Noob PvM needs help...

[TwoTon]

start shame with earth elementals they carry 400 gold aprox. and can give you a great start. not many pks come there either.

kidding, that is where i used to noob pk the most.

It used to be a huge PK hive on OSI, but agreed with TwoTon, it's rarely used by PKs or even other players here. Scorpions are a major PITA.

yes... plus earth eles will raise all your dexxie skills.

[Silverfoot]

I'm starting my first real PvM character. I've played many chars on many shards but mainly stuck to PvP when many of the player run shards were heavily populated. I decided to go with a T-Hunter bard first(suprise, suprise) to make some cash. I'm going with -

Mage
Med
Music
Prov
Cart
Lockpick
Hiding

Right now, I have 100 music, 95 provoke and 80 hide and I decided to head to destard to get some dragons killed for some extra money to start training mage. Well I head in and get the tar beat out of me. I've seen people say that provoking these dragons is "easy" but they kill me in about 3 casts, or 1 or 2 hits. I can get one or two down from provoking them but another swoops in, kills me and my horse and then it's nearly impossible to recover my loot.

Any tips? I know it's basic stuff but I'm having a hard time here

It is difficult to make good money with provo unless you have some sort of summons or tames to take the aggro off you. Once you are at least able to summon blade spirits it starts to become pretty easy. I agree with everyone else that Despise is probably the best place to start, or even just monsters in the forest if Despise is too rough.

Also, I would drop the hiding for resist. On treasure hunts the initial monster spawn will not attack for the first 4-5 seconds, so all you have to do is summon a couple daemons before hand, then run away a bit when the monsters pop up and start provoing.

I haven't found any instance where I would rather have hiding over resist.

[alatar]

I haven't found any instance where I would rather have hiding over resist.

Truth.

[qtip]

The only reason to take hiding ... is to take stealth

[TwoTon]

The only reason to take hiding ... is to take stealth

stealth is good but you gotta know how to use it