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How would one solo as a druid around level 10? Do they have to target a certain type of mob such as a ranger would? Where would a druid solo at this level?
You could do Crushbone if you have temp on... you could do Kurn's Tower, too... Crushbone would be better because it is outdoors though, and the druids love outdoors =)
Everfrost!
I went there from 5 to 30-ish.
I went there from 5 to 30-ish.
druids or any toon for that matter all of the above are great places, but so is EC and NRo as they are open spaces and even better for druids.
heck you could even hit FoB and then play with kurns if you want to go inside.
of head up to the moon and hunt just outside of shar vahl in their newbi area. again out doors, plenty of mobs to kill, and best part is no wolfs or bears up there to muck up you being a druid.
and what is the bloody cave in the moon for low teens, been away to long to remember the names of those places.
or even the FP sewers, IIRC they will take you to the teens.
speaking of FP, damn, its ugly layout now. nothing is were it used to be. yeah the walls look nice and all, but that is one confusing town to begin with and they go and move everything around... how the h311 do you find anything in there now...
/rude
heck you could even hit FoB and then play with kurns if you want to go inside.
of head up to the moon and hunt just outside of shar vahl in their newbi area. again out doors, plenty of mobs to kill, and best part is no wolfs or bears up there to muck up you being a druid.
and what is the bloody cave in the moon for low teens, been away to long to remember the names of those places.
or even the FP sewers, IIRC they will take you to the teens.
speaking of FP, damn, its ugly layout now. nothing is were it used to be. yeah the walls look nice and all, but that is one confusing town to begin with and they go and move everything around... how the h311 do you find anything in there now...
/rude
Soloing a druid around level 10, if you need plat, use harmony on the green goblin camps in Butcherblock Mountains.
Warning, if you try out Shadeweavers Thicket Don't Use Wolf form, there is a Barb Shammy NPC who doesn't like wolves and will eat you up. He is near the entrance to Shar Vahl.
For exp I would choose Kurns Tower, DS up, DoT a skelly and swing away. Probably the best exp with plenty of MoBs to feed on at that level.
Edited, Wed Apr 12 07:37:22 2006 by Javious
Warning, if you try out Shadeweavers Thicket Don't Use Wolf form, there is a Barb Shammy NPC who doesn't like wolves and will eat you up. He is near the entrance to Shar Vahl.
For exp I would choose Kurns Tower, DS up, DoT a skelly and swing away. Probably the best exp with plenty of MoBs to feed on at that level.
Edited, Wed Apr 12 07:37:22 2006 by Javious
Get Temp put up a DS and beat on stuff. It is pretty much that simple, plus it will help build your Offensive and Defensive skills as well as 1HB 2HB 1HS or whatever. Kurns Tower is best from 10 to about 15 or 16.
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gain out doors, plenty of mobs to kill, and best part is no wolfs or bears up there to muck up you being a druid.
Don't worry about killing wolves and bears, there is no faction hit because you are a druid. Confirmed by the Devs years and years ago.
Alright, what should my main tactic be for actually soloing the mobs?
You can tank and heal yourself up until the mid 20's if I remember correctly.
After that your AC/HP, or lack thereof, catch up to you. From that point on it's mostly pull mob with snare, root mob, dot mob to death. Rinse, repeat.
As a druid you can solo relatively easy right up to level 70.
If you really want to fly through the mid levels pick up the staff that has a clicky aoe lighting spell (forget the name atm) and quad kite. There is practically no downtime and you can always be killing 4 mobs at a time.
Druids are very powerful and fun to play.
After that your AC/HP, or lack thereof, catch up to you. From that point on it's mostly pull mob with snare, root mob, dot mob to death. Rinse, repeat.
As a druid you can solo relatively easy right up to level 70.
If you really want to fly through the mid levels pick up the staff that has a clicky aoe lighting spell (forget the name atm) and quad kite. There is practically no downtime and you can always be killing 4 mobs at a time.
Druids are very powerful and fun to play.
For the beginning druid root/rot will serve you well.
Find an area with room to run if needed. Outdoors is best.
Sow yourself and make sure it is not going to run out before your mob is dead.
SINGLE pull with harmony if needed, using snare or dot. Snare is a good starter since the mob will not be able to catch you.
Then root and dot. Sit and med. Be mindfull of root break and adds. Magic dots will stack with each other and one fire dot. Re-apply as needed. Once mob is below 20% or so, do not re-root but keep snare on it, melee on its back to finish.
Quadding is really for wizards. I only used quadding regularly on crag spiders (when they conned green).
Find an area with room to run if needed. Outdoors is best.
Sow yourself and make sure it is not going to run out before your mob is dead.
SINGLE pull with harmony if needed, using snare or dot. Snare is a good starter since the mob will not be able to catch you.
Then root and dot. Sit and med. Be mindfull of root break and adds. Magic dots will stack with each other and one fire dot. Re-apply as needed. Once mob is below 20% or so, do not re-root but keep snare on it, melee on its back to finish.
Quadding is really for wizards. I only used quadding regularly on crag spiders (when they conned green).
Self-buffed melee at the low levels. Root / Dot or Snare / Nuke are both good from the teens on. Quading is a great way for Druids to hunt post 31 (need Lighting Strike to be effective). You should try all the methods of hunting as you will need the skills at some point.
As a Qeynos home city person these are my hunting areas for various Druids across many servers (Old World, well + Velious)
1-10 Neebie area Qeynos Hills and BlackBurrow
1-15 West Karana and Everfrost
16-Late 30's East and South Karana (love Bird City and Spires)
30's to 40's were Iceclad and Eastern Wastes
These were Soloing spots. When grouping I usally moved to Dungeons, Guk and SoL A were my favorites.
As a Qeynos home city person these are my hunting areas for various Druids across many servers (Old World, well + Velious)
1-10 Neebie area Qeynos Hills and BlackBurrow
1-15 West Karana and Everfrost
16-Late 30's East and South Karana (love Bird City and Spires)
30's to 40's were Iceclad and Eastern Wastes
These were Soloing spots. When grouping I usally moved to Dungeons, Guk and SoL A were my favorites.
Gaflack
Gaflack 70 Druid 222AA Sleeper
Bredon 70 Cleric 120AA
Zimrathon 70 War 200AA
Minastan 70 Enchanter 123AA
Mesalar 58 Mage 5AA
Retired Fennin and FV: Gaflack 70 Druid, Ministan 70 Enchanter, Minastan 66 Enchanter, Zimrathon 60 Enchanter, Zimrathon 60 War, Bredon 62 Cleric, Breredon 62 CLeric, Mesular 62 Mage, Mesalar 57 Mage
Gaflack 70 Druid 222AA Sleeper
Bredon 70 Cleric 120AA
Zimrathon 70 War 200AA
Minastan 70 Enchanter 123AA
Mesalar 58 Mage 5AA
Retired Fennin and FV: Gaflack 70 Druid, Ministan 70 Enchanter, Minastan 66 Enchanter, Zimrathon 60 Enchanter, Zimrathon 60 War, Bredon 62 Cleric, Breredon 62 CLeric, Mesular 62 Mage, Mesalar 57 Mage
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Quadding is really for wizards. I only used quadding regularly on crag spiders (when they conned green).
Quadding is a great Druid tool. I quad kited from lvl 34 or so to level 65.
I'll try and find the link for the clicky aoe staff and post it here for you. I see them sell in the bazaar occassionaly. If you start looking now I'm sure you'll find one by the time you can start clicking it.
I would snare 4 mobs, get them bunched together, clicky aoe staff, run a bit away, cast our aoe spell, then rinse repeat till mob was dead. I would typically finish 4 mobs with most of my mana remaining.
EDIT-- Found the staff https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=519
It drops in Sebilis, which is now a "hot" zone so it has more players in it now. May see it more often in the bazaar because of this.
Edited, Wed Apr 12 11:56:52 2006 by ZatxWoopyoax
Singdall wrote:
and what is the bloody cave in the moon for low teens, been away to long to remember the names of those places.
@ Bloody Cave!! Paludal Caverns
Sorry, I could never really effectively quad at those levels with a druid. It was way too much work and your AE nukes are not that good. I had a much better time picking a target and doing a single root-rot. You do not run out of mana as quick either since you are sitting as much as possible.
Quadding is more effective for a druid if you have a ranger or necro maintain agro and kite the quad while you nuke.
Of course I was not uber-twinked and only self-buffed...
Quadding is more effective for a druid if you have a ranger or necro maintain agro and kite the quad while you nuke.
Of course I was not uber-twinked and only self-buffed...
woogietwentythree wrote:
Singdall wrote:
and what is the bloody cave in the moon for low teens, been away to long to remember the names of those places.
@ Bloody Cave!! Paludal Caverns
thanks, yeah thats the place.
as for quading not being for druids, man druids quad better (at some levels) then wizards do, but NO ONE can out do a bard sub mid 50s once they get charm.
swarm kitting ftw
OP is only level 10 and you want to send him out quadding with what? Invoke Lightning? A staff he cannot use until level 46?
Level 12 he gets Cascade of Hail another weak AE, but he would be better off to start charming animals at level 13 and get the gist of that. Forget rain AEs, mobs will get hit once and move towards you.
First half-way decent AE nuke he gets at level 31 (I got it at 34 way back when).
Trust me, learn root/rot and the fundamentals of charming.
Level 12 he gets Cascade of Hail another weak AE, but he would be better off to start charming animals at level 13 and get the gist of that. Forget rain AEs, mobs will get hit once and move towards you.
First half-way decent AE nuke he gets at level 31 (I got it at 34 way back when).
Trust me, learn root/rot and the fundamentals of charming.
ZatxWoopyoax the Irrelevant wrote:
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gain out doors, plenty of mobs to kill, and best part is no wolfs or bears up there to muck up you being a druid.
Don't worry about killing wolves and bears, there is no faction hit because you are a druid. Confirmed by the Devs years and years ago.
Except in Surefall Glade. It'll murder your faction there.. especially if you kill Mammoth (a bear).
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OP is only level 10 and you want to send him out quadding with what? Invoke Lightning? A staff he cannot use until level 46?
Level 12 he gets Cascade of Hail another weak AE, but he would be better off to start charming animals at level 13 and get the gist of that. Forget rain AEs, mobs will get hit once and move towards you.
First half-way decent AE nuke he gets at level 31 (I got it at 34 way back when).
Trust me, learn root/rot and the fundamentals of charming.
Level 12 he gets Cascade of Hail another weak AE, but he would be better off to start charming animals at level 13 and get the gist of that. Forget rain AEs, mobs will get hit once and move towards you.
First half-way decent AE nuke he gets at level 31 (I got it at 34 way back when).
Trust me, learn root/rot and the fundamentals of charming.
I'm sorry. My initial advice was not the AOE method. It was tanking until the mid 20's then root/rotting until the mid 30's, then the AOE method from 34 on.
Here is my post...
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You can tank and heal yourself up until the mid 20's if I remember correctly.
After that your AC/HP, or lack thereof, catch up to you. From that point on it's mostly pull mob with snare, root mob, dot mob to death. Rinse, repeat.
As a druid you can solo relatively easy right up to level 70.
If you really want to fly through the mid levels pick up the staff that has a clicky aoe lighting spell (forget the name atm) and quad kite. There is practically no downtime and you can always be killing 4 mobs at a time.
Druids are very powerful and fun to play.
After that your AC/HP, or lack thereof, catch up to you. From that point on it's mostly pull mob with snare, root mob, dot mob to death. Rinse, repeat.
As a druid you can solo relatively easy right up to level 70.
If you really want to fly through the mid levels pick up the staff that has a clicky aoe lighting spell (forget the name atm) and quad kite. There is practically no downtime and you can always be killing 4 mobs at a time.
Druids are very powerful and fun to play.
And that all goes to show how fun a Druid can be. There are a lot of different playstyles that you can use to level effectively. So if you get bored root/rotting you can aoe, if you get bored doing aoe, you can move to charm killing.
It's all fun. :)
Snare and DoT things, if you have Stinging Swarm yet (haven't been this level in forever, not sure how they changed it).
Temp/DS works great.. if you have a high-level Druid power leveling you with a strong DS, but not with your own. Honestly, don't use it, it's duration and low damage aren't justifiable for self-use anywhere near your level.
Just trust me on this and head to Everfrost. If you can find Vengful skeletons, which are somewhat uncommon but you can learn to find them, they're bonuses in experience (far too weak for their level), so they're little bonuses for you if you happen upon on.
For more regular hunting, find the "North Guard" or "Bandl", as I'm sure you'll figure out quickly be surveying or checking a map. Use one or the other as a way point (Bandl was always my favorite; North Guard has a pet work, Snowflake, at it). Find snow orc troopers for Snaring and nuking/DoTing or join a mammoth calf group if you can find one. Be sure to have SoW when you first try it, but you can learn to Charm mammoth calves and have them fight. My Druid Charm'd up to 65 with.. 50-ish AA's before I retired him. It's a great method. Later on, you can learn to mass Charm kite, but that's a lesson for later, as it's nearly impossible to do at lower levels (due to run speed, shortened durations, and higher % cost of Charm spells and the lack of pet buffs and mana regen).
As others pointed out, you can quad.. but it's always going to be inefficient compared to other Druidic common methods (it does, however, carry an advantage of allowing the Druid to hunt in some areas that aren't Charmable with an alternative to Snare/Root/DoT).
Blah. We've all deviated from the main point.
Go to Everfrost to hunt. It'll give you a more true feeling of a Druid's abilities and nature. East Karana, Dawnshroud Peaks, Ocean of Tears, Plane of Disease, Plane of Nightmare, and Plane of Storms will be your friends later.
Temp/DS works great.. if you have a high-level Druid power leveling you with a strong DS, but not with your own. Honestly, don't use it, it's duration and low damage aren't justifiable for self-use anywhere near your level.
Just trust me on this and head to Everfrost. If you can find Vengful skeletons, which are somewhat uncommon but you can learn to find them, they're bonuses in experience (far too weak for their level), so they're little bonuses for you if you happen upon on.
For more regular hunting, find the "North Guard" or "Bandl", as I'm sure you'll figure out quickly be surveying or checking a map. Use one or the other as a way point (Bandl was always my favorite; North Guard has a pet work, Snowflake, at it). Find snow orc troopers for Snaring and nuking/DoTing or join a mammoth calf group if you can find one. Be sure to have SoW when you first try it, but you can learn to Charm mammoth calves and have them fight. My Druid Charm'd up to 65 with.. 50-ish AA's before I retired him. It's a great method. Later on, you can learn to mass Charm kite, but that's a lesson for later, as it's nearly impossible to do at lower levels (due to run speed, shortened durations, and higher % cost of Charm spells and the lack of pet buffs and mana regen).
As others pointed out, you can quad.. but it's always going to be inefficient compared to other Druidic common methods (it does, however, carry an advantage of allowing the Druid to hunt in some areas that aren't Charmable with an alternative to Snare/Root/DoT).
Blah. We've all deviated from the main point.
Go to Everfrost to hunt. It'll give you a more true feeling of a Druid's abilities and nature. East Karana, Dawnshroud Peaks, Ocean of Tears, Plane of Disease, Plane of Nightmare, and Plane of Storms will be your friends later.
Sorry but I have to disagree with Dothammer. He is SO wrong. A druids best friend is quadding and in my opinion a druid is much more effective than a wizzie at it. I have levelled my Druid to the high 60's by quadding mainly. When I first started using this technique , I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
It is the single most effective way for a druid to level up !!
It is the single most effective way for a druid to level up !!
To each his own I guess.
If you have a mana-free clicky AE nuke it probably is easy. My gear was never the best, but ok. I just found that quadding was way too much work to kill 4 things with weak targeted AEs.
I made more xp solo by charming than quadding and I've been around the block a few times. Check the druid in the sig.
If you have a mana-free clicky AE nuke it probably is easy. My gear was never the best, but ok. I just found that quadding was way too much work to kill 4 things with weak targeted AEs.
I made more xp solo by charming than quadding and I've been around the block a few times. Check the druid in the sig.
for around 34-55, I absolutely loved quadding. past that, it was a bit of a pain most places.
quadding tizmaks at 34 way back when had me leveling way faster than any group, even without the clicky nuke staff.
quadding tizmaks at 34 way back when had me leveling way faster than any group, even without the clicky nuke staff.
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