City of Mist

I've seen a lot of confusion/questions about this zone from people on TLPs trying to complete epics/other quests or people on live doing the same.

Generally for your epic drops and other stuff, everything in this zone is past the first locked door. You enter CoM from the east, and using this map and common sense you can just move West through the open areas of the zone, heading to the castle/Mansion in the far west. Once you get to the bridges that lead to the locked door, that's where many people get confused. There used to be a lot of easy ways to use illusions to get past locked doors, those techniques largely no longer work. That being said there *is* a key for this locked door, if you kill the "Captain of the Guard" (when entering CoM, cross the bridge, go through the gatehouse and take the first right turn off to that northern section and he's there) he has a chance of dropping the "Stone Key" which opens the front door of the mansion.

The next place people get confused is understanding where the named mobs Lord Ghiosk, Lord Rak'ashiir and Neh'ashiir come from. None of them will ever just be "up", instead each is spawned by killing a Black Reaver. The Black Reavers live inside the locked mansion. When you first open the mansion door you'll see a room with a Black Reaver right in the middle, with 3 spawns of golems on each side of him in a line. You can typically split these golems 2 at a time away and kill them, then fight the Black Reaver alone.

Black Reavers are highly resistant to magic and have decent AC/HP, on a live server even lowbies can kill them with a merc, but on a TLP you need to be pretty well geared/know what you're doing to do the reavers with less than a full group. Inside the mansion you'll see a couple potential pather black reavers, or possibly a "Mist Reaver", he will look just like an Iksar Golem, but can spawn a black reaver when he dies. All black reaver spawns except two work in the exact same way: when you kill the black reaver there is a % chance another black reaver can instantly spawn OR Lord Ghiosk. If Lord Ghiosk spawns, then nothing else will spawn from that reaver pull. You can potentially get 4, 5, 6 or even 7 black reavers in a row. The reavers can STOP after any death, even if Lord Ghiosk hasn't spawned (so getting Lord Ghiosk isn't guaranteed on any individual reaver, but he has a chance to spawn from them and when he does they stop their spawn cycle until the reaver fully respawns.)

Once you get past the entry room to the mansion you'll be in a long narrow hallway, you should see a lift. If you try to click it, it will say it's locked and you aren't holding the key. There *is no key* to this lift. You need a rogue or bard with high lockpicking skill to use their picks on the lift and it will take you up. There are a few tricks to getting by this but to my knowledge they all rely on things unavailable on a TLP, so you'll really need a rogue/bard for this on a TLP.

This lift takes you to a small interior area of the mansion that should have some more black reavers, a stair case and then a black reaver in a room at the top. The black reaver in the top room is one of the two special reavers I mentioned--he will not spawn into a Lord Ghiosk ever, instead when you kill that reaver, he will spawn into "Lord Rak'ashiir", generally the toughest mob in the zone.

To get higher into City of Mist, the long narrow hallway with the lift in it is your ticket even higher up, instead of taking the lift, go north down that hallway until you get to the corner, then go east/right. You'll note the hallway is now a ramp, and you're slowly ascending the city. If you follow this ramp/hallway you eventually come into a large open room that will usually have a few undead in it and maybe a golem. This is too far, go back west just outside of the room's door, and then if you go south you go through an invisible wall. At this point you'll see the translucent ramps/walkways and it's basically linear from here on out. Just keep going up and further in, you will run into two locked doors that again, require a bard/rogue to open. Neither has a key. You make your way through three "Halls" (small buildings) and when you get to the third one you'll see that the walkway is broken completely, if you just walk forward you will fall down into the water in front of the mansion. To get to the last building you either need to jump (you can mess up and fall), have very high runspeed and you can just auto run over the chasm, or just have lev (best/reliable option.) When you get into the last building you'll be in a small room with a ramp on either side leading to a black reaver up above. The MIDDLE of this room, basically any part of the floor not on the edge, is a false floor and will drop you all the way to the bottom of the city again. Go up the ramp and the black reaver up on the platform above is the reaver that spawns into Neh'ashiir. Neh'ashiir can actually drop a "Key of Torsis", a temporary key that unlocks the elevator down below (so I did lie when I said there was no key to that platform, but if you're after Rak you have to clear all the way to the top of CoM then drop down w/the temporary key to use it.)

So that's the full skinny on how to get into the reaver mansion, how to get Lord Ghiosk, Lord Rak'ashiir and Neh'ashiir to spawn.

illusion trick works for getting past locked doors

The Key of Stone now gets added to your keychain.




*.Lee of Povar

Been In City of Mist farming stuff for a while now. 60 Rogue
4 Mighty Golems - 3X MoSS, 1X Mask
6 a raging golem - 6 Golem Essence Spaulders (Good Vendor Trash 215plat)
12 Warbone Overlord - 11X Gauntlets, 1X Shield
6 Plaguebone Warlord - 1 Cape of the Seer, 2 War Bracelets, 3 Mysterious Sleeves
4 Gyrating Green Slime - 4X Slimy Green Ring
1 Dead Wraith - 1 Ornate Rune Blade
1 A Terror Wraith - 1 Terror Marked Mask

Mighty Golems can randomly spawn pretty much anywhere on the bottom floor it seems, so kill everything in the zone in area and nearby. Raging Golems appear out of no where to assist other golems (they will call for help), so if a raging golem is up, he should assist the first golem you attack. Seems to be on a 2-3 hour spawn. Warbone Overlord is about 30minutes to an hour random spawn time it seems and no placeholder, he rarely has the shield and you will see the graphic for it if he does. Plaguebone Warlord, easy enough to make this guy spawn, just kill anywhere you see a skeleton and he can spawn, I have encountered him mostly where Captain of the Gaurd and Warbone Overlord spawn, zone in cross the bridge, go left, there are two rooms. Also encountered the Dead Wraith there. Gyrating Green Slime, seen three of these spawn on the bottom floor in the second part after the zone in. There are 4 slimes there and he can spawn in any place, kill them to get him to spawn (note this mob can spawn up top to but usually on the bottom). Kill captain of the gaurd to get this key if you cannot pick lock in the back of the reaver room. I have encounter one terror wraith in the first building on the top floor.

Edited, Dec 11th 2008 4:47pm by karathefallen

One copy of the key to the elevator drops off the Queen, and you must click or have rogue picklock into the notch in the elevator floor.

Ok, we're at the very last platform. and we can't get the elevator to work. we got 2! of those darn key of tarris (elevator key). and we're clicking the ground of the elevator, but nothing is happening... rog clicking wont work eather! anyone know what we're doing wrong or if it might be broken?


ok so the big question is!

everyone knows about
"Captain of the Guard now drops 'A Stone Key' (NO DROP)" it hopens the first door in back of zone.

then there is "key of tarris droped buy the guy who's name starts with an N, behind door number 3 before the elevator" and that (supos to) make the elevator work.

there are 2 doors in between that don't seem to have keys. i've killed in this zone sooooo much and i not seen it, so if someone know i've sure alot of people would like to know. other than that i think it's bring a rogue with ya or do the gimp levitate trick.

other then the stone key where are the others

I see many ways to get up the Tower in Com but what is the real way to get the Key to the Tower please - Not the Temple Key or the Elevator Key -

i am a level 39 druid close to 40 planning to lead a raid in a week i think it will be abou 8to 10 people in the raid will have 8- 10 peeps levels 26 to 52 there will be about 2 groups 1 group will be about levels 26- 30's the other will be about levels 40- 52 i need to know if this is a good idea if theres a place that would be better to raid. we are not after any item in city of mist or quest item it is ust for fun.

What is the Icon of the High scale for?

I have a key to the throne room, I am told the key to the elevator drops of NehA'Shirr (at the top of the elevated platform.
Question: How do you get to NehA'shirr without a rogue as the room before hers is locked, and I haven't heard any mention of a Key to this room.

I really want to get to NehA'shirr for the mage epic :)

Never mind I have done NehA'shirr and I now have torch.

Pugismagic
62nd season Magician on The Seventh Hammer
Officer in Never Divided

Edited, Tue Feb 24 21:12:59 2004

I don't see a way that a 35 could do this dungeon. It takes a well rounded group of 45+ to survive here. Even then, its still a very unsafe dungeon.

Imho, this is one of the most fun zones in the game, partly because of the danger.

The mobs tend to hit harder and have fewer hit points. This makes this a great place to grind. The kills come fast and frequent. There are many static spawn points, so pulling is very easy. Its an outdoor zone, so no XP modifier. That hardly matters when you can make 2 kills a minute.
At 49, I'm getting 1 level every 2 hours with a good group. XP is very good until 53 - IF you are killing fast.

They may have nerfed the named spawns at some point in the last two months. We used to pull here and get 2 or 3 named an hour (on Stromm); everyone would leave with choice rares. Now, the rate seems to be down to about 1 named every 2 hours.

Does anyone know what the no drop ground spawn found in the small front temple is for? It is called 'icon of high scale', id's with the same name. Just wondering.