Divine Hammer of Consternation  

 

Soloed him with my 76 BL (Jan 18, 2008) when he had the hammer. Just worked thru his DA, hit him with everthing I could when he wasnt DA and heal used heal pots when I couldnt damage him. Pet was still scoring some crits while he was DA

Edited, Jan 18th 2008 6:58pm by scootercoch

Just killed this guy, Full group, 3 necros, warrior, druid and ranger. Hammer didn't show in his hand, until we engaged him. Cleared the room of adds, full mana'ed up, and just started wailing on him. When anyone got low on HP, just backed up a bit, re-healed, then re-entered the fight. Still, this guy has massive HP, took awhile to go down. Was an awesome fight, hammer dropped.

i was wondering how this would work with high level clerics now. with the new spells vow of valor, ward of reprisal, yalp 8, and promised renewal, clerics can now tank or even solo lb mobs. my 75 tss t1 geared cleric, with only about 100 aas can solo wos mobs. douing with the chanter he could easily handle them with only about 2 heals. my cleric until just recently was just a buff bot really and prior to these spells and some guild rot tss armor could not take more than a few hits from a db mob.

im going to go grab this for the cleric, il let you know how well it works.

Killed him in about 8 minutes. Chaos air pet mage buffed, no adds and ended up at 60m. Long fight but ds, ba and epic effect really helped.

Seeing how the new cleric combat innate spells will proc even when DA, this may now be far more valuable for the solo cleric than ever before. I wonder if i can solo the Praetor . . . .

Expert Artisan Joziah Truesilver
Devoted Son of the Mother of All
Cleric of Resolution
Firiona Vie.

Done him with a 65 ranger and Me (65 Necro).

Ranger snared and i kite him with Ranger as second pet :).

About 30 minuts fight.

what does this thing look like?

If youre a Pally and ever plan to MT dont bother with this hammer. It was fun to get, and fun to try out. I mainly use it for the +15 WIS when fletching now. The DA proc causes an instant loss of aggro, and your slower or healer gets turned into paste that used to resemble a caster.

Save your pp (if youre a Pally) and get a Windblade. Do some adventures and buy one of the dd proc augments like Silver Flecked Crystal of Agony (ECommons 510 pts)or whatever its called. This proc stacks with your own procs like Ward of Nife or Pious Might. Use your own Valor of Marr, worn haste item, and have ENC cast Speed of Vallon on you. This will give you a 50dam, 44del, and all the stats weapon with a 125dd proc, a 150(living)/270(undead) proc and maxed haste. Fight undead and throw in your undead nukes and youre slingin some respectable damage out there. I know it seems like EVERYBODY has a WB these days but there are reasons for that. It works. Its dropable. Its not so expensive that you cant buy one. If you dont want a WB, look into getting a Shadowflame. Its a little less dam, same del, and much better stats. You will have to loot that one though ;)

If youre a CLR, by all means make the effort to get this Hammer. +15 and higher WIS items are not easy to come by. If you do have to fight, and proc...you lose aggro and the MT's place on the hatelist is maintained. This hammer procs A LOT. The 100 hps and mana will be a nice addition also. Pairing this with a Shield of Bane Warding will give your CLR a +35 WIS right off the bat. I cant say how this will compare against CLR's Hammer of Damnation. I cant imagine it would be all that bad though.

The guy is a gimp with or without the hammer. We took 7 people in there. Bard kiting, rogue, pally, wizzy, cleric, ranger and a chanter. We cleared the room and had him dead before the room popped 1 mob. Very simple.

We took this guy out after about 15 minutes. We did not run him to the zl like all the other posts here indicate. Instead we kited him in the room where he spawns. Our Enchanter mezzed and slowed him, our druid snared him repeatedly until mez broke to gain maximum agro. During the kite he repeatedly snared him to keep agro as all of us slowly dotted/nuked to keep from pulling agro to quickly. The druid made a large circle around the room to keep a good distance away from him. We did not have the problem of him "poofing" when he walked over something. Only once did he get close enough to our druid to actually proc the hammer. One time was all it took; however, as he regened back 20% of his life during that time, and the DA lasted for about 5 minutes. Since our druid was chain snaring him the snare never wore off. Easiest way to find out is have your necro use the smallest life tap they have. Little to no mana requirements for this spell. Once his LT lands have her call out to start attacking. This way your not wasting the casters mana to try and find out if he is no longer covered by DA.

We took on this guy and he had the hammer. He was invincible to all attacks -- melee or magic.

The Proc is Divine Aura. For players this lasts about 30-seconds. For this guy it clearly lasts much longer.

For players -- you can't attack with you use Divine Aura. This guy can and did.

Big question -- if a player has the hammer -- does the Proc last more than 30-seconds and can you attack MOB's while the DA is up from the proc?

If not -- I see little value in a hammer that may have good stats -- but once it procs it is useless (while you can't be harmed, you can't attack/cast either).

Hate to argue with Allahs, but this is not a raid event. Even with the hammer he is single groupable. Without the hammer 2 people could kill him. He's not hard at all. He does have a boatload of HPs and if he has the hammer, you will have to kite him, but he certainly doens't qualify to be called a raid event.

I am a lvl 38 pally I have this hammer in my possostion(or how ever u spell it). I have had this hammer since lvl 35 I do dmg from 20-130 so far I am wondering about the proc I hear it starts at 45 or so an hear a lot about how this ruins the whole deal I disagree. I havent had it proc yet but since it is a click off effect then it shouldn be that hard to regain Aggro esp. with the stuns an taunts not to mention the hits that u will be dealing at higher lvl. that alone should make it relatively to regain aggro so for those of u that doen the weapon u are NUTS!!!!
this is the best damn one handed weapon in this game. the dmg ratio along makes it one of the best oif not THE best those stats make it THE best. so for all of u who bash this weapon well....
/em gets ready to bash your head in with his awesome hammer!!!!!!

Here is some good info I've gleaned from doing this mob 3 days in a row:

WHERE: Take all rights when you zone in from the Scarlet Desert, that should be 6 doors (one of which is broken and laying on it's side). You will pass exactly 11 mobs, 2 are roamers, 3 are statics and 6 are little 'traps' that have mobs springing out of them. Any of these have a chance to see invis, but it is entirely likely that none of them will see from time to time.

PULL: If you elevate Praetorian Myral in ANY way, i.e. pulling him over a crate, or kiting him over the awnings in the large kite area (past the 3rd door, can't miss it), he will poof. So make sure you give the 3 or 4 awnings in the kite area a wide berth.

KILL: There are alot of ways to kill him, but there are some things for certain. You have to stop his regen, and you have to keep him from proc'ing his hammer. That means don't let your melee get in front, because he can proc on a riposte. Don't send pets in while he is facing you, again... he might riposte. Make sure you keep your puller sowed, or if he catches up.. yup! he might proc the hammer. The DA lasts about 3 minutes with this guy, more than enough time for your regen-inhibiter-of-choice to wear off and for him to regen 25% of his hp.

**NOTE** if he does not have the DA hammer (it looks like a normal velilum battle hammer in his hand, wood and velium), then the DA problem is moot.

He is alot easier to kite around than to fight straight up, he flurries, has a good amount of hp and the aforementioned regen.

RAID SIZE: I've heard of this being done with 1 65 bard and 1 65 cleric. But that is an all-in-one package there. Bring someone who can snare it, someone to stop his regen, and my favorite: some pet classes. Pets never get in front, and are low aggro. The only problem with this is that there *will* be adds, and you will need someone to tank them. My suggestion for a 1 group kill would be: Bard (kiter), shaman, cleric, necro (snarer/pet), ranger (backup snare/ranged dmg), and some tank.

Hope that helps!

Mowang
Lord of the House of Aegis
Luclin Server

Alright, I'm gonna toss out some info on how I pulled him out and killed him. I took him down as a 56 cleric, with a 62 Enchanter, 61 Ranger (with Trueshot), a 58 druid, and a Necro (can't remember what level). He is NOT a static spawn at the SD entrance. The only way he gets there is if someone runs him out. If your any type of self-respecting cleric, you have Divine Aura and Barrier. Mem those two and wait for them to pop. (PS. Make sure you have SOW or Run 3 before attempting the following) Choke down an invis potion, run to where he spawns (you can locate this on any map). You have to hit him once, as he was not KOS to me at the time. Toss up Barrier and run like hell to the zone. Drag the adds with you. Zone into SD... heal yourself, wait awhile... pop back over and Mr. Man is standing at the zone with a blank stare on his face whining about "Why do you do this? Did Luclin send you?". Gather your group/groups around him and start hammering away. Have the melee call when he procs Aura, or your casters will just be wasting mana. I'd suggest a team of necros/druids on hand to keep his regen down. The druid and the enchanter had a hard time keeping it down even with pets on it. It is possible for a twink to possess this weapon. As for the probability of a group of people gathering just for you to twink a PAL.... that's another story.

Aanmery
I'm on the Prexus server. I'm open for questions anytime you have them.

PS: Forgot to add that I had a 60 Wizard there too (thanks Jerel)

Edited, Thu Jan 9 14:01:09 2003

For those that needed some tips on how to kill this guy, here goes...

Ok First and most important, if he has the hammer you have to keep it from procing if you want any chance at killing this guy. How do you do that? First have a shaman cast Malo on him and zone, Then have a druid chain snare him for about 5 mins at least, all the while the druid is running in circles outside of Myral's melee range inside the first room. Be aware, there is at least one mob in that room, so have someone rdy to dispose of it, preferably that person would pull the agro towards the zoneline away from the druid that's kiting.

The point of this is to have the druid build up so much agro that melee can follow behind the mob and slash away while the druid keeps his attention.

Bring as many classes that can DoT that you can muster, he has high HP and regen.

Ensure that he get's Maloed the second your casters start getting resists.

If you bring pets ensure that they have Taunt OFF!

This is easily a 45 minute to an hour fight guys ( if he has the hammer ), just make sure NO ONE get's agro besides the druid because that hammer of his procs almost EVERY blow, and the proc for THIS NPC does not last 18secs.....it lasts SEVERAL minutes. So, if it goes off, your gonna be sitting there waiting for it to wear off while you watch him regen his HP to full again.


One other tidbit of info for ya.....he likes to POOF. What I mean is that he will depop if he is not being hit after he gets down to about 70% health. We found this out the HARD way, he tried to do it to us the second time but our MA was wise to his tricks and did not let up. What he did to us was he froze in place ( did not attack or move ) so the MA tried to pull him back away from the wall.....the second he got out of melee range <pOOF>. Sooooo....the second time he froze yet again, this time however we kept hacking away.

He did however wake up just before he was going to die ( at about 10% health ), so we went back to the snare/dot while the tanks hacked away from behind routine. And remember the druid MUST chain snare constantly throughout the ENTIRE fight to ensure that he has agro, hence keeping the mob from procing that nice hammer which I now own thanks to the help of my guildmates.

Ralaan 58 Knight
Discordians (MT)

Edited, Tue Oct 29 01:36:11 2002

How hard mob this is ??? Seemed pretty hard to me, at least when he´s holdin that god damn hammer! Any on you actually ever killed this guy when he´s with that hammer ?? How, oh how did you do it ?? That´s something I really would like to know :)

I'm a 53 Pally and would love to get my hands on this weapon. A one hander that does this kind of damage that enables me to use a shield for stunning. I have to aggree with previous post this is probably the easiest of this kind of weapon to get for most guilds don't need to be in the super elite ones to have this item . Thanks verant .



Fredster Spiritheart
53 Cavalier
Dragon Reborn
Drinal

I have to disagre with previous posts saying this is a bad pally weapon. I will agree if a pally is the main tank this weapon is bad. Well if in a grup situation and you are not main tank its a great weopon, no matter how much damage you do, as son as it procs the mob is off you. Click off th proc and back to fighting(this thing procs alot) When acting as a main tank i would recommend something else. As soon as it procs whn you main tank it taks a couple rounds to regain agro. Got my highest hit today, a crit for 462, highest non crit has been 206. Grat on hand weapon.


Kebmo Stormbeard
57th season Knight
Xev Server
Dominion

Edited, Wed Sep 4 01:38:33 2002

DA does remove you from hate but only till it wears off. IF someone else has gathered enough aggro, it will forget about you. If your under 20% health, most high level mobs will whack you in 1 hit as soon as DA runs it's course or you click it off.

If you already have all 15 buff slots full, then when the Divine Aura procs, it won't stick, will it? With all the buffs that paladins get now, it wouldn't take much help to max out your buff slots, to prevent this thing from sticking. If you can keep the proc from sticking, wouldn't that help out main tanks that use this weapon?

A one handed weapon with a ratio of less than one, that is just insane. even if it was two hand it would still be insane. I also have to mention all those delicious stats it has on it!

Yeah this is 1hb, god damn.

10? Why even bother putting a recomended level of 10 on a no drop item such as this? To prevent someone from sneaking their level 5 paladin in here and power looting this bad boy? I think not! Just the idea of using this as a TWINK weapon is insain. Sure it would be sweet, but it would also be nuts! I realisticaly can't see anyone below level 51 getting this, I have a realy hard time imagining someone under level 55 getting this. And I have a GREAT imagination!

Meirril, Fennin Ro