I've posted this at
http://37852.rapidforum.com and wanted to share this on this forum as well:
"I was fooling around in Draracle's Caves lv. 2 to get level ups and I noticed the amount of Cave dwellers in the west part of the level (near reference 6 on
http://ethereallore.com/1map.html ) was extraordinary. It just didn't make sense to me; no matter how fast I killed them, they just kept on coming. But when I was on the other side of the level, they ceased to appear so quickly.
I researched it some more and then I found out that stepping on the spinner (reference 6) creates two Cave dwellers in the room west of the spinner (the same thing happens in Castle Cimmeria lv. 1, when you try to open the jammed door, which spawns two Ethereal warriors). So my hit & run tactics were actually the cause of the spawning of about fifteen cavedwellers every minute! :evil:
So here's a little advise to everyone that doesn't want to get beaten up by those stinking cavemen: stay away from that spinner as much as you can!
The same goes for the spinner at reference 12; this one makes two Ratmans a little to the east."
Because of this, you can do some major levelling here, especially because you can have the Jewelled Dagger in your possession at this point.