The area is entirely frustrating, but I'm out on Ratha for RP reasons, and decided to try la'heke. Arrange/skin with bastie and lock skinning... I locked skinning! I almost fell out of my chair. I might have been on a wall rank but it was crazy. Some decks spawn more fishsticks than others and you can't use the specific attack commands because you fall over. If you spam attack (not slice, chop, draw, etc, just attack attack attack) you don't fall. Of course you have to be on ratha, and if the gweths weren't bad enough the whole island is practically anti-ranger, but there ya go.

Skinning 237
Combats average ~ 220

~Ranger Hanryu, Sword of House Calibanor
>However, elements of the Solomon junta still control the hills outside the capital. - Armifer

>bad enough the whole island is practically anti-ranger, but there ya go.

Ding ding ding. Amazing how that works. Thrash bonus learn skinning.

My personal experience agree's with blight ogres nightime barghest nightstalker unyns young gryphons. ideal is to find something that swarms you kill easily. I can never give up that weapon exp however.

With 25 int and 229 skinning, i can get to the perplexed/bewildered stage after two cycles of capped HOL in black leucros. Add to that scraping the hides and skinning is locked when I go and sell the bundles. This is haflway through the learning cycle. I get perfect hides often, but fail sometimes as well. Not oonly do I learn skinning, but I make pretty good coin from all the hides and sacs I skin perfectly. I learn more skinning from red leucros though. With blight ogres, I'm at about muddled after a cycle of capped HOL, getting perfect skins more often than not. As far as hulking barghests, I get to around muddled after a cycle of capped HOL and get perfect eyes more often than not. This is using a knife to skin btw. I don't know how much int you have,but with the right amount of mana on you HOL and using something bigger than a knife, you might be able to lock skinning in these places. I always hunt crits I can skin with capped HOL to make coin. I love shopping so it helps support my habit, chuckle.

Just figured i'd better chime in and say thanks for the suggestions, gryphons seem to work well, because a: they are a difficult to skin and b: usually have high gen rates.
shinumo

>>I still find this topic interesting at times. Or not so much the topic, but the complaints on locking skinning. For some reason, I don't ever recall it being all that terrible for me. I'm not saying it's as easy to do as magic or something, but I lock skinning on a regular basis. Post walls are tough, but they're tough for any skill because they drain so fast. Even at my skinning now, I'm still able to lock it while hunting. Not saying I don't think it needs some work. Just saying I don't feel I have as much problem as I hear others seem to.~Van <<

How much Skinning Van and what are you hunting? I have 350's and Im currently hunting polos while falk has mid 400's in skinning. We both have issues locking skinning in Polos. This is killing one every 40 seconds to a minute. I arrange using a dao (light edge weapon) and i believe he skins his with a HE. We both cast HOL at a level were we barely succeed and still nothing.

It's pretty frustrating.


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