Druid leveling advice - 52

[Faerie Blossom]

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

I'm sure your experiences way back when on TZ mimic her experiences here...

Get that Fairie? Should be easy peasy, Orsk has spoken [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Understood. I'm on it!

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

Have hooked Faerie up with 18 wis to help her mana pool in the past (2 rings, 2 earrings) and it all helps.

It does help, thanks again for the amazing deal on my jewelry! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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

The fun of red is that you can push others off a camp, there's no whining other than mad tells from the 'loser' - I know someone who griefs people at the AC, and has outdps'd the guy camping the AC which always ends in tears. That's the essence of the server though... I can see why people would want to stay away but it adds more depth to the game.

Truer words have never been spoken. No offense to you bluebies, but EQ without pvp feels shallow and empty.

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

also; HI FAERIE! /wave

Hi! You'll be happy to know that your fellow flowers have made my life that much more interesting :P

Anyway. The general consensus is that I need to increase my mana, right? Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Wish I could figure out that wiki magelo thing. I know I could use the pants from the Guk crocodile, and I've slowly been saving my way to those cool golden boots. That's 13 wis right there; would bring me up to 170. It's a start :P

[Kevynne]

also; HI FAERIE! /wave

[Faerie Blossom]

orsk, stop being mean. There's no need for it. Thanks [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Faerie Blossom]

India's not really wrong about life being not so easy on red, anyway. So far today I've lost 10% of my level in pvp, gained 7% back and am now unable to retrieve my corpse in oot because there's a FoH druid waiting at the docks for me :P

[Faerie Blossom]

You can't charm raptors or aviaks anymore :/

[Auvdar]

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

You can't charm raptors or aviaks anymore :/

Ugh.. well you can still quad them. Any safe exp is good exp I guess.

I'll try and think of some other spots. Kedge may still be a good place, if you are ok with the Z axis and underwater bit. (Even at 60 there are a ton of LB/Blue things in there.)

[Faerie Blossom]

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

Ugh.. well you can still quad them. Any safe exp is good exp I guess.

I'll try and think of some other spots. Kedge may still be a good place, if you are ok with the Z axis and underwater bit. (Even at 60 there are a ton of LB/Blue things in there.)

I tried quadding the raptors and I could only manage to get them to about 50% hp before I ran out of mana. Plus their agro range is ridiculous; makes things that much more difficult lol. Have been trying root rotting the seafuries, they're blue/light blue, but it's pretty well camped and locked down by some leveling Nihilum or FoH when I try to go so I die (3-4% exp loss, unrezzable) and then have to wait a few hours to get my corpse. My exp bar is not moving in the right direction at the moment, I spend every night getting 54 and the next day is spent pvping over camp rights which means I have to get back to 54 that night :P

To be honest, I know nothing about Kedge. Always avoided that zone because of how annoying water is in this game. Any advice for me? I can just see myself drowning when EB fades lol.

[Kagatob]

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

To be honest, I know nothing about Kedge. Always avoided that zone because of how annoying water is in this game. Any advice for me? I can just see myself drowning when EB fades lol.

EB items, get, wear, love.

[Auvdar]

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

I tried quadding the raptors and I could only manage to get them to about 50% hp before I ran out of mana. Plus their agro range is ridiculous; makes things that much more difficult lol. Have been trying root rotting the seafuries, they're blue/light blue, but it's pretty well camped and locked down by some leveling Nihilum or FoH when I try to go so I die (3-4% exp loss, unrezzable) and then have to wait a few hours to get my corpse. My exp bar is not moving in the right direction at the moment, I spend every night getting 54 and the next day is spent pvping over camp rights which means I have to get back to 54 that night :P

To be honest, I know nothing about Kedge. Always avoided that zone because of how annoying water is in this game. Any advice for me? I can just see myself drowning when EB fades lol.

Well first it sounds like you need to farm some mid-gear items to get your mana pool up. At 50+ you should have zero problems getting to 200wis and quadding a set of raptors down.

Second, with Kedge the best thing you can do is go in and try it. Bind outside the zone (for emergency gates/deaths..) and learn the zone. You have a EB spell if you can't afford a EB item, and fish scales are on unlimited supply in EC (near the EC/WC zone, one of the huts there).

But honestly, even with low funds/PvP server it shouldn't be hard to get a mana pool good enough to quad a set of raptors down. You may have to sit/med during the last bit, but it is still doable. If you are only getting them to 50% before you go OOM, either you aren't quadding right or you really need to go gear yourself up.

Not to sound like a dick or anything, but only being able to get them to 50% before you run OOM is bad. Sit/Med during the entire quad (learn how to sit on ticks), pull them away from others since the LoS aggro is huge (levi + play in the ocean..), and get rid of the mana pool a lvl 35 druid would have..

Learning to charm in Kedge may be your best bet. Once you got it down, it doesn't take a ton of mana to do. (Most of the time you are sitting and medding anyway). Just keep gate/egress up (I prefer to just bind outside and gate) in case things go bad. I can't explain Kedge to much except just go in there and do it. You won't learn anything until you do. The underwater thing isn't that bad.

[Faerie Blossom]

Well this thread is useless now. Thanks, orsk.