the azarack's pathing on island 2 are still way out of whack, just be careful as I saw them wandering on islands way out of their normal roaming routes. I also managed to spawn Protector of Sky (island 2 boss) without even killing all the azaracks...still had a couple on track that were lollygagging around the zone somewhere.

overall this zone is fun, i've been using my cleric bot to take the DT's as i work my way from island to island.

great guide for PoSky: http://mysite.verizon.net/drexxell/eq/planeofsky.html

Last night I returned to PoSky with Drexx and a small raid force. We can confirm that Island 2 appears to be borked and thus keys to Island 3 could not be procured for those new to the plane. Necro-COH was the only method available to get unkeyed folks past that point (mage COH spell, COH AA, and Call Hither AA are all disabled in PoSky). Also...due to the way that dying/rezzing works now, the corpses poof in an inconvenient amount of time when dying via dueling, so the best bet is to have those who need to be summoned get killed by the KeyMaster on Island 1. Once killed...DO NOT REZ. Have the person either re-zone into sky (via guild port, wizard port, or the PoTranq porter) OR have them Dru/Shm "call"'d back. This will prevent the corpse from auto-poofing, and allow for the necro/sk to summon the corpse to island 3 where an experience rez can be given..thus pulling the character past the broken island 2 onto 3. And of course, this means that you're going to need a minimum of a necro keyed for island 3 from a previous time (when island 2 worked) in order to drag an otherwise unkeyed raid beyond island 2.

I'm sure Drex will update his guide with that info, but in the mean time hope that helps :)

Edited, Apr 5th 2009 1:04pm by Taldiwen

Edited, Apr 5th 2009 1:06pm by Taldiwen

Well, being DTs are no longer 20k hits (much higher now) and are not resistable, sony thought they made things a little more difficult when it came to soloing old school raid mobs. They forgot one thing though. For those of you who haven't noticed, monks get a disc in their 70s called Impenetrable. This disc basically makes it so they take absolutely no damage over something like 30 seconds, but also uses up the whirlwind timer. It's downtime is 3 mins. This disc makes it so that monks can eat a DT and live through it with no questions asked... Now, as far as delivering the 32k dmg in the next 30-40 seconds, that's up to you. I generally invis to the mob, hit impen, wait for it to turn on then engage on monk and beat the snot outta the mob in like 15 seconds. Makes it easy to farm sky mobs and golems in fear.

Edited, Mar 10th 2009 1:59pm by TheDankins

i thought there was a enlightened spirit on the horse island for the shaman epic 1.5.. in the guide there is no /loc so if anyone has some information that would be great! thanks =)

It is called "Cloudy Stone of Veeshan" for approx. 105pp

FYI, I've switched from Comcast to Verizon FIOS and therefore am being hosted on verizon from now on,
though I've switched my email to ymail.

Here are the relevant links:

Drexxell's general games page: http://mysite.verizon.net/drexxell/
EQ page: http://mysite.verizon.net/drexxell/eq
Plane of Sky: http://mysite.verizon.net/drexxell/eq/planeofsky.html
Necro Epic: http://mysite.verizon.net/drexxell/eq/necroepic.html
Necro 1.5: http://mysite.verizon.net/drexxell/eq/necro1point5.html

New email: drexxell@ymail.com

Still working out a few dead links, but should be mostly up and running now.

Can confirm today btw the Mage swarm pets Rancorous Servant, Host of the Elements and Servant of Ro do NOT work up here.....Companion of Necessity (Mem blur pet AA) how ever DOES.

Add that one to the list, the Potions you receive from Mirao Frostpouch in PoK after turning in the /claimed Darvual Crystal do not work in here. Well, at least they didn't 5 minutes ago. Consumed the potion on Azerack Island, one potion disappeared, recast timer started I receive the message that "this spell does not work on this plane"

I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but after thoroughly reading the Plane of Sky guide from Drexxel I thought I'd be ready for all the surprises PoSky had to throw at me. Not quite so...while the port in to island 2 may have been safe before, it no longer is. I got aggro immediately after porting in... I suppose this has to do with the Azarack pathing glitches (although after entering 3 times I have not aggro'd anything from another island).

I advise casting invisibility before entering any aggressive island instead of making assumptions that you'll be safe.

78 cleric here and box 55warrior, will be needing to get spiroc wingblade but firstly id just like to know how to get into PoSky from PoK like alla leads me to believe, exact info would be greatly appreciated. and to answer any questions, im not stupid lol i cant duo PoS but i cant do anything until i get into the zone hehe, on Luclin server here, pst in game if interested in taking down spiroc lord, would greatly appreciate it, thankies -)
plz and ty, later

Since the launch of TBS pathing in Sky went completely ape sh*t.

The (KOS) azeracks from 2 visit near every other island now, including 1 and 7.

Technically they are wimpy but... they are KOS. And everything in Sky assists them.

So if you happen to suddenly get attacked by everything on island 1 - that's why. Well, unless you managed to destroy your Sky faction.

Given the popularity of the zone I expect a fix not before 2030.

Went up to this zone recently knowing a fair amount about what to do and what not to do.

Unfortunatly I wasnt in charge and was not listened to. People seem to have the attitude that this is such a low old world zone that they can just zerg up here with their uber gear.

If you go to POS read Drexels guide link is posted below.

http://home.comcast.net/~drexxell/eq/planeofsky.html

This guide is very well thought out and has key progression charts, graphics, information on every mob spawn cycle and lots of tips. Also dispells many rumors such as "hailing sirran" causing him to agro you (no longer true if it ever was).

In my last experience a supposedly semi decent guild went up and didn't completely clear the islands, or save the boss mobs for last (in their arogance) despite my warnings so three times in a row (3 islands)Sirran went agro at some point during key trades shrinking the raid force each time. To make matters worse they killed Sirran despite my warning not to.

From then on each time sirran spawned it would agro the people that killed it on previous islands, so they killed it again. It is my understanding that this will permantly destroy inhabitants of sky faction including most or all of the quest mobs (Djinn's, Summoners, and other usually non kos mobs).

So, word to the wise. Do it right unless you want to deprive unsuspecting guildies of the ability to quest or progress here forever.

Won't be raiding with that guild again.

Edited, May 18th 2007 1:32am by Databyter

Edited, May 18th 2007 1:36am by Databyter

Edited, May 18th 2007 1:45am by Databyter

Was standing on the Noble island and aggroed an Azarack somehow... Just an FYI incase you feel like AFKing there

Forget it...Don't waste your time trying to do 1.0 warrior epic. We gave up and I did the prequest. In about 10 days I did my pre-quest and epic 1.5. Its more fun to do than 1.0. I have a friend who is on the Firiona Vie server and NO TRADE does not exist. Therefore you can buy all items. BUT,,there was no SPIROC Blade for sale. No ones wants to do Plane of Sky to get the blade to sell because its too much of a pain to do..Waste a lot of time....Not worth the effort..unless you want a trophy.

Oh almost forgot...if you have the keys to the islands...DON'T destroy them..you may need for another class. I believe there are potions of 2.0 epic that have to be done there..they have no choice..

My guildmate, Drexxell, has spent months working on a guide to the Plane of Sky. He has given me permission to post it to help others.

http://home.comcast.net/~drexxell/eq/planeofsky.html

Edited, Sat Jan 21 14:16:09 2006

Each Isle of sky has mobs on it that drop bits for key parts. Now days – once you get a key you have it until they patch / nerf it back to the old days – don’t know if they ever will I hope not. Keys from sky do not go on your key ring. You have to keep them in your favorite bag. You loot a key bit from mobs as you clear an Isle and after you kill the boss of an Isle Sirran the Lunatic the lunatic spawns (think Goofydoofy but with a different name – don’t kill him cause the faction hit is allegedly bad, makes you KOS to the normally non KoS sky mobs. Havn’t tried it nor do I intend to). You hand in your key bit that you looted to Sirran and he gives you the key to the next Isle. On Isle one you get 2 key bits – one goes to nobles Isle (which has a port pad to Isle 2 azzerak) and one key goes to Isle 2 Nobles.

Isle 1. fairy isle. Has fairy chicks on it. They are a joke. Kill them until everyone has their key bit. Then kill the princess. Not required to kill the entire Isle in order to kill princess or spawn Sirran. Princess is a joke. Ranjaling could tank her.

Isle 2. Azzerak Isle. Aggro. Click in invis and run to the opposite side ashtray (south if I recall) Essentially run the way you are facing when you click up unless you are facing an edge. Drag any agro from dropped invis with you. Kill all the azzeraks. They cast whirlbolt or somesuch on you – makes you spin and levitate but you are NOT stuned. Use page up and page down if you can’t look around with mouse look. They used to be a pain when you got a lot at once – now it just makes clearing the Isle faster. There is ONE azarak that stubbornly refuses to pull – put your pets on it – and they will chase him around – nuke it when he passes it. Oh yah. Apparently BL pets are fixed, necro pets are a wisp – and only mage Air pets work. This mob will Prolly die on the Isle – but sometimes he doesn’t. shrug. Once that dude is dead the boss will pop. Not really harder than the rest of the azzaraks. Each azzarak and the boss drops broken mirrors or somesuch as their key bits. Loot them until Sirran spawns and turn them in when he does. (this Isle might only drop bits for 22 keys)

Isle 3 Gorgo. Not really a hard isle. It is non agro when you zone up although everything up there will assist. Best way to clear this isle is to not whine about rebuffs. Pull the eyeballs to pets and the rest of the isle to the raid and stomp on them. Am considering clearing the Isle in one big train and doing AOE. I need to check - I am thinking Stun didn't work right up here - have to test that out sometime. There are 3 mobs in the middle of the zone that you don’t want to pull until you are ready to spawn Sirran. The middle on is “THE Gorgolask” or some such. Make sure he dies after all other mobs in agro are dead or you get sirran running around aggroing the raid which is a PITA.

Isle 4. Yawn Isle. This Isle is like a mini version of VZ in tactics or more accuratly like the Dust Ring event in plane of Air(pop). There are 6 mobs up here (ok there is a 7th but he is for a lame karena dru/cler Shield quest) each one you kill spawns 2. each of them spawns one when killed (which spawns another maybe - Whichever - Tamer is the last in the chain). So – each mob you pull spawns 4(or 6 I forget) total mobs. You want to kill the first mob and its 4 spawns as FAST AS POSSIBLE. Why? Cause the boss doesn’t spawn for 70 minutes until the first spawn chain is dead so better do that now. Then the raid spends about 10 – 15 minutes killing the rest of the spawn chains. At this time most of the raid can take a 30 minute AFK. Some of the raid will hang out – and do any corpse summons at this point. Any late raiders that don’t have a key set will want to get a ride up to Isle 1 – get a raid invite, die, get a rez – have an SK or Necro summon their body to Isle 4( the one we are on) and take a second rez to catch up to their raid. Yawn after any late raiders are corpse summoned to the raid – the rest of the raid starts to show back up from AFK. 70 minutes or so after you killed the first chain – KoS spawns (Keeper of Souls). He is a 32k hit point mob and DTs every 45 seconds starting with whoever you sent in as a sac. If your raid can’t kill KoS in 44 seconds before a second DT you suck. (DT = death touch. Death touch will kill you. DA/DB/HS bard DA doesn’t protect you. If you send in a pet the owner will get DTed) After you kill KOS you can turn in your bird whistle bit to get your avian key.

Isle 5 Spiroc. Might as well invis – even tho the port up spot is mostly out of agro range – click up. As I recall – you do a 180 and run to the edge. There should be a “slight” slope on the right – park the raid at the corner of the flat spot and that slight edge. You can pull the entire Isle to that spot and not agro SL or GL. Here is the deal with Spiroc Isle. There are 3 groups of mobs. They are all agro tethered to their Spiroc Vanquisher. A clever monk or bard or SK or necro I guess can single pull groups of spirocs(group = vanquisher and 3- 4 spiroc buddys). You can spend some time trying to split the groups. I don’t think I will waste time on this anymore. Tank and tank each vanquisher you get. AOE stun then Mez the remaining spirocs that came into camp. Kill all the vanquishers in camp first then kill the rest. IF – IF you accidently get the Spiroc lord (unlikely if you have only one puller) or the SPiroc Guardian in your camp. Kill them first. SL first as he is a death toucher. Make sure you NEVER kill the Spiroc Guardian no matter what when he is in camp unless there is at least one other spiroc alive. If you do you won’t get to farm SL for Spiroc wingblades. So anyhow – say that SG was aggroed --- kill him – and make sure to leave a spiroc alive. If he was in camp - mez the heck out of him – and memblur him until there is no tomorrow – move the raid away from the spiroc – and invis up. Dedicate a chanter to remez – memblur --- memblur – and invis up and see if clear of agro. If clear – wait for him to path away when mez breaks – SG will respawn.

[ if you never aggroed the SG you can ignore all the discussion about membluring the last spiroc etc. Just leave SG up if you nbever aggro him and clear the rest of the Isle.]

Pull and kill that spiroc that was just memblured. Move raid towards the SL spawn a bit but not far. Send in your DT sac to SL and then pull him. Kill Sirran spawns – everyone turns in their key bits and gets their key. Move the raid in the last valley before SL’s spawn point on the pad to Isle 6 There will be some nice Spiroc houses there. Chill. Leave one person to chain hail Sirran. This “should” keep him from despawning unless he is bugged. Now – you chain sac your DT sac on SL and pull him and kill him – until everyone at the raid has their Spiroc wingblade looted from his bloody corpse plus 1 – 5 MQs so your guild doesn’t have to come up to this damn isle again. When you are satisfied that your DT sac has Deleveled enough – stop chain hailing Sirran. Pull SG and kill him – then charge and kill SL. Raid invis up for next isle.

Do you have to be any specific lvl to get into this zone. Can someone give me a walk threw on how to get there. PLS

After reading a lot of stuff about Sky, it seems that one fairly important thing has not been mentioned...

The general pattern for each isle is to clear the "standard" MOBs, collecting key parts, then kill the boss. When the boss dies, a halfling NPC named "Sirran the Lunatic" spawns. You hail him (and should chain hail him until complete) and every person turns in the key parts to obtain their key.

It has been mentioned that you should NOT /SAY anything to him, even though there are [hints] in his responses for followup. Conversation beyond hailing typically results in a "LOADING, PLEASE WAIT..." message.

What has NOT been mentioned is how Sirran the Lunatic aggros. He seems awfully like the druids at various circles around Norrath... He does not like it when you beat on the local fauna.

Our puller pulled the Gorgolask (named boss) and another MOB at the same time. We had 3 groups, average level 61, pretty heavy in the casting department...

As the well-trained unit we are, we, of course, concentrated our efforts on the named first, off-tanking the add with pets to keep it busy. WRONG.

Boss (Gorgolask) died, Sirran the Lunatic spawned and went on a rampage, killing each member of the raid one at a time. For the record, he quads for about 1200 and moves FAST.

BOttom line, you CAN kill the boss safely on some islands without clearing the island first. However, when you DO kill the boss to spawn the halfling, make SURE that you are not currently aggro'd on anything else or you will get slammed hard. I do not know if having an add mezzed will piss him off, but we will not try. We'll hold the boss and kill the add(s) first in the future.

62 Necro
59 Pally
Drinal

is camo up before entering the agro isles and get safely to a spot to pull to...if someones camo wears off tell them to stand and die...rez them after everyone is safely to the pull spot.

there going to be deaths in sky...fact of life..20k DT's and bad pulls are going to happen.

the question about the third isle for the quest turn ins...well....my ranger haste item turn in was right in the quest room...hailed the npc got the book read it and turned it back into him...he despawned and another npc spawned in which i turned my pieces in to and i had my item.

i believe the quest room is part of the third isle.

ok so we all know a bit about the islands from reading all this but some one forgot o say how u get the keys and how the hell you get to the people who give u quests. I know how to get the first two keys of the vender on the first island but were on earth (or Sky) do i go from there?

I've seen it asked several times with no response. I'm working on finishing up the ranger epic and need to get to island 5. How does one get there. Furthermore, if someone who knows the zone cares to help everone out, they could write up a nice guide to getting around. That would be greatly appreciated.

Finally got the link working. This is the best guide I've seen to the Plane of Sky:

http://www.aotg.net/eq/plane_of_sky_guide_by.htm


Edited, Sat Feb 7 12:25:40 2004

I am posting more to get some useful information about PoSky and the first island of Azarack. There is very little information about PoSky so we walked in fairly blindly (twice). This was my experience..

We had our Wiz port us to the main island (I guess thats what I would call it). We purchased all 3 keys available from the key master since we were unsure of which one to use. This cost around 320 pp per person. We found the one to get to the first island was the Key of Misplaced (or something like that...forgive me, i might be slightly wrong on the name but the other keys were called something entirely different)

To enter the island you just have the key in had and click on the portal anywhere. This was one of the main reasons we wiped out in a matter of a few seconds because we did not know what key and how to use it so we entered the island sporatically instead of together. The Azaracks aggro covered some distance and they all came at us. This was with 2 full groups.

We returned, summoned corpses, and rezzed. A note came out saying the server was going to be brought down so we ended our raid.

We returned some hours later with a greater force..3.5 groups. We entered the island again ..this time in groups. Unfortunately, there were no mobs up yet. we waited for quiet some time and finally called the raid. After about half the raid leaped off the island..POP!

One Azarack popped on the hill closest to the portal. We killed it with ease. I am not sure if the Protector of the Sky spawned because of the kill or if it was due to a timer but he popped. He spawns in the air above the area that you first zone onto the island. He does, in fact, not come after you until you have created some damage on him. He was killed fairly easily.

After less than a minute, Sirran the lunatic spawned over his corpse. You are not suppose to /say or /hail anything or it will set him off. After a few minutes two more Azaracks spawned on top of the same place as the first did.

They popped at the same time. They aggro immediately and once you engage into battle it triggers Sirran to attack you. He does hit for 2000hps and killed most everyone in a matter of seconds.

We returned, summoned corpses, and rezzed. We were not kos on the main island as some of the posts suggest..maybe this was fixed.

Now, I am hoping that someone with true experience on this island can assist with some information. We are planning to do this again and have decided we should not kill the Protector until the rest of the spawns are dead.

It would be nice to hear some more stategies on this before our next attempt. Also, was wondering if they fixed the spawn problem on the last Azarack that wouldnt spawn.

How many HP does Sirran have? since he hits for 2000hp..how do you survive? How do you keep the protector off of you until last since the mobs are not suppose to mez well...maybe root??

appreciate the advise

A 65 Necro, 58 Druid, 57 Chanter, 56 Ranger and 53 Pally. Goal is 4th island for Ranger Epic.

Can this group make it OK? If not, who would you add? Or does this really require a full raid.

This group is fine with VSR and the Hole.

-wogai