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MORIA | DUNGEONS
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| REPUTATION

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DUNGEONS AND PRIVATE INSTANCES

Ghar-khafush, the bat cave

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Location: 4.3S, 110.2W Type: Dungeon Mobs: Merrevail, Bats Description:  A quest from the Chamber of Crossroads sends you to "the bat cave," which is not marked on the map. This cave is open regardless of the quest... if you can find it. It's tucked away in one of the goblin camps in the western "maze" set of halls and passages, south of the passage that leads into the garden area. If you can't find it, don't bother asking on advice channels for directions - you will invariably be instructed to go to Wayne Manor.

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Buzun-ghar

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Location: 4.2S, 108.5W Type: Dungeon Mobs: Globsnaga orcs (level 60) Description:  Tied to Volume II Book 7, this cave system stays open afterwards in case you feel the need to fight a bunch of Globsnaga orcs for no apparent reason.

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The Training Hall

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Location: Fastarr, Dolven-view Type: Private Instance Requirement: Infused Garnet Mobs: Orcs Description:  Many armouries and forges of the dwarves lie dormant in Khazad-dûm, awaiting the hands of their masters. One such has been claimed by the Orcs of Moria for a training hall. If the forge is to see service again, the Orcs must be driven forth...

A quick and dirty daily for item XP and some decent title
scrolls. There's no real strategy here, but keep an interrupt on
standby for the taskmasters' healing inductions. As with all of
the private instances from Fastarr and Mundgeirr, be sure to use
the anvil after killing the boss at the end.

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The Ghost-forge

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Location: Fastarr, Dolven-view Type: Private Instance Requirement: Infused Sapphire Mobs: Spirits Description:  The ancient tomb of a great dwarf-smith of Khazad-dûm is now the site of a terrible evil. A Cargûl in the service of the Nine has come to the forge, and with him many fell spirits, and has put the fires of the forge to evil use....

Another fairly easy IXP instance. The ghosts largely attack in
pairs and pump out a lot of fear debuffs - bring a
Westernesse-damage weapon and plenty of Conhuith potions. The
Cargûl at the end is not all that tough.

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The Spider-nest

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Location: Fastarr, Dolven-view Type: Private Instance Requirement: Infused Adamant Mobs: Spiders Description:   The returning dwarves go heedlessly into the dark of Moria. Their scouts, seeking a lost forge, find instead a nest of deadly spiders. The spiders prefer the blood of the living, and so there is still hope for their rescue....

The crystalline spiders have snagged a band of hapless dwarves
and wrapped them up in snug cocoons. Clear the first area and free
the dwarves from the two cocoons there. Once they are free,
establish a pattern of killing a few white spiders and waiting for
a red one to drop down - a banner will come up telling you when
one of the red spiders spawns in. Engage it quickly before it
heads for one of the cocoons and eats a trap dwarf - if you lose 3
dwarves, you fail the instance and need to bring another infused
adamant to Fastarr to try it again. Once 6 of the dwarves are
free, the boss spider spawns in - it's a good idea to kill all the
smaller spiders before freeing the dwarves so you have
manouvering room when fighting the boss.

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The Mithril Slaves

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Location: Mundgeirr, Dolven-view Type: Private Instance Requirement: Infused Garnet Mobs: Orcs, Goblins Description:  Dwarves are not alone in their search for mithril. Orcs and goblins toil within the barren mines, seeking some small vein of Moria-silver to use against the Free Peoples, or at the least to keep it from them....

Another easy one - kill your way through the mines until you
reach the boss, then kill him and use the anvil. The goblins drop
the mithril bits you need for the quest.

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The Morroval-outcasts

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Location: Mundgeirr, Dolven-view Type: Private Instance Requirement: Infused Sapphire Mobs: Merrevail Description:  In the deep places of Moria, an ancient and hidden dwarf-forge has been penetrated by an outcast band of merrevail, seeking the tools which lie there in disuse. To what ends such creatures might put them remains unknown....

This one is more aggravating than it is tough. The merrevail have
stun attacks which can be interrupted, but they also like to
attack in pairs. Periodically, a weak and small runner will
attempt to make a break for it - a billboard pops up to announce
each would-be escapee. They often come from the opposite direction
you're fighting in, so you will have to run back to the entrance
ramp to stop them. The robbers are the ones with the tools for the
quest.

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The Library of Steel

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Location: Mundgeirr, Dolven-view Type: Private Instance Requirement: Infused Adamant Mobs: Orcs, Grims Description:  The Library of Steel contains many secrets of the smithy, protected by the wards of the dwarves, for which they are well-known. Now the Ghash-hai seek to summon lesser fire-spirits to break the wards and ravage the library and the forge within....

The goal here is to wipe out the summoners before they summon
enough fire-spirits to catch all the books on fire. You'll have to
fight your way to the summoners through a screen of axe-wielding
orcs, but you can pretty much ignore the fire-spirits until there
are about 6 or 7 of them - then you need to get serious about
keeping their numbers under control. The fire-spirits are weak and
can usually be taken out in one hit. Do a patrol around the areas
where the summoners are and take out a few of them, then go back
to hunting down the summoners. Once the summoners are all dead,
the fire-spirits stop spawning and you can go take care of the
uruk boss at the top.

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