Infected Paw  

What a boring zone. Looks like there was 0 effort put into the revamp of this zone.

I don't see why there are so many people who rave over the xp in this zone. It really isn't as good as everyone makes it out to be. I've tried leveling here at 60, 65, 70, and 75, and the xp rate is actually slower than if I were to go to somewhere like atiiki, valdeholm, or even PoFire for 60-70. I mean, aside from all of this, its not like there is even any decent drops in the zone that make it at least somewhat worth your while.

HI, Was just wondering did they make this zone a double exp zone. They say it is now a hot zone. Just wanting to know more about the zone been thinking about going there. What lvl's are the best? Can a group that has a lvl 61 bard, lvl 65 enchanter, 71 cleric, 64 war, 68 druid, and a 62 monk handel this zone.

Anyone know who that mask of the defeated and/or ID5 earring drops off of, thanks =)

Went poking around here tonight; 67 zerker tanking (8.4k hp, no tenacity), 73 shammy, 70 wiz, botted 71 druid, and myself, 65 bard. None of had been in the new Paw that I'm aware of, so once we broke in a ways, and took up camp in a side room not far from zone, it became an easy camp. Had about 13-14 spawns that we were clearing before repops. Max hit on me was 665 with 1600ac and the zerker was tanking em fine slowed. Can get a random aug drop which is 50/50/50 and lots of gems. In about 2 hrs, we got 3 to drop. Pretty fun overall, very good xp for me, the 70+ said it was pretty good xp, would've been better had we been familiar with zone from the get-go.

Was able to mez the majority of 'em with an occassional resist. They'd beat me up pretty good on some of the pulls, but nothing too dangerous.

Since the last revamp of this place is the Soulfire quest still done in there from Brother Hayle or whatever his name is? Seems kind of messed up if it is.

Just wondering if any of the mobs up to the door, if it is still there, in the new splitpaw summon? I would like to try it but not if they summon, root, shoot and dot tech does not work to well on summoning mobs.

from around 29 - 35+ you can do the mobs up to the first set of doors.

Two front mobs are usually lower level, ignore these after about 32 as they light blue.

The next two are slightly higher, if you have no mez / root / lull, you can run past these by hugging the left wall.

The next four mobs are single pullable.

There is one mob in an enclosing to the right, with two small rooms either side, the one on the gnolls right has a single mob (which wont aggro if you pull this one), the room to the gnolls left is empty, and you can run into here to pull the centre gnoll.

You can then pull the gnoll in the small room.

The next two are just past this area, both are in mini enclosing's and are single pullable.

The next three are two by the double doors (higher level than the others), and one in the corner. I dont recommend pulling these as a duo without lull, as you will generally aggro all three, lull the corner and left door gnoll, then pull the right door gnoll, then move to the next door gnoll and then finally the corner.

Be aware there is also a lower level wanderer, who shouldnt bother you after about level 33-34.

Also if a mob runs through the double doors, dont follow it, generally it will get healed then come back WITHOUT friends, of course, not letting them run is preferable.

Thats a total of 12 mobs on 12min respawns or so (I think, dont quote me on this), which should be enough for a duo.

best time ot come here is around 28 or s0...they drop up to 4pp and alot of FS weapons.....as i bring all my char's here 28-35(exp and loot hard to beat) my exp is most pulls will bring1-3 mostly 1 or 2...only trouble is the casters...if ur pulling past the bridge after claering all b4 those then u must have a ench or bard...other than that exp and loot rocks...small trains but rare(healer a must they hit hard for lvl and caster nuke upwards of 200) i think unless changed on 18 min repop time..we usually set up camp in big room past the BR just looking at double doors

IM in a guild that has quite a few lvls within mine(37), and im pretty new to this game but very eager to go on a raid. And i heard splitpaw was good for this and such, but i think 12 people spanning from 30-40 will be the only participant, should we go?
all help is much appreciated<


Hortinget Ascadia
37th wizzie
bristle bones

Barring the untimely wearing off of invisible spell, is there any danger here while invisible? Can any of these creatures see invisible? Also is there any enchanter illusion that will allow you to walk through here safely without invisible?


Thanks,

Oceana Pacifica
Enchanter of the 35th season
Veeshan server

On the Jeweled skull quest.

Haven't seen this mentioned however Nexus or Shadow Heaven now make an ideal bind point for melee's who want to try splitpaw. If you die simply ride the Antonica Nexus Portal down and run 30 secs to the SK zone.

Eirana

hey everyone im lvl 15 and am thinking that in 10 or so level may find a group and come hunt here i would like ask how is the xp and the cash ?

I am one of those pallys that could cause the big trains, havent done so cause i got down to brother Hayle using invis and used Thurg gate potion to exit. However, in invis and in non invis couldnt find levers to open jail doors--where are they? Saw hanging hooks, but couldnt touch them in invis, saw no "levers" on doors or walls. Please assist so that when i go back, after repairing my faction with Hayle, i can get to him with my stuff. Thanks

i will add yet another point of advice , the lvl area is suited for pre 35 and even at 32 the exp drains to a small walk.

the major part that i find intresting is this is suited for highly twinked groups that have already got 50 plus charater and want a challange and nolonger see cash/lvling exp as an issue.
This place can be fun but is for the very rare few, basicaly only 2 kind of players come here
those getting soulfire and those necro/sk that want sommon corpse.

Anyone know the change spawned times of the rares, if they have been changed, since they all have PH's now?

I love this zone for my wizzy. Don't even need to bind there with N. Karana spires so close by. (Nice little trick for those of us who don't have a port to Kunark. I am bound in Lake of Ill Omen, Paw is a port and a short run away.) At any rate - loot is good, making about 50-60 plats in loot a night here. Exp is good also, with a good group, a bub an hour is not to hard to do. So far best groups has been 2 tanks, 1 healer, 1 ench, 2 wiz. With this group we were taking about 7-8 knolls per spawn cycle (this is at first room with 2 knolls, grp lvl 24-28). From the sound of things, I will be here for for a few more levels!

One thing I would like to know -- where is the closest bind point for melee classes? My buddies won't come here because they say the closes binds are at Quenos or Freeport. Is this true?

Wandor Kilbringer
Wizard of 26 seasons

The crystal is for a quest in velious called the phenphest? focus. a very good pure caster iteam. but you need to be 45+ to finish the quest

Here are directions to an area my friends and I hunted deeper in Paw away from the competition of the front area and made good exp.

Directions:
Cast invis on everyone. Go through the double doors, through the next door, hug the left wall until you fall off the ledge. Turn to your right and move forward until you see a door on your left. Go through this door and you will see a campfire and a ramp up to the right. Up the ramp, the wall curves slightly to the right and makes a nook. The campfire and this nook are free from local spawns. This is the spot. From here, you can pull ten gnolls or more in the 20 minute spawn cycle.

The Spawns:
1) From the nook, you will see a Tesch Mal. A wandering Rosch Mal spawns in front of the this Tesch Mal. His route takes him to your left out of sight (he goes through that larger cavern before going up a small ramp at the far end. He returns by the same route). Pull these together or separate. Rosch Mal have glass jaws: have all casters in the group hit them with DD at the same time and he'll drop.

2) Outside the door at the campfire, spawns a Tesch Mal. He pulls alone.

3) To the left of the door is a passage. The passage turns right into a room. To the left of opening in the room spawns a Tesch Mal. He pulls alone.

4) In this same room, is a door to the left and a curving passage into another room to the right. Through the door on the left spawns a Nisch Mas/Mal and a Tesch Mas.

5) In this same room, the passage to the right leads into a room with stairs. A Tesch Mal spawns first to the left and a Tesch Val spawns ahead (you will see the Val easily). I was able to pull the Tesch Val without aggroing the Tesch Mal (even tho' the Val passes the Mal) with either a spell or arrow.

6) Back to the campfire door, to the right (under the bridge) spawns a Tesch Mal and a Rosch Mas. Depending on the puller's level, they can be pulled singly.

7) Back to the nook up the ramp, past the Tesch Mal/Rosch Mal spawn, the cavern turns to the left. Ahead, a single Rosch Mal spawns.

8) Hug the left wall from this point. You will see a Nisch Val straight ahead and a Rosch Mal to your left in a large room. Water is the left as well. These two will pull at the same time as will a Tesch Mas who spawns far to the right of the Nisch Val.

9) Once these spawns are cleared, you can pull two Galudian Widemouths from the water. Be warned, these buggers are fast and hit hard. Their spawn time looks to be 40 minutes.

10) Lastly, a Lteth wanders through the nook-campfire area once is a while.

The Mals top out at 33rd level and the Vals top out at 35th. The Vals are also noticibly more resistant to magic.

One pet pathing problem is the small ramp at the far end of the nook room. Once, our shaman's pet chased a critter down to that point, killed it and when our shaman called it back, it took off the opposite direction. We were stupid, and didn't gate out immediately and suffered for it when the train nailed us.

A wizard or druid is important for when the tanks want to leave. Or, you are stuck making an invisible run the long way through Paw. My warrior had to do this twice: once he made it fine and once the invis wore off real quick. He made it as far as the double doors before the biggest train ever seen in Paw gave him a dirt nap. (Note: A friend of mine, using invis and levitate was able to get up the same way you jump down to get here, but I was never able to figure it out.) Once our group was all around 37th, we pulled ten gnolls every spawn cycle and made good expience.

Uugoo, Ogre Warrior
Tarew Marr

Grifka's Guide to Goin' Deep in Paw
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In the hopes that just one person will learn a bit, I've thrown together a process fer invadin' one of the biggest train dungeons I've been in. This process has been tested repeatedly and, with the right peeps, works 95% of the time.

First, I've found that an enchanter, though helpful, is not always necessary when ya have 2 mages in the group. The extra pet handles extra mobs nicely enough. But we have had success with all sorts of group configurations. Absolutely essential, however, is a healer and someone with evac, in case things go bad.

Now the method. The whole dungeon is on an 18-20 minute pop cycle, makin' it real easy and convenient to track how long ya have to reach the next "rest spot". There are about 5 of these spots we med at on the way in.

We've been startin' off at the Barrel area, before the double doors, and have been clearin' that whole area out. Once cleared, and group rested, the tank pulls the 3 beyond the double doors. Once cleared, we move in to there and rest. This is rest spot #2, after barrel area. We've now got 18 mins to clear 4 mobs beyond here.

Tank pulls mobs from beyond the single door here, into this room. You may get just 2 on the near side of the little bridge beyond, you may get 4...either way, pull 'em here. Once they are clear, go in deeper, across the little bridge, and med up in what I call the Bubble room, just past the short bridge...stay on the right wall and you won't aggro the 2-3 gnollies on the left here. This is rest area #3.

When ready, or when a silly patrollin' aggroes on someone, take out the coupla gnolls here and rest up. From this room, you can either go back across the bridge, or down a u-shaped hall with 2 doors on the left and one at the end of the hall. MAKE A NOTE: DO NOt GO NEAR THE DOORS! This area is where 90% of all Paw trains begin. Once you've cleared the coupla gnolls here, rest up for a 2-3 pop pull.

The tank, when group is ready, than goes down the hall, stayin' as far away from the doors as possible (stay right) and around the corner to the right...here will be 2 gnolls and mebbe 1 through the door in front of ya...pull these to the bubble area, again being sure to stay away from all other doors...conserver mana as much as possible fer these gnolls, as you're now runnin' outta time before the bubble room pops...

When these are dead, the whole group makes a run down the hall, stayin' as far right as possible (might wanna kill pets here, peeps) to avoid aggroin' mobs through the 2 doors ya pass. Run through the final (3rd) door and into an immediate battle with 2-3 gnolls...kill these 3 and rest up (stay away from the door behind ya, as the gnolls ya killed a few ago will repop sooner or later). This leaves one gnoll (a Val) at the end of the room to take out...take him when ready and rest up. This is safe area #4...you are now in an area with a bridge goin' across water. The bridge has 3 or 4 gnolls on it, all connin' green at lvl 33. DO NOT MELEE THEM ON THE BRIDGE! Have someone bow pull or cast pull to get them where you are. Once they are dead, there are just 2 more creatures to kill before crossin' the bridge. Once anyone starts walkin' across the bridge, 2 Ganduluvian Widemouths, a particularly nasty snake, will come up and attack...be prepared beforehand for poison...it's easy to cure, but packs a whallop if left untended...

Once the snakes have been dealt with, cross the bridge and stop...there may be a gnoll here, or 2...these are patrollers who are easy to kill if ya keep them from runnin'. Once any patrollers are dealt with, make a hard left and you'll run into a niche in the wall that has one Rosch and 1 Val in it...kill these and rest up. This is the final rest area. The 2 gnolls you've just killed have a 20 min pop time. We've set up camp here several times. There's a ledge to the left where gnolls can be pulled from, and hall goin' right to pull from, and straight ahead lies the Executioner and judges...about 8-10 gnollies altogether...we haven't gone that way yet...
Congrats, yer in and ready to make some great exp.

From the camp, you can pull from all around, plus have the 2 pops that are right there every 20 mins (make sure ya track the timin' so you don't pull and have a pop at the same time.) BTW, once past the Bubble room and u-shaped hall it's all pretty easy. Like I said, that area is the cause of 95% of trains in Paw, usually 'cause someone pulled through the 2 doors on the left.

Anyway, if any of ya made it this far down the post, congrats and I hope I've better prepared ya fer any endeavors in Paw you may make. Cya all inside...