Wraith of Jaxion  

So many options on this one. Here's what I did...
I attempted the whole banner thing. I was able to get to the bar, but couldn't get up on the wall. Rather than throw my keyboard against the wall in frustration, I decided to do it the other way. I killed the Captain of the Guard, took his key, then went to the room with the Black Reaver in the back of the zone. It was cake from there. To get past the locked door in Hut #2, I pushed up against the door in Imp form, then clicked off the illusion. For the Druid, I pushed up against the door in Wolf form then clicked it off.

I've made a few mistakes in this round, and I'd like to share them so it doesn't happen to you.

1. As you approach Hut #3, get rid of your Merc and Pets. Jaxion is outside the hut, and will attack. You don't want your Merc killing him before you can Charm. Once my Merc killed him, I killed the PH nine times before Jaxion spawned again.
2. There are roamers, and random spawns from inside Hut #3. While they can't really kill you, they do generate a lot of push and will push you off the platform. Once you hit the water 20 stories below, they continue to beat on you. Stay awake!
3. If you get bored and decide to enter Hut #3, be careful. The stairs are a false floor. It's a long way down and a hassle to get back.

If you have to camp him, the respawn time is about 21 minutes (19 - 22). His PH is a Gyrating Goo. Jaxion spawns outside Hut #3 on the platform to the left of the door.

Winnee Kooper
77 Enchanter
The Rathe

I did this on my level 53 Enchanter with a level 79 bard. We did not do the stupid Banner jump method. We tried and failed to many times with the bard. My Drakkin Enchanter however did just fine, with levitate on her. We just did it the old fashioned way! We went in the room in the back of the zone with the Golums and the Black Reaver (who casts a 20 second blind aganst a magic resist of 402), wiped the room, and then went through the door on the right, into the hallway. You take a right outside of that door, go down the hallway and there will be a bend to the right with either an undead or a Golem guarding the turn. You will then take 2 ramps up and be standing in front of a door, do not go through the door, just hang a right and go through the wall. You will now be standing ontop of the spectral bridge, as I call it, and just follow the bridge all the way up. You will then be standing in front of a hut. Follow the path way around, killing or pacifying, your choice. Take the pathway onto the bridge, follow the bridge to the next hut. This is hut 2. Go around that hut, once again Kill the mobs for the EXP or use the pacify. In this hut you will go up the stairs just to come back down them in the back to the side of the top level. Walk down and open the door in front of you. You will then be on a bridge that is broken, navigate around the broken part. Go to the bend. Make sure you are levitated at this point as to get across to hut 3 you will need to cross over the broken part. He will spawn OUTSIDE of hut 3. We stayed in front of the door to hut 3 and killed everything that came close to us that we could pull or poped ontop of us, like the goos. There was no need to go into hut 3 at all. You can just stand outside of the door. He spawned after about 45 minuted of us doing this. Charmed him with my level 53 charm and did my turn in. No silly jump to this and try to play acrobat!

Actually, the ogre was the only illusion that worked for me. When you're at that first level, levitate, ogre illusion, get as close to banner as you can (you might be ducking since you're an ogre after all), get on banner (I did an overview so I could be sure I was actually standing on the banner), get to the very left of banner, DROP lev, and jump onto next level (you can't jump while leved). I tried earth elemental, HE, and even troll, but only ogre worked for me. GL!

OK, now it worked, but not with the tips here

Ogre:
- you can levitate to the banner but an ogre cannot stand on that stupid small piece

Erudite, Darkelf, Barbarian:
- can stand on the banner but does not reach wall or roof

Troll:
- the only one which worked
- the levitation to the banner and slowly (with light left right and front/up) crawled your toon up the ledge, but only after standing up because its difficult to get there standing.

i wouldnt recomend going alone unless you have to lol

Wow.. Lots of comments on this one.. In trying to follow directions of how to avoid ceritan areas by jumping on this and that, I ran into the captian of the guards and looted key and ran all the way back to where I needed to be. I had trouble finding the invisible bridge. The easist way I can tell you is if you find the trap door that you need a key to open, you want to run down the hall that makes you turn right. When you turn right, go till you get to the door but do not open. Turn right to face the wall and bam, you walk right out onto the bridge. YOu will come to a locked door. Invise to vah shir, worked for me, stand on the highest part of the bridge to the left, and jump on the door jam! It sticks out way too far and you then lev and float around the building to the ohter side of bridge. Just clear mobs up the ramp. It is more clear or glass than invisislbe. Hand mob wrong gem on accident, he ate it, gave him right one, he gave back, but keep original one I gave. I killed to see if I could loot, could not.. Sorry if is not up for ya. Easy kill at 78 and no problems in zone, just have atleast on invise on, kill any undead, fenito.


Kyyuss Juxtapose
Tunare
Enchanter lvl 78

when i was working on this, i had a wizard friend sit on the ground level throwing a bolt spell up on the PH. the mob dropped down and we had no adds. this was years ago, but the bolt spell didnt require you to see your target.

Some good info in these posts on how to get to a good spot to avoid a bunch of fighting, i will summarize here from those posts and wish to thank them for the helpful info, for.

This was done solo

1.) Getting there.
After you zone in prceed to the Iron Gates that enter the city. You can either get your pet up or charm one if you prefer. ( I made a pet in pok, and got conviction on it and fully pet geared and then my chanter buffs on it, haste rune etc.) Once you enter gates, you may go left or right, you will want to turn to the right and prceed to the temple. (EQ-Atlas has a map with labels naming the appropriate areas). While facing the temple, there is a door on the left, then a waterfall, then a door on the right. You are going to take the left door, once you enter there will be one mob that will attack, just let your pet kill (keeping your pet runed) prceed forward thru the next door ignoring the rest of the mobs in the room you are leaving. Go up the ramp to the top of the temple, there will be 2 mobs there, kill them. Once to the top look out directly east, turn to the right (south) you will see a wall there and a ledge to the top of the temple, now look slowly back to the right some more almost facing west and you will see another wall with a flag banner hanging on it. If you notice the flag banner is hung to the wall by a bar projecting out. Now you need to get on the ledge, drop levitate if you have it on and jump to that bar (if you are a gnome, illusion your self to a larger race, any will do, i tried most to see if they would work). Once on the bar holding the flag banner you will run and junp again onto the walkway to the west, I had invis to undead on at this point. Once on the walkway I went down the eastward path just a little bit and turned to see the roof of the temple, I re- levitated and ran to the temple roof. Once there turn to the west and you will see the invise ramp/bridge. Pull the mobs you can see (usually 3) they will come to you and you and pet can kill. Once ramp is cleared, just run over to the invis ramp and up to the top. (Great you just bypassed the reaver and golem room and all the fighting you have to do there). At the top ( i did this with the map on so i could see the building i want to run to and was levitated) face west and run, while looking up, to the castle with the first dark reaver (the one with the locked door and Golems and single reaver inside). Watch your map it is the farthest build to the west and is located centrally in north south respect. You want to land on the pointed roof. Once there look to the east and up some, you will see the third platform, that Neh'Ashiir is in. you may see the Wraith of Jaxion up, or you may see the ph, which is a goo.

2)Gettin Wraith if Jaxion
From here as the ph or Jaxion approaches closest to you on the outside ring of the 3rd platform you can reach them with your spells. You can keep your pet up if you wish if you are pulling Ph's, just hit with a dd spell and it will come to you. Or, you can kill the pet and when the ph is in range charm it, have it sit immediately and summon companion and wait for charm to break and nuke it to death ( make sire you are keeping runes on your self, I used uproar and arcane rune both since they stack). Once Jaxion pops, you will need to charm him, and have him sit immediately, (his pathing has changed, he will no longer always drop down and come up to you, and now while charmed, he is attacked byu the other mobs) if you just try tashing od niking he will run off down the ramp and i waited 20 minutes for him to come to me on top of the castle and he never came. So, to repeat, just charm him and have him sit immediately, then use summon companion and he arives at your side. Do the turn in get your enchanted gem and gate out. You are now done with Wraith of Jaxion. It sounds much more complicted that it is. I was able to do this on my first try, if I could then anyone can. This saves a lot of time and saves having to try to get a group together. Hope it helps, worked well for me.

Thanks to prvious posters for the helpful info.

I found an even EASIER way to do this IF you know the WoJ is up--use a ranger. All you need is levitate and invis.

FIRST, levetate (or air-elemental) and invis. yourself.

NEXT, get up to the invisible walkway however you like. (I used the postings below--VERY helpful--especially the one about the phatom wall to walk through).

NEXT, once at the top of the invisible walkway, looking up, run toward the first reaver's house (BIG house on far west edge of zone). Land on the very top--the part with the pointed peak roof.

NEXT, stand on the peak and look up...there's the Wraith of Jaxion. :-) Charm him. He will fall and climb up to you in about 10-20 seconds. Do the turn in and gate out.

Minimal casting, minimal danger, no fighting. Plus, it leaves the Wraith alive for the next chanter to come along...

People have posted some very good guides to getting there, and I found those guides VERY helpful. One thing I had to do with trial and error, though, was work out a charming strategy.

Lately, I've fallen deeply in love with charm solo-ing. The basics are as follows: Find a mob, paci around it, tash it, and then cast Color Slant as it comes at you. Color Slant is just long enough to stun a mob for the entire cast of Boltran's Agacerie, which I've found to be a *very* dependable charm. It almost always lasts the whole duration, provided the mob is tashed.

Whenever the mob breaks charm, simply cast Color Slant and recharm. It will be a sitting duck. Since CS is a PBAE, it will also hit the mob you were attacking, but I always keep that mob rooted just in case. Another helpful thing is to always, always keep your pet targetted during battles. That way, you don't have to mess around with the nearest mob key when it breaks charm.

Anyway, now to specific information about CoM.

What to Charm: Do not charm undead mobs. This is unfortunate, because they appear to be the strongest mobs in the zone, but they have very high MR. They are not good pets at all, even tashed, because they break charm so fast. I knew this would happen because they resist my slows so much, so when I first tried soloing, I went for one of the berserker madmen, or whatever their names are. The human, living mobs.

This did not work out, because these mobs are extremely weak. Undeads made short work of them. Goos would probably have worked fine, but you need to charm a mob as soon as you enter the zone, for reasons outlined in the next section. The perfect pets are those lovely mist golems. The best part? There is one there as soon as you enter the zone. It's very convenient. The other problem with the madmen was that they did not respond to stuns, while the golems were perfectly fine to sit still during recharms.

When to Charm: There are two times when it is a good idea to charm. I find it, personally, to be more convenient to charm as soon as you zone in. As I mentioned, there is a golem sitting right at entrance for you to grab. But most people, myself included except in this case, are lazy. Therefore, you can just invis up to the first tower. Inside the tower, there should be a golem up with a bunch of undeads. Paci the undeads and take the golem. If there isn't one, go back and get it from that platform area... it's worth it, they're such perfect pets.

From there, follow the banner strategy. You can mess around with paci when you're running down the catwalks, but I got fed up with paci wearing off so fast and just slaughtered my way through. A blend of paci, mez, root, and killing made it easy to get through. Also, Rune is very important... do not attempt to solo this part of your epic unless you are at least 61 and have Arcane Rune.

One other note: on the third hut, WoJ pops outside it, on the platform around it. The thing is, though, his PH seems to be inside. So what I did was got on my horse and poked my head through the door... the skele inside, the roamer, will soon get close enough to the door to see you. He will aggro you and come through the door, where you can kill him. I killed him twice before WoJ spawned. It was a very easy, fast camp. (watch the duration on your lev, though, and keep it up all the time- I died once because it dropped at the most unfortunate time...)

Good luck!

Edited, Sat Dec 25 22:01:49 2004

Just wanted to let you guys know that I was able to levitate around the second platform. I have swift journey 1 as my runspeed modifier. I also had illusion ogre on and well...of course lev.

A little tip...when you are at the locked door of platform 2 right on the ledge there is a little block that goes up about half a character height higher than the rest of the ledge...stand on that when you start your run around platform.

Hope this helps

Got him to spawn 3 minutes before server went down.
Anyways, I have not read all of these posts, but for the most part, it seems like pretty crazy tactics to be using. Here is what I did, all solo:
Get a key for the first door, is all you need.
Invis past Black Reaver and golems into right door. Run into the hall and hopefully undead won't see you. Continue to the invisible ramp, keep going to first tower. Now, what I did is charma mob, attack another and let them beat eachother. With no help, the charm should be close to dead or vice-versa, simply break charm and kill pet or finish off the mob if pet was killed. Do this all the way up. Cast lev, if not already on, stand on the post at base of bridge and tower 2, hug wall while looking up to next bridge. Charm something and continue same tactic for killing. Just rune yourself constantly if you are getting hit and colour stuns are godly spells against lowly mobs such as these. Get to tower 3, kill the goo and SIT THERE. Get full life, full mana, read a book, whatever. Just wait for repop, if a goo, kill it and do the same thing again, just wait. Boring, but big deal, better than being killed. Level 57+ should have NO problems getting up there and just use the mobs to kill eachother. Roaming goo on tower 3 is PH, that's it, just have to kill him. If you know how to play your class, this is a simple part if your epic, can just take time, as all the parts can.

Vexxova Machination - 63 Dark Elf Enchanter - Firiona Vie

If you zone in to CoM and use shifting sight, you can shift from one mob to another to check on weather WoJ is up.

I never used this spell before lvl 65. I found out tonight that you can target from anywhere in the zone and use this spell. You can even use NPC and player's corpses.

Using the different perspectives you can play around with the view enough to target mobs and leap frog from one to another eventually winding up where you want to.

First, confirmed the WoJ was up by tracking. Couldnt track it from entrance with Ranger (max tracking) so ran in just a bit. The WoJ is at the back end of the zone on one of the platforms (third one,to be exact). You can target it from the ground but I couldnt cast anything - "Cant see Target".

Sooo...this is how I got him...Solo'd!

You cannot just walk up to the third platform and do the hand in. There is at least one locked door (at second platform) and the Reaver room (where invisi bridge starts). A very nice and cleaver Troll SK showed me a "secret" way to the invisi bridge that goes AROUND the reaver room and negating the need for two groups and a rogue.

This is the tricky part, after this it's a cake walk...

Gonna try to explain thoroughly. After you zone in run until you come to the Iron Gates that enter the city. You can either get your pet or charm one if you prefer. Once you enter gates, there will be a mob right there (unless cleared of course). Path goes left or right, go right. Run about 3 seconds to the right and you will see a set of bricks with a tunnel, door between them on your left (looks like a pyramid starting) and there is a waterfall to the right of the door. Ok, you there yet? Should only of had 3-4 mobs to kill at this point OR you could invisi up to this point and THEN get your pet out (which is what I did, am lazy). Once you enter the door there is a skellie that you will have to kill. Kill it, then run straight ahead through door (leave the other two undead alone - they wont agro at all). Once you go in the second door, do up the ramp/stairs until you are on the observatory. There are two undead mobs up here that you will have to kill as well.

THIS IS THE TRICKY PART...but after this, you are almost home.

as you are facing looking out the gaurd tower thing with ramp to your back, there is a wall to your right ATTACHED to the guard tower, not the wall ABOVE the guard tower that is further away. If you are confused, just run until you hit the small wall (about 1 second...LOL). Jump up on this wall and you should see a large walkway just out of jumping range. Well, if you notice there is a BANNER on the wall that juts out JUST enough for you to stand on. So, while standing on the wall of the Guard tower, levitate yourself and float over until you are standing on the top ledge of this banner. If you are a short race (Ima gnome) you will have to use illusion troll/earth elemental/or any other large race illusion...I choose earth elemental and it worked for me. IF YOU ARE A SMALL RACE YOU WILL HAVE TO ILLUSION YOURSELF BEFORE FLOATING OUT TO BANNER ON WALL. Otherwise you will be too short to make the required jump.

Ok, assuming you did what I did (Earth elemental and leviated self) float out to banner. There will be a mob directly below you hitting you. Just cast one insanity nuke and he will be dead. So, now you are standing on this banner sticking off the wall. Face the wall that the banner is jutting off of, not the wall further away (banner is almost in a corner). While facing this wall, look up and hit jump and forward...you will jump up onto the ledge of a walkway. There will be lots of mobs up here most stationary but some wanderers so have Paci and Mezz/memblur up before you jumped. I timed it to when there were no roamers so had no problem.

THAT IS THE HARD PART...ONCE YOU DO THIS, YOU ARE BASICALLY DONE.

Now, there is a door immediately to your right...open, but dont enter, there are three or four mobs inside. Paci or Mezz/memblur them (I like paci). There are two doors at opposite end of room, take the door to the LEFT! PAY ATTENTION HERE.....As soon as you enter that door, there is a FAKE WALL ON THE LEFT, dont run down hallway, enter door, face left, go through invisi wall.

Once you did this you are on the invisi bridge that takes you to the platforms...CONGRATS! YOU JUST BYPASSED THE REAVERS!!!

There will be some goo things on the invisi bridge so just Paci or Mezz/Memblurr and follow invisi bridge. After you get to bridge between the first and second huts/platforms, there are a series of about 6-8 mobs. Some are undead so you cant invisi or invisiU and run past them...have to paci. I had to mezz/memblur one goo that is a wanderer but made it without even getting touched. At the second hut is, the bridge ends. You cant go any further cause the door is locked. Previous posts suggest you can just levitate around the second hut and end up on the otherside but this IS NOT POSSIBLE, I tried a couple of times. YOu get close, but not far enough.

This is the final part. As you are standing in front of the locked door, levitate yourself. You WILL get agro from one mob inside the locked door but just mezz and memblur him. With Levi on, float out to the right of the second hut, towards the third hut. Be looking up and you will remain afloat high above the city. As you are floating above the city, look towards the third hut and target the WoJ...cast a nuke (or any spell that will get you agro) and he will FALL FROM THE PLATFORM TO THE GROUND below.

once down there, levi down to him, charm him and do turn in. There will be mobs below, from where he lands but dont worry, just mezz them on the way down or have your new pet attack them. Will only be 2-3 below you, where he drops so dont freak out. Have gate up and *POOF* you done.

I tried all the other tips and tricks and nothing worked for me. Spent two days here doing this and I promise, this is the less hassle way to get it...You can target him from the ground but I could not cast anything on him, "cannot see target", even with extended range IV!! If you can target him AND cast a spell, he should drop right on you...he doesnt path down the invisi bridge like other posts say, he falls right down to the ground.

By the way, I am a 65 chanter on Tunare...send me a tell in game (if you on Tunare) and I will take you there...takes less than an hour I promise (if he's up - get tracker to check first). I also used low level spells like Pacy and Boltran's Charm rather than the mana intensive 60+ spells Pacification and Command of druzzil (700 mana!). Good luck...you can do it!

Recently while on a raid in CoM for a guildies shammy epic we got up to Mr. Jaxion, here. Well anyhow, some one jumped the gun and attacked him off the bat. (Hes right next to the elevator, so I cant blame them for getting jumpy.)
Someone said mez him, so I tried GoK on him a few times with lotsa resists.
Lukily, a cleric got a good atone off. (Had a clicky, I believe.) Unfortunatley, not soon enough for me. =(
The lvl 62 chanter said afterwards that all of her mezzes were resisted, and charm didn't work at all.
I noticed he con'd amiable before I started mezing. So... do you still indeed need to charm him, or, can you just hand in the gem?

Another guild happened to be there, at the time, although I'm not sure how they would make him become amiable to everyone... My only guess would be someone dire charmed him, but I'm not sure if that makes everyone else or amiable, or indifferent and just you amiable like other charms. And even then, how could he attack all of us?

We sat next to him for about an hour waiting for someone to MQ, who never showed. On top of that, I neglected to look up what I need for my epic because I was in a hurry, and didn't pick up my gems yet.. So overall, an "interesting", but waisted evening. =/
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Upon further inspection, I've realised I'm talking about a COMPLETELY different mob. so.. Ignore everything I've said, lol.

Explains a few things...

Edited, Sun Feb 29 20:06:38 2004

Confirmed loc.
PH was a Goo for us circling the very topmost tower (Neh Ashiir's tower). Think theres only one roamer there max 2.
He spawned right after one PH.
Grats to our chanter.

Blah you makin too hard

Edited, Wed Nov 12 17:17:15 2003

I hate this guy Ph or not he sux i couldn't get him to spawn for nothin...

Edited, Sun Sep 14 10:53:42 2003

Here are some techniques I found useful to kill the wraith of jaxion's place holders. Kill yourself a little path back to right underneath that last building, its not hard, there's only about 8 greenies in the way. Just pacify and single pull them. When your under a building there, target a goo and bind sight up, then target the place holder, whatever it may be, and bind sight to it, then proceed to charm it. When you charm it, any mob that's near up there will aggro on it, so keep telling your mob "back off" and he will keep collecting more and more mobs on him. Eventually, you'll get 12 mobs on him and he'll go down pretty fast. At this moment, if your not sure he was the placeholder, run under to where the collection of mobs are (make sure you have one previously targeted) charm it, and bind sight, that one will go down too. I just did this a few minutes ago, and for some odd reason, a skeleton was the PH. Oh well, i took down that skele, and 3 goelms from the bottom. A technique to get the actual wraith of jaxion down w/o killing him would be this. Pacify other mobs around him, charm the wraith, and make him stop by hitting the guard button over that gap in the walkway, then un-charm. I did this with a goo once, and he "bugged" his way down, and just fell on the ground, if your there for him to hit you, he won't go back up. At that point, you can mez, charm, and be on your way.

Uses pacify to get yourself into CoM roughly +240,-240.
Gravity flux yourself up onto the semi-invisible ramp. Get as fae west on that ramp as you can.
Cast levitate on yourself.
If Wraith of Jaxion is up, you will be able to target him from there. Target him.
Use levitate to avoid mobs and get to roughly +200,+200.
You will be able to land Tash on Wraith of Jaxion from there.
Go back to the corner with the semi-invisible ramp, and wait for him. It may take a minute or two, but he will find you.
Other CoM mobs do not assist the Wraith of Jaxion because he is an epic quest NPC :o)
So when he finds you, charm and trade. Then gate.

Mission accomplised.

Wikkin Ka'Boom
62 Enchanter
Firiona Vie server

Ok, just so you know...

The placeholder does roam outside the last platform.

The placeholder was "a wraith" so far as I can determine.

The placeholder was reportedly on an 18 minute timer (might have been 15, was very busy... level 47 druid as main healer for raid...)

Third pull was Jaxion (two PH's) and he was easily charmed by Enchanter spell Allure.

My husband (51 Enc) was third in line. First guy charmed, handed in... no agro. First guy invised, second guy charmed, handed in... no agro. Second guy invised, hubby charmed, handed in, no agro... so hubby invised, we beat Jaxion down like any other "a wraith" and moved on.

So, just join a big enough raid for reavers/neh for druid/ranger/shaman/mage epic and have dull ruby in inventory. All the Enc along for the ride can complete the charm easily.

For any chanters out there that need to do the hand in to Wraith of Jaxion (spelling?), take the easy way if you know he's up.
You can gflux yourself to the invis. bridge right where it comes out of the building. Then, either get a pet and fight your way to the locked door (2nd building), or mez/memblur your way there. Careful to not agro the mobs in the first building when you walk PAST the door. At the locked door, get on the railing of the bridge, close to the building, but again don't agro the mobs inside. Gflux again to get on top of the building. You don't agro up here. Wait untill you're buffed, brave, and ready. Jump down, mez everything in the way, pull Jaxion (tash or something), charm, hand in, and gate or levi off to the zone.
Don't pull him with charm. He will agro the mobs in the building and most likely die before you can hand in.
I got to watch (from the safety of my perch on the locked building) as a raid wiped on the broken bridge from pulling him with charm. Waited till the dust settled, did my deed and floated away smiling.
Good luck.

Super Easy 'eh? Problem we found is Spawn time... with a force of 20, all lv 55+ and several 60+ we moved up to room where Neh'ashiir spawns, Neg 161, Neg 40, Pos 290, and set up camp there. Our puller pulled mobs from outside the room and from the tower nearby, we also dealt with any pops inside room. This was about 3:30pm today... it's now 10:30pm and Jaxion has not spawned... we've even had trackers look out for him... we've killed everything in sight, including Neh 3 or 4 times... and still no Jaxion... sigh. Only good thing so far is a Jade reaver was dropped, as well as a piece for the Mage epic.

Edited, Sun Feb 2 22:58:04 2003

Ok, so his spawn point is at 104, 157, 273.

I ran my rogue up there and targetted him with hide/sneak, then floated back down (yay soe!) to where my chanter was waiting, almost right below. chanter assisted, charmed, and tried to summon companion.

it said you don't have a pet. so I camped out, logged back in, and assisted. strangely, he was now at about 1/3 health. I foolishly tried charming again, and he died. :(