>>What's the step above these in the Shard area?

You might want to try mutant togballs, but that's at Boar Clan so I don't know if Hib really counts as "Shard area" enough for you.

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At this skill level, I was jumping between togballs and bloodvines to keep everything (Skinning) moving.

Togballs slowed down around 140 ranks, mostly because the gen isn't that great by your lonesome.

GENT