As expected, SOE has made a whole new set of hot zones for nearly all levels. There are some old favorites, and a couple of new ones in the list. Hot zones give a substantial bonus to combat experience, and usually have some unique drops as well to encourage people to come to the zone.

20 — Lake of Ill Omen — great zone full of solo and group content
25 — Feerrott — The area outside the Temple of Cazic-Thule is particularly good
30 — Frontier Mountains — even without the hot zone experience, the Mountain Giant Fort is great xp. With it, even better.
35 — Tower of Frozen Shadow — an old favorite.
40 — Lower Guk — a great place for a group that doesn’t mind pulls of five to ten frogs at a time.
45 — Wakening Lands — the thick trees make this less than ideal, but the armor camps have easy pulls and decent loot.
50 — Old Sebilis — one of EQ’s most popular and largest dungeons.
55 — Blackfeather Roost — Not my favorite zone, and having to do quests to go to each island makes this hard to navigate.
60 — Plane of Storms — spent DAYS here working on Bastion of Thunder keys, a fun zone with many different things to see and monsters to kill.
65 — Sunderock Springs — wonderful quest zone.
70 — Riftseeker’s Sanctum — great place to bring a group, find a good spot and just pull to the pleasing sound of dings.

8 Responses to “New hot zones for EverQuest”
  1. Hudson says:

    Oh man Lake of Ill Omen back to a hot zone, how I miss those days outside the Windmill and Sarnak Fort, good stuff!

  2. Sisca says:

    So when do these go into effect and does that change Nostalgia’s plans for this week?

  3. Tipa says:

    They are in effect now and we’ve changed Friday to Plane of Storms :) I like PoS way better than Riwwi anyway.

  4. Fuan says:

    Just curious — if the guild is all about nostalgia, why head to a hot zone to accelerate the progress?

  5. Tipa says:

    Just hurrying to 60, where we will stop for a few months while we go through Kunark, Velious and Luclin.

  6. Incognito says:

    “Oh man Lake of Ill Omen back to a hot zone, how I miss those days outside the Windmill and Sarnak Fort, good stuff!”

    HA I wish we could go back to wearing All All Jboots, All All DE masks and Rubicite breastplates, and this guy misses those days? *shakes head*

    (Rubicite Breastplate stopped dropping when Kunark came out, FYI)

  7. Tipa says:

    Heh…. I remember all the people who thought they were so uber because they were in full Rubi…

  8. N2 says:

    i miss masks of deception too :(