West Commonlands

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Type:
Outdoor

Expansion:
Antonica

Instanced:
No

Keyed:
No

Level Range:
7 - 40

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NOTE: This zone and the East Commonlands zone were revamped and merged into one zone: Commonlands.

The western portion of the Commonlands is more dangerous than the east, having slightly higher level roaming animals, orcs, and occasional hill giants. The area has suffered from werewolf outbreaks, so adventurers are advised to keep an eye over their shoulders.
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Illuminated Entrance of BefallenDruid Ring During a ThunderstormShadowed Men CampMilitia Guard PostingWizard SpiresThe Inn
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New MM mob
# Feb 27 2006 at 9:36 PM Rating: Decent
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A wandering zombie...Gives the MM "The Dead's Claim" loc +152, +1492. You get to recreate Kizdean Gix's takeover of Befallen.

Edit: Reward was this ring:
Gynok's Platinum Ring
Magic Lore No Trade
Fingers
AC: 17 Str:+9 Dex:+9 Sta:+9 Agi:+9 HP:+125
Mana:+115 Endurance:+115
SV Disease:+9 SV Magic:+9 SV Poison:+9
Reccomended level of 70
Class: WAR PAL RNG SHD MNK BRD ROG BST BER
Race: All
Slot 1: Type 7

Edited, Mon Feb 27 22:26:31 2006
a Broken Claw Bandit
# Jan 04 2006 at 10:22 PM Rating: Default
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when hailed they attack and say 'Hey! Who You? You not belong here! You die!!' followed by the traditional guard spam about ruining your own lands, you insulting norrath, and its time for you to die. green to 62 rogue. 1 dropped cutthroat ring and cutthroat golden tooth.. allies maybe? also had no faction at all. forgot to add that they spawn at the spots marked 'Dark Elves' on the map, near kith zone (only that one)

Edited, Wed Jan 4 21:31:01 2006
Werevolves & Scarecrows
# Nov 11 2005 at 4:11 PM Rating: Default
Werewolves, Lesser WW & Greater WW in WC -- along w/ some scarecrows.
RE: Werevolves & Scarecrows
# Nov 12 2005 at 2:12 AM Rating: Decent
also Werewolf Overlord--yellow to 54 Druid
RE: Werevolves & Scarecrows
# Feb 16 2006 at 6:19 PM Rating: Decent
Can conform Werewlf Overlord, drooped him last night conned dark blue at level 70. Didn't summon, was able to snare, and was an easy solo for a level 70 druid. Dropped some pretty crappy loot also.
New Mob .... Orvin
# Nov 06 2005 at 9:55 AM Rating: Decent
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I was running to do the Trick or treat quest and I came across Orvin at Loc -1123 by 718. He is a Gnome and high up on the wall, He did not respond to any of my hails.

Edited, Sun Nov 6 10:07:39 2005
Derin Mausrel
# May 12 2005 at 6:56 PM Rating: Decent
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New mission giver Derin Mausrel for Befallen missions for characters lvl 30-40 is found at Location -446.05, -375.19, -43.52. Red of course to my lvl 39 Enchanter
RE: Derin Mausrel
# Jun 04 2005 at 12:01 AM Rating: Decent
I was bored and tried a task from Derin Mausrel I completed the task and got an Ancient Dagger of Marnek dmg5 del35 str+7 agi+7 hp+7 mana+7 End+7 all all.It is not equipable in any slot though and the task giver wont except it so dunno what to do with it.
RE: Derin Mausrel
# Jun 15 2005 at 11:27 PM Rating: Default
Task is bugged as of June 15th, 05. GM confirmed. You can get to the last stage of the task, then it freezes up and Marnek is unable to be attacked.

Will update if I hear any change on this situation.
One of the Zanivars Bandits
# May 12 2005 at 6:43 PM Rating: Decent
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One of the Zanivars Bandits are a group of 5 mobs located in the furthest NW-most camp that used to be inhabited by Dark Elves for a short period. Hailing them gets you the text:

You say, 'Hail, One of Zanivars Bandits'

One of Zanivars Bandits says 'What'r you do'n here whelp? Come for a [share] of da coin, no?'

You say, 'what share'

One of Zanivars Bandits says 'Aye, Zanivar is paying us a duke's ransom to recover some [map] from the crypt of Befallen. If yer gonna help us find the thing, I can throw a few copper yer way. Don't expect an equal cut though. I found this job before you did.'

You say, 'what map'

One of Zanivars Bandits says 'He didn't say much other than that we looking fer a map o' some hidden caverns below Norrath. Says they've been buried below ground for thousands of years, a whole kingdom of stone, if yer' believe that. . . Well he's da one with the money so we gots ta listen to him.'
Nothing after that on a reply from any obvious phrases I could think of, but I'm thinking there might be a new mob in Befallen that drops a map?
RE: One of the Zanivars Bandits
# Jun 08 2005 at 10:11 PM Rating: Decent
Actually there are 6 total. 2 trolls, 2 ogres, and 2 dark elves. There are 4 right in the camp (2 ogres, 1 dark elf, and 1 troll); a dark elf woman off to the right of the camp by a tree there; and the other troll is behind the camp a smidge on the hill.
RE: One of the Zanivars Bandits
# May 12 2005 at 6:51 PM Rating: Decent
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And yes, it's 5 mobs, each named "One of the Zanivars Bandits". It's 2 troll males, 2 DE females, and 1 Ogre Female
RE: One of the Zanivars Bandits
# May 29 2005 at 11:18 PM Rating: Decent
hailed with my 67 paladin and told I'm not supposed to be here. They then attack me like the stupid beings they are.

New Mob
# Mar 23 2005 at 9:01 PM Rating: Decent
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West Commonlands

"The Fabled Kizdean Gix" conned red to a level 22, green to level 54. Harm Touched for 251. Had about 2000 HP to 2250 HP. Dropped The Fabled Thex Mallet

1H Blunt Atk Delay: 33
DMG: 11 AC:4
STR +4 HP+15
SV DISEASE +3 SV MAGIC +5
Race: ALL
Class: War Clr Pal Rng Shd Dru Mnk Brd Rog Shm Bst

Edited, Wed Mar 23 21:37:46 2005
Farrengen Mithfinder
# Nov 27 2004 at 5:03 PM Rating: Decent
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So who is Farrengen Mithfinder? Lt Blue con to lvl 70 toon. Does not respond once hailed. Located by the tents near the shadowed men.
RE: Farrengen Mithfinder
# May 12 2005 at 6:35 PM Rating: Decent
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I hailed him today, and I he responded with what those NPC's generally related to OoW tasks would say: "I'm afraid I can't speak right now, <name>. I'm waiting for someone very important to arrive." I'm guessing he's on of the layover stops on a task, whether it be beginning, halfway, or end.
About Kizdean Gix
# Aug 27 2004 at 10:25 PM Rating: Decent
Some interesting facts about Kizdean Gix:

"utalk adarev otcin" are the words used to start the quest with him for the Thex Mallet. If you reverse each word and keep it in the same order it becomes
"klatu verada nicto" ... This phrase was FIRST used in the 1951 movie, " The Day the earth stood still " starring Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal. These words were spoken to a 20' tall robot named Gort, to avert him from destroying the world.

This Phrase was also later used in the movie " Army of Darkness ", Starring ( the chin himself ) Bruce Campbell. This phrase was Supposed to be used to allow the Necronomicon ( the Book of the Dead ) to be removed from it's cradle in a Dark Cemetary. Alas, the phrase wsa bungled and not spoken with Every little syllable correct, thus unleashing the army of darkness.

Just a wee bit of trivia for your Day. :-)
Killing Kizdean Gix at NIght
# Mar 24 2004 at 3:00 PM Rating: Decent
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I was jsut reading the posts, and I know they are dated, but I can't believe there are no specific's on the cause and effect of killing Kizdean Gix. Of course old Kiz wanders and kills, but Zytl is much worse, especially to low and mid-level players who tend to wander into this zone to explore and get exp. Kizdean usually hangs out behind the shops near the toll booth by a tree. Leave him alone and give wide berth and you are OK. Kill him at night and you start a chain reaction that is terrible to the little guys. Night Killing of Kizdean spawns Dragoon Zytl from the Lake west of Kizdeans' location, over by the Wizzy tower. Gix ememerges just west of the shops/huts there and heads out, often in the direction of BeFallen slatering everything in his path til he is killed. If you think it's fun to slaughter other players, go ahead and Kill Kiz at night, but all be forwarned. And Hey, mid levels travel with care in W. Commons at night.
RE: Killing Kizdean Gix at NIght
# Apr 02 2004 at 2:02 PM Rating: Decent
Actually it doesn't matter whether it is night or day, Zytl just doesn't spawn EVERY time that Gix is killed. The wife just killed him a few times and it is only 11am game time and Zytl spawned.

Also, Gix does not wander. He will spawn behind the merchant huts by the Tollbooth where the guards are. Unless he is dragged away by players (which does happen occasionally) he will simply stand there. When I have been in the zone farming spiders and bears and cats and such, I have seen him stand unmolested in the same spot for hours. Of course now that there are more people in the area due to the GM events and even the Wayfarer's camp in EC he may get pulled away a bit more often.

As for Zytl spawning at the lake and heading to Befallen, you have it backwards. He spawns outside of Befallen and wanders and commonly ends up near the Barbs because of the mobs around for him to chase (much in the way that the guards in EC are often drawn away killing one mob then another one that is NOW in thier aggro range). This is easily shown by simply pulling Gix to the area outside of Befallen. If Zytl is indeed going to spawn that time he will be within sight with his pet:-)




Edited, Fri Apr 2 14:17:27 2004
Nightfall Giant
# Nov 11 2003 at 4:30 PM Rating: Good
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Today I ported into WC, and as I always do, looked up on track, and saw a new one to me in this zone, a Nightfall Giant... He conned red to me, as a 34 Druid, so of course I decided to try him out. Well, he didn't resist my snare, so I kited him and laid on the DOT's. It didn't seem to take any longer to drop him than any of the red HG's in Rathe Mts. so he must be around level 37-38. I looted a Nightfall Giant's Head off him. It is LORE, but not NO DROP. Anyone have any ideas what this might be for, and is he going to be a regular visitor in this zone?
RE: Nightfall Giant
# Nov 20 2003 at 11:13 AM Rating: Decent
Nightfall giant is for the old world Temple of Solusek Ro paladin Ro quests.

https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=32
Sweet Revenge
# Nov 05 2003 at 5:21 PM Rating: Decent
Well Gix, I told you I'd be back. Wow, what a rewarding experience. Squeezing the life from your evil body. I can sleep once more.
Lord Shin Ree
# Sep 26 2003 at 7:56 PM Rating: Decent
Met this Orc at camp 1 tonight...conned red to lvl10 cleric, and killed half of my group. Have never met him before, and Slate killed it so i don't know what it drops.

Antimony
10 Clr
Xev
RE: Lord Shin Ree
# Mar 30 2006 at 8:47 AM Rating: Decent
Wrong commons hehe
Grrrrr....Gix
# Sep 25 2003 at 1:07 PM Rating: Decent
My lvl 12 Ranger has been killed three times by this buttmonkey. I'm just sitting outside the entrance to befallen, gettin' some must-needed rest...and BAM!! Harm touch.....If you're listening Gix...Your day will come.... Oh yes, your day will come.

Edited, Thu Sep 25 13:54:08 2003
GM Event
# Sep 23 2003 at 10:02 AM Rating: Decent
I'm not sure if this GM event was all for all servers, but the sky in WC turned blood red yesterday and there were werewolves running EVERYWHERE. Minor ones, Lesser ones, Regular ones, and Greater ones. They all dropped their usual paws and pelts, but a lot of class-specific no drops were popping up all over the place as well. Good stuff for my newb wizzy, but nothing useful for my 53 beastie. The Werewolf Overlord was level 54 and a beast to take down. Here are the links of the stuff I kept.

https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=6962
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=6949
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=6952
Bloodfang
# Sep 22 2003 at 10:26 PM Rating: Default
Ok not that this will matter at all anymore. but a GM event happened today. Blood fang spawned. Bloodfang was a lvl 65 werewolf with wicked regen took about 50 lvl 65ers about 15 mineuts to kill mostly cause it was GM controlled. Droppes 2 combine longswords (lol), and a manastone. I was there and did minimal amount of help and almost died on one AE that he did. very fun. Oh! and this GM event happened on Drinal.
Gix and Zytl
# Feb 14 2003 at 11:42 AM Rating: Decent
Of course if you have hunted in WC for a decent amount of time you know good old Kizdean Gix, and possibly Dragoon Zytl also. Kizdean haunted the life of my young Human Paladin. I was at the Toll Booth medding in protection of the gaurds when all of a sudden Kizdean Gix is beating on me. The first time it happened I went to the guards thinking since he is a Dark Elf the gaurds will attack. Of course while I am dying right in front of them they stand by and watch. So the next time he finds me I am a bit higher in level and survive the HT. I am almost to the EC zone when lo and behold I am feared and run the other way. Then he continues his beatings until I lay dead in front of him. Soon after I was a higher level and went back for my revenge. I go back and he cons blue. I'm at full health/mana so I'm happy thinking I will get my revenge. WRONG. This was when I realized the severity of his undercon. So I went back AGAIN later in life and he conned green. Time for Gix to die. I finally defeated Kizdean and was feeling extremely happy. And minutes later my happiness ended. On my way to Highkeep, Dragoon Zytl decides to wipe me out. And he did so....quickly. Then again I went back to WC at level 35 and had a close fight with Zytl. It took everything I had including a LoH to defeat him, but he went down. Now I feel much better about WC having conquered my enemies, and now all I have to worry about is the Spectres that wiped me out during my time in Oasis, I am on my way there now, DEATH TO THE SPECTRES!!

Edited, Fri Feb 14 11:17:17 2003
RE: Gix and Zytl
# Aug 16 2003 at 11:57 PM Rating: Default
Both of them are cake. Zytl i just solo'd for 1% xp, not bad at lvl 41(camping druids and pulling the dwarfs and guards, good xp) and i stuck pet(since i was at 31% hp)Pet took down to 50% and my warder was at 96% so i stepped in and ate Zytl, procced 3 times and he went down. His pet is very CR, tried nuking it to kill it for fun but then i got bored so i melee'd it. DEAD
RE: Gix and Zytl
# Apr 04 2004 at 11:36 PM Rating: Decent
Both of them may have been cake to you then, and they certainly are to me now. However, hunting at the toll booth insinuates that you are in the 12-18 range, at which time both of these mobs would be far from "cake". As a wise man once said, think before you post.
whatthe
# Sep 20 2002 at 7:14 AM Rating: Default
this is a faction post noy about hunting bears geez
ADDS=DEATH!
# Jun 25 2002 at 6:30 PM Rating: Decent
i have a lvl 10 Cleric,I went to solo here,I have died here about 8 times!Those jackass bears smack me,I try to root em but they resist,GGGRRR!Here is my advice:Don't solo here until lvl 13 or 14!
DE camps and bear pelts
# Apr 17 2002 at 3:55 PM Rating: Decent
Ok, I've been to WC lots of times, seen these empty campes with the dark elf symbol on them, but never see any dark elfs myself. The camps are allways empty and I never see anyone camping them. As for high quality bear pelts, how often does this stuff drop? Been in wc all morning and only looted two! I've killed every single type of bear I ran into.
RE: DE camps and bear pelts
# Jun 24 2002 at 12:44 PM Rating: Decent
DE.... those can get camped quite often, send out a camp check. Good chance someone had just wiped them out. There is also K. Gix who wanders the desert edge near the druid ring. There is also the possiblity the camp might have gotten emptied by the high mucky mucks (programmers), I have heard of that in some zones, temporarily at least, though I do beleive they are supposed to be there as of May. Ask around, others might know something.

HQ bear pelts.... rather uncommon. I killed hundreds of bears and only got about 4 HQ If you are really in a bind and have up to 25 pp go to east commonlands, someone is always selling at least one. Personally I got most from the full grown Kodiaks

Edited, Mon Jun 24 13:53:58 2002
Spells for Druid?
# Apr 06 2002 at 1:03 AM Rating: Default
What does the caster sight mean by having spells here? I am a 18 druid and need to know do the vendors give away or NPC's drop? And what drops them?
RE: Spells for Druid?
# Nov 03 2002 at 3:48 PM Rating: Decent
Druid Rings. Just right click on the people and they have lots a spells.
mmkay
# Mar 22 2002 at 11:39 PM Rating: Default
they have taken out the Dark Elf camps.
Eye of Sumons
# Feb 18 2002 at 6:23 PM Rating: Default
HAs anyone else seen this creature? It's a big blue/green eyeball that floats around. I'm a 17 and it cons green to me.
RE: Eye of Sumons
# May 23 2002 at 7:15 PM Rating: Default
What happened is that a player character
named "Sumons" cast the spell "Eye of Zomm"

Creates basically a one-hit point non-aggro-ing
"thing" that the caster can see through.

If the player had been named "Drdf" you would
have seen an "Eye of Drdf" ... enjoy.
RE: Eye of Sumons
# Mar 12 2002 at 8:45 PM Rating: Default
I believe the eye of sumons is a spell for a caster i dont know what kind. It lets the caster see whatever it see's so it is not a monster to fight
invis
# Jan 30 2002 at 9:58 AM Rating: Default
anyone know about the invis hill gaint in wc most the time hes by the shadowmen and so on yes invis no im not on drugs i have a druid hit track and turn up sound and you will see well wont see but will here a gaint how the hell ya kill it see invis dont work lol
dumb gix
# Feb 13 2002 at 12:40 AM Rating: Default
there is this buttmunch shad knight real not nice NPC, cons yellow to my lvl 18 bard. POs me alot, killed my 13 druid 4x over with his frikking harm touch. Can someone kill him, just 4 the record, because he pisses me off.
Well the real thing i want 2 post is that my 13 human druid is seriously in trubble. He wont lvl, he kinda sux and the stuff that gives me exp takes a while to kill can anyone PL me? Im in butcherblock mountains on sayryn server so send me a tell if u can cuz he needs some PLing. Once i get 2 14 i get SoW and all that good stuff. I need a PL plz!!!

Nagru (known as Urgan Nagru, Foxwolf in Redwall)
13th season druid

I will poke all orcs with pointy sitcks!!!
PS if u cant PL me at least recommend a zone!!!
RE: dumb gix
# Mar 06 2002 at 4:33 PM Rating: Default
if your 13 go to OOT and lvl at sirens island in the first group of Islands after u zone in from butcher block, but be careful on the island behind the sirens require magic weapons and occasionally are replaced by DE npc's that are mean and will beat u down. around lvl 20-25 i think
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