Trakanon  

<Club Fu> On Bristlebane killed Trakanon with one group, though from what i've heard there were 2 other groups ready to take over if they failed.

Quite an achievemant.

How PO'd would you be if you camped this guy, he killed everyone at least once and then dropped a Wild Lords Tunic, WHOO HOO, this item really needs to drop off something a little more reasonable, don't you think.

OK me and my 3 cleric friends where on our way with about 10 warriors , 5 wizzys, 3 druids, 3 chanter, another 15 paladins and SK's plus 7 rogues how didn't even get to BS, 2 shammys, 2 monks, 4 necros, 2 rangers, and 5 mages. Most of us were level 55+. Do you know how many revivineces I was giving out per minutes? About 2 and that didn't include healings. It took forever to get this guys down. He hits way to hard and can reach too far to measure. He also has some of the most painful spells to ever feel. But after we got him down he had some good loot. So maybe it was worth it.

Thender Healzu
Druzzil Ro
Dark Elf High Priest of the 60th healing

My guild, Bellatoris, on the Tholluxe Paells server, just took Trakanon down tonight. He dropped 2 Cloaks of Piety, and 3 teeth.

Here is the tactic we used to kill him:

Clear all the Juggernauts around him, including the ones in his lair. Our puller did this without aggroing Trakanon, so it can be done. Tolapumj was left until after we finished Trak off.

The first wave of people we sent in were somewhat of sacrifices. We sent in a chanter to Tash him, a druid to dispell, and a shadowknight to center him in his lair. Positioning trak in the middle of his lair is important so that Tolapumj does not add during the fight. This first wave was sent in for the above reasons, as well as to take the first wave of his AE.

Yes, Trakanon does banish people out of his lair, not sure where, but expect to have to corpse summon those who are banished after the fight. He also blinds, but it doesn't appear to be AoE. I was within his AE range during the entire (short) fight, and I was never blinded.

After the first wave of AE was triggered, we then sent in the melee and clerics to start working Trak over. Casters stayed behind at this point. After Traks second round of AE (the tanks established aggro during this time), the casters came in and started to nuke Trak down, dumping as much mana as possible at that time. He has only 32k hp, so it's not a long fight.

His Poision AE does about 1500 damage a pop, and his dot sucks. More people died after the fight than during. Clerics may want to keep abolish poision memmed as well as Word of Vigor for curing poison. One shot of abolish poison cured targets I was able to save.

Other than the positiong of Trak and sending in the three waves mentioned above, standard Naggy tactics apply.

Cayanna Antistita 56 Templar of Bellatoris

****,im 55 monk and i was pulling juggers around him he just did a 1500 DD on me then AE and few hits i was dead in couple seconds i had 3600hp

TOTAL RECAP OF IMPORTANT INFO
(this post contains references to other posts, just do a find for the poster's name to find the original)

This should help people trying to find info on Trak, and is intented to spur discussion. Please reply if you have anything you feel needs to be added. :-)
-(self-appointed) Incantator Drak[oran] d`Aerekast
chanter, Povar

I put a double asterisk (**) next to important things to note.

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The poster "(Scholar) Dread Lord Gudeldar" did a great job on posting the effects of Trak's breath attack. Here are the important stats:

Gudeldar says, "Thats 1500 dmg every minute [from DoT]..." **

[Effect Name:] Poison Breath
Adding 9 Poison counters **
DoT for 750000 Hit Points (HP) in 5000 ticks
Decrease Current Hitpoints by 1200 (L1) **

Skill: Instantaneous
Area Effect Range: 300 feet **

Spell Duration: 5000 ticks (500.0 minutes)
Duration Formula: 11
Recast Delay: 35.0 seconds **

Spell cast on you: A green mist seeps into your skin.

>> Why don't you have the guild shamen make antivenom potions?
It would help a lot... does any shaman know the component
cost of an antivenom, and how many poison counters it removes?
>> Also note the nasty 1.2k hp DD... if you aren't hp buffed, you're
screwed it seems. :-)

|----------[Recap of Mazot's Post (on poison):]

Mazot said that Trak has a tendency to transfer aggro to
the shroom king room. **

Mazot states he had 300+ PR (thanks new Luclin bard song). **
"His poison still ate me up two of the three times."
"One time only I completely resisted the poison. I didn't die,
but was reduced to frantically binding wounds ** to keep up,
since the clerics were dead or busy at the end of the fight."

"...the dying doesn't stop when [Trak] dies. People just keep
on keeling over." **

>> Should the guild clear the shroom king room first?
>> Remember that anti-poison song! :-)
>> A high bind-wound skill seems to help the individual person,
but _nothing_ beats a cleric on a Trak raid apparently,
so don't let them die (duh). Perhaps you may wish to keep a safety
cleric alt with FM for after the raid to heal poison.
Does anyone know how often clerics get aggroed on when fighting
Trak? Should clerics be dot healing, normal healing, or CHing?

|----------[Recap of Beric's Post (on adds):]

"Problem was more the juggernaut adds aggroing our clerics
than trac actually. We were prepared for 2 juggernauts and
had warriors designated to tank them while the rest of us
attacked trac. Screenshots indicate that at least 5 juggernauts
added."

>> Ew, that was nasty. :-( FYI Sebilite Juggernauts are lv54-58 and look
like big naked Iksar golems *Drakoran cringes*.
( link to mob: http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=4570 )

>> But... does anyone know what is the tendency to get adds
when fighting Trak??? What camps are nearby and is training a problem?

>> Why didn't the chanters mez or charm them onto Trak?! :-) That's what
I'd do. =P That would have allowed the two tanks and clerics to fight
Trak, while you are doing extra damage to Trak as well (a few k-hp)
via the charmed mobs, while the mobs absorb an absurd amount of damage.
>)

|----------[Recap of yoswamp's Post (on PR):]

"i've been three times. all with 257 sv poison. first 2 times i lived.
i have only resisted it twice, probably been hit 7 times. was lvl 58
at the time, level counts too. so to answer your question 250sv poison
minimum IMO."

|----------[Recap of 's Post (on killing Trak):]

"Next, sacrifice someone to take the AE poison for the first blast
then tank the ***** till its dead. If your casters get in the attack,
make sure they do it after the first AE.

I would recommend keeping them in the far back corner - NOT SITTING
DOWN (casters that is) and have only one tank near where he spawns
(maybe keep folks back near the bridge till first AE). once the AE
hits, call in the rest of your tanks.

5 groups, 55+ take him out pretty fast."

>> This post is FILLED with useful insight and some good info.
May I propose the idea of using a low lv alt to take the
AoE Poison? :-)

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Other questions that have been nagging me include: how much aggro does tash do to Trak? Can Trak be debuffed as well?

Also note that Trak has a lv60 chanter froglok assistant. Tolapumj ('jumpalot' spelled backwards) can be found outside Trak's lair with 2 Jugs according to ('sage') Mandicus Lifescourge, as posted under the Tolapumj forum. More info can probably be found there.

Tolapumj forum: http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=4572

Hope this helps and please post if you have any other useful info. :-)

I can't see that anyone here has mentioned Trak's tendency to transport the current aggro target to the shroom king room, which is worse than DTing imho.

The poison is crazy. I'm level 56, done three Trak raids (we've won all three times, btw), and had PR over 300 (thanks new Luclin bard song). His poison still ate me up two of the three times. One time only I completely resisted the poison. I didn't die, but was reduced to frantically binding wounds to keep up, since the clerics were dead or busy at the end of the fight. Weird killing Trak, because the dieing doesn't stop when he dies. People just keep keeling over.

He's not the toughest dragon maybe, but it's not an easy encounter.

it said on the title up there that Trak is 'undead.' if he is, does that mean all our measly level 22 undead only spells will work against him? =P hey, it might help...