Howling Stones (Charasis)  

Charasis is not Sebelis nor Karnors Castle. You do not go to this zone just to hang out in the hopes of finding a pickup group, it is for experienced groups only. Spare yourself the lost corpses and avoid this zone unless you are confident in your groups abilities. This guide is written by the tank and puller to help others navigate this very kewl dungeon. We cleared the first (North) wing with just under 2 groups. Group1 was made up of experienced Sebelis fighters who have worked together for along time. Group2 was slightly lower level except for jovial level57 necro. We cleared the North wing with mostly high40's to low50's with only one cleric and enchanter.

There is no train problem in Howling Stones, you either survive and fight off the mobs or you die unless you have someone who can Evac. The teleport is at the end of the zone and pops you out to be harmtouched by half a dozen scorps. You may have read in other guides that the zonein is safe, this is NOT true. The 2 mobs that wanders may only be mid40s but alot of them harmtouch so make sure your group zones in at roughly the same time. The first time we tried Howling Stones we lost a couple people to Goon patrols, believe me if you arent KOS to the outpost you will be..they run faster than SOW and will pummel you. Anyway the rest of us zoned in and one person went LD the other 2 of us agroed the skeles and we lost 4 people as they zoned in to their deaths.

Once you secure the LZ the golems are Tasty Experience and have laughably bad pathing while you wait for the sperm. The sperm drops a candle which is the key for the North Door. Do NOT let your tanks wander about getting bored and fall throught the false staircase! Hakz did this but fortunately as me was floating down to the dozen or so angry mobs below our Wiz relocated me. Speaking of pit traps, stay off the rugs..this will lead to the same result as falling through the stairs. Hug the wall on the left after you buff up and head through the North door. You will have to fight 4 mobs at once here so bring a good enchanter.
Most of the mobs in North wing are undead so snare isnt a big problem but targetting is when you are fighting Skeletal Sepulcur152-155. Have your puller bring his resist gear or the harmtouches will eat him alive. The best strat is to keep them packed together and use Fascinate and root while the tanks and pets rip into them. So...stay off the rugs and work your way throught the crypt clearing the space immedately in front. You will eventually see 2 rooms along the top of a square set of hallways with roamers and in the upper-right corner of the square is a locked door. You enter from lowerleft corner btw after dropping down from a ledge. Anyway in one of the rooms on the ground is the key to the door, unless you have a feign puller you get all 4 of the guards at once. These varied from golems to slime and a couple skeles so targetting isnt too bad. After you dispatch them and have the key go throught the next door into the boss room. Inside there are ALOT of skeles wandering around plus some golems on guard. After being assured that only 1,2,3 would come Hakz then pulled 6. Fascination is your friend and so is burn and lots of it. Pets are iffy as we will see so are stupid tanks who break mez. The portal out is just off the main room but why not camp the Spectral keeper for his goodies? He supposedly drops some fancy Chanter robe and always drops the key to West wing. We cleared his room with no problem but soon after had a little problem with pets racing out to pull for us...10+mobs roll throught the door. Group1 Evacs, Group2 Dies. Glad the Necro had 30 stackable coffins on him..