Castle Mistmoore

Well, if you are a twink bent on getting fast exp, I doubt MM would be your best option. Seeing that it is a dungeon-esque zone, soloing can be a pain in the *** often.

Also, on most servers MM is pretty much dead as far as exp grouping goes, simply because better exp can be found elsewhere. With c3 and twink gear, I'd go with choice B if you just need levels.

Icharyd

At 41 there's a lot you could do here, grouped and solo. The mobs range from 20-40ish, throughout the zone.

As a bard, you could most likely melee solo the area from the entryway to the castle, including the graveyard. Outside the castle its easy to escape from too many adds just by slapping on selo's and hauling *** to the zone. Not much drops down in that area, short of the MM shield from Ghoul and dagger off the imp though.

You might be able to invis around and kill the weaker named spawns, such as the Caitiff, and possibly maid/butler depending on what your gear is like. With little adds it should be relativly easy. Always remember to snare; wandering mobs can cause problems real quick. Inside the castle itself, fighting can be a problem as there is not much of a chance of escaping if you have to flee, with all the mobs blocking the way to the exit.

With a solid tank and healer around 30-45 you could do pretty much any camp in the zone, the fountain being one of your best bets for the hooded black cloak off the dhampyre. With some more support classes, taking the entry hall and pulling several spawns for better loot and exp would be a viable option.

Soloing for exp on the other hand would be difficult as a bard, seeing that seemingly easy battles can turn disasterous pretty quick with just and add or two in such close quarters. Beware of the casters as well, as they tend to be undercons in comparison with their warrior counterparts. The wizard types can nuke in excess of 350 and wont hesitate to snare and root. Necros often lay on dots, as well as nuke for around 170 as well.

All in all, Mistmoore is a great place to bring a group or to mess around in solo for some decent loot and exp around lvl 30-45. It makes a good raid zone too for low end guilds, if you wanted to bring a few friends along also.

-Icharyd, Grave Lord of the Tribunal

Edited, Sun Apr 27 15:28:48 2003

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Wrong zone, hehe

Edited, Thu Apr 3 01:53:16 2003

Saw her hanging out near zone. Indiff and green at 56. Had a wizzie cast an Ice comet on her, the spell landed with full dmg (1210 or so), she was still 80% life or a bit more.

Green and hitting for 140 fast and that many HP, i would say she is another perfect example of "undercon" mobs.

She is a royal pain. Myself (42 pally), 45 pally, 45 ranger, and 57 cleric aggroed her by accident. Basically kept cleric stunned enough so that 45 pally died and we had to zone.

She is HIGHLY magic resistant, but she is undead. So pally undead nukes will hit when she doesn't resist.

BTW, we healed up, zoned back in and kicked her butt.

I doubt it, especially now that the Dark Huntress stays up and agros.

Hail, Kevinea.

At 35 you should be able to get pieces you need for Ivy Etched Armor with a full group of comparable levels, or up to around 40. Make sure you have at least one solid healer and a couple of taunting melees to manage adds that get out of control. You'll get great experience, make some decent loot, and have a lot of fun along the way. Learn the zone, though, because you might also have to flee like mad when things turn ugly.

On Tholuxe Paells (one of the younger, least populated servers) this is a B.Y.O.G. (Bring Your Own Group) zone. Except during infrequent raids, there's usually no more than one other group at work at a given time, and perhaps a higher level farmer working solo deep inside the castle.

Here's the easiest way I found to get the Ivy Etched pieces at around your level. Make sure that everyone prints out a map of the zoen before you start! Have your group fight up to the graveyard one mob at a time, work inside and clear the yard. Med up, then head through the secret door into the jail. Use the false door trigger to open the three cell doors with mobs inside, and pull them out one at a time to fight, starting with the casters. Now set up camp in the jail.

Have a puller go through the secret door to the north and pull from the stairs. From the top of stairs, they should go left, and pull from the series of rooms beyond there, one at a time. It's a bit of a long pull, but effective. Pull as many rooms as you can before the jail respawns (as health and mana allow), then start the process again. You'll get the mobs you need in the mix.

Various gargoyles drop Mistmoore Granite used to make Ronium
Deathly Ushers drop the Rune of Ivy

Alternately your whole group can hop from room to room, which is effective if you're a good group, but more dangerous if things go wrong because you've got a long run to the zoneline.

Depends entirely on what level you are (and these are the last ones I remember. They may be off a level or two):

1-12 ---- 4 levels or more below you are green
13-24 --- 6 levels
25-40ish - approx 10 levels
41+ ----- approx 13 levels

get a port to BB from a druid, or a tl to Gfay from a wizie, the way to go to MM is BB (druid)-
>Gfay(wiz) ->Lfay -> MM but attention in Lfay, there is brownies scouts level 30ish druid wandering, kos to all, besides wolf form, and maybe other forms(to be verified), and the corrupted equestrielle, level 40 badass nuker, only aggro when you are close, let you go away when you are out of aggro range, look at the map on eqatlas to see where is MM entrance