Plane of Innovation  

General Summary:

This zone contains alot of clockwork creations (obsolete, rusted, scrounging (rat), defective (spider), archaic (cannot be mezzed or slowed), tinmen (2 are outside the building - ramp to the factory and more inside) obsolete model, and scrapcollector; these are all random pops in all the regen places in the path which goes in a big circle and the ranges of the mobs go from 44ish (lowly obsolete model-wish you must hit to engage) to corrupted system (59). As you journey around the zone you will see doors that can be opened and inside you will see variable sized rooms which contain up to 7 static mob spawn points. Some of the rooms contain the same level mobs that you see on the path as random spawns and some of the rooms contain higher level content mobs - weathered clockwork (54ish in level), decayed guardian (level 58 - Enrages), corrupted system (Level 58-59) and summons. There are also some spots where you will encounter etheric pools (goos that are blue in color - they are near pumps outside some of the doors to the side rooms).

Groups:

Depending on far you want to go down the path... a quick killing group with an enchanter cleric and 4 melee or other combination can very likely dungeon crawl around the entire circle of the path. There is an 18 minute timer on respawns, so if you get sloppy and dont move along you will get backpops. Alot of people doublebox and play a cleric and high level melee for some good aaxp or overall group experience right at the zone. All the zone mobs are dark blue (cept for the obsolete model - small mob that is sleeping) until you reach level 62. XP if VERY GOOD however up to that point and when you reach 62 your options are the higher level side rooms or venturing inside the factory.

Named:

Several named appear randomly in spawn spots like malfuntioning system, rust covered model etc. These pretty much drop a nice drop if you see them up. You can also rarely see the Junk Beast up (he spawns near the entrance and takes @ 2 good level 60's groups to kill safely)

Factory:

If you know someone that has completed the dragon kill and received their flag to enter the factory you can get anyone flagged to open the door for you and let you inside the factory. If you make an immediate left you will open a door to a room that has a quest (ring type encounter) mob name Research Keon - he will port you to closed room for an endurance test. If you head right you can farm the multiple tin men guards that are up and have bout the same spawn rate at the yard trash clockworks. If you look directly ahead you will notice clockwork golems (59) that give MONDO xp if you can get a good enough group to hold this room. They are almost impossible to single pull, and if you have a good slower you can have one melee tank one while you get the other. If you can keep up with the spawn rate of the tinmen near the first room you can manage here and get alot of experience in a very small window of time.

Courtesy:

Due to the nice change that verant has made when you die your corpse will reappear at the zone in for all of the POP zones. That means that usually at this level you will get a 96 percent rez; so training the entrance is not a proper thing to do if you can help it.

with kind regards,

Tedahmeister
Eci
Warlord