Where can I grind platinum in East Commonlands/Freeport?

[Crawdad]

Qeynos has become my favorite area to start non-twinked characters in. Its not hard to have over 1k plat by 15-20. Just prioritize killing skeletons and gnolls in Qeynos, then rabid wolves and grizzlies in Qeynos hills, then on to wisps in Qhills/NK/Erud's crossing. and/or bandits in West karana. I usually stick to Qhills for wisps+rabid animals until ~13 then head to NK, or Erud's crossing if NK has too many people.

...disregard pretty much everything I just said as I just saw the title. The trick to the Freeport area IMO is to avoid it. Nektulos Forest is a much, much better zone for soloing than EC from 4-10, with loads more mobs to kill for that juicy platinum. Use EC for begging for buffs, then kill the 3-4 black bears and any spiders or skeletons that path near inn 1 during your run to Nek forest. Check out the map of Nektulos forest, head to the newbie log and set up camp. As you gain levels, start along the road back towards EC. Not sure if Freeport monks are dubious to Neriak outer guards, but if not you'll just need to be a bit more alert for golems and guards.