I'm looking for places to train cheaply. By that, I mean places where mobs inflict low damage relative to the food they drop, while still providing at least reasonable experience. Being on a budget, I'm not using an e.control, and extended manual bursting is out of the question. Besides, bursting would be a huge SP drain, so much so that I'd need to stop frequently to make more grape syrup, if that were even enough. As an Earth, my skills run to 200+ SP per monster while bursting, which can drain me in a single mob. I'm looking for pure HP training, without time-outs for syrup making or buying!
For beginners, the first place would be Kelan Woods, where tree demons drop apples along with wood. You might need to sit to heal, but doing so just about guarantees you will always have more HP food than you need.
Then there's the Chicken Farm-- very well known, and Kama Cave.
You can move on to Beetles, first the ones on the path to Holy or the Seniors to the north of South Island, then the ones in the Beetle Den, moving deeper as you level up.
Cirrus only drop SP food, so they are just a brief stop if you're training on a budget. There aren't many sheep, but they're OK. You have to sit and share those, there aren't enough to go around. You'll probably get more exp from walking in beetle den, until it dries up in the 30s.
Now you're in a dry spot; You can keep sitting there with sheep, but it's slow going. Oslya is still too hazardous to solo until about the mid 50s. There's an Ice Cave way to the south, if you can get there.
Anything else to fill this gap?
Eventually, you can start hunting 'Raptors in Oslya. They drop nice big juicy HP meats: Beef, Pork, Lamb, Sea Snake, Roo, Chicken, Goose, and Duck, as well as Ostrich and Snake to supplement your SP.
As the exp. from them starts to drop off, where to go? The cows in India can kick pretty hard, and the snakes there are still deadly. Pandas and Orangs don't drop much you can eat. I spent a long time in Cairo, killing Pigs in the Leopard Feedlot. In mobs of 2, 2+1, or 1+1+1, they were easy enough dropping lots of veg and some pork, but the ones in Maya are another story, with mobs of 5 (or more?).
Now the pigs are getting too small. I'm in the low 90s (92 as I write this), and I need to move on. Looking through the list, I see Mammoth, Aurochs, Tiger, some ghosts... I know some of these hit hard, the skeleton-types at ghost isle (or whatever it is, up north?) are especially hazardous, with mess, shields, and more. Is there anything better than... looks like... tigers?