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I have finally reached 50 on parry, lesser magic, MM and swords are approaching 50 ... felt like I contributed to a recent oak lord group by tanking them effectively.

So, now I am feeling more confident in my skills to lead & participate in farm groups ... just have to figure out where the camps are in our area that make sense for a particular group size\skill ... some seem too be more suited for 2-3 people, others larger ... some are a puzzle to me, like those gazers to the east.

I am currently scouting around marking my map with annotations, cross referencing with known marks on the various maps out in the public .. hate to start a group and roam around aimlessly looking for camps.

Back in Shadowbane, we use to run farm groups with a split between guild & personal ... say, first hour all gold & resource drops to the guild .. after that equal distribution to the group .. or sometimes a specific goal for guild, say 5k gold or whatever ... once reached, the rest of the farm time went to the participants. This seemed to spark a good number of farm groups & it was a win\win situation for the guild & the individuals.

I like to do some raid groups on the mercs farming groups ... if we hear of one of them hitting our farmers\gathers ... let's assemble a group, sweep & hit them right back.

Some of us old timers (in my case, literally) will be stepping up as we get more confident & experienced with DF.

Still getting to know the area is problem too. I solo alot but always willing to bring somebody or go along (think it was rep who showed me a fantastic dungeon spot).

It sucks getting ganked but I am not wearing plate/scale to PvE so usually they have the upper hand honestly, sometimes it turns out well though

But I understand where you are coming from, skilling is so slow you don't notice the improvment, like trolls I cut like butter can fight pretty much nonstop (and the spawn seems nonstop).