Getting Out of Crescent Reach

[melonburn22]

Hi All,

I did a search for this and did not find it posted anywhere. I have found this extremely useful, so I will share;

This is intended for folks who do not wish to risk using /zone /gate, etc...

Since TSS came out, you can get to Cres Reach with your /claim'd port item, but if you are not a dru/wiz or don't have one with you and you can't gate, then you are either going to have to waste a gate potion or run all the way through an adjacent zone, Blightfire Moors to get to the closest PoK book.

This is even worse for young toons since they catch aggro from all of the crap in Blightfire while trying to run to the book. Also, in their infinitely shitty wisdom, SOE made it so that if you own the TSS expansion (and the expansion is active, i.e. not progression servers) then leaving the Tutorial via the exit, regardless of your selected home city, puts you into crescent reach. /boggle.

Now, before I figured out what I am going to tell you, I ate many deaths running to the book on my lowbies, and spent time begging druids to port over and get me... anyway, to the point;

If you have the Omens expansion, in the main hall of Crescent Reach, their is a hallway in back with several doors side by side in a hallway. Inside one of these little doors is the Priest of Discord. (You can also /tar Priest, and follow your map line). Hail him and say, "I wish to go to discord". As you know, at this point the PoD will TL you to Dranik's Scar. At the place where you port in to Dranik's Scar, there are several other PoDs... immediately walk over to one of the others and say, "Go Home".

When you do this, ordinarily, the PoD TLs you back to the PoD whom originally TL'd you to Dranik's Scar in the first place, however, in the case that you came from the Crescent Reach PoD, it does not send you back to Crescent Reach, instead it sends you to PoKnowledge. Thusly, you can be back in PoK in about a minute without using /zone or /gate and without worrying about that nasty run.

I hope this is good info for someone, and if it has already been posted somewhere, my apologies.

Cheers,
Melon

 

[VoodooVarnish]

Holy Chit ! Red Cent

 

[jstbilly]

Nice tid bit of info.

 

[TeachersPet]

I'm pretty sure there is a PoK book in Crescent Reach. I mean, there's a PoK stone to there and all of that, so it kind of makes sense to have a book in the zone to get out of it. I haven't been inside to find out though, I don't own TSS.

 

[BadPuss]

Nice piece of info. And there's no book in CR.

 

[TeachersPet]

My mistake.

 

[Cade]

Closest book is in blightfire.

I recently had a bit of a problem, could have used this yesterday. I don't own TSS. I decided to play my bard for the first time in months, so went to the character select screen, saw that he was in the middle of some obscure zone, and decided to Return Home. For some ungodly reason, Return Home took me to CR. So now I'm stuck in CR, no adjacent zones that aren't TSS, had to die to get out.

 

[alabama20]

Yeah, that return home button has been screwed up since TTS launch. And I think it is the dumbest thing in the world that you have to run a low level character out of CR thru Blightfire. That damn Southern Moorwalker doesn't show up on track anymore and has gotten my baby ranger a few times. I was really surpised a while back, when using the map to avoid mobs=death, all of a sudden the Moorwalker was on me and Loading.....Please Wait. He wasn't on the map anywhere. Went back to double check that he really doesn't show up and sure enough, he's invis-ed to MQ2 map as well. Really pisses me off. Sony seems to have a talent for that. This is a nice alternative though.

 

[TeachersPet]

If he doesn't show up on MQ2 map then it's likely he's a trap spawn.

 

[ac1dgenocide]

nice info, i didn't know the mobs agro'd at lower lvl but next time/if ever i have an alt in CR i'll know to use PoD instead of running through blightfire.

 

[rawwar]

After playing this zone for a couple months it does suck I littered this zone for the first day ..... what I learned is stay on the path and head east ... the guards at the outpost WILL NOT help you.... when you get to the outpost again follow the path east and you come up on the book .... long ass run ... only way there besides the door.... and I AM NOT saying they will not aggro you I am saying you will not get near as much...... If you stay to the right side moonwalker won't aggro you .... usually

 

[melonburn22]

Lol, that moorwalker has about 20 notches on his belt with my name on them. He a meanie : ) I am serious about this though guys, it works and it will save you a ton of time when you want to go to the baz or get to PoK for buffs, or to shroud, or just to get to PoK to use the stones to go elsewhere...its going to save you 5 or 10 minutes every time you use it not to mention the aggravation it saves when you are ganked by the above or by rats and what not while running through moors.

Red cents are appreciated (Just click on the little Red "R" below my name and avatar on the left side of this post)...and to whomever PM'd me that they wish they could have given me a "Red Dollar" (you know who you are) lol, thanks.

Cheers,
Melon

 

[Roguish]

Thanx, I used this the other day when i made a new bard and I loved it.

 

[rawwar]

OMG a rogue running a bard this should be fun to see