60 druid things

[beev]

So, I've finally emerged from that god forsaken frozen wasteland known as the bear pits after spending the last 7 levels down there. I'm now 60 and I don't have the purpose of grinding for exps anymore on him.

What are some fun things you do as a 60 druid to keep yourself entertained? I personally enjoy helping out lower level players get through some of their levels but there isn't any other gains besides feeling good about doing it. I want to mix it up, explore some. Do you mostly focus on raids now? Do you just camp things for alt items or plat? Do you sit inside the bar in rivervale and drink till you black out?

[Auvdar]

Learn to solo/charm Kedge for loot/money.

Start epic (the only *hard* part is getting a VS kill. Maybe a Faydedar kill if you aren't in a raiding guild).

Gear up resists.

Learn to PL for money, or if you can find a solid group of friends learn to AoE Chardok or whatever it is (used to do it before I retired).

Find a solid group and farm Sebilis. Despite common belief, you *can* be effective down there with the right group. Good luck on PUGS, but a static group of friends can benefit from a druid.

Getting black out drunk Kelethin > Rivervale FYI.

[Auvdar]

As for me personally, when I hit 60 it was just raid support. Until some asshole monk who gets into Bar Fights had me change my firepot bind for no real reason >_< Of course I was silly drunk, but ya' know.

[Estu]

Druid PL is huge. You'll be able to make a lot more money doing that than farming stuff as a druid. Learn the correct method and put it into practice and you can make heaps of platinum. Of course, you should only do that if you actually want heaps of platinum, but it can be fun to twink out an alt.

[Itap]

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[rafaone]

I would start doing cycles for fun and profit.

Charming in Kedge and Chardok (if you manage to get an hour without AoEs there) can be pretty entertaining and rewarding also. You can also charm in SolB and move up to royals or Efreeti if you want a challenge.

Start epic if you haven't done it already.

Gav

[Thulack]

....waiting for Daldaen to comment.

[Daldaen]

Most Druid things I do lately involve puppet strings and a robe of the springs. Generally not items that are readily available for your typical 60 druid.

As others mentioned:

Kedge Farming
Powerleveling
Charming in Chardok, Sol B, Kedge, Permafrost

One thing that I'm fond of personally is doing claasic quests. Not exactly the best money making tactic but it's what EverQUEST is about. Being a 60 druid having port mobility, and all their tools, most classic quests are extremely easy.

Full sets of Crafted, Lambent, Armor of Ro, Darkforge, Totemic, Ivy Etched for example. Full sets can sell for 5-6k I think still? The good pieces can sell for 1kish alone. Plenty of other quest type things you can do.

Most of my time personally is spent running around to various camps checking named spawns, doing quests, I'll occasionally do a Rogue Epic (have to have a twink rogue to PP parchments, and a 50+ rogue to spawn Stanos 3 times). I finished my Truespirit faction so whenever a tear is rotting in Fear I can MQ that (factioning TrueSpirit is another thing made easy by porting). Seen Bergurgle and Gimblox sitting up a few times so I've done three cleric epics for my clerics and my brother's cleric. Did a monk epic but due to a bug I have to redo it :/.

Tl;dr - Money = PLing. Time spent = Roaming Norrath questing, killing named or exchanging PLs for alts.

Druid isn't a class I would suggest to someone who doesn't like playing alts. Atleast not in this era of the game.

[rafaone]

Tl;dr - Money = PLing. Time spent = Roaming Norrath questing, killing named or exchanging PLs for alts.

Although I can agree with most of your post Daldaen, there's a question I would like to ask you since you never talk about it in your posts.

You never do TT/FM cycles?

Even with the track nerf they are still doable if you know where to search for the MoBs and they can definitely grant you good money (probably not as realiable as PL tho). For example the Iksar ceremonial Chestplate (http://wiki.project1999.com/Ceremonial_Iksar_Chestplate) sells good. There are another goodies too in the FM cycle as the Medicine totem, the dustcryers cristal ball or the sarnak legs that are good for a druid to farm and sell.

Gav

[Thulack]

Although I can agree with most of your post Daldaen, there's a question I would like to ask you since you never talk about it in your posts.

You never do TT/FM cycles?

Even with the track nerf they are still doable if you know where to search for the MoBs and they can definitely grant you good money (probably not as realiable as PL tho). For example the Iksar ceremonial Chestplate (http://wiki.project1999.com/Ceremonial_Iksar_Chestplate) sells good. There are another goodies too in the FM cycle as the Medicine totem, the dustcryers cristal ball or the sarnak legs that are good for a druid to farm and sell.

Gav


i would never try to do either of those with Druid Track.

[rafaone]

i would never try to do either of those with Druid Track.

Well I did them extensively while our track was still good so maybe that's why I can do them today still, since I can somewhat predict where the next MoB in the cycle should be. Starting them is much difficult than before tho

I must agree that for a newcomer it's going to be hard to search and learn MoBs paths with todays druid track anyway.

Gav

[Daldaen]

Never done those cycles, that sort of camp is way too RNG dependant.

PLing however I can guarantee I'll be pulling down 3-6k/hour every time. If you get good enough you will have queues of people lining up to pay you for your services.

Whereas doing TT named cycles you may not see a good named for an Iksar BP or illusion mask all day of camping it. And druid DPS when root rotting is pretty bad. Especially before we can root rot with our epic. Just doing ES Arms and Winged Death is painfully slow. Doing more than that you don't have the mana to sustain it for long periods. Kills are what, like 4-5min each of DoTing?

[Tupakk]

Gratz on the 60 beev we should hang out today.

[evilkorn]

Did a monk epic

VERY loose use of the word "did". :D

[rafaone]

Kills are what, like 4-5min each of DoTing?

Yes more or less that. With the 3 DoTs on maybe 3 mins. Can't wait for snare + root stack tbh.

I can agree that powerlevelling should be much more reliable than cycling, since the latter depends on your luck mostly when finding nameds.

If you like to try it someday don't hesitate to send me a tell to discuss about the cycle anyway :)

[Daldaen]

VERY loose use of the word "did". :D

Killed a brother Z, bought a KC Pipe MQ, had people help me do the fights.

Beats the hell out of camping a Robe!

[Auvdar]

Maybe my old buddy Daldaen could give me a answer on this one, because I've always wondered and never tried. Soloing the Efreeti at 60 in Sol B. I always figured it would be nearly impossible to break the room (Efreeti may not be a huge problem solo, outside of the IC he does iirc).

Always wanted to try, but I never got around to it. Might give me a fun reason to pop out of retirement for a little bit atleast.

[Daldaen]

Maybe my old buddy Daldaen could give me a answer on this one, because I've always wondered and never tried. Soloing the Efreeti at 60 in Sol B. I always figured it would be nearly impossible to break the room (Efreeti may not be a huge problem solo, outside of the IC he does iirc).

Always wanted to try, but I never got around to it. Might give me a fun reason to pop out of retirement for a little bit atleast.

Soloing Efreeti with Puppet Strings, easy for sure.

But Sonic Bats are very weak. If you had the outside cleared, I think you could break him with a sonic bat, would have to aggro, backup and AE root the imps.

You would end up spending all your mana superior healing the bat though.

Breaking the room without Efreeti up would be cake though. Don't turn your back to him and you're set. JUst keep them Engorging Rooted and stagger the Efreeti PHer spawn away from the adds.

[Auvdar]

Soloing Efreeti with Puppet Strings, easy for sure.

But Sonic Bats are very weak. If you had the outside cleared, I think you could break him with a sonic bat, would have to aggro, backup and AE root the imps.

You would end up spending all your mana superior healing the bat though.

Breaking the room without Efreeti up would be cake though. Don't turn your back to him and you're set. JUst keep them Engorging Rooted and stagger the Efreeti PHer spawn away from the adds.

Gunna have to give this a shot sometime.