Some bashing questions.

Daraius

This year for the first time I've been asked by a few newbies to go bashing. This pleases me, but I have very little idea what I'm doing. So a few questions:

- What are some relatively newbie-friendly areas where a demi can bash?

 (i.e. areas where they'll get some good experience, but the mobs won't crush them with one hit/room attack)

- Where should I send them when we're done with the higher-level places? 

 (for the record, slush elementals are about the most difficult thing I've been able to comfortably handle so far, but I wouldn't take a newbie there)

- How is experience distributed when huge level differences are involved?

And one for just me:

- As a lobo harmony psymet Tahtetso demigod, shouldn't I be able to comfortably handle more than slush elementals? ">

Any tips would be appreciated!

Silvanus

- Undervault critters, pretty good experience for bringing tag-a-longs with. 

   * If you have astral boots or cubix, you can clear the 5 astral mobs on each sphere

   * Kephera/Illithoid if you aren't afraid of enemy status, only thing need to watch for is when they attack and spawn guards.

   * Gorgogs, but again guards can be an issue, and a (useless) enemy status

- Inner Sea and Sea of Despair, great bashing grounds for midbies, but you have to watch for certain loyals (vamp squid in SoD) that'll make you enemies. There's always the obvious ones that everyone else does.

   * Best thing a newbie can do is put some lessons in influence if they have a high Cha race, can easily get to level 80

- If you do it right, make sure they get harmony blessing and everything, they'll be getting more experience then just about anything else - except aetherbashing. So the distribution won't really matter.

Karlach

Harmony Psymet Tahtetso should be able to bash almost anything, you have the right mix of health/mitigation and healing to handle end game bashing.

No really, Astral, Zombies, Icediggers, Muud, Dio should all be doable, the only thing you'll struggle with are Icewynd Larva packs, but those aren't meant to be soloed, it's just a few people with really strong min/max capacity that can do so.

Daraius

Dang I need to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Karlach

Well depending on what you're bashing, and your skills. I'm assuming for example you are (or very close to) trans across Discipline/Tattoos/Guild Skills and Resilience, you pick up a Health blessing and have a beast with Bodyguard. That and you have a curing system.

After that, for things like Astral and Zombies, it's very much a case of taking on what you can handle, not endlessly linking or grabbing ALL THE BRAINS at once and getting mobbed by TotalHellDeath™.

Lerad

Oh, yes. Lobo harmony psymet? Pretty much tankiest monk setup, save for swapping lobo out for illithoid or dwarf.

For newbie bashing, though, areas which spawn guards are definitely a big risk, since you don't have standard bearer, so you can't draw aggro away from your newbies. UV tunnels are boring, tedious unless you have a script that changes your targets for you, but rewarding because they are so easy to plow through. Gotta look out for cavefishers, though.

You could try the aetherbubbles, those tend to be decent in exp.