Elemental Essence of Air  

With SOD pet and AA,you can just pet tanking all with only merc healing(EM 1 pet focus and T5 Merc).

First off,clear all those Dragorns around dome.Bind yourself here then trigger it from PoTranq.Gate back and follow other's post to spawn the Air Elemental.

2nd,stay away from it and turn off pet casting.Engage when you are ready(pet doing it fine even without any AA buff (fortify and blessing).

3rd,use Fire nuke for less resistance.If you are careful,you wont out-aggro your pet(lol I died once by those spin/stun in 2nd wave,got stunned for so long I couldnt cast anything from full HP to 0 HP.Thank god I bind myself nearby and still have times for another try.)

Soloable at level 77 with 1100 AAs and SoF/SoD bazaar gear. Used a merc, definitely the toughest part of 1.5 but I didn't think it was as hard as people made it out to be.

Fully buffed a pet in GL (mage buffs + merc buffs only), hit all my pet AAs (frenzied burnout, fortify companion, companion's blessing), suspended pet, waited for AA timers to refresh and ran off to Noble's Causeway. Popped elemental, ran to extended range and cast malo on elemental, pulled him a bit down the path to where only one repop (murkglider) would happen and had pet engage. I stayed as far back as possible so when elemental despawns and adds spawn, they don't instant aggro. Gives you a chance to med for a minute, let merc med, let pet heal up, etc. Once I was ready, I sent companion of necessity in and tried to split adds. Sometimes this worked, sometimes it didn't. Overall with my strong pet and AA numbers, I probably didn't need to do this. Anyway, first round of adds were easy. Pet tanked all simultaneously fine, and occasionally the RS was tanking on one. Used summoned nukes so that pet would get random heal procs along with merc healing. Once all adds are down, elemental respawns back down in dome. I would suspend pet (to save buffs times, especially fortify companion...this is CRITICAL), let merc med up to full, med up to full myself. Once we were ready to go, I unsuspended pet, guard, then ran to dome to pull elemental again. By this point, elemental should be at 100% again. THIS IS KEY AS WELL. If elemental has not regened to full, he's gonna summon you and dragorns will slaughter you and your merc. Anyway, rinse and repeat but it's the second set of adds which are hardest because they proc spin/stun. If you can split these, it's best. I was worried about one unaggroed resetting the whole event so after pet killed one, I put him on the one that was split by himself to make sure it was aggroed in time. Usually pet could get through elemental + 2 sets of adds before fortify companion wore off (if you are suspending in between while medding). So I would have to wait a bit for fortify companion to pop. I also used Host of Elements swarm to help off tank whenever they popped and the occasional RS pet as well. I never engaged anything without fortify companion on the pet. After almost an hour, and 5 (or 6?) sets of adds, I finally got elemental down and looted my last piece for epic 1.5. Yes, I could have done this quicker with friends but I intended on just seeing if this was possible since everyone says you need at least a group for this one. I certainly would not try this unless you have a large number of AAs including Theft of Essence, Fortify Companion, and all pet defensive AAs.



Good luck!

It was hard to trigger this quest. A friend tried leading me through the spots that triggered the epic, but it seemed the locations might be slightly off for each mage. I only had to get 2 messages to get a path.

Was able to take down easily with other 4 mages (one being my lvl 74 others were 2 81's and a 80+) a beastlord (80+) and a healer merc.

Antisummoned spells work against this guy, but they get resisted quite a bit. It's best to just set pet him and burn the adds until the last set spawns.

The adds are the biggest pain and they summon, so don't go crazy on the nukes. We set the pets on the essence and had the beastlord and nukes on the adds.

This guy groupable with the .... the right group? =D

FYI make sure your rdy before you zone in! Then trigger the mob and get cothed by your friends that are helping, cause if you dont trigger the mob once you get the path you wait 2 hours. This is fact or the quest is bugged on Tunare.

Down with 14. None of us are really Time-equipped, grandmaster armor, DoD gear. Main tank was a Paladin. The adds and the Elemental are disease slowable after Putrid Decay. That makes it a lot easier.

Just did this encounter for a guy with 12 people total. I 9 boxed, 2 boxed his mage and bard, and his friend (mage) came along to help. I had 2 clerics, shm, bard, warrior, wiz, and 3 rangers. All my characters were GoD/anguish geared and the guy who I did it for was less than that. Essentially, if your warrior knows how to properly hold aggro, he can tank all the adds by using cyclone blade as frequently as possible with rampage, warcry, ae taunt, and switching targets frequently to spread his aggro out to combat a 2 man CH chain. The spot we fought at was neg1480 neg1060 in which there is only one mob that you have to clear. Put everyone up on the wall out of range of the main mobs ae rampage. The first 2 adds hit a lot harder than all the rest, and each wave of adds hit for less and less as there are more of them. An anguish tank can tank them all as long as he maintains aggro. The second wave of adds (3 of them) are the worst as they constantly stun whoever they have aggro on so the warrior needs to do his best to spam hit his cyclone blade button just for the offchance of getting it off before he is re-stunned. Clerics use elixirs, 2.0s, divine arbs, and split the healing up between you and you can survive without getting aggro (I did it). The following waves dont have any significant aes to worry about really...just hold that aggro. If you have two warriors, have both spam cyclone blade and rotate through the mobs and Im sure you wont have an aggro problem. The mobs dont have a lot of hitpoints so if you use dmg shields from the mage and have a bard along....200pt dmg shield will eat them up before your clerics are oom and your dmg dealers wont have to dps too hard. Also, inbetween each wave you have 10 minutes to re-engage the main mob before he despawns. Use this time to rez up and med up, and reclear the one add (plus the 3 dragorns that spawn in the dome). Proper use of divine res and a call from a shm/dru can mean even a near-full wipe can be fm on dead clerics and gtg before the 10 minute timer is up. The fights are short, just fight to survive and you should be ok.

I was told they couldn't be mezzed so on repops we had about 4 off tanks ready to attack the adds. Worked well although i died twice tanking them. That area stun is annoying. Have a bard sing resists, i got twirled in the area with that stun twice and all my resists are in the 200 and 300 normally.

Edited, Mon Mar 13 03:56:43 2006

How does one spawn it?

Elemental event is something like this:
80% it depops and spawns 2 lvl 68 Elemental Essence Zephyr. Once these are dead the Elemental Essence of Air REPOPS!. Then at about 50% depops again spawning like 3 Elemental Essence of Gusts, unsure of lvl. All mobs in this event cast the AE Wind of Xegony. The Essence of Air AE rampages also. VERY VERY high MR. Tashed and HoS with TDoK / IM3 / JF1 and still couldnt get slow off. shammy tried GoD slow and also never got off. Need tanks with uber hps and lots clerics and lots of melee dps. Hits (quad?) for like 1400ish. We wiped needless to say, but was fun learning for the mage in guild hehe.

Edited, Sat Feb 26 15:47:57 2005

Its level 70 :)