Maze of ShakhramiFollow

From Windurst, you can go to Tahrongi Canyon and then to the Maze of Shakhrami. There, as a level 14 Mnk, have been getting EXCEPTIONAL XP(about 200 a kill) from maze makers(IT with High Def and Evasion) with a full party. Gained 2 levels in less then a hour almost. Thing is, sometimes there are a lot of parties fighting over these maze makers and it gets hard to level. It's hard to even find a party in the first place. Well, if anyone needs a good place to level at levels 11-16 and is near the Tahrongi Canyon area, go to the Maze of Shakhrami, AWESOME XP.

Shakhrami is a fairly good place for lvl 12-16 windurstians to level, but of course you gotta be careful of the higher level mobs around there. The gobs and ghouls love to aggro like crazy!

The buburimu penninsula is good from 16-20 when the novelty of the maze has run out. Find a good party and you can do really well there.

Death in the maze and penninsula is the reason why you see the Kolshushu region often in the control of beastmen (it's like a windurstian rite of passage to not have crystal drops from 11-16 as someone aptly and humourously put it quite a while back). Both are great places to level but you gotta watch out for the aggro mobs, especially that ghoul - haha. Gotta love those ghouls that can sniff out those about to die.

Poekie's right too, once people hit 15-16, majority flock over to the brighter sandy beaches of Selbina to level and complete the subjob quest there leaving the grey, dreary often rainy penninsula barren most nights. I farm Bull Dhamels there quite often and rarely ever see anyone level there (compared to say the over infested blinding white sandy beaches of Selbina). Lots of high level traffic though as already mentioned. People pass by all the time to and from Mhaura. If you can get someone of high level to help you kill bogeys, I strongly suggest accepting the mhaura subjob quest - much less headache. I personally prefer the mhaura subjob quest and helped out quite a few people who asked me when I was in the area, but I digress.

Kolshushu on Sylph was just in Windurst control, I logged on last Sunday and noticed we owned the entire continent. It wasn't 1 game day (r/l hour) later and the beastman were already dominant, very sad. Now we are in second, and Kolshushu is beastman stomping grounds. It is really sad, because the place is good for partying, but EVERYONE and their kid brother is in valkurm, which means to many people which makes it is hard as hell to get a party over there unless you are a whm, and thus there is no one left in the Kolshushu region. This is its own problem, since with no one there, no one wants to group there, since no one wants to group, no one wants to be there. It is a viscious circle of logic. If you can get a decent group together for this region you can really clean up, getting the group is the hard part.

BTW, it doesn't sound like it gets better anytime soon, after valkurm you got qufim, and then khazam and a whole lot of other zones no one seems to know exist.

Edited, Tue Jan 27 07:37:46 2004 by Ralluwen

Hahaha, this makes me feel kinda bad now.. I used to think of the peninsula as "the place where I just run as fast as my mithra *** can carry me without stopping for anything" when I was traveling to and from Mhaura.

I was playing last night in a full pt, we had a lvl 13 thf/war, lvl 11 rdm, lvl 11 mnk, and 3 whm/blm all around lvl 10. One of the mages convinced the party we should try for the maze makers for good xp (we had been hunting dhalmels in tahrongi), so we head over there, zone in and around the first corner is an IT gob tinkerer, so everyone says think we can take it, we decided to give it a try. Needless to say it was pretty pathetic, I don't think anyone had a hit over 5 or 6 dmg, the gob resisted all spells, and soon the mages are yelling RUN, RUN. We took off to zone as quickly as possible and that was my first and only time in the maze so far. lol

On a related note:

* Has anyone gone deeper into the Maze of Shakrami - where the Maze Scorpions and nastier mobs are? What Levels are ideal for hunting those?

I've heard Maze Scorpions are Level 30+ Monsters, and you often
see these "system messages" saying "(XYZ) casts Ice Spikes" etc. I forgot the names, but they sounded like pretty nasty creatures (I think it was coming from the floor below ours).