Trial of Perseverance  

i looted the beads when i was helping someone else out on this am i able to turn in the beads without getting the quest for my progression or do i still need to do the quest and kill the warlord again, same goes for the spider i have his piece as well.

Spawn at bell, run a couple laps to aggro the 4 goblins, burn all 4 down to 10% ish then kill, aggro respawns as they come. If bell gets rung you get the stone sentinel guy instead of goblin warlord and you have to reget task. Goblins ring bell after 10-15 seconds up without being aggroed. Would have tried using mez but didn't want to risk it with LoS issues with bell. Just keep using potions 2.0 and mend as they pop (hastened mend helps a lot here). It's an all out battle of attrition until the warlord spawns.

Once named spawns you can just clear goblins (line of sight seems to be aggro so if you get creative with the bell you don't have to pull them anywhere. Med up, let mends and potions pop and then use whatever dps discs you have left over to kill the named. He isn't particularly hard, I think max hit on me was 807 or so with 4130 ac.

As a side note, mercs do depop upon zoning in here, so while you can use them to get the task initially, once you zone in you're on your own.

OK so if the guardian spawns instead of the warlord you "messed up" in what way? What causes this to fail?

Grouped : Had shammy ae slow them right off the bat kite them for a bit and ranger pull agro off one by one snaring and kiting, the snare didnt even have time to drop before we were done.

Kept the closest one to us to kill one at a time, another would spawn right after that. The spawns dried up and eventually had to take them off the ranger.

Named was an easy kill.

Doesn't require anyone of heavy gearing just a good healer, tank, ranger. Then of course some dps.

Today, while doing this raid, instead of spawning the Warlord we had An Ancient Stillmoon Guardian spawn. The mob didn't aggro so I had the raid rez, rebuff and med while I tried to research. It despawned before we were able to engage.

Anyone ever seen it before or have any clue what it is? I was unable to find any information on it.

For this trial you should bring 2 or 3 mezzers, a few knights for damageless taunt, a strong tank for named, and dps. To start the event move to Osashi near the bell, hail, and follow the dialog. The drake then despawns and 4 goblins spawn, one on each side of the bell. You'll want 3 non-damage tanks to snag 3 of them while your mezzers lock them down, and your strong tank picking up the last. When the goblin dies, another respawns on its spawn spot. The tank needs to pick this up quickly. Generally you will get 4 goblins from each spawn spot before it stops. When no more pop, grab one of the mezzed and begin taking it and it's respawns down. You will continue killing in this manner until a Goblin Warlord pops. I've seen it pop on the first set of 4, and I've seen it pop at the end (after 16th dead goblin). When it pops, the main tank snags agro and dps it down. Once dead, finish off the remaining mezzed goblins.

The Goblin Warlord is a pure melee mob, no spells, but it does AE rampage infrequently.
Be aware that All goblins in this mission enrage and hit for approx 1k, this can chew up people quite quickly if not careful. This mission has a 3 day lockout.


This and other DoN mission strats can be found - http://home.comcast.net/~mathadon/DoN/Main.htm

Some additions to my previous post=)

You'll find a screenshot with all the steps of a finished mission here now.

On our last win the goblin warlord dropped a Hoop of the Drakeborn (pic) as loot in addition to the usual six Goblin Warlord's Beads (pic).

Edited, Thu Apr 28 04:01:10 2005