====== The Mines of Moria ======

Fabled place, tons mobs, some dts, most legend eq load spots. However, it is
not as dangerous as breelegends describe it ;) More exactly: is not dangerous
at all for clueful legend with good map and some info about tricks/smobs of
this place (such as this file). Good map is problem, though ;) Map it as legend
scout, and be ready to eat like 5 dt deaths, and maybe even some mobdeaths too
(depends on your skill), so before mapping ask your friend to collect like 5-8
22 pb+ shields/chanted ekets/fgcs/plain picks, and be online all time while you
map/die. Before going inside store some food/oil flasks, one walking/travelling
lore isn't excess too. MUME Moria water sources are not poisoned as JRRT
describes it, so no point much in storing water.

To enter Moria via west gate you must solve some kind of quest. You must prac
detect magic spell (decay it later if non-mage). Go to some n from gate (don't
wait at gate, or tentacles will drag you to Moria kraken - 99% mobdeath), wait
till moonrise, cast detect, go to gate and type 'exa inscription'. It must be
night (if month is wrong, moon can rise after sun, and go down before night
comes). If you see "Doors of Durin bla bla" - quest solved :) Later you can
enter Moria at any time/month, and even without detect - just come to gate and
say 'friend' in Sindarin. If you don't know Sindarin well - spam say! ;) After
you enter Moria via wgate, it will be blocked for 20-30 mins (but it will not
when you _leave_ it).

Well, some general info about dts. n and s from Durin's Bridge are instant
dts, noflee though. Also one instant dt is in Shaghosh area (nw part). All
other dts are either timed or mudlled. For example, one more dt in Shaghosh
area triggers like 1 sec after you enter it (lose balance and fall); Ruined
Avenue ruins if many heavily eqipped players enter it (like 4-5 metal dwarves),
though it is timed too. Other places are not dts actually - just some damage.
Boulder room (where you hear 'click' when enter) is delayed 150-200 damage, but
magic armour can absorb it; heavy wheels in Shaghosh area (west from Mine
Office) do like 150 damage too, but with high dex you can dodge em. These
wheels can also trap you if you fail to run out, in such case just wait until
zone pops.

All Moria can be mapped easily by legend scout, but I must point to some
dangerous places. General rule: in most cases exits down lead to more dangerous
areas than exits up, so if in trouble - spam up anywhere you can ;)
Not far from wgate are 2 oneways leading to jade bracelet area - there can
load up to 6 patrols of 6-7 mobs in each, if just 2-3 patrols loaded - consider
yourself lucky and map it. Boulder exists in this area, and oneway south from
it leads to zone with even more mobs, and two secrets out named 'rockdoor'.

Some n of it is Shaghosh area, with tons hardhitting mobs/secrets/dts/etc.
You should always remember how to run back to safe rooms from it (drop some
coins on important crossroads maybe).

Patrols near egate are nastier, but there always loads same number of patrols
(like 3), and two more not moving (one guarding barricade). Middle part of the
Mustering Stairs is here too, and down from it is area with most concentration
of mobs in whole Moria: 13-mob patrols are common here.

Bottom area (Hwain's way) is most dangerous. It is patrolled by black uruks,
which track over half of area (you should run like zone to make them stop
tracking you). There are just 4 entrances to this area: via whirlpool (oneway),
down from 'Intersection of roads', 2d from 'Cavern crossroads' and one more via
secret w from Durin's bridge. In this area located Muranog, Hshkhlahk and
Balrog. From room named 'deep shaft' oneway down leads to the Deeps of Moria -
there live 3 worms (nobash, eff vs mental, bashing and hardhitting), and area
repops every *7 seconds*. Exit out is locked 'shaft', you must have high pick
to get out, or break it - othervise it is 100% mobdeath for solo player. If you
fall here, quickly walk w or s from room where you fall to, and drop something
here - so you will know which room has exit.

Any mob(s) in Moria except Balrog can be done by group of legend buffer
(preferably defwarrior in thin metal or shining chain/white chain, attack warrior on
wimpy in thick metal goes too), legend cleric with blind and legend mage with
sleep. Solo mage in metal with stored spells can manage pretty much too, just
Mezagor (due to bash attack) is impossible. Balrog is not supposed to be soloed
by mage with charmies, but you can seek yourself if you can charm enough nasty
mobs to do him ;)

HINT: Moria as an area is too complex to rely only on written info, but
perhaps this will give you some insight on what to expect...

**Small hints**

1) Packrats will never repop until someone kill one with key, loots it and
loots chest. If there are no visible packrats in Moria - means somewhere in
Umuk or Shaghosh area hides last one with key ;-) (Hiddenslab is also a likely
place to find last rat) Rats popping is somehow related to westgate, so if no
rats you can try opening westgate and going west/east to try and make them pop.
(Ussually takes a few minutes after)

2) As far as I know, no zone in Moria will repop when player is in - so don't
be afraid of doing some locked in rooms with mobs like boil-infested troll.
(the one exception to this... some people lure karkarak to eastgate, block the
west exit, and then quake flee it there to avoid patrols... this is a very bad
idea because eastgate itself can pop which results in mobdeath...)

3) There is bridge-type place, with 3 exits down in a vertical row. Under it
live some snakes and 2 orms, and of course in watery rooms. They are nice exp,
but dangerous without boat/canoe. Canoe loads in Shaghosh area, but dont jump
down from bridge with it: mudlle will force you to drop it, and it will be
shattered (which can lead to drow/mobdeath). Get rope with hook near circlet
chest, keep it in inventory - and then you will be able to move down 1e from
bridge, without falling (and get back same way). You can also just go west from
the black troll on mustering stairs to take a one way down to this area.

4) With Bulag, if you kill the grey trolls and leave the Bulky troll blind/
bashed/slept or whatever, the grey's don't pop next time around.  Makes it
much easier.

5) With Shaghosh, if you just kill shaghosh and leave the trolls/wolves alone
and shut in, you can lure JUST Shaghosh out when he next pops.  Again, makes
it much easier.


===== Bulag/Grey Spider =====

**Location:** upper halls of Moria, from Intersection of roads u max e max sw is
area where he wanders.

**Strategy:** Not harder than epriest, same warning: try avoid blinding. May be
some problems though is trolls follow him - in this case just blind them. Loot
small stone key from corpse and go to north-eastern part of zone, to room with
3 trolls. They block exit e, so kill them or blind to pass. Unlock/open
stonelatch, e is Grey Spider which guards some treasure on the ground and chest
with shining chain and jewel-encrusted key.

**Loads:** Shining chain mail leggings (very rarely), Balrog key, plate greaves and vambraces, amethyst, opal and some gold.


===== Karcarak =====

**Location:** from Central Gathering Hall (with water-drake) 2n w.

**Strategy:** nothing unusual, just tough monster and 3 big trolls following him.
Better blind/sleep lesser trolls before doing Karc - it's hard for any buffer
to buff 4 trolls at the same time ;) And also: as this is egate area, everyone
in group must know how to run from patrols (better hide behind panel wn bridge,
or behind statuary w of it).

**Loads:** Shining chain mail shirt (rarely), fell blade (sometimes) or heavy morningstar,
belt of pearls and crystals.

===== Umuk =====

**Location:** from Cavern Crossroads 6e open greydoor nww and kill a small orc
for intricate steel key. Then 2e s 3w 3n 2e 2n 2e 5s, d is his area.

**Strategy:** There will be up to 20(!) trollmobs before and behind entrance to
Umuk. Better to clear all trolls that move before going d. Then there are two
door to w and e, blackslab and bloodydoor. Prudent to open the doors and let
the trolls out one at a time. Proceed inside wseenw to check that you have
killed all, then Umuk + bulky cavetroll is wses. Kill them and open dirtfloor
to loot some coins and harp (alive Umuk blocks exit down). Then open lichen and
follow to the chest with BDA.
If you are just 3, killing all trolls will take like 20-30 mins. In this case
first kill trolls, then go check orc for key - this key decays very fast.

//Note: Key can decay very fast.  If you need the metals and axe, I would suggest only
 getting after you are ready to use it. \\Iluvator//

**Loads:** Thick gauntlets on Umuk, blackened dwarven axe and plate metal set in
the chest.


===== Shaghosh =====

**Location**: from Cavern Crossroads 3e 4n 3w open crag w s open irondoor, s w s
2w s 2w open redeye w n.

**Strategy:** Shag located in dangerous area, tons patrols here, so everyone must
have map to be ready to flee out to Durins way. Only broad orcs non-aggressive
here. You can kill all mobs of course, but if you are just 3, better to just
skip patrols.\\
Before redeye stands patrol of commanding orc and 2 cave trolls - dangerous
even for 3 legends. But! This room is NO_MOB, and once patrol leaves it - it
can't neither follow you now track you back in ;) So, just lure patrol outside
and go rest to redeye.
Behind redeye is patrol of commanding (5.) orc and 4 lesser orcs, and n of
them is Shaghosh the Durghash orc chieftain + 2 bulky trolls + 2 dire wolves.
Kill them all, though better to sleep higher mobs first, and do lesser while
boss slept ;) Get huge iron key and bwf from Shaghosh corpse, open secretstairs
d, go and loot another bwf. Then go back u s, unlock/open steeldoor, go w and
loot all treasure.

**Loads**: 2 black warg furs, emerald, golden necklace and Shining chain mail leggings.


===== Mezagor =====

**Location:** from white fountain e Azaghal's way 4w s open tile d 2e 3n w s
open irondoor s kill orc open door e.
**
Strategy:** Mezagor is fearsome beast, which is not bashable, but has himself
some strange attack like continuous bash - his victim can't do ANYTHING for
alot of time or until either he or Mezagor dies. Door to his room is not locked
by default, but as soon as someone enters, Meza locks it. So: better destroy
door before entering if you are not sure that you can manage him (in this case
only buffer dies, but all non-engaged can leave). Meza have like 1200-1500 hps,
so can be pretty easely fried by fballs/harms from 2 casters. It loads 2 keys:
bloody for it's door and one of Balrog doors; stonekey for Armoury. Backway
from Meza: gorydoor.\\
After doing him begins boring part. Go w 2n 2w 5s e s e. There loads patrol,
but don't kill it there ;) Lure n e! This is entrance to armoury, and to enter
it you need 3 things: weight, key and word. After killing patrol here go w s w
3n 4e 6n - it is place where load boulders. Bring at least 5 of them to armoury
entrance (command "push boulder <dir>"). When enough weight will be in this
room (5 boulders, corpses of 1 patrol and 3 players is usually enough), you
will hear *click* and see floor message. After that go w s w 3n 2e n open
dwarfdoor e, kill both statues (they block exit up), open hatch and go up.
There is page containing word (you must know Khuzdul well to read it). Return
to entrance, and someone (any race) must say this word in any language - opens
keyhole, then you should quickly unlock and open pillars to the east.

**Loads:** Balrog key in corpse; shining chain mail shirt, white chain sleeves, war
mattock and tons metal in the armoury.


===== Muranog the High Lieutenant =====
**
Location:** Muranog loads on his throne on the bottom-most level of Moria,
reachable (w/o killing mobs) by endless stairs (portal needed) OR from the
Intersection of roads d 4e s e s 15e n open stairway 2d open crevice w n e n 5e
s e n open mahogany e OR from Durin's bridge w open statuary s w 3d e 3d n open
door (stairwell from other side) w 2n 4w n open mahogany w n. He can wander
nearby also.

**Strategy:** Mura loads with 3 black olog trolls folling him, and killing all 4
at the same time is hard work. Always better to split them. If you kill Muranog
when trolls are in throne room where they loads, he will pop so that trolls
won't fol him after repop. This can be done in two ways: if trolls following
him - sleep them in throne room, and then kill Mura; if not - just lure him
out, and kill anywhere. He's quite easy if group knows what they're doing
(since black uruk patrols patrol the area - it's important that all know how to
get out unless you wanna risk mobdeaths). Just (cast|stab)/flee if solo, or
nuke if in group. 2 casters in most cases have enough mana to spray/dispel him
dead - he have like 2000 hps. And beware: Mura can switch targets, so either
casters should cast non-engaged, or buffer should have good rescue. As Mura is
eff vs fire, it's better to spray him than fireball.

For orc scout it's harder to stab Muranog than for elf (due to maluses in
stats/sneak), but for orc there is another strategy: go from mahogany s max w s
6e s 5w, kill Hshkhlahk the Dark Claw, butcher corpse for obsidian eye and stab
Muranog blind! Whities can kill claw with nightvision/seeing herblore/95%+
awareness only: it snuffs ANY light, even staff glow. Only possible strategy
for group of whities is enter without light, let one buff Claw while another
makes camp - and then nuke. Though, if you got group - you can manage Muranog
even without killing Claw...\\
Shining key on him is key to his treasure rooms. With the key you can unlock
archeddoor (from Throne room s 2e 2n). Shining chain mail sleeves can load there in
3.chest. You will get blinded when you enter this room (unless you save - like
5% chance) so might be wise to lock archeddoor (same name from inside and from
outside) after you're in. Of course, never enter when door is already open -
means someone trapping inside! And also, this room is nocast, so it's wrong
place for trapping as mage ;) 2s from it is oakdoor. Shining chain mail sleeves can load
inside oakdoor too, n from central room, hidden. S of central room is a cabinet
which you can open with good pick skill/picks (over 60% total), it loads
mithril key for Balrog.

**Loads:** Either ornate warhammer or HBM or iron-shod mace, corberyl (in left
hand), great helm, thick plate/boots, regular vambraces/gaunts/greaves; Shining
chain mail sleeves in his treasure rooms.

**Level:** Legend caster/thief can manage him too.


===== The Balrog =====

**Location:** from Muranog s w s w s 7e 3n w s 4w s w n; from here n is his area.

**Strategy:** To do Balrog you need 4 keys. They load at:

  Muranog     - in cabinet   - mithril key
  Mezagor     - in corpse    - bloody key
  Grey spider - in chest     - jewel-encrusted key
  underwater  - behind crack - great bone key

Even if you already have Muranog's mithril key, go and kill him - otherwise
Balrog will call him, he will arrive with his 3 trolls, block doors, and it is
kinda hard to manage Balrog+Muranog+trolls at the same time...

Also need 7 strange golden rings that will save you from Balrog's heat. Rings
load below water-drake. Sleep/blind/kill drake (for kill you have to dive -
dangerous, as drake has special mudlle that drags u underwater). Swim & climb
on, go 2d, open wellrocks, go e, unlock/open trapdoor, go up. (I think its the
underwater key that's needed for trapdoor). Then there are 3 other doors.
Behind doors to east and west are pillars. You have to cast 'dispel magic' on
each pillar. Then cast 'dispel magic' on field (in central room), unlock/open
mithril door, go n and loot The Morgul Blade, emerald, bronze medallion and
rings in wooden box (all 4 keys needed there). NB! To get it working, you must
type it fully, "cast 'dispel magic'", without speed modifier (and maybe case-
sensetive too).

Then go from well with water-drake (Central Gathering Hall): 16w 3d s 9e n
open stairway n 2d open crevice w n e n 5e 2s 7e 3n w s 3w s w. North of this
room is entrance to Balrog, guarded by 2 dragon columns. They are not so tough,
but they breath fire, just like Mithnaur. So before entering remove/put in
container all that burns: arrows, receipts, all metal, shining chain and shining
metal (it will damage too and lose absorbtion due to it).
After dragons' death casters must stop following warriors and rest in dragons'
room (Before the Dread Portal). Warriors must go and kill all mobs in Balrog
area, because he calls them.\\
Then begins last part. All rest full. Each cleric chooses his 2-3 warriors.
First, clerics strength their warriors, rest full again. Warriors must go fur
and leather (max ob weapons too) - armour will not protect from Balrog's insane
hits anyway. They must have at least 150 (better 160) ob on aggressive, because
Balrog have insane defence too! After that casters bless their warriors, rest
full. Each warrior must wear strange golden ring, because otherwise Balrog's
heat will damage them even more than his hits. Last thing: clerics sanc their
warriors and go sleep for mana. Warriors go berserk - anyway it's impossible to
flee from Balrog if you already hit him: his whip will drag you back!
Then warriors must go, find Balrog and hit him to death (or at least to bad/
wounded), rescuing each other. When Balrog starts to flee: either return to
casters if low hps and quickly get 1 heal each; or spamfollow and spamhit him
otherwise. Be warned: Balrog regens VERY FAST - he drains health from lava. So
of course better to fight him in a non lava room, and do not lose even excess
second! :) Also: as Balrog is spirit-type mob, better to hit him with eff vs
spirit weapon (which means BDA: engraved bsword and thorn do too low damage).

After he dies, loot his key and eq (2 darkie artifacts!), return back to
casters, get them and go for loot: 2n e 2n e n w n unlock/open laen n w n
unlock/open crystal w loot all (robe from chest, treasure); e unlock/open
glimmer n loot all (tunic and treasure from chest); s e unlock/open iron s 2e n
unlock/open obsidian n loot all (shield and plate); s e unlock/open marble n
loot all (vambraces and greaves); s unlock/open golddoor e loot all (axe and
helm); w 2s open bronzedoors s e 3s 3w 2s back to Before Portal.
Do not forget before going back go metal and set wimpy again :)

Also: Balrog zone can repop while players are in, but not Balrog himself - so
don't be scared of being caught by a fresh Balrog on way back from treasure
rooms.

**Loads:** The Huge Flaming Sword, The Black Many-Tailed Whip (on Balrog), The
Axe of Durin, The Dragonhelm, full shining set (breastplate/greaves/vambraces),
shield of Balli, white robe, grey tunic, diamond ring, wooden ring, lotsa
gold/gems/coins.

**Level:** 7 (not more, not less!) legend warriors, preferably offence + 3
legend clerics with sanc; 1 mage with dispel to get rings. Hard but possible to
have just 2 clerics (pbs's needed in such case).