West Commonlands

My level 30 ranger loves sow. Unfortuantly this zone taught me to always use invisible as I ran into the Dragoon fella. He hit with spells that feared my ranger and had him running in circles as the Dragoon hit me at 60 a hit. This happened near the Kith zone. I was bored (waiting for morning to cross kith) and tracking griffons to warn people when this guy hit me with darkness and fear spells.

Does anyone know what the factions are for the druids et al. at the druid ring? I know there is at least one other than just the Jagged Pine Treefolk.

I've hunted here for a long time -- but never seen a werewolf, or Dragoon Zytl. Yes, Gix has killed me a few times but not the other two. Where do werewolves spawn?

Be on the lookout for the following:

Dragoon Zytl & Kizdean Gix (see other thread)
Griffin
Hill Giant
Nightfall Giant

for those in the low teens and below, Kodiaks can be quite nasty as well as packs of young kodiaks. While the bears don't travel as a group, they WILL agro to help their friends if they're blue or higher. It's very common to see some poor soul trying to make it to the zone or toll booth with 4 or more young kodiaks in tow.

For those of you with faction problems, there are guards which are part of the freeport militia (which are often camped) at the tollbooth, woodelf druids at the druid ring (which are camped occasionally, but not as often) and a pair of dwarves at the inn.

This may seem obvious to many, but I figured I would post it for those who don't realize it. This zone (and a few others - most notable Erud's Crossing) is the best place to make money from level 11 to 14. Wisps are your ticket to riches. Once you hit level 11, spend whatever it takes to get a magic weapon and come to this zone (gypsies sell combine long swords for 55 pp, or better yet runed totem staffs sell from player for about 15pp). You will easily make up for it. Wisps are the greatest way to make money and xp per level in the game. Just run around the zone looking for wisps and kill them. The most prolific spawn points seem to be the hills between the druid camp and the mountain, and the hill to the right of the path you zone in from EC, but you can find wisps just about everywhere. Most of the time you will get a burned out lightstone. There are worthless, and I just destroy them. About 1 time in 5, you will get a lightstone. These are worth 9 gp. About 1 time in 15 you will get a greater lightstone. Save these. Once you have accumulated a pile of greater lightstones, set off for Northern Karana (or South Ro if you are evil). Hail each gypsy there until you get the one who is the keeper of the concordance, and then give her a gls. She will give you a concordance of research, and a decent chunk of xp. Turn around to another gypsy and sell it to him for 9 pp. Repeat until you are out of gls. Now check your xp bar and bank account. Pretty nice eh? This is worth good money and good xp. Who can argue with that? Head back to WC and start over. You can pretty much spend all of levels 11 to 14 doing this (and even 15, although some wisps will not give xp by then), and you will easily make hundreds of pp in the process. As far as I know, there is nothing else you can kill at these levels (at least solo) and end up with this type of profit.

There is an old dwarvish proverb--"Revenge is a dish best served cold." And it is very cold in the Commonlands.

Ahh, my friend, my foe, Kizdean Gix. I am composing this as a paean, a tribute, a funeral dirge to my oldest and dearest enemy, the dark elf Necromancer, Kizdean Gix. And it goes something like this:

Neener-neener-neener! Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

OK, let's settle the style down a little bit. Put bluntly, I don't think there's a single "good" character on Antonica that doesn't want to open up a fresh can on Kizdean Gix, single-handedly the most aggressive, capable, and infuriatingly deadly NPC you'll see for some time. Parked just southeast of the central inn in the zone, Gix delights in slaughtering unsuspecting visitors who rest in front of the inn (sitting down increases his aggro radius, like most MOBs). He cons medium blue to high blue to a 20th level paladin (which puts him at 17-19), but he fights much more effectively than that (about level 22). He casts lots of high-powered necro spells and hates everyone except for DE necros and SK's.
(A side note--he is a quest NPC for them, so make sure they've finished their business with him before you do this--it's just good form.)

As soon as I hit 20th level (and got some xp padding, just in case), I set about achieving some small measure of justice for those Gix had slain. Taking two others with me, a 15th level bard and a 17th level enchanter, we took the fight to him quickly and mercilessly, never letting Gix near the caster, who pounded him with lightning after lightning. What happened? Heh. Gix and I killed each other. I killed him, and his DOT killed me (I hadn't been watching my health bar).

Do you know what I did? I went right back and did it again with someone else, a 22nd level warrior. This time, the warrior tanked, and I healed him. Worked famously. The warrior still had three bubbles of health left when Gix had fallen. So, my best advice is to designate a primary tank to draw Gix's fire, and have a healer handy to pump his health.

Oh, yes, and I should mention that killing Gix causes Dragoon Zytl to spawn near the lake. He's much tougher. Ahh, a task for another day, no doubt.

--Edmund Blackadder

The orc camp here is an untapped well of experience. Most people just sit at the camps in WC waiting for spawns with 3 or 4 other groups doing the same while a SIX (yes, 6!) spawn orc camp sits one zone away ripe for the picking. The best thing is they arent all linked when you pull them! The western 2 are linked, as are the central 3, while the eastern 1 is alone. This means that you can solo here when you can handle 1 orc, or 2, all the way up to 6. Any group sitting in EC complaining about lack of orc spawns needs to get their butts in gear and walk the 5 minutes it takes to get to some real orc action.