druid farming

[Briscoe]

I don't know how tough it is to get a camp at Droga these days, but spending weekends at either Soothsayer or Chief was how I made the bulk of my plat. I found it to be an excellent combination of good plat with very little effort required. You can just kill a couple of mobs and then go AFK or chat for 20 minutes. Much easier than having to constantly work your tail off to get seafuries or keep a strong PL going.

[Daldaen]

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

What's the alternative: killing some mob down to 1 hp and letting the lowbie finish it off? Or is there some other way?

I'll be the first to admit I'm no PLing expert, but I had great success with the damage shield way back on live, and it seems like the easiest/fastest way to me (at least for the lower levels). Curious to hear a better way though.

The PLee doesn't need buffs.

Druid pulls with snare/ensnare (I have both up and I use Goblin Earring to instantly cast the two, using cycle NPC hotkey to target quickly multiple in a room)
Druid tanks mobs with Shield of Blades (32), Bladecoat (6), and DS Potion (31) -- total of 69 DS
Powerleveled toon uses cycle NPC hotkey to hit each mob with a single hit (and no more than that to prevent pulling aggro)
*Protip, hitting a mobs rune counts as a hit for purposes of gaining EXP
Druid heals to stay alive and attain more aggro (if you have clicky heal, corner yourself and use that to keep mana high... if you have clicky heal, casting a superior heal generally is used only when you pulled a lot or as means to aggro the entire train)

^ Summary of druid PLs 1-25. 25-50 there are other things you need to be doing to make it worth your client's time.

[loramin]

At least for the very low levels that seems slower than just throwing regen and DS on the lowbie. In most newbie zones a lowbie with a DS can run around and get like 5 mobs to kill themselves in the time it would take you to battle down a single mob. Granted the lowbie might not get a hit in on all 5, but even if they only hit 3 that's still faster I'd think.

Once they start getting higher in level though I can see why your way makes more sense. Thanks for the explanation.

[Daldaen]

I guarantee you, it is not slower even at levels 1-10.

[zanderklocke]

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

I guarantee you, it is not slower even at levels 1-10.

Yeah...it's easy for druid to pull red mobs to at low levels for newbie and the exp flies. Plus, since mobs on same faction no longer run at low-hp, druids can power level anywhere now, instead of in undead only zones like befallen and unrest.

DS power levels are probably fastest power levels until 20s. I don't do them past level 10 due to not having heals against higher level mobs and being lazy though. I prefer to beat a red mob down to low hp, charm, break charm and allow PLee to kill for 10% of level. This is still probably not as fast as a druid DS.

EDIT: grammar and spelling

[Sckrilla]

You know nothing Zanderr Locke!

[Adolphus]

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

Yeah...it's easy for druid to pull red mobs to at low levels for newbie and the exp flies. Plus, since mobs on same faction no longer run at low-hp, Druids can power level anywhere now, instead of in undead only zones like befallen and unrest.

DS power levels are probably fastest power levels until 20s. I don't do them past level 10 due to not having heals against higher level mobs and being lazy though. I prefer the best a red mob down to low hp, charm, break charm and allow PLee to kill for 10% of level. This is still probably not as fast as a druid DS.

Good post. Why people would PL to 20 at all tho is beyond me when newbie quests are available to ding to 20 in like 1 hour for <1k.

[zanderklocke]

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

You know nothing Zanderr Locke!

Hmm.

[zanderklocke]

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

Good post. Why people would PL to 20 at all tho is beyond me when newbie quests are available to ding to 20 in like 1 hour for <1k.

What newbie quests allow you to hit 20 this fast?

Gnoll/Orc scalps?

[Daldaen]

Orc Scalps to 20 are pretty solid. But you need a large number of them. I think I turned in something like... 7 stacks got a warrior with no EXP penalty like 3 levels (18-21)?

Not less than 1k for sure for the number of scalps used. And only got the top end of those levels. The time to buy all the scalps is quite intensive as well. Accumulating that many takes weeks of living in EC.

Getting druid PL from 1-20 usually takes like 2 hours +/- EXP penalty. Though I haven't done a fresh PL starting at 1 in awhile, so I'm not sure.