Ruins of Old Paineel (The Hole)

Have withered shoulders, boots and wrist item, they dropped off the revenants just past the pool room. Have also looted several full sets of loam for pure casters in my guild. Not to mention sevearl smouldering brands and earthen blades. We normally hunt with a group of 6 and often go as deep ad the room beyond the pool. This is a great zone for exp, and the drops are great.

Tasca
55 Luminary
Prexus Server, Inner Chi

I wanted to know how to get into the hole in the first place i was wondering if anyone with at leaast half a brain figured out how to get down there succesfully.

Poliuos Forestpine, Druid of Tunare

Guild raided to get some epic items out of the way and decided at the completion of the Shaman epic part of zone to take out Master Yael. Set up for the run in as usual, drew lots to see which of us would draw the DT from Yael, and proceeded to take care of business. Yael dropped quite easily with our team of 26. Once he was slain and as we were celebrating the completion to our trip on a high note, this NPC (Scalekeeper-an Erudite that can lifetap for 1500 and hits for 250 a whack suddenly began attacking select members of our team one by one. He made very short work of us all in the space of 5 minutes tops. Never seen this guy before and was wondering if anyone else may know his purpose there?

NOTE: He was indifferent con to most of us in our initial run and did not attack us during the killing of Yael. However, once a Flighty Fiend decided to agro us, he jumped in and suddenly many of us became KOS. We are estimating this guy is even tougher than Yael, making him the NEW boss mob in the Hole. No idea about HPs, since none of us stayed alive long enough to find out.

Most of the gear in this zone is on a random loot table. What that means is that there's a rare chance for *any* mob to drop good loot. If you spent time hunting in Dalnir, you know how this works -- you have to go to a specific place for a fighting baton but a sap of piety, brass goblin flamberge, charred tulwar, etc can come off anything, even if you're just hunting at the entrance. Similarly in the Hole, there are some that require killing specific mobs; Rocksoul seems to be one of these, for instance, to get a Loam Encrusted Cap for your friendly neighborhood enchanter. But last night, in about 3.5 hours, we saw

1 smoldering brand
1 earthen axe
1 loam cap (Rocksoul)
4 elemental binders (common drop when the server is being stingy)
enough research items to wallpaper Sebilis
lots of stuff for dyes and tradecrafts

And we were hunting for xp, not loot, so we were just pulling things as they came, with a party (11-15 people split into 2-3 groups) that could get the xp from the hunt.

Lesson: kill everything. Also, unless you've got a specific goal, there's probably not a huge incentive to bury yourself in the dungeon. Although you need an evac to get out anyhow, so there's probably not much incentive to live near the entrance =).

Maladamuk Heartmender
Gnomish Cleric of the 48th Ring
Storm's Justice
Karana Server

I have been to the Hole several times, but have yet to get very far in. (Ratmen is far as we got) The XP here is amazing and so my group goes back pretty often and hunt the zone in, but we have yet to see any Withered Leather drop. Someone told me it drops DEEP (nice descriptor there) Does anyone know EXACTLY which mobs drop this stuff, and where those mobs are actually located?

Ok, I've hunted and hunted for this guy, but haven't seen him. Where exactly does he spawn? I've searched the ghost area of the city pretty thoroughly-- anyone seen him? And if so, what does he spawn near?

My thanks.

Now say you're a level 22 Druid and you happen to fall off the ledge near the entrance to Paineel and end up at the bottom of the Hole. How would one go about retrieving thier corpse? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

PS I know it's a stupid thing to do, but what if?

Hi all

There´s a named Mob missing in the list here, his name is Nortlav the Scalekeeper, he´s near the entrance to Castle, and he wiped out 6 full groups of 50+ ;) ( admitted, we were a bit short on tanks ). He conned Yellow to a 54.
Piece of my log:

Nortlav the Scalekeeper was hit by non-melee for 20 points of damage.
Nortlav the Scalekeeper slashes YOU for 229 points of damage.
Nortlav the Scalekeeper was hit by non-melee for 20 points of damage.
Nortlav the Scalekeeper slashes YOU for 229 points of damage.
You feel a tugging at your soul.
You have been slain by Nortlav the Scalekeeper!

Bxe
Hoelli, Druid of Tunare at Tunare

There is an NPC named Dartain the lost, he is not listed here. If you go past the keeper of the tombs there is a room down there with one wall that looks caved-in. When you click on the rocks it says you need a key to open it, but small races can duck/stand to get past them. On the other side is an NPC named Dartain the lost, he casts spells, but has no pet, dunno what class or level he is, but he looks like a normal erudite. Anyone know what he is for?

Master Yael killed me (instantly) while i was attempting to camp under the water near the zone entrance/exit (well, it seemed safe at the time since I have singing steel gauntlets). He shouted my name, and I was instantly dead--no damage, no spell effects, just "Welcome back to Level 51". Where exactly is he in Hole? He did not appear to be anywhere near us, we didn't aggro him, and we were the only people in the Hole at that time.