Jobaber!

CoD is the crypt of Decay, or Ruins of Lxanvom. http://www.eqmacwiki.com/eqatlas/cryptofdecaymap.html

You might try Kaesora Library. It's a current hot zone, mobs don't hit that hard and go down pretty easily. I don't usually solo LotD with my mage, but I went in with my ranger to pick up a few AC/hp augs that I had missed when it was current, and found the xp to be pretty decent. With a ranger and ...

Thanks Dongin. I'm sure it would be even better if they stacked, but as they don't I'm not up to keeping BO up on a gem during raids! Putting that /block to use right away.

These would be like the effect on the withering staff from the MMs?

Please don't ask for swarm pets to only follow main pet. There are many times when the RS pet's forte is grabbing aggro on an add. Or DPSing on the group or raids main target while pet isdoing the offtanking. Someminimal control like /swarm attack or hold is verydesirable, but I wouldn't want myhand...

I've noticed this largely useless AA can jack a leved player up pretty high sometimes. Could there be places this would be usefull getting players over otherwise unscaleable objects? Like spamming lev rings back in the day for 1.0 camps in CoM. I can't think of any places off the top of my head but ...

Back to the original post, I would say go for direct offensive AAs first and pet defensive if you pet tank much. But mana regen should really come pretty early in the game as far as I'm concerned. Just because it's a small increase doesn't mean it's not worth while. Have you never counted the ticks ...

I had my pet go rogue when I was killed just as my summon pet spell went off. We were all surprised when it later attacked, and even more surprised to see the phat lewt it was stowing.