If you can attempt an FPS drop into the hole from Paineel it might make your journey that much easier. However ghosts are a pain in the ass, they hit hard, they can take a hit (big hp pool), they have high resists, and in a lot of ghost encounters youll end up with more than one. I suggest bringing the Shaman FD ring with you, or acquiring it. Also some ghosts are SKs and will harmtouch so be aware of that. If you can bring down a tank or a monk with you i'd say its doable, otherwise risking it means dying in hole. Which isnt so bad if you die before the drop off, but you're adventure takes you into the deepest darkest depths of hole, so you may have to have a necro friend ready to summon that corpse.
Also if you dont know the way out through the closed door at bottom of hole pit, definitely research it and learn how to meander your way through that door, it's the best escape route out of hole, a really beneficial oh shit button. It takes you back to the top but saves you an obnoxious corpse run. I remember once when I was retrieving a friends corpse from hole on a non-FD class and I had to bring it to docks from the fountain room. I got SoWed outside, fought my way to castle entrance and ran like hell with a macro to pick up his corpse. I ran all the way to docks with a mighty train behind me, I dived at the top of the waterfall into the pool below, swam out, and because I had practiced the door maneuver many times over, I got through on my first attempt and made it out with a few scratches... Hole is an awesome zone, and even awesomer because of all the various hidden exits.
The door at the bottom of the pit was actually designed to be a raid zone into the "plane of the underfoot", it's really interesting lore if you read about it. Fortunately, because of the design it just so happens that any player can make their way through the door and the zone behind it leads you back to the top of hole, instead of zoning you into a never completed raid instance.
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01-25-2019, 03:14 PM
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