Crystal Caverns

While camping the herbalist, "A Bottle of Karsenic Acid" (magic lore nodrop) dropped once or twice. Does anyone have any idea what it is for?

In the Queen room and hallways, there's "a crystal lurker" that can spawn, which looks like a Drachnid and drops the Crystallized Two-handed sword.

Up in the orc area, there's "a Ry'Gorr inspector" which is rarish and drops crystalline belt every time from what I've observed (killed him 10 times or so total). There's also "Foreman Smason" who's just like the other Foreman but lower level (guessing around 30 to 32) and has the same loot (usually frozen weapons but rare foreman's skullcap).

Other than that all the mobs except for the huge number of named dwarfs are up there :)

I've also noted that there's a banker in the dwarf city midway through the zone where the orc section stops and that the dwarfs will NOT help you with any mobs. Great "guards", huh?

Theres also an Ry Gorr Inspector in this Zone. Slayed him once and got Crystalline Belt :)

Still trying to figure out a way to raise faction withe dorfs here. They all dubious to me. They wouldnt sell to a 35 halfling druid or a 50 DE Wiz, but they sold to a 37 Dwarf Warrior. Talking to many of them leads me to believe there are quests here but they are not working. One npc basically asks if you will do a quick task... talked to him for 10 minutes phrasing different things and he didnt respond after the initial exchange.

Drops ac22 haste <but only 5% haste or something> 20svcold BP, spawns in spider tunnel. Our Ranger got taken out just before it spawned so we missed the pull : (

It is a fairly common spawn. If u are in the queens room u run back towards the Dwarven keep and right before u get to the 3 entrances to the 3 different tunnels is where he spawns. He drops a tight looking weapon i forget stats but it was decent but i think it would be more for looks. Think lv about 33 !? not positive
Stevensmalls Walkingtallz Lv 37 Druid
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There's also the Ry'Gorr Inspector, he's the one who drops the crystalline belt.

Khnemu (33 druid) Bertoxxulous

Last night I went in with a few people from my guild (3 Druids, a Ranger, and a Monk, all mid 30's to low 40's). We were only in the Caverns for 3 or 4 hours, I'd guess. I reccomend doing this dungeon with a group of low 30's, where most of the mobs will be blue. At 40, most everything we fought was green. There were few blue Watchmen. Most of the Oracles were blue, as were both Foreman (Names escape me, at the momemt). One Foreman spawns on the lowest bridge, along with two other Orcs, ranging from blue to green. We had no deaths the entire time, as the Orcs aren't overly difficult =).. During a fight with the Foreman on the bridge, the Ranger's knockback wind proc he put on his weapons knocked an Orc into the mining pit below. Try not to do this, heh... pulled 4 or 5 mobs back up to us, which was challenging :).. I honestly cannot describe where the second Foreman spawns... there is a fork near the entrance, one of which leads to the center of the caverns with the networks of bridges, the other is a long corridor with quite a few Orcs in it, and at the end spawns the Foreman. As for the Herbalist, he is a different story. He spawns in random locations and runs through the Orc inhabited parts of the Caverns buffing any Orc he runs by. If you have the zone to yourself, he isn't hard at all to find. With 3 Druids and a Ranger, finding when he was up wasn't tough either =) First time we killed him, I looted the Herbalist's Pack, as I figured it would be weight reducing. Did a few tests, seems to be about 25%.. gave it to the Monk. Second time, we got the Blackened Crystalline Robes. That went by default to my Enchanter. It is 8 AC +5 Charisma +6 Intelligence +10 SV Cold and 3.5 weight, all pure Casting classes, a nice robe =).. Third time we killed him on the way out, and he dropped his Pack again, which one of the Druids won the roll on. This would've went to the Monk again, were they not Lore. We did go to the Coldain outpost in the snowy parts of the caverns, hit the bank, just explored a bit. They were dubious to us (Iksar, Wood Elf, Halflings), and I assume they are dubious to all. Don't really know how to raise faction with them yet. We didn't explore the Spiders and Stalag parts of the Caverns, as we were pressed on time, however, which was unfortunate. I believe we are making a second trip tonight, though (If Veeshan ever comes back up =)), so I'll post again if I find anything new =)

Dungeon seems to be set up for a mid 30's to high 40's group.

Very extravagant dungeon layout. Contains a race of orcs, a dwarven outpost, a spiders lair, a lair of frozen tentacle terror type creatures and a few of the mineral men.

Magical chain armor drops off the orcs, some nice weapons and a necklace off the TT's and an upgrade to the Advisor's Robe off the Queen.

We annihiliated this place with 3 necros (all near or over 50) a 51 monk and a 51 shammie. Even after leaving, the 3 necros held the Queen's lair easily.