Ssraeshza Temple  

Most regular snakes have spawn time of 19m 30s... probably true of most of the trash mobs.

How to get to Ssraeshza Temple from PoK

Planes of Knowledge -> Nexus -> Netherbain Lair -> Marus Seru -> Mon letalis -> The Grey -> Ssraeshza Temple

http://www.eqmacwiki.com/eqatlas/ssraeshzatemple.html



this is for Ssraeshza Temple

The information at the top of the page says...


"Players at least 55th level no longer have to worry about keyed areas in the temple (including the Emperor's chamber)."


This info is incorrect. I am unable to get through the first locked door going to the Emperor's chamber on my level 85 toons without using the various bugs that have been in EQ since day one. The message I get is the same as always. "It's locked and your not holding the key."

Using shrink and skell Ill for necro I could get into the first 2 locked doors.
With Lev (DMF) and some many minutes playing with FD and camping.

1. Shrink
2. Ill of skell
3. Lev
4. Move on top of door
5. Sometimes Duck sometimes FD some times just camp
6. WOOT through the locked first two doors that have ledges on the top of the door.

Trip is one way as no ledge on inside of door.

Fell (Axiom) aka Dadijob or Byby Prexus

Zone out to the Deep is blocked. I tried a few minutes to play near it and did once get the message you notice a slight wind but no opening I could find

Dadijob (Prexus) TA ROCKS

Does anyone know where the temple skirmishers are located?

It seems to me that each time this zone has become a Hot Zone, even after the key issue was addressed, that the doors regain thier locking feature regardless of level. I just spent last night having to do the key quest for my 85 Pally so that he could go after the Emporer.

One item of note however is that the new Grumpy Goblin (from the Frostfell 2008 illusion quest) allows you to bypass some of the locked doors using a similar method to the shrink trick.

The zone in to The Deep seems to be blocked now in the basement.

Guy, it sounds like you know pretty much anything I want to know about SSRA, I was thinking about killing the emp, and was wondering if you still actually need the key to get into his chambers, because I was able to open the door to creator room and I have no key for it, and I know that they removed a ton of key/flags from the game. I was told you don't need a key to get into VT anymore, so I was wondering if you knew about emp room?

I guess not too much is happening there since I am the first person to post on it in nine months, and I was the last one posting here. Maybe I am obsessed with killing snakes.

In the last day, I solo'd the High Priest, Arch Lich, Creator, and Cursed Cycle.

Notes on those four collectively are that I probably had DMF for a few of the encouters, but not all of them, and almost surely I had it for the Arch Lich. I had Leadership AA's in efffect from being in a group with my boxes. I had an ATK campfire for Cursed, but not the others. I didn't die once to these guys. The wiz did evac me after the HP was dead, and loot was done becuase I needed to get to raids. The various traps and spells cast on you along the way are a pain. Ranger Potameid Salve is great for all these spells, but some are recast every few seconds so self cure is fleeting but does improve healing for the short duration of the cure. I have the keys for the keyed doors on the second floor from years ago having exp'd there. Notes on these mobs individually are:

High Priest: I cleared two guards by the door (Chapel somethings) so that I could get in, and fortunately they didn't repop real quick, so I was able to get boxes in to get loot after the HP was deceased, and in need of a priest himself. Surprisingly the HP didn't get complete healed like I thought might happen. I suspect this was from a lot of the snakes beating themselves to death on my damage shield and them also taking collateral damage if I cast Arc of Arrows, or mistargeted them after a self heal. And likely the CH'ers were dead when they would have my life rough with a CH of the HP. Later I realized I hadn't killed all of the HP's minions in the first go around, so went back and killed them all just so I could make this post. The repop time wasn't instant or nearly so quick like in the Emp's chambers, so I got lucky there. It seemed to be at least ten minutes, but I didn't time it.

Arch Lich: Didn't seem too hard, but as someone posted, make sure you are lev'd. Lots of undead snakes to clear before him.

XTC: I had both guards closeest to him repop while I offed XTC, but only one aggro'd. Repop time on these guys is ten minutes I think. DPS on this guy was mildly challenging that I remember.

Cursed: I had some unexpected company. I did the killing, but when the first snake FD'd me, the company apparently unintentionally lured off that one, and again exiled or cursed before they left. Fortunately I was able to get aggro back both times. I had some discussion with the other party regarding whose snake it was, and was hurried, had buffs waining, and didn't have time to properly think. So any benefit from the other party being there was more than out weighed by the hurried approach. During Exiled I got bugged, and couldn't cast from spell gems, but could click pots, hit Discs and AA spells. I survived that one barely (health at like 10%, and hoping I did exiled in before the 13K former DT went off again). The company left shortly after after I engaged cursed, and I was mostly on my own with cursed. I started cursed behind the 8 ball, but managed to recover. His DPS was probably as much as any of the encounters I have had there. But, I forgot to parse it.

In the past few months I did the emps chambers. The blood golem with loot was up. He was greeen to me. He was a joke. I also offed all eight of the emps guards, who were even easier than the golem. I was expecting instant repops, but it may have been more like a minute for them to repop. Once they were dead, I being in the nook with my back against the door, had a few minutes to rebuff and got no guard aggro there when they repopped, and almost hit OOC regen when the emp aggro'd me from all the way across the room and killed me in short order. I had several dot's or curses on me at once and didn't get a chance to see which ones, but I assume I had the one that prevents healing. I was dead in ? 30 seconds. I didn't get a chance to try to cure myself. I don't see anyone soloing the emp for at least several months, probably longer. Duo with a cleric is likely if it hasn't been done already.

Previously I have posted on Rhag 1, Rhag 2, the imperial guards, and maybe other mobs. I have killed the iksar slaves, and all the other easy mobs every where that I can find them. I got to 300 tailoring there and killed extensively in the basement, first and second floors. I got my VT key back when it was useful partly by killing a bunch of skelly's. The captured thought leach and the iksar slave on the third floor are not killable because they can't be aggrod so far as I know, but I tried. There is even a pair of mobs in the well in the ghetto I killed IIRC, or I explored it for sure. I tried to shadow step off of the beaten path to the rooms on the map for which there is no access, to no avail. So I probably killed all of the minor nameds that pop in the temple at some point along the way. To the best of my knowledge I have solo'd the enire Ssrasehza Temple except Emperor Ssraeshza himself, the non loot versions of the Blood Golem in the Emp's chambers, and the non loot versions of the first two cursed cycle members, and that is it. From what I read the non loot versions are the same in all ways to the loot versions, except no loot. I did kill the emp once with an uber raid of nine about a year ago.

Loot of note was: Necro got Mindpuncture from HP, and Sceptre of Paralysis from Exiled., cleric got a shawl from HP. Most of the other stuff rotted, but I took home some blood and spells because I had room.

Ranger was about 26K hp , 4600 AC mostly SOF raid gear when I did the killing most recently. Lesser gear for the other kills in the past.

Edit: I guess I didn't say goodbye to this zone yet, as I suggested I would do in the post below. There are still a few pieces of loot for my boxes. And does the key for the emp still work? Will the key work at level 1 or is the honor of paying homage to the emp only for those level 55 and higher, but no one below that can any longer hail the Emp? I will find out the next time I get a chance. (My cleric got a key for the emp at level 1 yesterday and the combine for the key still works at least.) And then there is the need to solo the Emp now that I have killed everything else.

Edited, Jun 18th 2008 1:52pm by Guyyug

Edited, Jun 20th 2008 12:36pm by Guyyug

SSRA is one of my favorite zones, and it is too bad there is little experience for me to be had there now that I am level 75. But there are still things to do besides experience.

You can read my post about the Shissar Scales Trail here: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=17378. I maxed my tailoring at 300 there today (Yeah Me!). The Shissar Scales Trail is kind of boring, but I reached my goal, and more quickly than I would have by killing mixed brown and green snakes elsewhere in the zone.

If you want a little challenge, you can read my post about Imperial Guards here: http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=7858. There is a challenge in getting there, and once there you can be uninterrupted by clueless yahoos. Shissar Scales, Sunshard Ore, miscellaneous tradeskill stuff and experience are to be found here.

Additionally you can work on your key to the Emp, The Ring of the Shissar. If you melle at all, before you say hello to the Emperor, you should get your corrupted shissar weapon by killing named skellys in the basement till you get strange green metal, and an appropriate base weapon by killing an Elite Temple Guard. The combine can be done in one of the two forges in the basement if you want. You can get the keys for the HP, Arch Lich, and XTC by getting lucky when you kill Comm 1 and Comm 2. If you are exceedingly lucky you can get a horse which is about Spirit of Eagle speed by killing Comm 1 or Comm 2. You can get one of the ten shards needed for the key to Vex Thal by killing trash skelly's at the far end of the mines in the basement. You can also get the hardest part of the Vex Thal key, which is the Plains Rift after the Emperor Ssraeshza is dead. There is the kitty mask from the Assassin, his rare drop. The Emperor also drops a White Ornate Chain Bridle, which is as fast as an SK/Pally AA horse, but not quite as fast as bard speed. I don't know how it compares to the new deck of card bridles from LON.

A lot of the details for the above activities can be found at http://www.project68.com/eq/Jolo/guides/ssra/. The author Jolo wrote a most excellent article, and I still refer to it when I need details about one thing or another.

I have spent countless hours there, and since I have done all of these things except get the kitty mask (not equipable by a ranger, so why bother?), maybe will be saying goodbye to my favorite zone of all time.

what is the down time for events?

Well, dont waste time shrouding any more to use the pick lock skill in ssra. It seems it has been nerfed. A guildie used to shroud and pick the locks in Sebilis with a gearlock. Just last night he shrouded and received the "your race/class/diety may not equip that item" message. Will have to kidnap a real rogue for a night and drag him here to finish a few emp keys.

Im really sick of people not opening their eyes about this kind of gear incase u didnt notice theres no level req meaning your level 10 or 25 w/e class it may be to use will have some pretty awsome gear for that level,alot of other gear that drops in ssra doesnt so please stop and think before u post something about a certain item being crap just because u maaay have better

Where on the third floor is this imperial guard room? Been everywhere up there except past the 2 locked doors. Do you have to have a lockpicker class to get to this room? A short detailed walkthrough from the zone in would be nice =)

Just got Eindolan Voice, Nec lvl 56, also had Ber(255), off of a Shissar Arcanist. 125 mana, 3.0(2.5) cast time, usual fear spell description, "makes your enemy flee in terror, etc..

Does anyone still have access to that excellent guide for this zone from mtakacs? Would love to get my hands on it.

Thanks in advance

I haven't seen a nice guide to ssra, so a long time ago, I started to write one. Found some time to actually finish it and publish it. Hope you enjoy. It compiles alot of information from various sources, including folks here at Allakhazam.

http://www.the-commune.com/jolo/guides/ssra/

Enjoy

Hello:

Just wanted to throw my $.02 in since I've been doing a lot of camping in the mines lately. I box a 65 Monk and Shaman team that have ornate-level gear and around 100AA each. The mines are quite a challenge with this team but aren't overwhelming.

First thing to note that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere else:

Skeletons in the mines have some initial agro against casters

Not sure if that statment is 100% accurate; but there is something that draws their attention to my shaman before a single spell is cast. Given that mobs come in groups this can spell doom. Almost every time I died it has been because of this.

To give an example, I have the monk pacify one mob and pull another. 2-3 may still come back with him. He stops before the shaman and turns to tank. Mobs still rush shaman even though she is futher away, standing, and hasn't cast a spell. Doesn't happen 100% of the time so maybe its only a single mob type that does it. Not a problem unless she eats a few HTs and gets low health aggro.

Some other things of note:

* Most mobs are SOW'ed and will run at low health
* Casters will gate
* Aggro ranges are large. Expect 3-5 on a pull without pacify
* Invis to undead will allow you to run around the mines unaccosted
* XP is pretty poor

There are probably 3 things that would bring a team down here:

* Strange Green Metal
* Dusty Soriz Worker's Pouch
* Luclid Shard

The strange green metal will drop from any of the 5 named down there. My best luck has been with Hilog Jarsith. Hilog also drops the Dusty Soriz Worker's Pouch. So, if you are after either of those I'd recommend doing his camp.

To get to Hilog get to the mines then work your way to the 3rd mine cart. This will be in an aclove on the left as you go down the main tunnel. There are 3 spawns there and Hilog's spawn is closest to the cart. The metal seems to be his common from my experience.

If you are after the shard you will want to go further in. Drops are best deep in the mines. I recommend going to the "T" intersection where you can make a left to head to the ZI from the Deep (which is 1-way unfortunately). Instead of going left go right and stop just inside the side tunnel where there are only 2 skeletons in agro range. You can fight these two, then pull the ones around them in pairs. Still not extremely easy, but easier than fighting your way down there.

Hope this helps a few of you.

Tsuyoi / Kany

Edited, Sun Jul 4 22:03:19 2004

Many see invis mobs here? How about rogue sneak/hide? XTC .... does his escort see through rogue sneak/hide?

I am hoping someone can tell me. Can a rogue pick the lock to get to high priest floor if they have a skill of 210 or does every member of raiding party need to get cmponents for the key to get in?

Also, what are the 3 mentioned components for they key?

Naline De'Praline
62 Assassin Zeb Server

Hi all looted this and was wondering if anyone knew what it used for?
Many tks in advance :)

Don't go here for xp, that's for sure. With the new xp rules, at level 60 you get as much xp from a level 45 mob as a level 52 mob. Given that most of the first floor (and a lot of the stuff throughout the whole temple) is low 50's, you'd be MUCH better off going elsewhere. Level 52 mobs quading for 270 per hit and over 1k per round (unslowed) haha. This whole zone is all about a quest grind to get keys to get to the REAL mobs which drop the good loot. In order to get there, you have to kill lots and lots of boring, underconned, no loot mobs.

Whether or not it was intended this way, best way to play this zone is to go with a HUGE raid group and just grind the mobs up, since all you want are the key pieces. Forget the single party stuff - total waste of time. You'd do BETTER with xp by going to an old world zone like seb and killing the EASY level 52 mobs.

***EDIT***
Since I first wrote this note much has changed with the way they handle xp in the game. It is NO LONGER true that level 45 mobs give as much xp as level 52 mobs, and if you can kill mobs that are within a level or two of your abilities, you start to see an exponential effect - i.e. an even con now gives you 4x the experience of a mob just a few levels lower. Since Verant has switched the xp rules, they have changed the game substantially - and made the risks of going into some of the harder zones more appropriate.

Edited, Tue Nov 26 23:47:50 2002

10 of us, 52-57, decided to check out the Temple. Our monk could single pull the first room, but past that we were getting two mobs each time. Since those Temple Patrollers hit in the 270's, keeping everyone alive until the enchanter could GoK the 2nd was a challenge!

Been looking for some info on Shissar Bane weapons. Not finding much of anything. Was wondering if someone could gimmie some info on how these are aquired, and if they are needed for anyone else in zone other than Emporer Ssra.

I know that one of the items needed is Shissar Warsword, and that the end result is a Corrupted Shissar Warsword, but to this point this is all the info i have managed to find. :\

Any info you can give would be greatly appriciated.

I'm not thinking of going to this place for fun.

I would like to know the drop rate that you are all getting here...

There are some nice lvl 50 multiple creature drops in this zone, and I'm wondering what you all got in the time frame you were there.

Is it worth trying the first level or so with a group or two, or would we wind up with the whole day gone and only one item (which I would end up rolling a 17 on)?

(Assume a couple groups who know what they're doing... that will help narrow down my responses)

Does anyone have info on How to get to the basement?

Also i am looking for information on the Key Quest and how to progress past the 2nd floor

I hope that the planned loots for this zone are implemented soon. The difficulty of the zone is way out of proportion with the loots dropped. Maybe we were just unlucky, but in about 4 hours in zone with three groups travelling on first floor and basement, we got jack and poop for loot. We did get one lvl 60 ranger spell and a trinket. Other than that, we got some of the ubiquitous claw/fang things and a bunch of scales and poison sacks...as far as i'm concerned it was a waste of time.