Do you guys actually like killing raptors?

[Rhomagus]

There's an ongoing joke in one of my LS's that replaces the rank of a particular job with it's association to when you begin the raptor grind. Every rank from 35 up is considered Rank "Raptor". It no longer has a name because everything is pretty much the same from then on. If you must have variety you can denote Iron Lake Raptors from Boulder Downs Raptors.

So a rank 15 Marauder would be a Marauder who is rank -20 Raptor. As soon as they hit 35 they are now a Rank Raptor Marauder. They are then encouraged to hum the main theme to Jurassic Park and make random quotes from the movie instead of actually talking strategy because when you're fighting raptors talking strategy is just as pointless as the above activities.

<Rank -1 Raptor CON> Hey everyone I'm 10k tnr to Rank Raptor. That doesn't look very scary. It's more like a six foot turkey.
<Rank Raptor ARC> Clever girl!
Rank Raptor MRD *hums Jurrassic Park theme*
Rank Raptor PUG: Hold on to your butts.
Rank Raptor GLA: Ah ah ah! You didn't say the magic word.
Rank Raptor THM: I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here. It didn't require any discipline to attain it. You know you read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't learn the knowledge yourselves so you don't take any responsibility... for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you, you, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox and now you're selling it
Rank Raptor THM bangs on the table.
Rank Raptor THM: You want to sell it.
Rank Raptor ARC #2: Life finds a way.
>>Rank Raptor LNC #2: Dodgson, Dodgson. We've got Dodgson here!!... See nobody cares.

That's pretty much the grind from 35 on for that LS.

I prefer to fight other things even though the SP isn't as efficient. I'll usually target SP mobs based on their drops. Lately my static has been fighting Floating Eyes in Mistbeard Cove and running a route in the Tam Tara Deepcroft for variety and sellable/grindable drops.