Eryslai, the Kingdom of Wind

It's not as tough as it used to be. New gear/spells have really leveled the playing field. In the old days this was one of my most hated zones. Went in solo as a 70 Shaman. Pet and I were fully buffed in the GH, we had the works. Entry area mobs were okay. If you do it right you only get two at a time and between my dots and panther on the pooch they down easily. The airspirits they spawned were annoying but that was all. The main thing was to keep my pet healed and make sure he was taunting. Farther up at "the crossroads" the mobs were dark blue to me and could still take them two at a time but had to rely on the pet for dps as even slowed all I really had time to do was hot him then spam heals., Gave it up when I pulled two then got two wanderers as adds, all db to me. Tried to keep it going but I was losing ground so while my pet still had agro I hit the gate button. Went back in with my tank merc and soloed most of the lower areas of the zone without a problem. Only tough mobs were the Phoenixes. After two pulls on them all the buffs were stripped from the tank and all he had were shammy buffs from there on in. Still, we did okay. Took down Baltaldor The Cursed. and cranked out a ton of aa's. Had garden variety gear, Defiant, Teek quest etc.. Def a doable zone now with modern gear and buffs.

Please upload this to Lucy.

The first time I tried to get to the tunnel, I didn't try sneak. I killed a number of the irritating Castellan of Air in a brute force attempt to plow to the tunnel exiting the zone in area. (The Castellan of Air spawn one, two or maybe three grey to 75 Vengeful Airspirits on the death of the Castellan of Air. The VA's then go on to suck your mana dry if you don't kill them really fast). I sucessfully solo'd a few of them as singles with mild difficulty, and a double with moderate difficulty, mostly because of the mana drain and prolonged medding up from as low as 10% mana. As I came to the archway which leads out of the zone in area, I had another unavoidable double pull (apparently most things here can not be Drifting Fog'd Rk II (like harmony, or lull)). I died to this double pull, and ran back asap before repops. Then I discovered that the next pull to get past the arch would be another double, this time with a named (Constable Alranderisen). At which point sneaking seemed like a good idea. I sneaked past the arch okay, and down the tunnel. The next mobs encountered were in what looked like a large room from the map, a pair of 'A Nilborien Servants', who appeared to be guarding 'Baltaldor The Cursed', who is flagged as a raid mob. At this point I decided to hang out in the tunnel where there are usually no mobs. And as luck would have it, 'A Temple Guardian' roamed down the tunnel as EqBud posted under 'A living fragment of air'. Easy solo for the Temple Guardian. Now I am waiting for the second one to come by. And from tracking it would seem that repops here are painfully slow. So if you are looking for a living fragment of air, good luck. It could be a long camp.

I gave thought to using Hail of Arrows to get summoned elsewhere, (which works pretty good through walls (but not between floors) in Ssraeshza Temple), but Xenogy by tracking is right below or above this tunnel, so that may not be a good idea. I have never been able to shadow step off of a level, only to another part of the same level using my Boots of Shadow Walking, so don't see that helping me. At this point the only way to get past this tunnel would seem to be by 1) a raid as suggested by others, 2) a really good group, 3) extreme luck in ranger sneaking, 4) shrouding to a gobby rogue or kobold rogue, but shrouded DPS/AC/survivability solo is pretty sucky solo on greens,so i don't see this helping except for the possibility of exploring, 5) coming back repeatedly and hoping that the Baltaidor the Cursed is killed by the rare raid here and fighting my way past his room in his absence. If anyone has any ideas on getting to the air mephits, I am open to suggestions.