Grieg's End

I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to safely (well, relatively safe that is) reach the Scarlet Desert through this zone. Has anybody checked to see if mobs can see invis?

THIS ZONE IS A TRIP. Let me just begin by saying that. It's also a double-edged sword.

On the positive side: The zone is eye candy. The mobs here can appear as *anything* under the sun - we fought centaurs, owlbears, vah shir, golems, halflings, iksars, elementals, fairies, drakes, elves... I mean, you name it, we fought it. The stats for the creatures are not the same as those these ghosts become - indeed it seems the illusions are merely "fun" for these dark terrors. In addition (and here's where it gets *really* goofy) - if a mob lands a hit on you (and you're not already in an illusion form, and that includes wolf form) - then YOUR appearance shall become changed to that of a random Norrathian or Luclin creature as well!! Pretty soon our parties were comprised of chitterlings, wraiths, vampires, goblins, centipedes, bats, and perhaps the most confusing of all was to watch an elf suddenly become a dwarf or a human! Suffice it to say, have that ASSIST key handy because it will become nearly impossible to tell the mobs from the players! The mobs are aplenty too - they seemed to pop with major frequency in every room we decided to set up camp. That made clearing a room and moving on a little more tedious. For the group fortunate enough to be getting the experience points, the exp was very good. The zone is set up really in two distinct and different designs. When you first zone in from Dawnshroud, this place appears to be an indoor dungeon setting, although don't let that fool you - it is indeed an outdoor zone, so in that sense it's vaguely reminiscent of a place like Karnor's Castle. As you work your way through the hallways, you exit into a courtyard with open sky. This too reminded me of KC. From here it begins looking like a place such as the City of Mist - a ruined old habitat. There are crypts about, and plenty of shapechangers, and every now and then you'll be greeted by an appearance of Grieg himself - although before you can target him he poofs away. It's a fun zone, with plenty to look at, plenty of laughs, and nice experience points.

The downside. In four to six hours of hunting, with three groups of high-40's to high-50's, and after felling what seemed like hundreds (probably dozens) of monsters, we got exactly zero drops of any kind. There was the occasional (but rare) enchanter page drop, that sort of thing, but beyond that - nothing. This included several mobs which we considered either named or at least rare. That was a bit of a disappointment, as the risk/reward structure here (based on this one visit) was tilted toward risk.

We got pretty deep (although when you're in a brand-new zone, that's hard to gauge) - but it became pretty obvious when we were reaching depths that were over our heads. As we started fighting mobs with more unique names that were dropping our numbers fairly quickly, we realized we had gone as far as we could that day and decided to come back when we had more reinforcement.

All in all, you've never seen a zone with mobs like this, and hopefully as people dig deeper, there will come stories of fantastic prizes to be found within, although our investigation turned up nothing at all.

We had a group pretty deep in last night and came upon a locked door. We had a rogue with us that had a 209 Lockpick skill and it said that the door was unpickable. I would like any information folks may have found about this door key. If you have found a key, talked with an NPC about something locked away in Griegs, or anything that might be related please post if here.
Thanks

I was soloing at the entrance, and the mobs seem to be all blue (with exception of a few) to level 55. The mobs respawn in different forms, with no apparent advantage of one form for another. I can tell you, that of the 6 mobs I killed, (2 mobs, 3 Respawns) 2 were clerics, the rest were melee types. The clerics have about 2200 hp (2 Winged Deaths would have taken care of them if they had not healed themselves) they cast a stun spell that does a max damage of 200ish. The melee types have about 2500 HP (2 Winged Deaths and a few 160 damage roots took care of him) none of the spells I had casted had resisted except Fury of Air (druid magic based stun) 1 time. The entrance to the zone is clear, there are 2 ways to go, straight ahead through a door or take a sharp left and go through a partially open door behind. I went forward, and through the door is 2 mobs, you can take a party in and when you open the door, head to the right against the wall, and it looks like a pretty safe corner. The two mobs standing inside that room could not see invisible. I hope this gives you guys some idea about, at least, the entrance to the zone. Oh yeah, and Sow/Wolf Form works here.

Happy Hunting