Plane of Fear

Server maintenance states all QUEST items are 100% dropped from now on. Is this just for the new, upcoming expansion?
I'ts 7:10 and server is due up in an hour. Hoping to be the first one up in PoFear before I start my day and take care of all 3 golems and maybe even Cazic Thule himself. Been hard as hell getting the Slime Blood of Cazic Thule (necromancer epic 1.0 piece) and everyone in the bazaar is Just ******* Stupid if they want to charge over 3k for it (and yes, theyre charging around 150k AND farming the crap out of PoFear too just for it). This is my last bloody piece needed but I might have to just skip it, do the prequest for 1.5 after listening to all the others who've cmaped the golems for days, weeks, months with no luck.

What gave these a-holes the right to not only camp all the golems but sell all the pieces for unobtainable amounts of coin???

Cleared the 3 golems at least 4 times now trying to get Slime Blood of Cazic-Thule for my necromancer so i can complete the necromancer epic. I have yet to see the gloves that i need. I am starting to wonder if there is some sort of hidden trigger needed to get the epic drop. Sounds stupid but there is no reason for the gloves to be so rare. I have had bad luck in Everquest before though so this isn't exactly surprising. Plane of Fear is almost constantly camped and cleared. It took me nearly 2 months to get the opportunity to clear the golems the 4 times i have. I have seen every other drop that the 3 golems can drop with the exception of the Slime Blood. I am not going to pay 150k+ for them in the bazaar.

On a side note if you do clear Fear and see drops. Don't just let them rot. Call them out in general chat or join each class channel and call it out. I usually join shaman channel and mention when the iksar broodling is up. Or warrior when ball of everliving golem drops or shadowknight when soul leech drops. Some times i get ignored but other times people come running to fear. I know a lot of people on the cazic-thule server don't do that because they are worried people will figure out the golems spawn time and lock em down but its bs letting epic drops rot. EDIT: 5 times. No slime blood.

Server came down unexpectedly. When they came back up i was able to kill one of the golems.. I think it was Dread. Of course it didn't drop the slime blood of cazic-thule. I figured i would ask the other person in the zone if they had seen the slime blood of cazic-thule. The person let me know that 2 of them were rotting. I was finally able to get the gloves thanks to that person and an extra pair as well. If i had to keep camping for the gloves. No way i would have gotten them any time soon.

Edited, Dec 11th 2013 8:09pm by Rickymaru

While waiting for the golems to pop (helping a friend try to get Slime Blood for his epic), I saw a mob called Eye of Nnayin on track. Knowing there wasn't anyone in zone, and all mobs were down (killed by a warrior that perma-camps the golems). I ran around frantically trying to find this guy. I could get right over it, but could never target it. I wonder if it is like https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=20205" rel="external nofollow" title="https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=20205">Nattop Ekim in Plane of Sky? Anyone know anything about this?

I was doing the same as everyone else.. waiting for things to spawn.. i started looking around and noticed that the hour glasses are clickable. i used levitate and ran from the firey tower place and clicked the hourglasses and they both stopped spinning, does anyone know if this is going anywhere or does anything, as it must do why else would sony bother.


any ideas?

The entrance area is NOT safe. Mobs wander right thru it. Some See invis.

The zone might be empty, it's camped a lot, so no problem, but it might be full of mobs.

Mobs have a LONG agro distance. Expect many adds. Be able to fight them or gate out.

The entrance is a one way gate. You can see it, but it will not take you back out.

There are 2 ways out of the zone.
1. Gate or port out.
2. The actual exit is in the tower in the ring of fire. Unless the tower has been cleared, it's almost impossible to use it. The tower has 3 or 4 levels, the exit is in one of the middle ones on the west side of the temple

Evac will get you to the SW corner. Lots of mobs around unless you've cleared them first or someone else has. A gate to somewhere else might be better than an evac for some people.



Edited, Dec 7th 2009 6:47pm by morromid

have they changed the respawn timers on the golems or the varaince time on them cause i went and killed 2 of the golems and had friend that gave me time on the 3rd and all was due to repop on same day dif times. i went and spent over 18 hrs waiting on repops on the 3rd day and nothing not a one of them repoped. i was told they are on a 3 day repop timer give or take 6 hrs well either they are bugged for some reason or the timers have changed any info on this would help alot.

As an unbuffed level 66 druid I walked -- or zoned, rather -- into this place and got attacked by a scareling and a shiverback immediately upon zoning. Whatever, whatever... "a scareling hits YOU for 103" "a shiverback hits YOU for 141" I rooted and seperated, but by this time a little spider came out of nowhere and chased me all over the flipping hills. Within two minutes I was down to 55% health and had a train of approximately fifteen mobs which continued increasing in size the more I ran. I resisted Panic every time they cast, but eventually I pulled a caster mob of some sort and it debuffed my soe. Shortly after the debuffing, I got killed. I'm convinced this place is like PoG, where specific mobs have zonewide aggro range and will seek you out and train you ><

Lesson learned -- bring a friend to PoFear...invis wouldn't be a bad idea either. Just to warn you, the big red thing you zone in at cannot be clicked/ran into to zone out. According to my map, you have to go northeast, and I started making my way there when I realized it was surrounding by a wall of fire. Whether or not this fire-engulfed thing was the place where the zone-out could be found, I'm not sure, but you don't have much time to get to it if you wind up in the same situation I did.

By the way, I DID have a port memmed, I just didn't have any opportunity to cast it -- even when it was just the first two mobs.

The imp has been hard to spawn lately, and his blood essence is NOT mqable, meaning find a zerker before you down him! 6 fear clearings and no imp =(

Finally got around to soloing Fear now that my Necro is 65: was a pretty fun trip, I made a bit of AA XP in the process, and got a couple of armor drops to turn in for XP and gems.

Basically I just zoned in, ran to the west wall, and FD-ed. Then I discovered there was a raid on, so I invised and camped out for the night :).

Logged back on the next day and started clearing out the mobs with a mix of fear-kiting and aggro-kiting along the west wall, using Embracing Darkness, Saryn's Kiss, Funeral Pyre and Invoke Fear. Initially it was tricky not to get adds and on the first pull I had to FD and lose the pet due to the three friends it brought along, but the more wanderers I killed the easier it became.

FD splitting some of the buildings was tough because of casters, but fortunately they don't hit too hard or nuke too hard by modern standards, so the worst cost was a dead pet and some sitting and medding before the next pull. Provided you take it slow and don't pull scarelings early on there's no real problem. Even then the scarelings only proc shadow step when they hit you, so provided they're feared or aggro-kited it's fine.

Got called for a raid before I had time to get too far into the zone, but I'd cleared out the south-west corner pretty well up to the Boogeymen (still trying to get the arms drop, since it would actually be an upgrade to my cheap gear) and had started clearing out to the north-west. All I can say is, the aggro pathing in the zone is very, very strange: sometimes mobs (particularly the few light blues) would walk right past me, other times they'd run from the limits of visibility and bring friends.

In a few places I also found that the mob wouldn't run towards me after I snared it: it actually ran away or stood still. I had to get close in to make it come towards me away from its friends!

All in all, it's worth a trip for a solo Necro: a moderately scary zone since much of the time it appears to be empty but you know if you put a foot in the wrong place then half a dozen mobs will come running... but provided you avoid aggroing the DT mobs there's not too much risk :). Of course, be ready for a nasty CR if the KoS Imp is up!

Edited, Mon Oct 25 22:41:18 2004

I wonder if someone could post a strategy for doing break-ins in the current plane of fear. With that beserker epic mob, it can be a real pain. Is there any spot within the zone that is agro-free? A safe spot for CR's? Also, is it better to zone in one character at a time and run to the break-in spot or better to all zone in. In the past if the entire raid zoned in, there would be hell to pay. Our guild did an attempt last week, and we all zoned in at once. We were doing ok at the zone in spot in clearing mobs but suddenly we were overwhelmed with dozens of mobs and we were wiped. This led to a five hour CR. We finally got three other guilds to come help us clear enough of an area to do CR's. Any tips would be great.