Castle Mistmoore  

Castle Mistmoore is a very fun zone that can be quite challenging for level appropriate characters. The following is just some tips on how to grab some fast lower levels solo with a merc for people returning to the game or just getting started. Most of the tips can be applied to any zone below level 40.

First things first... level your character to 15. At 15 get the most HP you can by buying twink items or defiant gear. Do not skimp on the food and water, those 2 items alone can get you an additional 330 health with Merchant's brew and Raxil fish from level 1.

Next step - stock up on potions. At 15 you should have Distillate of Skinspikes III, and every 5 levels you can get a new one that does more damage. These are very important as the damage shield will out damage you and your merc put together. So take a small stack of lvl 15, 20 and 25 skinspikes which can be made by a shaman or purchased in the bazaar. The western trader building in PoK has a female vah shir that sells potions where you can get haste, buff, and healing pots. Grab some haste pots for levels 15 - 25 and I like the heal over time pots because they do more healing than the direct heal and both are on the same timer so it doesn't benefit you to use both. Be sure to get some Spider's Bite I, II and III as well from a rogue or from the bazaar. Bite I procs 60 times on any weapon, any class for 65 dmg. Bite II does around 140 direct damage... and so on.

If you hate begging for buffs then get a cleric merc. Log them in and they buff you with level appropriate buffs. Dismiss, or keep them in a separate merc slot, and use the tank merc when fighting. Along the way be sure to zone out every level or two so that your merc can level up. As you near 30 he will get tougher and tougher and eventually can solo the whole zone himself around 35.

MM is an outdoor zone so you can mount up and take advantage of the mana/health regen and movement speed. At 15 stay near the zone line, you may need it. The mobs almost always come in 2 or 3, but as long as you let the merc pick them up it is no problem. Have the merc beat one down to 90%, then target another one and he will switch over to it and beat it down to 90%, then the third. At this point you can step in and get agro from the merc one mob at a time. If you have enough health just tank all 3 of them. The skinpikes takes them out fast and you get 10-15% of the level per kill. It goes seriously fast. You can easily get from 15-26 in 2 hours.

Work the front area and dont forget the 2 gargoyles. After clearing it a few times you will be in your lower 20's and ready to move back to the grave yard. I eventually just run from the entrance back through the grave yard and then start over for levels 23-26. Heading back further than the grave yard is a little tough until 27 or so. The mobs are higher and they can come in packs. At 25, in the grave yard, you will still see 5-8% of a level per kill on the even or higher cons. There is a named shadow man behind the building in the grave yard that drops a robe. Really the toughest part of all of this are the healers that spawn in the cemetery. If you have good burst dps they are easy, but for most classes its more about letting the merc beat on them until they run out of mana. It can take a few minutes, but they eventually die. Just keep them agro'd on the merc.

Dont sweat it if you get 3 yellows and a red on you. The merc can handle a lot and if things appear to be going south just make a dash for the zoneline. A long train like that can help you spread the mobs out and clear a tough area just by zoning out and back in to get them to reset. Heal up and pop back into zone and usually half of them are headed back to their spot... zoneline splitting... fun fun. I tend to get a little aggressive and end up running for the zone a few times.

At 15 you stocked up on Rough defiant gear and twink items. At 26 go get your upgrades to Ornate defiant gear and restock on potions. And don't just delete the old defiant gear, your tribute master will gladly take it, and it all adds up to thousands of tribute as you level up.

Camping in front of the castle can take you up into the mid 30's if you want to hang around that long. The pulls can be crazy sometimes, but that's part of the fun. And if someone was really serious about dungeon crawling the whole zone you could solo here until 40 with good xp the whole way. The zone was well thought out and is a lot of fun to learn.

Hope this helps!

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a dark librarian
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lets try to update the items dropped here list plz

Ahh.... Mistmoore...

I miss the days.

This is where I learned to truly play my class
(Druid) and to play well in a group. I came back later and
grouped a lot with my warrior. Great experiences both times.
Truly is one of my favorite zones from days of yore.
I never worked my way up to hunt in the castle
(better zones by then)
but this place will always have good memories.
Such as being charmed by some undead wench and walking
back with her to the castle (ulp!) and mercifully
having charm break before getting there and zoning
before the mobs realized I was free.
(happened more than once)
I also remember winning the roll for my first MM shield...
ah... it was great back in the day...

I am working on my Enchanter Epic 1.5 and was trying to get the Taste of Enticement from the tower. How do I get the key to the building in the graveyard?

Alrighty folks I need some help,
From what I have read, CM was revamped sometime January 2005 and apparnetly quite harder than it use to be. Then it was changed back to its original state in October 2005. We can all tell by this page alone that its original state was very mid-level content, 20-45ish in level max. I went to CM last night (3-1-06) to get an item for a spell and to get the hilt of soulfire for my epic. Low and behold I popped in there and before I know it I am getting whacked for 550+...I cannot find any information on another revamp of this zone anywhere, obviously it is not in its original state. One Paladin I talked said it might have something to do with PoR being released though I could find no written verifcation of that, can anyone fill in the gaps here? BTW don't be a ****** and pretend you know everything, go check it out before you post that it has gone back to its original state because it is not, it is much like a tier 2/3 PoP zone, certainly not original.

Donbayne is exactly right. Lemme tell ya - i was VERY happy to have JUST finished my VP key and the faction needed right before this zone changed. Let me elaborate on the time consumption of this project.

To raise faction for RoS , myself and my partner would sit at the ent to the castle, while i literally pulled every single mob from inside the castle to the front door. Im talking a good 20-25 mobs , mebbe more. I would bring this huge train of greenies to the front ent , and we would commence to kiling them. It was very easy and we definitly found ourselves wandering outside the castle just to keep killing mobs. This went of for three days until my faction FINALY raised to a non-kos status....but thats not it - cuz you still need amiable faction to do VP quests. After a solid week with a minimum of 1 hour a night slaying dozens and dozens of mobs - my faction finally made it to amiable.

Now there are 12 guys scattered thru Lfay to kill to try and up faction? I will bet all the rice in china Xeraxis never did these quests or raise this faction or he would have thought twice about defending Sony. This was pure idiocy. VP quests are pretty much off the table now - as it would take Weeks and weeks to work up the proper faction killing 12 guys scattered in camps across the zone.

This ranks right up there with , "Lets do GM events constantly in an arena thats 5 zones away but not install a port-stone to get there for a few years" .....thats brilliant! Or how about "Lets unlock all the zones that people worked their butts off to get into - and let anyone in !!!" - good thing no one thought of *backflagging* when developing this content originally.

Mistmoore use to be a great place for lower levels to exp- and a great place for RoS faction. Plus its a neat zone and it was nice when one was able to wander thru freely and see the zone. So they killed off a faction - killed off a good exp place for youngins- probably really screwed up some peoples epics (i know the pally epic 1.0 had apiece drop in MM) and i think the last thing in the world Sony needed to do was jack this zone up. I dont know anyone that goes there- not for exp or loot. Why would someone when they can get great armor with aug slots from DoN's and great augs out of DoN/ Omens / Gates , not to mention better exp in other places.

Sony should have stuck to fixing things the player base has asked for. Of all the things people petition about , and post about , and would like to see changed - i did not ever see anyone complain about mistmoore being a low level dungeon - and that it needed to be revamped. Yet - this is what Sony decided to put effort into. Good job. Way to please your player base!! Three cheers!!!

Donbayne i couldnt agree with you more. Taking the RoS faction out of MM all together and not giving people an alternative source to raise that faction has rendered ANOTHER zone useless - unless you want to trash your RoS faction and simply go into VP to kill. All Sony had to do was keep RoS faction in MM (wow , that might have been incentive for people to GO to this zone) or made another area with lots of mobs to kill to raise the faction. wtg sony


Edited, Tue Aug 2 10:04:21 2005

Could a decent group kill everything here except the raid encounter listed? Even the named?

I was in the middle of my AE factioning when the zone got revamp. Im am warmly to the dragons in VP. Any idea on how to go about raising faction after ther revamp?

I do not wish to kill the King in Kaldim , Being a pally and a alcoholic I enjoy going there :-)

It was dark one evening. I had just made it to the entrance of the crypt of mistmoore. Being a cleric I relished in the thought of destroying the plans the Vampires had to attack our small home in Faydark.

I called my magical friend. He practiced the arts of necromancy, and he had just learned to conjure bones into a mighty warrior.

We rested a while, waiting till nightfall to sneak into their layer and take them out, one by one.

Once we reached the kings room, and we had slaughtered a fourth of their army, we were faced with a grave danger.

The danger was that the king was lazy and fat. We were use to attacking swift vampire who we called the earth to grab to hold in place. But what do we do about a big king who can attack us no matter where we stand, we wouldn't be able to use magical spells when his arms are waving in our face, interrupting our casting.

We thought he wouldn't be bright enough, so we attacked him.

We soon regretted that action as after we did that we had every living vampire come after us in the whole crypt.

The trail of bodies lead them to us.

I ran for my ever loving light, asking for invincibility from tunare. While the Necromancer feigned death and snuck out later.

It was the greatest day of my life, because I stole the king’s dinner.

I was just wondering. I have a 61 necro and am having fun experimenting in zones I used to be too chicken to wander through alone. Can a 61 necro safely explore this zone without getting overrun? I was having fun earlier running through Guk etc. What mobs should I avoid here or should I avoid the zone altogether? It's abandoned on my server for the most part. (I could also bring a 62 cleric with me if that would help.)

Thanks in advance for any and all responses.

My friend, a level 61 enchanter, and my twink wizzard (29) have been doing a lot of area effecting. We like old school dungeon's because most are not crowded and tend to give great exp with getting in other people's way. Upper Guk basically dried out within the last level or 2 and we've decided to try MM. Went on raids here with my main (61 SK) when i was level 30 or so, but frankly don't remember much. Anyone agree or disagree about this being a good place to area effect? (if u don't know what AE'ing is, basically u aggro a HUGE group of mobs <25-50 or so> and then group then up, area effect stun, and area effect nuke <with point blank area effects of course>) eqatlas.com says trains are far to frequent and that most pulls are never single, so sounds like a great place to me. feedback if u feel like it, anything is appreciated.

u better have invis up if u go thro secret graveyard ent. U have same problem walked up stairs killed deathly usher walked across path to castle aggro usher then bamm 6 others sage being highest. oh-oh gate not up cast to oom die from just being hit mr of 83 kept registering no hits.

we tried to camp the entry hall a few days ago, and its simply impossible. the moment you enter the hall one of the mobs in the back will start to wander into the ballroom and then into the ambassador room, and two minutes after our two 35-40 grps had set foot into entry, youll face like 20 mobs at once,and youll stand no chance, we were wiped out, 12 people, in like 20 seconds.
ill place a bet that VI made that wandering mobs AI to act just like it does - alerting the whole castle that someone has just entered through the front door. which IMHO is a great design idea :)
so id guess u have to take the secret graveyard entrance if u want to make it into the castle.