Marshal Histent  

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Edited, Jan 29th 2012 10:26am by MadrigalDarkforest

this is how we have beat him - have monk or who ever pull all the trash from the entire area, have ranger stay at zone in so he doesn't spawn event we use a camp over there east of girplan slasher by some ruins. kill all the trash including slasher in that area. after all trash is pulled i will have a druid to kite the adds. one of the mobs in the group has a 1200 point nuke and if u have a kiting class that cant heal it can go bad. when the ranger comes to raid and spawns the event druid targets on a student and casts his aoe snare. these guys run a little fast so make sure your on the move and continuously spam aoe snare. your tank should have no problem at this time singling martial histent from the pack. take martial histent to the raid force and kill him. after he is down make sure that your raid force stays focused, i have had ppl break down and congratulate the ranger on completion and then had a wipe or fail on the next parts. after Histent is down bring the eager students to the raid force and kill them. Grinik is the most important and in my opinion the most difficult part of this fight, if ppl are not concentrating this part can easily be failed. what we have done to ensure success in the past, is once all the adds are down bring grinbok to the raid and the ranger who's hit it is dps the golem alone and others make sure that he stays alive. in 2 successful tries dated 11/9 and 11/10 for two rangers, the golem did his text thing to give the ranger his epic 1.5 drop at 7% life. u can snare him as well so jsut slow him snare him, ranger dps down to 7% and u should see a text there in say at this time the ranger simply hails the golem and will receive his item, the golem will de-spawn and a 1.5 chest will appear in his place
hope this info can help anyone stuck with this hit

Spawned him today to see things for myself. Between 12-14 trash mobs in the area. At least one in the building the Marshal spawns in. Tried the single pull method, but either screwed it up or it doesn't work anymore.

With Magic resist at 391 I managed to resist the Spirit Rend DD once out of seven times. The other six times I was hit for 1485. Mobs move slower than SoE speed, so it was an easy camo run back to RCoD for me.

I did not get a message from the seed when the Marshal and crew spawned, but I did get it when I gained aggro.

One grouped the marshall last night, was a long slow fight, make up was, 75war, 73 cleric, 75 druid, 69 shammie, 75 ranger, 72 rogue. All of them in single group gear (dodh, TSS armor with DoN vendor weps mainly, although rogue did have dagger from inner vergalid and I was offhanding blade of the eclipse) used the single pull method outlined here and got him solo with little difficulty, if you are too close when pulling you will get the whole camp but just evac and try again. I could not solo pull the golem this way however, no mater how many times I shot him he just sat there, looking back, am thinking that my first arrow at him may have knocked the sense back into him since marshall was already dead and he regen'd back up to 100, but no way to know for sure since I kept trying to pull him and he de poped right after we finished killing the rest of the mobs from the house. will try again tonight and see whats up. This mob is also stupid resistant, shammie couldn't get slow to stick so just ended up helping patch warrior for the fight.

Hey guys, trying to help a ranga in my guild get this done, and we've failed 5 times so far, anyone have a good strat on this fight we could use?

I was wondering if anyone has tried to single pull this guy. Maybe with a monk or an SK to snare the mob. Can he be split from the others or will they assist him from any distance? Thanks for your imput.

-Feerny 70 Ranger

Edited, Tue May 16 11:52:07 2006

My plan was to have my guildies clear out the area to minimize adds during the fight, so I planned to stay far enough away that I wouldn't make Histent pop (and start the timer). Oops. Even though I approached the area by hugging the west wall, it was close enough to make him spawn. If you want to have others clear first, you may want to stay very far away.

The posted /loc in the walkthrough here on Alla is correct (+300, +750). It isn't terribly close to the RCoD zone, but in that general direction, I suppose.

We did this with 15 characters. Our gear is mostly DoD and Bazaar gear. Most everyone there was level 70. There were 2 chanters and two clerics among us. Because Histent has so many HP, the chanters were very nearly OOM keeping the rest mezzed. The necro had to twitch them. A few people died during the fight, but ultimately we pulled it off. Gribnik respawns non-KOS back in the building where he starts off. He did so at 8% for me.

When Marshal Histent is triggered, he's spawned with two eager students, one enslaved earthmover and Grinbik the Fertile next to him.

You can split these mobs, but it's very, very slow and tedious and don't forget you got a depop timer.

Marshal Histent :
hits for 330-1600, average ~640 dmg, rampages, enrages, AEs every 25 secs, slowable by SHMs

an eager student :
snareable, rootable, mezzable, hit for 130-920, average ~420 dmg, enrage

an enslaved earthmover :
snareable, rootable, mezzable, hits for 150-920, average ~390 dmg, enrages

Grinbik the Fertile :
snareable, rootable, hits for 490-1200, average ~490 dmg, enrages

Kill Histent, his students and the earthmover and after that damage Grinbik slowly until you see this :

Grinbik the Fertile roots himself in the earth and struggles to retain control of his own mind.
Grinbik the Fertile says 'I wish to speak with the one that freed me.'
You say, 'Hail, Grinbik the Fertile'
Grinbik the Fertile shouts 'Aaaah!' A deep rumbling voice flows along the ground. 'I thank you, Saraban. You have freed me from such torture! Imagine me, Grinbik the Fertile forced to kill and destroy! I was created to nurture and protect! I must go back to my own home and begin once again to be what I was meant to be. I am honored and grateful to you for saving me. I see that you carry with you a powerful seed, nearly a seedling it is with its desire to grow! As my first act upon regaining myself, I must aid you. If you wish that seed to flourish, you must find the land here that remains fertile. It is a rare thing, but I have seen it. Take with you my blessing. This is a portion of my own power and will aid you and that seed. I also know that my cousin Senvial is a slave here somewhere. You will need his aid as well to achieve your goal. Deliver that seedling and our blessings into the fertile ground and it will grow very quickly indeed! Thank you again, Saraban! All present should praise you for your kind heart and warrior soul'

Recieve Grinbik's Blessing.

(fight statistics were taken by YALP from 3 fights, but YMMV)

PS: Killing Histent and his students results in negative faction hits with Children of Dranik and positive with Overlord Mata'Muram.

Edited, Fri Mar 11 08:35:12 2005

Does anybody know what the faction hit on this guy is?