Valdoon Kel`Novar  

Lvl 72 ranger headshotted

He's white to a lvl 75.. Radiant took him out 12-28-06 on Quellious for Paladin epic 2.0

Confirmed tonight that you must have at least part of your raid force (we had 10 folks) in Felwithe when the paladin triggers this expedition. We had most of the raid force waiting in LFay ready to zone in. Also the maximum is now 54 in raid.

Does anyone know how often he casts the curse? Continuously or every 30 or 60 seconds, or ????

Also do all the adds come from the hallways? Do any pop in his room and are they timed or do they pop at certain hp%?

Thanks for any help!

Have fun!
Ardnasc

Some random musings on the paladin 2.0 version of the Valdoon encounter:

Fought our way through the zone with 24, about half bots, mains were in qvic level gear, bots were in elemental or below (I think)

Didn't have a pulling class so got typically 3-7 mobs per pull, fewer once we started using a chanter. Killed the 3 Guardians of the Kel'Novar in the zone. This knocked Valdoon's hp down to 85%. We moved towards the westernmost room in the zone, where Kel Novar was located. (There's a fake Valdoon Kel'Novar in the northern-most room. Ignore him) When you get there, you'll need to clear the mobs in the room with him, and to be safe we pet pulled the closest few from the hallway behind him. He's relatively easy to hear. I think we had 3 clerics and a druid doing a CH chain on him. At about 3 minute intervals 3-4 adds charge in from the hallway you came in through. They hit for about 1k each, but have pathetically low hp. (I (paladin) killed one in about 15 seconds). If they manage to get to Valdoon, he kills them and absorbs their hp to heal himself. This is bad.

The most annoying part, and the one that'll kill you if you have undergeared people, is the AE lifetap (listed above). It needs an immediate RGC or higher level radiant cure, so you will need a curer in each group dedicated solely to that.

One extremely annoying thing that isn't mentioned here is his other AE, Seneschal's Petrification. It's an AE mez, unresistable. Fun stuff.

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=4134&source=Live

Overall, I'm pretty sure it was the lack of curing that killed us. With an efficient cure team this fight could be done with the 4 groups we had. Too many were botted and focusing on other stuff unfortunately.

Good luck to other paladins trying this event.

Edit: Tried this event again today, had one dedicated curer in every group and amazingly enough, a Psalm of Veeshan bard in every group. We focused on the adds when they popped, and they went down in 10 seconds or less, then went back to Valdoon. He died in 3-4 minutes. AE mezz was the most annoying part of the whole thing. (Also, -100 chromatic is inaccurate for whatever reason. With 600 to all resists I got hit by all but 2 AE's)

Edit 2: It appears the location of the 'true' Valdoon changes, the first two times we did this he was in the west room. The third time, he was in the north room. If you're doing this, clear to the Valdoon who's at 85% after you kill the Guardians.

Edited, Sun Jan 22 08:34:16 2006

Hi

AE : Curse of the Kel'Novar ( lucy link : http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=4199&source=Live )
Single Target Proc : Claw of the Kel'Novar ( Lucy link : http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=4133&source=Live )

This MOB is from an instanced event in LDoN for the Paladin Epic 2.0.

how can they tell its level is 75 when noone is close enough in level to be able to tell. for all they know if it is red to a level 65 it could be only level 68. where do they get level 75 from. just wondering.