iruinedyourday
01-04-2016, 03:20 PM
He guys, a couple weeks ago someone PM'd and asked what my strat for leveling at the efreeti trash spot in Sol B (my favorite spot I might add) to get from 57-60.
Its not the first time Ive been asked and wasnt able to log in and just show someone, so i dug around and found some crude maps I made the last time someone reached out to me. I walked both myself and this stranger through my process for entering SolB via the main LS ent and navigating to the camp, moving through mobs you want to ignore and camp agro, and what mobs, spells and locations etc to kill and use etc.
I thought you all might be interested and it may help a stranger in the future grind up at the best spot in the universe.
I want to add that I got through 59 here in 3 days, of coming home from work, grinding for a few hours and logging comfortably, it really is a fantastic spot to get through that last hell level, so you can delve deeper and greedier into the caves and take Tranix's throne for your self and retire as a lava shaman, a true fire giant.
Anyway, so here is the reply to his PM asking me about the spot, I hope it helps you folks!:
I made this map to help someone do the same thing so let me try to walk both you and myself through it:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25736152/EQ/mapsolb.JPG
The yellow dotted line is the quickest easiest point of entry and walks you through a lava tunnel, through some bats, a couple Kolbolds and one LDC vie Lavastorm Zonline. I know it is cluttered and it looks like shit, but its all there if you look at it closely heh.
First buff up at the ent and get full mana. Make sure you have levitate to get through the lava tunnel, you'll notice you might have to clear Kolbolds (just root rot or root & camp agro after you run into the lava tunnel).
Shotly after walking through the lava tunnel, you will encounter 2 static bats & 1 bat pather (that you can often avoid all together if your timing is right)
I root both of them, then camp agro (you can see on the map there is a spot you can use line of sight to camp out the agro, and be safe when you log back in if they path back to thier spots, if they dont, simply re root and camp agro again, or if you REALLY want to, just kill them, its easy 2 bats to rot, there is one pather you have to watch out for though you will likely encounter IIRC so it MAY be 3 bats if you are unlucky.
There is a lava duct crawler you will want to kill until you get really good at ninja crawling through this area. he is located just at the edge of the lilly pads.
Inside the efreeti tunnel entrance is 2 imp guards and one lava guardian. if you wait far enough out in front of the opening to the lair (over the lilly pads, the rocks given their name because of their look) you can single pull the lava guardian.
(DO NOT root rot the guards and the guardian inside the opening to the lair! There is a pathing imp that will agro, and if you get bad luck will pull the next 3 down onto you! so this first fight needs to happen over the lilly pads, make sure levitate is fresh!)
once you have cleared those 3 wait for the pather, i like to solo kill him. When you get good, you can add him to the 3 opening guard rotation, i like to do 4 mobs at a time at this camp.
after you kill the pather (4 mobs so far, LG & 3 Imps) run up to the next level, there are 3 mobs.
I never use a dog pet, cus they take so much mana, so what i would do is carry around 5 or 6 of those 3 charge instant root goblin nets, at the end of the night i would gate to north freeport and recharge them on a merchant, and then just run back to sol b the next night to start this rotation again. So Ill explane next strat for both, with a dog, or with goblin nets (the eliete version hehe).
send dog up, and root all 3 Imps and kill them. Or if goblin nets (special cool version) step up, click click click... root root root and rot. use mana spent on dog, on self, healing and refreshing regen.
there are 2 mobs down the way you do not need to kill, but when you get efficent you can throw them into your rot rotation, ignore them for now.
there is a pather that roams the stairs up towards the efreeti lair. root and kill him.
next is the patio outside of the efreeti lair. 3 static mobs, and 1 pather that lurks inside the doorway to the efreeti room, you can see through the wall with shrink to time the pull of the 3 on the patio, so you dont have to deal with 4 initial mobs.
simply kill the 3, then when ready, kill the one that lurks inside the efreeti room to finish off this rotation.
At this point the guardians to the lair should be respawning, go down and kill them, and just repeat the process over and over again for probably like 1 weeks worth of play time, just evenings, you can get to 60 there easy.
Some notes: next to the patio, infront of the efreeti liar, a path leads down towards the 2 extra mobs. DONT walk down that path, there is a trap floor that will send you falling into the lava and most likely perishing a horrible death. you can see the trap floor part if you look off of the patio just right, its like a bridge of stone that is like 2 inches thick.
lastly there is this final section: Corpse Recovery!
Here I will teach you, what to do when you inevitably die, inside of the lair like you accidentally pulled the whole efreeti and die in the hallway deep as fuck in there and youre like oh shit im screwed!
well not really, so that big lava pool that (if you fall into it, you cannot get out of, you have to leave and come back from the start, so dont do that!)
in that big lava pool however, is an underwater lava tunnel that you can swim to that will take you all the way back to the ent, just before the bats that you had to circumnavigate to get to the lair. you can from there walk right out, but why would you want to do that? that tunnel is more for getting BACK inside the lair, without any agro, into a spot that will allow you to /corpse drag your corpse and loot it, should you perish horribly in the lair.
Important: keep bat wings in the BANK! or if not, there is a merchant in WC that sells them, or maybe its EC.. well its one of those zones, there is a reagent vendor that will sell you bat wings if you have none.
the image below is a closeup of the big lava room where the freeti trash is, from the map above:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25736152/EQ/CR.JPG
Follow the yellow path using levitate and hope people are there to kill the kolbolds (or root & camp) your way to the opening to the underwater lava tunnel.
next make sure you cast fire rest on yourself, so the lava does less damage, also probably a hit point buff and stamina.
swim through the tunnel In green, there is a little spot you can pop up and heal, mentally get ready to be finished with the nightmare that is Everquest corpse runs hehe.. then swim into the big lava area, and be QUICK and CAREFUL because if you are all willy nilly with levitate on walking around you may agro a bunch of shit and get a train on yourself, but if you are careful you should be able to poke around and get in range to a corpse even pretty deep into the freeti lair.
Ok that about wraps it up, I dont get on much these days so I cant really show you in person, but maybe ill get the itch after having written this up and come online to check up on you, just let me know some of your play times or if you are gonna give it ago.
Id love to hear how the progress goes, also please feel free to ask me any questions to clarify anything.
yea let me know how it goes, good luck! Its a super fun camp & once you get 60, its time to delve even deeper to take Tranix's throne!
pps the map is pretty acurate though sloppy, look for shitty yellow x's where the blue stuff describes things, and as you explore learning the camp yourself try to figure out where exactly the Xs are and use them, i got pretty nerdy with pixel space and agro radius and such
good luck!
Its not the first time Ive been asked and wasnt able to log in and just show someone, so i dug around and found some crude maps I made the last time someone reached out to me. I walked both myself and this stranger through my process for entering SolB via the main LS ent and navigating to the camp, moving through mobs you want to ignore and camp agro, and what mobs, spells and locations etc to kill and use etc.
I thought you all might be interested and it may help a stranger in the future grind up at the best spot in the universe.
I want to add that I got through 59 here in 3 days, of coming home from work, grinding for a few hours and logging comfortably, it really is a fantastic spot to get through that last hell level, so you can delve deeper and greedier into the caves and take Tranix's throne for your self and retire as a lava shaman, a true fire giant.
Anyway, so here is the reply to his PM asking me about the spot, I hope it helps you folks!:
I made this map to help someone do the same thing so let me try to walk both you and myself through it:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25736152/EQ/mapsolb.JPG
The yellow dotted line is the quickest easiest point of entry and walks you through a lava tunnel, through some bats, a couple Kolbolds and one LDC vie Lavastorm Zonline. I know it is cluttered and it looks like shit, but its all there if you look at it closely heh.
First buff up at the ent and get full mana. Make sure you have levitate to get through the lava tunnel, you'll notice you might have to clear Kolbolds (just root rot or root & camp agro after you run into the lava tunnel).
Shotly after walking through the lava tunnel, you will encounter 2 static bats & 1 bat pather (that you can often avoid all together if your timing is right)
I root both of them, then camp agro (you can see on the map there is a spot you can use line of sight to camp out the agro, and be safe when you log back in if they path back to thier spots, if they dont, simply re root and camp agro again, or if you REALLY want to, just kill them, its easy 2 bats to rot, there is one pather you have to watch out for though you will likely encounter IIRC so it MAY be 3 bats if you are unlucky.
There is a lava duct crawler you will want to kill until you get really good at ninja crawling through this area. he is located just at the edge of the lilly pads.
Inside the efreeti tunnel entrance is 2 imp guards and one lava guardian. if you wait far enough out in front of the opening to the lair (over the lilly pads, the rocks given their name because of their look) you can single pull the lava guardian.
(DO NOT root rot the guards and the guardian inside the opening to the lair! There is a pathing imp that will agro, and if you get bad luck will pull the next 3 down onto you! so this first fight needs to happen over the lilly pads, make sure levitate is fresh!)
once you have cleared those 3 wait for the pather, i like to solo kill him. When you get good, you can add him to the 3 opening guard rotation, i like to do 4 mobs at a time at this camp.
after you kill the pather (4 mobs so far, LG & 3 Imps) run up to the next level, there are 3 mobs.
I never use a dog pet, cus they take so much mana, so what i would do is carry around 5 or 6 of those 3 charge instant root goblin nets, at the end of the night i would gate to north freeport and recharge them on a merchant, and then just run back to sol b the next night to start this rotation again. So Ill explane next strat for both, with a dog, or with goblin nets (the eliete version hehe).
send dog up, and root all 3 Imps and kill them. Or if goblin nets (special cool version) step up, click click click... root root root and rot. use mana spent on dog, on self, healing and refreshing regen.
there are 2 mobs down the way you do not need to kill, but when you get efficent you can throw them into your rot rotation, ignore them for now.
there is a pather that roams the stairs up towards the efreeti lair. root and kill him.
next is the patio outside of the efreeti lair. 3 static mobs, and 1 pather that lurks inside the doorway to the efreeti room, you can see through the wall with shrink to time the pull of the 3 on the patio, so you dont have to deal with 4 initial mobs.
simply kill the 3, then when ready, kill the one that lurks inside the efreeti room to finish off this rotation.
At this point the guardians to the lair should be respawning, go down and kill them, and just repeat the process over and over again for probably like 1 weeks worth of play time, just evenings, you can get to 60 there easy.
Some notes: next to the patio, infront of the efreeti liar, a path leads down towards the 2 extra mobs. DONT walk down that path, there is a trap floor that will send you falling into the lava and most likely perishing a horrible death. you can see the trap floor part if you look off of the patio just right, its like a bridge of stone that is like 2 inches thick.
lastly there is this final section: Corpse Recovery!
Here I will teach you, what to do when you inevitably die, inside of the lair like you accidentally pulled the whole efreeti and die in the hallway deep as fuck in there and youre like oh shit im screwed!
well not really, so that big lava pool that (if you fall into it, you cannot get out of, you have to leave and come back from the start, so dont do that!)
in that big lava pool however, is an underwater lava tunnel that you can swim to that will take you all the way back to the ent, just before the bats that you had to circumnavigate to get to the lair. you can from there walk right out, but why would you want to do that? that tunnel is more for getting BACK inside the lair, without any agro, into a spot that will allow you to /corpse drag your corpse and loot it, should you perish horribly in the lair.
Important: keep bat wings in the BANK! or if not, there is a merchant in WC that sells them, or maybe its EC.. well its one of those zones, there is a reagent vendor that will sell you bat wings if you have none.
the image below is a closeup of the big lava room where the freeti trash is, from the map above:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25736152/EQ/CR.JPG
Follow the yellow path using levitate and hope people are there to kill the kolbolds (or root & camp) your way to the opening to the underwater lava tunnel.
next make sure you cast fire rest on yourself, so the lava does less damage, also probably a hit point buff and stamina.
swim through the tunnel In green, there is a little spot you can pop up and heal, mentally get ready to be finished with the nightmare that is Everquest corpse runs hehe.. then swim into the big lava area, and be QUICK and CAREFUL because if you are all willy nilly with levitate on walking around you may agro a bunch of shit and get a train on yourself, but if you are careful you should be able to poke around and get in range to a corpse even pretty deep into the freeti lair.
Ok that about wraps it up, I dont get on much these days so I cant really show you in person, but maybe ill get the itch after having written this up and come online to check up on you, just let me know some of your play times or if you are gonna give it ago.
Id love to hear how the progress goes, also please feel free to ask me any questions to clarify anything.
yea let me know how it goes, good luck! Its a super fun camp & once you get 60, its time to delve even deeper to take Tranix's throne!
pps the map is pretty acurate though sloppy, look for shitty yellow x's where the blue stuff describes things, and as you explore learning the camp yourself try to figure out where exactly the Xs are and use them, i got pretty nerdy with pixel space and agro radius and such
good luck!