Lake Rathetear

Vortix spawns in Lake Rathetear when a monk at the right step in Monk Epic 1.5 asks a fallen student : "Are you Vortix ?" The fallen student then despawns and Vortix spawns instead. He can later be found in the Plane of Tranquility.

Yesterday I was swimming under Lake Rathe and came across a set of tunnels and having located the large cavern and the underwater tower I made some notes.

If anyone is interested in seeing my notes on the Underwater Tower have a look at:

http://www.dragondrop.com/everquest/LakeRathe001.htm

Malc

Hi all,

I have a (soon to be) lvl 19 halfling Druid and have heard great things about the lake (for both xp and loot)

I have a couple of questions:

1.Would I be better to solo or group (up to now I have found soloing MUCH better on xp - if a bit lonely :) )

2. What should I go for first? Gnolls at the ent? Aviaks - (if so which ones - there seem to be several lots looking at the eq atlas map)

Thanks for the time - good advice when I was 14 (go kill Gnoll Reavers in EK) has meant a quick progression through those teen levels - I hope this will get me to mid 20s as fast!

I will do almost anything to avoid LOIO :)

Bankko Halfling
Knight of Insomnia
Surefall Paramedic

For whatever reason the Ogre camp is Indifferent to me. I am a half-elf ranger and I can shop at the merchant. I have done no Ogre faction work that I am aware of.

I would advise caution as they are all red to me at level 30, but I suspect that they may be Indiff to everyone if they are indiff to me.

i have a lvl 20 war and was wondering if i can solo here and is the exp and loot good or not??? can someone help me


20 dwarf war
zek server

THIS SITE IS TO POST INFO ON WHERE TO FIGHT IN THIS ZONE AT WHAT LEVELS SO STOP TALKING ABOUT BROTHER DRASH AND STUFF LIKE THAT

I recently noticed there is an underwater tunnel on at least one of the islands in Lake Rathe. I started to swim down the one I found. (I have 185 swimming) It opened into a cavern with a tower in it, all underwater. The tower kind of reminded me of the specter tower in Oasis. I was running out of air so I gated away for I was too deep to live through the swim back out. Anyone know any more about the tunnel/tunnels? I found the tunnel on the island nearest the Rathe Mountains zone. I zoned into Lake Rathe and swam straight off the dock. I saw the tunnel as I submerged. Let me know......

I have a new idea that might be fun for mages that like to roleplay - the water mage. You would only use the water pet, not any of the other pets, and you would only fight in watery areas. I think that this would actually be doable, and I might try it out. Here is what it might look like for you hunting in only watery spots:

1-7 : your newbie zones, don't have to hunt in water spot yet
8-15 : wisps in erud's crossing, sirens in OOT, Jonah in Lake Rathe at level 12
16-23: gargoyles in OOT, birds in Lake Rathe, lots of things in Lake of Ill Omen, crocs on beach of Oasis
24-34: sisters/dwarves in OOT, bunch of things in Lake of Ill Omen
35-38: spectre groups in OOT and oasis, gorillas in timorous deep with a partner, a few things in lake of ill omen
39-48: soloing gorillas in timorous or high level goblins in Lake of Ill Omen, can group and do specs in Oasis and OOT, can solo Gornit on Seafury Island, can group in Kedge Keep
49-55: seafuries in OOT and raptors in Timorous Deep

You wouldn't have to hunt 100% of the time in water areas, but you COULD get from 8 to 55 in only watery areas and still be able to pick up great exp. and money (good money would be from wisps, gargoyles, and gornit). I didn't even list a lot of the other watery spots that are also good hunting. I think it would be a fun roleplaying challenge. Would anyone else try it?

Former Everquest Addict that Hopes to Play Again.

Has anyone else noticed that the Gnoll's in front of the SK zone have had there lvl increased recently?

I am wondering if anyone knows if the NPC just outside the arena will agro on evil races if they are camping the Avo Gaurds. It's an awsome spot to hunt with the zone right there, and but with these new NPC's that popped up everywhere I think its even harder to be evil.

Since the last patch theres some new gnolls near the SK entrance, these drop 4-5pp and ringmail, fs weapons and snakeskin armour. The gnoll shamans and high shamans are friendly and killed them will give bad faction with qeynos guards, antonius bale and others. normal gnolls and guards give no faction hit when killed (and they're the ones with the good loot)
Only noticed this friday, but made about 400pp in 8 hours since then

Wordeana XexuXjy - 27th lvl warriorette. Xegony

Anyone have any info on why the barbs in LR are KoS to me, a shaman barb. All but the two totemic armor quest barbs that is. I am normally "amiable" to my fellow barbarians, but these ones are KoS I am wondering what the story behind this is. Any info or insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Tempeste Harbinger
Shaman of the 47th season
The Rathe

We worked out this tactic last night and it worked great. I wandered into LR last night for my first time and this was the last camp I checked. A lvl 20 Wizzie had one of the guards and she said I could take the other. I was using my 19/Dru (almost 20). The wizzie was walking away from each battle with about 40 mana and 2 bulbs left of hp. I'd walk away each battle with Oom and 2 bulbs of HP left. Serious down time. So we decided to power level each other; sort of.

We did not group, but after the other one pulled the guard, the other one simply sat there and cast root. That enabled the main caster to blast and nuke. Worked great and significantly reduced down time. I earned a bulb in 15 minutes!

Good lock!