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Sounds good to me, looking forward to some new zones.

Just responding here to make it "official" since I already talked to Denth about doing the Odus thing (I'm in favor). Mainly because Jhenni's mostly run out of single groupable stuff to do on Luclin.

It makes sense, i mean...Luclin came from a part of Odus its like going back to where we came from.
I've never really done The Hole, or much of the Odus side stuff myself, just a bit of the barren coast and some parts of Stonebrunt Mountains.
It would be fun to spend some time in the hole and LoY. I havent really explored much of Nadox, Torigan Mines...

Itemization will really vary... from the laughable (wicker ) to weird stuff on LoY that few have hunted.

There is always the Muglwump with his nice stein and other awesome loots.

Let's talk about some of the zones a little deeper:

Toxxulia Forest is a newbie zone often bypassed by players in the past. Tehutibloodstorm's detailed post from 2001 makes a strong argument for why this shouldn't have been the case (nor should be on a future progression server). The simple fact of it was, if you wanted to group, the masses were elsewhere. Level 1-10 I have done here (on last progression) and it was fine.

There's some odd quest rewards tied to the zone, none of which I have ever done, many of which I wonder if still work/exist:
Kerran Fishing Spear , Kerran Fishingpole (third item ever put into alla btw), and possibly one of the rarest quest items in the game Erudehide Tunic .

They also retrofitted some Legacy of Ykesha questing into the zone with the luggald flesh quests ( evil and good versions).

Toxxulia got revamped for The Buried Sea (?) expac so Kerra Island is now a part of the zone. The ingame default map is colourful, but reasonable. You have PoK access in the north due to Erudin Palace and in the South for the heretics of Paineel. The Luclin Spire for Odus is also in this zone.
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The Warrens is one of the best zones in the game period. I preferred the old Kobold models to really make this place scary, but even in the modern look it is still a great place. Hard to solo at level (in era gear), challenging for groups and xp creeps from 5-22ish (though you'll be gaining it slow in the later teens). Before armor dye and stat-inflation made it all useless, The Warrens had armor looks people wanted. The weapons still look really good but are not "good" by even Luclin standards (keeping in mind that the Warrens was added to the game before Luclin).

Too many cool (well more fun/goofy than cool maybe...) drops to list, but here's a few: Ultimate Hammer of EQ? , dog's sad stick , tasty!

Current map is okay, but not great. There are many named in this zone, most of whom (maybe all) are only found in one location. Some of them might have placeholders, but you generally see a lot of them up if doing a fast run through on a higher level character. Another benefit of the Warrens is that you get faction ups with both good and evil Erudites in here. So more city access, and (more importantly to most) you can get a Paineel key which allows you to buy your key to the Hole.
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Stonebrunt Mountains isn't a zone I have done much in... it's actually pretty large. It was the 20-25 hotzone once upon a time, though reportedly the north end of the zone can take you into the 30s. The Kejak village has always intrigued me... and has actual references to the Vah Shir made by NPC. There's a bunch of quests there, I've always thought Wakizashi of the Frozen Skies would be cool to complete.

The map I have for this zone is accurate for the topography, and some labels.. but hard to look at. I ran through here a lot to go to Gunthak (before they put the weird PoK book on a boat in). Running through more of the zone with my Druid's track up yesterday had me thinking I had missed out on an interesting hunting spot.

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Gulf of Gunthak is the first of the actual Legacy of Ykesha zones. I remember when people would say "don't go there until level 40"... low 20s with a merc is probably fine, mid 20s in modern gear I have done solo (on the right class). There's a lot of camps here, and the vendors in the lighthouse so it is a contained progression if you want it to be.

One side of the beach is undead, the other side (with all the niflicks) is live with the occasional crossover. The tunnels are another spot you can hunt, people training through made this deadly in the past (ask any enchanter that needed to kill the mobs in there for the spell quest). There is odd loots drops off named and the LoY spell quests for most classes happen at least once here. There is a triggered event in the one dead-end cave, and the shanty town before the dulak zone in. I haven't actually been to the zone lately, but have spent a lot of time there in the past (without having done it all). You can also get into Nadox from Gunthak.

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Dulak's Harbor you have the fun of killing pirates! And bar wenches...?. Solid loot drops (gems, heavy weapons of no use but cool looks). All the LoY zones drop wierd charms (since charm slot was introduced in LoY), one I have done the quest for several times is charm of the brotherhood (if only most of the guild was Dwarves...). The Luggalds in the hidden caves are nasty, especially the boss fellow.

*Most of the LoY zones have at least one triggered/scripted event. Nadox has Inny for example. Loot itemization (especially for caster focus) really catches up in LoY in contrast to Luclin. Much of this stuff wasn't done much at the time because any guild partway into Planar Progression was getting better stuff than the LoY loots. But approaching this content as we are now (smaller groups, casual fun) there are challenges with reward. I'm not sure how high level a group will need to be to handle the Torg mines event for example... as I think it was raid levelish in difficulty.

**The Buried Sea zones I can't really say anything about except that I have kited some crocodiles along some beach and it was killer xp.

***I didn't detail about the Hole , because I have really only used it to complete the enchanter epic and done the occasionally done some dabbling for xp near the entrance or deeper in the one tunnel. There are quests out of the Hole I have always wanted to do Shiny Robe of the Underfoot ... but it's the kind of the thing that would be cooler on a progression server before dye hides the fact you have something extremely rare.


Edited, Dec 2nd 2013 8:50pm by snailish

Access to The Hole?? one of my all time fav zones evaaah! Wooo!

Nadox has a scripted event as well with Bloodspear the Wretched and another with the Luggald Broodmother. Broodmother is actually fairly easy to "exploit". Not via any real trickery, just that she runs faster than her priest entourage (who'll also pause to cast spells at you) so she's easy to separate from the healers who are supposed to make the fight difficult.

Hate's Fury is all about the scripted raid; there actually isn't a great selection of named mobs in the zone for group/solo hunting.

Edited, Dec 3rd 2013 10:35am by Jophiel

^good points Nekokirei.


Now that we are doing it... it will interesting how it feels to us in our Luclin era gear. My first impression with a merc (so very biased) is that they die faster than same-level Luclin mobs, but I will agree that in Dulak at least, they seem to hit pretty hard. The actual tanks will probably have more insight.

LoY still has lots of droppable loots, so it should work well for our team approach. We've had some Luclin items pass through multiple characters via the guild bank --something the game has really missed since Ldon+ (sharing attunable drops isn't the same as half a guild using the same Blood-something club as they level).

I saw you on today! Trixbro was afk in lobby at the time (was way earlier than my usual playtime and I was on for less than an hour).

I've been on fairly regularly of late... but in short bursts in between everybody else's playtime. Fortunately our guild concept is cool with people being as casual or heavy play as they want.

I'm hoping a few people that have been off for a bit return soon too (Odus is a great spot to level up a languishing Vah Shir alt for example )

We've also got a couple of people that have posted here about looking for an invite that we haven't managed to tag yet.

Finally, anyone interested in joining up with us --we have room for more! Since we are presently living under level 65 in Luclin/Odus (including LoY) a silver account is totally adequate (no one has hit the AA cap wall yet). Even our looking ahead to The Buried Sea (good for 66-75 when some of us want/need that) isn't really that bad of a pinch point on those that don't want to go Gold membership. Besides, at least half the guild seems to be enjoying the 1-50 ride as their main focus, whether on one character, some boxes, or an alternating army of characters.

hello all, hoping the holidays are the reason for the slow down lately. im holding down the fort waiting for all to return....

Hello Trixbro, Snailish, everyone. I recently came back to the world of Norrath, first on Al'Kabor, the Mac server; and now PC-side. Thanks for founding the Lunar Mutants! I'm glad there are people using voluntary restrictions to experience older content in era-appropriate gear. Journeys are just more fun with friends.

I'm looking forward to joining you as my Iksar beastlady, Yatri, currently level 24; and I'd like to try a cleric for the first time, too - an Erudite cleric. I love the Warrens, and the unique drops there become actually valuable given the limitations we are embracing. I'll be able to log on again in about 2 weeks. See you later!

so looks like im going to be taking an absence from the guild and will be over on trak server with lost in progression. some of my old friends from my last progression guild are there and we have a fun bunch of people over there to play with. if anyone likes to join us we are doing just classic content now. thanks for having me in the mutants.

I think real life has taken us all by storm this time of year...I was on yesterday and it looks like people are kinda doing the check in thing also. Hopefully, people will start playing again, if not, been a cool run...I plan to stay there permanently, so please always feel free to drop by and play a spell...

P.S. have a blast on progression Trix....