51 Monk Solo Cash/Exp Balance

[Baler]

Duo with a shaman and do efreeti.
never look back.

[mickmoranis]

^^ is how you really should play everquest.

Just level 50-60 in SolB like a classic gangsta

[Rygar]

In regards to the Hole, I would not recommend soloing there until you get your epic. Epic will allow you to interrupt casters and generally just let you kill faster. 51 can kill lower level elementals (I call them tier 1: warrior / visier / channeler / deceiver / crusader), but higher tiers (fiends / wizards / harvesters / capturers) can be a problem.

The entrance as you mentioned is not that great to solo in my opinion... is typically camped or even if you have it, some group may come through and zerg all the spawns. Runners can also be a problem with the small amount of room on early splits. I much recommend the pit area, there is a safe zone near the lake behind the castle. Even if a group is pulling rats from castle entrance, there are plenty of spawns to bring from the castle, or even other camps to move into deeper (of course you need hammer or thurg potion or WC cap for pit and beyond... although there are teleporters you can flop to for reaching paineel).

As far as named spawning, they can be a problem, but you can still kill them. For non-casters, pack yourself some root nets (3 bare minimum on you, 4th in bank for recharge). When you get to 40% hp, root them and run back, and start to bind wound. If you use your 'in combat bind wound' you can throw stars / hammers at them while they are rooted and you bind up, this damage actually adds up pretty fast so is worth it.

For caster named, you'll want to bring some basic resist gear. Bejeweled elemental can cast ice comet (1100 dmg) and some 800 dmg magic based nukes. Stonesoul the Unmoving has a smite style spell that hits hard and is tough to interrupt. Stonesoul is tough but he complete heals at 40%, so you can constantly interrupt him at that point with epic, so basically only need to drain 60% of his HP before you achieve victory. Bejeweled... another story. If she lands a single nuke, you may want to FD, cause a 2nd nuke can kill you. Also not going to lie, for any named, having Inner Flame discipline is a big help to drain their HP. Recommend not using it out the gate, get in a good groove first, if fight looks like it may go your way use it to seal the deal.

The resist gear pieces help a lot for regular caster mobs too, such as visiers, wizards, harvesters. I see a notable difference on resists, and a lot less 'full damage' nukes landing with just getting my MR up to 100 and FR about 140-150 I think.

As far as cash, I made real good bank here soloing from 57-60. Keep in mind it was no Seb or HS but every drop I had was mine and I barely died (no trains to deal with). I parsed my log, from loam drops that I sold in tunnel + vendor trash gems + Drop of Mercury (30p per and stackable! sell to Stockmarket in tunnel), I made about 57k. Grouping wasn't an option for me due to RL (newborn baby), so soloing here was my only option really.

I did all this with epic and SoS + Sash of the Dragonborn to start, then bought an IFS.

You'll need a level 1 halfling brell rogue to corpse the loam (since LORE) and have patience selling in the tunnel. But I found great success in doing so.

[kotton05]

Imo just level. Can farm HHK guards or sell pl's for cash otherwise get max level then join farm groups

[Mzy12345]

Thank you all again for taking the time to respond and the detailed write ups. Going to start giving some of these a go and hope for the best. Thanks again

[SantagarBrax]

You should have solo'd Crystal Caverns in your 40's on the Geonids. You can still get xp, but it's not worth it at 51. Bloodgills run out of the best juice at 51 as well.

If you have only an hour or two, my advice is that you visit Crystal Caverns in EW, back of the ry'gorr fort, click the crystal in the guard shack.

There is a bank at the Froststone outpost near the bottom, you can sneak sell to merchants from behind, and it is uncommonly camped. You will get your 7k in about a week or so at your rate, maybe 2.

From the top ledge: Jump straight off, fall to very bottom ice bridge. Go opposite way of white crystal and over the white ice bridge with 2 orcs. Once the path opens up, hang a sharp right into the bottom of the chasm with the water at bottom. You want to be going right, then jump down into the water and swim into the broken bridge room. You can go left to the 3 camps (geo's is Right tunnel with a terror at the bottom of the ramp) or you can go right straight up to the outpost.

Zone out is at top of Geo's , be mindful to FD if you see an orc or a dorf after you zone out.