Estate of Unrest

Ok...im thinkin about farming this zone...its pretty good drops and not a lot of people in the zone(ive seen maxe of 5)...i dont know my way around...thinking about goin after the Dwarven Work Boots...Can u give me some advice...i got a good druid friend that can help me

Germaine Shepeard
32paladin

I've concluded that most folks are not aware of the invisable NPC that lives in Unrest. Over the last few months I have met MANY LvL 55 - 60 players who had no knowledge of this mob.

What is it?
The name of it is, "A Herald of Mischief".

Where is it at?
It is located in the same area as Sera and A Gnomish Spelunker. If you swim in the stream by the gazeebo you will find a passageway that leads to them.

How do I see it?
"A Herald of Mischief" will not show up on the track-list of fellow Druid's or Rangers. (unless something has changed since posting) Spells such as see-invisable are useless too. In order to find it, you must drop an item on the ground near Sera and the Spelunker. Of course, the item won't be dropped if you're in the correct area. Instead, the TRADE WINDOW will appear. After you cancel the trade, it will still remain as your TARGET.

What is it for?
First, I do not suggest actually handing any items over to it. I am still unsure if that would cause aggro or not. As I mentioned earlier, many long-term EQ players have never knew of it's exsistance untill I spoke to them about it. I have my own opinions of what it's purpose might be. One of which is a possible link between Norrath and the Plane of Mischief. Perhaps by giving it the correct item(s), you will be taken to the Plane of Mischief.

Players i've spoke with who know of the "Herald of Mischief" all seem to have their own story of what it is and why it's there. Several brave folks have come forward to help slay this NPC. I'll post any "valid" info I can gather when the time comes.

Edited, Mon May 6 03:32:41 2002

A few things I have learnt in unrest over the last 5 lvls.
1. When U r in a group with a lvl 25 char & they suggest that the group (rest are 20 to 22) go to the basement - just say no! On the plus side the lvl 25 bought it & the rest of the group (wisely) ran
2. Never group with a caster who just invites U to group without asking, who admits to never being in unrest b4, spends half the time shouting "Give me a SoW" and doesn't know what /assist does (as he normally nukes the wrong mob & gets slapped for it)
3. Never trust a Gnome you don't know (filthy, ill mannered things)
4. It's better to sit on the front porch, back wall, by the gazeebo, back room or inside the side door and pull slowly than run inside and pull everything!Especially if U r not a full group. Although outside does have a lot of annoying adds.
5. If you're in a group with more than 1 Cleric & don't know the other Cleric in the group don't always trust them to do their job properly. I have been designated as Back up Healer on a number of occasions & had to spend the entire session healing the main tank & medding, with barely a sign of the other Cleric doing a thing
6. When you do a /who and see a few 30+ chars, make sure you listen for them shouting train. If they can't handle their troubles lookout.
7. Always clear the yard trash if you are camping outside.
8. Ask & ye shall recieve, I always ask my groups if I can have any zombie skins (for pottery) & they (nearly) always give them 2 me. Except for the guy who raised point 2 above - who was like a seagull, swooping on every kill before it hit the ground. Also if U do spot a Lore Item Shout it, some are hard to find
9. ALWAYS have the puller targetted, he will prob need a heal when he gets back
10. Always be nice to Droods - SoW is your friend!
11. A personal one of mine, always offer a Rez to people - it may take a lot of mana but friends are useful.
12. Organization is the key - have a group leader, follow their commands (especially RUN), and move as a group - having half the group out front playing with yard trash & the other half Rooted by Ghouls at the rear is a sure way to end up typing /consent

Just a few thoughts there - hope some of my bretheren who are thinking of moving to Unrest find it useful.

Bereck Ymdroi
21st Season Cleric of Brell Serilis
Master Potter and Drinker

As other posts mention, the mob pathing in this zone is not very good. You can use this to your advantage in several ways. Here are some of the things I do (wizard) when dealing with a bad pull.

I usually clear the back door area first and then take down the static spawns along that hallway. It's when I move to the front that I start getting into trouble with the pulls...

1. Jumping over banisters or onto the porch will get you enough time for a gate or a shadow step
2. Running from the front or side door around to the back door and inside will TOTALLY confuse every mob chasing you. This gives you plenty of time to gate (assumes you cleared teh back door room and they haven't spawned since :) )
3. Running into the hedge maze entrance and looping through 4 turns will give you plenty of time to gate.
4. Jumping over the water near the gazebo will give you enough time to gate in most instances, but if the tormented aren't green don't bother.

Note: doing these things minimizes the trains you create on the folks in the CY, but shout train anyway.. cause the people you get killed now.. won't buff you later :) Also, this is done without SoW, but you do need to slide to avoid the bashes :)

Xyzor
Drinal

If your a pally or a cleric this place is a great place for you to team up with the other.I hunt alot here with a guild member who is a cleric , i am a pally. its pretty simple pally tanks ,both nuke undead,cleric heals, undead die , invis, med and repeat. with just the 2 of you the exp goes up very fast(21-27in 5 days, and yes i work lol), biggest thing here is if you get to much to handle run,cleric has his escape spell, pally has LOH. You dont have to worry about the other person very much. Well just thought i would let you know what has worked well for me.

Kebmo Stormbeard
27th season Paladin
Shining Forces of Xev

I think this area is great. Took the day off yesterday from work and let a gnome take me there. At first I hung out at the tunnel near the fountains and pulled there since I’m only lvl 15. This turned out to be a BAD idea since every train (and there are a LOT of them here) gets pulled through this so-called newbie area. Newbies, lowbies, teens, etc. do yourself a favor and move to the back of the house. Particularly if you’re human. I got killed a couple times trying to run from trains to the zone border in the dark tunnel. Couldn’t see and got whacked. Regardless of what popular opinion is the area between the fountains and the tunnel is a really really bad place for newbies.

Another suggestion I have is to think big in terms of grouping. Diversify but don’t worry about spreading the experience too thin by getting a big group together. One of your casters might not be fighting all the time but when I fought here my group was constantly pulling and fighting something in the yard and occasionally a ghoul or mummy from the ground floor of the house. Each kill gives low experience but there was almost no downtime. AND we were never overwhelmed because the stuff in the yard isn’t too challenging for late teen players AND the trains rarely make it to the back yard.

Great hunting grounds! Happy hunting!

I was taken to this zone at level 13 and I hit 15 in no time at all. I think it is a great place to solo the zone line is relatively close so you can bail if you have to. I do have to agree some of the other posts here complaining about the constant trains being pulled. However there are usually some other people in the yard who are always willing to help. I pull mostly beetles and Tormented Undead. I can handle one or two of them at a time if I have to then I med at the zone line in case someone pulls a huge train. I highly recommend getting the mob down to about 1/4 health then finish them off with Melee(so long as you have to health for it). Most people probably won't agree but I think it's a great way to build up your Def and Off especially if you solo most of the time.
I have a question I did run into a Ghastly Ghoul I think that's what it was anyway, I hit him with Fire, Ice and Lighting he resisted all of them. My question is would casting cancel magic on him helped me at all? If not how do I go about taking something like him down? Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Ok everyone...heres the deal.
I see people asking if they can solo here. The fact is.. It is really hard to do because of all of the adds in the house. I have seen a lot of people soloing the whole house. But they are usually 45 or higher and most of the time they are NOT warriors. Necros can run around everywhere just saying, PET ATTACK and they can win, unless they get too many. So i guess what it comes down to is that yes you can solo here at level 20. Will you die trying? probably. So just know where u can and cant solo by trying it. Dont let others say no cause anything is possible with luck and experience.

Greetings. This is to follow up someone's suggestions about Unrest and also to maybe provide some insight for raids into unrest.

I used to come to this zone alot to play in the yard, and plan to return soon to take things on in the house.

Two big problems exist with this zone. The first that is immediately noticed are Trains. So many trains happen here, I feel like I'm at a station every time I come in. I expect one day the house may be redesigned to fit the motif. :)

The second problem is organization...or lack there of...between groups in the zone. Ofcourse, this isn't just this zone. I notice alot that there is little in the way of cooperation between groups outside of camp checks and occassional aid if you get in over your head.

Zones like Unrest, though, cooperation between groups hunting would make this zone so much more managable.

Alright, you can divide this zone into 3 basic areas. You have the house. The first floor is (generally) for the 20's, right? Ok. Levels go up significantly for the other floors and basement. I think a few mobs hit up into thier 40s? or 30s, don't recall which. I think even some of the 30's could give 40s a run for thier money, though. Now, you have the Yard, which divides into the other two areas. The "back yard", which is really anything from the hedge back (not directly infront of the house). This can be taken best by any mid-late teen group. I've seen higher camped here, but I think they had a house puller.

Then you have the front yard (infront of the house, and the courtyard leading to the zone.

This area we foolishly beleived our first time in was where lowbies should camp. Oh my, were we wrong. Dispite the fact that there are lowbie mobs that wander up here, this area should be camped only by higher lvls. Why? Well, this is where every train that everyone else can't handle will go (assuming the train's puller doesn't die before leaving the house).

Alright, this in mind. Upon going in to Unrest, it should be easy to do a /who to see who is in. Now on most servers, a large majority of players I notice are not anonymous, atleast not on quell. Even if they are, once you get an idea that you've got x-number of groups (figure probably full groups of 6, so if you have say 20 players in the zone, you have maybe 3-4 groups) you can call for the group leaders to chat together.

A higher lvl group camping the front (keeping the occassional greenies down) should be able to handle most trains. Now, depending on the layout of the house, they might be able to send in a puller (especially if areas of the house the puller has to go through are being cleared by another group). Bear in mind, I don't really know the layout, but there are enough people who do that you should be able to determine if this is possible or not.

All in all, though, I don't think that will be necessary. TRAIN gets called alot in this zone. A good group could probably dispatch most of a train, they might have to zone depending on how bad it was, and then med between TRAIN's. If the mobs coming out are too low, then they can consider sending in a puller to clear a path for better mobs. But I've seen some of what comes out, and a group could live off of some of the trains.

Key to TRAIN management is the Enchanter/assist combination. An enchanter can mezz the more troublesome elements of the train while meleer's and casters deal with mobs one, maybe two at a time. Just stay away from AoE's unless the enchanter is able to root them and you can pull your focus mobs away from the mezzed. The Enchanter can also Charm an trained mob to assist in clearing things out. Charming something that might be useless to the group as loot gives you a free tank. Just let it get bashed, "dotting" as it goes, until it dies. Expendable charmed mobs is a dot from the chanter, and since it will likely die, means that it can't turn on the Enchanter.

And yes, you want those clerics. But for more than just healing. They call this the cleric's dream dungeon for a reason. Clerics and (apparently) Paladins both get spells for dealing with Undead. Now, I have great luck in Paladins as Tanks. Even if the Pally is just back up, let him expend some of that mana and expulse/ward undead. Pally's are also nice because if things go really bad, they can allow the clerics to deal with casters while they emergency-heal themselves. At any rate, you should allow your atleast one of your clerics to flex thier muscles here for more than just healing.
Pulling in a necromancer could also be good, for much the same reason. Maybe SK's, but I'm not sure what the extent of thier stuff is in dealing with undead. necro's can double dealing against undead and keeping your healers and other caster up on mana.

Anyway, communication of any kind between groups in this zone could really improve a group's chances of dealing with it. For a Raid, it is all about communication, right? IMO, a raid should never be focused all in just one area. Nothing worse than all things going to hell, and then having to try to flee through newly spawning mobs. Focus on one area means you can get flanked.

An example of what I mean is my group guard-camping in Nektulos. We camped the bridge. Now the two on the EC side of the bridge are no problem. But the ones on the Neriak side are ouchers. Atleast, they were to us in our mid-teens.

We found that if we were the only ones camping the bridge this was tough because of the huge agro and social radius of these guards. But, if there was someone camping the two on the Neriak side, then we could much better handle the mobs. At one point we had the spawns controlled so that they pulled the redcons, then we pulled the blues as each spawned. We didn't realize how well it worked until our higherlevel buddy had gone.

Similar spawn-control between groups makes all the difference in a dungeon too. It also makes trains a little better. If you know that an area is pretty well camped, you can just shoot a tell to the group leader(s) that a train is coming through (make it a hot key) and you know you have an area that will pull few if any adds to the train, since most of the mobs in that area are probably clear anyways. If you get back a message of "we've been medding" or some such, then you know, right?

Alright, so some of my thoughts. Maybe meaningless drivel. Maybe something to add insight.

You decide

Tatiyanna.

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"But I don't want to go among Mad people," remarked Alice.
"Oh you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know that I'm mad?"
"Well, you have to be, or else you wouldn't be here."
--um, duh
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Here is the trick. The posts about experienced players is key. You need a good leader and set tactics before you fight. You need a full group and as many healers as you can get. One of the best experiences I had was two tanks and four clerics! You need to be 17th or so minimum to survive this place. Camp the room by the porch and just be careful what you pull. Do not take the first left down the hallway to the right and stay on the ground floor. I once spent almost 2 hours pulling managable trains (2-3 ghouls, some mummies) to our group to be slaughtered. Loot is good here with about 10-20 pp per hour being earned. HERE IS THE KEY: Know when to run and when it is time to run do not hesitate to run like hell for the zone. Give a shout and look out! If Torklar is pulled run automatically. If some players not up to the upper floors or basement pull crazed ghouls or the skeletal monk, etc. run. In two hours we zoned 2 or 3 times and lost only one of our group. I love this place!

Krontis
Warrior of Brell Serelis
19th Season

Was here for just a little while last night with soem friends and picked up a couple keys. Loking thru the bestiary and quests lists i can find nothing about these. Not sure of thier exact names, btu does anyone know if they have a use? They were not lore, not magic, and not no drop, just looked liek a normal key and venders give 1 copper for them. Just seemed like strange loot to me to have no use anywhere.
Thanks in advance.

Ed. Ok, names of the keys I found were Cracked Glass key and SCuffed Silver Key. Any ideas?

Had a guild event at Unrest this weekend and for the lowbies (21-26) it went very poorly. Every single person in my party died...at least twice. We were camped in a room in the house (and this is where I think our mistake was) the first room that you can access off to the left of the labyrinth, the only entrance from outside is through a deck with double doors. Every time we pulled it turned into a train, and no one wanted to leave the house and just stay in the yard and have someone pull from the house to the yard. I got so frustrated with the trains and the deaths that I had to get out of there, but for some reason, I'm convinced there has to be a way to fight there and not die constantly. If anyone can be of any help, please let me know.

I started soloing Unrest at 9th level, carefully, and still got killed...I still do. One way to avoid or minimize beetles aiding is to pull the undead into the tunnel. Once they are IN there nothing seems to come to help. If you get too many beetles then back down to JUST before the zone and AOE them there...you can usually kill the undead if your channeling is any good, get the exp.... maybe kille a few bugs and zone with one or two bubs left. Also for some reason if you walk RIGHT up to the yard trash TD and let them aggro you it seems to minimize the bugs flocking. Dunno why but seems to work. On final note...if you DON'T want the baddies chasing you in the tunnel, enter it rubbing the right wall (right on your way to DC)...for some reason they will often not pursue you then. No clue why.