a Raptor  

These things agroe froms so far away

I am a 47 bard, been AE kiting the chickens (spirocs) since 40, was wonderin if any other bard out there had tried this with these guys, and if not, where should i go to continue my AE kites until 60?? any help is greatly appriciated.

Most druid strategy forums will tell you to go to Raptors Islands in Timorous Deep at 53 or 54 to quad kite raptors and get the best exp in game at that levels, and will give some general tips, BUT they wont tell you HOW to hunt those islands.

I will try to resume my experience there, and hope this can help somebody.

Raptors Islands are 2, one small with 6 spawns and one large with 9 spawns, strategy varies in each case. They are located directly south from chessboard island, which is directly south from the islands where the shuttle from Oasis drop you.

General tips for hunting here are:

1. Raptors have higher aggro range than normal creatures, so beware. You can still ensnare them from safe distance, but you will have to learn to calculate this with practice. Always have levitation and sow or wolf form on, so you can scape when necessary.

2. Levitation is a must, if you dont have the 50s lvl levitation spell, bring a backpack full of bat wings, you can buy them in EC at the first inn close to WC zone.

3. Good mana pool is required, at lvl 55 with 197 wis and something around 120 extra mana from gear, I still have to root the higher lvl vicious raptors or the named one (Dinus) to med safely and to recover the mana to finish them.

4. There is a safe spot in the large island where you can med safely, unless someone train it, it is a little piece of beach just in front the small island. You can find it easy coming from chessboard island, when you approach raptors islands, pass between them (run just in the middle of them so you dont aggro any raptor) and in the middle of the large island (right one) you will see it, its a little piece of beach, close to the main beach of that island.

5. Sometimes you will need to run over the water, thats what you need levitation for, BUT your Nukes and Ensnare spells wont work on raptors if they are in the water and you are levitatig, so try to keep them on land, specially when you are nuking them.

6. Some guides tell you to pull to chessboard island. DONT DO IT, its certainly safer, but it will slow your exp to the point that hunting here wont be good anymore. You will take a lot of time taking ensnared raptors through water, while you levitate and can hardly see them, to an island that you cant see from the place you pull, and it will be very easy to get lost in the middle of the ocean, thinking you are in right direction when you are not.

You can do all your hunting without leaving raptors islands, HOW to do it is precisely what I want to post about.

NOW, how to do this. At the beggining, without a guide, you will notice that in both islands you will get annoying adds in the middle of a quad kiting that will force you to run away without exp.

The way to avoid this is always pulling the roamers. Small Island have one roamer and 5 fixed spawns. Large Island have 2 roamers and 7 fixed spawns.

In small island, you can pull starting from the beach just in front of the save spot, or starting with the 2 spawns near the ruin. In any of those cases, the roamer will be around. Golden rule is to wait for the roamer, no matter from where you started, pull the raptors in the order you find them in the beach, first 2 will be normal raptors, third one will always be a vicious raptor or Dinus. When you have this 3, dont go further and pull the next fixed spawn, this will ineviable cause that, in some point of your quadding, the roamer will add. Wait for the roamers, keep running circles around the 3 you already have, and when you see the roamer coming, get it and complete your quad. Now quad them along the clean part of the beach, dont approach too much to the other 2 spawns, you will have room for 3 easy nukes, and maybe 4 if you learn to time them well.

Now large island is a differente story. If someone else is there and ask you to share large island, accpet, that will make you things much more easy and will only need you to set clearly with this person which of the 8 spawns of the main beach are you taking and which is taking him or her, to check out the roamers movements so you can pull safely and to divide the island in 2 halfs while kiting so you dont cross your quads, this last thing can be dangerous cuz some of the raptors can leave the quad and aggro on the other kiter. Conversation in tells with this person is also advisable, so you can tell him that you have your 4 pulls or he can tell you that, so everything stays under control of both of you.

If you are not sharing, you will have to pull the 2 roamers, or inevitable you will have adds. From the save spot check their movements, cuz they both roam the part of the main beach that you can see from there. Now when you see one of the roamers approaching and you are full mana, pull it, along with the fixed spawn you can see from safe spot, follow the shore and pull the vicious raptor that you will find there and wait for the other roamer to show running circles around the 3 you alaready have chasing you, when it shows, pull it, get them close togheter and strat nuking. You can run a little further along the beach from the point the vicious raptor spawn, but not to far, another raptor spawns a little far away next to the sea. You will also have to stay away from the druid ring cuz other raptors spawn there, the space that you have left is enough to run around and kite them without aggroing anything else.

Thats it, hope this help someone and safe you the time it took me to learn it, the failed quads, and a couple of eventual deads without any possibility of rez (there are rarely high lvl clerics in this zone).

Asuran
Lvl 55 wanderer
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these or seafuries? im a 54 druid and im looking to get some AA points fast =/

1. at 53 <Druid> and 205 Wis I can Barely Quad them, usually I have Two left over and am OOM, I just use ES Vams and kite them till dead. 2. They don't see invis. 3. At 53 I get allmost a half Blue per Quad. 4. like peeps have said they don't Gate, but if you are not within a certain range when Root wears out, or while you are kiting them and they get to there Run Lvl of health, they will Warp back to there spawn point, possible agroing more mobs. You can pull them to chess board just make sure when they get low on health you are close to them so that when root wears off they don't warp. 5. Only thing I have seen them drop are pages, words and runes, no Cash. 6. They do have Planes type Agro range, you need to get just into cast range for them not to agro, if you go in alittle more there coming for yaa. Hope that helps yaa :)

I am a 51 necro found these guys very easy to kill. All there is too it is aggro them into the water of course darknees and fear a little poison and a little time.The only trick is u have to cast underwater for spells to hit them when they are swimming.

Can druids Quad kite these things?

im a pally i cant dot and root or snare like u druids and necros but i can stun and melee most mobs in the low 40s down easyly only prob is most mobs dont stun so do these dinos stun or am i stuck at cynd?

these guys are no problem to kill with my lvl 56 druid