Howling Stones (Charasis)

I am playing on TLP (Lockjaw) and planned to do the shortcut into the East wing last night. I planned on using the illusion trick to bypass the locked door..... cept it wasn't locked. I loved over and the door opened right up when I clicked it.

I entered a few nights ago, didn't need a key. Bot characters were above 55+, so it may still be needed for a lower level character to enter.

I love this place.
Nice place for a returning player, with Kunark nostalgia.
If youre a untwinked lvl 40ish returned player like me, and you if you happen to like zones and mobs actually being a challenge, this is the place to go.

Frontmanden
Vox

One blue into 40, I opted for Howling Stones over Guk and zoned in fine without even doing the key quest. Beastlord with a cleric mercenary I was able to solo the basement just fine and the XP was fantastic.

This place is crazy exp! Leveled a couple characters here now. You can solo in your 30s at entrance and down below, but you have to be geared and careful (Warrior with Healer merc; Wizard with tank merc). Great place to get 51, get your AAs, bank 30 AAs and level to 55. Higher the level the more you'll have to stick to South (and into East wing thru false wall). Good luck!

You can definitely get in at 40 without questing - I just did

I assume is behind a locked door now since revamp. Bard using lockpick of 320 skill could not open the 1st west wing door where you can see a bag on the floor. Anyone done the 1.5 mage epic lately who has been able to get the doors open?

Went to open doors with 75 rog, max Pick Lock skill and set of picks. Could not open any locked doors. A Change? A bug?

I Did the Hand of Glory run on Cazic server two times last night and once this morning before coming into work. The way I did it was to use the first goblin spirit shroud, the rogue, and grab some buffs in PoK. Steps I took are as follows:

0. Prerequisite for this run is to have done the key of Charasis (Howling Stones) quest so that you may enter zone.

1. Arrange to have a set of lockpicks, either have them in the bank or arrange for another character to hand it to you when you are in goblin shroud.

2. Hail the shroud giver in PoK and chose the highest goblin rogue shroud that you can. The lowest shroud I have used so far is level 55. Spend the attribute points pretty much however you wish, if everything goes well you won't be fighting anything.

3. Important hot keys to setup: sneak, hide and spirit sending (? not sure of title. The description lets you know that this is to send you back to the shroud giver in PoK at the end of the run). I then setup some buttons for fighting in case things happen to go bad at some point: melee attack, backstab, hamstring and a couple of others not overly important.

4. Before leaving PoK the buffs I got were Cleric HP buff, levitate and Spirit of Wolf. Before zoning into The Overthere hit the sneak and hide buttons.

5. Zone into The Overthere and run to ledge above passage leading to Howling Stones zone. Float down to entrance and run to glowing half sphere that is zone in.

6. Once in the zone I did the steps listed in Sephoria's post but backwards, for reason's that will soon be apparent.

Safety tip. The only wing I had a mob that could see through sneak/hide was in the North wing, so it is best to save it for last.

7. The way I was able to get across the illusionary bridge to the east wing was to run up the stairs to the west wing. Open the door by clicking on it and receive the successful lock pick message. In this room was a little vase in the southwest corner that raised me enough so that I was able to run back through the door and get on top of one of the fire pots by the golems standing there. I pointed myself at the east wing ledge, looked up and ran across. I could tell that my altitude had decreased a bit but still ended up on the ledge by the golems.

8. From this point all the ground spawns were exactly where Sephoria's post described. At the end of the east wing is a teleport that zones you out to the steps of the entrance in The Overthere that lead to the passage to Charasis, so just run back in and get the rest of the pieces.

9. For me the see invis mob in the North wing was always past the room containing the piece I needed and didn't seem to wander around so you should be safe.

10. After getting the last piece and hitting the combine button to create the Hand of Glory find a spot in the hall that is clear and hit the button to send yourself back to PoK.

After you have the hand you can click on the door of the room with the last piece you picked up. This will add it to your keyring. You can check by typing /key. I am guessing that the total time was about 45 mins to do this run. Levitate usually runs out about the time I am going into the North wing so.

Hope these notes are helpful. Thanks much to Sephoria for the excellent post with the locations of the pieces.

Aaleb Zan'Fi
Cazic (Brell)

Edited, Jul 21st 2006 at 4:38pm EDT by aaleb

----------North Door--------
Step 1--"tallow-marked candle" = opens north coridor, Dropped from "sperm"
Step 2--"Sacrificial Robe Clasp" = other doors in the Noth corridor (found in the middle room in west wing, on floor)
Step 3--"Dismembered Finger" is part of the master key. Loc = +331, +207 in the room with doors opposite of the Clasp
Step 4--Kill "Crypt Keeper" loot "Sigil of the Calendar" = opens the West corridor.
----------West Door----------
Step 5--"Skull engraved coin" = Opens other doors in West corridor, found in room next to broken table, most southern room in west wing (assuming you don't fall in invis floor)
Step 6--"Dismembered Thumb" is second piece of the master key. Loc = -143, +623, go left instead of going into the room with portal, on floor before door that drops down into the "pit"

Step 7--Kill "Spectre Procurator" loot "Broken Sacraficial Blade" = Opens Southern corridor. Was very confused on where to find this mob, as I cleared the west wing several times. He spawns directly in front of the portal back to the zone in.
----------Southern Door-------
Step 8--Loot "Coin of Depicting Innoruuk" = Key to other door in southern passage. Loc = -573, -111
Step 9--"Mutilated Forearm" = 3rd piece of master key Loc = -567, +152
----------Eastern Door--------
Can be accessed by Levitating from West wing stairs (stand on a pot) straight to east wing. Requires run 3 or SoW.
Step 10: "Blood Encrusted Glove" 4th part and the container to combine the other parts in to make "Hand of Glory" Loc = +313, -567

Major credit to MarchintoaBrothel
Grats on my Hand of Glory!

Edited, Thu Jun 1 20:07:13 2006

This is what i did to get into East Wing;

First, I had Spirit of Eagle cast on me and i was in Imp Form (i'm an enchanter) and i casted Grow on myself (titan potion).

Second, Killed the 2 local wanderers at zone in, killed the 2 golems on the West door then killed the 1 wanderer near the East door.

Third, Invised myself, ran up to the West door, stood on a flame pot, turned and faced the East door, this is the tricky part and might take you a few tries because you need to be pointing exactly at the right "landing" spot, when you're happy with your direction, face straight up and then run for it, you should easily land near the East door if you're aimed correctly. I was basically aiming at the East door, maybe slighty to the left of it.


I used invis to do this because i wanted to direcharm one of the pyre golems at the East door, didnt wanna kill them.

I COULD NOT make it to the East door from the South door flame pot, i tried it a million times, the only thing that worked for me was the West-to-East flight.

I have Dial-up and I Lagg but it worked anyway.

I'm not saying that you have to be an Imp or have Spirit of eagle on you or Grow yourself or "look straight up while levitating" to make this work, it's just what worked for me. I've been able to repeat this several times.

Someone told me a new to me way up the east side sence my PC lags and I canot lev across,and i know maybe 1 mage, and he wouldnt come to HS just to coh me up there hehe.

I havent tried this yet, but root the mob standing on the east ledge near the fake steps and pray it summons you up there.~)

I know levatating is the easy way cause i used my roomates Alienwear to lev my 4 toons over and i finishd my master key.

PS the zone out on the south wing is a trick so u dont find the hidden passage in the last room with the teleporter out.