Have a character with the following skills/stats (approximate, not at home currently).
40 Agi/Ref
30 Str/Sta/Cha
40/35 Int/Wis
50 Disc
about 310 evasion
about 260 Parry/Shield
about 270 multi
3 weapons in the 200s (1 with parry, 2 about 220)
and a handful of weapons in the mid-to-high 100s
I currently can, with abilities, handle 4 Geni/Orc Bandits/Warcats or 3 baby/fledgling gryphons.
I tried adanf about 30 or 40 ranks of evasion ago and had decent success with some rather nasty random death issues (mages casting disablers).
I can't ever seem to get a spot in gryphons and don't enjoy Rossman's much but it is fairly easy to get back and forth from Crossing/Riverhaven.
I have a somewhat fatalistic view of Shard, to be honest. Shard areas and critters there seem to be more trouble than their worth in many cases and the remoteness can be annoying (don't have 550 climbing). Still, Shard is better than the islands in my mind.
