Hmm.. so the entrance to Firona Vie and the entrance to the evil city (not
Iksar) are in the same zone?
That will make traveling there a little easier, I really wasn't looking
forward to the trip to BB tonight ;) (assuming the UPS people leave at the
door this time, hehe)
Bien
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel P. Sniderman [SMTP:fuzzbone@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 11:44 AM
> To: EQ Bards
> Subject: [eqbards] Kunark Info - Spoiler - but if you want to save
> HOURS of time you may want to read
>
> While the following is a spoiler - it describes travel to and from Kunark.
> I "wasted" a good four hours of time so unless you consider waiting for
> and
> on boats for long periods of time a vital part of the role-playing
> experience - I would suggest you read on.
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> 1) Oasis Route. There is a raft on the Oasis dock - it will take you to
> an
> Ogre Village in Timorous. I believe these are the "Broken Teeth" Islands
> on
> the cloth map.
>
> You will be taken to an Ogre village. The Ogres I saw conned green to me
> -
> but there are probably a goodly number of them. I wasn't KOS - but I guy I
> eventually hooked up with was... If you are working your way back - the
> loc
> is +7000 +3300
>
> I ended up finding the wrong dock - there is an "Evil Boat' That will take
> you to The Overthere. This is a nasty zone. It's an undead City.
> Everything Conned red to me - and to a 48(?) Paladin I hooked up with.
> The
> boat "Looks" Evil so you'll know it if you see it. We didn't get off the
> boat (one of the con'ed red things was literally ON the dock).
>
> We zoned back to that dock. If I recall properly it was also an Ogre
> Village. If my notes are correct the loc for this dock is neg 5000 neg
> 3700
>
> Through shouts we got the loc of the High-Elf village with the correct
> dock
> to Fironia Vie. IF my notes are correct - (they are pretty cryptic at
> this
> point) the loc is neg 200 pos 3600. You shouldn't have probs getting exact
> loc from people who are making the return route as the boat stops there.
>
> We had to swim a lot to get there - but I'm not sure whether this is true
> if
> you know where you're going from the Oasis Raft Dock. I thought I heard
> someone say "Go to South End of the Island" which would imply no swimming
> -
> but perhaps it was "Go to the South Island"
>
> Regardless - for me - I explored the boat (IT'S HUGE with spots yet
> unfilled for NPC's) I didn't realize that I ended up on the wrong side of
> the boat and had to make the circuit twice.
>
> REMEMBER - DOCKS ON LEFT SIDE OF BOAT - so for this route - you stay on
> the
> left side of the boat from the dock you got on at the High Elf Village to
> get off at Fironia Vie.
>
> From when I left Oasis to when I actually got to Fironia Vie - 3 hours.
>
> I got bound - and then went the short way from the city to the tunnel that
> takes you to Dreadlands and hooked up with a pickup group. There was a
> lot
> of confusion and problems with a Ranger who eventually got booted. There
> was an excellent Bard - Ripkey (I don't think he was on the list) in the
> group however. Among other annoying things - the Ranger kept telling us
> to
> "Sing Heal During Combat"
>
> But shortly there after - Several guildmates (led by Guild Leader 43 Level
> Druid who tp'd to the Dreadlands) got on - and I wanted to hook up with
> them...
>
> 2) Wizards and Druids can TP to the Dreadlands. This is a huge zone - I
> believe larger than anything pre-expansion. Plenty of hunting grounds.
>
> We spent an hour or so (including several dumps) trying to figure out how
> my
> Guild's group could get to me without luck. Arkin died once... Then we
> decided the only way to hook up would be for me to travel back to
> Butcherblock and get a TP from Druid Circle.
>
> The negative - on release day at least - no one had found the way from the
> TP spot to the zone Fironia Vie (the High-Elf City) - hopefully that will
> change soon. The Guild group and I couldn't hook up until I did the
> painfully long boat trip to BB for pickup.
>
> 3) Butcherblock route. Take the OTHER dock in Butcherblock from the
> Freeport boat. There will be little shuttles - this will zone to Timorous
> Deep and connect to the Boat. The boat is very large.
>
> BUG REPORT - I went the opposite direction - so can't confirm it - But an
> EQ
> Vault they reported probs with Shuttle. Take the 1st on one route. If
> your
> shuttle doesn't hook up with the loading dock on the side of the boat -
> jump
> off and climb up the rudder.
>
> The shuttles connect with the right side of the boat. Move to the left
> side. There are a couple of stops in Timorous - this zone is the equiv.
> of
> OOT. Don't get off here if you're going to Fironia Vie. Eventually it
> will
> zone there and the dock on the left side.
>
> I did the return route - had just missed the boat in Firnonia. Took about
> an hour (I'm not kidding)
>
> So far I've only seen 2 zones - and the Dreadlands at least are so big I
> doubt that crowding will be an issue.
>
> Slyde
>
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