Badnewz
01-12-2004, 03:25 PM
I am an expert in the zone of high hold keep so im gonna give some pointers from my own experience in this zone and getting the best xp here possible.
As a necro i suggest comming here at lvl 49-54 or 55 it is unbelievably easy and fast xp if there is no one in zone to share spawns and camps with. Not sure how it is on your servers but on sullon zek u can usually get camps to yourself via some pk =).
spells i mem are: lifetap, BoD, root, Insidious Retro, Invoke Fear, augment death, Lich, feign death.
theres not many mobs in zone that are xp to you but if u do it right you should have zero downtime and always be killing. On the second floor there are 5 spawns, 2 nobles, isabella, and 2 bards. the nobles and isabella all spawn pretty fast after death, the 2 bards on the other hand are extremly slow to respone. On the first floor there is a spawn named captian boshinko and in the basement there is a spawn name dyrna nillith. dyrna is a necro and has a low lvl guy right next to her that always agros with dyrna so i usually dont bother with this spawn. there is also a spawn on 3rd floor that is a random between a nobles and a quest NPC named lozani that will be green.
This is what i do, i get out my pet, kill 2 random gaurds in zone to give pet weapons, then start off with isabella and pull with fear, send pet while gems refresh and then cast insidious retro to snare and DD, then sit and med. isabella wanders from nobles room and bard room and u want to attack her when she is in bard room cause the bards arent social with her and wont add, the nobles will if she is in there room. also dont send pet untill isabella is out of her room and into hallway otherwise bards will add. after she dies go to nobles room, root one noble and the other will agro and come after u, stick pet on it, fear insidious and keep the other rooted till it dies, once it dies hit other with insidious and wait for root to break then fear it and send pet. next move down to boshinko on 1st floor and fear, send pet, insidous, BoD it (use BoD on boshinko cause he has more hpts then isabella and nobles). Rinse repeat till ding. you should have no downtime if u sit and med while mob is feared and pet shreds.
once u get 52-53 u can start to bring the upstairs random noble spawn into the rotation to keep away from any downtime and keep the xp flowing.
Every here and there u will get gaurds that agro i usually either FD them off if pet is on a mob or send pet to kill it, which it kills with ease. dont bother with gaurds unless they bother with u first. u can usually run right by um without agro, systematically killing the gaurds on your path to the xp mobs will only slow u down, best to FD them off and only kill when they agro u first.
I went from 49 to 55 in a few days using this zone solo.
As a necro i suggest comming here at lvl 49-54 or 55 it is unbelievably easy and fast xp if there is no one in zone to share spawns and camps with. Not sure how it is on your servers but on sullon zek u can usually get camps to yourself via some pk =).
spells i mem are: lifetap, BoD, root, Insidious Retro, Invoke Fear, augment death, Lich, feign death.
theres not many mobs in zone that are xp to you but if u do it right you should have zero downtime and always be killing. On the second floor there are 5 spawns, 2 nobles, isabella, and 2 bards. the nobles and isabella all spawn pretty fast after death, the 2 bards on the other hand are extremly slow to respone. On the first floor there is a spawn named captian boshinko and in the basement there is a spawn name dyrna nillith. dyrna is a necro and has a low lvl guy right next to her that always agros with dyrna so i usually dont bother with this spawn. there is also a spawn on 3rd floor that is a random between a nobles and a quest NPC named lozani that will be green.
This is what i do, i get out my pet, kill 2 random gaurds in zone to give pet weapons, then start off with isabella and pull with fear, send pet while gems refresh and then cast insidious retro to snare and DD, then sit and med. isabella wanders from nobles room and bard room and u want to attack her when she is in bard room cause the bards arent social with her and wont add, the nobles will if she is in there room. also dont send pet untill isabella is out of her room and into hallway otherwise bards will add. after she dies go to nobles room, root one noble and the other will agro and come after u, stick pet on it, fear insidious and keep the other rooted till it dies, once it dies hit other with insidious and wait for root to break then fear it and send pet. next move down to boshinko on 1st floor and fear, send pet, insidous, BoD it (use BoD on boshinko cause he has more hpts then isabella and nobles). Rinse repeat till ding. you should have no downtime if u sit and med while mob is feared and pet shreds.
once u get 52-53 u can start to bring the upstairs random noble spawn into the rotation to keep away from any downtime and keep the xp flowing.
Every here and there u will get gaurds that agro i usually either FD them off if pet is on a mob or send pet to kill it, which it kills with ease. dont bother with gaurds unless they bother with u first. u can usually run right by um without agro, systematically killing the gaurds on your path to the xp mobs will only slow u down, best to FD them off and only kill when they agro u first.
I went from 49 to 55 in a few days using this zone solo.