(1) Go into a zone
(2) Sense Animals
(3) If no animals, is it worth quadding
(4) If not worth quadding but worth root/rotting, does it summon
You only really need guides if you are soloing, and the only solo tactics worth doing are root rotting, kiting, charming, and quadding.
Root Rotting: In velious, mobs have high hp, so I don't think you want to be root rotting unless you have an epic and prolly es arms too. That takes you up to 88 damage / tick while rooted, and you'd treat it more or less exactly how a shaman would. For a 60 druid, you can camp Phase Spiders in DN for carpaces (they don't summon). However, most of the good loot mobs in Velious do summon, so you couldn't really camp Velks by root rotting. Of course you could faction grind or kill other things root rotting. This is probably always worse xp than charming or quadding.
Kiting: The way druids should kite is by (1) charming an animal, (2) aggroing something else with snare, (3) keeping aggro with stuns, and (4) have your pet beat it from the back. This is effective for killing any mobs that don't summon or cast on you. Unless you break your pet at the end, you will be splitting xp as normal. The main place you would use this tactic in velious is in Western Wastes, where you can solo ice burrowers and tantor (when he stops summoning, he is not supposed to summon but was last week). I've soloed ice burrowers already, and I'm sure the silks sell well, or you could try to sell loot rights to the monk chest.
Charming: General Rule is that outdoor zones in velious have animals, indoor zones do not. The exception is Siren's Grotto, but because the seahorses cannot be rooted or snared, trying to charm solo as a druid is pretty scary and it makes breaking in very hard. If you want to charm in velious, you can charm for xp easily, and to farm the skins/tusks for tailoring or quests. Charming works the way it does everywhere else...zones in which you can do it include Iceclad (cougars/wolves), Eastern Wastes (lots), Western Wastes (wolves, mammoths, and rhinos), Great Divide. You optimize xp by going animal vs. animal, but you can also use animals to kill other mobs. For instance in EW, you could charm an animal and solo some of the orc camps.
Quadding: You can quad anywhere you can outrun mobs. Make sure they have simlilar run speeds and are not casters. Best place in Velious is Cobalt Scar for gem drops and wyvern hides, as long as you have COV faction.
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