Lord Nagafen  

Naggy killed on Quellious 12/28. Dropped Pally book, Heiro Crook, Bladestopper, 100% wt. reduce bag, Gaunts of fiery might, very easy fight. Minimum deaths in groups with bad clerics, everyone in my group lived.

Fradik
45 Dorf cleric

3 drums dropped today along with that gimp Shammy hammer, no book or COF though.

Naggy is hard like dragon in WW...take around 25-30 person and go attack in same time...don't make attack wave because it's the best way to make your group down fast...cause when Naggy change target(aggro on a other) he doesn't attack...so if all tank taunt and all nuker cast Naggy will always change target so he will not attack =)

Well last night I went on my very first raid. A level 49 cleric of very humble means whose highest resist is 30 actually got invited to a raid! It was interesting to say the least. We were 30 people of varying attributes and we, of course, buffed alot of stuff then the more important ones. Hehe my mr resist was down near the bottom of a second row of buffs.

Since I have never been on a raid, I am the last to criticize but we obviously did something not quite right, though I heard Naggy had gotten to 10% at one time. I was in group two, though a few seconds after group 1 went in, we were all told to storm Naggy. Okay, I run in, see my tank getting hit, start casting and need to move even closer. Get the heal off but then feared again and again. Obviously the first problem was they invited me to be a part of the raid. =-(

I wonder if perhaps a slightly less enthusiastic assault would have been better? Maybe 1 battle group folowed by a second battle group about 30 secs later, mostly fighting just inside door and maybe clerics wouldn't be so deep in the lair? And maybe a slight retreat by the first battle group to get rebuffed and healed? Then perhaps the full force wave charging into lair?

I really do not know. I met alot of new and wonderful people and a few that were say less then ideal when it was over and voiced their opinions in less than gentle ways. I know someday, if I am ever to get my epic before I am 53 (seems stupid that you can't help kill Naggy when Ragefire is being camped), I need a lot more experience and teaching. I can only hope that the after fight invite to a Vox raid was sincere and that someday I will get to go again on a raid, successful or otherwise.

Off the side: After dying 7 times I quit marking deaths. Miraculously I only lost a little xp when I must have looted a non-ressed corpse. To those that led this raid and invited me, I thank you very much, IT WAS GREAT!

I will go on any raid with these guys. Think it was mostly timing and not quite heavy enough on true warrior classes for initial assault.

Laleldil Tremulous
Tholuxe Paells

IF anyone knows if the half of the book of scale for the paladin epic drops everytime off of Naggy and Vox and could elaborate please feel free. Or is it a random drop from these two evil dragons?...Please respond

Arncuss Allympus
49th Level Paladin of Prexus

Okay, okay, I lied. I have seen one of the worse naggy drops ever. 3 shamans toys and lucky a CoF. Every shaman walked away with there naggy droped and immediately put into the bank or sold it. Grats to the warrior who won the CoF. Grats to the monk who won the mithril legs (don't ask).

My search for the guants continue!

How the heck do you rate these little bepers?

He spawns once a week so anything off him is rare(well if its any good)

The red dragonscale is also used for the warrior epic- Jagged Blade of War. Very hard, very frustrating epic for us warriors but i pity the mages who wanna do there epic.

Renaldan Firybane
55th Warrior of the Rathe

Just came off from my first Naggy raid and wanted to check the drops on him so I thought I'd post a little about my experience too.

First of all this was a pickup raid. This is not a recommended strategy but for those of us that doesn't have the means to fill up the raid with our own guild this is probably the only way to get to see Lord Nagafen without instant death as a result =). Why isn't this a good way of raiding? Well, the reasons are obvious, you get alot of "trash" and by that I mean people in their low teens that doesn't really have the maturity level to sit still, be quiet and follow the shouts of strategy from the raid leader. No flame here, it's just a fact. Also, you get alot of redundant classes from what would be considered an optimum constellation for killing the Lord. You also get a huge number of people that doesn't trust each other and have no bonds of loyalty to each other. Anyway, the raid was open and there was about 70 to 80 people there, WAY too many in my opinion. Lord Nagafen can be taken with far less if you had the right classes for the job. The lvl range has an upper cap as you might know and the leaders decided 43 as the lower cap.

Strategy as called out by the RL was that he aggroed it, got it to the doorway at the top of the stairs. There the call came for the tanks to get in the fray and that we did. We were doing fairly well and soon the Lord was on his way to 50 percent health. Healers were of course behind us in the stairwell casting heals for all they were worth. This is where the problems kicked in. In the effort of getting to Naggy groups were spreading out a bit thin, meaning among other things that bards got out of range as well as some healers (as I said, there were too many people there and one couldn't move unhindered). Due to the long startup time the buffs were starting to wear off which meant tanks were dropping like flies. When the Lord was at 50 percent health the call came for the nukers to start their casting. Another problem arose as the Lord was being pushed into the lavalake by us tanks. This meant we had to back off to give him room to get up again which of course meant more spells from Naggy =)


My buffs were wearing thin by this time and I was feared and then nuked a couple of times for some very nasty damage. One nuke did about 500 ( not sure though, I might have misread this in the excitement of the fighting) or so while others settled for 250 plus. At this moment, tanks lying all over the place, I got the message: "Lord Nagafen has summoned you" which of course was quickly followed by "You were slain by Lord Nagafen" So, almost no tanks left, Naggy bit into the casters. A wizzy friend of mine dropped and then, finally, the Lord went down.

Luckily we had managed to engage a cleric with a stick so resses were smooth (thank you very much for your time and help Hackete). This is the part where people stop trusting each other btw. RL was immediatly spammed by most of the trash on the raid demanding to know what stuff dropped and with allegations of him making off with the loot.

Thing to understand is that it takes time to sort out loot and then have it distributed. Loot order was NBG which is a good one but as always people have differentiating opinions of who needs what.

Drops were:
Orb of Tishan
Bladestopper
Blight, Hammer of the Scourge
Gold Plated Kashiasdfhasdjhfasdf
Treasure hunters satchel

Orb went to caster, hammer to a shaman (of course), Gold Plated to a rogue, satchel to monk and the Bladestopper to a 44 cleric (really funny btw, I still have a shield of Kurn, 10AC, 10sv magic so i wonder what the cleric had that motivated his need over mine, maybe a wooden shield? =) ).

Improvements:
Try to do this with your own guild and if that isn't possible get together an alliance with another guild that you know and trust. Decide your tactics before hitting the dragon and by that I mean define what classes should be there, the group constellations and of course how many people you need. A nice tank group is for example made up off a cleric, a bard and tanks/damdealers.
Keeping the Lord out of the lava is an important move and you should make sure your tanks are aware of this and can adapt by starting to bash him from another direction if needed. Keeping the groups tight is another important move even though it's a difficult one. if a tank or any other member is feared the cleric MUST STAY WITH THE GROUP and not try to save the groupmember by running after him and trying to heal. Fear will go away and he can get back to the group after that, or he dies and has to be ressed. Such is life when raiding =) Having a clearly defined loot strategy will save you alot of grief when distributing loot. And lastly, having people of the right mind, so to speak, will greatly reduce your preparation time meaning that buffs wont drop in midfight. Oh, I almost forgot, Naggy dispells so an important strategic move is to have 4 or so junk buffs at the top of your buffstack. These can be whatever (see invis, ultravision and so on) and will prevent him from dispelling the more important buffs, at least not right away =)

Phew, this became much longer then I thought it would be but what the hell, hope you got some useful information fro your own future Naggy raid and good luck. If I sounded bitter about the shield, well, it's cause I am, lol. Imagine, 25ac, 15sta and it goes to the cleric. Oh well, next time it will be with my own guild and at least i have now seen The Lord Nagafen himself and gotten some useful pointers about what NOT to do. Don't get me wrong, i want to thank the RL's, they probably did what they could with the people that was there.

47 shadowknight, The Rathe (where Nagafen now has to wait another week before he can get a meal of tanks again).

A friend of mine went on a Naggy raid wiped him out in like 2 mins he claimed...SURE!!!