Mines of Nurga 2.0

WOOT! ... Took a SK this time, friend of a friend brought him in with my rogue. Slaves were a cake walk and low . . after only 5 or 6 dropped the ore. Off runs my rogue to BB to do the turn in (had the gem, and the 500p waiting) and lo .. some Ogre PC is KILLING the mob for easy XP!!!
Sigh. Sit down to wait, figure he's got to get tired sometime .. and the 60th Lvl Ogre almost dies fighting our mob .. cause he goes LD.

Rogue hails the mob ... away from the ogre, to keep it off him .. and does the turn it. Whistler is now in the possession of one 40th lvl Rogue, Named Pril Slyckfinger. Hehe. Thank you LD Ogre.

one note of WARNING ::: after the turn in . computer froze up solid. Keyboard worked but couldn't open inventory, mouse wouldn't right click .. ended up /q to get out and reset. Came back and everything was fine ... soooo maybe the quest is still bugged. BUT it worked for moi. WOOOT

Edited, Fri Nov 29 23:49:39 2002

Goblin forged stuff drops from random goblins now. It is not lore and sells from 10pp+ to a vendor (sold bracer for 11pp and legs for 13pp so far).

I do not think Gi is dropping now.

There is a new rare drop in Nurga: Brick of Deathmountain ore or something like that, wt 15.0. Drops from goblins that are much more nastier now and rate is like 20% or so. Got 2 pieces from 8 dead gobs.

Anyone knows where it goes? EQTraders do not have any info on it yet

Would XP be good for a 35 cleric here, or should I find somewhere else to camp

Looted a Dai Nozok Skull Canopic off the
overseer today.
Any clues as to what it's for?
It looks like a pickle jar.

THANKS.

Not much for loot in here I think verant go lazy on this one. I dont think there are any bosses either or none that I have seen. The exp is good and safe place to kill at since spawns are spread aprt pretty good. Well have fun here and watch the pathing its wierd in here and Droga

I got a NODROP item called "niccolite" off "A Burynai Slave" today. The item looks like a green stone and is NODROP. Anyone know what it is for?

(Of course, the last post in here was November. Nobody even looks in here anymore. So much for Verant upping the experience bonus making the zone see more traffic.)

This is the first time I have come to this zone and I find I cannot bind myself there. What gives?? I have never found a dungeoun I couldn't bind myself in

Siacay got her directions reversed. The climbable waterfall is to the right as you zone in. The large races (Ogre, Troll, Barbarian) require shrink to be able to climb it.

Another thing, this zone is actually good from 30 up. Lower level groups can simply hunt goblins instead of progessing farther down and hunting spiders or Burynai. One small hint. If you're going to fight more than 2 (3 max), don't, just invis and skip the room. There are so many paired spawns (except for maybe Burynai at the bottom) that you really never have to fight more than two. Also, pathing can be weird. In one room mobs will teleport around to get at whoever they happen to be mad at and in one room the mobs just stop when feared. (No I will not disclose this room as I'm pretty sure it's considered an exploit).

And lastly, a warning. This is the only place I've ever seen it happen (other than the newbie zones which is actually something different occurring I think). The goblins, and possibly the spiders and burynai but I haven't hunted them, can double spawn, as in 2 goblins spawning in one spot instead of one.

ok, when you zone in, you come to a pool of water - to the left is a high waterfall which small charachters or shrinked charachters can swim up - to the right is a helluva drop to a pool of water, with a cave at the bottom. i havent gone to the right, but the left path is fun - start with some gobbys, same kinds you will find outside, and end up in the spider area. the spiders are great for xp, with a full lvl 35 group - somewhat like spiders in lower guk. past the spiders you'll find the buryani area, which is fairly well covered by natsuko in his earlier post today.

siacay

My druid first came here at 49, and got xp on some of the rockshapers and cenobytes. This zone is great for many reasons:

1) you can invis/camo to the area where the rockshapers and cenobytes or whatever you are fighting are. Only the spiders see through invis but you can avoid their areas since NOTHING wanders here.

2) once at your quarry, things don't seem to have a very wide aggro range either and at least in the case of the rockshapers/cenobytes they are fairly far apart. A group can start at either end and work their way along.

3) Any cenobyte has a chance to drop the burynai legion GI, ac 14 plus 25 mana, plus 2 dex, resembles a cryosilk or robe of foci graphic, but kind of a brown with nice detailing and those eyes at the top. The item is lore. You kill rockshapers to make cenobytes spawn, who then have a chance of dropping the robe. While it is fairly rare and takes time to get if you are alone, a 6 person or so group could each get one AND lots of xp doing this up to level 45 plus. The cenobytes do heal a lot when hurt, so 49 min level or so and ability to cast/damage shield is pretty needed to take them out solo. A group would need heavy firepower, healing, damage dealing also. 35 might be too low, not sure.

This area is EXTREMELY under used. As a 52 druid on an established server (tribunal) I am almost ALWAYS the only person here when I go, or at least the only person doing the rockshapers cenobytes. Since they are no xp I hardly bother unless I am in the area and getting a robe. I have sold a robe for as much as 600 plat but I find them more practical as trades. For example, I managed to get a forest loop from someone for 600 plat of istead of the 1 k or so that people usually sell for by kicking in a burynai legion gi into the offer. I find trading more fun than just outright selling, and they probabaly had a twink who could use it or a friend.

The Gi is any robe wearing cleric model class (in other words, dwarf clerics can't wear it - no robe model for the 3d character)