Sewers of Nihilia, Purifying Plant

How do you leave the zone once you're done with the quest??

How do you get to this zone. Doing a quest...

Just thought I would give you all an account of the strategy we used to beat this first trial.

Group Composition:
65 Cleric (200 AA's)
65 Beastlord (150 AA's)
65 Druid (100 AA's)
65 Warrior (8200hp/1370ac,91 AA's)
65 Necro (100+ AA's)
65 Bard (unknown amount of AA's)

This group is 3 people two boxing (Clr/bst, Dru/War, Nec/Brd). A couple early morning deaths led to knowledge that allowed the group to invis/pacify all the way to Anshura then to the stonemite room without a single fight. I recommend using the Druid lev/group invis vs the bard lev/invis song. Sometimes we got spread out a bit while trying to run two characters each and the bard song kept dropping. Upon arrival in stonemite room we saw full pop. 9 stonemites in the center of the room. We hugged the left wall and set up on the pipe. Warrior against the wall with the casters and pets on pipe at the other end but still out of aggro range of stonemites.

After buffing up and medding to full, the warrior pulls the closest stonemite with an arrow using F8 to target. Stonemite starts hitting warrior from below and will not come up on the pipe. His rampage is hitting the casters and bard. Pets are hitting the stonemite but that is about all. Warrior goes down, bard and necro go down before we can blink, Druid pops exodus and saves himself and cleric. The druid and cleric lev up and head back down without any trouble at all. Get to the stonemite room and rez the fallen.

From here we decide to take the advice from the post of Bosruce and make our way up onto the ledge. From here we have no problems pulling the stonemites. Warrior pops with arrow right after a pre-HoT from the cleric. Stonemite warps up on the ledge easy as can be. These things hit pretty fast and the Beastlord only got slow to partial stick on a couple. We get to the 9th stonemite and decide to med up. After 9th dies the Ancient Stonemite pops. Warrior pops with arrow and we then have him on ledge. I have some disagreement with some of the post here because we thought he was a little tougher than the regular ones (hits for over 1300 and immune to slow). We had alot of push up on that ledge too. Beginning of fight, the cleric had about 80m with the druid having about 60m to help with patch heals and keeping the other members up and kickin'. We ended up taking him down but the necro had to pump the cleric some once she reached 40m. Druid was oom due to spot heals on group and nukes at the end. No deaths and all received our first flag for this trial.

Just know that you really don't have to fight anything else but the stonemites in this trial if you don't want to.

A spot healer and a decent tank that can take a good beating are highly recommended.

Good luck to you all.

Ronj Eremy (65 Druid) and Spankm Splizankm (65 Warrior)

I did this trial for the first time last night with 65 cleric(me), 65 bard, 65 necro, 65 warrior(the tank), 65 shaman, and 65 sk. When we got to the end mob shaman died early on in the fight, so I was left chain complete healing every time CH
popped with no spot heals. Very exciting fight, and we managed to kill the boss =)

Here's a pretty good site about the trials
http://home.cwru.edu/~srp5/Gate_Tiers.htm

If you don't go back to hail Ansharu after killing the end mob do you not get your flag? We left the expedition after killing boss & did nothing else.

Giada
65 Archon

update -- I never went back to hail Ansharu, but I talked to the scribe near the high priest and he gave me my flag for trial 1 anyway = )

Edited, Wed Jul 21 05:53:56 2004

The NPC you hail to start the trials is Gamesh. Is an undead mob and should con indifferent to you. The xp in these trials are great. About 4% per kill. But be forewarned they hit very hard. Highest hit I had was 1288. A well balanced group is a must.

Mangard, Paladin
Xegony

There are two ways to get to these instanced dungeons (trials one through four, five-six are in a different area). If you just want to go in and fool around you can hail an npc starting with "G" (dont recall name) thats at the south east corner outside of the Barindu pyramid. If you want to attempt them for success in the trial (and you might as well) you have first to hail the scribe and then the high priest in the large bldg a bit NE of the pyramid. The scribe is a preflag if you will for the priest.

On hailing the high priest your group leader will be given the expdition they're "ready" for. When I did this the first time I was given the first sewer, then later the crematory all without asking for any specific trial. If at some point you win a trial you were not 'ready' for you can get the backflag settled by asking the high priest "what issues". In a couple of the trials its a good idea to have one person only loot the collect xxx items, and have or make that person be the expedition leader as you reach where those items are used.

At that point you can enter the trial. For trials one through four the entry is inside the pyramid up the stairs and click on the hole. That room is a 'safe room' and should never be trained. It is also where your corpses will be sent after you all exit the expidition (ALT Z) should you wipe. In all of these four trials there is semi quick respawn and many things (elves, sludges, possibly more) will see invis.

How hard things hit varies by trial and location inside the dungeon, ranging from a low of about 500 to a high of about 1200 for junk mobs. EQ Toolbox now does have maps for trials one through six. There have been many drops, most from random mobs rather than nameds, generally 1-2 items per trial (2-6 hours to do them). Loot is as good on the whole as tier 3 pop nameds or better. Spell drops so far have been uncertain, and are not triggered by class (as in we've had to let things rot, they're all nodrop).

There's also a named turtle that dropped nice stuff in a side room past the npc to hail to get the final stonemites to spawn.