Firiona Vie

In my short experience in Kunark as a lvl 17 druid my first great problem was to travel across firiona vie heading to Swamp of No Hope or the Lake of ill omen, without being slained by a drachind, a froglock or any creature roaming around. In my first two attemps I figured that i can easily do it with sow and camouflage (druid invis) and following the road to Swamp, great mistake. There are aggresive mobs everywhere, and u know invis can fade at any time. In addition, there are mobs that can see through invis and i can assure u that sow would not help you to overrun them after the two very high point hits you are going to take before u notice u are in trouble. Just to give you an idea of how painful can those hits be, i´ll say that the third one will take u directly back to your bind point, and then you are going to start wondering how are you going to recover your stuff with all those high lvl monsters around. In my case, i have to wait for a kind high lvl bard to drag my corpse back and that service cost me a pretty high amout of pp (for my lvl of course).

Well, in my third attempt i put in practice a tecnique that i read about before, but applied to trips from Qeynos to Freeport for very low lvls. I decided to follow the shore to the west after leaving the bridge that connects the elven outpost with the rest of the firiona vie zone and run without stopping till the zone end (eyes wide open of course). u will find some cliffs there that are the western border of the zone, climb and follow them to the north running as high as you can,and you will first reach the dreadlands entrance (a tunnel sorrounded with ruins that u can pass walking on the cliff over it) then the Lake of Ill Omen entrance (easy to find cause the only river that u will find on your way leads to it) and if you cross the river and continue running along the cliffs you will finally reach Swamp of no Hope. The cliffs are not in a straight line, so u will always have to be in attention about the zone border, always stay very, very close to it. I have done this two times (once going to swamp and once returning) and have absolute no problem, just a few mobs roaming around, few enough to keep an eye on them while you run. In those two crossings i only see two drachnids an a firiona drixie and can easily avoid them, great difference with the road where u can see a mob everywhere you turn along almost all the way.

Hope this help u reach your destination in Kunark.

Asuran
Lvl 17 human druid
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Would a Dark Elf Shadow Knight be KOS here, just wondering. This place looks pretty cool.

I'd just like to know if there's some secret to gettin' past'em to get to the Lake, and Invis/Camo sometimes works, but some can see trough Invis/Camo, and I'd like to know how I can get past'em easy, and if you raise Faction with the Mayong Mistmoore then will you still be KoS with those stupid Drachnids? thenks for any help, Peace.

I'm not sure if gornit does, but the other ones do, or at least some of them.

This would be a good way for an evil race to have firiona vie as high as they can before even going to kunark.

One odd thing is that these are pirates of gunthark faction, as are the bandits in timorous. The odd thing is that i am WARMLY with all of these, though I was once KOS. This means somehow my druid got pirates of gunthark THROUGH THE ROOF. Yet I searched the beastarity for kills which raise it, and allakhazams faction database for quests which raise it, and I came up empty.

How in the world did i get pirates of gunthark to warmly as a wood elf druid of tunare, when I remember it being kos?

First off I saw a post from an ogre complaining about how difficult it is for evil races in firiona vie. Evil races (ogre, trolls, DE's) should catch the barrel barge that leaves from the docks in Oasis of Marr. This takes them to ogre island on the timorous deep, where they must change boats to get to the Overthere, where there is a dark elf outpost for you to bank/shop etc..
Heaven help you if somehow you are an evil race with bad DE faction, as then kunark becomes a whole lot harder. For good races, catch the shuttles in Butcherblock to "the maidens voyage"...this takes you to the firiona vie docks, and if you are a good race/class/deity your faction will be good: no way to make them KOS without fighting in Kunark. The same applies to evil races: you need to go to kunark to get your Firiona Vie faction up. However - in one of the huts are several barbarians that I think are on the "Clan McMannus" faction - so be careful even once your FV faction is good. The main problem for all younger travellers to kunark is that save the actual town itself, the zone of FV is very very dangerous, as higher level creatures such as drachnids (evil DE/spider crossbreeds) and frenzied leeches (massive writhing worm things) are very common. If you do happen to get one on you, and cant outrun it, look for a pilgrim or a firiona drixie (butterfly), and head for that. They will always attack the creature, usually svaing you dying. Some of the drachnids can be hunted from about lvl 27 with care, but they are very social (means you always pull a crowd), have a horrible root, and nasty poison, so I dont reccomend this. The best place for anyone to hunt who is lower level is the lake of ill omen. To get there, just leave FV by the bridge, turn left and follow the water line. It will eventually form a little stream which if you follow up the hillside will lead to the lake zone. This area is often teaming with drachnids so be careful. If you cant either sneak past them, feign death, or SoW yourself, then ask around for some help, usually someone is killing higher level monsters in the zone and wont mind giving a few buffs. Many people have stated that the drachnids dont see through invis, but they have attacked me whil invis many times, so be cautious! Once you get into lake of ill omen, things are much safer. Invis will keep you safe, except from the sabretooth cats (not too hard), the skeletons (not too hard again) , and the goblin/sarnak casters (very dangerous, be careful even when grouped). This place has lots of hutning spots, people often camp the sarnak fortress, the goblin tunnels, and smaller groups usually just sit by the shore line and pull the occasional wandering sarnak/gobbie/skeleton. Generally this place is good exp from levels 18+
Once you have gotten past the deathtrap of FV it becomes alot easier.
Hope this has been of some help.

Warning: This zone is bad for evil characters. Unless your FV faction is good, I would recommend avoiding FV completely.

As a druid I can tell you there is no better place to go from 35-40 then FV. One early tip tho: DO NOT USE WOLFFORM EVER IN THIS ZONE! It causes the drixies to attack you! The experience received from the Drolvargs is amazing. 3 levels in 3 days (36 to 39) here. You can probably start earlier as some of the easier ones were green to me. The order of easiest to hardest goes savage, scavanger, growler, then snarler. At 40 there are some growlers that con green and some blue but all snarlers are blue and give decent exp still. I usually start at the southeast zone corner. Just take a right after you cross the bridge from FV and hug the cliffs. Be careful not to fall off the cliff otherwise you have to go all the way back to the bridge to get up top. The pilgrims and drixies will attack any dog that gets near them but the snarlers and growlers can win one-on-one vs a pilgrim or weaker drixie. This can be good and bad. Ever so often you will run into one who just killed a drixie or a pilgrim and is low on health which gives you an easy kill. However, the flip side is you will be occasionally KS'd by a wondering pilgrim or drixie. If they get the last hit in, they get the kill regardless of how much damage you did. The Drolvargs drop coin (1-4pp) and rarely drop medium bronze (I've got a full set now hehe). They also drop the occasional Canine which can be turned into Captain Neilath (sp?) in FV 4 at a time for coin, exp, and some elven trailmix (food).

Once you reach 41 you might want to move to the Forest giant camp. I wouldn't recommend a soloing druid for that camp before level 41 because of the high resists you will get. The best place to pull forest giants to is the area just before the zone to the swamp of no hope. No wondering monsters and lots of room to move around. Only Forest giant Arbors spawn here except for the rare spawn of a Verdant. The camp itself is a 3 spawn camp and I believe the spawns are on 6 minute timers =). The Verdants are tougher and have a lot more HP's then the Arbors so be careful if you plan on taking one of them down. The giants drop great loot: 1-6pp, the ocassion weapon (ranging from 10-30pp at vendors), Lumberjack Caps, Axes of the Iron Back, the occasional tunic (50-60pp at vendors) and the very rare forest loop. You can reach level 46 by killing giants here.

Every "good" NPC in this zone, except for two, are on the faction FirionaVie. Assuming you are high enough to be able to farm faction the best place to do it is in Warsliks Woods at the goblin fort. 33 goblin spawns on fast timers, with the occasionaly Grachnist for his loot. It takes 1500 goblins to get non-KOS and 400 more to make the vendors deal with you.
The two non-FirionaVie NPCs are in the back of the shaman guild on the docks, one glares at me and one scowls at me and I still have no clue what faction they are on.