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I have hunted here quite a bit. I have had all manner of classes with me. I have seen them feared, slowed, mezzed, and charmed. The only creature listed above that I do not know about slow and fear is the Spire Lord. I have always been solo when I killed him. Other the spells listed above work on everything else. Cept, it is real easy to get adds, they will come out of the rockwork.

Word of warning. If you kill enough of the shiknar you will become KOS to them. If you do take into account they do not have an aggro message, and because of the terrain thier aggro raius is friggin gigantic. Due to the terrain sometimes it takes a while for the mobs to catch up to you.

I was exploring, looking around, and ran up to the top of a peak to have a birds eye view. I turned to see this HUGE train of shiknar. I didnt think much of it, I mean I didnt see an aggro message. Well, I watched in dismay and horror as they come running straight up the mountain at me. I made it to a semi-flat spot and ran around in circles while my pet killed them one at a time. By the time it was all over there were 17 corpses on the ground. This is not counting the ones that rotted before I could get to them because they didnt have anything on them.

Arch Mage Master Bupea Von Giddlefrizz
63rd Tier of Elemental Mastery
Elder Blades

Edited, Tue Aug 5 10:57:37 2003

try some indoor zones like guk or echo caverns, one of the better outdoor zones are the nobels in high keep.

Edited, Tue Jul 22 13:39:05 2003

As a 47 HiE mage I soloed the zone. The beauty here is the fact that as long as you do not touch anything in the zone, with the exception of the Stonegrabbers, the mobs will pretty much leave you alone. The Stonegrabbers where the only creature that argo'd on me while wandering around the zone, everything else conned indifferent. (This is all from wandering the main area and not the Temple or Caves. Temple has guardians that will argo.) Everything I ran across was DB to me. Stonegrabbers are a dime a dozen but spaced out enough to allow for a single pull with no problem. Biggest problems, special for the "Root and Rot" types will be finding a good place to sit, with the best spot I found being the ravine next to the temple where the Stonegrabbers do not appear to spawn/wander (at least not in the 3 hrs I spent there medding). Stonegrabbers have a crud load of HP's and hit in the 80's. XP off of the stonegrabbers was 2 blue ticks a kill.

The terrain can be a huge challenge with all the ravines and step hills it is hard to see things coming, especially in the middle of a battle. (I never has an add though.) Also watch out for falling damage (lev is highly recommended).

So providing that you can resist the temptation to kill everything you see, this can be a decent zone.

Fiery Stonegrabber dropped the "Pouch of Firestones"! I saw a post below that mentions this item. this is the mob that drops it!