Omens of War 'spansion...Follow

You should be fine. All the graphical improvements are in the OoW zones so you won't see much zone-wide. For a good idea, go into Lavastorm and see how your computer handles it. The OoW zones are about the same graphically.

My computer is worse than yours but OoW didn't really slow it down.

Thanks for the info, peeps..

So I have decided I am going to go ahead and install the 'spansion.

This will make me 100% 'spanded, as far as EQ goes, and just waiting for DoD to come out.

So I noticed in looking up items, that some itmes have the little graphic that says which expansion is required to obtain those items.

My question is this. If you do not have that expansion, is it that you cannot see or obtain the item in any way? Or is it that, you cannot for example go and kill the mob that drops the item, because you do not have that zone, but you can still GET the item by, say, buying it in the /baz from another player?

Do items from an expansion that you don't have show up to you in the game at all?

Second of all, as a level 46 necro, having just installed OoW, can someone reccomend the best way to dip my toe in the water as far as some of those new zones? Should I wait until I'm level fiddy? How do you get to the OoW continent anyway?

regards,
J/A



Edited, Sun Jul 31 10:55:09 2005 by Joujouka

"If it's snareable, you can kite it"

...I always tell people " If it doesnt summon I kill it, end of story" dont really know why I brough this up?



.... This is very good advice. First off the random drops can be quite nice for someone in their 40's. Secondly it takes a few thousand kills to get this faction, so you mightt as well do it while you get the xp as well. This way by the time you level up to WoS groups you will already have the faction when you get the drops.

Dranik is a cool zone, but you gotta be careful. I was in there this weekend and thought to myself, "Alright, lots of dark blues, doesn't LOOK like there is a big agg radius..."

Began my normal routine of root rotting to get a feel for effectiveness of dots vs actual HP of mob.

...2 stacks, full out...OK, I can handle this solo as long as I don't get...

Agg.

And Another.

And another.

Before I knew it, I had 6 on me, was losing HP FAST, and my roots ALL seemed to be breaking at the same time.

Sorry to whoever I trained on my way back to the PoD...

There are some tricks to single pulling in DS, which I learned during long long long hours of factioning there.

Do *not* go roaming out for mobs. There are specific paths that mobs follow and areas that are safe and "not-safe". Learn them. As a general rule, the hillside between the "top" area where you come in, and the valley below is *not* safe. It may look like it at first, but there will be mobs that path. There are a couple spots you can pull to there, but they're *really* small safe spots between tracks that mobs wander along. I honestly did not like pulling there because most mobs seem to wander across the valley, not up and down. Also, you often had to run out into dangerous territory to tag mobs for pulling, and that could easily lead to adds.

- Static "low level" mobs. There are 6 static mobs up top that you can hunt. The first is the ukun that's the PH for the guy that drops the nice aug (don't ask me names, I forget them in a second). You'll see folks hanging out by a tree straight out from the PoDs. That's it. There are 5 other noc/kyv spawn spots farther in up top near where the caves are. As you head towards the caves, there's one by a rock right in front of the first cave. There's one more off to the left (towards the valley hill) and in a bit. There's another that stands right next to the mission giver guy. Another at the far end of that area. Then up a hill and back a bit there's one last one hidden in a little area kinda where you'd go through if you were heading to Riftseekers. Nicely enough, one of the quest Dragorns is standing on a hill a distance away by a tree. You can target him to see your faction if you want.

There are 5 more static kyv/nocs down the left side from the PoD (kinda along the zonewall. If you can find Karsor the Mad, stand right there and look down towards the buildings. There are two static spawns right there. There's also a lot of roamers that will wander near that spot, but not quite to it. I found the area right around Karsor to be a pretty good pull spot, both from the wanderers down the valley, and the ones right below you around the building. They'll tend to come down the valley and over that little hill with the closest building on it, and down into the other little valley to the left. It was pretty easy to tag them for pulling.

If you continue with the zonewall on your left. There's another static just down a short distance, in front of a building with a murkglider. Don't fight him where he is. Run past him on the hillside and pull him to a little depression spot a short distance further along the zonewall. That's a safe spot. There's also occasional wanderers that come over the small hill in front of you that you can tag.

Continue on a bit further and you'll find two more statics kinda standing near eachother in a nice open area. This is another "nice" pull area since mobs tend to wander frequently into the area as they path up and down the valley. I know for a fact that this is the other side of the pathing that many of the mobs that you could pull from the "big hill" side travel. But it's a hell of a lot safer here then there, and honestly easier to pull to. There is one danger, but it's rare. There's a rare ukun that's a warrior epic1.5 mob I believe. Not super high level (higher then the others in this area, but not high for the zone), but ridiculous undercon. I had him attack me once while hunting in this area. I'd just pulled an ukun when he came runnning at me from a distance, so I'd guess his agro is linked in some way. If that's the case though, the ukun is a wanderer, so you'd be in the same danger anywhere you hunted. Just be aware of the mob and run like hell when you see it (but please not to the PoD, you wont live long enough for the gate to work, and will just train other people).

I don't know how it'll be for a mid 40s group or singles. I honestly don't know what level the mobs are. I was killing them for faction. They were plentiful enough here that I could pull just the noc/kvy/ukuns for faction and kill them faster then the lt-blue and blue mobs up on the other side(s) of the zone (to a mid 60s character). Should be plenty for a group doing faction and/or exp IMO. There are other statics, and specific wandering mobs, but they're out in the middle of a ton of wandering mobs, and are not worth getting.


That's the low end of the pool. The higher ends consist of the area around the NC zoneline, the area around the BF zoneline, and the valley up top with the ukun slavesomething-or-other and the kvy doggie-master-something (yeah. I suck at names...). Those are typically used for faction groups, wheras the stuff I listed is usually stuff for solo faction hunting and lower level groups. I could probably write a complete guide for hunting in all three areas, but given your level you'll likely only be there with someone else who already knows how to hunt there.