I'm thinking it's finally time to move on up from gryphons, as the learning is getting pretty slow.

I believe the natural progression from here would be celpeze or apes. Can anyone tell me how the whole celpeze poison thing is affecting things, and if apes would be a reasonable alternative? Any other suggestions?

Evasion: 508
Shield: 475
Parry: 440
Leather/LC/HC: 440
Multi: 430
Brawling: 436
Longbow: 410
2HE: 370
Skinning: 484

Reflex: 72
Agility: 61
Str: 60
Stam: 60

Ranger
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You manage to collect a pile of coin.
Roundtime: 30 sec.
R> look coin

The perfectly arranged pile of coin echoes a delicate balance that preserves its natural essence.

You can take young gryphons in Rossmans higher then what you have. I didnt slow down until about 530, and then they finally capped at 550. I went from young gryphons to apes, but got bored out there, so came back to adult and elder gryphons. Adult/elders taught for a ways past 600. Too bad they spend more time casting spells at you, than attacking. I can still learn weapons pretty easy, as well as hiding, stalking, and skinning.

Asterid

Also, please remember to watch the conflicts ~Sidatura

Hunting young gryphons got tedious because I got more baby/fledgelings than I got youngs. The occasional mature was fine to keep longbow moving. When I tried to move up to Adults their thunderclap got problematic. As someone said, more time flying and casting than fighting.

I bit the bullet and moved out to Ratha to try the baby celps. They are teaching everything awesome, although I think I'm going to need more defense before I can use longbow with any regularity.
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You manage to collect a pile of coin.
Roundtime: 30 sec.
R> look coin

The perfectly arranged pile of coin echoes a delicate balance that preserves its natural essence.

You seem to be forgetting that occasionally things do spot you. When I load in hiding with 580 hiding, 1 in 5 times a celpeze spots me and pulls out because I try to stay at pole or mêlée to keep the critter from walking into someone else's room with my arrows. If I do get pulled out hiding, the following hits can really hurt. In another 50 or so ranks of hiding/stalk, it probably won't be as much of a problem anymore.

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You manage to collect a pile of coin.
Roundtime: 30 sec.
R> look coin

The perfectly arranged pile of coin echoes a delicate balance that preserves its natural essence.