best ways to make decent plat at 16

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

A surprisingly good cash camp I rediscovered recently with my baby ranger was aviaks in south Karana. If you can vendor at the top with Krak (any sneak class, fd, faction modifying class or with good enough baseline racial faction) it was amazingly good while xping.

I started there I think around 19. I remember having to port once out of there to train my level 20 skills in Surefall.

Egrets can drop as much as 5 plat in raw coin (range less than a plat to up to 5p - average 2ish plat). Bronze weapons drop off the higher birds and birds of any level can drop an assortment of low level gems. Egrets in particular are such a low level mob I wonder if them dropping KC level coin is a bug.

Regardless, I found myself not getting annoyed as I leveled. To keep spawning the rooks/harriers and later the Avocets you have to keep killing off Egrets to open the spawn points. Each one was like a little treasure chest for the difficulty.

Only problem is that you can end up in a situation where all or most spawn points are Avocets … and unless you can kill them at the lower end of the range to xp there, you can end up with nothing you can kill. I moved a high level toon there to wipe out the Avocets until I was high enough to kill them on my own.

I went into the zone with 50p for ports and left with about 2k extra in coin and bags of stacked gems despite donating GENEROUSLY for PoTG whenever I saw a 60 druid in the zone. You can “bank” at Krak by buying his stackable vendor gems (3-4pp and unlimited). You can either sell them back at a minor loss converting gold/silver/copper to plat or just hold onto the gems until the next time you visit a banker. I had to stop converting coin to plat because my plat was getting too heavy.

All in all I think I left there with a haul of about 6-7k - excellent cash for an xp camp in the 20-30 range. It was far better than the paw gnolls even though they can drop FS.

Great rediscovery. Nostalgic reading your description. Aviak village was incredibly popular back on live during the 99-01 timeframe. It has lost some appeal since SK zem is standard and it isn't on the 'exp superhighway' many now take instead of playing everywhere like we did on live.

That said you found one of the hidden gems in EQ for that level range.