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

The thing you have to consider is that there are generic mobs, and mobs that certain classes are good against. Soloing clerics really need to focus on undead for instance: it's not that they can't kill normal stuff with their smite (they can), but it's just faster/more efficient for them to focus on undead, because they literally get more damage per mana spent against undead.

Similarly root/rotters focus on mobs that don't summon. Bards focus on open outdoor areas with lots of mobs they can grab. Druids focus on animals so they can charm them, and rangers focus on animals so that they can fear them.

It's not that, as a Ranger, you can't kill non-animals, it's just that it's usually slower and less efficient to kill anything else. You might want to do so anyways, like killing geonids for cash or killing frost giants for faction. Heck, the frost giants in Iceclad (near the Eastern Wastes zone line) hit so weakly (compared to animals of the same level) that I literally just got my Ranger his last three levels, up to 45, on them (although he had a fungi; YMMV). I also killed some wolves there (and did the GD bears for a bit) using fear kiting, but I found that because those giants hit so weakly I could kill them just as fast (and not have to chase them all over the place) ... or if not quite as fast, then close enough that it was worth killing them anyways since I wanted faction.

But my point is, unless you have exceptional mobs (eg. the especially weak frost giants in Iceclad) or you're going for plat/faction instead of XP, you want to go for mobs that take advantage of your class's unique features, simply because you'll get XP faster that way. For Rangers, that means focusing on animals, because you can fight animals without taking damage (via fear kiting), and you can't fight non-animals without taking damage. And of course, damage = downtime = time not spent leveling.

So if I were to fearkite animals throughout my 50s, which ones are actually profitable to do? I need to save up 100k by level 60 to MQ my Epic. And come 49 I'm moving to Kael to bowrot some giants for armor pieces.