What's after rats now? Skinable preferred, badgers and pots are what I used to use, but they're tearing the guy up and rats are capped out. Oh, and near crossings.
Let's save us all some time: I'm a troll who rarely has anything helpful. There.
Musk hogs to 35-40. Then goblins/large musk hogs also right there. For goblins, from west gate: w,w,nw,w,w,nw,w,n,n,nw,ne,ne. That should put you there. Ride them to 45-50, and you'll be set for eels. Should be good from there.
Louts are essentially humans in the Slade, so nope, not skinnable (and before someone in particular comes in and hoots about it, yes, necros can learn skinning there, thank you).
So far as suggestions I see: Hogs (only tried 'em briefly, but I'm guessing someone was spawnhogging, I got 1 hog in 30 minutes) Goblins Badgers/pots (...already killed me once, which is the reason for the post sadface) Frogs (Haven, boohiss)
Anyone had luck just going straight to eels? I used to use orchard gobs to jump past rats, but blah on the new hunting scheme. Learning new stuff sucks. Let's save us all some time: I'm a troll who rarely has anything helpful. There.
Origami creatures are great for learning in that range; no skin, but teach absurdly well for a fairly long time, better than eels I would say. I went to hogs after rats myself, I can usually get 2-3 on me if I don't kill them too quickly, try moving around if they don't want to spawn where you are. If I recall correctly, I think the boars in the hunting preserve may be just a bit tougher than pothanits. The gobs and gob shamen nearby might work.
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You might look at the doom squirrels outside Arthe Dale too; While undead, they are corpereal undead. They seem to teach a while after the rats stop. One word of caution; Use a shield. The squirrels throw acorns.
Good luck!
Ryeka and the brood
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A little late to the conversation, but someone else might find this useful.
I use the same progression for all low-level characters, and have trained dozens of new characters using it:
rats hogs large hogs/foragers goblins/shamans boars eels reavers/hounds (for boxes) beisswurms cave bears (up to 80 ranks)
The ladder splits at this point. I go to Ratha for boxes, blood wolves for skinning. You might find this doesn't suit your needs, but it has been solid for me for many many characters!
Re: Low level stupid question 01/11/2012 08:08 AM CST
since they put in the serpent <alone> area east of riverhaven, i've been going there with lower characters. So i hit bloodwolves, snowbeasts <gash>, serpents, then deer.
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