High Priest of Ssraeshza  

Never been here before, lvl 63 ranger is handling it ok. I walk through the ante chamber attract 2 mobs. I'm fighting them, and since I have a 238 pt damage shield. I run int the little hall right before the arch prist room. the ** entire** room of 8 mobs decends upon my bony woodelf ass. So if you are high enough they won't all aggro (I wasn't), if you aren't I think someone who can FD, and an ench will solve this. FD'er approaches door, grabs mobs and FD's. Ench picks odd and mez's mobs, rinse and repeat. Still very hairy.

Was also able to "solo" him as a Lv 85 Ench. Tanked HP and all adds while cleric merc healed- she stayed at FM the whole time. Just kept nuking him down although it was slow with all of those mobs beating on me. Had 32k hp/30k mana and most defensive AA done. Mostly did it for fun but was hoping for the Rogue dagger.

Anyhow, just about anyone should be able to kill him now with a merc. Happy hunting!

Soled tonight, fight took over 2 hrs, 80 pally, with hot pots, and bp from from ToB , killed adds at first and then DS'ed em down after Hp was at 50 , if not he will get healed by adds. adds took 5 mins or so to pop each time, dropped wrath, earring and shoulders and a few spells , not much to gain by this but besides saying I did ...

80 pally, 17.5k unbuffed 3800ac

Redwrench, Paladin on the xegony server

Edited, Jul 1st 2008 8:59am by Redwrecnh

2 rangers 14k hp
1shaman 11k mana
cleric 9.5k mana
warior 16k hp

all the statts are buffed
the stun is avoidable by standing behind one of the pillars form his "house"
the only problem we had was keeping the adds clear when they spawn the immidiately begin casting Cheal on HP witch is verry verry anoying

we did this fight 7 times or os took us 35misn eatch time

how hard is this guy say compared to emp ..... we downed him tonight with 47 pretty clean fight 1st try and working on emp keys and i heard this guy is alot like emp so was just wondering

Getting to the High Priest is isn’t too bad, you just make a left instead of a right that you would usually take to go to the Arch Lich. You still need a key to get through the locked door. You want to setup in the Jail area just before the High Priest area. You can tell you are in the jail because there are no mobs and you see Captured Thought Horrors in jail cells. Here you can buff and go over strategy.

Ok, next step is to pull the two snakes guarding the entrance to the High Priest room. There are golems along the wall, but they have very small agro ranges. You should be able just walk down the center and pull the snakes. Kill them off. Ok so now you have the High Priest room, which sucks, there are a bunch of snakes in here. So let’s clear some stuff up, nothing can be charmed that we could see, we tried. The disciples can be banished. The Zels you want to mez, and the Priests you want to off tank. So our strategy was, we had a bunch of the tanks and mezzers, pretarget mobs with bind sight. We also created a crowd control group of a chanter/bard, shaman, cleric, and a couple tanks.

Then we had whichever tank we wanted to be the rampage tank on the High Priest hit the High Priest with an arrow, which agroed the whole room. The puller then ran back to the jail room, where everyone went to work. The mezzers mezzed the 4 Zel snakes. We had another group of people off tank and debuff the priests, but we did not kill them. Then we had the rest of the raid kill off the all the disciples. At this point the raid will split. The crowd control group will stay, keeping the Zels mezzed and off tanking but not really trying to kill the priests. Everyone else heads to the hall before the High Priest. One note, there is a nasty trap that needs to be disarmed in that hall. It will remove your clarity, so get someone to disarm it before moving the raid in there. The golems are probably still along the wall, just stay in the middle and you should be fine.

Ok so now enter the High Priest room and stay along the back wall. Have the main tank and the rampage tank start plunking arrows into the High Priest to set agro. It goes without saying, he is perma rooted. Then slowly have your complete heal chain move up to the High Priest. If you look at the picture above, he is in a sort of cage with pillars at the 4 corners. Have the chain move up behind the pillar to break line of sight. So you will be at 45 degree angles to the High Priest, with a pillar between you and it. This will save you from the AE that is a stun. Doesn’t really do damage, but the chain will get all screwed up if people get stunned.

You don’t have much time stuff respawns fast. Get the main tank going, and start the chain. Have a couple healers like druids or shaman keep the rampage tank alive, while the rest beat on the High Priest. He has a lot of HP’s. He isn’t very resistant to nukes, but can’t be slowed, and he will dispel himself. So just beat on him. Now the key part. Stuff will respawn. It will be the disciples. As soon as they pop, everyone but the main tank and rampage tank, break off and kill them. You can use banishment of shadows from necros and clerics, but the recast time is long, so best to just have everyone beat on them just in case, they die fast. After they are dead, reengage the High Priest.

The stun is annoying but won’t kill you. I was in a group with a bard and had magic resist and 500 and I resisted maybe only a couple of the AE’s so just plan on being stunned and just deal with it.

You should be able to drop him in a few minutes, you might get 2 or 3 rounds of respawn depending on how large your raid was. We had 32 I think, but can be done with less, we just had a lot of bots. The key is the group that is doing the crowd control, because as long as they can keep the 8 snakes under control in the jail, you are fine. If they lose control and a priest comes back to the High Priest room, it will suck, because the High Priest will get comped. Anyway, after he is dead, head back to the jail, and save the crowd control group. Then go back to the High Priest room, and hand out loot. Snakes will keep respawning, so don’t fall asleep, but it won’t be a big deal for you.

Good luck

Pinbin Valendral
The Violet Hour
Quellious

It is no longer possible to say for certain how many people it takes to take these mobs down because of the equipment variation from char to char and guild to guild.
This fight is good prep for the Emperor. HP is a relative wuss, but he has guards that must be engaged but not killed, like emperor, has some that must be mezzed, but not killed, like emperor.
I like 24 plus, if you tell me you have done it with half that number I will not disbelieve.
Only other thing, after doing Emperor a time or two should be a 30 to 40 min fight (from start of fast clear)to loot given out. Reminds me of Xanamech in POI.
Good luck and God bless. I pray I have offended no one.

HP on the HIgh Priest ?

The High Priest has 8 "bodyguards", if you could call them that. All 8 of these mobs in the HP room, can be brought back to the jail room and charmed. The Third Disciple of Rhag, Fourth Disciple of Rhag, Fifth Disciple of Rhag, and the Sixth Disciple of Rhag, can all be charmed by a Necro. Zel'Krioz, Zel'Rekushoz, Zel'Zachum, and Zel'Zoszh can all be charmed by an Enchanter. You should also keep a healer, like a Shaman in there just in case something goes wrong. After HP is disposed of, the Necros can use a spell called "Banishment of Shadows" on their charmed pets, but the Enchanters need the raid force to come and kill theirs.


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How hard does he hit? HP? enrage/flurry/rampage? rooted mob??

Can this gimp be slowed?

Does anyone have feedback on how to fight this thing? I checked the URL's listed in this thread and the posts are old enough that the information isn't available anymore.

Thanks!

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Edited, Thu Aug 22 21:43:35 2002

Does the Norge'Tal drop off this guy? Or was it a priestess?

Darkwind...ha say I am jealous of ubers if you want or not, but back in the day before Ayonae Ro and they were on Sol Ro. well...let's just say they are nothing but selfish, demanding, zergified, self-centered, codflopping scrubs who KS other guilds just because they think they are better than everyone else. Oh can't wait to see this not even get posted. Would be funny to see it get posted though and see the response from some of sorry @#@&(# peons. Now on the other hand Paradigm, FoH, Afterlife, Legacy of Steel, Blood of the Spider, etc. I don't really have a problem with them...but Darkwind has SOME(no not all) people in it that make it the absolute most arrogant and annoying guild in all of EQ.

/em wipes forehead

Damn I feel better....and f*ck you Darkwind, don't worry we don't miss you on Sol Ro.

P.S. Shutup I can hear ya crying cuz someone put ya down already. On a side note....sorry to waste your time Illia. =/