Fingotic's Guide to Albion Catacombs

[Matteh]

Originally Posted by Maggot

Walking from roman aqueducts to Dark Spire thru all the diferent zones at lvl 1 isent verry hard, but fun

if you can achieve that you are amazing... getting into darkspire without agro at which would kill u in one hit

[Gremon]

Originally Posted by Jarod

Instanced Task Dungeons 101:

Scattered about the realm are several toons called Taskmasters. These task masters have a level range they support. Near each of these taskmasters (normally less than a 30s run) is a dungeon.

If you go to the dungeon w/out going to the taskmaster, you will receive a message stating "You need permission to enter this zone". Once you've spoken w/ the Taskmaster, he will give you the option of performing a task in a nearby dungeon (normally, it's either kill X of a specific mob, kill a named specific mob, or clear the dungeon completely).Come 1.74 to make life a bit easier for casters: You will also be given the option of either the maze like dungeons w/ lots of twists and turns, or the long corridor types for ranged classes.

Get your task, and head to the dungeon. Once you zone in, you'll be in an instanced dungeon where the mobs will spawn relative to your level (normally low yellow or high blue). When I did my instance runs, these dungeons had a base 50% instanced bonus to xp, do these kills are *very* worthwhile, and xp scales pretty well w/ your level.

Once you complete your task in the dungeon, you will be awarded an additional chunk of xp in addition to the xp you've gotten from killing the mobs in the dungeon.

A couple of things:

- These are considered 'tasks', and abide by the 120 min time limit. Most of these can be cleared in 10-15 minutes tops, so that won't be an issue unless you go afk

- If you die, zone out, or LD, you will fail the task. This means you'll need to go back to the Taskmaster in order to get a new task and get back into the dungeon.

Taskmaster locations and levels:


Albion Taskmasters

Levels 1-10 Taskmaster Traint (Cotswold)
Levels 11-20 Taskmaster Prairdred (Prydwen Keep)
Levels 21-30 Taskmaster Lucir (Avalong Marsh)
Levels 31-40 Taskmaster Mairlin (Caer Ulfwych)
Levels 41-50 Taskmaster Trudan (Castle Sauvage)


Hibernia Taskmasters

Levels 1-10 Taskmaster Seviria (Mag Mell)
Levels 11-20 Taskmaster Nelarid (Howth)
Levels 21-30 Taskmaster Jeryd (Tir na mBeo)
Levels 31-40 Taskmaster Praest (Outside of Tir na Nog)
Levels 41-50 Taskmaster Vaellyn (Druim Ligen)


Midgard Taskmasters

Levels 1-10 Taskmaster Bernard (Mularn)
Levels 11-20 Taskmaster Cheri (Audliten)
Levels 21-30 Taskmaster Bisil (Gna Faste)
Levels 31-40 Taskmaster Domli (Haggerfel)
Levels 41-50 Taskmaster Trinnan (Svausud Faste)

If you speak to any Taskmaster, and you are not of the correct level range to do a task from that particular Taskmaster, they will direct you to the appropriate town and Taskmaster you can get one from.

Levels 21-30 Taskmaster Mairlin (Caer Ulfwych)
Levels 31-40 Taskmaster Lucir (Avalong Marsh)

[boogie]

Frontlines

Our version of the mid zone - filled with mad kobolds (monsters not players - there's no RvR in catacombs), some named and an instance that starts at 4 level 49s (Snarg's Grotto) and goes on forever... good loot at the end though.

and how do you defeat Snarg? Tried that instance once with a group, and we had no problem getting there, untill Snarg

[Flimgoblin]

we beat the snot out of him but we had pbt and pets ... didn't give him much chance to do anything special.

[boogie]

Originally Posted by Flimgoblin

we beat the snot out of him but we had pbt and pets ... didn't give him much chance to do anything special.

we got him to 50% in no time, but then some globes spawned, and then everything went wrong :P

[Malcolm]

Levels 21-30 Taskmaster Lucir (Avalong Marsh)
Levels 31-40 Taskmaster Mairlin (Caer Ulfwych)

there's a 'g' that shouldn't be there

[Jiggs]

Levels 21-30 Taskmaster Bisil (Gna Faste)

is in fact:

Levels 21-30 Taskmaster Bisil (Nalliten)

before you wander around gna faste for 20mins^^

[Flimgoblin]

Originally Posted by Jiggs

Levels 21-30 Taskmaster Bisil (Gna Faste)

is in fact:

Levels 21-30 Taskmaster Bisil (Nalliten)

before you wander around gna faste for 20mins^^

they changed em around in a recent patch.

And gifv back Jiggs imo.

[mordsythe]

been to every part of catas.. killed every named mob myself / my grp could kill.. can pretty much say there isnt much we dont know about catas. there are literally 10-20 named mobs in frontlines and if you cant kill half of them at lvl 50 u need shooting.. just look in the back left corner as u enter the dungeon and go kill the capital letter mobs.. not teh uber drops but not teh cr@p drops eitha. the further down u go the harder the mobs.. lets c u all get down to the bottom and kill the lot to get at the big guy in the bottom of neith :P took my grp about 2 hours.. lol.. altho we were hunting anything with a name..