Lake of Ill Omen

I recommend the Sarnak Fortress for an exp grind, its great for low-mid 20s.
I've always gone to LoIO using the Fironia Vie stone in PoK. you can use your map to run to LoIO fairly quickly, beware of the high lvl 35 spiders outside the cave, very easy to avoid though. Once entering lake you'll have no map but follow the river to the lake, work your way around the right side of the lake, its not that far of a run, eventually you'll see pillars coming out of the lake and a few broken ones on land, keep going around the lake bit more and you should see the fortress soon. if you follow the pillars into the lake you'll find veksar.
-Drop decent amount of loot and coin
-plenty of mobs outside the fortress so you don't need to go inside
-After killing the 2 sarnaks that guard the entry to the fortress go right and run up the wall, i setup camp there and pull mobs, they run a little bit but won't go far enough to aggro anything even without a snare.
-beware, they do run <20% but this isn't usually too much of a problem because of the open area inside the walls.

*If you follow the lake around to the left you'll come across some ruined buildings inhabited by goblins (range in classes), but I noticed this too late. I think they were probably the level of the sarnaks or maybe a bit lower.

Took my completely untwinked dwarf beserker here as per the game advice. Roamed around a bit and saw there is no easy zone out. No MOBs near the Firiona Vie zone and the other zones guarded by reds. Went to the right of the Lake and hunted blue stuff amid the green and gray for awhile. This is third person hunting with a far off perspective or you get add on's. The zone targets you as you will see if you sit and heal. Got a bubble with barely any loot and then tried the left of the lake to the Windmill. Here it was a rare blue in the white and yellow. Pretty steady pathing and not much chance of add on's on this side of the Lake. Used all my bandages (full pack). I could take out goblins easy (being a dwarf) but had to stay away from iskar as I could barely take out a blue. Killed lots of cats. Not much loot.

Anywhere in here decent to solo as a 27 Necro?

Looks like a fair amount of fun fighting goblins in a group, but not much stuff to pick up as a solo any thoughts?

I went here once with my main (now 46 druid) and the zone was packed, so I went elsewhere. I brought my new 20 warrior here last week and there is NO ONE in the zone!!! The most I have seen in the last week is 7. Soloing by the windmill is a cakewalk, but getting groups seems to be a bit difficult. Hard to believe when there used to be a 3-4 person waiting list for groups here. So grab some friends and come on over on the Xev server, I've got a 19 cleric (Bathnaea) and a 20 warrior (Wroww), so if you need a healer or a tank, I've got both.

I want to travell with my lvl 22 Woodelf ranger form LOIO to Warsliks Woods, is it save to travel through the goblin/sarnak tunnels while being invis?

There are a lot of mobs and its pretty easy to get a group in the sarnak fort. I went from 22-28 here. Then moved next door to Frontier Mountains, got a group at the giant fort. Now I'm 32 and next door in the Overthere grouping on the ledge til 37. Thats 15 levels in 3 connected zones.

my necro at level 25 to 27 (still there) is soloing blues and getting decent exp. But most importantly its a safe zone. Stay near lake and pick off mobs, not many wander. If grouping at this level. I suggest the ledge in the sarnak fortress. You really won't find worthwhile cons anywhere else for a group. For 23ish to 25ish, I suggest Warslik Woods and the Skulking Brutes Cave. Great exp and Loot for soloing. Again, Im a Necro so be warned If you are another class for the soloing parts.

Well I'm am an Iksar Necromancer of 20 for the present time. I have lost many lvls due to my stupidity in KOS zones (I can admit that). When I first started this character I was simply bored outta my mind in Field of Bone! So being very untwinked and poor and with a great shortage of Bone chips I moved into LOIO. I had done the quests in FoB witht he Scorpion pincers and Pup skins (which I reccomend for any low lvl Iksar) later after I was in LOIO. I was lvl 1 and wanderered a great spot next to a door that a Crusader guraded at all times. So if I had trouble I ran to him and I always has Bone chips. I also got some decent cash for my spells off selling Bone chips to higher lvls and selling the swords the Decaying Skeletons dropped.

So even untwinked, as long as you can get the right information on where to hunt...LOIO is a great zone! I moved into the "Pit" at lvl 6 in FoB and then into Kurn's at lvl 10. I was able to lvl to 6 in no time at all and then was able to enjoy the great xp of the following zones! And now I'm bound at the mill gaining even more xp.

Just my opinion, but FYI for some reason people in LOIO yell ay you if you're a lower lvl...When I asked what to hunt at lvl 1 near Cab I got a steady stream of shouts directed to me and tells saying for me to leave. But I stayed and am happy I did.

I have been hunting here for past 2 levels and my ranger has foraged several barracuda bones. nobody seems to know what they are for and I have not found any mention of them on any searches. Best explanation so far is to help barracudas keep there shape :P . if anyone knows what they are for please leave a post. Thanks

I Want to bring my lvl 19 Rogue over here, but im scared about the run in from FV. Could anyone suggest anything to make the run easier?

Well there is a lot of problems I am having with EQ. Here is a sample session with my 30 Wizard. Log on med to full then buff self. Self buffs like shield and runeshield absorber take average five six casts of fizzle before they finally cast properly. Again I spend another five minutes medding. Ok now full mana I click boots (cost of 5250 plat took my entire bank to buy those) and finally see a couple of mobs blue to me should be easy. I cast AE snare and both resist. Cast it again and again and finally sticks to one mob. I run away and start the process over.

Asside from the usual brain washed go get a group answer, what am I doing wrong? What makes it worse is even if I manage to snare a pair or three blues to solo there is this new bug whereby everytime someone enters the zone I freeze up but the mobs do not and I get killed for no fault of my own but because of a game bug.

I've now allowed both my EQ accounts to lapse and have signed up for two accounts of DaoC for three months each and might return to EQ if they ever fix some of this garbage but soloing is simply impossible for me now and there are too many obnoxious loot whoring idiots in EQ to not solo a good deal of the time.

So far I see some things that R better in Daoc.

MUCH nicer people.
Easier to find groups.
Everyone can bind most cities
(like soulbinders EQ added after over 2 years)
No big corpse runs
No medding downtime.
No healing downtime.
Crafting WAY less expensive and people actually buy your crafted stuff!
No crafting destroyed your contents on combine.
No problems soloing most classes.
No begging people for rezzes.
No begging people for Teleports.
PvP is much more fun and staged intelligently.
Guilds add people without acting like a college sorority with initiations.
Fewer stuckup self-glorified jerks in game.

Things that are not better:

Assortment of monsters in any single realm are not as varied compared to the whole of all EQ zones mobs.

Too many mobs are just larger versions of same mobs you fought before like EQ does this too but not quite as much.

Farming - Can't farm like a greedy loot ***** in Daoc because once its mega green nothing drops (as well as no exp like EQ.)

Power leveling - Can't easily power level like a uber jerk very well because higher level players healing you while you fight negates the exp. Some minimal buffing ahead of time is possible but tedious and doesnt help really all that much plus killing reds doesnt give much more exp than yellows and blues anyway.