The Firepots  

I have recieved an official response from a GM about the pots - The GM tested the pots from Qeynos Catacombs and it took them to Toxx Forest Necro Hut. They tried the pot there and it took them back to Qeynos.

He wouldn't give me a response on what the one in neriak would do. But my guess is these are definately a transportation system for some necromancy group. Probably the heretics or Miragul. Here are my conversations with the GM:

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They don't go back to TD :)

I did it and found it! Of coarse to get there you have to take Firiona Vei instead of Oasis, But I found it. Very nice though. A good altrenative to PoK because IT's less laggy. However, the topic of having a water dragon guarding it (said by the Cursed Traveler) or any other guardian of the type is still a myth to me.

Also I would like to say; Binding in TD, top half and bottom, is posseble. My mage uses the pot rooms for travel, and is bound in the room, and has been bound at the oasis docks. This is my MAGE, whom can bind himself. The fact of binding melee though may still stay in affect-- Melee must be bound at city locations!

Edited, Sun Jan 2 13:23:27 2005

my 28th lvl cleric on karana server did bind in the pots room on the date of 07/23/02 and i did "pot" out and gate in, you mat not be able to bind in tims deep but in this room you can, so says Hogiee AuJus :) Church all

My bard is bound almost exclusivly in East Freeport, from there selo's/lev or travel song makes it a fast trip to Oasis and then to Timorous Deep and from the raft zone in/ogre island you simply head south to loc -12260, +4365! Once you get close look for the tips of these combine spires (wizard spires) sticking out of the water, the rest is underwater. If you don't have bard speed or swim skill you can also wait for the boat on the ogre isle and jump off at the "chessboard isle" past the shipwrecks to save some swimming or slow levitation time.

Go down the square in the ocean floor in the middle of the "spires" making sure NOT TO USE MOUSELOOK and to use arrow keys on the keyboard for movement as one wrong mouse swipe and you can be in the wrong city! You don't need enduring breath or levitation and the fall isn't that bad although I usually use lev for over water travel so I just float down. There are fire gators in the general area (tracking classes can look for gators to get close) who conned scowling to my half elf and were around level 25-30ish but I've never had one aggro and have no idea if they do aggro or how hard they are to fight. Faydadar the dragon is also rumored to spawn around here although I must admit I have never seen him on track all the times I've been there.

The firepots will become familiar once you use them as they usually match those within the destination city. I rarely have to check my printout anymore to remember a city unless it's one I hardly travel to. I try to invis myself before jumping to anyplace where I'm KoS although most pots leave you in a spot away from any NPCs I seem to remember one or two destinations being near guards. If you have alternate characters I suggest taking one with invisibility, gate and levitation there first to get a feel for how the whole thing works but anyone can use them although you will have trouble leaving any city if you are KoS to their guards. Using a firepot requires a simple left-click and does not break invisibility.

I hope everyone finds these as useful as I have, they are a great way to make your character less dependant on wizards and druids for transportation.

It's a shame you can no longer bind there, guess all the GM's didn't want their druid characters to feel useless. =p Seriously though. I have a shaman alt that uses these pots all the time. I am bound at the docks in Firiona vie and yes, it is a small wait sometimes but worth it in my opinion, and upon entering TD I get on the first shuttle and ride it to chessboard isle. From here I have my bearings, levy, run to the pots, and poof, I'm in Halas. No fuss, no bugging the clerics and wizzies for ports, that still won't get me as close to my destination as I'd like. I suppose I was lucky, the first time I ever found the pots, there was an erudite enchanter sitting there inside, naked, waiting to be rezzed that showed me which ones took you to where. Might have even been the above enchanter that posted. Kudos to you if you play on Xev. I carefully mapped it out and have enjoyed this convenient mode of transportation ever since. It's there, use it, just make sure you can gate out if you pick the wrong one. ;)

Well, people, I myself can say that I am not totally sure what the keys are, but when iw as running around getting to OT, I decided to forage like mad, and while in the TD zone with a foraging skill of 120, i foraged a key, i forget the exact name, but it was a key that loked like a shell, any clue on this one guys?

Is the rings that hold the room with the pos in the ocean and if so is it below water or above water and how far off shore is this?

There seems to be some confusion as to what Miragul's Highway seems to be. The Highway itself is a series of firepots, one leading to the next, and bi-directional. A GM did confirm to me that the Tox firepot leads to (and from) the one in QCat. I expect there is another in Qeynos that leads to (probably) Neriak.

My current theory is that Miragul's Highway is an underground railway, of sorts, for the transportation of Evils. Do any evil classes get Port or TL? No. They get the Highway!

The Firepot Room *may* be connected to the Highway, but it is not (in itself) THE Highway.

I've been documenting it at http://how.to/stayhidden

After swimming through the tunnel and dropping down into the firepot room there are several 'Firepots' lining each wall, to get to any particular city you must know the light source (firepot) that is used to light that city e.g. The tall dark blue one with the green bubbles is Akanon, the city of the gnomes and the tall golden vase is Cabilis. You then left-click on the firepot of the city you wish to go to and you get 'LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...' and end up in that particular city.
You do not require keys to use them and cannot bind herem, any race may use them as well. The only danger there is the dragon 'Faydedar' who I myself have not yet seen but was extremely wary of on my first trip there.

To get there I just started off on the ogre island and swam south until I hit the zone wall, then west if I had not already seen the Entrance, once in the SW corner of the zone I turned to face NE and after a couple of minutes swimming I saw something up ahead and the great 4 spires of a wizard teleport beacon emerged out the gloom it was then a simple matter of swimming down the hole in the middle (keeping an eye out for Faydedar) and clicking the firepot for Cabilis.
I hope this helps anyone on their first journey there.

Is it like a normal port, where you can cast invis beforehand? Or will the act of clicking on the firepot bring down your invis? I have bad faction in all of these cities (except FP), but would still like to use them.

Thanks