44-50

[Snaggles]

You could also find a cleric or druid in WL who is there for faction and just see if they would heal as you kill giants. Free PL that way.

[MikeXG]

Been thinking a Tolan bracer would be my next purchase actually. Obviously bow rotting is not the fastest but with a decent bow and unlimited arrows - I assume this is fairly viable seeing as there is no down time and you could kill bigger targets?

How would you say the XP compares to traditional face tanking/fear kiting?

[Darguth]

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

Been thinking a Tolan bracer would be my next purchase actually. Obviously bow rotting is not the fastest but with a decent bow and unlimited arrows - I assume this is fairly viable seeing as there is no down time and you could kill bigger targets?

How would you say the XP compares to traditional face tanking/fear kiting?

Tolans does 3 things in my mind:
1.) Opens up your possible solo camps. It's not necessarily faster XP than fear-kiting animals or face-tanking light blues, but you have more options available to you.
2.) You can kill basically anything that can be snared/rooted with your mana pool, it just may take quite awhile.
3.) General convenience of not having to go back and fletch arrows if you've been pulling in an XP group for hours straight.

[Snaggles]

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

Tolans does 3 things in my mind:
1.) Opens up your possible solo camps. It's not necessarily faster XP than fear-kiting animals or face-tanking light blues, but you have more options available to you.
2.) You can kill basically anything that can be snared/rooted with your mana pool, it just may take quite awhile.
3.) General convenience of not having to go back and fletch arrows if you've been pulling in an XP group for hours straight.

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Facetanking and fear kiting is a short lived world for rangers. Unless you have epics, fungi, PoS cloak, etc.

I'm lvl 52 with a woodsman and SCHW's. I can solo ravishing drolvargs in Dreadlands with a bow. They rip me apart w/o it. Not sure I could kill one with a full mana bar...maybe with a swarmcaller proc.

With a bow I killed 5 of them (2 ravishers, 3 ragers) in about 25 mins...painfully slow EXP but they jumped me and I just rooted and started working them down. Better than camping out or zoning.

[MikeXG]

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eastern wastes animal poaching

Where do you pull to in EW? I was hanging around SW corner near walrus but it was meh when i was there.

[mefdinkins]

I love your sense of adventure... if you want to just put your head down and plow through levels to try to get 50+ then I suggest the following:

For simplicity... I like the overthere up to 46. If you die 60's are around to help res. If you want to move out you have porters near. Could prob crush level 45 in about 8 hours.

Another, simple spot is Dreadlands... 46-50 is not tough for melee it's just slow and steady.

Once you get to 49+ bats in SolB will be better. I love the bats, the problem is the stun is so strong depending on gear +resists they tend to start to green out when you can really kill them quickly + efficiently on a monk. Ranger might be better/worse.

On the other hand, I respect your sense of adventure and to some people say EQ is about the journey not the destination, so take your time and have fun.