Mountains of Rathe  

A bard can go from level 27-40+ without ever having to leave rathe mts (except to bank the massive plat you get). The secret is charm-kiting :)
The best was to go about it is to buy CHA jewelry b4 u hit 27 so u will have it rdy. CHA of 125 or even 150 is awesome even for charming red mobs (but it can be done lower than that, mine was only 90 for a long time).
You will start hunting cyclops at level 27. the best area for this is the little valley right next to lake rathe zone. Just run around (always having selo's on) and look for 2 cyclops, throw a snare (prolly resisted) on one of them and run close enought to the other to make him aggro, then walk them out of the valley area out to the adjoining section. You will be able to run around without fear of adds there. Once u have the cycs into your hunting area, pick one that u can land a spell on (see if u can land on it by doing 5 belows, if all resisted try the other cyc, if that resists too... zone). You will stay targeted on that cyc the ENTIRE FIGHT.
Start running in a circle twisting selo's (ALWAYS have selo's up) and your charm spell. when your charm spell lands (it will only land half the time on deep reds with 90 cha) turn around, start selo's, and let one of them hit u so your cyc pet starts hitting it. then run away as soon as you're hit. Twist heal and selo's while they fight each other and when charm breaks, start the circle again, rinse repeat until one starts running. Then u just charm your pet again, click on the uncharmed one and push your /petattack button (from the social that u alrdy made hehe). your pet will start beating down the other one and will eventual kill him or u might have to do it one more time. Once the kill is made, run away from the corpse til charm breaks, then snare your pet. Now u can go loot the one u just killed.

Now comes the boring part where u just run in circles twisting selo's, below, below on your ex-pet until he starts running. (At level 30 u get fulfils chant and u can start twisting selo's/chant/below to make it go much faster)Then u can just twist snare/snare/snare (cause it gets resisted alot) and melee him down to keep your weapon skills up.

You use the same method with hill giants except u have to pull to an area where there are no other groups hunting, I use the place by the lizard camp usually. HGs can be done at 29 (but not recomended, do SGs at 29 if u must do a giant),but level 30 is when HGs start to be very very good.

You will be encumbered very quickly with all of the plat and FS. I am a half-elf so the guise of the deciever (Lguk drop from ghoul assasin) is a huge help because it alows u to bank in ogguk. Sell your FS weps to the gnome merchant that sells jewels in the hut by the cyclops area.

You should get massive amounts of PP and exp if u just keep doing this, I have on a sullon zek even dealing with PKers and no cha jewelry. I imagine with cha jewelery and no worries, this would be uber easy :)

have fun and kill lots of stuff

wesek
30 EVIL bard
sullon zek