Abyss Points without PvP: corridor farming by class

From the 'how much AP are we missing' thread (40 comments) and the Sorcerer corridor thread (52): Chanter 18k on a 1,000-Item-Level alt at 40k combat power (kon4m), 21k at 1,200 (Saittis91), 26k at 1,400 / 70k (Ichimizu), 30k at 160k (Any-Replacement-5645); Templar 26–32k; Ranger 20k at 125k (KickBassLead), 25k at 100k with tab-targeting (Wiziii), even 16k on a modest Ranger (Alexius-rex); Cleric 19–30k; Sorcerer 10k at 80k (Impossible-Address60), under 20k at 130k (Masuia), 26k at 185k (Purelythelurker). About 30–32k a run is the cap — 'mobs do not respawn faster' (henriquewsouza, TheTrueIpowny; jcTriik: 30k at 170k is about it).

Take Dark Crush out of the corridor macro — it has no area damage — and put Rushing Smash first: it resets on a kill, so 'you basically just teleport around killing everything' (Azsune; kakaka38: 'Chanter dash reset destroys corridor'). Turn off auto target lock after kills. This is the one place the gap closer belongs in a macro: nine players against one keep it out of the boss macro, where it charges you into mechanics.

The Sorcerer is the worst corridor class (three players) because its macro has no area filler, so a second preset puts Ice Chain into the macro — the only spammable area skill, 'the only time I use ice chain over fire arrow' (Omni-Light; khrucible, Ysildeaa, LestatAnon agree). Fire Hellfire uncharged to one-tap packs and circle backwards (Weary-Tap-1192), or stand in the middle and spam tab (Spotikiss). Purelythelurker expects 30–35k once Ice Chain one-shots.

The macro stops after a kill until you set 'automatically choose next target when skill used' and 'pursue target' (Living-Scheme-6961, 32 upvotes) and turn off 'long press quickslot' (Interesting_Car_5689). Tab-targeting while holding the macro is the Ranger's trick for 25k at 100k. Our settings page lists every option with the players' picks.

Abyss Points buy stigma shards, and stigma breakpoints are the biggest combat-power jump in the game (each 5/10/15/20 step 2–4k, 15 → 20 about 6–8k). The 'I hate Abyss/PvP but I need the power' thread (53 upvotes, 87 comments) and 'Stigma shards as a non-PvP player' (42 comments) land on corridors plus the Elyos/Asmodian weekly AP missions; one player farmed all four stigmas to 20 in 23 days (60 upvotes) mostly this way. Since 28 Oct the weekly Land Grabs mission pays a Lower Abyss Rift Stone instead of Abyss Points, and Watcher Kaira pays one too.