I used to swarm alot in OT on a bard I rotated back between 31-50 all over again to swarm kite players up in lvls, If your computer can handle it I would look into running RAMDISK and using the EQLite Batch file to strip your eq folder of everything but kunark/velious expansions. Then Ramdisk to significantly speed up zone times among other in game things. I used to get those little lag spikes occasionally, Sometimes it was after I had started a big kite I could get a small video lag when someone zoned in etc. Though the sky/clip plane never effected me so it could be possible you need a better video card but im not sure. Only thing I ever did was flip sky to none, particle effects to low 2-4%. It was very doable even though you would take the occasional lag death every 1/10 kites, But after ramdisk/eqlite I have never lagged like that again.
As far as plat goes, Stick with south karana until 30-31 whichever. Gnolls will be your best bet for any platinum/fine steel and aviaks for gems. Once in OT you start kiting cacti and such, You can easily get 80 cacti in a pull of the skyfire/fm zone areas. They almost always drop 1-2x succulent sap that stacks and vendors for a bit more then 1pp. I used to STACK these up into the 4-5 bag fulls and then wait it out and vendor them in another town since overthere vendors give you 50% of normal. Aside from that though, They also drop various gems, Beaks work 1pp etc too on the cockatrices. Be sure to try and snag a DE mask from lguk before you hit OT up.
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