Skyfire Mountains  

Getting pretty good exp, good plat drops, gem stones and Spells.... I think its kind of a nice zone........

at the moment everything is either dark or light blue, but I'm getting good safe exp, lots of mobs to kill so lots of loot and good exp... even getting good aa exp.

I was crossing the zone on 6/17/06 with my 56 Pally and ran across a mob called a Mottled Wyvern. It conned blue, so I took a swing at it. It hit for 250ish, and wasn't going down very rapidly. I took off and ran halfway across the zone using Fabled Jboots and stopped near the zone to OT to rest. After a minute or so it showed up right next to me and started wailing on me. I didn't see it running across the zone. Might have been due to lag, but that hasn't been an issue for me lately. Upshot is, it seems that once aggroed, this mob stays aggroed and in pursuit until you zone.

When i used to fight regularly in this zone, ending about a year and a half ago, I had a very nice spot where I could stand and fight (and even fear kite a little) on the west wall between two lava flows - just above and to the north of a dragon head at the end of the southern flow. This spot was nice because: the higher level mobs of the zone would spawn there, and it was far enough away from the zone-ins that I'd never have competition for mobs. I'd even see Talendor pass by every once in awhile.

Just went back there with my new pair of characters and the field in front of me was completely barren of mobs. In fact it seems that all of the zone is barren except the areas immediately around the zone lines (incl VP) and the north-eastish part of the zone. To me this is the most dissapointing part of Sony's changes to the zone.

In the words of Kenny and Kyle when thier dear friend is killed: "You bastards!"

Does anybody know what the turn boxes are for? You click them and they turn. No idea what they do. Is this just some distraction for the baby minded mobs? Something for them to play with? I didn't know there was a second box until a few minutes ago. I guess I'll grab somebody and turn them at the same time.

Have camped Eldrig until I'm blue in the face and he never shows...I'M GETTING REALLY frustrated here! Yes, am doing this solo and thats just the way it goes sometimes. Several peeps have offered to come help kill him if he ever shows, but jeebus I can't even get a glimpse of the old geezer. Help, please.


Zartia Goldenlyre
Troubadore of the 58th Song

I have a 52 shaman reading the above posts I am asuming that they might have a hard time with this zone due to Dispelling etc. Can anyone give me some insight on this please. I have asked some on my server but they don't know either. Thanks much :)

What level of danger exists for one when porting in? I did some Kael quests and my CoV faction is not so good...is that a problem here?

Thanks,

Iindarie
druid woodelf
51 seasons on Brell Serilis

Could a 50 ranger and 50 shammy duo here with any effectiveness? If so, what mobs? Where? Never been here before, but running out of places to xp...please respond. :-) Thank you!

So I need pearl shards to finish my epic. How comon are they and how easy it is to find a group here that will let me have them?

After reading through this thread, it seems to me that people aren't seeing probably the worst change to this zone: the godforsaken chromadracs. As a necro, I started soloing here at 51. Things were great: I could fearkite anything not named or rare near the BW zoneline, and there was always something else to be pulled. Then, the "upgrade" happened...my first pull is a chromadrac, which I had slaughtered enmasse before, who proceeds to dispell 3 important buffs--from extended range--while simultaneously dropping a nice DoT on me and my pet. This had never happened before. I zoned out and came back, then tried again...same thing.

In the old skyfire, the chromadracs had the debuff. It had a nice short range, so as long as you were careful, you could avoid being hit by it (though I did have to rebuff the pet constantly). The Boiling Blood spell was something the drakes used within melee range, along with their breath attack from slightly farther away. I think something got botched when the zone was changed, and the Boiling Blood was mistakenly moved from the drakes to the chromadracs.

The bottom line: the chromadracs suck now. Go to any area of the zone where people set up camp and on an average day, you'll see about 80% chromadracs and 20% everything else (sometimes even worse). Nobody wants to fight them. Pullers will duck and weave through them to pull anything else they can find back to their group. If the zone is crowded, I spend half my time sitting on top of a rock, watching the the chromadrac ballet, hoping I can beat the other pullers to the first anything-not-chromadrac that pops.

I usually look down on the "change this or I'll quit" posts people make. I'm not threatening to quit; however, this really needs to be fixed. One draw to this zone once upon a time was the spell drops, but most of the spells that drop here sell for more to a vendor than you'll get out of a player for them. The named cycle is still great, but can be and usually is done easily by a single group. The other big draw, which is what got me started here, was the wonderful soloing potential. It's just not worth the headache anymore as this once great zone has become a late-night last resort.

My bazaar mule is full of spells I have got from my wizard quading in SF. Started single kiting matures mostly but got bored and started quading the lower level mobs. Chromadrac's are usually up all over the place and easy meet for a wizard. Groups dont' like them because of the dispell but as long as you don't let them get too close they don't cast on you. Takes alot of work bunching them up but at 58 I am getting 3/5 of a blue AA exp per quad. Nice solo exp and not as dangerous as those AE groups (love them too, thats why I need RS3).

Spells drop so often that the bazaar is lousy with most of them that I get.

im a lvl 46 sk and taken an intrest in this zone owndering are there pick up grps and could i get a grp here and if not where would be a better place to hunt besides DL

Does anyone know what the box is near the lava river, in a rather deep gully? It is just north of the BW zone, where the lava comes from beneath the dragon head. I click on it and you hear an audible click, and the box rotates, but I saw nothing happen.
Anyone have any idea as to what it is?

Daamij
55 Wizard

Edited, Thu Aug 1 22:06:05 2002

Anyone know what the cycle or pop time is for the Guardian Wurms?

FYI

Use for crystals forged in this zone. Combine one of each in a kiln to make a gem used in cultural smithing for followers of Veeshan.

More info at eqtraders.com

Amose
Druz-Ro

I have foraged these Lore crystals in Skyfire and I was wondering what they are for? I have searched the website, and I can't find anything. I have Ice dragon crystal, fire dragon crystal, wind dragon crystal, and earth dragon crystal. Sounds like the makings of a quest to me, but from who? For what? Where?

Thanks for any help in advance!
-Sparkling Icewolf
50th Druid of Tunare on Tarew Marr

Can a 51 druid solo here?

I killed 3 shadow drakes, spirit wurm, wonderring wurm black scar... etc ALL day..

Nothing summoned... and I can kill them and after they die still have FULL mana (/hug epic)..

Have they changed it so that only "Old" and above creatures summon? I didn't have ANY summoners the whole day/night... others are telling me the same thing...

8/27/01

Oogobuk
58th Druid
Quellious

This zone is important for several reasons. First, it is not crowded. It offers level 49-58 casters and druids a place to solo and get spells. There are also two named cycles of mobs similar to TT, but much more difficult. The rewards are spells instead of armor here.
Named mobs: a wandering wurm, a shadow drake, Black Scar, Guardian of Felia, Felia Goldenwing, a wurm spirit, a soul devourer, Faerie of Dismay. There can only be two of any of the nameds up at any time, and they are sometimes hard to find. Any of the nameds can be on either cycle. One cycle has a 30-sec delay of respawn, other has about a 1 min respawn delay. The nameds drop spells more frequently and more rare in nature. I have had the best luck with Felia and Faerie of Dismay for really rare drops, having seen Call of the Hero drop 4 times, 54 Mage rogue water pet drop 4 times, and 58 enchanter Bedlam (nuke) once. Just hunting the nameds, I average 2 spells an hour.

Best way to pull is to have a tracker and use invis to get to the mob. At 56 Ranger, I can pull any of the nameds from anywhere by being invis, waiting until it's clear around me, then shooting an arrow using a long-range bow and then running to the BW zone. Then you can kill them however ya like, although fear-kiting is recommended. Good to have a necro or chanter to do the fearing while ya have rogue pets and fast-melee like monk/ranger/rogue whittling them away from behind. Snare is a must. Chromos suck with the AE dispel/dot, but they can't do it while they are feared, so it's good to overfear them by recasting every 15 secs or so to reset the fear timer for them.

Zone also has 2 annoying parts to epics (monk not included because any of the nameds can drop the Immortals book). Eldrig the Old is required for bard epic. He is not on the named cycles, just a rare mob. He is a chromo, always level 51 and a pain in the butt because he summons. Best to kill him using a bard with fear song and a necro or chanter for backup fear after ya sic pets on him. Felia is needed for enchanter epic and is a really tiny chromo that is a really rare spawn. She is attacked by some of the mobs in the zone, so her life is usually short as is. The Guardian of Felia is supposed to somehow be tied into "protecting" her, but I am not sure how. She is a very tricky pull when she spawns because she tends to hang around a lot of mobs, and she has to be led back to a safe spot for a chanter to charm her and turn in an item to her.

Old wurms, mature wurms, mature wyverns and the other higher level mobs near VP are good about dropping rare spells as well, 55+. Guilds can get spells from these guys mini-raids on them by pulling to a semi-safe spot and doing tank/debuff/healing fights vs kiting.

Hope this helps.

Ulyss Rumrunner
56th Outrider
Eternal Sovereign Guild
Tholuxe Paells server

Hi, I'm a 37 druid and am currently in the Overthere, the start of my epic quest is talking to someone in the burning woods and was wondering if I could travel through Skyfire to get there. Is it possible? Or should I try to take the other route from the Dreadlands?

I have been visiting Skyfire for the last few days and as 55 druid I stick near the zone to BW and do great with root and Dots..take em down fairly easily..Only 2 bubs of mana per kill for wyverns..wurms..chromo..gnawless.. and another bub for drakes and mature stuff..but that is using my ES gloves and Vams.. still waiting for a good spell to drop but have got a few 50ish spells that my guild mates needed.. Good place to solo.

Sassiful
55 Druid
Prexus

I would like to know if a group of high 30's and low 40's hunt right at the door and take down some of the lower mobs. And should we try this or is it sucide? Any input would be great for a group of brave thrill seekers.

Well, personally i love this zone. As hunting here from 50-56 as a necro and 53-60 as a druid i can tell ya that this place has it's ups and downs. Probably the worst downs are the faction. I can not run through dreadlands anymore or even go past the tunnel without being beaten by the gorenaire stick. i can get agroed by her from VERY VERY far away, its a constant annoyance. You also have to be careful here because mobs go whereever they want, so running along the wall doesn't always mean you're safe. Other things to note are 'a guardian wurm', 'an ancient wyvern', and most of all 'Talendor'. all are lv60, i have been attacked and mooshed by all except ancient wyvern, talendor casts an incurable dot, fun fun. he also has a large agro range and usually if you can see him he'll be on you.

Also since alot of you soloers are wondering what summons out in that big bad dragon world..

Talendor (100%)
Ancient Wyvern (100%)
Guardian Wurm (100%)
Elder Wyvern (95% of the time in my experience)
Skyfire Drake (80% of the time in my experience)
Shadow Drake (30% of the time in my experience)
A Lava Walker (70% of the time in my experience)
Eldrig the Old (100% of the time in my experience)

Theres probably more, just that i don't remember everything =)

For all you reverse kiters, there's a place with a giant dragon skeleton of some kind by the HUGE fire lake in which the pathing just takes the mob back and forth in a very small area. In one of my few groups there we were soloing 2-3 at a time just constantly fearing em.

Since you might be wondering if indeed spells come from here alot..here's my totals as each char.

Necro - 4
Druid - 615

Be warned that the wurm type of creatures have a HUGE melee range. to check the current health of a mob i have to go into melee range, and with a mob that hits for 162 and me with 1485 health it really gets difficult.

One more thing i'd like to pass along, since this is gettin rather long. Some people have mentioned pulling to overthere zone inside the little temple thing that leads to overthere. I wouldn't suggest it. As someone mentioned mobs wander near the temple entrance, and also if people get trains which is quite likely you will have to deal with it, and they will have to deal with your pulls which often results in a messy corpse recovery. So i ask of you not to pull inside the temple, it's too big of a hazard to yourselves and to others.

Araglas Californication
60th Woodelf Hierophant
Tunare Server

Sertaradin Verin`Xukuth
56th Darkelf Defiler
Tunare Server

PS: if anyone knows what to do with those dragon crystals please email me at cocarolla@hotmail.com, it has been oneo f the most intriguing mysteries i've ever come across, i have only been able to stop the globes from spinning with them.

While hunting this weekend in Skyfire, our group looted a Sapphire. As an enchanter-jeweler, I was interested in it, but this particular sapphire was a "Magic Item". Does anyone have any ideas about this special sapphire? Thanks in advance.

Bofor Shinystone
Enchanter of 50 seasons
Cazic-Thule

Does anyone have any leads on the purpose of the 4 different dragon crystals that can be foraged in this zone?
I have found Earth,Fire,Ice and Wind Dragon Crystals. They are LORE and have no stats. They did not change my resists or generate light. I can find no info on this or any other site about them.

The first time I was able to visit this zone with the intent of pillaging I was so fortunate to meet a Chromodracs on the first pull. There where 3 of us a Pally 42, SK 48 and me 42 Druid. Needless to say we fled in great horror as we saw our buffs depleting and the dots start stacking!! I’m just glad that every one hates them as much as I lol, now I just have to convince my friend to give SF Mnts a 2nd try :p

Hi, I create a level 1 Troll Warrior to see how far I could get into Kunark. Well... the answer is Skyfire Mountains. If I could have found the door to Veeshan's Peak, I would have knocked on it.

I had a SOW through most of the Overthere but the rest I ran without the aid of magic (just lots and lots of luck (and skill!)).

;)

When I /ooc'd "who's Talendor?" I was laughed at and warned to run away. So I did. When I was surrounded by Wurms on all sides of me. I stood real still. When I saw an opening I ran. It wasn't really that big of a deal.

I'd NEVER do that with my primary character, but he's a bard and can run really fast- why not try? Oh yeah... corpse recovery. *shudders*

I have seen Skyfire - and it is hot and lava-y. ick.

The other day while wanderin around skyfire with my druid I came upon what appeared to be a box or crate on the ground. loc was pos 480 pos 3886. When I clicked on the crate it rotated 90 degrees and made the sound of a portcullis opening. Im just curious if anyone has found any other switches or possibly a door this may open.

Snoweagle Teir'Dal Kin
54 Wanderer Vallon Zek

Heya,

We have been going to Skyfire for the past week or so. About every two hours or so we seem to get a spell drop off of a random creature. The exp rate is low but the spells drops are nice, and just often enough to keep the casters panting.

We have fought at the Wiz teleport spot, the druid teleport spot and then once out on the plain. The teleport spots appear to be the safest, but not many mobs within range. Our favorite is out on a large flat area where we can see stuff coming.

If mobs begin agroing on you for no reason, campout and come back. Some mob got pissed at you and is spreading the word. Campout and when you relog it should be fine.

Our experience with mobs have been most are high 40's with some in the low 50's(summoners). Chromodrakes make the buffers life hell as they AOE dispel. Lvls seem to follow naming, Elder, Mature, and then just plain mob name.


Moduna
The Nameless

50plus all pets classes can solo here everyone else 45 min and must be groups most pull to Burning wood zone tends to be easier pulling at the Overthere zone is not recommended as alot of mobs hang right near the entrance and by rthe time U have gottem one pulled theres one in your path blocking your way to the group. Lots of spells drops here allI have seen with my own eyes are Nec SHM ENCH and wizzy spells

Kyndle Elddar
53 Elementalist
Prexus