Trial of Torture  

Just did this trial and got my Mark of Torture and I did NOT have to kill a Wraith after each wave. Was doing it solo with my 75 Monk + Cleric merc for 1.5 quest, and I was barely finishing the 4 mobs before the next 4 would spawn, so no Wraith was spawning. Eventually I popped a disc during the 3rd wave so I could kill them quicker and killed them before the next wave so a Wraith spawned in the middle of room. Killed the Wraith then killed the 4th wave of mobs and Punisher spawned after that with the marks on him. It seems you only need to kill ONE Wraith out of the 4 waves of mobs to get the boss mob to spawn.

"Soloed" (if u want to call it that) with my lvl80 shammy, pet & merc tank.
Don't remember throwing a heal at any time.

Took a couple attempts because prisoners kept despawning. I was just camping in room (per one of the more recent posts here) but that obviously wasn't working too well, so...

NOTE: wraith of Agony can spawn in EITHER of 2 locations: center of room or entry point.

For my sucessful trial it was room, room, entry point. But, considering I never saw him when I was simply camping the room, I suspect that is random :-)

I assume he was spawning at the entry point on my failures (and not engaged) so the prisoners poofed.

Punisher Veshtaq then spawned in room for final.

I pulled mobs toward door in hall, killed wave, located spawn, repeat x 4. There is time to do all that running around.

This trial is quite buggy, but still doable.
First off, the person that says "ready to begin the trial of torture" will NOT be ported into the trial, so make sure this person isn't needed.

Next, once you zone in you are standing at the top of some stairs. Leave a person that is capable of soloing the wraith of agony at this point, as the wraith can spawn either in the prisoners room or at this spot. (Obviously you can leave more than 1 person here, just in my case I had 4 toons all together, 1 person stuck outside, 1 person top of the stairs and 2 in the prisoners room).

Finally, have others go into the prisoners room and be ready to kill mobs. In my case I just let the mobs roam on into the room and killed them as they came in. Upon defeating a round of mobs, the wraith of agony can spawn in either the prisoner room or the top of the stairs. Leaving this mob up unattended is what causes the prisoners to vanish and the trial to fail, so make sure to engage him quickly.

Once 4 rounds of mobs (16 mobs total) and any wraith of agony that spawn are killed, the Punisher will spawn in the middle of the prisoners room. Kill him to receive your marks and the shaman 1.5 piece if that is what you are doing.

Hopefully this will help folks that are trying to do this trial, especially those shaman working their 1.5

*EDIT* Also I forgot to mention, I did run into a bug that 1 of my toons wasn't able to do anything while in the trial. Attempting to attack caused the message to say the mob was out of range. When I looked on my screen for the toon that got stuck outside, it still showed my other toon out there spinning circles. If you get this bug, you are best off to just let the trial fail and then restart. In order to do this, the person that is bugged will need to camp out and upon log in it will put them back out on the platform with the tribunal.

Edited, Oct 5th 2008 6:53pm by Rhykar

after the first 3 waves of 4, which pop 2 each in each alcove, the wraith pops where you zone in, NOT in the central room. after 4th wave, no wraith pops, it goes straight to the final boss

walked threw this np. with 75 shm and 75 necro

easily boxed 2day... took 2 tries. didn't realize during first try that the wraith would go after the prisoners immediately,and i didnt even see them get wiped..

Did this for my shaman 1.5..Boxed 75 sk/ 75 shaman...Just kept using AE taunt and only one time did I have to heal SK w/ shaman HoT. Everything else was cake pretty much..AE slow, then AE taunt..didn't have to slow really but I did anyway.

On fight with last guy, never had to heal self. only had 2300 ac on SK.

Lol scrolling through the logs the wave mobs hit harder then boss..Nemesis of pain hit me for 234 highest from what i read, Punisher hit me 161 as hardest,and only hit a total of 4x. 137 once and the other 3x for 161..Although he did hit shammy for 692.

Tried this trial 2 times today. During the second wave both times, the prisoners depop and we failed. We had mad DPS and Agony died faster then most of us could even get to the middle room... don't know what happened?

Update for you... This trial is pretty easy now. The boss mob is most-definitely slowable. 70 shammy slowed him on first try.

Problem with prisoners is that the Wraith does not always pop in middle. He's a hard to find spectre. We had tank sit in middle and it worked to get agro from him before he could kill the prisoners. The trick to this is definitely to find the Wraith of Agony ASAP. After that, it's cake.

Run and park in middle of the room with prisoners. Facing the door, you've got 2 Razorfiends coming from left and 2 shades from the right on each wave. Pull them or wait for them.

Kill each wave, sit for agro or find the Wraith ASAP because he will cast on prisoners if not agroed. Try having tank sit for a second and others walk around near walls to get agro. On the 4th wave you don't get a wraith, you get the boss. His HT was about 700.

Edited, Mon Jun 27 06:01:00 2005

done with two 70 rogues, 70 monk, 70 cleric and 53 warrior/cleric...

1 rogue (me) and monk tanked on and off and was fairly simple.

This is probably the easiest of the trials. The only thing that makes it difficult is the boss.

When trial starts, you are by the Agent of the Tribunal in one end of the area. There is a loop around a central room, travel 180 degrees around this loop, then enter the central room.

About 20-40 seconds later, the first wave spawns. Waves consist of Razorfiends and shades. All are level 57 or lower and non-named have 10-15k hp. Named have around 20khp.

The shades are mezzable, the razorfiends are not. However, when they spawn, the razorfiends buff themselves and possibly the shades that spawn with them so the shades will wander in first. Unless all 4 spawns are shades, you should mez them as they come in and wait for the razorfiends. Unlike the other trials, this one allows much more time. A new wave will spawn when you finish one wave, you will not have overlap unless you take around 10 minutes per wave.

After each wave (supposedly if you kill fast enough), a banshee/spectre will spawn on top of you, kill it for an AE heal and the next wave.

The boss is unslowable, rampages, hits for 900ish and casts an AE stun every 9 seconds. This means that you can NOT complete heal your tank. Fast heal and fast dps is the only way to kill him. Like I said, he's the only part of this trial that's hard.

One question, I have read almost all I can about the flagging and I'am kinda confused. Do you need to complete all the PoJ trials to be Ep flagged? Like for instance, if you complete say this trial and no other PoJ trials and go onto other zones like say, PoD, PoI ect.. Can u get EP flagged?

The wraith DOES NOT spawn in the center room. He spawned in the hallway right where you port in. Be aware that Whomeverr's guide is off.

OK here's the down and dirty on THIS trial. This is NOT a timed trial which means that there is no pressure to kill them crazy fast like in execution however the down side is that the 4 waves of 4 mobs will just keep on coming if you take too long.

Now at the start of this trial when you poof in, do not be on a steed or lizard because you have some running to do. Start running to the left and go around to the back and into the center room. Once in there, summon your pets and mounts and get ready for action. Place the healers and casters in the back of the room and the melees closest to the stairs.
In this trial, 4 waves of 4 mobs spawn and head into the center room. The razorfiends are all casters and are all UNMEZZABLE, the Shades are non casters and are all mezzable. Because the razors are caster they sometimes take longer to wander into the room cuz they are buffing themselves or calling their mothers to pray for victory or whatever. You MUST resist the temptation to start killing the shades, have your enchanter mezz them and either wait for the razors or send your tank up to smack one and run back down. Kill the razors then start in on the shades. Never Ever kill all 4 mobs in the first round, killing too fast makes an extra mob spawn and who wants that? As an enchanter, I find a nice juicy shade to keep mezzed for the entire battle. Once you find your sacrificial mezz shade, then proceed with the trial by killing everything that moves.. Always mezz shades and kill razors first. These mobs have WAY more hit points than the execution mobs and they hit harder and faster too.

NOW the wonderful trick and key to success for the trial of Torture is that once you clear wave 4 and as long as you have kept 1 mob mezzed, the boss doesn't spawn. Just keep your shade sleeping and your group can med up to full before triggering the boss which is a very good idea because this boss is hard.

When you are good and ready, and have all medded back to full mana, Kill the last mezzed shade and the boss will spawn dead center of the room. This boss cannot be slowed or snared and he procs a 100HP aoe knockback every 9 seconds which makes Complete heal Impossible. As a caster you must WAIT for yourself to get stunned and cast immediately afterwards. Clerics need to mem their big fast heals and try to slip a heal in between AOE interrupts. Other than that, he's not that hard, expecially since you all are full mana going into it.
So kill boss, Loot marks and run back to the port in and say "return" to get out.

Oh one more thing, once this trial starts you cannot exit since it is not timed and you cannot fail without wiping out. So if someone dies, keep on trucking or have an evac ready.

Good Luck,

Whom Everr 65 Enchanter of Quellious

the shades are undead. Confirmed by pally casting undead nukes on them. Going to try undead banish spells from clerics and necros the next chance we get. Shades are mezzable. Razorbeasts are not.