Jumping into The Hole

[splurticus]

Okay, here's something dumb I did a couple of weeks ago. I read about someone trying it once and decided I'd give it a go.

So, I am in Paineel, as a lvl 57 necro. I have harmshield mem'ed.

I jump in the hole. I begin to zone to The Hole. As soon as the zone loads, I'm falling. I cast harmshield and land safely.

There's a huge golem thing there called "Guardian of the Seal" (i think it was), /con red and indifferent. A few player corpses are littered around on the floor.

Nearby I see an undead, /con light blue and scowling. I pull him with shackle and pet tank him. He dies easily.

I continue peeking around the chamber but quickly manage to aggro some gargoyles who start beating me for 200+ and kill me before I can manage a FD.

So I go get my hole key, a tiny coffin, and an essense emerald... zone into The Hole through the regular entrance, summon my corpse, rez myself, and move on.

Anyone else try this? Please share your experience. Thanks...

[Rikam]

I am confused. Try what? If you mean jumping into hole the only reason to was thats where Yael use to be for quest. Now you are ebtter off starting at the zi invis and run in. Jumping in just leaves you by some nasty mobs that will hurt you unless you have the gear to cut it.

[splurticus]

Yes, I mean jumping into the hole. Actually, where I landed, nothing aggro'ed me immediately, and I was able to pull a MOB and kill it before I wandered to what was evidently the wrong place and got splattered.

You should understand that I knew I probably wouldn't survive this little mission and did it primarily to see what the hell was down there. I fully expected to get killed and have to summon my corpse out.

Next time, I'll probably work from the zone-in and see how far I can get.

[Felicite]

We (the Gift) jump in the Hole a few nights a week.. we are farming.. and that's all I will admit about that =)

But. Nothing will agro you at the spot you land. Nothing. You can afk for hours (I have).

You can work your way back to the city proper from there.. or you can work down from the ZI. But, I will tell you the MOBs are the bottom are super MR.. basically unslowable (and little in the Hole is charmable or mezable). So.. fighting up from the bottom is scarier than fighting down from the top. YMMV.

[Mallakith]

Ya since zone revamp the guardian room is non aggro

Raid GoTS my guild jumps down rezzes up kills gates.

Im impressed you killed the undead.. u know he procs a 1500pt lifetap right? i tried at 65 and he kicked my ass!

Other thing DO NOT try and open the door behind the guardian.. he doesnt like you doing that....

PS this is a valid way of getting into the hole without a key... drop HS and levant

[splurticus]

Originally posted by Mallakith@Dec 21 2004, 07:46 AM
Im impressed you killed the undead.. u know he procs a 1500pt lifetap right? i tried at 65 and he kicked my ass!

Really? No, I had no clue. This was one of the spectral floating guys and he was /con light blue to level 57. Saw him at the far end of the chamber from the Guardian. He went down easy to my lvl 56 pet and definitely never proc'ed a 1500hp lifetap because I would have noticed that for sure.

[Felicite]

Originally posted by splurticus+Dec 21 2004, 08:33 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (splurticus @ Dec 21 2004, 08:33 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Mallakith@Dec 21 2004, 07:46 AM
Im impressed you killed the undead.. u know he procs a 1500pt lifetap right? i tried at 65 and he kicked my ass!

Really? No, I had no clue. This was one of the spectral floating guys and he was /con light blue to level 57. Saw him at the far end of the chamber from the Guardian. He went down easy to my lvl 56 pet and definitely never proc'ed a 1500hp lifetap because I would have noticed that for sure. [/b][/quote]
If it was light blue, it was not the Echo of Nortlav. And the Echo is pretty resistant to everything. And he has a pretty distictive sword. Hello Mr Echo, the Gift is here to play:

http://www.obsessionmatrix.com/echo.jpg

If it was Light Blue, someone had trained a "A Spirit of the Old City" or "A Spirit of the Ruins" down to the bottom. The Echo is 51.

You know, everytime I go to the top of Tower of Frozen Shadow (of late) there has been a Student from the second floor there.. seems like the same kind of displacement.

[nethyia]

In truth, you can stand on the edge to the hole, cast HS, then just run in (no DMF when you jump off cliff, will ruin timing). That's how I used to do it when my guild was farming GotS.

and there is no point in messing with the door behind the Guardian, as it goes NOWHERE. :angry:

[Felicite]

Originally posted by nethyia@Dec 22 2004, 01:11 AM
In truth, you can stand on the edge to the hole, cast HS, then just run in (no DMF when you jump off cliff, will ruin timing). That's how I used to do it when my guild was farming GotS.

and there is no point in messing with the door behind the Guardian, as it goes NOWHERE. :angry:
Harmshield and all the other Divine Aura type spells work.. but it's not the only way to reach the bottom alive. *smiles*

Yes.. the door is the "Seal" and he is the "Guardian of the Seal".. so.. um.. yes.. he guards it. It leads to the "Plane of the Underfoot" which is still a dream.. so.. nowhere.

Hey.. when the Guardian and both gargoyles are gone, have you seen the really large gargoyle that appears on the wall, looking down/across at the Seal.. that cannot be targetted? This is an unretouched Gnomish picture of the Seal from the pond's edge.. just to the left of the Echo:

http://www.obsessionmatrix.com/holewtf.jpg

It disappears before the Guardian returns.. I wonder what it's story is..

[Plavonica]

thats what i love about bein a necro, trying out all this crazy stuff and being able to recover easily.