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Originally Posted by Loadsamoney
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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.
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Honestly, camps in EverQuest
tend to be either good for XP, or good for plat, but not both. There's a reason why I originally created two separate guides (see my sig) for the two things: the two lists are almost completely separate.
But that's not 100% true. Like I said, I just got my Ranger to 45, so I'm the wrong person to ask about the best Ranger-specific 46+ spots, but just in general I think you have two options to make plat while also getting XP as a ranger: solo and track or group.
There are multiple "cycles" in the game, where you kill mob A, and one of mobs B through M appears. You kill that and another mob from A-M appears. Most of those mobs are worthless (except for XP), but there's usually one or more on the cycle (eg. mob F) that drops something cool. Rangers are uniquely suited to get these items, because their superior track makes finding mobs on the cycle easier (plus they have SoW, Camo, Harmony, etc. which makes it easier for them to run through areas and get the mob they want without picking up fifty others).
At your level I think you could do the Frontier Mountain cycle, but as I recall the loot on it is kinda garbage (especially in P99's overly inflated economy). The real money cycle is Trakanon's Teeth, where you can get an Ikky BP (and some less valuable stuff too I think), but you'll need to be somewhere in your 50s to do that. There's also a Skyfire cycle, but A) I'm not sure if Rangers can do it, B) if they can it's definitely higher level, and C) you just get Kunark spells that aren't worth a whole lot.
To be clear, doing cycles will be slower XP than just fear kiting random animals. But at least it will be a way to work on plat and XP at the same time.
On the flip side, you can just group. Again, the good groups are going to be in places that are a little too high for you right now, like KC and Sebilis. But once you get into your 50s camps like CE in Sebilis open up, and you can win 20k+ items at such camps if you're lucky (heck, you even have a shot at a 80k+ Torpor dropping at CE in particular ... not a good chance, but a chance, and if you do the camp enough
eventually you'll win
something valuable).
My advice would be to focus on XP until your mid-50s, and then make TT/Seb your home. Do the TT cycles when you're soloing, and try to get groups in Seb when you're not. Both will give you XP and (potentially) plat too.
But really a very viable alternative option would be to just focus on XP until 60, and only then work on plat. It will be
much easier to get good groups (or do cycles successfully) at 60 than at earlier levels, and for casters I pretty much always recommend this. Melee characters need gear upgrades more though, so while it still might be a good plan for them, I understand wanting to mix-in some plat earning too.
But more accomplished Rangers might have better ideas. I know that some Rangers just get a bunch of weight reduction bags and go on a killing spree in Droga or lower level goblin dungeons like Nurga, Permafrost, or Sol B. Apparently the Fine Steel and HQ ore piles up fast and that leads to decent plat earning, but I've never done it so I don't know how much you can realistically expect to make (especially in your 40s).