Upcoming Hotzones Aug. 2008Follow

Had a look at the Hotzone Wiki article and found out that the upcoming hotzones have already been advertised on SoE forums??? :-)


Personally, I like this choice very much; I'll visit a lot of zones I haven't been to that much by now.

Edit: Timorous Deep changed to ToFS

Edited, Aug 21st 2008 3:29am by bbot

Nothing sees invis on your way through Kael, you can run straight through.

Edit: Moreover, Druids and Wizards got port spells to Wakening Lands.

Edited, Aug 12th 2008 8:32am by bbot

Also, you can go to EW > PoM > CS > Skyshrine > WL

Blackfeather Roost is a curious choice.


I personally would just rather hit the zone, find a group and level.

I will also miss Blightfire Moors. That was the best hotzone I have ever been to.

Actually for WL, there is a guildhall port to cobalt scar. I am max-KoS in skyshrine and well liked in Kael, but CS->SS->WL is still faster for me than GD->EW->Kael->WL. And Joph is right that SkyShrine is a ghost town. I have used that to my advantage many times on that run - simply training the WL zoneline knowing no one would ever be in the way. Once you get the SkyShrine route down pat you can make it quickly and safely through the zone at a relatively low level if you are KoS there.

I wonder why several of these are repeats. Sure they are great zones (the NE-most island in Timorous Deep is quad kiting heaven by the way -- I highly recommend it for Druids, Bards, etc. as the swabbies and pirates can be easily pulled and there is plenty of beach without wanderers to kite them), but with so many other great empty zones in Norath it would be nice to send the crowds to new lands for their adventures.

mind if someone explains something
i know hot zones give crazy exp
but is that for every mob?
like lets say loio, there are level 10 mobs, are they still crazy bonus exp?
or any other hotzone, does it only apply to mobs between the 5 levels? or is it every mob in zone?

Edited in, thanks!

The thing I find funny about Lake of Ill Omen, is that it actually has a negative experience modifier on it normally. I wonder if they set the detriment at 0% (base exp) and then add the hotzone boost on top of that.

Also, my facts may be messed up, because I only have half a clue of what's been going on since TSS released. Like when Joph mentioned the Legacy Promotion... I'm lost. Maybe they took the detriment off of the zone a while back.

I took my newly-rolled Beastlord to the Feerott to grind out 2-5 on the spiderling highway. It's funny, this used to be my farming location of choice in times past since it was the most platinum per hour I could make at the time. XP was extremely fast.

Then wandered over to Lake of Ill Omen via F.V. I am playing on a different machine and forgot to download maps, it kind of boggles me at this point that maps for all the under 70 / more than two years old (not raid) zones aren't given to everyone by Sony. How game breaking is giving the returning players all the Kunark maps really? Or at least the Hotzone maps when they get announced maybe would be a good idea.

But I digress, I know LoIO well enough to xp without a map. As a level 5 I headed up towards the Cabilis entrance and cleared the open newb area. When that Dark Blued I moved south to the area North of the Windmill. The adds make it a lot dicier for the unbuffed at this level. The majority of mobs here were conning yellow/red at level 13. A level 20 was being powerlevelled in the same area and spawns were not an issue. Quantity and respawn rate = lots for us all.

Overall the zone was very quiet. Aside from that one level 20 it was a handful of high 20s players that didn't stay long. Might be different on a weekend though. If my memory serves correct the higher level types will want to xp around the Sarnak and Goblin forts and eventually inside them.