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Hotzones offer an experience bonus higher than that of regular zones. Some of the latest sets also have extra loot added; this loot is obtainable even after the zones are no longer "hot."

In addition to the experience bonus and special item drops listed below, you can also see Franklin Teek (map) in the Plane of Knowledge for a series of level-based "Simple Tasks" to be completed in current hot zones. These tasks result in some extra experience and coin.

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New and Improved Hotzone System as of April 20, 2016

New Hotzones are available on all regular servers starting today, April 20, 2016. Moving forward, new hotzones will rotate randomly every 3 months on the first of January, April, July, and October.

Our understanding here is that per level bracket of a hotzone there will be 3 alternating choices that switch up every 3 months. So if 1st up 1 is option A then will either switch to option B or C. Let's say it was C for our example. Then option 3 comes along and it will go to either A or B (as C was the active one).

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If this is indeed how it works... it will probably result in the "This zone alternates with zone B and zone C as a hotzone. See Franklin Teek in PoK to find out which is currently active as a hotzone". . --just being realistic that having all the hotzones possible choices listed and changing to show which ones are active since the change will be many over a year.

Hotzones will become available on progression servers later in the history for those special servers. Different level ranges of hotzones will unlock on progression servers depending on what expansion is unlocked:

  • The Serpent’s Spine - Level 65 and lower level hotzones will unlock
  • Secrets of Faydwer - Level 70 hotzones will unlock
  • Seeds of Destruction - Level 75 hotzones will unlock
  • House of Thule - Level 80 hotzones will unlock
  • Veil of Alaris - Level 85 hotzones will unlock
  • Shadow of Fear - Level 90 hotzones will unlock
  • The Darkened Sea - Level 95 hotzones will unlock

Visit Franklin Teek in the Plane of Knowledge to see the current list of possible hotzones randoms, grab a task, and get adventuring!

Hotzones as of Jun 15, 2016

Note: we are listing the possible Hot zones instead of adding a exact each change. Players have to log on and play the game to see which ones are active. But i am hoping a permanet list and just saying which ones are current will make the update faster if we have admins who can edit the list in the future.

  • Level 20:
1. (CURRENT) Upper Guk
    • Augment: ?
2. South Karana
    • Augment: Centaur Eye WIS: -1 INT: -1 HP: +5 MANA: +5 ENDUR: +5 SV FIRE: +1 SV COLD: +1
3.

  • Level 25:
1. (CURRENT) Stonebrunt Mountains
    • Augment: ?
2. Lake of Ill Omen 3.

  • Level 30:
1. (CURRENT) Blightfire Moors
    • Augment: ?
2. Solusek's Eye 3.

  • Level 35:
1. (CURRENT) Great Divide
    • Augment: ?
2. Dreadlands
    • Augment: ?
3.

  • Level 40:
1. (CURRENT) Mons Letalis
    • Augment: ?
2. City of Mist
    • Augment: Seal of Torsis AC: 3 HP: +6 MANA: +6 ENDUR: +6 SV FIRE: +1 SV DISEASE: +1 SV COLD: +1 SV MAGIC: +1 SV POISON: +1
3.

  • Level 45:
1. (CURRENT) Dulak's Harbor
    • Augment: ?
2. Dranik's Scar
    • Augment: Kyv Arrowhead CHA: +1 WIS: +1 INT: +1 AGI: +1 HP: +15 MANA: +20 ENDUR: +20
3.

  • Level 50:
1. (CURRENT) Skyfire Mountains
    • Augment: ?
2. Velketor's Labyrinth 3.

  • Level 55:
1. (CURRENT) Riwwi, Coliseum of Games
    • Augment: ?
2. Plane of Innovation 3.

  • Level 60:
1. (CURRENT) Barindu, Hanging Gardens
    • Augment: ?
2.Veksar 3.

  • Level 65:
1. (CURRENT) Torden, The Bastion of Thun
    • Augment: ?
2. Barren Coast 3.

  • Level 70:
1. (CURRENT) Stoneroot Falls
    • Augment: ?
2. Arcstone, Isle of Spirits
    • Augment: Stone of Departed Spirits HP: +25 MANA: +75 ENDUR: +75 SV FIRE: +2 SV DISEASE: +2 SV COLD: +2 SV MAGIC: +2 SV POISON: +2
3.

  • Level 75:
1. (CURRENT) The Buried Sea
    • Augment: ?
2. Jewel of Atiiki
    • Augment: ?
3.

  • Level 80:
1. (CURRENT) Silyssar, new Chelsith
    • Augment: ?
2. Valdeholm
    • Augment: Shard of Phenomenal Power HP: +65 MANA: +75 ENDUR: +75
    • Augment: Shard of Living Ice, AC 9 HP: +120 Mana. +120 End: +120
3.

  • Level 85:
1. (CURRENT) Gyrospire Zeka
    • Augment: ?
2. Meldrath's Majestic Mansion
    • Augment: Gears of the Mansion, AC: 13 HP: +148 Mana: +148 End +148
3.

  • Level 90:
1. Argath, Bastion of Illdaera
    • Augment: ?
2. Fear Itself (House of Thuale-T3 zone)
    • Augment: frightening salve (non functional aug ) AC 25 ......
3. (CURRENT) Arthicrex

  • Level 95:
1. Resplendent Temple
    • Augment: ? (all mobs that update the quest are a diseased "XX")
2. Sarith, City of Tides
    • Augment: ?
3. (CURRENT) Pillars of Alra

Hotzones as of April 23, 2016

Just FYI, after today's (April 23rd) patch it seems the hotzones were changed again. Not sure if this'll happen with every hotfix or patch. Here are the new hotzones by level:

Hotzones as of April 20,2016

  • Level 40: City of Mist
    • Augment: Seal of Torsis AC: 3 HP: +6 MANA: +6 ENDUR: +6 SV FIRE: +1 SV DISEASE: +1 SV COLD: +1 SV MAGIC: +1 SV POISON: +1

  • Level 90: Fear Itself (House of Thuale-T3 zone)
    • Augment: frightening salve (non functional aug ) AC 25 ......

June 19, 2013 to April 20, 2016

Skal Nethus (map -- location -320, 1200, -111 in the Plane of Knowledge -- near Franklin Teek) offers a task called "Udumbara, the flower of legend" that involves every hotzone and results in the augmentation Udumbara.

December 14, 2011 to June 18, 2013

Skal Nethus (map -- location -320, 1200, -111 in the Plane of Knowledge -- near Franklin Teek) offers a task called Skal's Walking Nightmare that involves killing a mob from each one of these hot zones, resulting in The Sum of Skal`s Nightmares.

December 8, 2010 to December 13, 2011

Skal Nethus (map -- location -320, 1200, -111 in the Plane of Knowledge -- near Franklin Teek) offers a task called "The Dungeon Rot Infected" that involves returning an item from each one of these hot zones, resulting in Purified Dungeon Rot.

June 9, 2010 to December 7, 2010

Skal Nethus (map -- location -320, 1200, -111 in the Plane of Knowledge -- near Franklin Teek) offers a task called "The Escaped Voidsouls" that involves returning an item from each one of these hot zones, resulting in Gem of Bound Voidsouls.

October 8, 2009 to June 8, 2010

July 14, 2009 to October 7, 2009

December 9, 2008 to July 14, 2009

August 20, 2008 to December 8, 2008

Franklin Teek has arrived in the Plane of Knowledge just East of the Guild Lobby and will be happy to point you to the current location of a Hot Zone appropriate for your level. Franklin also has a series of tasks that can be done in each of the current Hot Zones. You can only request a single task at a time. Once one task is completed, there is an 18 hr lockout from the time the task was requested until another task can be requested. Each level task objective changes each day, so if you request one today, the objective tomorrow will be different. As an example, A Simple Task - Level 20 was Kill 5 Goblins on Wed Aug 20, 2008, Kill 5 Sabertooths on Thu Aug 21, 2008, and Kill 5 Iksar on Fri Aug 22, 2008.

Thanks to Elidroth on the SoE forums for the information

February 28, 2008 to August 19, 2008

Thanks to VWDiesel for the information in this thread here

October 30, 2007 to February 27, 2008

Here's a complete list of all the hotzone drops for the last set of hotzones. These are actually mini-quests that start whenever you loot an item. They revolve around Aiden Silverwing, who is in PoK near the Guild Hall zone-in.

The general idea is that he gives you a Silverwing Lockbox, in which you combine the Random Drop from one zone with the Shard Combine, which drops from the next higher hotzone. So, for each hotzone, VWDiesel has listed the random drop, the augmentation, the shard combine (which drops in the next higher hotzone), and the melee and caster items that result once you combine the shard and the random drop.

The last hotzone, Halls of Honor, randomly drops the melee or caster item, with no shard to combine. When you've completed all these quests for each hotzone, there is a final item you can make if you combine each of the hotzone melee or caster items in the Silverwing Lockbox. Those are listed at the bottom under "Final Combine".

Thanks again to VWDiesel for the information.

April 18, 2007 to October 30, 2007

The hotzones all have special augs from specific mobs (click through to see which can drop them):

All items (except augments) come from quests given by James the Watchmaker. These quests involve getting three gears and a sprocket from each zone that was hot during this time frame, and returning them to him. You do not need to have the quest before you get the turn-in items. Rewards vary by level.

December 5, 2006 to April 18, 2007

These hotzones all have special augs from Unmasked Changelings:

Additionally, each zone has 4 new NPC nameds that drop more level appropriate gear than the rest of the zone. I do not have a complete list of nameds and items, however, there is a nearly complete list here, at EvilGamer in this post.

June 13, 2006 to December 5, 2006

These hotzones have minor(by todays standards) loot upgrades added with new mobs, and new global rare drops, however, they do not have any Augments (except Skyfire) that drop in these zones.

  • Level 20: Swamp of No Hope

  • Level 25: The Overthere

  • Level 30: Timorous Deep

  • Level 35: Emerald Jungle

  • Level 40: Dreadlands

  • Level 45: City of Mist

  • Level 55: Karnor's Castle

  • Level 60: Veksar

This page was derived in large part from a thread found in one of our eq forums. The original thread can be found here.

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