High Keep

Quick Facts

Type:
Outdoor

Expansion:
Antonica

Instanced:
No

Keyed:
No

Level Range:
20 - 30

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High Keep is the seat of a former empire that used to spread its power over central Antonica in years past. Now, their reign has diminished to Highpass Hold due to constant attacks by the orcs and gnolls. However, the inhabitants of High Keep thrive on trade (both legal and illegal) passing through the center of the continent with Highpass Hold being one of the few "safe" regions to pass through.
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Welcome to Highpass KeepThe BasementKing's Court CasinoThe Highpass BankHolding CellLady in WaitingThe LibraryHighpass Insignia
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Bank Clerk Jaylin
# Jun 29 2006 at 10:10 AM Rating: Decent
Bank Clerk Jaylin cons red to my level 70 ranger
here?
# Mar 07 2005 at 10:50 PM Rating: Decent
Is this a good place to ding for my level 33 ranger?
RE: here?
# May 11 2005 at 7:04 PM Rating: Decent
yea if u hunt guards warriors and raiders in a decent group
Re: directions
# Jan 14 2005 at 1:43 PM Rating: Decent
There is a road and some signs that u must follow in east karana that will take u there. Or was that highpass hold......?
directions
# Jan 07 2005 at 5:10 PM Rating: Decent
can anyone tell me how to get to highpass keep?
#REDACTED, Posted: Dec 15 2004 at 10:48 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THE ASSISTANT WHO WANTS YOUR KEYS IS FOR??? GIMPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where is this place
# Nov 21 2004 at 8:49 AM Rating: Default
Sorry im kinda new to the game. Is Highpass keep the same as highhold keep?
RE: Where is this place
# Dec 14 2004 at 2:41 PM Rating: Default
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High Hold Pass

is different from

High Keep Hold




very bad naming there ><
RE: Where is this place
# Apr 04 2005 at 4:24 PM Rating: Excellent
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387 posts
Actually it's High Hold Pass and High Hold Keep
RE: Where is this place
# Apr 21 2005 at 1:59 AM Rating: Default
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1,312 posts
Actually it's Highpass Hold and High Keep. Good grief.
Assistant Kiolna?
# Sep 11 2004 at 6:01 PM Rating: Decent
Does anyone know anything about the Assistant Kiolna? She asks for your keys and I was curious.
ahahahah
# Aug 09 2004 at 12:52 PM Rating: Decent
Ahahahahahha guard handy,guard jaxon, and guard bonner ahahahahahhaha.

Edited, Mon Aug 9 13:54:00 2004
Where to sell if KOS
# May 15 2004 at 11:01 AM Rating: Decent
Since lot of us love killing gaurds.. I Thought I fill ya in on where to sell.

On the left side of the 1st floor there is a sole gaurd who gaurds a door in a small room. In that room is a Erud chanter pet vendor. Have fun! =)
Stanos?
# Mar 28 2004 at 7:25 PM Rating: Decent
Hey guys I want to do the quest called stanos's head ([link=null]https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=1257[/link]), but i dont know where to find stanos. it just says head over to highpass. is here, or in highpass hold? i checked that bestiary and couldnt find him either. Please help if you have done this quest.

Thanks,
Tark
RE: Stanos?
# Oct 19 2004 at 1:41 PM Rating: Decent
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Grr, funky zone names.
You want Highhold Pass, not Highpass Keep.
Ask a rogue for directions, they should know.


Slayer of Stanos,
Gatherer of Gnoll Scalps
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~ Muse Temperance the Elf
~ Lyricist of <Mystic Coercion> on Erollisi Marr
~ with a <Variety> of alts to keep me busy
Killing Boshinko
# Dec 17 2003 at 6:46 PM Rating: Default
as a 49 enchanter of the nameless I was watching 2 tanks over lvl 50 to have s ort of hard time take down boshinko but I nuked him 2x for as total of 1kand1h dmg and pet did the rest...he dropped a short sword too bad, was very surprised:wink:
highkeep flask?
# Nov 14 2003 at 6:51 PM Rating: Decent
I'm just wondering what these highkeep flasks are for? You can't seem to drink them and its not marked as a item used in tradeskills. So what are they for? Just to sell?
Nurf...
# Oct 09 2003 at 7:59 PM Rating: Decent
Yep... They nurfed the spawn rate on the guards. At least they did on my server.
DE faction troubles
# Jul 22 2003 at 12:57 PM Rating: Decent
Ok, so I can sit there and blast guards till the cows come home, and marvel at all the wonderful FS weaponry (plat with a different name)... but, being a Dark Elf Necromancer, I find it rather hard to sell my wares to most merchants... I suppose my question is - Is there any merchant in HK that won't KOS me for blasting the guards?
RE: DE faction troubles
# Sep 25 2003 at 8:39 PM Rating: Decent
I dont remember the name but i waled in there once on my troll SK so should be KoS but the merchant in the open are by the ent was indiff. And beigh thats where all the garuds are you should be fine.
RE: DE faction troubles
# Jul 24 2003 at 12:02 AM Rating: Excellent
Tarn Visilin is the only merchant in HK that a Dark Elf Necromancer can trade with without raising any faction. He will /con indifferent to you.
King Pickclaw
# Jun 11 2003 at 12:15 AM Rating: Decent
Saw King Pickclaw today in the basement. He was blue to me at 31 but is unlike the other goblins -- he is smart. The King will run deeper into the basement when heavily wounded and will not chase PC's to the guards; he gives up at the top of the lower stairs. He may be immune to root too as our Wizard was certain it stuck just before he escaped. My pet killed him, his health bar even went purple like a dying PC, but the body was lost so we did not discover what he drops. I last saw him running into a wall so we may have been the victim of the dreaded vanishing corpse bug. :-(
31 Pally
# May 11 2003 at 2:51 PM Rating: Decent
What up brother Paladins. was just wonderin if a 31 Pally can solo the Crazed goblins in here. Almost done with the GB quest. Thanks


Saemar 31 Paladin <Transcendant Order> Rallos Zek


Edited, Sun May 11 15:45:00 2003
RE: 31 Pally
# Jun 04 2003 at 5:47 PM Rating: Decent
Yes, you can solo these. they typically hit for 40-80 depending on your gear. the only problem you will have trying to solo these is getting the room to yourself. Typically you'll find that there is 1 group camping each of the 4 rooms that contain goblins, and usually a bunch of people upstairs killing all the guards/vendors. This means that unless you are on during your servers off-peak hours, you will need to group in order to hunt goblins here.

Shortus Tenshunspan - Paladin - E'ci
Exp
# May 05 2003 at 7:12 PM Rating: Decent
This is the best zone for exp i have ever witnessed in my entire everquest "career". If you solo here, or are PLed you will get unheard of, uber chunks of exp. Also with every kill of a guard u get a sword which sells for 5pp. Kill every guard, make a lot of money. Ding very very fast. Dont bother with goblins, they are terrible. Kill guards!!!!
the AA rocks
# Apr 22 2003 at 12:36 AM Rating: Decent
i started whacking Isabella and bards at 53 it takes 1 more dot to kill bards than Isa so i stopped messing with them. now the nobles rock for AA exp and when Isabella strolls in ya whack her too. if ya get a steady run of DB's you can almost get 1 AA point in the time KEI runs out.Ive gotten 18 AA points in less than a month so any Druid Shammy or Beastlord needing AA the Keep is the place for you
RE: the AA rocks
# Apr 26 2003 at 7:07 PM Rating: Decent
/sigh don't say that lol..
the place is perma camped already and KS is rampant.. people are absolutly crazy over this exp on some servers i know of, I don't know if every server has picked up on it yet.

I'll ruin it for everyone I guess.

this guy is not lying, the nobles are about lvl 40, and there are 2 of them on 6 min spawns, each kill is half a blue, you can do lvl 51 in about 3 hrs. no joke. 52 is about 3.5 hrs, 53 about 4hrs heh

I'll give you a pointer, if you want to do aa here, don't go to 53 and do it.. stay 51 cause you get all blues..

some people from high end guilds, like Degeros from paradigm nocturn on tholuxe, think they are all that and just tell you to get out, I'm taking this camp now.

it's a total embarassment to eq that this zone, so safe and easy to get to, should have the best exp in the game for 51-55.

maybe, the way they see it, is since you have to get on a list and wait for hrs to get the camp, then when there put up with a lot of noobie zone spam and endless ksers, that it calls for very high reward exp. also there is a faction hit, you end up KOS in Freport and qeynos.. but you dont need to worry about that if your evil.. and if your good, you need to decide if you wanna be 51-55 for 3 months, or 1 week and be kos P I don't about you all, but I am more interested in CoV faction than freport. i have a human monk too, I have to fd flop to guild =P

btw, you can actually kill guards from 25-35ish too, they drop FS and about 5pp everytime and are also great exp.
Renya
# Apr 16 2003 at 1:53 AM Rating: Default


Edited, Wed Apr 16 02:50:04 2003
Highhold Water
# Apr 05 2003 at 5:11 PM Rating: Decent
Got bored waiting for a group in HHK, so I started picking off the lesser guards. Nearly all of them had a water bottle on them. Don't suspose anyone knows what, if anything, they are for.
Racial Tensions
# Mar 30 2003 at 9:54 PM Rating: Decent
who the guards like darkelf necros?


Edited, Sun Mar 30 21:51:42 2003
Ran Flamespinner
# Dec 19 2002 at 5:55 PM Rating: Default
He no longer assists you with goblins.


RE: Ran Flamespinner
# Apr 10 2003 at 12:13 PM Rating: Decent
Yes, he does help. He just can't save you from a throng of goblins that's all. Sometimes he casts spells on himself which delays his kills. Run to the zone if you have a lot of goblins on your ***** or you'll die in Ran's library in the N section for n00b.
RE: Ran Flamespinner
# Sep 25 2003 at 9:18 PM Rating: Decent
ohhh ya well my kid sells their honor students drugs
RE: Ran Flamespinner
# Jan 07 2003 at 10:03 AM Rating: Decent
I was there last night. He helps now. Beware however his spells. He does cast an AE spell that will hit you. Just stay behind him.
Great exp for monks espically
# Nov 17 2002 at 9:34 AM Rating: Decent
Heh, Im not sayin monks are the only ones that get good exp. yes I know the basment is awesome exp but by the time my iksar monk was lvl 24 and fairl twinked ( SoS and Knuckle Dusters) I was soloing Lisla Goldtune and Osargen for a gold and a half exp from Lisla and bout half or so from Osargen. Then at 26 I still killed them but moved onto guards killer exp then at 27 I went to the WR got a group and it took 2hours to make 28 wich SUCKED I killed guards solo again and about 40 minutes after I left the WR I was lvl 29 half way through. Now my monk is lvl 32 still soloing the guards . but people seem to have noticed there easy kills 3-6p + FS SS everytime.So if your a fairly twinked melee of the sort heres a nice place to solo Good Luck :-)

RE: Great exp for monks espically
# Nov 19 2002 at 3:06 AM Rating: Decent
Apparently you arent looking at your clock while playing. Nobody, solo or group, can make a level and a half in 40 mins. Unless they are LOW level. I power leveled my power twinked chanter solo, CONSTANT killing, NO downtime. It took me 2 days to reach level 25. After that, levels took about 1-2 hours. And again _NO DOWNTIME_ using charm kite.

I would actually like to calculate your "exp gain" here...

40 minutes = 1.5 levels.
1.5 levels = 7 yellow, 2.5 blue = 37.5 blue.
37.5 blue = 75 kills. (Aprox)
75 kills in 40 minutes, is 0.53 kills per minute.

This means, you have to kill mobs CONSTANTLY, and finish the mob within about 30 seconds. Its not that I dont trust you, but this is very unrealistic...

Writhan, 22th Necromancer of Tallon Zek
Alparslan, 49th Shadowknight of Sullon Zek
Loradon, 35 Enchanter of Sullon Zek
Wracx, 34 Shaman of Sullon Zek
RE: Great exp for monks espically
# May 30 2003 at 12:19 AM Rating: Decent
My 2 cents as a wizzy i was getting much better xp than what is claimed here onlything slowed me down was spawn time.

But this was on sharks in qeynos aqueducts. Hopped in the tank rooted and nuked. Hard to split the 2 sharks up but once done was greatest xp i ever saw. Soloing deep red sharks for about 8 levels before they turned yellow. Guess they have no vs fire.

point I am making is their is Uber xp in the game if you can find the method to kill high level mobs.

Now if those sharks were on a 5 min timer instead of 20 i could have went from 8 to 21 in 2 or 3 hours.
RE: Great exp for monks espically
# Jan 03 2003 at 8:38 PM Rating: Default
I consider lvl 24 as low levels =). I think he may have gained 1 and a half lvl in 40 mins, I mean, Highkeep is so damn good exp! Btw, I think it's harder to PL up a chanter than it is to ding up a twinked monk.
RE: Great exp for monks espically
# Jun 20 2003 at 11:05 PM Rating: Decent
Sorry I don't post much or check here anymore, but yes the exp is insane it may not of been 40 mins to the point but it was early weekday so not a lot of people were on and seeing how most of these guards have about 700hp and low ac they are fast and easy kills, But point still remains great exp here and you can come back at 50/45 depending on class and do nobles/bards ( yes ive seen level 45 necros solo nobles ) wich are also great exp. with my monk I killed guards to 42 FD grouped with a 54beast friend who solod nobles/bards while I went to sleep and got up about 12 hours later was 47 3 gold into I think he killed some of the gaurds on top floor as well wich are around 30-35. But now my 47 monk can do nobles/isabella only had SLN on and just regen but his skills were out of wack so Im sure most classes at 47 can do the nobles / bards if they have a nice set up of gear.
super quick exp
# Oct 09 2002 at 3:52 PM Rating: Decent
Hi all I am currently a level 36 druid named leebra on vazaelle. I leveled from about 26 to 34 in no time in high keep. It took forever for me to get to lvl 16 though. After getting back into it again, i leveled to high teens pretty quickly by killing mammoth calfs in everfrost peaks. At low twenties go to paludal caverns....no question about it. That was my fastest leveling to date. Once you get up to the higher twenties, now go to high keep. You will have to wait a while to get into a group. But let me tell you, the action is mostly nonstop. And the loot as mentioned above is very good. I made it to lvl 34 in no time. Now im lvl 36 and its hard to find a good exp place that can hold a candle to paludal caverns and high keep. Just my two cents.
RE: super quick exp
# Nov 06 2002 at 6:39 PM Rating: Good
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The the exp is great in HK, I double dinged every day in HK until I was level 41, to do this you must be able to solo, after 34 I soloed WR for excellent exp, fair loot and faction.

I suggest anybody 30-40 hunting the fastest exp they can find, I highly suggest you come to HK, if you can't solo then partner, but don't have more than you need in the group. Again soloing RR and especially WR is amazing exp. Being so close to a bank, merchants and guards it nice as well. If you are worried about faction, just head to NK and hunt the raider camp next to the shore for a few hours, with the numerous, and very fast spawns you can become indifferant from KOS very quickly. The only problem with HK(At least on every server I have been to) are the KSers, poons will try to snatch any mob from you camp as soon as they can. So watch out.

Don't let the 20-30 throw you off, you can level extremely fast in HK utnil 40
RE: super quick exp
# Jan 01 2003 at 5:01 AM Rating: Decent
I am doing this exact thing. Its dead down there on my server at night and I solo the WR (and RR if its super dead). After I hit 40, I plan on moving to the guards.
Tsaria Jnarus
# Aug 18 2002 at 4:08 AM Rating: Excellent
Dark Blue to 55
Apparently shes a wizard, but pet kept interrupting her.

Factions when killed:
Opal Darkbriar - Wizard and/or Necro Guild in Freeport
Dismal Rage - Evil Humans in Freeport
The Dead - SK and Necros in Neriak
Dark Reflection - SK and Necro Gnomes
Bloodsabers - SK and NEcro in Qeynos

so , the Dark Elves, Humans and Gnomes are all up to something, she didnt say anything, and i was dubious to her. maybe better faction is needed to get her to talk.

she dropped only 5pp
RE: Tsaria Jnarus
# Dec 14 2002 at 5:36 PM Rating: Decent
I'm amiable and she wont talk, even checked if she was a merchant with no luck.
RE: Tsaria Jnarus
# Aug 18 2002 at 4:10 AM Rating: Decent
By the way, she spawns on the 2nd floor of HHK, in the far SouthWest room, and has a placeholder named 'a guard'.
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