^^^^^^EPICS^^^^^
Good stuff for ranger! Also, try out EQ Rangers (The Ranger's Glade) for a great little reference sheet and checklist. For the most part, the ranger epic is a solo event, and the jade reaver is a droppable item.
It took me about 400 bats wings to go from apprehensive to amiable so that I could get the guy in Timorous Deep to talk to me. Bat wings can be purchased in POK fromt he inky by the fishing pool. If Niola Imholder (Mage guild in Felwithe) won't take the wings, just sneak.
I am doing the shawl quest with my cleric and it is very expensive to get the skills up, tialoring and smithing primarily. For smithing, the LDoN stuff seems to be the easiest for me to use. Tailoring is the abne of my existnece...