Lord Nagafen  

Last night was my first dragon raid on Nagafen. I was in awe, but I didnt hesitate when my group was told to attack. It was a long hard fight to be sure..just getting in, being the second wave of melee the area fear was already up. I managed to resist it the first time. The most dangerous thing besides fighting the dragon was being on the ramp and hoping like heck not to fall into the lava with all the players trying to push him back. I managed to stay alive. I did have to use Loh though, because the clerics were busy trying to save others at the time, very understandable I might add. After 15 minutes of fighting he dropped dead. Whew! Well I did get to roll of a few items, but unfortunatly didnt win anything. I was hoping to get my half of the book. There will be other times, and my good friend and fellow Paladin got the half of the book. I was happy for him. Well that was my encounter with this mighty dragon. Good luck to you all in taking on this mighty beast.

Aamadanae Whirlwind
43rd lvl Paladin of The Knights of burning Justice
and Council member of The Phoenix Legion

I am pleased to say as a first time raid leader we took down Naggy on bertoxx less than a day or so. I would say that 75% of our group had never seen a dragon raid.

However, this does not mean the dragon was easy. Don't ever take a dragon for granted. Many people do and then it is 2 hours of rezzing all the bodies.

We had 42 well balanced groups and each of the novice raiders read all the information I put up on the web for strategy. It was a little hairy due to people being in awe of the dragon when the charge came down. However, they worked hard to learn what to do and knew their jobs well before we even met in Lavastorm.

A NEW item was dropped. A Ruby crown, which at first appeared unremarkable. It had no stats to it, just a crown. Upon closer examination and using my identify song, the Crown is Indeed a LORE item. It is tradeable.

We believe the crown to be for some sort of quest and are investigating. If anyone has heard of an NPC needing a crown from a dragon, please post it here.

Thanks!
Vdayan Windrider, Nagafen Slayer

On the Bertoxx server,I got picked up for a Naggie raid tonight...I was their only shaman.Key to this guy is people and good buffs/resists.He hits very hard.I recall him triple attacking a friend for 280(wasnt pleasant)and every 10 to 15 seconds he would do one of his famous "AoEs".One being a AoE fear.The other being a fire AoE that hurts bad if you don't have high FR.Was hitting me with it for anywhere from 125dmg to 525dmg each time.We had 7 groups(42peeps)of 46+ and half were tanks.Naggie went down fairly quick.Only lasted about a minute or so.I was main healer in group and I also had to slow him.I am Lvl 51 and he resisted 2 slows from right under him so stopped with the slows and just healed.Gotta have many nukers and melee to win this one.Also a bard comes in handy...didnt get fear on any of us cause bard had song playing so all MR was at 220 or higher for everyone.Ooops forgot to mention,Buffing takes a good hour depending on buffers could be less but as I said,I was the only shaman there.After you are buffed log to a chat room and wait till told to come back so buffs dont wear of course.Not much to it really...1)Get about 40 people or more.2)Clear Fire giants(some are hard)3)Buff out side at room outside of Naggie.4)After buffed log and come back when all have been buffed.5)Bumrush Naggie and fight him on BACK wall...very important or you will end up fighting on a bridge.6)Enjoy the great loot = )


Nalicar Niteglider
Lvl 51 Mystic
Holy Redemption
Bertoxxulous Server

No that is not true about having to be 53+ in order to hit him. I am a level 46 Ranger on my first raid on Nagafen and I dealt the final blow...

You hit Lord Nagafen for 32 points of damage.
You have slain Lord Nagafen
bunch of faction hits..

HEHE /

Anyway this happened on Druzzil Ro server on June 27, 2001.

Hehe go figure.

few questions... ive been on many nagy raids, but am sort of low lvl(45) and im a mage so i stay fairly far back, so how much does his AoE do exactly? also heres the way we did it. we had a lvl 55 mage along for the ride but he never attacked, if someone in his grp was in trouble, hed just CoTH them right to the zone an they zone out, BTW he was in the tank group. we had a chanter group of 3, with 2druids and me (45 mage)
we had 5 lvl 50 warriors and 55 mage in another group, 3 52 warriors, 3 52 clerics
then there was 6 tanks consiting of SKs and rangers. 2 Sks i think and both HTs got resisted.

BTW forgot about group of shammys and druids and a group of nukers went like this 3 shammys/3druids and then 5 wizzies

the tanks all had rune 3 or 4 i forget which tho, and cle buffs, also had druid and shammy buffs, also had crappy vuffs to get dispelled, i personally gave see invis =) also gave dmg sheild cuz other mage was afraid he might get booted out of zone.

we cleared all the FGs etc. with a few lvl 55s and such

then naggy comes. we pulled with a 5 nuke salute and a few DoTs.

the tanks all taunted like mad.they used weighted axe for intial hit then they used 1hs for better taunt and since they had good haste it was awesome.

The clerics healed like mad and i think about 10 were killed in total, but 2 lives were saved due to CoTH. the Sks died rather quick cuz of HT taunt. a wiz died due to overnuke, a lvl 50 with a n00bie brain =)

it was rather easy, when we raid vox about a week from now im sure it will be MUCH harder

Yes they are. They are the parents to that horrible Dragon Sleeper, who is the reason they are in Antonica instead of Veeshan's Peak.

Are Lady Vox and Lord Nafagen mates or something? They're like connected in all monster factions.

Don't get angry at the Newbies, care for the Newbies, nurture the Newbies, have compassion for the Newbies, love the Newbies, caress the Newbies, ask the Newbies if they would like to slip into something a little more confortable...

Heres the nag strat that worked when we did him last.

Tanks : approx 20
Clerics : 4
Bard : 2
Misc casters : 5 or so

Clear fgs then make a buff party group at dragon mouth.

Buff party should do following
Crap buff 5 or 6 slots to get dispelled then say 'crap buff done'
Shaman should buff str and hps and say 'sham buffs done'
Chanter should buff haste clarity etc depending on class and say 'chanter buffs done'
Druid should buff skin line nature and say 'skin done or druid done'
Cleric should buff symbol and ac buff and say 'cleric done'

Then have each person camp to a chat room to talk about strategy.

Strategy we used with 5 groups and only 4 clerics with one death was as follows:

1) 52 monk runs in and puts on /disc stonestance and pulls nagafen to the back part of his lair.
2) rest of melee engaged
3) clerics stood in nagafens belly and did NOT sit to make sure they didnt get agrod
4) alternative healers sham druid etc healed as much as possible on their group
5) nagafen starts running at 10% hps so try to push him into lair by meleeing him toward the center of the lair. Not terribly important but a /g knock him toward center of lair! wouldnt hurt.

6) Loot.

Loot should be handled as follows:
Cloak of flames - melee classes only random. This is one of the best non quested haste items in the game so dont be jerks.
Red scale - should be randomed for paladins / warriors / bards.
Gauntlets of fiery might should be randomed between melee only. Theres NO reason a caster should get these.

You will probably have stuff that casters will random on anyway, dont try to take the prized loot.

We had blight randomed between everyone, prayer words randomed.

If you are a caster come here for high lvl kill practice, dont come here for loot. You absolutely will not get it. I'd personally kill a caster that joined for 30 mins and got a cloak of flames.

Cloak is best monk / rogue / warrior / ranger / shadowknight / paladin cloak in the game PERIOD, theres no reason it should go to anyone else.

Anyway if you follow the buff, camp, monk agro first strategy you should be successful, we were and we had a suicide party with no cleric.

Caster loot drops off of vox, so try to get the nagafen party to kill vox if they are up for it. It's basically the same strat... kill ice giants first etc. Only difference is you need a team dedicated to stunning vox.