by ShaqPack » Mon Mar 07, 2016 1:22 pm
Personally I find using the 2 hander to be a lot faster, in particular if you grind out spots with mobs that have low armor (humanoids work well) and that are 3 to 4 levels before you. At the same time make sure you got an up to date weapon. The idea is that you want to drop multiple types of totems, kill your enemy and then pull another one over. With many totems up, you won't really need to use shocks even to burn enemies down, and you can pull them over with rank 1 lightning bolts or rank 1 earth shocks to conserve mana (make sure to use rank 1 earth shocks on caster mobs to when appropriate). The longer you aren't casting the more mana you get back, so it's best to use lots of mana in spurts then go back to not using any until you get to the next mob.
I used spots like the harpies in the north west Barrens as well as the venture mobs in Stone Talon Hills to grind to 25-ish. From there you can grind centaur and grim totem mobs, eventually switching to crocolisks in Thousand Needles/Shimmer Flats to get from 25 to about 39. From 39 to about 42 you can grind troll mobs in STV. From 42 to about 50 you can grind Grim Totem mobs in Ferelas, and then from 50 to 55 just grind the harpies in Ferelas.
One last piece of advice, having elixirs is a big help, ditto with the Ony buff, if you know when it usually will be dropped, I'd recommend picking it up because at lower levels it's as MASSIVE dps increase.