Incluiding the run from Freeport to befallen, it would take 1 hour~ roughly for a 60 druid with good gear to get a bard 1-13. 13-24 would take another 2-3 hours including travel time to unrest. 24-30 I'd suggest Lguk, not sure how long it would take.

The lag the I receive seems purely from the amount of mobs that I have on me, it doesn't seem to spike anymore unless i have over 100. Even then as long as im paying really good attention I can always correct for the lag.

There are a few tricks to reducing lag, helps me regularly kite 100/120+ mobs in OT.

Turn off all spell effects number one.
Hide all corpses (I have a macro for that, so as mobs die in kite I tap it and reduces graphic lag)
Turn off far clip plane (I usually keep it at 100% while gathering, then drop it down to ~40-50% for the DoT portion)
Some other bards could prob chime in with some other stuff I might be missing. I hide DoT dmg messages too, it's all second nature at this point so hard to recall specifically.

I've done all of that all ready. I do the same with clip plane, hide corpse is hot keyed. I can't turn off all spell effects, can only set them to low. I'm thinking about deleting the spell files but I'm unsure if i want to considering i use the spell effects half the time to gauge my circle. I mean, I only counted the mobs up to 100 from the "you have gained experience" there was still a bit more but i couldnt keep track with the scrolling

I use sound to gauge my circles, I know the different sounds and their distances - basically it's super sad and pathetic of me. (plants+chickens in OT have specific sound+distance, tigers in OT have specific sound+distance, bees+skeles in BW have specific sound+distance). Could try spell effects completely off and go by sound instead.

Are there no casters in OT?

not that i know of

I DONT KNow but all I know is that back in time when I was playing foreverquest (LMAO) i put about maybe two months of time in accoriding to the stat tracker. I spent all my time trying to form a group or solo and I got a max level at level 14. When I got sow I ran into some tough hard fellows and they ruined my spirit and I quit the game for good. So it might take a while!

You takea nod and listen closly to what I have said because I am from the future at the year of 2020

LMAO :) just kidding about th last part

There are Sarnak casters, but when I pull kites they only include Tigers, Plants, Birds. If you agro a sarnak while gathering it is likely he'll social agro more sarnak and eventually a caster.

It's same deal in BW (at least for me solo), I only do bees and skeles there, nothing else due to varying hit boxes and casters.