A thief with gentlewalk is ideal for this as you will learn which areas gentlewalk will work in and which they won't. Gentlewalk can potentially buy you an out if the mob is tracking you rather than merely aggressive, if you aren't too much lower a level than it. It does not matter what path you go afterward but thug with cheap shot and knife is going to be most straightforward for killing people pre-hero and not dying.
Your goal is to get your exploration and obs. EXP as high as possible. A transmuter is also excellent for this, duo dimension is totally cheating relative to gentlewalk.
Since you don't lose observation or explore XP for dying and they permanently contribute to your edges, you don't care what your TNL is and since you died once already you can't lose any more than that until you log out with your obs. XP gains. Resist the urge to discuss with the guildmaster till the end of your two hour login sessions.
Do this, and dying will bug you less in general except in cases where Defiance, Heartseeker or deathblow are involved.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2013 07:00AM by Scrimbul.