Spectral Mines - ouch!

I dipped into Spectral Mines for a few ores post r37++ and got mobbed by a group of 5 or so hardened wizards, archers and swordsmen. Needless to say I was dead several times rather rapidly before I realised i wasn't just ring rusty after a week or so of respite...

Have they upped difficulty in Spectral or in all mines or am I out of practice? I don't remember getting smacked by large groups of hardened mobs on the first level of Spectral mine before. I went outside and tested myself against Obsidian Wolves, and my toon's defence and offence stats seemed in tact and ok.

Maybe something to do with making gathering of large volumes of ores tougher or requiring a group/guild? Or maybe just an experiment on difficulty to gather stats...

 

Spectral has been whacked, try Serpent Spine mines for iron.

 

thanks Knightguy.

 

Serpent's Spine, Verdantis, and Elysium are pretty much where I get about 95% of my ore. Everything else is too slow, too sparse, or too deadly for ore farming.

 

I agree, I am Alvl 86 and cant farm spectral mines that easily. The amount of skeletons that pop up when you are mining is so annoying. Also, ever since they added massive resistance to skeletons, I dont have great AOE skills to deal with them that easily. People said it's considered a noob mine, but I feel it is way too tuff. Id rather mine Silver, and trade for Iron/Tin/nickle/Tungsen. Much faster results for a more expensive product to trade at a better ratio. Imo.

 

It used to be considered a noob mine when the skellies were lower level, and they didn't respawn if you didn't loot them.

 

Spectral is still a very good mine if you can survive it. They recently added a couple of extra skeletons to the area near the first room, so you can get 5 at once if you're not careful. I just use a simple swords/earth/bodySlam heavy deck there.

 

For the crappy gold you get vs death >>spectral not worth it. To bad ....used to have fun challenging myself in there. I find that I am dying to much lately and loose to much exp unless I am in a party. Shouldn't be forced to party all the time.