You get horded with mobs if you take too long and yes they'll find you anywhere. You'll see some shouts at the same time. Last two posters it sounds like this happened to you. The mission worked fine not too long ago so I'm guessing this is what happened to you (see previous posts for more details).

This mission seems to currently be bugged. I pulled a single mob that we'd pulled a zillion times before and it aggro'd mobs from all the way across the zone. Also when you pop at the entrance to the MM after a death all of the mobs in the zone run to zoneline at you. There's no way to kill 30+ mobs at the MM death pop spot.

Just curious if anyone knows if this is still bugged or not, would really like to get the AC aug.

The mission is bugged after the TSS expansion came out.

If you die, you won't be able to interact with the mission; you cannot open doors, you cannot attack nor grab aggro... the only way to solve this is, log out and log back in.

I don't know why, but I am not surprised that the MMs are not working after TSS. I am getting a bit tired of the new expansion "surprises".

We did this tonight with a group of 3. We assigned one person to healing duty, then one of us built up a set of minion zombies, and then the other built up a set. While there was just one person with minions, it was straightforward: let that person take aggro so the pets would swarm the target, and the halflings dropped pretty quick even if they had healers nearby. Once we had two sets of pets, we just made sure whoever got initial aggro chose not to taunt, and the other person taunted until he got aggro so his pets would join as well. And of course, meanwhile, our "cleric" zombie maintained a stack of brains to heal us with. Once we had the swing of things, we finished the mission despite delays caused by a few linkdeaths.

We completely avoided the cleric and druid guilds. After clearing the entrance area in front of the cleric guild, we turned a sharp left and worked our way through the various rooms in the south, then the center of town, and worked north through the Weary Foot Inn and beyond. By the time we got back to town center we had two full sets of minions, and took the Fools Gold tavern by storm. The Rogue GM at the top was yellow but not too much trouble since we managed to clear all but one other halfling from the tavern before we reached him. When we came out of the tavern we saw deputies near the Misty tunnel which I'm sure hadn't been there when we passed the first time. So we cleared them, and then moved into the bank and city hall, and looted our 80th brain just before reaching the Mayor and Sheriff.

We almost blew it at that point, since one person wanted to kill the Mayor just on general principles even after looting the last brain, and the few extra minutes it took to kill him and the Sheriff almost meant we got caught by the reinforcements that arrive after one hour. We shuffled off to the exit and found the chest there, and looted our reward (at level 51, we got the Bloody Tombstone Shard, but everyone should also loot one Shard of Wisdom to get the xp for the mission), and reached the Kith zone line just as the reinforcements emote appeared.

One thing that we found confusing at the start was how to enter the mission. You need to say 'Brraaains?', which offers you the mission. The zombie braineater will reply '[Brains!]', but saying it doesn't do anything yet. You need to accept the mission and have everyone choose their monster form (there's only the one choice), and then say Brains! to enter the instance. (Apparently you can also say 'Ready' to enter it.) We actually got told that it was too dangerous and to try again in a moment; we think that was because the instance was still being populated, and we got in on the second try.

Anyone know if this quest is available on the Progression Servers of The Combine and The Sleeper?

Looted Ancient Amulet of Decaying Flesh


Turned into Defiled Amulet of Decaying Flesh
Magic Item Lore Item No Trade
Slot: Neck
AC: 14
STR: +7 DEX: +7 STA: +7 AGI: +7 HP: +80 MANA: +70 Endurance: +70
SV Fire: +7 SV Disease: +7 SV Cold: +7
Recommended level of 60
WT: 0.8 Size: Small
Class: WAR RNG SHD MNK BRD ROG BST BER
Race: ALL
Slot 1, type 7: empty


Edited, Jul 22nd 2006 at 12:30am EDT by Sumneray

Edited, Jul 22nd 2006 at 12:29am EDT by Sumneray

Edited, Jul 22nd 2006 at 12:29am EDT by Sumneray

Don't be afraid to skip densly packed areas whilst your building your armies up slowly. Pick an MT zombie to get the 5 zombies out as quick as possible, with a second zombie as the healer. Store up as many as you can, as dying with no pets doesn't matter, but dying with pets can hurt your kill rate.
When comfortable with a few saved, have 2 MT zombies, with the 3rd MT summoning theirs as the first one's are decaying. Then the old MT goes on heal duty whilst building up their brains.
Aim is to continously keep building up brains till everyone's got enough for the zerg. Then get them all summoned, and hit the high density areas like the cleric guild.
The druid guild (field area) is easier to run along the left and into the field rather than pulling, or the pathing will empty the full house onto you, and even with all zombies out, a wipe is easy. Skip the top floor of the bank (reds and yellows).
Can be a fun mission, but it is repetative after a while. The fun starts when the zombie zerg starts.
Make sure you've time to loot and scoot the chest (pops outside the cleric guild), as taking too long, the guards will swarm you.

What lvl this mission? Can a necro solo this?

This is absolutely amazing. This has to be the only quest I've ever seen that I want to actually do for the hell of doing it as opposed to some reward.