Howdy,

I didn't find a lot of good information about the "Graveyard Zone" so I decided to experiment.

I took my ancient and retired monk and bound him in Rivervale at the Soulbinder. Then I attacked the Priest of Discord. Instant corpse. (my monk is level 18 so no need to worry about not leaving a corpse)

I looted all but one bat wing from the corpse and left it for over a week.

When I logged on I got a message (like the Message of the Day or more like the LDoN start message) telling me I had a corpse present in Shadowrest.

Finding the bloody NPC to hail to go to Shadowrest was a HUGE pain. No one seems to have made an exhaustive list, hell I couldn't even find the name of the one for PoK. But I happened to stumble on a discription of the location of the one in Misty Thicket.

Here's the straight ****.

1) Corpse's that rotted before the zone went live in early/mid April 2004... GONE. Don't even ask.

2) Corpse's made after zone went live, NOT automaticly moved to Shadowrest after ANY amount of time.

3) Corpses ONLY moved to Shadowrest after AT LEAST one week of REAL TIME has elapsed. (being logged in for 24 hours doesn't rot the corpse)

4) Once you get into Shadowrest (method to follow) you summon your own corpse (method for this to follow as well) and it has a one week decay timer, and NO _REPEAT_ NO!! Rezz timer. None. Zip. YOU CANNOT GET A REZZ IN SHADOWREST!! DO NOT EVEN THINK MAYBE IT IS POSSIBLE! IT IS _NOT_!! (Hope I've made that point abundantly clear.)

5) It is unknown if a corpse that rots IN Shadowrest can be re-summoned. I intend to leave the corpse there with one bat wing on it for a week and check again.

6) It is unknown how long ago MAXIMUM a corpse can have rotted (after the live date of the zone) and still be recalled. I don't have a serious way to test that and I have no intention of. Some people have posted comments that GMs/Guides have hinted that there MAY be some maximum. In general I'd say "the sooner you can summon your corpse the better" as a rule.

Ok, I'm going to ASSUME that everyone on Agnostic's green and verdant Norrath has either PoP -OR- the ability to find a druid that can port them to Misty Thicket. Period. I'm only going to use this guy as Rivervale is home or second home to all my characters.

Get your assets to Misty Thicket. Either by the PoK book, the Druid Rings or coming out of Rivervale. The guy you want is...

Roha Jumthief. He resides at /loc neg 330 by neg 2390 approx.
(This is DIRECTLY east of both the Book and Rings, along the east wall. Traveling south from the Rivervale tunnel you go south past the rats and undead and there he is... can't miss him.)

Say "send" while targeting him and you get a trip to Shadowrest. Only those with corpses waiting (unsummoned) or there already (summoned and not looted) can take the trip. Period. No rubberneckers.

Coming from Misty Thicket you wind up in the middle of the south wall of this VERY TINY zone. I'd almost say the boat in Iceclad Ocean is bigger. Seafury Island in OOT -is- bigger.

There is a big building in the center of the zone, kinda on stilts, and the "stairs" up to the second floor are directly ahead of you, can't miss it. In the building you see a bunch of skeletons dancing around a big pit. And a tall dark figure in a robe. (Resembles the IV from AR and others with the same model.)

You can hail the "Keeper of Lost Things" and follow the text to get your corpse.

Or you can try just saying "relinquish" (no " marks needed)

Along the south wall just a bit west of where you came in there will be a little "PoK book" that takes you back to Misty Thicket about 5 feet away from Jumthief. Handy.

I -presume- that other zones have different "zone in/zone out" locations along the wall, or the book may simply be set to take YOU back where YOU entered from. Not interested in testing it too heavily.

Hope that helps anyone who's been curious about Shadowrest like I have been.

so I hail the NPCs (two, one in PoK and on in EC) and eventually I say I am ready and I'm ready for travel, POOOF I warp to the succor point of the zone, WHY??? I literally died the night it went live JUST to see this new zone, why cant I get in, I've been trying to get in sine April 14th (thus 7days after LIVE) everyday I log in, chat with the NPC and POOOOF I warp to succor point in zone

Back on the date Kunark was released I lost my body and nothing was done to help me before it rotted. I had more than a few unique items that had been nurfed after I had them. Some of which would be worth a fortune still today. But I moved servers..

Can anyone answer me questions. Are you able to retrieve corpses from a LONG time ago?

Has anyone successfully gotten a really old corpse yet?

Has anyone gotten a corpse after changing servers?

In Qeynos Hills the NPC to hail is Sarri Modav, he is at pos 354, pos 1108, by the campire & shack near SW corner of zone.

My question is how far back are they going to go to place your corpse in Shadowrest? I had a cropse rot over 3 years ago with a ton of crap on it and I have no clue if its in Shadowrest or not.

I have never really had a problem with loseing my corpse. I mean other then plane of fear and plane of hate its really not that hard to get your corpse back. Most people that I know who has let there corpse rott usually was just to lazy to loot it on death and forgot about it.

Personalyl anytime I die I don't wait anymore then 1 day to get it, and that is only if its a newbie charactor.

Far as POF or POH is concerned, the only thing those planes are good for anymore is epic quests, so I don't ever fool with them anymore.

Finally they added something like this.. Just like last year I was thinking about something similar to this..

But it was mostly go to a certain NPC in a certain zone and say a certain phrase and get your stuff back. Good addition IMO.

Wow....alot of off topic discussion here lol.
Ok...As a Necromancer I have to say I like the Idea of this Zone...Especially for Corpse retrieval in Fear...(possibly the most annoying thing I have ever done in the game)
Do I think this will mean that there is no more need for necros? not at all...lets face it...Most people that want a corpse summon are either A)Too impatient...or B) Too scared to get their corpse back. and for at least half of them will still need us to summon them.Will I still summon my owwn corpses rather then wait the week? Hell yes...I got too much to do to waste time like that. But some people will use this....and I also agree that the "My corpse rotted with all my stuff give me Plat" Excuse going away makes this Zone have my Vote =P

Only thing I wish is that they made the "Decay to graveyard zone" quicker. I am tired of seeing the same corpses at different spots. An example is when someone leaves a corpse sitting on top of the Nexus stone in POK. We still have to look at that for 7 days... My suggestion would be to have corpses in game for no more then 3 days. If the graveyard zone works as it should then all of these "look at my corpse and try and click the stone" would go away.

On another note, I wonder how many corpses will be in the graveyard zone with one arrow left on them or a summoned water stone.

Great! Now I can just tell Random_Dead_Dook_01 to wait a week, sucker, I have better things to do than to go kite 20 mobs in Fear and hope that none of the golems ********** me, making it insanely harder to get BOTH of our corpses... and what? You don't have a gate potion or any other means of gating other than your hammer? Idgits.

it's absolutely the funniest thing to see people complain about an addition to the game and than I go INTO the game and find that people are creating characters just to test out this "cool" new zone...even though i'm a hipocrit by saying this.....get in the game and try it...don't complain about it on this site.....how much money actually has to get spent before we're all happy....I can't f****** believe it.

Just an idea:

Bazaar is too laggy and not-RPG-like nowadays. I'd suggest that the whole Bazaar would be split into 10 or so mini-Bazaars that are connected together. Each mini-Bazaar i.e. Town Square would be in one of the starting cities and characters should be able to sell only in their home town.

Connection between Squares could be handled with a simple Baz-like Search-button, but it should be named appropriately, e.q. Listen to Rumours (you should still be able to see what is sold in other cities by listening the rumours).

This would make buying and selling a bit more difficult, but imho it would would add a nice amount of that rpg-content to the game.

We would get rid of laggy Bazaar, bring the life back to our home towns that are totally empty nowadays and make buying/selling more fun (imagine a trip to a hostile city just to buy a few sow potions).

The other way is to get to 2000's and create a stock market with Traders and Buyers (new trader option). Windblade futures and
Ornate Bracer share index loans...nah..

Anyway, If you're thinking the same way as I am, please ask Sony to develop this idea further in game or otherwise.

If you think that the idea is total BS, please reply this message in a civilized manner.

Oh, and please rate this post so I get a general idea how good a suggestion this is.