I just completed this task last night. Am I wrong in thinking that this task was all I needed for the next void access? I've finished the Oceangreen access tasks to get Void B, so I thought with this one done, I would get Void C. However, upon zoning in, I found that I was still in B. Did I miss something? Any insight would be most helpful. Thank you.

Edited, Nov 2nd 2009 6:14pm by Ipthar

02 June 2009

Single person hydra (me) using:
85 wizard, SoD group gear, 750s AA, w/ T4 tank
85 bard, SoD group gear, 750s AA, w/ T4 cleric
77 shaman, SoF bazaar gear, 350s AA, w/t4 cleric
crack and haste from a chanter

Finished on second real attempt. Tricks I used:

-I let the slow giants run past me as I neared the 30/35 mob mark. It seems they take longer to reach the Rathe chambers so their slowness bought me some time.

-The little goblins seem to have lower HPs. I didn't let those easy ones get past. (I don't parse so I can't confirm this.)

-The giants seem to have more HPs. If I needed to med I stopped to let those past. (Again, I can't confirm.)


If I didn't try this just for kicks I would have thought my group geared and somewhat low AA toons couldn't pull it off. Maybe SoE made it easier? Give it a run and don't believe the posts that say its too rough without a great group.

Good luck!

This wasn't nearly as bad as I feared after reading some posts here. We headed north a bit from zoning in and stood dead in the center. We could see guards, but none came close. Mobs came as expected and we kept pace fine. We kept dps going pretty well and followed advise of sitting out evey eight or nine to recover. Most of us were geared with sod groupable stuff or better and had at least 1k aa.

85th shadowknight
85th monk
85th ranger
85th magician
85th druid
85th t4 merc healer

You need DPS big time, and I agree high mana casters,

I let 3-4 through to med, the guards will help, I moved group north west a bit, so I was out of the roaming range of guards. I popped my servents to help heal a bit to better manage mana, my enchanter only had to mez a couple, was able to keep up with spawn. I had clr, shm, enc, war, ber, mnk all 85, high aaxp, with high end grouped items. So I would kill 8-10 let one though to med a bit, then repeat. I did not have the named spawn, so no idea how tough he was.

• Use Your Mount
• Have Staunch handy if your mana pool is low
• Nuke, don't dot, stay mana efficient
• HoT and Promise your tank so you can help dps if mana allows.
• If you have to skip one, skip the giants they have more hp and hit harder
• Make a decision before you start if you are going to kill the named or skip it should you pop and not have enough room to kill him and win.
• High DPS be it melee or high mana casters, you'll need it :)

Good luck and GRATS!!

While I am not yet on this mission, I have read how hard it is. Has this mission been fixed of the bugs/ tuned down? I love the new mission types SoE has made, cept the bugs. Just give them time guys and all will be fixed, best not to get angry

Ok, so a group just tried this mission we had an Enc, Bst, SK, Pally, Ranger, and a Cleric. The Enc was mezzing charming them and would send mobs to us at 10 - 25%. But after 1 atempt with nothing going wrong, the second time the mobs would randomly drop agro. you could not attack them or cast and they would run away and go where ever and give u the 1 reinforcement's have reached Murdunks camp......Has anyone else seen this or heard of it happening?





UPDATE - Banishing mobs at a low health %'s causes that too hapen

Edited, Feb 2nd 2009 5:38pm by Talzy

Head a little into and slightly out of the path of the runners, but not to far. Zone is outdoor, so caster dps may sit on a mount. Tank tags runners when they pass by.

DPS down what you can and let pass by what you can't. Stretch the ressources to last about 30 min and just kill what you can. A full group of SOD T3 equipped lvl 85 chars made it, even having the MT ld for 4 mobs (+2 who passsed) and one char boxed. Medium around 1,5k AA per char. Setup has been: Pala, Shd, Dru, Nec, Shm, Ber. So not a specific picked hight-dps group. Still had 5 mobs come by when task was done.

3-boxing + 3 mercs groupgeard T3 likely won't get this done, you should bring 6 chars. But beeing alarmed from the rumors heard beforhead, it was much easier than we expected. We went there full buffed + equipped with any kind of useful shamy-pots. (ds, crack, heal-pots, dot extensions, foci improvements ..). DS-pot was used and some extension/focipots, but would have been ok also without any.

Suggestions:
Don't loose dps running around trying to pull, wrong spot if anyone needs to move.
Don't loose dps trying to cc, atleast if you don't have a chanter. If you get unwanted aggro, wrong spot.
Heard the chanters today can keep locked upto 10 mobs almost infinite. So if ther's a chanter, counting the mobs and start mezzing when 5-6 mobs have passed may is a viable option.

"slap in the face", "broken needs to be fixed", "if I can't do it I will leave the game" ... thought are therms to be used exclusively on the sonyboards.

Edited, Jan 28th 2009 4:10pm by Wastel

Edited, Jan 28th 2009 4:12pm by Wastel

this task is evil & needs to be redone/fixed.

mobs spawn varies 10-65 seconds after each other.. most are 45/50 sec spawns.

the count for how many mobs get past you has been off in the many times i have gone in and yes failed. sometimes the counter is right, other times it adds up 2 or 3 more then really went by. so keep an eye out. also watch for when the mission ends, you will be kicked out in a kill zone. (INVIS UP!)

keep in mind it's not a raid, it's a group misson. (3-6 players) a mission that is to get you in void e.. so you can get tier 4 (temporal molting cell). so with that in mind this mission should be set for players using tier 3 gear right? nope not the case.

1- these mobs have too many hitpoints v/s the fast spawn rate.

2- the larger mobs have even more hp (if you let then go by pick these ones)

3- note some of them run by like they got bard speed

after doing all the voids before e, getting to this last mission i was like yes i'm almost done.. and then a total slap in the face. this mission is way too hard for the gear level it is intended for.

i'm not giving up YET, but a few have and i think it's sad. i don't want to look for another game i like this one. i can only hope that they fix this other wise i am just stuck at repeating this and crossing my fingers. however; when they pop out the next expanion, when is it due? fall/winter this year? if i'm not done months before then i'm not doing it. infact if not done by then i may just join the ranks who are leaving. they are poping out too many expanions, way too fast and not fixing the bugs from the past ones. if they don't fix this quest soon it will be too late to even do this part anymore.

to those that have won this.. GRATZ GRATZ and more GRATZ!

General Lobroan has a chance to spawn as one of the reinforcements. He's not much different from all the other mobs.

I BEG TO DIFFER
this guy was heck to kill. slammed our tank for bout 7k max not much tho, rampaged, enraged, flurried, hit very fast even slowed. beware of this

EDIT:
no longer gives 180 chronos, only 60 now

Edited, Jan 16th 2009 7:57pm by Nitudzen

General Grusix spawned 3 times in our instance today and we got the cape once, a Phased Medial Luminessence, a Warped Medial Incandessence, and 2
Rallosian Imperial Shield's

we have done this misson a couple of times without much luck so far. Anyone have any points on where to fight or how did you get one or two of the mobs to pass you ?

Any help would be wonderful. Thanks