depending on your time/money cannonballs are extremely slow 10k exp an hr.. as tripsis says stealing creation for hammers but dont use the hammers until 68 iron with ring of forging is better profit and more exp than cannonballs
it took me 1 try and like 45 in mith around 30 def 40 atk idk str and hp like 5-10 swordies it took me no food like 20 fire bolts to kill elvarg didnt auto cast ran to the northwest corner before the update about killing and taking the head
dig up dead buy cures from farmers for 25gp use plant cure on diseased plants always use super compost on marigolds they tend to die a lot even at high lvls