Toxxulia Forest  

Just an FYI to the new people...as with many other stones in PoK this one is not label Toxx, it is the Paineel stone on the evil side of PoK north west corner, next to the Gunthak Stone.

Frustrating that even after many centuries these stones couldn't be properly named....tsk tsk tsk.

I fond the Zonein for BarrenCoast at location -1078, -2100, 129. you'll find a entrace to a tunnel there. follow hin and you'll zone.

I have to disagree with the previous message, having leveled up two Necros to lvl 10 in the Tox forest in the last month, I have to say that I haven't seen a better place to level up in the whole game. Go there at lvl 4 and fight. He is right that there are some high MoBs that can kill you, but after a brief time you get used to /con'ing what is around you, you have figured out their pathing, and you stay away from them. If you /con something, it is red and it doesn't like you ...? Breeds in a healthy caution. I was never once killed by the mobs that were mentioned. I knew they were there, I /con'ed them occasionally to see if they were getting friendlier as I leveled (they weren't) and I just didn't go close to them.

What no one is talking about is that the Tox Forest is one of the most profitable newbie spots in the game. Profitable although you can't really intentionally farm it. Just being in the Forest and killing what is around will insure that you will have a chance to whack some things that drop objects of value. One of the Necros earned 320 pp on FV and the other 650 pp on AR in a week of leveling up to lvl 10. After the first day, almost never died. I was very satisfied with my experience in the Tox Forest.

As a side note, make sure that your "Clip Plane" is set to 100% in the Tox Forest. From certain places in the Zone you can see a looong way with it set that high.

SHINTAR VINLAIL IS for a quest... click on his bestiary link for my summary of what I have discovered!!!! A quest that I am sure NOBODY has EVER done.

I don't know the loc, but starting from Erudin just head South..cross the river until you hit either the shore or a wall, just follow either one a little ways until you find the Spires.

Or if your coming from Paineel just follow the wall right for about 15 seconds. The spires will be right near the wall just a few meters past the Kobold camp.

Zerome Xenmid
Mith Marr Bertoxx

where can a necro get a fishing pole

Ok, can ANYONE answer this for me? there is a firepot in the middle of th Abondened heretic house that says this requires a key and your not holding it, is this something that someone has figured out? I know its not the key you get from Painell, cause I tried that one. Please help if you know.

Thanks,

Atnuuk
The Rathe

P.S. if your on The Rathe and you want me to show you send me a tell ingame

Everyone complains about Tox, I love it.

I always level my Wizards, Clerics, etc... here.

Why?

No competition for spawns. LOADS of money, and equipment.

1-4

This is the toughest part, just stick close to the Starting City and kill everything in sight. By the time you are level 4 you can afford all your level 1 spells, and a level 4 if you are good.

Keep an eye out for: Heretic Prophet is casting.

If you see it zone. No if, and, or but's zone. You will die if you are below level 5 and even then it's chancy. So save yourself a corpse recovery, and zone.


4-6


Things are easier, kill everything in sight, but don't cross the bridge yet. Stay on this side of the river, and just kill everything. Around late level 5 when your combat skills have maxed for your level cross the river and kill wandering kobolds, I recommend the sentries, and kill any scouts you see. Turn the caps into the abandoned heretic pet, one of his random rewards is a gem worth 11pp. If you can't use 11pp as a starting character, let me know. :D


As soon as you can, buy a fishing pole, and bait. Whenever you need to heal and med, do so by the river.

Few, if any mobs roam the river banks so it is safe medding, and while you are healing/medding.

Fish!

I can't stress this enough. Fish. You are medding anyway, put that stupid "Gems" away and make some plat.

Yes I said plat, fish here are greengill salmon, and a stack of 20 sell for 9 gold, and change depending on charisma and faction. So 20 bait, which cost you all of 4 silver, gives a return of how much? One fish just paid for all your bait.


Note: Never, ever sell to the merchant whose house is next to Kerra Isle, and before Elial Brooks, he scrimps. Buys items off you for half their worth. Always go to Emil, good merchant there. ;)


Late 5-8

Kill Kobolds, run between Kobold camps 1 and 2, this will be marathon 1 and 2. Kill everything. Loot everything. By now you should have loads of containers from these kobolds, use em all. Kill every fire beetle you see. Those eyes are 2 silver a pop, and they usually have 2 on them. So you just made a half a gold.

If at any time someone offers to group with you, don't accept. Unless they are: a)Killing the Skellies outside Paineel, b)Killing Elial Brooks, c) Killing Alglith.


In other words you can solo this place like it's going out of style.



8-9 (or 10, if your patient)



Ok so your Level 8, feels good doesn't it? ;P


Ok you officially have nukes now. The only 3 spells you need are, Lesser Shielding, Shock of Ice, and Fire Bolt in that order. Everything else is eye candy.


Your two targets at level 8 are Elial Brooks, and Alglith. You should know where Elial Brooks is by now, and as for Algith he is the guy fishing by the bank to your left when you cross the bridge.


This is marathon #2, both these guys are on a 6 minute spawn cycle, so here's what you do:


First nuke Elial Brooks, he is easier, as he will con blue to you at 8, and will be easier to recover from this battle so you can hurry on to Algith.

Stand as far down the bank as you can from Elial, con his pet. If it's blue, you are lucky.You get triple exp. Once for Elial, once for the pet, and then you get exp turning in the Heretic Bones to the Magician guildleader. Not to bad, you also getting chump change for turning in the bones.


Treat both spawns the same at level 8. Always O'Keil's yourself, back as far as you can and still be on level terrain then let loose with a Fire Bolt ( 45 dmg for 40 mana), then use Shock of Ice (35 dmg for 30 mana) and Fire (15 dmg for 10 mana) while meleeing until he is dead. With Elial you can usually melee the pet to death, but if it's a blue then Shock of Ice the little bugger.

Usually end up with 3 bulbs health, and 2 bulbs mana with Elial and a blue Pet.

With Alglith who will con even at 8, this one is tough. But doable. Usually 2 health, and little mana, I sometimes had to melee him but he was always in run mode so it's not to bad. Gives you some needed practice swinging that staff. ;)

Fish while you heal up, stack of 20 fish from here sells for 1pp. ;) If you can't afford spells while leveling up in Tox something's wrong with you.

Just repeat.

Be level 9 in 4 hours. You can continue doing this marathon until 10 easy, then goto Paineel and take out the skeletons just inside the city, and also the abadoned heretic pet. Will take you to 11 if you are really desperate. But Wisp Island is one boat trip away from here, where you can make level 12 easy. :)


But before stopping in Wisp Island, I recommend going to Quenos getting: 2 +3 Int earrings from the Qubert quest. While your in the Quenos Catacombs pick up a +5 HP ring from a mob down there, I forget which one (hey it can't hurt). Then do the band of Rodcet Nife quest. Getting, of course a Band of Rodcet Nife, if you put everything into intelligence starting this character then you will have 151 Int by level 9 or even 10 if you were patient. Not too shabby, and it didn't cost you a thing. Incidentally a Band of Rodcet Nife identifies as to being a Ring of Channelling, which sounds appropriate for a Wizard don't you think?


And they say Odus is worth nothing.

Ha!



Quick Recap on what you can look forward to in Tox:


No fighiting for spawns.

Fishing: 20 Greengill Salmon = 1pp; cost to you 20 bait at 4 cp each.

No fighting for spawns.

Gloves of the Gatecaller (AC 3, magic); cost to you nothing. Unless the magician is a scrooge.



Your quick stop in Quenos should entail you to:


Gold Stud Earrings (+3 Int) [X2]; cost to you: nothing.

Ring +5 Hit Points; cost to you: nothing.

Ring of Channelling (Band of Rodcet Nife, +3 Int and +10 Mana), cost to you: 1 Levl 1 mule shadow knight



But this is for all those Patriotic Erudites who always leave home too early. :P

These caps,which drop occasionally from kobold scouts,are not quite as useless as you might think.If you hand a cap over to the abandoned pet he will give you a gemstone in return.I handed one in and got an emerald as my reward,which sold to the vendors for over 11pp..nice loot for a level 6 ;)

Im Meder lvl 5 chanter just started took me 5 hours and i got to lvl 5 no sweat i killed enough kobalds in the lvling i can now walk staight in paineel how many low lvl erudites can say that
i was hopeing id lvl in paineel newbie zone i got to lvl and a lot more
I GOT 60 BAT WINGS
DO KNOW HOW MANY BATS I KILLED ALMOST 30 AND IM STILL NOT GOING IN THE WARRENS
HAVE YOU SEEN THE HUGE KOBOLDS THEY GOT THERE THEYRE LVL 15-16
THANK GOD FOR THAT NEWBIE ZONE IN THERE

What's the deal with the 4 pets in the hut? Can these be used for the Cap quest? Do they have faction associated with them?

by Jota lvl 7;
I started a Maginician in Erudin and after learning to use /loc - all went well. I can't figure-out why so many people hate the Toxx forest, but I went from lvl 1 to lvl 7 in about 14hrs of play. (If that sucks, then I am "all wet?) The spell selection here is great, and the bone chip quest makes some good $ in a hurry (and it's repeatable). Only cross the bridge to the south section after lvl 6 or the kobold gangs will be too difficult for most classes. Erudin is an easy city to navigate in (provided you have seen the maps) - so hopefully some of you will agree that "it not that bad here!" Make your fortune off of decayed skeletons as a newb, and you'll be spanking kobold shammies in no time!

For erudite necros, the heretic pets are a GREAT source of experience. Solo you shouldn't attack a pet until 8th level. At 8th a necro can now cast "Bone Walk", the first strong skeletal pet. Also, the necro will be able to strike the heretic pet with "Ward Undead", an excellent direct damage vs. undead spell. Groups can approach the heretic pets sooner but be prepared to lose a pet summoned with "Leering Corpse".

Heretic pets do not give great loot. You will always gain a rusty mining pick worth 9 copper. Quite often you will bone chips. Every 4th or 5th heretic pet will be wielding a different weapon that may be of slightly more value. (I have looted a rusty halberd once.) Yet, loot isn't the reason for killing these. Excellent XP with no faction hit and a guaranteed spawn every 6 or 7 minutes helps. In a forest with little of worth, these will give you levels quick.

You can usually find two skeletons inside the tunnel to paineel in the tox forest, and usually an abandoned heretic pet just outside. These are a great spawn to camp for levels 5-8 as a small group, and slightly higher soloing. A cleric in the group makes this spawn brilliant for xp. Like everywhere in this area, the loot is not brilliant. You get the usual bone chips (great for necros) and a couple of near-worthless pickaxes. Occasionally other weapoms are dropped, too. A small note of courtesy is that these skeletons are the ones you hand in useless cloth caps from kobold scouts, so if people need to hand caps in, go on, let them. Some people think there is a faction hit for these skeletons but I can assure you this is not true. This spawn gets a little tedious after a while, but if you're not into the crowds at Qeynos, you can stay a little longer.


Mellendra Shadowborn
23rd level Necromancer
Vallon Zek

Rungupp is a level 9 Troll Shaman, part of a quest from Erudin. Very dangerous to newbies and likes to hang out around the bridge.

Erudites, leave this place as soon as you can.. or go to paineel and use their newbie area. Toxx is truely awful... its dark, its dank, and there's very little to kill here. You'll level MUCH faster over in Qeynos. If you must hunt here, there are a veriety of common newbie criters to kill, but before you go hunting get the /loc of the entrance and WRITE IT DOWN, 'cause you wil get lost when you have to run from something at low levels. if you're foolish enough to stay here past lvl 4, head accross the bridge and fight kobolds at one of the 2 camps there, but beware of the troll shaman that roams the southern isle... she has a tendancy to dark you before you even see her and then procede to beat you senseless.