Where have all the Moonbeasts gone?

Damn Snakes! · Post by **Damn Snakes!** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:12 pm

I just swam to the Lost Island and I killed a moonbeast (1) and picked up a moonstone (1) and ran around for quite a while and killed a few mushmen, some wolves, some spiders, even a drey elf... (and lots of bees and snakes) and I never saw hide or hair of another moonbeast...??? so much for leveling up on that Island... also... I was swimming in the lake south of Arindale and found the chest and drank some air-potion and swam down and NO CHEST! I tried swimming down with no air-potion and still no chest... you can see it while you are swimming on the surface but when you swim down you can't find it! anyone else have this problem?

avidg · Post by **avidg** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:43 pm

yeah sort of the moon beast thing with the drakes

yeah i went back to do some drake killing after, doing some leveling up and killing about 5 or 6 but there are none left i even went back to town went inside the apathacary and nothing i think i made them extinct boo hoo which is no good cause me and my divine dragon killing friend were really kicking some but lol do they come back? And im not sure with the monn beasts when i was out there i must have killed about 10 before leaving and they were a constant flow, but i havent tried going back so i am not sure

Evenstar · Post by **Evenstar** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:44 am

[QUOTE=Damn Snakes!]I just swam to the Lost Island and I killed a moonbeast (1) and picked up a moonstone (1)...

also... I was swimming in the lake south of Arindale and found the chest and drank some air-potion and swam down and NO CHEST![/QUOTE]
I played DLCE and only one moonbeast. But you only need one. Not everything is for leveling up I guess. I finished the game without any serious leveling troube after I took advantage of a spawning situation at one place.

The chests are tricky to find underwater. I don't know if it was meant to work this way or not--the game does try to be difficult at times. Anyway...try this. 1. Position your character on the surface such that you are floating but looking straight down with the chest visible in front of you in the distance, i.e., you are not right on top of the chest but back from it. 2. Save your game. 3. Without moving your character lined up with the chest take a potion of air. 4. Hit and hold the 'W' key. You will swim more less straight down and forward a little toward the chest. You won't see anything for some time until you hit the bottom. Do not turn you character or you will be lost as to where the chest is. Once the bottom finally comes into view I often would then and only then see the chest ahead of me. Once or twice I started out to close to the chest and I over-shot it. If you are back to far you need to carefully level off and swim along the bottom forward. Once I got the nak of it underwater chests were a piece of cake. If fish start hitting you, since this is random, just restore to your save point, fine tune your position to the chest and try again. I think there was a chest in every lake but I used the walkthrough extensively to help locate where to search. They aren't hard to find once you know where one is.

Damn Snakes! · Post by **Damn Snakes!** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:29 am

thanks, I will try your method for the underwater chests... by the way, where was that 'spawning area' you mentioned?

darkpark · Post by **darkpark** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:49 am

actually, the swamp area that's north-east of arindale has some good spawns. the walking tree thingies (i don't remember their names) give very good experience points.

phxhawk · Post by **phxhawk** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:30 pm

moonbeasts

I'm playing v 1.4 and haven't had a problem with moon beasties at all. In fact, about six poped up simultaneously.

Evenstar · Post by **Evenstar** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:04 pm

[QUOTE=phxhawk]I'm playing v 1.4 and haven't had a problem with moon beasties at all. In fact, about six poped up simultaneously.[/QUOTE]
Maybe they all come out at night and only one during the day? I was there in daylight and there was only one. I played the 1.5 CE version.

Evenstar · Post by **Evenstar** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:24 pm

[QUOTE=Damn Snakes!]thanks, I will try your method for the underwater chests... by the way, where was that 'spawning area' you mentioned?[/QUOTE]
It was in one of the Arindale Elder Lords Tests that you go through--in the room that has a platform arrangement suspended over water. It looked like this:
_ _
| | water |v| water |v|
| |__________|o|_________| |___
| o _o__o__o__o __________ ___~
|_x| water |o| water | |
water |v| water |v|

v = touch pad (Can't straighten out the format. Hope you get it.)

o = baddie
x = where I hid

The spawn keeps coming until you step on the touch pads. It was easy and safe and I saved periodically until I got bored to go on and then I advanced to the touch pads and stopped the spawning and moved on through the Trials.

Subzero · Post by **Subzero** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:02 am

if you have found a shrine of celestial (there you put cristal of clarity) just stand here and endless moonbeasts will come and give you a lot of exp !!!

buddydude · Post by **buddydude** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:04 pm

I found that the most moonbeasts will spawn on the west side of the island between the shrine and the water. You have to be careful not to get too close to the mountains or the water cause monsters and fish will spawn and you'll have to hunt them down and kill them before more moonbeasts will spawn. I managed to train there for a couple hours, killing a couple hundred moonbeasts before there were too many monsters on the other side of the mountains and the moonbeasts stopped spawning all together. Moonbeasts are the only monsters that will spawn in that section of the island. Just remember to run to the water and kill some fish when the moonbeasts won't come anymore and if worse comes to worse, swim around to the other side of the ridge and kill whatever jerks showed up there too.
Btw, I'm playing CE

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:17 am

If you follow Subzero's advice you won't have any of the problems BuddyDude referred to. Better still, jump on top of one of the pointy columns if meleeing them is too tough, and slay them with a bow.

Claudius · Post by **Claudius** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:23 pm

Some other good places for XP are the minotaur arena because you fight 1 at a time...

If you are strong the vale of ruin is great xp. Earn cash too.

DEATHSEEKER · Post by **DEATHSEEKER** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:39 pm

LOLZ moonbeasts good exp all right

when i fought the moonbeasts i did it at night and i was lvl 9 when i fought them i killed something like 279 moonbeasts and i gaind my lvls up to lvl 15
the bad thing is that what i did is i saved when i had over 2m advancement points and died cuz i forgot i ran out of potions:speech:

and i saved when i died whitch still crawls my nerves since the date of
10/15/07 up till now too

buddydude · Post by **buddydude** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:36 am

After more experimentation, I have discovered something obvious that I can't believe I didn't notice before. To conserve on system resources, the game avoids spawning monsters you will never see, ie.. monsters you will run by. Therefore, the game only spawns random encounters in your line of sight. To get the best bang for your buck, go to talendor from fargrove to make sure all the randoms around are cleared when you show up. Make sure you kill everything on the way to the moonbeasts, especially anything following you. It helps to turn your random encounters to low for this part. When you swim there, make sure you only look at the water. If you turn to either side, monsters will spawn on the shore and you'll have to waste time fighting them. When you get to the moonbeast area, land on the west side of the shore and immediately face east so that anything spawning will spawn towards the middle of the island. Face towards the middle of the island as you strafe south and keep facing the middle of the island while turning your character to the north and putting your back against the south mountains directly south of the shrine. Save and exit, turn your encounters to max and reload. You will end up fighting 5 to 14 moonbeasts at a time, so make sure you can handle that. Stone shards and cataclysm work well. Turning 45 degrees to either side and running forwards and then backwards towards the mountains again will bring on more moonbeasts. If you stare at one area, they will always spawn directly in front of you. As long as you never turn around and look at the mountains, the moonbeasts will keep coming in fairly large groups. I went from level 51 to 90 in a little over 3 hours yesterday doing this. It's ok to see the mountains in your screen, just don't have them within 10 degrees of your line of sight. And be careful if you can't handle 14 moonbeasts at a time or you're going to either be wasting a lot of time reloading, or wasting a lot of ADV points reviving.
Good Hunting

elven mage man · Post by **elven mage man** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 4:04 pm

forbidden lands

i like to just wander around in the forbidden lands kiilen urgoth renagades and stuff, most have good drops and tons of exp

Queen_Articuno · Post by **Queen_Articuno** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:12 pm

Moonbeasts and Time of Day

Evenstar wrote:Maybe they all come out at night and only one during the day? I was there in daylight and there was only one. I played the 1.5 CE version.

I have had Moonbeasts attack during the day AND night. So, I don't think that the monsters have a set appearance time. You just have to wait awhile. It helps to set Monster Strength to Hard and Spawns to Many. If you have a fragile character (eg. Mage, maybe Rogue, not exactly sure), you should attack the moonbeasties with a good bow. I prefer the Elven Venom Bow, but I haven't seen any noticable poisoning effect. Maybe they are just too strong to be taken down by poison attacks. Also, DO NOT use ice spells or weaponry. Moonbeasts are resistant to ice attacks. I recommend you use fire spells and weapons. Of course, Nether weapons, like the Nether Impaler, Necrotic Battle Bow, and so on are also nice... If you can get your hands on one... :laugh: Of course, if you are REALLY desparate, DL the savegame editor on the sticky thread at the top of the page and edit one in.

dcinroc · Post by **dcinroc** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:47 am

Just hang out near the shrine and moonbeasts will show up. Stay away from the water and the mountains while waiting.