I ran through this zone in a hurry early last week and check tracker and both fabled mobs were up. I figured I would head back later and maybe drop these guys for one of my alts to get some gear. I've been in and out since last Thursday and I have not seem them since. Are these guys on (what I've heard) the normal 2-hour spawn timer??
Was in here last night with my enchanter. Had a group of 2 pallys and myself. Puller would [on purpose] pull many, many, many netherbians and trogs (as many as 15 sometimes + occasional boss man [king or swarm leader]). They (the netherbians and trogs) are Very susceptible to mez's; made for quick work by the pallys and decent xp for this this hi-20's/lo-30's group.
As others have said (below), nice chunk of change too on these mobs (plus a couple of lo end magic items here and there, too). Even with spliting w/3 person group raised about 50pp in the few (3 or 4) hours I was there.
Lesson learned - Not a bad zone for lvl 30-ish groups and don't be afraid to pull lots of adds if you have a capable tank(s) and mez'er :)
just ran into "A Netherbian" on my wy through NL. He was light blue at 37. Possibley SOE realized the named and drops where too common so he is now a PH for perhaps Swarmleader, or Caller
I just ran into a quest mob here tonight. His name was Lerin Sardor. He spawns near dsp and asks for an escort to Nexxus, when you hail him. I dont know what the reward is, because he was swarmed by about 3 trogs, and 5 netherbians as soon as we stared walking. At level 24 he was dark blue to my druid. I guess he has really bad faction here, because ive never seen the trogs attack anyone that wasn't sitting down.
This is a quest mob and he is not always up. When you enter into an escort agreement with him, many more mobs than usual will pop all along the length of the tunnel. If you successfully escort him to the other end, he rewards you with a nice ear slot item. You WILL need a good group to complete escorting him though, because he doesn't fight very hard and the sheer number of mobs that jump on him will overwhelm you if you are solo or in a small group.
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saw a new NPC only one time who asked me to take later and to give him back after signing it. It was an agreement to help him to cross the zone safely. after it he began to go through the zone from DS to SH and lots of mobs began to come from the caves along the main tunnel. Anyone knows the quest involved? Saw it only one time in 20 travels into this zone.
Lerin Sardor is a random spawn at the Zoneline of Dawnshroud Peaks, he stays up for an hour of two and then despawns. Text from quest done by Cklerick:
Cklerick says, 'Hail, Lerin Sardor'
Lerin Sardor says 'Ahh, hello there Cklerick. I am a trader from Sanctus Seru trying to make my way to Shadowhaven for some dealings. I have come this far with the aid of guards from Sanctus Seru, but they have turn back and left me to go on my own. I hear there are many terrible [creatures] here lurking in the shadows, leave it to the guards of the Hand to leave me unprotected.'
Cklerick says, 'What creatures'
Lerin Sardor says 'What I was told is that this pass is filled with small horrible creatures with no eyes. Perhaps you could [help by providing safe passage] to the other side?'
Cklerick says, 'I will help by providing safe passage'
Lerin Sardor says 'Great! If I can get safely to the other side I will give you a small trinket that I was going to sell. Getting safe passage for the rest of my goods is worth more than the item in itself. Surely you know a good deal when you hear one. Take this note, if you agree to the conditions that I get across safely before you get payment return it to me and we will be on our way.'
<Hands back note>
Lerin Sardor says 'Let us go then, please be alert throughout the cavern. Once we get to the other side safely give me the signed agreement and you will have your payment.'
First Opening: Two Troglodytes jump Lerin, aggro on the 54 Warrior, Fyro, who was helping Cklerick - dispatched quickly.
Second Opening: Four Fungoid Sporelings jump Lerin, 2 aggro on Fyro, 2 on Lerin, Iksar Warrior joins us, takes 2 on Lerin.
Third Opening: Four Netherbians pop on an unexpecting group of two. The players were just standing there...so they died in time (feeling of guilt?) The Lerin group passed this opening while the Netherbians were engaged.
Fourth Opening: Four Netherbian Warriors jump Lerin, taken down in about 30 to 40 seconds.
At this Time, Lerin decides to go back to the Third Opening and get jumped by the Netherbians that were attacking the group. Dispatched the Netherbians.
Fifth and Final Opening: Five or Six Netherbians (A Netherbian) and Netherbian Drones jump Lerin, Nearby group helps take them out.
Lerin strolls down the corridor to Guards, Warrior jumps on a Customs Inspector and leaves us. At the Guards, Lerin says this:
Lerin Sardor says 'Whew, we are finally here. If you will give me the contract I will keep up with my part of the bargain.'
Lerin Sardor says 'Thank you so much for your help! As I promised here is a small token of my appreciation.'
Cklerick recieves Jaspar Kundan Earring: 3ac +3str +3agi +3wis ALL/ALL
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#Anonymous,
Posted:Jun 28 2002 at 4:33 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) this NPC was spoted today on betox he wants 4 bixie crunchies if find anyonther thing out on it plz post this is NEW NPCX quest hisname is bregun dorex
Has any of you noticed that they seem to have some sort of regen? Or some other nice buff that makes killing them take so long. I tried to cast Strip enchantement on them and it seemed to help. Any of you made the same experience?
u can kill the stronger guys likes the swarm leader by pulling them to weaker guards, with at least two other little guys and let the guard take the things life down, so when the things kill the guard then u can just hit it once and get the exp and loot.
I can guarantee that Netherbian Drones are not 22-24! At 21 my Sk solos them at dark blue con. It isn't easy to solo them, mainly due to the fact that it is nearly impossible to get only one of the bastards, but when you do get just one then I can usually take it down with some trouble. And don't call me uber-twinked either, as all I have is a suit of Banded, a Velium Round Shield and a Zealot's Khukri (7/25,+3 Int, +3 SV Magic). Nothing way out of line, and all but the shield was earned with my own blood and sweat.
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I've seen these and killed them. Good experience but not a lot to loot (so far). Did get one lore item and did get a good tunic ac+10 weight 0.4. Will continue to hunt them hoping for more and better loot. I can solo them but prefer to hunt with my mate, Ktiani Silverleaf Bard Half-Elf Level 27 (Bard and Ranger make a good team :))
It would be real tough for a level 23 Paladin to hunt here. Mobs here have a TON of hitpoints and I think you'd eventually get wore down. I recommend going over to Paludal Caverns, and getting a couple levels under you before you try to solo in Netherbian.
anyone know if there is an exp bonus in this zone?? if so what is the %? thanks :)
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As fast as my 28 Warrior and her 28 Cleric companion managed to make 30 up there, there must be an XP bonus.
A very friendly zone on the Vazelle server: we got lovely Druid buffs and bonus healing our first night there, and our second night we were adopted by an Enchanter and his Druid friend. We try to pass on the good will when we're there, I'll buy extra agents so my Cleric friend can cast a Symbol on nearby groups.
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Legios too- They nerfed the zone because they saw my lvl 37 warrior getting a half a blue off a mob he can solo over and over again. Sorry all I am sure this is my fault, It must be!
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Like you I was soloing these guys aand was 1 yellow from 40 when the patch came through.
Here are the faction hits for killing the Legos:( Hand Legionnaries got worse. Hand of Seru got worse. Eye of Seru got better. Seru got worse. Heart of Seru got better. Validus Custodus got better. Magus Conlegium got better.
I have no idea why parts of Seru get better and parts get worse. Anyone have an idea?
Hey guys i forgot the exact name but a guy at the zone to Dawnshroud Peaks asked me to escort him to the nexus zone. I was a 35Pala at the time so i thought it would be easy. First things to jump us was 3 trodolyes (i cant spell worth crap), then a little while later about 10netherbians. I didnt stand a chance since all 10 were hittin me. Was wonderin if someone has done this quest and what he gives ya.
Legionnaire Giru is definitely a Paladin. In my experience, 5 RL night of hunting, he is the only guard that does the Healing Touch. The other guards are great exp, even for a 36SK with pet, over half a blue per kill. I plan on stayong here through 39, when i get my new spells.
I don't know the direction, but on the netherbian side, there's a 'broken' zone...the netherbian caves seem to enter a hallway smacking of sanctus seru..but you couldn't go any farther than about halfway down...it teleported me back to the beginning of the hallway...any ideas?
Actually I believe it will go to Shadowhaven, talk to the the guy against the back wall of the library (caster place) in Shadowhaven and he will tell you that there used to be a passage to Netherbian Lair but a great evil has infested it and it had to be closed.
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Fungoid Sporelings can be as low as level 18. Be warned that they're somewhat of an undercon, though. They hit us pretty good while conning as blue to our level 22 chars.
Only thing I didn't like about this zone is that all the green Netherbians will agro on you so if your trying to sort them out to get the ones with exp you have to kill the greenies too i hate that so i went on to killing guards
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Posted:Apr 01 2002 at 2:26 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Only thing I didn't like about this zone is that all the green Netherbians will agro on you so if your trying to sort them out to get the ones with exp you have to kill the greenies too i hate that so i went on to killing guards
Facts as of "3-22-02" (Note: may change if verant ever figures out that people are actually making experience in this zone ~_~;) ------------------------------- Some of the BEST soloing/healing partner exp you will get in the game from levels 30-38. Hands down no competition. At level 33, a half a bubble of blue (or more depending on race restrictions) per kill AND you can solo. Facts: --Guards are level 27-30-- (Incrediable exp from level 30-38 and a warrior/monk/paly/shdknght can securely solo these at level 32) --Guards don't give faction hits-- (Verified fact. I can kill the guards all day long and they still appear indifferent/apprehensive to you. Even the Shady haven guards as well) --Guards don't agro if you pull from the sides-- (Guards will agro if you pull when they are right next to each other i.e. when they kill a neth drone or fungoid and are grouped. Just pull from the sides of the walls and none of the others will join. --Guards have Lay Hands and Heals-- (some of the pesky guards have LH and greater heals but most do not. Guards will heal each other if in range so pull deep) --Guards/Lieutenant's are on a 10-12 minute timer (If you have a healing partner, its very easy to kill all 3 haven guards on the Nexus side then move over to the Marus/Lieutenant side to lay waste to those 3. Then repeat the cycle as your finished killing. Best experience you can ever get with minimal risk) --A Haven Customs Inspector rarely lays hands and almost never heals-- (easiest to kill of the Guard/Lieutenant bunch) --All guards drop HEAVY no rent stuff-- (Guards drop "Fordel Defender Blade" and the Lieutenants drop a "Combine Defender Sword" *could me mistaken on spelling* plus a Sheild *don't know the name, sorry for my lack of detailed information [cough cough] ¬_¬;*. Each are NO DROP, NO RENT, MAGIC items that weigh 25 pounds each. Quest items.. possibly but for now.. trash em or leave them for the Magician's pets.) --Lieutenant Giru is the toughest of the bunch-- (through my leveling's in Neth lair, I've found that Lieutenant Giru is the hardest of the 'guards' since he almost ALWAYS lay hands and tends to hit just a tad bit harder than the rest --Lieutenant Anolani *spl?* will only lay hands (through my experiences, Lieu. Anonomli *hahhah* will only Lay Hands. I have yet to seem him heal himself ((or others for that fact)) and I HAVE been keeping track) ------------------------------- SOLOING TIPS ------------------------------- I've been leveling my Warrior cat since 31 all the way to 35 now and have solo'ed the majority of the time. Buy a bag full of stacked Bandages at Shady Haven *hardly any loot so stock up* and head to the Neth Lair. The guards are on a 10-12 minute timer and if your solo'ing it gives you plenty of time to kill 1 guard(possibly 2 if your uber twinked), bind wound up to 50 and rest up to at LEAST 3+ bubbles. I don't recommend taking on another guard if your below 3 bubbles as they 'can' get in some good repeative hits. Most of the time my warrior will go beserk and finish off the guard and I end up with 1-2 bubbles of HP left. I believe [could be mistaken] the guards have upwards of 750-1000 HP not including LH's and greater heals. If you can get yourself a healing partner I would recommend it since you DO get more exp and kills in that way. Guards occasionally drop Ruins/words/pages and always drop coins (from 6 gold to 6 plat. Mostly 2-4 plat)
I quit EQ about 6 months ago due to frustration and boredom. I got the EQ bug again and came back. Luckily my characters were all here still. I bought the Luclin expansion and set out exploring. I was stone broke...gave all myt money and gear to other players before I left. All I had was a velium roundshield, a BABS, and a Ghoulbane and around 50pp. I bought some leather armor (I know haha) and set out to this zone.
I am a LOIO junkie. I am used to 1-2pp and much less per drop on a MOB. Here, 4-6pp is the norm on the easy stuff! In about 30 minutes, I had 400pp in my pocket. In a week's time, I had nearly 4k pp. All looted from this zone.
I am by no means a great player...only a level 36 HiE Pally. This zone is a safe fun zone. Also, if you have any alternate druid characters, there is some good monk and druid drops to help your sub level 30 alt characters.
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Bregun Dorey gives a quest, you repeat trog trog trog trog and then he asks if you are from norrath, eventually he asks for 4 bixie crunches, i have the crunches to give him, ill let you know what reward is soon as he pops again.
These things are dumber than a box of rocks! This is a great place to learn how to split pulls with Fiegn Death. As soon as you Fiegn Death, they stop and totally forget that you hit them and stand there taking any verbal abuse you give them. :D
These things are the Aviaks of Luclin. They stay Dubious, you can walk right up to them and they just don't aggro, at least to my 26th level Monk. Smack them, run, see if you have too many, if not, get to fighting spot and beat the pp out of them. :D
Between Paludal Caverns and Netherbian Lair, I know where all my characters will be going from levels of about 15 up through the early 30's.
Last night my level 20 monk had Fungoid Sporelings that conned dark blue, white and one yellow so my guess is they run from 19-21. The Fungoids conned yellow and red. I didn't see a single Netherbian Drone or Warrior con under red.
great xp great drops great cash its nere a bind point and it has guards makes LOIO look like nothing its the best zone i have ever been in this place RULES
While hunting here with my 22 Beastlord i noticed that the Netherbians ranged from blue to red, the trog's blue to red, and the fungoid's blue to red. if some are blue then the levels must be a tad lower. More like 20-26 on most all mobs except named. my 2cp's.
Killing the guards is awsome Exp i (41 warrior) have been killing em for like 2 days the Legos are all Dark blue and the Heaven Guards con Light blue to Dark blue so i think they are 27-30 but the legos Must be 30-34 or something and they are ALL pallys
I've been in groups hunting the Guards here for the past couple days.. and have a fairly good idea of the levels. Both the Legionaires on the Marus Seru zone hallway, and the Haven Guards / Customs Inspector / Customs Officer seem to be in the 27 - 32 range. Fairly low for guards, and cap out at 60dmg a hit, with ocasional doubles. One note.. they seem to be able to heal them selves, by Lay on Hands I think. ( "%t feels a Healing touch" ) which can make them a little harder. Good thing is that you can single pull them easily, and consistantly. Nice higher lev mobs near Shadow Have / Nexus.. and a Zone right behind you incase of emegencies. No faction hits, and great xp for the 25 to 29 lev small group. and easy enough to chain-kill in a full group of 6 25 / 30 people, ( with a healer - not a BST ;) ).
As a group of 3 ( 30 bard, 27 War, and 27 Bst) we were still taking them down fast. 6 guard spawns in the zone, and we just cycled them. No faction hits, but they drop a few pp, and Runes / Words / Pages for some spells in the 24 - 34 range I think. ( picked up glove of Rallos Zek, Runes of Embrace, few others).
just thought i wquld point this out, for all these reasons, this zone is one of the best in the game.
1. netherbians, trog, fungoids AND guards all give A LOT of exp 2. all the races have the ability to drop over 5pp each! 3. lvl 50+ run through here on the way to maidens eye all the time, i dont need to point out what an advantage it is to have regen and harnessing of spirit 24 /7 4. i lvled here solo and partnered with a monk my same lvl, from 27-35, switching back and forth between marus seru and here marus seru for exp, here for cash / less exp at 32+ 5. THERE IS NOONE HERE , this zone s one of the most underhunted places in the game! and finally number 6. ITEMS THAT DROP ARE INSANE FOR THE LVL! i dont need to point ou that a 20 ac BP rocks the world of a lvl 25 bard/war/sk/pally who is running around in here killing stuff. not to mention , between direct loot and items, i made enough to buy myself 1. a TBB 2. wu stick 3. KD 4. primitive leather gloves 5. spider fur collar 6. CCS 7. 6 ac 65 hp ring
THIS ZONE KICKS BUTT!
reallytired boozehound 35 iksar monk you want my name
you get NO faction hit whe I killed the Legionaire Hyuin or a Haven Customs Collector, both conned red to a 25 War.. guessing around 30 or so.. my group of 6 had no probs with either.. might even have been able to take out 2 at the same time. ( we only did a couple singles).
Killed a couple gurds here with a group of 24-25 folks. one Leigonaire Hyuin dropped a REALLY heavy Shield ( AC12 wt 20.0) and some Combine Sword ( wt 12.0) both Lore, No drop, No Rent. anyone have an idea what these are for ? also... do the other guards drop the swords they carry ? I kind of like the graphic they use. sould be neat to cary one around. ; )
If the drops are No-rent they are usually for a quest, but it may not yet be implemented. I have noticed a lot of Luclin items for the numerous quests that are No-rent so far...:)
Not to doubt you, as you are correct with the majority of No-Rent items...but from what I've seen, most of the Guard style NPCs drop No-Rent...my personal opinion is that they are No-Rent to discourage people killing them.
But conversely, why have a drop at all if that were the case.../shrug
Just didn't want people to think that just because something is No-Drop and/or No-Rent that it's automatically a quest item.
Trog Hunter is missing from the list. I've seen them in the tunnel closest to Darkshroud zone. They are bigger then the regular Trog and are casters too. Like all these things they have a lot of HP. Watch out because they will cast affliction on you and heal other Trogs quick.
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dont let the gaurds lul you into a false sense of security, i trained 13 fungoids and about 5 alien things and a trog to the gaurds at nexus ent and FD'd just to see and they killed all the gaurds and sat there watching me for 5 miniutes, all the while i was laughing my head off
This zone is cake for anyone who can cast root. I soloed my Shaman from 24 to 29 here and only died 4 times. And each time, i got a lvl 50+ rez from clerics on the way to Dawn. Simply pull whatever, and if u get an add, root one of them and train the other to a guard. Best exp, better than LoIO.
As for the swarm leader being a triggered spawn, I don't think so. Every time I go through here, I stop and kill him for the BP.(Usually get about 200pp) He is always up when I go through and is always in the same place.
swarm caller pops in three different places (i have logged over 2 full RL days in this zone, i know it yb heart)
i cant give locs, but directions to each spawn point are as follows.
#1. go in entrance with bigass pillar in front of it, continue straight into a room. make a left. down that hallway and to the right, is the first and most common spawn.
#2 go in next entrance down the hallway towards dawnshroud. it is on the left facing the DS zone. go up the little incline to a plateu, this is his second spawn point.
#3 follow directions for spawn point #2, but keep going down the hallway to an interesection, in the center if this interesection is spawn point #3.
BTW there can be more than one swarm leader up at one tim,e kinda freaky i know, but its true. i have seen them both beating the snot outta me as i ran around FDing and laughing my head off.
I was passing thru the zone when I saw this guy near DS zone. I hailed him. He said he was a trader but was afraid to pass thru the zone and asked if i would escort him. So i said i would and he handed me a paper. If i wanted to escort him i should hand the paper to him to sign. I did, and recieved the singed agreement back. He begins to walk and as we approach the trog area 4 trogs spawn. I had just cleared that area looking for the king so I know the new ones were spawned by the quest. They will agro on you if you stand in front of Lerin. I wanted to use AE but Lerin was too close, actually he was fighting too. So i cast DS on myself and right click DoTed them down. He keeps moving along. We fought 3 trog spawns of 4 and 1 spawn of 4 netherbians and 1 spawn of 2 that poped at the pillar. Once we got to the nexus side of the zone (right at the part wher it goes from marble floor to raw stone, he stopped and said to give him the singed note. I did, got a bit of exp and a nice trinket.
Jasper Kundan Earring AC3 WIS3 STR3 AGI3 wt. 0.1 all/all LORE NO DROP
Not the best earring in the game, but I thought it was a fun quest and it replaced a forrest loop just for braggin rights.. it looks like a mithril earring btw..
Enjoy the game.
Fenris of Mith Marr
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I find it a bit hard to believe that he could/would die to some stupid pogs who attack him on his way to the Nexus.... I attacked this guy while getting PLed (also had a 30 monk with me) cause he was blue at 23. After about a minute of beating on him I asked the druid and monk to come here and help me kill him. The monk and druid were played by the same person BTW, so he only brought the monk, as he conned green to him. We wailed on him for another minute, only about 1% dmg done, so he nuked him with his druid for 650...then again...then again...then agian...and he nuked him ten times...yet he wasn't at half health. He was OOM and zoned, because at this point we had a shammy attacking/dotting him also, and he didn't wanna KS us. We kept attacking him for around 15 mins, when he finally died. He also happened to have around 40k HP!!! Cause we were wailing on him, and we seemed never to miss...and the druid did 6.5k by himself... Has anyone else attacked him? (and killed him) cause i ould like to know if he usually has this many HPs, or was it just our unlucky day? I also had a dmg sheild on He also only dropped that f*cking signed agreement...which ya get by just hailing him! Would someone go try and kill him if no one else has?
LOL Yeah. I passed thru there once and was talking to a 57 monk when that guy spawned in the corner by Dawnshroud. We had never sen him, so he decided to kill him just for the hell of it. He does always have that many hp, it seems; because it took us 5 min+ to kill him even with my dots and nukes on top of the monk's damage. Same loot, too ... that note.
Kinda strange to put that much hp on a low level quest NPC; but since it is a highway for high levels who get a kick outta killin things they haven't seen before, prolly best to make him tough enough to survive long enough to give out his quest :)
Of course, guarranteed he ain't got NEAR that many hp when you are trying to escort hm across the zone ;p
I'd like to add that there is a much easier way to do this quest. I did it last night and read about it here before, so I can verify that it works.
First of all, when the first set of Trogs attack you, kill all except one Trog. Lerin will attack the last trog. Now, hit Lerin ONCE to agro him. Kill the last Trog. Lerin will now attack YOU. Start running to Nexus zone. Lerin will run after you and no more mobs will spawn.
Once you get to where the two guards are, Lerin will cease agro and ask for his signed agreement. Give it to him to receive your reward!
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