LDoN Raid: Miragul's Menagerie: Frozen Nightmare  

Didn't see it mentioned but the DZ locks at the end so add who you want for the AC aug before going. It's bonus week and had 2 drop and had to let one rot :(

You turn them red so they don't leash, and are near as can be to turn icy...but to win they all need to be icy skeletons.

Still trying to get the Frosty Gem! Have run thru this raid at least 20x with no luck. But I have it down now so it's just a question of persistence, and of binding in Everfrost since sometimes it takes longer to run there than to run thru the raid.

Some interesting tidbits I've learned:

A full group is required to get the mission. Odd because you can do a Plane of Time expedition, which in the old days would be done by 72-man raid forces, entirely solo.

One thing I discovered, though, is the group can be of any characters. I grouped my 115 with a 46 and FOUR LEVEL ONE's, and he got the raid.

Even more interesting, the 5 additional toons were all alts on my second account. I logged each one in, added it to the group, logged it out. logged in the next one and continued like that until I had all 5 alts from the second account in the group. So these 5 low level toons which were all logged out of the world but their inclusion in the group enabled my main to get the mission.

Pushing my luck, I also used advanced looting to give the drops to one of these toons. Just to avoid crowding my bags. This did NOT work. All that stuff got lost. Good thing I didn't get the Frosty Gem and hand it off to a group member!

I've never tried this with any mission requiring a full group. Maybe it's "SOP"? In any case this mission should hardly require a full group. Lots of raids before and after LDoN can be entirely solo'd by a "group of 1."

One last point: I never saw the two named goblins on this run. Yet I got credit for all 4 tasks once I completed them. Maybe a bug? I did clear every goblin in the zone, and even zoned out and back in, but those 2 never spawned. Re-reading the walkthru above, it looks like the gobs are not one of the tasks required; they're just planted near the zone-in to harass a raid force. Interesting, that...

PS

Got it on 21st run using my rogue. Interestingly, this run was the longest the final boss fight ever took. Usually it's over with ranged attacks in a few seconds. With this melee toon, the boss kept punting him off the ledge forcing my poor dorf rogue to have to climb up several very tall "stairs" of ice to get back to the boss lol. The boss also resisted my opening aa backstab or he probably would have been a one-hit kill. Messy fight but happy to get the gem for my warrior. I may go back and try again for other toons. We shall see if I can stomach another 21 attempts...


Edited, Jul 1st 2020 10:44am by Sippin

Related Creatures: should add "a weathered barrel"

drop calcified shield

Calcified Bone Shield

Icy Orb of Tranquility

Miragul's Enchanted Focusing Shard



Edited, Jan 3rd 2008 7:34am by Charwin

If you ignore all the goblins and let them pop non stop without killing any, you will fail. YOu have to kill some gobbies while someone pull the leaders

couple of things that may be useful to those doing this event:

1. goblin task: the location of the two named goblins are:
a. raid leader - straight south from the zone in, past the first room. he's in the 2nd room, on the right hand side, *behind* the large blocks of ice
b. task master - down the ramp to the left (east) of the zone in room. go down the ramp and a bit down the hall, he's to the left.
of note:
the goblins you need to clear *after* the goblin task (en route to blob) will often give an emote 'fast as can be, you can't catch me!' and will run off ahead of you and aggro further goblins. snaring/rooting is an effective way to counter this and control the number of mobs you have.

2. blobs:
a. the blob tethers, so you can easily clear his room before moving in.
b. none of the splits are mezzable
of note:
the large ice golem mobs in this area proc an FD.

3. skeletons:
a. 2 chromatic skeletons are to the right (east) of the blob room, far down the hall. the other 2 are due south of the blob room.
b. the order for the color change is: brown, white, red - beat each one until it is red, beat all 4 down to about 5-10%, then kill each one (doesn't have to be all at once, you have some wiggle room)

4. protect the warder event
a. there is a slight bug in this event. a polar bear will spawn in the room *before* the warder room, and shortly after get stuck in a wall. if you want to win this event, have someone in the previous room before you start the event to aggro the bear.

5. Laskuth:
a. in addition to the reflect, banish, and ae, he also procs a 2 slot dispel
b. the banish point is a bit deeper down the room than Laskuth, and you pop rather far up, and will take fall damage if you don't have levi. additionally, there are adds in the room that you WILL get as adds if you don't clear the room before hailing durgin to trigger Laskuth.

a note on loot:
this raid has a total of 3 chests, but you will only get 2 if you fail the warder event. each chest drops 2 loot items. the 35ac aug (the only reason to even do this raid) drops from 'a frost covered chest' with approximately 1 in 9 chance of dropping.

a note on difficulty:
a demi plane geared single group can do this raid in about an hour and a half.
i tank (18k hp 4kac sk) with 1 cleric, shm, enc, and a couple dps. we do this without any difficulty whatsoever - an enc is very helpful, but not required.
at tacvi/coa level of gear you could probably do this with 2 groups.

Edited, May 30th 2007 4:05pm by sateryn