Hey all

I am new to this forum. I am a level 52 druid on the Sayrn server and have had the worst luck grouping.... I die everytime in a group. Anyone know of a good place for me to solo? I have all the expansions thru LDoN.

I'm thinkin thats a decent level to quad Aviaks in Timo or maybe the Raptors?

At this level I did raptors, in Timerous Deep.

Charm rockhoppers in dawnshroud?

Can also charm in Maidens Eye

Kiting in Skyfire is fun if you don't care about Ring of Scale Faction

Quad Wyverns in CS

Can still probably squeeze out some XP quadding in the dreadlands in the area in front of the north wall

Root/Dot in Velks

It's been a while, but I think I spent the early 50's quadding the tro jeg on the plateau in Scarlet Desert.

I was charming ravens in plane of nightmare then. Charm broke often but I was getting amazing xp. 53 got a lot better with Glamor of Tunare. Good Luck.

I remember spending my early 50s root/dotting the disturbed elysians in Umbral Plains. Ok exp but nice armour drops for that level.

I did the ely's along about that time, it is good armor. Didn't have much luck on charming in PON but friend of mine did well there. I did root dot in velks lair, and also pick up groups as a healer. Velks is pretty safe on the bottom floor, tricky going to the second floor till you get the hang of it, there's a see invis mob if I remember right and the floor is slick, you slide and can fall. Bottom's floor is safe tho.

50s can be tuff. You die all the time in groups, Just wondering do you keep root loaded when you are in a group? Something beats on me I'm casting a root fast, and then back up. I stay soe'd up all the time to, to faster back up. Generally I try to back up before it beats on me lol. If I can't use soe, I use the ldon indoor speed spell forget the name.

think I got through most of my 50's in The grey killing the skels in the corner, also Quadding in CS (Wyverns or Otters if you don't care about faction)

think I got through most of my 50's in The grey killing the skels in the corner, also Quadding in CS (Wyverns or Otters if you don't care about faction)

If you hunt non named Wyverns or Drakes they are on Claws of Veeshan faction but wont give a faction hit for killing.

Othmirs however do give a -Cute Otters faction hit

Charm rats and kill the little flies in PoD. Crap loot but nice exps.

I was mostly root rotting the at the tents with the Poachers in Jaggedpine forest. You can harmony pull them and they drop pelts which I think I was using to make padding to sell at the time. Wasn't bad xp and very quiet. Also you can forage Plant Shoots which sell for quite a bit.

Othmirs however do give a -Cute Otters faction hit

which can be embarassing for epic 1.5

I'd highly recommend quadding Wyverns in Cobalt Scar as well. Really great xp. Those levels fly there, although it slows down considerably at 53 or 54. Loot is also pretty decent from wyvern hides to gems to spells if you hit Azureake or Yvolcarn (careful he isn't snarable/rootable).

Lots of room to drag your wyvern pack around, just learn the places where the drakes don't path and keep an eye out for them.

PoD is also great, but I wouldn't bother until you get Glamour of Tunare and Call of Karana. If you get a hasted rat pet, they can take down flies endlessly without needing a heal and the xp is very good, the loot is terrible but they occasionally drop vendor trash that sells for 40pp or so.

Well without a doubt it is CS for wyverns. I got simply sick of killing them up to level 56 or 57. They quad easy, hardly ever resist snares and the loot is simply awesome. Hides sell for 80-200pp each and they drop gems all the time. You can easliy make as much as 500pp an hour here and get great xp. The only downfall is that the forages are worthless.

I agree with the CS suggestion since it's a few expansions back now and rarely overcamped. If you haven't yet, try to find an arena raid and get your dragon faction up. Makes cs a lot easier if the wyerns and drakes like you to begin with.

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If you die constantly while grouping it means you are constantly stealing agro. Sometimes thats the tanks fault but usually its yours caused by either overhealing or overnuking.

from 52-60 wuad wyrens then go to Crypt of Nadox for root rot at safe spot doing do guardians at bridge if you have grat charms you can charm the big mean piggies and do most of zone great exp and loot and can bind there hehehehe port out for sell and gate back to continue the root/ rot did this still WoW came out and was 65th by then not doing NC and WoS!! :)

Goto Timorous Deep and learn to charm kill on the Raptors, just enter the zone cast succor then head south checking track. Beware of their agro and speed, they move fast and hit hard for that level and seem to have a large agro radius.

Once you are 53 and have Winged Death goto Umbral Plains and get your Elysian armour, unless you have better, root rot them. if you are not twinked its worth the hassle, it can take some time though, I went from 53 to 54.5 before I had a full set, dam tunic. If gear and mana is a concern do the symbol of tunare quest and you will end up with a clicky root item, you could just level to 55 and get ornate legs and heaps better clicky root of course :).

Then hit PoN and use a raven to kill things with, some are to high to charm at that level, just get a different one, treant valley or just past the falls before the stalkers are good spots, treant valley is safe, no roamers and lots of room.

The stalkers are another good spot mid to high 50's, use them to beat your pet down, break charm, kill old pet, charm another and you can clear the camp but god its boring, so is raven killing though.

Nadox is also a great spot to charm kill till early 60's, bind in Gunthark at the lighthouse goto nadox get one of the piggies as a pet, first tunnel on the left with the bridge at your back, then enter first room on left, 2 piggies in there that can be charmed. Then clear the areas around the bridge, gate out when full, sell, bank, run back, rinse repeat, good xp and loot. When you hit 63 and get command of tunare you can charm the exhausted bloodtusk when its up and generally eat most of the zone. Make sure you give your pet 2 one hand weapons. Agro radius in nadox is small so you do have room to move around a bit, great zone.

Lots of other spots but I liked the above ones the most myself.

The trick about charm is to have everything snared, your pet and the mob ur killing, having a lot of room to run away is very nice too. I call it charm kitting, another little trick that you will learn is as you run away and you think your far enough to cast your charm before getting hit by the mobs is to stop running and to start rotating this will make you stop quicker and not interupt your casting (worked very well for me).

Good luck on exp'ing :)

Call of Karana (lvl 52 charm) works wonders on nightstalkers in PoN if you can't find a group =)

I always prefered the blood ravens for some reason, charm just seemed to last way longer and I'm not really sure why, but cast your animal haste on one of those and your rocking. You might die a few times while perfecting the technique but it's the fastest xp and more fun I had soloing cause it was really challenging.

I was soloing the Slargilugs down the ravine after a while cause they where better xp, they are druid and dot you though but nothing Radiant cure didn't fix :)

And yes Call of Karana outlasted all the new charms for duration hands down! Good point Dayuna :smile:

I find Can of Tuna tends to outlast Karana by a good margin, Never had to resnare when Using CoK, ALWAYS end up resnaring with CoT

People underestimate the XP obtainable in the Deep. It's not a great place to kite but if root/rotting is your thing, I can think of a better place.

Elysians have 18k HPs, the return on experience is crap and at this point you can buy far better armor in the baz for less than 500p. I did this as a young druid just for the armor, but the kills took forever and the experience was crap. As soon as you feel comfortable, head to Dranik's Scar. The mobs there are nasty because they have 500 hp procs, but they can't hit you with it if you avoid them. It's dangerous but a great return on XP for the time invested if you're careful and smart. I would also recommend the planes over UP any day; PoN, PoD, PoV.

The best part about being a druid is there's not a lot of mobs that are snareable and don't summon that you can't kill. It's pretty much just a matter of killling mobs within the levels that offer up more XP.

Perhaps one of the most important things you'll want to do at this point is keep a vigil on guilds that are killing Fennin Ro in PoF and see if you can't find an in to one of their raids. All you need is to hail to elemental to get your Fire flag. Befriend an officer in one of these guilds etc. You can do it the hard way too if you find a guild that's backflagging, just get the flag. When you approach 65, nothing nets better solo experince than quadding these guys. :)

When you approach 65, nothing nets better solo experince than quadding these guys. :)

i guess thats right, but you need a huge manapool to quad the mobs in Fire at the table ;)
but if i remember right, there are only very few servers where Tables not camped evry night, so finding a group there won't be hard.

I agree with the posts relating to quad kiting in CS, the Wyverns are a breeze and don't worry about faction too much, I ended up with the worst possible faction but a after a raid or two knocking over giants they loved me again! (either that or AoW can't remeber which :P ) Then when the XP slows you can switch to the otters (Othmir) they are a little harder, have to watch the shaman. Sorry the post is a bit woolly but it was a little time since I was doing that but I remember it was fun

Then when the XP slows you can switch to the otters (Othmir) they are a little harder

You monster!! I tried quadding Othmirs once, but their little wobble run behind me was so sad. I vowed never to harm the cuddly creatures ever again! :lmao:

you need a huge manapool to quad the mobs in Fire at the table

Well, for the most part, either that or an Orb of Clinging Death from TT in Time. You can manage a quad kill every 12-15 minutes with that orb, regardless of mana. The only mana you need to regen doing that is any mana spent in between dots firing off a quad spell, which, with max FT you can fire off once for every 2 orb dot casts and never worry about dipping below 80m. By the time you've gathered the next set, you'll be FM again.

BTW, 2 common mistakes I've notice when watching others quad in Fire:
1. They use the too often resisted magic quad spell instead of rain. Even before the innate chance to resist was removed, rain was still the better choice of the two.
2. When using the rain spell, they waste time debuffing. I guarantee you a normal Fire mob will never, under any circumstances, resist your rain spells now that the innate chance to resist has been removed. Debuffing is a waste of time in Fire unless your using single target, no resist-adjust nukes, as -50 cold resist-adjust is more than enough.

The flip side of that is NOT debuffing, in say a group setting, where you and everyone else is using single target nukes. Debuffing cold will kill the mobs faster plain and simple, because there is NO chance that any cold based spell will be resisted in Fire once debuffed. And as has been posted many times in these threads, Eci's is your better bet over Glacier because of mana efficiency vs debuff effectiveness.

hmm i never used rain spells, i should give them a try ;), i have the orb from TT(Time) but i didn't base my quadd on it. I will give it a try also. All i need ist an empty C2 on Antonius Bayle now........(did it ever hapen? :banghead: ?)