Najena

Would a lvl 29 druid be to high or to low?

Gelu Dragonquest (Divine Symphony)
29 Druid
Terris-Thule
Tunare

I thought this was about Tradon and not griffs in their many and varied permutations.
Stick with the subject, kids.

I noticed that the creature named simply, "a skeleton", is not at the time of this writing included in the bestiary. These skeletons are MOBs well known to paladins doing the Ghoulbane quest, as they drop the Noblemans Hilt, a needed component. I have yet to determine the level of these skeletons; they hit for up to 60 HPs and are blue to me at level 29, so I judged them to be around 27 or 28, but they are actually closer to 23 to 25. In additional to the less frequent noblemans hilt, they drop small ringmail and a few platinum on the nicer drops or cloth sandals and a few gold on the chincy drops. They seem to be warriors and cast no spells, but they may have a damage shield cast upon them by one of the nearby magicians. Upon slaying them, the only faction adjustment is the lowering of Najena faction.


Edited, Tue Apr 16 05:49:29 2002

Enchanters wanna see najina with little risk try earth elemental illuision see how ya like it oh ya balls of clay one shot illiusion items a good loot for those mages who need to get down safe

I asked somebody about the mage element quest and I was wondering what creature drops off the things that's required, anybody know what creatures drop 'em?

A new type of skeleton is found in Najena now. It's about LVL 30 and is just labeled "a skeleton". It rarely drops the hilt of the nobleman for the Ghoulbane quest. They're deceivingly hard hitters and have quite a few hp. Watch out, they have a large aggro range too. Good luck, This is one fun zone.

Im just curious as to what lvls this zone would be an appropriate raid for. Thx

I'm from Sullonzek(not my 1st chr but my new main) was doing a tiny bit of item farming for my puny equiped 34 necro self with my pet. While medding after killing bonecracker i see.
A Visiting Priestess begins casting a spell.
I never saw her before my pet suicided after killing Trazdon and i aggroed 2 ogre guards who were about level 20.
Anyone see her?
Lareit the Evil
35 Necro Sullonzek

okay/. i zoned into najena this morning and was met by tywo grteen skeles to a level 38 warrior they are tuff and they hit me in the 60's.. killed one zoned out to rest a while came back in to finils the other one off got exp but both even though green to me.. they are always at the zone entrance and had dsome trained anywa becafeful in tinhd ther enwo you jack *** son of a biath..

Ok people, listen up: here's the lowdown on this zone. All this information is correct as of 10-30-01. Don't whine if something I say conflicts a post your best friend's brother's cousin saw on some unmoderated EQ board somewhere. Enjoy.

The zone in general:
Nice little zone with some decent little drops.
The architecture is fairly interesting, and it's one of the few zones that I think really seems like a dungeon. The norent keys are kind of a pain, but hey, you've got to live with it. On older servers this place will be empty with the exception of the occassional mage searching for quest items, paladins looking for the Ghoulbane hilt, the occasional lowbie actually fighting for exp, and then people like me camping the entire zone all at once just for the heck of it.

The two worst parts about this zone:
-The Widowmistress

-The amazing ability level 12 mobs have to nuke a person 40 levels above them for full damage. Ever fought in Mistmoore? Good. Now you know how annoying this really is.

The Keys:
Key #1 is the Guard's Keyring. Any ogre you see has a good chance of dropping one. You fall into the jail cell with the injured halfling and Linara Parlone, this is how you get out. You fall in without this key, well, there's a big hole in the cell. :p Moosh also drops this. It looks like a large white key.

Key #2 is the Shiny Metal Key. You get this by rampaging about downstairs until you kill the guard captain. Looks like a dull colored grey key. It opens the first door to Rathyl's room, also known as the door across from the jail cell from key #1's description.

Key #3 is off Bonecracker. It's shaped like a skull key. It's also useless. Why? All it does is open Rathyl's second door, and any idiot can pull him through the bars without needing to enter his room. Well, I suppose it's not quite so useless if you manage to get trapped in Rathyl's room. Rather convenient that he drops it and key #4 too, huh?

Key #4 is...ah heck I forget the name. Use key #2, murder Rathyl and his Incarnate, and get this one. It's the first NORENT key of the dungeon. It's a light blue key. This lets you in to visit with Drelzna.

Key #5 is the magic key. It's called the Golden Crescent key, and should you need to ask why, it's big and golden. Drelzna drops this along with Key #3, the one that gets you in to her room. This one is NORENT as well. Najena drops this key as well if you happen to get stuck in her room.

When you've collected all the keys, camped the zone to your heart's content, you're getting ready to leave, and realize that you're the only person in the zone, do other people a favor. Hand all the keys to some greenie mob. They'll keep the NORENT keys all safe and sound and help out the next guy who comes in searching for them. You'll be doing yourself a favor too: chances are that if you're on an older server like I am, and you log on the next day and think "Gee, I think I want to go camp Najena some more," the keys will still be there waiting on you.

Named Mobs:
Once you kill them all for the keys and get their spawn cycles going, you'll be seeing lots of all of them, except Najena. She doesn't like to visit her dungeon much. I told her some japanese lanterns would make the place more bright and cheerful, but she didn't want to listen to me. Go figure.

Illia's has most of the drops and mob info correct. Here are my additions:

The magicians drop focus items rarely and the torn pages rarely. Any magicians in the zone, including goblin magicians, can drop them. The goblins also randomly drop nice-looking (but fairly useless) Stone armor pieces. Fun for giving yourself a new look on the inventory screen...

The skeletons for the Ghoulbane quest are typically found in the area around the water pool, spider rooms, and goblin areas. They seem like they'd be a real pain for a lowbie group, and seem to be there only as yet another deterrent (in addition to the Widowmistress and the amazing *****-your-resists-i'll-nuke-you-anyway casters) to lowbie groups. They're called simply "a skeleton," they're always standing up, they have a large aggro range, and will aggro on anyone no matter what level they are. They typically drop small ringmail and bronze or fine steel weapons, though, so they're not a total loss. The hilt drops about 50% of the time in my experience.

Drelzna drops the Stiletto as well, it's just really rare. The ashenwood spear is extremely rare. And YES, she can be a pain in the butt and Harm Touch MORE THAN ONCE during a battle. Her opening HT is usually 251, and she has HT'd me after that for really weird amounts such as 101 and 151. Don't scream your lungs off and cite the fact that PC Shadowknights can't do that. She's an NPC, lots of caster NPCs have somewhat...funky...code, and they can do weird things that PC's can't. Live with it, and prepare to probably take more than one Harm Touch while fighting her.

The guard captain drops the Ogre War Maul rarely.

Rathyl and Rathyl's Incarnate have the same loot tables. Either one can drop the Traveller's Pouch, Traveller's Pack (which has recently become NODROP, boo), or Hollowed Bone Bracers. Only Rathyl drops the keys, though.

Ekeros can drop the mage focus items. (Presumably because he spawns in place of one of the magicians sometimes.)

The Widowmistress drops...whoever she's fighting, usually. I saw the Widow straight outmelee a 53 monk, who would have died had I not been there to heal her and get in a (very) few well-timed stuns. This lady is mean and fairly magic resistant. I can't tell you about poison, cold, disease, or fire resistant, because hey, I'm a paladin and I don't get those spells (and I didn't have Flame of Light last time I saw her). She's the only thing I'm afraid of in this entire dungeon. Give her a wide berth should you see her.

Najena...well she's a rather xenophobic person. She's a random rare spawn. I say that because she can always pop 5 times in a row, or never show up for a couple days. Her drops are correct, but she really doesn't like to part with the Black Tome with Silver Runes. Chances are you'll get plenty of robes before you see the book.

The wrap up:
I've told you everything you need to know. Watch out around Drelzna's room, Moosh and the Tentacle Terror downstairs have a tendancy to aggro through the floor sometimes.

What else is there to tell you about this place? Not much. I'm a 52 paladin and I can solo all the mages and all the named spawn spots in a circuit and still have time to med and heal up to a respectable point before doing it all again. If you're trying to solo the place like I am, be smart about pulling the casters. Three level 16 mages can actually be a threat to someone if they're all nuking you for 90 apiece every 4 seconds, or hitting you with that blasted Shock of whatever spell (you have been lacerated) that bounces you around and interrupts your casting.

Questions? Comments? Primates?
Scaldar, 52 paladin of Lanys T'Vyl
"Prepare to die, %T!"

Just a few things i noticed after reading these posts, Rathyl does still drop the key to drelzna's room, the elementals are just place holders. The visiting priestess has faction with my god innoruk, I found to my dismay. She aggor'd me as I fought the ogre captain. She wasnt holding anything. I was killing najena to get the tome with silver runes, after 3 days Najena popped maybe 20 times and always the fbr. gave up and brought a spirit tome. I also killed the widow mistress for fun, had to run the first time, she caught me by surprize, she is nasty.

eilae
47th necromancer
dark phoenix aliance
drinal

Who in the hell is this?

We were fighting the ogre captain and his buddy minions with the battle well in hand and all of a sudden, this priestess starts healing all the Ogres and herself, then blasting 4 of us (Ranger 34, Druid 37, Cleirc 30 and Druid 34) for over 200 pts a shot!! I don't see her listed in the beastiary above, but she has got to be under-conned (Blue at 34) Luckliy we ported out with plenty of time to spare.

Liegud
Ranger 34th Season