Free grand in plat for a newcomer

[Beldon]

My favorite “Newbie” dungeon is Najena.
I started my leveling/questing here after finding out about the Mage focus items. Someone in EC was gracious enough to gift me a Shovel. I researched the quest line and in no time had my Shovel of Ponz.

So off to Najena I went to claim my other three prizes. Immediately I was killed and back at EC. I play at erratic times and not very frequently (until recently) so soloing was usually my only option. I got past the skeleton guards and realized the depth I needed to reach to get the Focus items to drop was deeper that I thought. I love the mage, but they don’t have any good “Oh Crap” spells except Gate.
I am a hugely scared of dying and corpse running…especially since I need to hit a bank for gems just to summon a pet and be able to get my corpse again. So when I start dungeon crawling, I take it slow.
As I am killing my through the dungeon, I walk through a fake wall and straight into a Red Con Skelly. Pet attack – Heal – Heal – Oh Crap – Gate.
Start my crawl all over as trash has spawned. Get back to the same spot and learn from my mistake….I finally reach the “Crystal Room” where 3 magicians spawn. I tried all I could think of to split the camp with little success.

Had to gate and log out….on my next log in a higher level was in the zone messing around and had already broken up the magicians. Once he/she was done, they let me have it. I farmed those guys for a few hours and got a Shovel and Broom!

Logged in a few days later and crawled my way back in. I now know the first part of Najena really well :P Got to the camp and there was only one Magician up. Killed him and he dropped the Torch! I was so pumped as I play the Fire pet mostly exclusively and ran to do the quest turn in. A long run/boat trip to to Timorous Deep and I had the Toes needed form a nice merchant. Gated and ran to the turn in.
Some random player was cleaning out there bank one day and asked if I had the Stein. Then promptly let me purchase it for a nice discount.

I spent many hours merchant farming the materials and farming the Focus Items in Najena…..really a great time!