Zones
Plane of Innovation
Brell Serilis's clockwork laboratory. Gnome cosmology weaponized — gears, steam, and the Plane of Disease portal.
- Plane of Tranquility
- Plane of Disease
Plane of Innovation (PoI) is Brell Serilis's plane — the Duke Below's domain rendered as an endless gnomish workshop of brass, steam, and clockwork. Spinning gears the size of buildings, conveyor belts that physically reposition mobs, and assembly lines stretch across the zone, populated by clockwork warriors, scrapped automatons, and gnome inventor named who keep the machinery running. PoI sits in the lower PoP tier alongside Plane of Disease and Plane of Nightmares; the three serve as the introductory raid and high-end-group circuit. The zone's main draws on The Last Camp are steady XP, mid-tier loot, and the connection to the Crypt of Decay through a portal hidden in one of the deeper assembly halls.
Content
- Clockwork warriors — the bulk of the trash, scaling 55-62 across the outer factories.
- Scrapped automatons — patrol clusters, prone to procs and stuns.
- Inventor named — gnome lieutenants of Brell, each holding mid-tier class drops and components.
- Steam constructs — caster-types in the inner workshops, magic-resist gear recommended.
- Brell's Foreman — flag-relevant named, ties into the Plane of Disease access route.
- Portal to Plane of Disease — buried in the central plant; the canonical PoI → PoD path.
- Tradeskill-component drops — tinkering and gnome-themed materials surface across the named cycle.
Why bother
Plane of Innovation is one of the kindest tier-1 PoP zones. ZEM is healthy, the trash drops are usable mid-game gear, and the named cycle on a quick enough timer that a competent group can chain pulls for hours. Several Magician, Wizard, and Enchanter spell research components funnel through PoI named — Brell's plane being a natural fit for caster utility drops. Tinkering and gnome-themed tradeskill components also surface here for players still leveling those skills past 200, which makes PoI a double-purpose zone for guilds with active tradeskill grinders.
PoI doubles as the connector to the Crypt of Decay branch. Guilds working the Bertoxxulous chain typically stage out of PoI, treating it as the warm-up zone before pushing into the disease-heavy content next door. The clockwork aesthetic is also some of the most distinctive art in PoP — the whole plane reads as Ak'Anon turned cosmic, and worth a visit even if a group never returns. Brell devotees and gnome racial players in particular treat it as a pilgrimage zone.
Using it well
Enter from Plane of Tranquility via the standard PoI stone. The outer factory floors are pull-friendly; the conveyor belts physically move mobs around, so factor in patrol drift when planning camps — a "safe" pull spot on entry can have a clockwork warrior parked in it five minutes later. Mez works on the gnome inventor named but is unreliable on the constructs themselves — burn fast on those.
Resists matter less here than in Disease or Nightmares, but magic resistance is the one stat to prioritize for the inner workshop named. The Last Camp's open class system shines in PoI: a Gnome Shadow Knight or Iksar Cleric is just as viable as canonical, and the lower difficulty curve lets newer players test off-spec class combinations without the punishment of a tier-3 zone. Watch for the foreman patrol — pulling him with adds is the most common wipe in the zone, and the foreman holds the flag drop you don't want to repeat. Save him for last, with the camp clean and the cleric stack rested.