Kurn's Tower  

Get a cleric merc. Cast fire pet, give him two fangs. Cast DS on self. Grab 4 - 6 mobs. Stand in middle of mobs.... hit f8, to target mob, Chain cast Point blank Area affect spells. Let the pet mop up the slackers.

To get full exp from a mob, you only need to do one point of damage..pet can do rest.

Sit in an area, drinking your elixer of clarity III potion, med up. If you see a mob, send the pet, and hit it with your level 1 flame spell.. for 5 points. You get to rest, you get the exp and pet is just wailing away.

Went to Kurns to farm some bone chips today on test.
Upstairs from the main hall and at the base of the stairs were *red* to 67 mobs.
A Baleful Spectre, A Ravenous Slimebeast, A Raging Burynai, Minion of Kreska, A Servant Of Kreska, and I believe there were one of 2 other mobs, all seemingly generic. Normal skelly, Slime and Burynai models.
Noone on test seems to know anything, and no idea if it will hit live, but just throwing it out there.
Wrift
level 67 Necro on Test

You should consider this people:

When you kill the Skeletal Cook he sometimes drops 2 Items:

A Hollow Skull (4-Slot Container)
Glowing Mask

Get a dried Tongue from a Burynai Forager and 2 Dusty Sealed Canopic Jars (One will say Left Eye of Torture one will say Right Eye of Torture - when they are identified).

You can only carry one of each since they are Lore so you will know when you have both.

Take all of these items to Galdon Vok Nir in the Overthere Outpost and say to him," What about the dusty sealed canopic jars?" He will open the Jar and give you back a preserved eye which you put into the Skull.

Put the other eye in, the Mask and the tongue and combine them to get:

A Glowing Bone Helm:
+18AC, +7 WIS/INT, +10 SV MAGIC

Not a bad item I'd say but beware only Evil Races can get Galdon to open the Jars. I have yet to find out if this is MQ able but it ought to be once you get the eyes.

Well, this is supposed to be a hotzone for lvl 20-25 and I went there with my 21 necro and much to my surprise most mobs conned grey (meaning zero exp). Some conned green and after much exploration in the basement area, I found 1 mob that conned dark blue. I believe that if you are going to make a hotzone for specific levels, the mobs in said hotzone should be of sufficient level to provide experience for those levels.

Are there any good drops for a warrior that i should be looking for in here?

thank you

Dan

I'm a lvl 13 dwarf cleric and so far I've just arrived here and just to let anyone know who's interested, I attacked a skely that conned red and killed it fine with 70% health left, all i did was root it first then start nuking it with furor, don't know if this will work all the time but this is the 3rd red that i've killed by myself, of course when i do this I make sure that I'm next to the zone to FoB so in case i get in trouble i can zone, but so far its been real easy to kill all skely's, great way to get some fast levels.

If you're a necromancer in your mid to late teens, you are absolutely cheating yourself if you don't go to this zone. At this level, with your abilities, this is the easiest experience in the game. And YES, I am counting that cesspool of human idiocy, Paludal Caverns.

Now, I'm sure the furbies in the basement are nice exp, but they're casters and can do nasty things to you (hello, Harm Touch) so I leave them alone and focus on the skellies in the upper floors. And let me tell you, these skellies might as well walk around with "Plunder Me!" signs around their necks. It's so easy it's almost unfair.

As a necro, you get at level 12 a little spell called "Spook the Dead". For a measly 10 mana, you can keep skellies feared almost at will. What's that you say, fearing is dangerous? Not here. The skellies don't assist each other at all, and will happily watch your pet pound their colleagues into baking soda.

The trick is, don't go too close to the skellies yourself, but manipulate from afar while your pet does the dirty work. This is nothing earth-shattering, but know that no skelly will aggro on your pet unless it attacks them.

The dungeoun exp modifier here is great: I got nearly twice the exp from these mobs as I did from their namesakes in the Field of Bone. And I did not have to inconvienience myself to memorize a regular fear spell, since nothing (save one straggler Furbie) is alive in the upper floors. Kill anything that's dark blue, sneak by mobs that have the aggro radius of a large posicle stick, and gather enough bone chips to last you half your career. It doesn't get much easier than that.

I solod here from 14-19 and NEVER died..took me 1 day to do it..GREAT PLACE!!!!

I've picked up several odd items in the basement and can't find out what they're for. If you have any ideas, please post...

Hollow Skull (off cook) 4 slot tiny combinable container lore item no drop
An Emerald (off thick) lore item
A Sapphire (off thick) lore item
Thick Iksar Skull (off thick) lore item no drop
Skeletal Feet (off thick) lore item no drop

Hello

Never posted here before, but just had to say . . WOW.

I am playing my 15 mage when a friend (iskar shaman) tells me he is in Kurns and the exp is great.

Now as an Erudite it is a long way to travel, and I have nowhere to bank, except FV, which is a long way off.

But it has all been worth it.

Level 15 took me 2 and a half hours. Level 16 (with my new pet) took 1 and a half hours. All done solo, Im no twink just normal player.

All I can say is, there must be some exp bonus, I am getting (at 17 still) 1 blue per blue mob kill.

I'm hunting Greater Skellies and Greater Spurbones. I hunt ground floor and up to 1st 2nd and 3rd floors.

I have been soloing, but still, this exp is far more than anywhere else I have hunted.

Come join the fun :o)

Currently using my 2nd necro now at level 13 and the experience here is excellent. Although it doesn't say so on eqatlas, I beleive there to be an exp bonus - it just didn't seem like i was getting the same amount of exp in loio for killing the same whites/yellows as i do here. What's also nice is the number of mobs and range in levels. As you begin to level up you simply move upstairs or into the basement.

I have been camping this thing for the last 2 days. All of a sudden I go link dead. I log back on to make sure nothing had been beating on me, and to my good fortune the undead jester was waiting for me with the club

Ok - If you are looking for strategies - here they are. This is a great zone to be in as a Cleric, or a pally. Other classes can also do quite well here - although they do not have the advantages against undead. Start at the main entrance, set up your group, or go solo from here - you will be able to see the guards at the first set of columns - nuke em to pull em then finish them off. If you need to med invis to undead will be of great help. As you expand your forays into the main floor more options will become available. In the back right corner, at the top of the main stair - there is a hidden room - this is SUPPOSED to be a safe room - to med in - however I have heard that the mobs SOMETIMES follow others in.
When you are ready - can clear the main floor with ease - advance to the upper floors. ONLY go downstairs if you have a GOOD group or are VERY capable on your own. I often have seen monks on the bottom floor, as feign death gives them a false sense of security. I have also dragged many monk corpses back to the entrance - as feign seems to fail on the sappers more often then others. The bottom floors can be very confusing - AND there are ONE WAY pits to a much tougher area of the castle - have a map - and BE CARFULL. The burynai can be any class - druid burynai will have sow on - the Shadow Knight Burynai have a first strike damage shield which often hits in the 150-180 range. Almost all burynai have the ability to heal - and they will heal each other. If one starts to run - either kill it immedietly, root it - or prepare for it's return. As a lvl 33 I never had one come back with friends - The few times they got away at all - I was able to wait for the others to heal it - then it will return and I would kill it.
Invis - or invis undead will help you get to a campsite and from a campsite - with SOW I could run from my Jester camp - to the door and exit. I also would pick up a train of about 30 mobs - no big deal when I am alone - problem for the newbies otherwise.
The real camps are downstairs - I posted all I know on the Jester camp. The Cook is in the middle room down the hall from the stables - between the stairs. He always spawns in the same place - if ANYTHING else is standing there it is a placeholder and should be killed. The shield is a semi rare drop - I got it about 1 in every 6 kills. It is LORE so if the cook pops with one start shouting about selling one REAL cheap - or just give it away.
The Fingered skell walks from one set of stairs - down the cook hall to the other set of stairs. It or it's place holder can be anywhere on the bottom floor. The place holders for either the cook OR the Fingered skell may be THICK Boned Skells - the Thick boned PH for the fingered has been known to get off track - and wander the stables as well (I THINK he gets on the jester path and can't geet back) Both the Cook and the Fingered seem to be about 20 min spawns.
When I began my Jester camp - My second objective was Burynai Armor ( NOT a LOT of Clear intel on this so here is what I know through my experiences)
It Seems to be a totaly random drop - I almost Always got a burynai hide mask from the thick bones. I collected gloves pants shoulders and vest from misc burynai, and chars or lesser skells. Maybe One in a hundred kills. I had a slightly better return on getting reinforced rhino hide and ruined scaled stuff maybe 1 in 75 kills.
In the 7 weeks I was there I never heard of anyone getting the icy wand WHILE I was there. Had lots of 50 and up characters come down looking - killing everything in sight. On told me he got it after 3 days - but none of the others saw one.
I nabbed digmaster claws off a random burynai in the stables (+2 str 5dmg 25 dly I think) That was the Only time I got exp for a kill the entire time I was down there.
Final advice - don't underestimate Burynai - I died down there when I allowed my health to get really low. Was confident so I sat to camp. A Burynai - which I had not attacked - and which had previously ignored me raced down the hall and started tagging me. I killed it but was Dotted. Went down, the dot wore out - I regained consciesness - only to have a sapper walk buy and BAM! Kill me on the spot. (No idea why - I was not camped - which agros them - or medding - same.) As I reported earlier on the exploits of the Keystone warrior. The Burynai will stick with you - IF they run away - they WILL come back, usually fully healed and OFTEN at the worst possible time.

Thats all I have - hope this strategic dialog helps you out.

Ok, I am a lvl 32 Pally carrying Ghoulsbane (which is a GREAT weapon for this HOLE). I have camped the jester for the last six weeks - YES 6. I have had the jester pop for me 7 or 8 times. I have collected all the fingers at least 4 times and have cycled through three or four shields. The thing to know about the jester is that you a only a 2% chance it will pop with each kill on the bottom floors - I have had the best success with kills in the second set of stables. OF the times he pops you have only a 25% chance it will be with the club. I have collected 5 or 6 2HS fine steel swords. A few times he popped with NOTHING. I have had the best luck selling finger bones to impatient warriors, and giving the shield away to helpful Iksars willing to sell me food and exchange gold and silver for plat at a GREAT rate (2 to 1). I plan to give it another week then bail to go level a few more times before returning to try again. The Burynai ignore me UNLESS I am Medding OR REALLY low on health. The skells still agro. Had a warrior lvl 33 -Nafgar- and a 19 monk try to steal my camp last night. They ran around hitting all the Burynai the could then ran back with the train to me. I chuckled as the BURYNAI ran through me and proceeded to KILL them both before wandering off. I did pick up the skells but easy to kill. Lesson here - the Buryani Stick with you - so be sure to finish off each one that attacks you. Root will help you. As they will heal each other if you allow them to. I am on the Quellious server and ONLY WISH I had the money to buy this club instead of wasting my time in camp. My druid MAY eventually make enough to aquire it - but the camp has GOT to Be the WORST in the game.

Long haul from butcherblock, but we got my brothers cleric level 15 over and me with my 14 monk have been gutting this place from top to bottom. We stick mostly to skellies which are susceptible to his undead nuke. We do half a level per hour and pull non stop even when other groups are competing. Pathing kind of sucks though and your pulls will aggro on other people if they run by them.

I've seen at least 3 good drops in this tower, and i'm planning on farming it as a 24 monk. What i need to know is, 1. would i still get xp, 2. would i still be in danger. Thanks in advance, I'll be looking for a lizard to do my banking too if you're reading this LOL

Everblend Bloodbones
24th belt sportin monk on Morell-Thule
<Revered Souls>

Just curious, I have a 24 ranger looking to get the iksar beserker club. Is it possible for me to get solo. I hear he spawns in the basement and there are a bunch of burynai and undead that will still attack me at lvl 24. I am on the bristlebance server and if anyone is selling an iksar club give me a tell.

Milky 24 ranger
Puritin 24 necro
Wuue 20 monk
Rumpy 19 cleric

Is a level 13 warrior a well fit Iksar to get by in Kurns

in the basement thers a pipt leading to the tunnels. in the tunnels there is an exit to the field of bones.

ok

but can u ENTER the tunnels through field of bones? ive not been there yet, my info is just from the maps on everlore.

Kurn's is a great place for a necro to practice his Ward Undead. Necro's do not get Ward Undead until level 8 and it's their first nuke spell. I took my Evoc skill from 40-80 in here and also gained a level doing it.

My two cents:
If you are a necro just solo most of Kurns until you get to at least 18. The Melee types usually don't want to wait for you to med. You get much better experience just tanking w/ your pet and nuking/dot'ing away.

Soloing in the basement is fun and very possible with FD.

Draa
18 iksar monk.

Can i as a 21 shaman camp the basement for exp

This seems to be a big secret or something, but there is a bind point that is very close to Kurn's. South and a little east of Kurn's In the Field Of Bone is a ruins called Kaesora (It is near the zone to Emerald Jungle). This is a bind point. (Great! Now the place is going to be full of elves!) =^)

Please note, if you rely on a pet, this is not good for you to try unless you are very brave, for unwanted pulls suck, as we all know, hehe, anyways, now to my points. I did this with my iksar monk Sigus on E'ci and it worked GREAT, at lvl 7 you can start grouping the entrance for GREAT xp, after you hit about 9 head back out to the pit and either solo or group the hard end there, then when you hit 12 time to go back to Kurn's, you and either a partner or 2 other meleers or shamans group and start just killing like nobody's business, not camping like evryone does, but running upstairs, downstairs, or anywhere else you can, and KILL KILL KILL, kill everything, the low agro ranges help alot, at 13 or 14 get just ONE partner and head upstairs, alll the way up, to the dining room, and just kill kill kill i went from 12 to 14 in just over an hour and a half, not bad considering im a monk with only another monk was with me, we did this VERY easily, without a healer or even minor caster, and with safe fall the entrance is only a couple falls away, good hunting to you, please tell me how this works for you, please note, my partner knew the zone like the back of my hand, so we didnt get lost, please have a map rdy if you dont know the zone, this is a nasty zone if you get lost alone.

-Sigus Swifttail
Monk of the 14th on E'ci
Member of the Dragonbone Elite

This may sound like a silly question but I play a human cleric who wants to go for the jesters club and miners gloves. My question is . Is the zone iskar only? I want to know if a human will be automatically KOS??

Many thanks