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Message ID: 1362
Date: Mon Jul 26 03:43:17 BST 1999
Author: LKW
Subject: Recommendation: Lake Rathetear


I used to think Paw is the only place with RTS but it's not true.

The camp at Lake Rathetear entrance zone from South Karana spawn both RTS
and JK skull. Camp at Lake Rathetear for 1 hr will get at least 1 of each
- the gnoll high shaman is below lvl 20. If u r lvl 20, better nuke it
fast or the nearby shamans will heal him up. Alternatively casters can
form a RTS/JKS expedition group to Lake Rothetear, I'm sure it will be a
very fruitful trip for casters. The camp spawns gnolls during the day and
undead during the night (watch out for dry bone, they r tougher than
birdman).

Note that JKS is a lore item, ie u can only carry one at one time (whether
on u or in bank). RTS is pending lore, u can get extra cash by selling
them off at lvl 10-30pp, before they make it a lore item (RTS sell better
at GF area, just like lighstone is highly demanded in FP). My Jap friend
camp for 2 hrs or so and find 4 RTS and 3 JKS - and he is damn pissed when
he cannot pick up the JKS which I think can sometime sell at 30pp ;)

At lvl 21 I can solo a high shaman but my lvl 21 magi died 2 times trying
to solo becoz he cannot kill the mob b4 the other gnolls shamans (at least
2-3 ard) heal it. The rest of the gnolls are normally green to u and wont
join in the fight, but they will still heal. Once ya HP drop to 2.5 bubb,
u better run to zone, hehe.

The birdman guards give EXCELLENT xp to lvl 20-23 casters. I highly
recommend the place for those lvl 18-23 tanks and lvl 20-23 casters. The
only problem is tat the place is kinda wulu wulu (only 1 npc merchant
island), and u have to swim ALOT. Put it in another way, this is the best
place to train swiming (now all my friends who hunt there max out their
swiming to lvl ceiling). If possible, invis yaself when swiming, coz there
is a lvl 53 sea monster in the lake. If u suay suay see it, u can buy 4D
liao. For those below lvl 20, aqua gob and lizardman will attack u if they
see u. If ya swiming skill is low, u will be very jia lat. I have a lvl
24 rogue friend who suay suay met a lizardman in sea, and becoz his swiming
is very low, he almosted get killed! Since 80% of the zone is filled with
water, I will wish u all the best finding ya corpse if u died in lake ;)

Btw, birdman hit VERY hard - up to 40 per hit, and they stun u. There is
no way for a lvl 24 casters to take 2 at a time, so having trust-worthy
buddies is very impt. The most common place is the 3-birds tower at the
center island. The birdman, no matter how many hundreds time u killed them,
is forever non-agro (for me and my friends so far). Just be careful not to
drop into lake when u are fighting one. I ever fall to lake when a birdy
on me, and it follow me into the lake, where all my group members are all
above the tower. The bird hit so hard that I die shortly after dropping
into the lake. So beware.

Btw, birdies only give coins up to 2pp (very seldom), bronze weap and rusty
weap. The nearest bank is HH bank (at least 3 zones away?) and the nearest
binding area is arena (1 zone). For casters who can teleport to North
Karana, teleport there, run south-wards to the south brigde and zone into
South Karana. Once u enter SK, run all the way South to Lake zone
entrance. SK got pretty tough animal like mammoths (NEVER attack a young
mammoth when an adult is nearby), bull elephants, centaur etc. Dun ask me
their lvl coz I never attack them ;) I just know at lvl 22 the centaur
(horse man) are still blue to me. Leshrec say with 4 legs they run very
slow since they have problem coordinating their movement, but I leave it to
u to believe him, hehehe. Good luck.

Ziltus