Access to Asylum of Anguish  

when the expansion first came out once you did the 6 raid trials you could actually zone in to anguish but without the signet quest done you would just fall over dead, this lasted all but a few days before sony changed it to not being able to zone in period without the signets done. i see basically the same question over and over.

the signet quest- allows you to zone into anguish.

the six MPG raid trials- allows you to loot in anguish, if you dont have these done you can loot the Seal:Mastery of All off any named mob in anguish and it will do the same thing.

the six MPG group trials- will increase your resists by 50 ( i believe thats the correct amount) when all 6 are completed.( this quest has to be completed if you want to REQUEST a raid trial, but not needed to participate in one)

hope this clears up some confusion

Ok, I am a lvl 70 Dark Elf, ShadowKnight.... after ducking and weaving my way thru RS and finding Taromani, I was killed 2 times by the MOBs in there who happen to see thru my inv spell.....

I am kinda nerdy at this, but what suggestion do you have? how can I sneek up on this dude to do the quest if I die everytime? Do I need a group to clear the room first?.... am I missing something>?

Thank you,
Rhinolunch

This might be a retarded question but I'm getting different stories from each person I ask. I am currently farming my sigs (I box so have a few to farm) and my guild is trying CoA trials. I have also been offered tog et shared into CoA and loot "seals". I am getting different tells from people saying you can't loot anything without you trials completed yet I am told that i can go in and loot the seal to get keyed. Which is which I assumed that if you get your sigs you don't get hit by AE then you can get shared in, as with most zones, and loot a key piece to get your flag OR you get your sigs then complete all your trials to get flagged? If I get a "seal" or whatever it is called can I loot items and augs from CoA? If I get sigs can I get shared into CoA to loot a Seal?

Sorry if this is stupid question just figured I would ask as person saying I can't loot anything in CoA without trials does generally talk out of his ass. =)

Did the sig farmin on the other instance watering the well, 70 war and a 70 shmmy, a lot easier that murk hive, the PH is the rat almost at the en d of the zone no SI on the way to PH, camped it for and after a few ph pops the Dragon poped, deceant AA exp too for the tho peeps that played it

I just finished my signets last night, here is my experience:

WoS: Camped to the right of the ramp up to MPG, could pull 3 of the PH's from there.

MPG: Camped near Blind/Task, could pull 1 PH there.

RSS: Just got it there from grouping at Statue camp.

RCoD: Camped to the left of the bridge up to Lirah the Bridgekeeper. Pulled 1 PH there. Spawn rate for the sig dropper seemed to be worse than WoS, MPG, or RSS, but I only went there once and could have just been unlucky.

Catacombs: This camp was a pain, I don't know if we did something wrong but the spot marked camp on the mapfiends map had like 4 mobs aggro on us as soon as we dropped invis. So we camped in the hall beyond the room and there were 4 wanderers that pathed through the camp. It was pretty intense, to say the least. A chanter was definitely needed, though I was tanking as a zerker and so couldn't really keep aggro on 3+ mobs at once, and I doubt I could tank that many anyways. We got 3 sigs in 3 hours.

Sewers: First time I went there, spent 5 hours there and 1 sig dropped. Went there 2 other times for about 2 hours each with no sigs. Went there last night and we had 6 sigs drops in about 3.5 hours. Note: You can get there without killing any mobs. You can just click a cloudy pot immediately after losing invis with the traps and you won't aggro anything, and then for the undead murkgliders you can safely cast IVU right in the corner of the protrusion from the wall that is v-shaped (sorry, I don't really know how to describe it). So basically, you enter the hallway, and then immediately turn right and hug the wall for a few feet and run forward until you can't anymore. Thats where you cast IVU. Note that the area you are safe from aggro is very small, so its best that 1 person casts IVU at a time in that spot. I have seen people get aggro by just standing a tiny bit from that point. Also note that there are wanderers so you may have to wait before casting. The murkglider that wanders there does not see IVU or normal invis, but the static ones only don't see IVU.

Hollows: First time I went there it was the murkglider hive. Had to switch to IVU on the way there and had to clear a few mobs to do so. Spent 3 hours there and no sigs dropped. So we switched to the Watering Hole instance. The placeholder isn't marked on the mapfiend map, but its the same as the murkglider hive (a blighted cave rat). You can use normal invis the whole way there so its much easier to get to than murkglider hive. I was there for about 2 hours and only 1 sig dropped.

All of the instances had a 20 min repop. I can't really remember for the non-instanced ones because I wasn't keeping time there. None of the camps were especially difficult, I tanked everywhere but RSS as a Zerker. If you are in a guild working towards Anguish all of the camps should be trio-able, with the the possible exception of RSS and maybe MPG.

Edited, Mon May 22 15:40:42 2006

for one thing yo need alchol tolarance at 200 to protect from the drunk ae

I did 2 instances with a 64 in group and mob popped np, had a lot of trouble with sewers, rog can disarm traps but the last stretch with the see invis wiped me everytime, finally I decided to eat it and got for broke, I da and trained the mobs away and allowed cleric to sneak into the camp, Rog dragged me for rez, while I was zoning rog and cleric took care of the roamer. Its not easy but can be done. Hope this helps out

Edited, Mon Oct 17 13:07:47 2005

a couple things about signet turn in to remember..

Don't combine until you have All 7 signets
Don't turn in the box before you combine

Edited, Wed Feb 23 20:41:23 2005

Just a helpful hint for sewers and catacombs.

Take a really good group that has their game face on. Most of this quest was fairly simple that was until the catacombs.

To give you an idea we took a group of almost all timed and god geared toons (70 sham, 70 war, 70 monk, 70 cleric, 67 enchanter , 70 ranger) the repop time in the zone is unreal. There are rooms of 9 mobs and a repop time of 5 mins on all mobs.


We got half way and we were reclearing mobs that popped on top of us. There doesn't seem to be any safe spots to rest so I suggest an extremely high dps grp and crowd control is a must.

Invis would be nice like in DH however every 50 feet there seems to be a see invis mob and traps. Open to any ideas , right now it seems like you need DPS and alot of it.

If your part of a group when you turn the case in do all the members of your group get the immunity message or just the individual?

All these rumors about this so called Zone Wide AE is bull. The facts are that you CAN NOT even zone in to Citadel of Anguish without the quest being completed. I have completed the key (6 trails in MPG) and attempted to zone in yesterday and got a message saying that the forces were to strong.. etc...etc..

I turned in the Full Insignia Case to Taromani today, and got the 'Reward". You do not get an item returned from this, you get a character flag. The message you get is thus:

You are now protected from the chaos magic in Mata Muram's citadel.

Taromani says 'Yes, you haven't disappointed me. This is exactly what I was hoping to see, Skyia. Mata Muram's forces will be hampered considerably. Now for your reward. . .' She kisses her palm and reaches forward, pressing the hand against your cheek. The skin is warm, almost unbearably so. You feel queasy for a moment, and when the sensation passes she withdraws her arm. 'You'll soon discover that his impenetrable defenses aren't so impenetrable after all. Soon you will be seeing the world through the shroud of Anguish.'

<edit> Aye, recent information shows that this is one part of entrance REQUIREMENT for CoA- the other requirement is to complete all 6 raid trials in Proving Grounds zone.

Edited, Tue Oct 26 23:44:21 2004