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Desolace

Maezyn took the long run to Desolace for some questing as it is a good area for mid thirties quests. There are some easy grinding quests killing Centaurs and suchlike. The area is full of scorpids, Thunder Lizards and Kodo which are all good for leather: the higher level ones (level 37+) were dropping thick leather.

I was trying two new mods on BRK's recommendation: Omen threat meter and Mobinfo.

Omen threat meter makes efforts to warn when your threat is getting dangerously high by making the borders of the screen flash red. It seems to work well when comparing hunter and pet threat and I found myself better able to control the situation.

On my grinding I came across level 40 monsters, with Maezyn at level 35. I tackled them anyway. Armed with the threat meter I used a new tactic on red monsters: Hunter's Mark, Pet Attack, Serpent Sting and Autoshot. I didn't use Arcane Shot until the thing was at 20% health where I used an Arcane Shot/Multishot/Raptor Strike/Scattershot combo to finish them off. This worked and I didn't pull agro from whatever I was fighting when doing this. However, as I was in an area surrounded by similar high level mobs I kept pulling adds and this was hard to deal with as Freezing Traps and Scattershot get resisted. Died a few times. Killing mobs five levels higher takes longer without Arcane Shot but is still quicker than a paladin could do it.

Mobinfo gives extended information when you mouse over a mob such as how health and dps information, whether it is a runner and what you have looted from similar mobs in the past. By default the info tooltip follows the mouse cursor which is very invasive but there is an option to stop it doing this and you can park it where the standard monster information box appears.

Maezyn is now 36.