Navigators and Bypass

Bypass is a skill that gives a chance to skip a specific area for either quests or campaigns. It can save some frustration from endless searching of no scan mobs in the gauntlet or help prevent you have some to wait for a specific time in masquerade. Bypass will lead to much faster campaign times and a result will fill our pockets with qps.

Navigators can bypass 2 areas as soon as the skill is obtained and once total int + wis is 400 or higher another area can be added to the list.  There is also newer wishes which can add 2 more areas for bypass for navigators or a total of 2 areas for non-navigators. Navigators also have the ability to buy bypass instinct. Bypass instinct works unique from other instinct by having a max of 100 and 1-100 acts as what percentage that bypass slot operates at. 17 bypass instinct means you will have 17% chance at bypassing that area. Getting it to 100 instinct would make that bypass slot act the same as the bypass wish at 100.

There are a few plugins that help manage bypass by auto setting areas as you level, I stumbled on to Nohh’s which can be found at Nohh’s Github. I did have to modify the script slightly to account for new areas added since the script was written.  It’s pretty easy to do: Open the script in any text editor and find line 46 or just use the find function search for “area_keyword” to find the variable that needs to update.  You should see a bunch of areas names set to = 1.  Just follow the pattern that already exists in the variable.  You’ll know you need to do this when trying to add an area to the list and get an error that it can’t be found.

Below are some suggested bypass areas and the levels to have them at.  It is by no means a complete list and there are some overlaps that prevent all from being set.  Keep in mind that some goals make areas much easier to navigate, pun intended, and may not be a good area to pick.