Ranger solo

[Jimjam]

Pretty much anything blue you should be able to grind down safely as long as you have a reasonably good weapon.

Things that drop crushbone belts or legionnaire pads will be good. If in crushbone you can keep killing emissaries and the task master solo, or do the throne room with your shaman friend. Once the xp really slows down is the best time to hand in your belts/pads. Use kelethin bank to save them all up.

Oasis is pretty easy xp and can take you to 22.

Kurns tower isn't a bad option (if you are crazy enough you can save up all the bone chips to hand kaladim, it takes about 1000 bone chips to do a level in the 20s, iirc).

Highpass is alright, save orc/gnoll scalps to hand in for xp once the area greens out. The PGT can be a fun off-hand weapon to use for the proc until duel wield/double attack actually become viable enough to put a dps weapon in your off hand. There is also a big Str pad shield that drops there and an invulnerable aura potion (ECmarts for circa 700pp).

[Darguth]

Originally Posted by klepto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Its too bad you are being forced to solo. I would recommend joining the red server and enjoying the huge xp bonus with an additional bonuses applied for groups. There are always powerleveling groups going on and most people reach lvl 46 in their first week and start raiding their second week.

On blue you wouldn't be able to reach 46 by christmas soloing on a ranger.

I can honestly say I play EQ to enjoy the journey as much as the destination. I'm not being "forced" to solo, I just want the option when I can only jump on for an hour or two and getting a group just isn't economical or respectful to other players.

[Darguth]

Originally Posted by klepto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

For a ranger you can panic animals in everfrost until 30ish. After that you can move to velious and fear kite walrus or other animals you can find. Rangers are not a very good solo class.

That's great you like the journey or whatever. For me, I would much rather be killing dragons and getting fat loots with all my pals than fear kiting animals in an empty classic zone by myself.

To each their own, but I think you're misrepresenting my intent/question. I don't intend to fear-kite animals solo to 60.

[Darguth]

Originally Posted by klepto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think your intent to solo for xp at all on a ranger is foolish.

I can't commit to 2+ hour play sessions every time I log in, yet I want to play a Ranger because I like them. Often getting to a zone, getting a group, clearing to a camp, etc. will eat up 30-60 minutes. That's all the time I have some week nights. I'd still like to be able to play though, so I might fear-kite for an escape to a fantasy world and then go dunjun spelunking when I have longer play sessions.

If you can suggest a more meaningful way to advance in EQ *as a Ranger* in short play sessions, I'd be interested to hear advice.

[Cecily]

Originally Posted by klepto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think your intent to solo for xp at all on a ranger is foolish. Your only two options are to fear kite animals or to fill up all your bags with arrows every time you want to kill one mob.

You're a pretty bad source of advice and input on these boards. I personally face tanked my ranger to 60 before Velious.

[Ciroco]

It's certainly faster than bow kiting. Swarmcaller and chloro make soloing somewhat viable post-50.

[Cecily]

And every single one of those days spent with over 100 people on my server. How is red these days?

[Semmysosa]

<Thunderdome> is a lot of fun. No smell of shit filled socks on this server.

[georgie]

I really don't know how they do it on blue

[Cecily]

Originally Posted by klepto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Red is pretty amazing. No need to ever wait in line for a camp you want. With serverwide OOC you can find groups immediately. No need to ever solo on a ranger. Necromancers don't even solo on red.

Red's group bonus makes it dumb not to group. On blue, with real Everquest rules and a high population, it's nice to solo time to time to get away from people.
The point is rangers can efficiently solo, to 60 even, if they feel like it. It's a nice change of pace for rogue like myself instead of LFG. And fun.