Glistening Lowlands

Level: 40+
Location: Party apply (T)
Late entry: No

Glistening Lowlands is a fairly easy instance that gives a nice reward of gem boxes, jade gold, and 2 ded/fealty. It is part of the What Passes for Fate instance grouping. This is a guild quest for certain levels.

Getting a Party

• Your party class makeup isn't that important, although it doesn't hurt to have a priest. 
• You should keep in mind that the mob levels are based on highest level party member. 
• The majority of the party should be near the same level and the rest a lower level.
• I believe taking a lowbie gives you mentor points.
• You can sometimes pick up extra people for your party by just queuing.

This instance has two stages. Your objective is to combine small crystals into bigger crystals and then meld them into the respectively colored even bigger crystals until the boss pops (20 big crystals in all), then kill the boss. Pretty simple, but there are somethings to keep in mind.

• It's best to keep pets in for this instance as they can interfere with the crystals, even if you have them on idle.
• Use your base attack to hit the crystals when moving them.
• If your crystal seems to be going in the wrong direction, sometimes it helps to back away from the crystal, target it, then hit the hot key for the attack instead of clicking the crystal to attack.
• You can combine any two color crystals to make a new crystal.
• You do not need a certain number of any one kind of crystal to complete this.
• Crystal eaters will appear and eat whatever crystals they can get their boney hands on. Someone should be in charge of killing these. They can be tough, so high dps or tank will do. 
• Low level chars and pets can increase the number of crystal eaters.
• Crystal eaters will attack the boss, so if you want a little help taking him down, stop killing them near spawn time.
• When you see that you have around 15 big crystals absorbed into their home crystals, stop using green crystals for combining and make at least one pure green crystal. Just leave this for when the boss appears.
• Do not attack the boss until he has been fed a weakening crystal as he may not eat one after he rampages. 
• The best weakening crystal is green - I think this does an overall weakening; but blue cracks his armor, yellow makes him sick, red reduces his attack, and cyan works too. Purple is just useless to him.
• You can tell when he has eaten a weakening crystal because he rampages.
• Once you have fed the boss, you can take your pet out.
• The small crystals will power up the boss, so why not have squishies and lowbies combine them into bigger crystals that can actually hurt the boss while the heavy hitters attack the boss?