My group has been hunting here quite a bit, and it IS a very nice place to hunt. Lots of things
to charm, lots of space to run. There are three big things to worry about though, from my
experience:

- The pathing and warping in the zone is VERY bad. You'll be fighting a giant and suddenly
it's just GONE. Sometimes it warps just a short distance, which is no big deal,
he'll come running after you quickly enough. The real danger is when they warp a long
distance away, and then never come back. Never, that is, until you happen to walk
near him later, and he comes running with his 4 giant friends and the little cyclops
who wants to be part of the group.

- Hasten Quickboots or whatever the name of the little dude from the JBoot quest is
steals your kills.

- Sometimes there's too MANY hill giants. When you're in a group, one hill giant is tasty,
two makes them see how powerful you are as a bard. Three means run to the zone.
Four means run to the zone and try and take a screen cap. :)

Jyzan

kim@... wrote:

> From: <kim@...>
>
> Wow, thanks for the tip on clearing the "trash" mobs from the
> hills here to get giants to spawn. I made over 350pp there
> tonight, and each of my friends there made over 200pp (I was
> soloing a couple hours before the others showed up). I think
> my guild raked in close to 2000pp for the night, as well as 8
> or 9 lambent stones. Now if they'll just fix Genni...
>
> This place is a high level bard's dream. Lots of open space
> to run around in, great cash loot, merchants nearby so you can
> sell the heavy weapons, etc. The only down side was that I
> died once. I had two giants fighting each other, then charm
> was resisted 4 times in a row, I accidently let Accelerando
> drop, and got chain-stunned 3 times, which was long enough for
> both giants to kill me. My group wasn't able to get within
> range to heal me in time.
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim@...
>
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