I know Elanthipedia is wrong, so I decided to post here to make sure I'm in the range for Caracals. relevant skills are:

Guild: Paladin circle 58
stats: Str 33, Agil 35, stam 33, ref 34
skills:

Parry Ability: 254 78% fascinated (25/34)
Multi Opponent: 262 76% fascinated (25/34)
Light Edged: 213 18% captivated (26/34)
Medium Edged: 211 13% cogitating (24/34)
Heavy Edged: 223 64% captivated (26/34)
Twohanded Edged: 216 64% fascinated (25/34)
Shield Usage: 299 86% very engaged (23/34)
Heavy Plate: 287 72% very engaged (23/34)
Holy Magic: 238 26% analyzing (18/34)
Harness Ability: 237 50% cogitating (24/34)
Power Perceive: 239 28% intrigued (16/34)
Evasion: 239 34.55% riveted (28/34)

just asking because Elanthipedia has them at 225-345, was just double checking here with folks who have literal knowledge of them

With 300 shield I would roll to bristles in Rossmans, then transition to gryphons as quickly as possible.

Madigan

You should be able to caracals just fine

-Landros

Spend the time to catch your hiding/stalking up while working back weapons. It's well worth it. Once they're in the same range as your Evasion you can hunt/hide on things just fine right up to celpeze if you're not trying to hunt on the bleeding edge of your abilities.

Plus you never really go wrong learning some back weapon ranks as a Barbarian.

Brocket Deer, 2nd tier, is probably the place for you right now. You should be able to hide on them at pole range, and they'll still teach you weapons and parry (and may move your evasion/MO/shield a little bit, not sure). After that it's a fairly smooth transition into upper tier brockets or caracals.

I'd say about 220 to start hiding on them at melee, I have 290's and unbuffed they still search me out pretty much every time at melee. 42 disc so might be easier with a bit more disc.