Higoth

Higoth Creator: Unknown Directions: Go to South Isle Landing east to north east corner to Orc Warcamps western north edge

Level 30+

NOTE: This is an older area report and the information may no longer be 100% accurate.

AREA: Higoth Fortress

DIRECTIONS: South Isle Landing, go East to South Isle Landing East, then East again to Orc Warcamps, then North to Higoth Fortress.

TESTED WITH: Sterling Lvl 40+ Wizard/PM/DD, and Friend (Thx TJ)

WHAT WORKS WELL: Horrid, Wail, Weird, Delayed Blast Fireballs.

NOTES:

This quest is given by the Higoth Quest Keeper, a little girl outside of the Fortress. She informs you that you must defend the fortress from invaders for 30 minutes. After which you will be rewarded.

Encounters come in waves of about 10 monsters. They are made up of Minotaurs (CR 36), Orc Destroyers (CR 27), Macemen, Shadow Walkers (CR 27), Swordsmen (CR 29) and Battlemages (CR 28).

Most of the melle monsters have 15 physical resists, the mages cast Mords at you from the start then pummel you with Ice Storms and IGMMs. You will need all three physical resistances.

TACTICS:

If you are in a mixed party, I would suggest having your casters or archers posted on top of the towers to rain hell on the monsters below. Your melle characters can hit at them between the towers and if you decide to use Grease or Web, it will slow them down.

The Orc type monsters have low Fortitude Saves...14 so if your Wail or Weird has a decent check, those spells should work well for your casters. Horrid also works well. You might also want to lay traps in the middle of the towers, such as DBF, or firewall.

OBSERVATION: This is kinda fun to do, and can be decent experience for a mid level party. The encounters will come in 4 or 5 Waves, depending on how quick you kill them in the allotted 30 minutes.

LOOT: I waited for over 40 minutes and unfortunately didn't receive any confirmation that the quest was over, no loot, or additional experience or anything. This is still fun to do even though atm the quest seems to be incomplete.

Trist Aventian Knight