I - an 85 Ranger - went in and solo'd this one as well as #4. Had a baby zerker to get cry havoc for so I sat him outside and just ran in and murdered it. Prince didn't regen or anything. You've tethered him or something. But yea... no Gallantry coz it faded and I murdered this without a single heal. Good luck peeps.

As of 2/3/09, you still cannot use a mercenary. The merc will suspend.

You can use pets. The Prince may instantly kill them at some point, but, until then, the pets work just fine. Also, after the pets were killed, we unsuspended new pets and sent them in. The second batch of pets lasted the rest of the fight. It seemed like he killed them about midway throughout the fight. So, if you're a pet class (with the suspend AA's), setup a pet, suspend it, and then setup a second pet. Also, we're not sure if this is why, but when we had the pets up, nobody was summoned. Perhaps he chose to kill pets instead of summoning players? The previous attempt we didn't have any pets up, and the Prince summoned the closest player, and then beat on them until they were dead.

The Prince never did a CH. Apparently he does a CH quite often, but not for us. All players were 76 (Beastlord, Mage, Cleric, Druid, Enchanter), with AA's between 300 and 400 each. We were blasting hard towards the end, but the Prince has quite a few hit points. We kept the Prince in the pit area, but pushed him around enough that the casters had to move a few times to stay in range. The Prince started on the middle back edge of the pool. We pushed him down that edge almost all the way to the corner of the pool.

The Prince spawned a few adds, but they never joined the fight. In fact, even after the fight, they just stood there.

As of 11/11/08 you can not use a mercenary for the DoD 68.5 mission. My merc will suspend when I zone in and I can not summon it once inside.

I tried to burn down the prince to bypass the regen and shorten the fight. It's not possible. Once he hit 4% life, I HT'd him and summoned my swarm pets, but once he hit 1% he just sat there for about 30 seconds, then suddenly returned to 100% health and started attacking again.

So, yeah, expect to have to dps him down twice.

If you don't have the proper faction he will tell you off when it comes time to try to get ported. I used sneak with my monk and said emerge victorious while i was behind him. He had the dialogue that he would prepare the portal. When i said the key words to get ported he said 'I wonder how much i can get for the tongue of a blathering fool..leave before i decide to find out for myself.' He still teleported me though. He also did the same for my party members even though he also coned dubious to them.

Its odd but if you can get some one that can sneak in your party to say emerge victorious to him i think thats all you will need. I didn't try to say 'ready to proceed' before sneaking behind him and saying emerge victorious so i don't honestly know if it would have worked without the sneak/key words combo.

EDIT: I pulled a mob into the zone in spot which is the teleportation ring you used at the end of the previous task to get out of there. I got teleported within 15 seconds out of the zone and back at Meldrek. I just tried saying 'ready to proceed' and that was enough to get ported back in. I guess you won't need to sneak behind him and say 'emerge victorious'.

Edited, May 21st 2008 7:40pm by Rickymaru

Hand the Head to Kelliad

If you are grouped with someone who has completed 68.1 through 68.4, can they get the 68.5 task and you get your 68 spell after completeing 68.5?

Thanks

This mission now has a lockout timer. Not sure exactly how long.. estimate somewhere between 18-24hrs tho. Did it in the early morn, and by evenin, I had 14hrs to go. Will update when I do this mission again.

Just did this with a trio, 75 monk ~12k hps, 73 shaman, 69 necro. Wasn't too bad. Monk and shaman were boxed, healing kept him pretty busy, but nothing too crazy.

Watch yourself.
If your entire group stays out of zone too long, due to rezzing, etc, the entire mission resets itself, so do not take your time getting back in.

Do you have to do other quests first or can I get a group and go?

We did the 5th mission of the arc last night.

Group setup: Warrior (Maintank, 70, 13k, 500 AAs), 2 Druids (70, 300 & 400 AAs), Mage (70, 300 AAs), Shaman (Slower, 70), Ranger (70).

We cleared first the 7 protectors, our warrior pulled them solo, one of them enraged. One protector took us all to 30m every time, so we medded up after each protector.

All protector killed, we moved to the left underwater tunnel and placed as in the middle at the border of the Pit of the Prince.

The warrior engaged with Furious, one druid made chain-CH nonstop, the other patched with fastheals. We fought him in his pit. Some spiders popped but you can ignore them completely - only doe not use AE damges :) After the Prince went down to 20% an emote popped, the Prince became invulnerable and complete healed himself. We evacced and medded up.

Then we went in again the same way, this time no more CH, he went smooth down.

The final handin is in Stoneroot Falls, so group members can be changed after the fight.

Prince Drillien dropped Ornate Round Toe Boots and luckily they were an upgrade and nobody else could use them ;)

Bestial Empathy

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Edited, Thu Feb 16 05:43:04 2006

Recommend bringing lotsa dps, and definitely DoT dps like Necro. Even trash have uber hp and hit up to 1900s on 2480ac, max mitigation pally with 6% shielding.

Also, the Protectors can quintuple, thats 5 hits in one round, i got hurted for 5.4k damage on a bad round once. not fun.

Bring cleric + dru or shm to spot. most of them were unstunnable, but a few Protectors should be fully stunnable.

Easy single pulling, one roams to main tunnel, 2 others roam the 1st pool before the prince, the last 4 are nearer the Prince hisself.


Edited, Sat Jan 14 02:08:36 2006

edit- thx for fixin page :)

Edited, Wed Feb 8 06:20:34 2006

Wow 2k AC Warrior 12.5K HP and got my ass kicked twice. I have 360 AA's with all defensives. Killed the guards with ease but Prince just hurt us too badly. Used defensive over stonewall to save healer mana. He would swap aggro and ignore my disc/taunt/ae taunt at times til the person was dead. Two clerics in group, one with 250 aa the other over 900. Had good necro chanter and wizzy as the others. Going in to try again but we only got him to 40 percent or so. Guessing our problem is dps. Did anyone try annulling it? Feeling inadequate here (

Edited, Sun Jan 1 11:23:57 2006

Tome of commanding voice was received after hailing brother hidden path.

There is no "hard" version of this or any 68 mission. there is only the one version.


I have done this quest three times, and twice i have engaged the prince before he does his dialog and both times he became unkillable at around 15% and then went to 100% and had to repeat the fight.

only the first time did i pull it out of his pit. the second time i let him do his dialog before engaging, and the third time i attacked him in his pit before he did his dialog. i had to refight him on the first and third try, so i would allow him to do his dialog or you'll have to fight him twice.

Edited, Wed Dec 21 21:09:36 2005

Bard spell: Creeping Dreams - level 68 Mez spell up to level 73. Costs 100 mana and on 2 ticks it will do a small AOE effect mez to other mobs around the one that is Mezzed to mez them as well.

Does anyone know if a magician receives a spell? I see nothing listed for magicians.

well will let ya know that prince can be fully slow'd - am a 70 sham and stuck first try. was a fun fight. when i find out how to link will link what name'd drop'd and item i got at end

Gilded Plate Bracer
MAGIC ITEM NO DROP
Slot: WRIST
AC: 27
STR: +11 DEX: +5 STA: +5 WIS: +11
INT: +11 HP: +120 MANA: +120 ENDUR: +120
SV DISEASE: +25 SV POISON: +25
WT: 2.0 Size: SMALL
Class: WAR CLR PAL SHD BRD
Race: ALL
Slot 1, type 7: empty

Did this mission twice, nothing special to get to Prince room just invis up and swim under water.

Once in Prince room clean all the Protectors : they have a fair amount of hps, not snarable and run (not fast) when low life.

We engaged Prince at his spot : the key to this fight seems to be DPS ! We had rog and wiz in group + enc chain nuking and he only CHed once around 10-15% (you receive an emote before he does that). 2 adds spawned and despawned during the fight but they never attacked us so just dont bother with them. We had an enchanter (couldnt land a slow if I remember well), druid as MH and a good war.

Once Prince is dead loot head and port out, no chest spawned for us, give the head to Kelliad. Cant remember reward sorry.

After completing the 5 missions and hailing Brother Hidden Path in Undershore, wizards receive spell : Clinging frost.

Edited, Tue Oct 25 05:25:24 2005

The 5th and final Level 68 Depths of Darkhollows spell mission task is The Rage of Kelliad. The task is given by Kelliad in Stoneroot Falls. It seems like a pretty short task, but it's a challenging one. Here is a detailed walkthrough for the task:

Step 1: Seek out Meldrek to gain entrance into the Drachnid city. By now you should know where Meldrek is. Go to him and hail him, that completes this step. In order to get into the city, you have to say "I am ready." to Meldrek. This will put you into the Chambers of Xill at the teleport rings (the same location that you left from in Task 4).

Step 2: Confront Prince Drillien. When you zone in, you'll be facing south, have your puller head to left hand tunnel towards the Prince's room (southeast). Clear the way to the Prince by killing the Royal Protectors that are guarding him. There are 7 total, 3 white cons and 4 blue cons to level 70. All of the protectors wander, but are single pullable. Nothing respawns in here, so slow and steady is the way to go. The protectors are vicious. Blue cons hit upward of 1700 (1669 max on me, and I'm a warrior with full mitigation AAs with 7% shielding), white cons hit over 1800, both numbers are out of defensive. Both are slightly slowable, fairly resistant and flurry but don't enrage. Unsure if any are mezzable, but hopefully you won't have to find out.

Step 3: Bring Prince Drillien's reign to an end. This is a challenging fight. The overview is that if you move him too far away from his spawn point (I've been told, I can't personally confirm), he de-aggroes, regens to full and aggroes again. We had to fight him twice (presumably because we pulled him too far from his spawn point), back to back. He starts out hitting about 1100 in defensive, and as defensive wears off and he drops health, it eventually increases to a max hit of 2k out of defensive. He will start to spawn adds at about 15%, we got two and they were both mezzable (was told that they may not aggro at all, but I can't confirm that). If he de-aggroes, the adds will despawn. Also, if he de-aggroes, he will retain his strength and continue to hit for max 2k from full health on subsequent re-engagements. Again, keep in mind that the max hit number is against me (warrior, full mitigation AAs, 7% shielding) and YMMV.

Step 4: Return to Kelliad with Prince Drillien's Head. Once you've killed the prince, loot his head from the corpse. You'll also have a piece of loot in the corpse (I don't remember what we got). Go back to the teleportation ring, and click on the crystal ball to the northwest of the ring to activate the teleportation cycle. Take the head back to Kelliad in Stoneroot Falls and give it to him to complete the task. At the completion of the task, you will be awarded a mask, name/stats depending on whether you're a melee/hybrid or priest/int caster class. I'm afraid I don't recall the melee/hybrid reward.

Once the task has been completed, see Brother Hidden Path in Undershore (/loc is -905, 740, 85). Hail him (make sure invis is down) and if you've completed all five tasks, you'll receive your class specific skill/spell.

Warriors receive Skill: Commanding Voice
Enchanters receive Spell: Echoing Madness
Clerics receive Spell: Death's Regret
Rangers receive Spell: Hail of Arrows

Good luck.