On Mess's suggestion in an another thread I was quadding Mammoths from my mid-twenties up until about 32 on this server. Which went pretty well.
My high elf wiz is my main and first character on the server he is 37 now with about 198 intel which is something like 1600+ mana with some + mana items. I think that's pretty good, I've been trying to hit up the money spot camps along the way (lfay bandits, mammoths for tusks ...), doing ports and even foregoing the best xp spots for more cash. I had some help with a robe and a good deal on rings but other than that it's pretty much been camps and dealing in EC.
I made another post about how I felt resists were too frequent. Most people said it gets better as you level. At this point I think resists are still too high on whites/blues but are better on yellows and reds. I think it's more about that as you level you get a larger gap for what is dark blue. By the time I was done with Mammoths they were almost never resisting. I did some quads on gnolls outside SK and since about 34 have been on and off solo killing HGs. At first I needed to get a crack to balance out their high hpts and resists. I've had cases where I litterally have had blues resist 5 out of 7 spells.
As soon as you get your AoEs and can run faster than the mobs you should be able to quad the right type of mob. Some types of mobs resist more than others. On live I could quad stuff in PoFire all day that was red to me with no problem.
I'm not sure if you are confusing fizzles and resists. Your fizzle rate has no association with your target. The most recent patch had a note that Uth adjusted fizzle rates but was very ambigous about what that meant. I notice that when killing HGs I pretty much always get at least one fizzle a mob, which seems a bit in excess but I can't recall how it was 11 years ago that well.
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