splashtop Personal" to log into my computer from my work computer or cell phone and Im able to dump energy into the node I want to easily. Quickly maxes out a Node as quick as a node can actually be maxed out, anyways.
The rares you pick up far outweigh anything else atm. Mark of Shadows, Tree Spirit Belts, Witch Earrings etc. are sold immediately on the market (usually). You gain EXP from all mobs, just not near as much as you would doing Sausans or something. As low as .001 on a grey or .004 for a light green at 53 (last time I was at treants). If you're having shitty luck, you can do the loyalty bought Rare Drop scroll that gives you an additional 20% for an entire day at 1000 Loyalty and its almost a sure bet you'll get a drop if you farm till you get one. To repeat, LVL 10 Node, 5 Luck, and 20% Blessing of Kami. ---- If you want to go one step further, you can try for S rank on all the mobs but thats hugely time intensive for anything not even remotely close in relativity to the Valencia update.
Ill do AFK fishing if I have nothing else to do, but I think its far more valuable to get Bed-Energy so you can dump it into a node. The difference between a lvl 10 node and a lvl 1 node is night and day.
(For instance, Ive been +15 all Grunil for about a week now and I started far past release.)
Totally neglecting that at Treants, you have a town right next to you with a warehouse and all of the NPC's for quest drops are in that town. Make about 1.5 mil an hour from just common drops. The occasional Gem drops can net you much more.
