Estate of Unrest

When anyone here's the words, TRAIN COMING, we all think i sure hope its not from the basement. Most people wont even pull up from the basement. It is best for your sake and those outside of the manor if you just camp down by the stairs. If you absolutely have to run then of course you should. I have a couple of tips for those who want to pull up some of the basement but not much of it. This tip works the best with upper teens to lower 20's. Being myself, i can invis undead myself and just walk just about anywhere. Have a tank who is the MAIN PULLER go in with invis undead on and have him take a look on the second floor and throughout the first floor. The puller should carefully head towards the stairs with invis undead on. This of course are the basement stairs im talking about. Have him/her open up the basement door and see what is down there. I WARN YOU NOW, werebats are NOT undead. If your puller is not careful enough if a werebat sees him, all hell will break lose. Once he knows what is down there, have him begin to pull away the JUNK. This would be the dark bone skellys or mummys off to the right and left of the front doors. The next step can either be the first room at the left hall way or the room to the second floor. After you have the whole left side of the manor cleared out up to the basement, you can pull up the TWO creatures that are waiting at the bottom of the stairs. I recomend the while you are pulling the basement that u have inv undead on. Stay as far away as u can and shoot one with a bow or a spell. DO NOT, i repeat DO NOT blind, or fear them. Doing this will cause them to run back and draw all hell up after you. If you are going to pull a hag up i sugest having everyone attack it first. The dd spells it has will kill a level 17 in no time at all. I do not suggest this if you dont have a healer or if you have 2 nukers and 3 tanks. You need to have everyone attack the same targets and you will be fine. After you pull out the first basement creatures, DO NOT go in further into the basement. Now comes the second floor. After the first creatures of the basement are destroyed and the path is clear, you may pull from the second floor. When pulling from the second floor, enter the stair room from the left hallway, and when you have your prey, run directly the same way you came. When facing the stairs, take the left set of stairs. When you are at the top, carefully look to the right and see if there is anything there, and if there is pull it. Some small trash like dark bones might pick up but as long as they stay off healers then you will be fine. If there is not anything spawned towards the right, then you can take the first room on the left. Open the door from a distance and see whats in there. If you and your party think u can handle it, then pull it out. GO THE SAME WAY YOU CAME UP! And once again, if you cant handle it, take it to the zone and have everyone fight there. The monsters will follow you and not anyone else if they dont attack and it will be a little closer to zone. Thats all for now.
Xiaro
Lvl 23 paladin of morel-thule
Guardians Of Kaladim.

I gonna be doing that now with my lv 10 wiz!!!!! that a really good idea i can also get some bone chips for my sk in the progress!!!!!!

I've3 had this happen to me a couple of times and realized that this could cause ALOT of trains, but that what unrest is about the trains.
When heading to the round room on the closer side, I noticed that a dusty werebat would hit me. Couldn't see anything, thought nothing of it till a train of 2 hags and some skeles showed up.
This happens when you hug or stay real close to the house wall. Just a future warning to people if they have no idea of where a train came from, watch out for this and give the house a wide berth till you go in.

I think you will find that all of these tips can be fairly confusing. Why not just camp the round room. The round room spawns ghouls, lurkings, and occasionaly a carrion.

I have found a rare key i looted from a goul and i hear it is for a quest let me know what quest it si, i cant find it. it is a lore no drop and i thilk it says it is a rusty or a bronse key. sorry i dont rember what the name was.

I don't know if anyone's mentioned this yet, but if so it's scrolled on so I'll mention it again.

I have two massively important tips for anyone who plans to work the 1st floor of the house in Unrest. If properly executed, these two simple tips would well eliminate a good 50% of the massive trains Unrest is famous for.

The single biggest key to pulling from the house in Unrest is this: PATHING.

Pathing is the little subroutine in EQ that determines what route a mob will take when is aggros (and chases) you. What many first-time visitors to Unrest (and, sadly, many self-proclaimed veterans) don't know is that you can affect these routes by your actions.

The following examples are from the first floor of the house. I don't have enough experience of the upper and lower reaches to have made any kind of notes on the subject. I'd love to hear from anyone who has.

Tip #1: Side door
When pulling from the porch on the left side of the house, one thing is of utmost importance: DO NOT JUMP OFF THE PORCH. It sounds stupid, but it's true. If you run off the porch over the rail, any mobs who are following you will turn around and run through the house, coming out the back door. If there is no group back there, we're talking a minimum of 5 (!) extra mobs which will gladly join the party and stomp you into little teensy bits. If there IS a group in the back room, you will send whatever you pulled barrelling through their camp, usually causing one massive train which will send BOTH groups screaming for the zone. Not a method recommended for making friends.

If you pull from the side door, stop on the porch, turn to the left or right side, and RUN DOWN THE STAIRS. The result will be a clean pull. Granted, you will give the mobs a free shot or two, but you're a tank. You can handle it, right?

#2: Great Hall and Interior Hallway
Actually, I have no idea what people call this room, but you know what I mean. It's the great big wide room on the 1st floor that features a pair of stone staircases leading up, as well as 3 or 4 spawn points.

The main point of interest here is the hallway that wraps around this room and the rooms immediately opening off of it. This entire area contains something like 15 spawns, mostly ghouls, lurking mummies, and dark bone skels (with the occasional dry bone for luck).

If entering from the back (or side) of the house, it is important to remember that any mobs you pull from any of these rooms will run down the hallway in a clockwise (as seen from above) direction when they aggro you, pulling with them any other mobs they encounter on the way. The result: "Train to zone get off the tracks!" et al.
Assuming you live that long.

To avoid this...upon entering this area from the back room or side door, you will see a branching passageway off to your left as you enter the hallway. Pretend it doesn't exist. Make believe there's a wall there. If you like, role-play your denial. Just don't use that doorway when pulling. As in EVER. Work your way around, starting in the pair of library rooms directly ahead on your right. When pulling, retrace your steps back along the hallway from whence you came...even if it's the longest route. The mobs will follow you directly back to your waiting group to be promptly minced, and your group will think you're a genius.

Poco Lightfist, 24 Pally, E Marr

I was wondering if anyone knew where the Dusty Werebat spawns for the Enchanter quest. Also what lvl he might be?

If you're careful, you can come here at 9! I took my cleric here and started soloing death beetles left and right, just root and nuke...it has to be very close to the zone, regardless of what others say, because your gonna be running....a LOT! However, the exp is fast, and the loot from the corpses that higher lvl groups leave is AMAZING! A lvl 11 in almost full bronze without twinking is pretty good, eh?

Yup, it can be done. If you have invis, or invis vs undead, just go inside the house, find a Dark bone, or lurking mummy who's isolated, and nuke the *&#! out of 'em before anyone else notices. You'll be ok, unless a wanderer joins in. There's only one wandering spawn, and if you kill it frequently, then you should be just fine. I find that I can squeeze in two or three kills before the wanderer spawns again. Don't do ANYTHING until the wanderer is dead. It tends to be a ghoul, or a dark bone, so it's not a problem. When medding, you can find a nice corner, and med while invis. I prefer to run outside to the fountains so i can fish while i med. Personal preference

We all know a soloist in Unrest is a dead soloist, unless you're very lucky or know the zone like the back of your hand. Well, for those of you casters about lvl 16 at LEAST or anyone else around 20 or so, theres a lvl 20 mob that can be soloed with ease given the right time. It's called a Gnomish Spelunker (look at a map for the location of his cave) and is a wuss. However, in his cave can spawn some very bad nasties like hags and werebats. If youre lucky, therell be a quest npc in there called serra who won't aggro anyone, although she looks like a festering hag. Be careful, though, cause the gnome will aggro you if you get attacked in the water.

I've been in Unrest for awhile, and this is some general stuff I've learned.

The yard trash is a pain. I would not suggest pulling to either the east or west sides of the mansion at low levels because the yard trash can add up. Even at level 19 I once had a death beetle chewing on me for 15 damage a pop. (although they usually do it for only 1-5 damage at level 20...) The main problem with the trash is not really the damage, but the inturruption factor. There is nothing as sucky as 5 Death beetles being trained on your enchanter when you're sweating out a pack of monk skeles. The safest place really to do first level pulls is by the fountains. This place can accomadate 2 groups, each on opposite sides of the fountains. I have seen some people trying to add another group in the road way or farther back. (Or the occassional higher level kiting some nasties down the roadway.) All attempts have failed and trained sooner or later.

Running is a pain here, because of the long tunnel enterance. Even if you're a tank, you need to be in the yard with at least two bubbles of HP left when the train hits you, or you're screwed over horribly. If you're a caster and have no tanks and get aggro trained, you'd better resign yourself to death. HOWEVER, if you stick to the identantions for the fountains and aren't fighting anything, returning MoBs from the train won't aggro you. They also won't aggro you in the hedge maze.

You'll need an experienced puller for house pulls, that knows ALL of the spawn points on the first floor. And even then, get your group into the routine of invising/camoing your puller every time going in. It isn't really necessary for 1st floor pulls, but getting into this good habit now will save you later. The general pull order is the right corner (one spawn point in the actual corner in sight from the door, one spawn point conceled in an identation...), left corner. (One spawn point in sight from door, one other spawn point hidin around edge.) From there, you have to pull from the main room. (The one with the stairs.) Typically 3 spawn points here, each one roughly located by each doorway. After that, you pull from the middle rooms. (Each has 1 spawn, conceled from when you entered the room.) After that you pull from the upper corners. (2 spawn in the left one, 1 spawn in the right one.) With all that crap cleared THEN you can pull the upper room. (3 spawns, 2 in the main room, 1 in the other sub-room.) You can go back farther in the house, (There's a door that has one spawn, and the big circular room that has 3 spawns in it) but to get thouse you really should pull to the northern yard rather than the fountains.

The important thing is to keep all of the rooms clear. The main room WILL aggro on you if you pull the northern rooms, and the corners WILL aggro on you if you pull the middle rooms. Everything spawns fairly fast, so it's doubtful that any level less than 20 could take all of the spawns on the first floor. (Indeed, even just the corners and the main room once in awhile will keep them occupied.)

The nice thing about Unrest is that there's plenty of healers that come here. Both Clerics and Paladins come here often to utilize their skills versus undead. (Wish I could say the same for Necros and SKs, but generally Unrest is too risky for soloing so Necros don't come, and SKs are too rare anyways and are usually powerleveled in other places.) I've grouped with more Clerics in Unrest within 2 levels than I have in my entire lifetime.

Enchanters (knowledgable ones who know how to mez anyways) are also high in demand. It is extremely hard to pull singles from the house, (Using aggro-reducing spells won't help...MoBs are practically side-by-side, and you'll be inturrupted almost 90% of the time if you try to cast in there.) so 2-4 MoBs is the norm that gets to the group, not including the yard trash. (usually just one or two tormeted dead or death beetles...jacks don't show up much in front of the mansion.)

As for loot, DBSs are probabally the best, because they drop chainmail ocassionally. (Usually bracers, but I have seen another minor piece or two drop.) Mummies also rarely drop jewels worth up to about 2pp. Otherwise, mushrooms (Used for rogue poisions, don't know the exact name) and grave molds can be sold for a few gold each, are stackable, and very light. Dark bone chips (Not regular chips) are somewhat more uncommon, but go for about half a plat each and are stackable. You can also OCCASSIONALLY (But rarely) get a fine steel weapon off of a DBS. In all my time there (so far 3 levels) I've only seen 4 pieces drop. (2 of which I got...one FS morning star, a 2 scimaritars, and a short sword. You'll be able to tell if they've got FS by wether or not they have a weapon in their hands; I've never seen a bronze weapon from a house pull.

Thats it, and good luck!

-Jearom Jasienta
-Paladin of 20 years in service to Tunare
-The Tribunal