DoD Level 69 Spell #4: Rescue Cicero!  

This broken for anyone else? We can't complete the second step.

"Search the Cocoon for any trace of Cicero"

We kill the 2 Guardians, named pops.

Kill named, Cocoon pops, and we open it and the damn Gnome pops out.

Follow him, he escapes, chest pops.

Fail...

Am I missing something?

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I tried again (3rd time) but this time I pulled the Guards out before killing so Kalyth didn't agro as soon as he popped. And Bingo, worked easy.

Edited, Apr 26th 2009 7:06am by Darkplague

Does anyone know if a mercenary healer will heal Cicero?

I 3 box this mission with 80 cleric, 77 bl, 77 wiz. All 3 are anguish type geared or less. invis to top name. Kill two mobs in room with him, then him. Med up. /open the cocoon to spawn npc. The key now if this is a hard mission for you is to not say Follow yet. Once you've opened the npc's cacoon he will attack any spiders that come close, but he won't start walking of and getting adds until you say follow. Havent timed this but you have atleast 5 minutes to say follow. I pull the two spiders outside, the roamer, and then run on up ramp to left and pull all three of these spiders. "Only two come at once". I pull them right into the name room and tank one or both and the npc owns these spiders. Watch his life then pull more down too him. You can take breaks as needed as the npc stays put. After top room is clear I say "Follow" and the fun starts. Mission isn't difficult now. Always watch npc's life and keep him alive. Other post on this mission are correct and very helpful on the rest.

WTF is that all about? we wiped because we couldn't get aggro off of us, even after 15 or 20 wipes we couldn't shake it. What kind of person makes a quest mob aggro like that? or is this just me? And it was right from the time we popped him from the cocoon.

Finally, after 3 months wait I got this task done. We won on the first try, but not for trying to loose! We did an easy, so your mileage may vary.

Things I learned about this task:
1) Named summons, not sure about other mobs but didn't see them do it.
2) Cicero CANNOT be mezed. he was LB to me and could not be mezed by bloodcurdling shriek (necro mez) and gave back the "cannot be mezed" message.
3) cicero CAN be rooted!

Not sure about mind wipe, we didn't try on him. When the trouble hit the fan, I just rooted Cicero and kept him rooted for about 15 mins while we rezed back up, killed the roamer and got buffed up. After others had all invised and zoned to clear agro, i just FDd him off and on we went to finish.

Moral of the story: bring a competent necro.

Loketh 75 nec on Prexus

i love EQ Quest so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

grrrr...

second time http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=83828 has dropped from the hard chest.

where is my gd robe?! :(

Does anyone knows?

He will assist on any spider nearby, and even do so before he is made mobile by saying follow.

That was a hint.

Dropped a drachnid signet sheild in chest today on normal, not in database and I didn't win so I don't know stats.

have ench with 70 mezz... go to top spawn named like other post said he is unslowable.. then u can just follow gnome when we walks into room...ench should be able to mezz 2 mobs rooms have 3 in them... if repops in way just kill em again.. i waited till wonderer repoped from named room and killed it plus the 2 guards out side then i did /say commands for gnome to make him move to top room the key to this mission is a pally.sk imo spell arrgo fast
before mob gnome is on is dead... break mezz on another mob next to it so gnome doesnt wonder off same thing till room is dead... then he goesopens a cacoon and spawns one more
same thing for first top 2 rooms

last 2 rooms he skipped we just killed wonderer so we didnt have to clear those.. when hes at bottom of ramp u can either pull middle 3 mobs to u or u can root gnome and pull those 3 (some reason mob ignored when we pulled right next to him and we wiped cuz he ran into more mobs....

so next time im rooteing that little man then pullin middle then memblur him 3 times with cleric spell and then go on to out

if ur gonno task add someone do it right before he zones out or u can root him task add and memblur him fast


thats my 2cp

kaylord

This is considered to be one of the harder missions by some, but a good strategy can make this one of the easiests.

First of all, you don't need a mezzer really. Of course it helps, but it's no MUST have. You will need a memblur class, but since most groups have a cleric anyways, you're good to go.

Invis up to the top, like everyone says. On the top, don't bother clearing the siderooms. Just clear the wanderers and then the 2 guards outside the middle room.

Clear the mobs inside the middle room, make sure to pull them onto the walkway, so that you can med up before the named, and not have him pop right on you.

Pop the gnome, and follow him out. He will go left (up) first. Now here's the trick... Don't wait for the gnome to enter the top room. Instead, pull one of the 2 closest spiders out (with snare preferably). 2 mobs will come, root park one, kill the other.

Now let the gnome go into the room, kill the last mob and open the pod to pop another (and kill it).

The same deal for the next room... when the gnome is halfway down the walkway towards it, pull the front mob (2 will come), root park one etc etc...

The rest of the way down is not so hard... just make sure you pull the wanderer in the middle walkway before you pass the 3rd room. You don't want the gnome to agro that wanderer right outside that room!

When you're almost at the bottom, pull the mobs from the middle of the ground floor onto the walkway. This will make your final fights in the center easier.

If the gnome get's low on health, root park it and let it regen.

This strategy works 100% everytime I try it...
I hope it will do the same for you...


PS. I noticed that hard mode also repopped the mobs quicker, can someone confirm/deny this?

Pure melee recieve no spell/disc reward for the completion of the 69 arc

Beastlords get Skill: Empathetic Fury for the completion of the 69 line.

Anyone know what warrior reward is for finishing the 69 spell mission line?

Edited, Wed Feb 15 00:58:44 2006

The druid spell is "Spore Spiral". Stats are:
Level: 69
Skill: Alteration
Mana Cost: 200
Normal Cast Time: 3.0

Spell Effect: Flings a coat of spores at your target that will fling then (sic) backwards and root them to the ground for a short time.

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I haven't used it yet, as I just earned the spell. Will be interesting, though I think I'll stick with my clicky root. /grins

/cheers
Tyleza

Paladin Spell for level 69 is Silent Piety, a resist buff that can also heal you.

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=8029&source=Live

is this all of the spells that you can get? wondering if there is a druid version from this spell quest set.

chest loot: hive dweller mindguard
(from easy)
http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=83765

You have to say "what way to him" to Brovill to start this mission.

Not a lot of information out there about this mission, so here goes:

ALL of the mobs respawn in this zone. So attempting to make the escort of Cicero easier by clearing the entire zone is pointless. It's best to go ahead and invis yourself to the top of this zone. At the top, there is a bridge that goes across. At either end of this bridge is a room, each with 3 drachnids and a few cocoons inside of them. In the middle of this bridge are 2 drachnids that stand there, guarding a little mini bridge that extends from the middle of the bridge towards a 3rd room (maybe a hut would be a better description). Inside the hut are 2 more drachnids. That is the hut where Kalyth, the Keeper will spawn.

To prepare, if you have a decent DPS group, clear the 2 rooms that have 3 drachnids on either side of the bridge, and the 2 drachnids that are standing guard in the middle of the bridge. Also kill the 2 wanderers. That's 10 drachnids altogether.

TIP: if you have a mezzer, it seemed to us that mezzing one of the mobs to start with would single pull the other mob, which was very handy with no pull class. We would only then have to deal with one drachnid at a time, even if the room had 3 in it.

Then enter the hut with the two drachnids and kill those 2 inside. After killing those 2, Kalyth will spawn. He hits a little bit harder than the trash, but nothing too nasty. He is unslowable!! When he dies, a named cocoon will spawn at the spot he dies in. If you open that cocoon, you will have Cicero. You have to go through a short series of text with him. When you are done, he marches around the top floor, going inside of all 3 of the top camps. This is why it's good to clear those rooms. If you do not, you will be dealing with 3 at a time. He does stop to open a cocoon or two as he marches down to the bottom floor. We were surprised that he didn't enter the other 2 side rooms on the way down to the bottom floor. On the bottom floor he wandered to the middle 3 spawns and aggrod those guys. After that he opened a cocoon. And then he went to the zone out, gave his thank you spiel, and popped a chest.

Cicero is a warrior mob, but he hits pretty hard, around 1k dps according to my parses. He's also fairly durable, and can tank a mob for a little bit solo if it's an emergency.

One other little tip, if you are mezzing adds, Cicero likes to wander off. He aggros on mobs that are unmezzed though. So a good way to get him back on mobs that you have mezzed is to break the mezz and drag them over near Cicero. He then goes to town! The only bad side of having Cicero is that he will take the experience away from your group sometimes. I believe it's on the same rules that pets go on, if he deals more than half, then no exp for you. I'm not sure about that though.

Hope this helps.