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&nbsp Just north of the arena, there will be two paths going to the right.&nbsp These lead to the Crystalvein mine.&nbsp DON'T go there, instead go just north of the paths and along the hillside you'll see them.&nbsp Careful though, they tend to stay within ear shot of another.&nbsp Solod this at 40, not bad.&nbsp Although being a hunter and throwing on Track Humanoids helped.

on their own, these guys are takeable. but as people said before, it gets really hairy if you go charging in.&nbsp inch in, stay near path and wait till the dynamite flies.

40,43 Is location.
Non cosmos directions.

Go north on trail past arena.. Head east through tigers and you will barely see the miners.&nbsp They are mining in hills all around and you may not see them with the valleys.&nbsp They call out for help and throw dynamite, so if you can pull them do so!&nbsp I am a 42 warlock and never died, but pulled 3 twice and barely survived. They hit hard. Some of the miners have a little robot that also attacks that are level 40.&nbsp The miners are level 40,41,42.&nbsp If you follow the trail up you will go into a camp of them and after that into a mine. There are 3 miners in there. There are no shards on ground, just on drops from miners.&nbsp They also drop broken lanterns and lots of silk.&nbsp

Surveyors droped 3 in 3
Foremans droped 2 in 5
Strip Miners droped 5 in 16

Crystal drop rate increased post 2.3.

As a point, I had to kill 5 mobs in a row. One strip miner, then a tinkerer and his pet and then a second tinkerer and his pet, which spawned before the first pair were dead. Ran out of mana and had to wand a pet in the middle of the fight because I'd already used a mana potion and I needed the shadow bonus for a kill to regen mana. Singles were not hard for a L44 priest to kill, but the group of 4 right after I killed one was. Post 2.3, took about 40 kills to get 10 crystals. I was on the path, the advice about pulling them is right on.

This reminds me of the movie, "The Hills have Goblins".

on a map
http://classicdb.ch/?maps=33:402413

The coordinates are about 40,43 Go up in the hills,west of the cave you will find Foreman, Strip Miner, Surveyor and Tinkerer..
Kill them and you will drop "Singing Blue Crystal".
This quest gives about 330 XP - 3300 XP.

These guys are the nastiest, most unrelenting mobs thus far in the game --- and they don't get much worse until maybe Searing Gorge.&nbsp They come out of nowhere, some with their little robots, throw bombs at you from hiding, and have a poor drop rate.&nbsp Even the little laugh is annoying. And if you try to outrun them, you'll run into shadow panthers and&nbsp tigers while they throw bombs at you to the road.&nbsp This was my third character to encounter them, and I concluded that not every, single quest has to be done!

I was a 41 rogue and I solo'd this quest pretty easy. I know I could've solo'd it just AS easy if I was a few levels lower.

1. You don't actually have to go INTO the camp, just outside by the hills. It's just north of the mining vein, not actually in the vein. So if you see a bunch of Basilisks, you're too far south.

2. Equip your melees with 2 poisons:
a) crippling poison so when they try to run they won't get as far
b) with deadly/wound poisons so they die quicker and when they try to run, they'll be "poisoned to death"

3. If it LOOKS like one might aggro while you're attacking another one, take precautions and sap the goblin and see what the other one close by does. After you sap (and the other goblin close doesn't aggro), let your energy refill, backstab, sinister strike until you get 5 combo points, kidney shot or eviserate depending on how low they are and how worried you are they'll aggro another guy.

If you're only attacking one guy and the other guy doesn't see you, ambush/rupture, sinister strike > 5cp, then eviserate or kidney shot. Easy as pie.

Dynamites are easy if you think better. They throw always to locked spot. After firing ranged spell, move forward, so dynamite miss you easy.

you have to be ready for these guys to run, use any slow/stun/entangling abilities your class has...If one does run, kill it as fast as possible and then get as close to the next mob he aggro'd* and pull that mob out into the open in case of running.
*You need to get really close to the next aggro'd mob because theres a very specific range at which they can use their dynamite ability which takes off around 200 hit points on my level 40.

Goblins are tough if you are below 40, pulls aggro very easy escpiccialy with tigers around you.

Other coords are great, this is a great place for (prot) Paladins (41+) to do a little AoE grinding.

Just keep Seal/Judgement of Light/Wisdom up with blessing of sanctuary, and you can just keep going...

41,41 is right....just work that area. It's all you need to do.

easily soloable as a 39 priest...bout 1 in 3-4 drop for me...took no time at all.

Just go to 40,41 and keep killing the ones outside the mine since they respawn fast .

Their first attack when they see you they will throw a stick of dinamite that does 150-220 dmg their avg hit is like 50dmg .

Really easy compared to what the Naga hit .

As a lv 44 shaman: Got one crystal (out of 10 required) after 20 kills.

Abandoned immediately. NOT worth it unless you REALLY need the reward.

41,41 is the coords in case you have nothing better to do for 3 hours.

Solo'ed as a 39 Shaman, easy peasy. They spawn far enough apart, so it is easy to stay add-less :)
Droprate of about 50% for me, and the reward is not that bad either

37 Druid - I did this quest at first by myself and it wasn't so bad. I just stayed on the outskirts and kept tracking on so I wouldn't be pulling more than one. The first six goblins I killed, I got a crystal each time. I ended up grouping someone in the end, but I completed this quest in about 40 minutes.

Maybe my low leveled increased the drop rate, because the person I was grouping with (43) only got one in the time span that I got four.

Edited, Aug 6th 2006 at 9:50pm EDT by Teyalia

your post was 3 paragraphs long, yet you call everyone else stupid, go figure

Found the strip-miners at 40,43
Between the road and the Zul'Mamwe ruins.

This is actually a very productive grinding quest for under level 41 questers. At level 39 I banged out four experience bars during the quest and did something like two gold in miscellaneous looted goodies. True, the drop rate for the crystals is lousy, but it was probably good that it wasn't faster as this quest is more profitable than a lot of others. It is boring, but when you consider travel time for quicker quests and this one is probably worth two faster ones. Keep the following things in mind for this quest:

1. Be patient and work the perimeter. The miners respawn quickly. If you enter into the mining hills you liable to get nailed by a respawn, plus you can get double teamed because you can't always see those little guys behind the hillocks.

2. Leave the tinkers alone and avoid engaging them, especially if you're a caster. The little robots that travel with them pack a punch, plus they can't be drained or feared, so nuking is the only option and you get nothing out of them and killing them will drain you.

3. Be mindful of what's behind you as this is a panther and tiger area and while the tigers usually don't get in too close to the area you're working, the panthers do, so if you're not minding what's behind you it might just bite you.

4. The miners will heave a stick of dynamite when they're aggroed and even though it isn't lethal, it's not hard to avoid if you know it's coming. As a caster, here's what I did and it worked very well. Aggroed from a distance with COA and immediately backed up and launched my Voidwalker. The dynamite always fell short of me and beyond my pet. Drain tanking the miners was easy with very little health or manna bleed.

Just be patient and realize that if you're below the recommended quest level you should profit by this quest, both by goodies and progress towards the next level.

Unless you can actually use the reward and have a very good group, I find that it is just NOT worth the hassle.

Managed to do solo as a level 42 troll sham. Drop rate was quick enough, and the reward sells for good money if you don't need it.

HOrrible drop rate... it's been 35 minutes and only 2 have dropped...

yeh 41, 41 is right. I did this solo as a lvl 38 hunter and got a 1 in 3 drop. I stuck to the outskirts too which is good advice. Spawn rate good as well.

Then this moron 41 Pally charges in on his stupid free horse, manages to somehow kill one goblin while aggroing 7 others. Runs out past me where I'm selectively killing one. He gets away, the goblins turn come back and kill me.

Pallys.

Its like other people said, the droprate is quite low and they tend to run and agro others without some careful stuns.
Not to mention the Tinkers are annoyingly good with their little robot friends.

Soloed it as a level 39 rogue, without any serious difficulty (just lots of annoying bits!)