Plane of Innovation  

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Type: Outdoor
Continent: Power
Instanced: No
Keyed: No
Level Range: 46 - 63
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The Plane of Innovation is an industrial wasteland that surrounds a massive factory. Narrow valleys filled with refuse cut through tremendous heaps of junk. Small niches have been dug out of the junk by old, cast-off clockwork automatons that were long ago replaced in the Factory by newer, more efficient models. These derelict beings retain a built-in desire to exist, and so they scour the factory junkyard for spare parts to help maintain themselves.

Affairs inside the Factory are largely a mystery. The Factory buzzes as production teams work to produce an inexplicable machine near the center of the plane.

In order to improve themselves, the clockworks have taken an interest in humanoid biology. The steam-filled hallways are hazardous to all but the machines that created them.
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A Graveyard of SortsA Clearing Among the Scrap PilesNitram's WorkshopPath to the Factory
Upon Entering the FactoryXanamech the Clockwork DragonThe Greasy ClockworkOne of the Three Manaetic Prototypes
The Researcher's Testing ChamberThe Chronographer's Time MachineOne of the Behemoth's Defense MechanismsThe Manaetic Behemoth
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What about me?
# Oct 31 2002 at 7:19 AM Rating: Default
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PoP is said to be 46 and higher.
What can I hunt in here...or any of the PoP zones?

Lorkien Ironwood
Student of Nature
48th season
Tallon Zek

Edited, Thu Oct 31 07:50:13 2002
RE: What about me?
# Nov 22 2002 at 8:04 PM Rating: Excellent
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About the only place I would advise at 48th is the zone out camp in Justice. First thing... wolf form is KoS, Bear form is okay. Mentioned it since it looked like your a druid.

Go through the stairs to the cell area and take one of the hallway that leads in the direction you came from towards the exit door (click on it to zone out). At 48th you should bring at least a few friends, but its doable if your smart and cautious. None of the mobs near zone in have faction or are automatically KoS.

Have your puller buffed, go to the cells with the iksar war/thief Sralm. When the hallways clear of rats and sentries, and no one has any cell doors open, run in and pull him. He's hits reasonably fast for up to 140? He's slowable, will flee but can be snared/rooted. When he's dead you have approximately 15 minutes.

Pull rats next when no sentries are near. If all rats are cleared and Sralm repopped you might try a sentry, but be warned. They will warp around and eventually to you. Have you puller stand 100% still near zone out while he warps and it should get there faster (it will try and recalc path each time he moves). If the rats aren't cleared, this might bring them. There are two sentries that patrol, be ready if the second comes.

Finally, start pulling the prisoners. Each one has special abilites based on what you would expect from a class in that race. Gnome female is a caster, Dwarf female is cleric(will gate), Drake is wizard? DE male is SK, etc. Make sure you snare or root them before they flee and aggro others.

This is a much easier camp than the other planes where zone in trash hits for 250-400 and in Disease can cast but trains of KoS mobs from deeper in Justice sometimes happen. Zone if unsure, you can set up again within 3 minutes.
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RE: What about me?
# Nov 07 2002 at 9:08 AM Rating: Decent
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i agree unless you have a death wish i dont suggest hunting or TRYING to hunt much less /lfg in any PoP zone till 50+ ..just not a smart idea
RE: What about me?
# Nov 07 2002 at 1:44 PM Rating: Decent
Yeah, and even then, it's hard to get a group at lvl 53 when there's a lvl 61 of the same class standing behind you LFG. Smiley: banghead
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RE: What about me?
# Mar 29 2004 at 9:34 AM Rating: Default
37 posts
Wtf are you guys on? It is the easiest thing to get a group in PoJ, no matter what level you are. I went from 48 to 52 there in no time flat. Some days I didn't get a group, but about 75% of the time you can get a group. Or if you have a guild, start asking for people who want to start a group in PoJ. Its good exp so usually you will get takers. Now that im lvl 52 ive moved on to PoI. Because its better exp now, and I'm getting items for my Cloak of Greater Pernicity (for my bstlord) anyway thats my 2cp
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Let's be realistic about hunting levels
# Oct 31 2002 at 11:36 AM Rating: Excellent
Level 46 players should not realistically expect to hunt in the Planes. At 46 the portals will permit them to enter SOME planes, but the level of the MoBs is such that it would NOT be smart. This as it has been with the Planes of Fear, Hate, Sky...etc.

I am lvl 53, and was fortunate enough to get into a POI group with lvl 55-61 players. It was a very smart, very coordinated group. I was the baby, my job was only to slow and to heal the Cleric if she was being attacked. At least with the 60+ Bard singing a magic resistance lowering song, I was usually able to land a slow on the first shot.

I was making slightly over two blues of exp per hour, which is about TWICE what I get fighting with a group in KC.

However, the next evening I went BACK to the POI hoping to find another group. After an hour of asking, all I managed to accomplish was to get myself killed by one of several trains. 53 just wasn't going to cut it when there were lvl 61 Shamen looking for a group, too.

Basically, Plane of Innovation STARTS in the mid fifties, IF you are with a good group. MoBs here hit for 250 (usually double hit), and I'm told MoBs in the Plane of Disease hit for 400 to 500.

The only way a 46 could hunt here would if they were in a STRONG group of low to mid 60s who were basically babysitting.

Sorry, but it's better you know before trying to go there unprepared.

Edited, Thu Oct 31 11:19:09 2002
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RE: Let's be realistic about hunting levels
# Feb 22 2003 at 11:10 PM Rating: Default
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This is an over-cautious view of the planes. A group with a solid 50+ tank, 52+ CLR, 52+ slower, 50+ mezzer and a couple of 49+ damage dealers can do just fine here, though I would suggest staying at the zone-in to fight in case it gets dicy. I'm 53 on one char and 50 on another. Have been grouping here for a couple of levels now. Playing a 49 WAR in this zone is crazy exp, but you cannot MT even when mobs are slowed. Now that I'm 50 I think I could, but would require careful attention to buffs and a good cleric.

My 53 necro just soloed a mob here for the first time, though someone else slowed it. It was a close fight, and I had to carefully keep pact on my pet at all times so that he did not die (was also using Splurt and BoD). It was a btm mob, perhaps the eratic or obsolete. Our group's tank had died on the pull when slow landed a bit too late and cleric was a hair too slow. Everyone else zoned out, so I just kept on pet-tanking.

Don't underestimate the power of people who know how to play their classes well. :)
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RE: Let's be realistic about hunting levels
# Jan 17 2005 at 4:29 PM Rating: Decent
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I would just like to say that a 49 war that is equiped to his lvl SHOULD be able to MT if there is a good cleric. I have a 51 pally now and was MT for a group a few times at 48 and 49. A 49 war has alot more hp then a 49 pally. my hp at 49 ran around 3.5k buffed. that is not that much for these mobs. but the cleric was able to keep me alive to tank them. I do agree that a player who knows their class has a better chance of staying alive. Now the other thing i want to add is that a 49 pally can not MT efficently, downtime was bad untill the rest of the group showed up. 60(maybe 61) pally became the MT and we had a 62 bard as CC. rest of the group was 50 or under. Now at 51 my stuns land on more mobs, and my hp is 4.5k buffed, so as a MT i do alright with 53 shammy heals and buffs. a cleric heals better but adds alot less dps then a shammy, more dps means faster pulls and more xp. ( the shammy has to know how to use the canni spells properly to pull of healer slower, buffer, and dps. Also the shammy i play with can tank if needed, not for long but long enough to off tank an add till i can pull agro from him!!)
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RE: Let's be realistic about hunting levels
# Mar 17 2003 at 7:33 AM Rating: Decent
Sorry but this is not true, just because only 55+ people are hunting in POP zone it does not mean that 55 and lower can not make good exp there too.

I camped with 50 in PoDisease and it was fun, flys are possible (Fear kiting with a Necor and Enchanter was realy fun *smile*)

Its like Sebilis, i play on the german EQ Server (Kael) and i was one of the first to finish the key, with level 39 on the same day we went to Sebilis, only 50- Player, we camped there for 2 hours and i got my Deathshroud *g*
But befor we made it, everyone told us it is impossible, only Level 50+ can hunt there.

******** i say, with a good group you can make it, even in pop
#Nixoh, Posted: Sep 18 2003 at 12:52 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Heh, so I say low 50s can do fine, and you respond that I'm wrong because low 50s can do fine....
RE: Let's be realistic about hunting levels
# Feb 17 2003 at 9:27 AM Rating: Decent
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PoJ is the lowest level plane, but IMO it sucks for lower levels too many adds not enough room to move around. PoI is actually very easy, mobs hit for 200 yes but compared to trash mobs in PoD and PoN they are weak. I would reccomend the PoI entrance to anyone say 52 to 60 in a good group with a slower and a good tank and of course some sort of healer oh and get some KEI beforehand!
#FertPaingiver, Posted: Dec 18 2002 at 3:57 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) umm i wont consider you for my grou if u caint cast ageo or kei or focus, pop isnt the place to babysit you
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