A note on Turoths: If you stand at one end of the chamber that they're in, and mage/range one of the beasts at the far end, the target will have a hard time making it through the mass of other Turoths to get to you. As such, they rarely get to you to deal much/any damage before you've killed them. I maged a sizable task wearing full blue mystic, and used hardly any food. They drop lots of high-end herbs, so for the mage XP and inventory of Rannars and above, I felt it was well worth the effort.