Ranger - Panic Animal soloing?

[Cecily]

I'm jealous you get to solo like that. 1 - 60 face tanking was interesting though.

[blondeattk]

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

Tolan's gaunts is mana free snare. Panic animal is 10 mana. You need to harmony to break the static spawns, but then you don't even need that. If you learn to time your fears, you should take very little damage. The named raptor does have some hp, but even he shouldn't really pose a problem to an upper 40's ranger. Mid 40's might have too many resists to handle him though.

aye but opening poster was talking about doing this 30+

tried a few mobs in ew at 34 i think, and found it to be waste of time....too many hps/resists.

have to confess i havent tried again now am 45.....most my exp is done with either rogue or shm. guess i should give it a whirl tho...

[Freakish]

You should check out Iceclad near Tower of Frozen Shadows at 34. Everything on track is dark blue, plenty of snow cougars with tiny hp pools and snow guardians.

[chiefrocka]

Cougars are decent at 31 but not omfgamazing. The social agro isn't fun but that's the case pretty much anywhere. I found it was safer to fear kite on the side far side of the first island, past ToFS and opposite the docks. The cougars path through the dock area way too much for my liking.

I didn't find myself running out of mana even not having access to clickies but I guess that may vary with your gear setup. Ranger had an FBSS, Springwood stave and other misc items and did pretty well. Pull with snare, panic animal.. chase the mob and recast when necessary. You can throw a DoT on the mobs if you want to increase the speed but it gets less efficient that way.

[Man0warr]

Yeah I tried Cougars but HHK guards were still way faster.

[Jimjam]

I found the 'beach' near the gnolls, close to the tofs zoneline safe kite spot for cougars.

Takes about 50 kills per level for low 30s.

Like ChiefRocka I found using stinging swam just meant I had to take med breaks (time spent not melee DPSing) so I advise only to use DOTs it if you are anticipating a break anyway.

Edit: cougars seemed to take a while to kill for me, are they really such low hp for the level? I figured oldworld stuff would be much faster!

[Gaunja]

Velious mobs have higher HP than old work / kunark. At least thats what I recall

[Ocelo]

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

Cougars are decent at 31 but not omfgamazing. The social agro isn't fun but that's the case pretty much anywhere. I found it was safer to fear kite on the side far side of the first island, past ToFS and opposite the docks. The cougars path through the dock area way too much for my liking.

I didn't find myself running out of mana even not having access to clickies but I guess that may vary with your gear setup. Ranger had an FBSS, Springwood stave and other misc items and did pretty well. Pull with snare, panic animal.. chase the mob and recast when necessary. You can throw a DoT on the mobs if you want to increase the speed but it gets less efficient that way.

Having tried this out now, I agree with everything said here. My gear isn't as good as all that, but what I do have is sufficient.

Being careful to pull to a spot free of adds is critical.

[rciv]

Gator tunnel in caricature is definitely doable starting at 30 or 31. Once you break first three gators you can fear kite them from the spawn points of the first 2 static spawns. harmony is your friend here

[Dukoph]

I did Tigers in OT from roughly 40-46. Throw in Rhinos too. Less HP then Velious mobs too.