Stilt lizards?

fuck yeah stilt lizards ftw. Last time I fought one I missed like 20 times and it hit me very hard a couple times even though I had jman bludgeon, advanced dual wield, VG strength and exceptional agility. I could kill almost everything else in the northlands two on one in seconds while unmounted but stilt lizards tickle my skill tree everytime.

I find once you get to a certain level of skill where things are just too easy to get any gains, I just get off my mount to fight. Rangers get a bonus to fighting while mounted so it instantly makes it a little harder, plus your mount gets a mimi breather while you beat the shit out of things.

Stilt lizards are the best northland critter to fight or shoot and throw at for that matter if you want to rack up misses.

Also don't forget the more often you fight the same kind of creature the better your skills against that type of creature are. Like if you fight shit tons of ritikki then you raise your abilities against bug types, including kryl if i'm not mistaken.

I think it also depends on the type of attacks they use. So for example, carru and raptor use slashing attacks, so if you're training slashing up, it makes your defense against them better.

I haven't been to the mountains around the gypsy lands in like five years, but last time I was there, I found an animal that was probably the best sparring beast in the game. Seemed like an obvious favoritism gift for gypsy players to twink their skills on. The thing looked like a ferret or something, just this little furry thing sitting around in the mountains. I've never seen anything dodge like that, I had a very long-lived warrior and I fought it for like ten minutes without hitting it. It was mostly harmless and fought back like a gimpka rat or something, it hadn't done more than a few points of damage to me in that entire fight. Dunno if it's still there. I seem to remember that it was in the southern part of that circle of cliffs.

I drew you a fabulous map. I think I've been in pretty much every room in the game that can be reached without magic or keys.

i.imgur.com/n9t6Cdx.png

The grasslands are mostly safe if you don't go too far east. Bahamet live in the northeast part of it and are the only serious danger. Hawks, stilts and other small game are around the west half of the grasslands, often within walking distance of the gate. There's kylori and duskhorn throughout the area, and a few other beasts including the occasional cylops from the thornlands.

Thornlands are aids, stay out. Especially don't go east past the thornlands.

The scrub along the westward stretch of the North Road contains mostly stuff like goudra, tregil and whatever those snakes are called, as well as gortok. The scrub south of Tuluk contains gurth, tandu, and the occasional tembo or carru.

Gypsy lands are fucked, I don't even know what's there anymore as it was destroyed after I quit.

The Grey Forest is shit, don't go in there. Full of kryl and stuff.

Red Desert is mostly empty but you can find the odd gith or raptor there, as well as a few weird sort of feral half-giants called magera or something. Prone to sandstorms and parching temperatures. Also full of pits these days, I guess, but I didn't explore it after that started happening.

It'd be cool if you marked different animals and points of interest on the map. Cool stuff so far.

Well they move around a bunch, as anything that will flee or chase you tends to wander fairly far from their respective spawn points.

Summary:

Tregil
- Western scrubs, tends to be a very few and they flee.

Goudra
- South along the western scrubs off the road, sometimes deeper in, sometimes north from the road a few rooms in the trees. Hides. Need scan.

Geth
- Chubby, eight legged lizards. In the desert to the south. I've not seen any pattern really, I've even seen them up in the western scrubs rarely. Hides, need scan.

Greth
- Stays pretty close to Tuluk, south from the gate and in around the western scrubs. Hides, need scan.

Gortok
- All over the goddamn place west of the city. Off the road, north and south, near the span is a pair to the north two rooms in, they sit still over there, but sometimes there are jet-colored kryl and flying kryl hanging out close by. Also a pair south of the road near the span, in a Narrow Canyon. Sometimes a carru there as well, so watch that. Long-legged ones seem to have higher agility than normal, could be wrong.

Carru
- Southern scrubs and rim of the desert to the south mostly.

Tembo
- Near a burned village in the southern scrubs. There is a maar tree and some kind of crevice which you can rest/quit in nearby as well. Close to the pandu road. This guy moves around quite a bit but you can generally find it around this area.

Gizhat
- Tends to be along the edge of the desert to the south, sometimes a little deeper in.

Magera
- Down in the desert. Kind of randomly appears. I don't see them that often. They use bludgeon and you cannot skin them.

Raptor
- Down in the desert to the south. Sometimes in packs. Hides sometimes for ambushing.

Stilt Lizards
- Grasslands, I find them quite often pretty close to the eastern wall. North-eastern area of the grass.

Ritikki
- Eastern grasslands, along the edge of where it meets the scrub and along that eastern wall, scattered around as they flee when approached.

Kylori
- Pretty much the same as ritikki, though I think they cover a wider area of the grass and eastern edge of the scubs, I see them in lots of places over there.

Hawks
- Seems to be the same as kylori approximately.

Bahamet
- Fucking things. One usually likes to camp right outside the eastern gate two rooms away. I almost always see one a few rooms out along the wall. They move around a bit too. They wander around in the thorns to the east of the grass and out in the open grass as well. Be advised, if they are 'lounging' or whatever, it's not so bad. If you see one 'trampling the grass' they are aggro'd. I've had them start to chase me from two-rooms away when they are like that, several times, on different PC's. So you don't have to be in an adjacent room to have one barreling after you.

Ox
- These things are retardedly strong. Fast too. Seems like all creatures which are mounts can fuck your shit up. Along the edge of the thorns to the far east of the grass I have seen them milling about. As well as along the northern edge of the grass.

Duskhorn
- Near the thorns along the eastern edge of the grass, sometimes really close to that cliff which is bordering the southern edge of the grass.

Cilops
- Along the eastern edge of the grass by the thorns and in the thorns.

Tandu
- Scrubs and grass to the east, close to the impassible cliff wall which borders the grass on the southern rim.