Favorite Outdoor Zones in Classic

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what's your favorite outdoor zone in classic EQ? there is a lot of untouched outdoor content on P99 – good spots to level, interesting lore and quests, and generally cool things that aren’t seen by many people who stick to the more common zones. in the name of exploration, let's hear about some secret or interesting spots found in your favorite outdoor zones. i'll start:

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Why I Think Rathe Mountains is the Best Outdoor Zone
by Antonin Dvorak, age 27

For starters, Rathe Mountains has a sweet landscape and location. It’s situated between Ferrott and Lake Rathe and is one of the 3 connections between east and west Antonica. It’s also got a great layout – several isolated cells that are connected by a main thoroughfare. It’s easy to get lost at first but you feel like a fucking boss once you’ve learned it.

It’s an excellent place to level. You can level up from 15 to 51 without ever leaving the zone. Tons of shit to kill and never anyone around to kill it. Lots to quad kite as a druid and wizard. I used to murder giant skeletons here with my troll SK on live.

The zone is filled with all sorts of interesting crap, and a variety of merbs for even the most discerning outdoor-hunting candyass. In my annotated map, red shows regular mobs, green shows nameds, blue denotes epic mobs, orange is for significant quest givers, and purple denote mobs associated with the most intense sibling rivalry in EQ – more on that later.

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There’s a shitload of loot to be had. See the list on the map – several items worth 200-4k that can all be farmed at once. There’s also hill giant mountain – enough said. If you blast the basilisks around the mountain while killing hill giants you can usually get a granite bracer every 2 hours or so. Use one of the named level 50 unkempt druids as a pet to absolutely demolish hill giants if you’re looking for easy PP farming at higher levels.

There are vendors for both evil and good races, so you can just buy rubies or something instead of having to bank your enormous loads of platinum every couple of hours. I filled 1.5 handmade backpacks full of ruby stacks while leveling my bard from 47-51 on hill giants here. Gettin’ that paper.

Some awesome quests can be had here: the 49 shadowknight life leech spell, J-boots, and red and white dragonscale armor. Shit’s so classic it makes my head spin.

There are countless other things that make this zone interesting and badass, but my favorite is the feud between the two named griffons, Zazamoukh and Ankhefenmut. These two little fuckers sit on opposite sides of the zone and spend all day thinking about how to take down the other. They don’t drop any loot, but goddamn can you feel the tension. They are on diametrically-opposed factions and each have a troop of named beetles to do their bidding and attack helpless noobs trying to reach the lake. It’s fairly easy to improve your faction with them – they hate each other so much that killing one sibling a mere 10 times will bring you from KoS to kindly. Some crazy times have been had by pulling each griffin and their named beetles to the same spot and watching them struggle in an epic fight for life.