Butcherblock Mountains

That Greedy Begger is a bum! I don't know about this guy. I find him sleeping at the docks. Well, I poke him a bit and he awakens asking me for some coin. Being the generous cleric that I am, I give him a couple of sp. He gives me thanks and asks if I might spare some more!

I just take off at this point, but he follows me out of the docks. I was about a level 5, at the time.

I go about my business killing some newbie critters; gobbies, bat's etc. After I initiate combat, he butts in. No, he doesn't offer any help with the tougher blue or black cons, he only gets involved with the easy kills, so who needs him! If I get in a tussle with a tougher opponent he backs off and calls for the guards, who never come anyway. I get nada for Exp and guess what? He beats me to the corpses and scarffs up the loot!

I can't get rid of this guy. I can't even attack him! So, finally I just gate back to Kaladin and he is blissfully gone. It may not be PC, but this guy is a BUM.

just wanted to tell you my encounter with this guy. I was playing a 4th lvl wizard when i found him wondering the newbie zone. I hailed him and he begged for money, so i gave him all my copper pieces (129 cp). After that he followed me around like an enchanter's pet... only attacking the monsters once they attacked me. Not a bad deal if you want to solo the goblin camps.

ok... I've looked and looked and I can't find anything anywhere about the new dwarf in town called Gretta (I think the last name is) Mottle. She is located in Tumpy's place in town. She talks about loosing all her bakin' supplies off the boat.

Now suddenly I've seen a new NPC at the docks called a Greedy Begger, he's sleeping and when you hail him he wakes up and ask's for food. I've tried giving him food but all I've gotten was the standard thanks and can you give me more... same thing with money... Are these two related? I have a feeling they are but I just can't figure it out! argh...

Just a quick one there are now some lvl 20-28 gobbos just up from the crossroads now, have seen many a brave dwarf die there!!!

They are there as part off the Goulbane quest!

keep your eye out for em very nasty!

As per the Aug 23rd post listed a little further down, I too found this a great zone for my newbie enchanter.

Being a HIE, I of course spawned in Felwithe. Ran around there (Fel/GFay newbie area) killing bats, skellies, pixie tricksters, wasps, wolves until I saved up enough cash to buy cloth armor, all my spells (lvls 1 & 4), a large sewing kit, and to buy a stack or two of tiny daggers (for the Animation line of spells - the enchanters' "pet," which cannot actually be controlled like a pet but is nice to add to your defense). I banked ALL my batwings because later on, enchanters get a Levitate spell, and why pay for wings when I can save them now for free and get exp at the same time? :-) I'm amazed more low-level enchanters don't think of this but it may be simply they don't look far enough ahead on their spell list; I am currently lvl 9 and have 2 backpacks full of batwings in the bank.

Further note on batwings: They can be used to improve your baking skills. Now, what good is baking skills, most people think. Well, thanks to improvements from Verant, a bunch of the higher-lvl snacks/meals/etc. that you can make have stats buffs (DEX, AGI etc) so it is a worthwhile skill to have. Plus, if you buy a spit (4-slot portable oven) you can take heavy bear/wolf/cat meat (1.0 wt) + bread, and turn it into 0.4 wt sandwiches, or animal meat + beer + spices = beer braised meat (0.2-0.4 wt + stat buffs). Plus it's kind of fun to be able to give your friends things like cookies, brownies, wedding cake, etc., or to use up foraged food which is not sellable to vendors.

Ok so that being said... now you are a lvl 4 enchanter, you've scribed/mem'd your spells. You have a semi-decent 1HS (dagger variety) or 1HB weapon. Get yourself bound at Kaladim entrance (pref) or at GFay/BB zone and then head into Butcherblock.

At lvl 4-7 I would keep minor shielding (self only buff), haze, strengthen, Juli's animation ("pet"), mesmerise, tashan, weaken, and color flux in my left-screen slots. Sometimes once I'd cast my pet I would "forget" the pet spell and mem the gate spell, but usually by the time I need the gate spell my mana is too low to cast it so I rarely keep it in an active slot. Besides which if you hunt carefully you can easily go 3-4 lvls and not die, or only die maybe once or twice.

For the following I would go to the entrance of Kaladim and do the following:

So I would buff myself (minor shielding, haze, STR), then med, cast my pet, buff it (haze, STR), and med, allowing pet to guard me while I did so. Then, with my back to the Kaladim entrance, I would run over the first hill. There is a nice open spot here, and all kinds of mobs 1-8 wander through: bats, snakes, skellies, spiderlings, scarabs, skunks, goblin whelps, Krag chicks. The only things that seem to group aggro in this area are the goblins and Krags; the scarabs don't seem to wander through this area much so there rarely seems to be 2 at one time. Once you have been hunting here an hour or so you will get to see what the standard paths the mobs tend to run.

I killed the low lvl yard trash (snakes, bats) for their eggs and wings. The eggs are free food ("snack" I believe) but you can also use them to practice baking (egg + milk + flour = clump of dough). Batwings have already been discussed, but if you are hard up for cash, /auc them off at 2-3pp/stack. Many high lvl characters port in/out of this area and have to use the docks so you can probably sell them easily if you want.

At this lvl (4), my main concern was building up my skill strengths in my casting disciplines plus of course making money. The nice thing about this spot is it is close to Kaladim (bank) and there is also two huts right there where you can sell stuff without even having to zone.

For mobs that were high green/blue to me, I would hit them first with either Tashan (magic resistance buffer), suffocating sphere (DD/debuff), or weaken. As soon as the mob ran over and gave me a smack, my pet would jump in. (For newbie enchanters FYI: you cannot control your pet. It will not attack anything until the mob attacks you, at which time it'll attack whatever hit you. They're very single-minded.) Then the pet would smack away while I could step back and cast the DOT/DD/AOE spells on the mob. Usually I could keep my mana above 50 with this method; in fact I could easily do several mobs before being totally drained of mana. The bats I could just hit with a single shot of suffocating sphere (DOT) and they'd drop without me having to do anything more!

This is good loot in this area for a 1-8. The goblin whelps drop bags of varying sizes (even as large as backpacks), money and armor; then of course the different mobs drop varying things, MOST of which are stackable. Krag claws and scarab carapices are not. I would take the spiderling silks and throw them two at a time in my sewing kit to practice tailoring and to create bandages. The bones, skunk glands, scarab legs, krag talons can all be used for quests, which will build your exp, cash, and faction.

I stayed in this area and soloed easily to 6, at which point I began to wander the zone a bit more, staying close to the road as I hunted for more goblins, scarabs, Krag chicks and large spiders. Krag chicks hit pretty hard at this lvl, I'm not talking 50pts damage, but good enough against a 4-8'er. The bugs can also poison you, which is their defense DOT. Another cool thing about sticking close to the road is that if the higher-lvl players pass you, they will often drive-by-buffings or help you finish off a particularly tough creature. One nice guy running by gave me a chipped bone collar, which besides being worth 20pp, is AC4, Wt 2, HP+10 MANA+10, all very nice stats for somebody of my lvl, and I've seen chanters at much higher levels still wearing this piece. (drops off Ogres in WK)

I made decent cash, plus I built up a stack of silk swatches which I tailored from the spider silks that dropped. As I could afford the patterns, I would take the swatches + patterns and craft myself silk armor. (for newbie caster classes: we can't wear leather or many metal armor; so at this level silk is pretty good armor, plus you can sell it to other casters or to monks for up to 1pp/AC pt).

So this was pretty easy to make it up to a full 8, soloing, and the only time I died was because Corflunk spawned in the area while I was selling at the hut near the GFay zone, and don't ask me how this guy can see through walls, but I was just standing there and I see I've been hit for X amt of damage, LOADING, PLEASE WAIT... so keep an eye out for those guys!

Word of warning: don't take on the basaliks til you're more like 13. They don't aggro until you hit them and they hit back HARD plus with DOTs.

Once I hit 8, I went to Felwithe, bought my new round of spells, and have been practicing making jewelry for a while, as Enchant Silver is a lvl 8 spell. Now, not all newbies can afford the 4pp+ that the decent jewelry sells for (+STR, AGI, DEX etc) so it's in your favor to negotiate trades. I'll trade for batwings (more for the bank!), eggs, meat, CB belts (worth 1pp/each if you sell, or exp/cash/armor/faction in Kaladim), weapons, pixie dust. The only bummer about jewelrymaking is it is an expensive craft to pursue learning, and even when things become "trivial" does not mean you will succeed every attempt!

At level 8 it definitely became time to start learning to group properly so I have headed to Crushbone (off northern GFay) and begun hunting there.

Anyway, I hope this has helped my fellow chanters a bit, and I apologize for the many asides, but hope you make enough sense out of it to have it help you! Feel free to give me a /tell if you see me!


Meryddian, HIE enchantress of 9 seasons
Seventh Hammer server
Amazon Storm guild

I generally believed that you could trade at the docks, but despite being a dwarf pally, all I get is the conning status. If it is my faction that is a problem what can I eradicate to raise it with them?

What to do with Pegleg and his crews lore item drops? I have look, but nothing has come up. Please let me know. Faire journies to all!
Kithkannon

What can i kill to raise my faction with the Dwarves and guards at the dock and in the zone? I am kos. What can i kill to change this?

I found 'Pages from Brodder's Diary' for sale at the vendor who sells food by Kaladim. The page can't be openned by a right-click, they don't stack, and they can't be read. For sale are pages 1, 3,4,5,and 6. Perhaps page 2 may give information, or perhaps there is some container in which these can be combined.

Anybody have information on this?

Doea anybody know who or what and if so where a Grizzly Hide Cape is dropped??

Wheer is the chessboard in BB? I can never seem to find it or have someone on that is willing to tell me where it is

There is an orc tower hidden away just west and north of the two huts location. It's at the very north end of the vally to the west and north of the path as you travel towards the crossroads. For exact locations and maps, try eqatlas.com

Three orcs spawn there at about six minute intervals. They are about lvl 10-13. Look out for the one hiding behind the tower.
I used the spell sooth and pulled them one at a a time. Good exp, kinda slow spawn but I have never seen anyone else there, ever!

At lvl 10 I mostly got my exp's from Giant Scarab Beetles, Basilisks, Emerald Drakes and of course...the ORC RUNNER. Which -when you are lucky- drops a letter and/or a pouch which you can turn in in Kelethin or Felwithe for great exp. At 10 and 4 bubs i still received almost 1/2 bub of exp from this item/quest (not to mention reward up to a platinum piece and some item).

This is one of the better starting zones in the game. You can easily get up to level 18 without ever having to leave this zone. The reason this zone is so nice is that you can harvest many quest items in this zone that will give you extra experience, armor (patchwork and bloodforge), and spells (Clerical and Paladin). These quests all originate out of Kaladim.

This guide is mainly for solo adventuring. Groups could probably reduce the levels I mention by 1 or 2.
At Levels 1 and 2 hunt snakes, bats, skellies and goblin whelps right over the hill from the entrance to Kaladim. If you are lucky you will find a skeleton with a rusty weapon and if you beat it you have just received a free weapon upgrade. Goblin whelps drop containers ranging from pouches, small boxes, small bag, etc. You will also find some loot you may want to hold onto from these critters also including: snake eggs (needed by Bakers)and batwings (needed by Bakers and also for those who cast levitate)
At level 3 switch to skunks, worker scarabs and rock spiderlings. Save all the skunk glands, scarab legs, and scarab carapaces you find. These are quest items in Kaladim. In the Cleric guild one of the NPCs will reward you with a spell for every 4 skunk glands you turn in. In the warrior guild, Vacto (merchant at the entrance to the Warriors guild) will make you a scarab helm for every 2 carapaces and 5 gold you turn in. The scarab legs are one of the components for the scarab boots which are also made by Vacto. Since the cracked scarab carapace, the 2nd component for the boots, comes from giant scarabs which you won't be fighting till about level 10, go ahead and save up all the scarab legs you find. The best place to hunt these are in the valley, between the docks and Kaladim, located on the right hand side right by the 2nd guard post as you travel from Kaladim to the docks. This is a large valley and is generally empty except for high level players camping the 2 dwarves at the graveyard there. If you are lucky they might but some very nice buffs on ya. Plus you are close to the merchants at the dock in case you fill up on goodies and need to sell. However, be warned, that about midnight 3 aqua goblins spawn in this area including shamans and wizard goblins. These can kill you with one spell. You can avoid them pretty easily if you see them in time.
Levels 6-7 you have 2 options. You can stay in the valley by the docks and start chasing down the Krag chicks. They drop Krag chick talons that are used for a quest in the paladins guild in Kaladim. Otherwise you can head out to the 2 house area with the merchants by the zone to Greater Fay and hunt large snakes and the occasional giant bat.
Levels 8 - 10 will be nice and quick if you hunt the dwarven skeletons at the druid ring and skeleton tower. There are 8 skeleton spawns in total and if you are the only one hunting them then you will have very little down time between spawns. The skeletons here will even on occasion drop gold for you and cloth armor, but most importantly they drop bone chips. The bone chips can be used for a Kaladim quest in the Paladin guild. For every 4 chips you turn in, and you can turn in 4 sets of 4 chips, you will receive a minor item, usually in the form of patchwork armor or rusty weapons. Also since a lot of high level people port into the druid ring there you may also receive some high level buffs from them. At this spot all the skeletons were blue to me at level 9 and at level ten, most are now green but still give xp. You can level up to 11 here with no difficult.
Level 11 - 15 The chessboard is the better spot for xp. Don't expect a lot of money or bone chips from the pawns there. For some reason these giant skellies are dirt poor.
Level 15 - 18 The orc tower is the place to be. There is a spawn of 3 orcs here either oracles or centurions. At 15 these should be blue to you. At 16 the oracles should be blue with the rare blue centurion. At 17 most oracles will still be blue. At 18 maybe 1/3 of the oracles will still be blue. The loot here is nice, you may even pick up a plat from some drops, also rawhide armor, weapons and occasionally a bronze one, and more importantly crushbone belts. The belts are needed for yet another quest out of Kaladim in the warriors guild.
If you are a dwarf this zone also includes Corflunk and Zarchoomi, 2 ogres that try to terrorize this zone. If you collect and turn in both their heads at the warriors guild in Kaladim you will get a piece of bloodforge armor. The Helm is very nice at +5 Strength and +5 to all saves, and the boots are considered magical.
Also with the Unrest zone nearby you can usually find players selling small bronze that you can buy from all the money you got from the bone chip quest.
These guide was many for solo adventuring. If you have a group then you could do the druid ring, chessboard, and orc towers at even lower levels.
Also in this zone are several bandit camps, 3 goblin camps, and tons of roving critters in lots of other places.
Not bad for never leaving the home area.

for your young newbie there is a small vale far to the left as you exit kaladim..its has all the spawns of the newbiw zone in front of kaladim but lacks the crowd..one must be carefull to pull goblin welps away from the big goblin camp as the big gobs will protect their young.

Also if you are dwarf make sure to NEVER sell bone chips..there is wonderful bone chip quest offered in the dwarf paladins guild that gives REALLY good loot and exp (2/3 bubble of exp, 10-20 silver and a lantern or tattered armor peice) My rogue can do it so I'm guessing you dont need great faction for it.

I found that hunting solo as a ranger is pretty good in this zone for levels 5-9, and possibly higher. I set my camp at the two building outpost, just before the Greater Faydark zone. From here you can track goblins, or pull singles from the goblin camp just north of the buildings.
There are dwarf skeletons at night, and the snakes are decent xp, and they have no poison(at least I was never poisoned). Loot is best from the goblins, and you can get a rare war bead, that is a quest item. Also the Orc runner comes through once in a while, but he is too tough for any under level 8.