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The Cazic Thule alligator pit is a difficult place to hunt if you're not familiar with it. In part it's because of it's location: it's in the middle of a dungeon, with mobs who can see through invisibility and kill you in a few hits. However, it's also because it's filled with water ... and alligators.

So why go there? Well, the "filled with water" part can be solved with Enduring Breath, and it turns out that if you navigate correctly nothing in the dungeon will see through Superior Camouflage, so retrieving your corpse is a breeze. More importantly, you'll have a great place for a level 31 (or a few levels lower/higher) druid to combine Charm Animals and a Gobling Gazughi Ring in to steady experience. You'll also get a quiet spot that you'll almost never have to compete for. Furthermore, the alligators have a *much* lower resist rate than the (also blue) mobs in The Overthere, and the experience of fighting underwater will be valuable when you're high enough level to charm fish in Kedge Keep.

Getting There (Safely)

Ring of Ro will take you to South Ro, and from there it's just a short run through Innothule Swamp and The Feerrott to get to Cazic Thule. Unless get off track and blunder in to an Ogre or Troll guard every mobs along the way should be green, and none of them should be able to see through Superior Camouflage. The same is true of most of the mobs in Cazic Thule. However, there are certain higher level mobs, in the throne room in particular, who can see through Superior Camouflage, so you want to avoid them at all costs.

Once you arrive you may want to refresh Spirit of the Wolf. You'll probably want to apply Enduring Breath now too, and then Superior Camouflage. Meditate for a bit to make sure the camo doesn't fail right away, then head through the double doors, which open in to a courtyard.

Here's the really important trick for avoiding see-invis mobs: go past the doors in to the courtyard, but don't go any farther. Turn around and look at the direction you came from. You will see two ladders. It doesn't matter which one you pick, so let's say choose left. Climb up it and go through the door at the top.

Again, just to emphasize, do not go anywhere else in the courtyard. If you go through the door to the right you'll wind up in a maze. If you go through the door across the courtyard and to the left it leads to the throne room (with mobs that can see through Superior Camouflage). But if you stick to the wall you came in on (and your Superior Camouflage doesn't fade) none of the lizard men will have the slightest clue that you were there.

Follow the hallway down until, on your left, you see a hallway leading down in to the pit room, which looks like this:

Dive in!

The Pit

As you'll see when you swim down, the initial pit leads down in to a small room with a short corridor, which in turn opens up in to a large (alligator-filled) room. A few of the alligators path through the corridor, but none go through the entry room itself (plus they can't see through Superior Camouflage). This entry room will be your hunting spot, and the image below shows the view looking from it down the corridor:

Alligator fight.png

Still to come:

• live in the corners!
• pulling with harmony = essential
• gate early, gate often
• XP rate at level 31