Skyfire Mountains

Some rare drop epic components are farmed here. Loot rights still sell pretty well on TLPs.

Edited, Nov 23rd 2022 9:18pm by Stabulous

Getting pretty good exp, good plat drops, gem stones and Spells.... I think its kind of a nice zone........

at the moment everything is either dark or light blue, but I'm getting good safe exp, lots of mobs to kill so lots of loot and good exp... even getting good aa exp.

I was crossing the zone on 6/17/06 with my 56 Pally and ran across a mob called a Mottled Wyvern. It conned blue, so I took a swing at it. It hit for 250ish, and wasn't going down very rapidly. I took off and ran halfway across the zone using Fabled Jboots and stopped near the zone to OT to rest. After a minute or so it showed up right next to me and started wailing on me. I didn't see it running across the zone. Might have been due to lag, but that hasn't been an issue for me lately. Upshot is, it seems that once aggroed, this mob stays aggroed and in pursuit until you zone.

When i used to fight regularly in this zone, ending about a year and a half ago, I had a very nice spot where I could stand and fight (and even fear kite a little) on the west wall between two lava flows - just above and to the north of a dragon head at the end of the southern flow. This spot was nice because: the higher level mobs of the zone would spawn there, and it was far enough away from the zone-ins that I'd never have competition for mobs. I'd even see Talendor pass by every once in awhile.

Just went back there with my new pair of characters and the field in front of me was completely barren of mobs. In fact it seems that all of the zone is barren except the areas immediately around the zone lines (incl VP) and the north-eastish part of the zone. To me this is the most dissapointing part of Sony's changes to the zone.

In the words of Kenny and Kyle when thier dear friend is killed: "You bastards!"

Does anybody know what the turn boxes are for? You click them and they turn. No idea what they do. Is this just some distraction for the baby minded mobs? Something for them to play with? I didn't know there was a second box until a few minutes ago. I guess I'll grab somebody and turn them at the same time.

Have camped Eldrig until I'm blue in the face and he never shows...I'M GETTING REALLY frustrated here! Yes, am doing this solo and thats just the way it goes sometimes. Several peeps have offered to come help kill him if he ever shows, but jeebus I can't even get a glimpse of the old geezer. Help, please.


Zartia Goldenlyre
Troubadore of the 58th Song

I have a 52 shaman reading the above posts I am asuming that they might have a hard time with this zone due to Dispelling etc. Can anyone give me some insight on this please. I have asked some on my server but they don't know either. Thanks much :)

What level of danger exists for one when porting in? I did some Kael quests and my CoV faction is not so good...is that a problem here?

Thanks,

Iindarie
druid woodelf
51 seasons on Brell Serilis

Could a 50 ranger and 50 shammy duo here with any effectiveness? If so, what mobs? Where? Never been here before, but running out of places to xp...please respond. :-) Thank you!

So I need pearl shards to finish my epic. How comon are they and how easy it is to find a group here that will let me have them?

After reading through this thread, it seems to me that people aren't seeing probably the worst change to this zone: the godforsaken chromadracs. As a necro, I started soloing here at 51. Things were great: I could fearkite anything not named or rare near the BW zoneline, and there was always something else to be pulled. Then, the "upgrade" happened...my first pull is a chromadrac, which I had slaughtered enmasse before, who proceeds to dispell 3 important buffs--from extended range--while simultaneously dropping a nice DoT on me and my pet. This had never happened before. I zoned out and came back, then tried again...same thing.

In the old skyfire, the chromadracs had the debuff. It had a nice short range, so as long as you were careful, you could avoid being hit by it (though I did have to rebuff the pet constantly). The Boiling Blood spell was something the drakes used within melee range, along with their breath attack from slightly farther away. I think something got botched when the zone was changed, and the Boiling Blood was mistakenly moved from the drakes to the chromadracs.

The bottom line: the chromadracs suck now. Go to any area of the zone where people set up camp and on an average day, you'll see about 80% chromadracs and 20% everything else (sometimes even worse). Nobody wants to fight them. Pullers will duck and weave through them to pull anything else they can find back to their group. If the zone is crowded, I spend half my time sitting on top of a rock, watching the the chromadrac ballet, hoping I can beat the other pullers to the first anything-not-chromadrac that pops.

I usually look down on the "change this or I'll quit" posts people make. I'm not threatening to quit; however, this really needs to be fixed. One draw to this zone once upon a time was the spell drops, but most of the spells that drop here sell for more to a vendor than you'll get out of a player for them. The named cycle is still great, but can be and usually is done easily by a single group. The other big draw, which is what got me started here, was the wonderful soloing potential. It's just not worth the headache anymore as this once great zone has become a late-night last resort.

My bazaar mule is full of spells I have got from my wizard quading in SF. Started single kiting matures mostly but got bored and started quading the lower level mobs. Chromadrac's are usually up all over the place and easy meet for a wizard. Groups dont' like them because of the dispell but as long as you don't let them get too close they don't cast on you. Takes alot of work bunching them up but at 58 I am getting 3/5 of a blue AA exp per quad. Nice solo exp and not as dangerous as those AE groups (love them too, thats why I need RS3).

Spells drop so often that the bazaar is lousy with most of them that I get.

im a lvl 46 sk and taken an intrest in this zone owndering are there pick up grps and could i get a grp here and if not where would be a better place to hunt besides DL

Does anyone know what the box is near the lava river, in a rather deep gully? It is just north of the BW zone, where the lava comes from beneath the dragon head. I click on it and you hear an audible click, and the box rotates, but I saw nothing happen.
Anyone have any idea as to what it is?

Daamij
55 Wizard

Edited, Thu Aug 1 22:06:05 2002

Anyone know what the cycle or pop time is for the Guardian Wurms?