DoD Level 69 Spell #3: The Search for Clues  

i attempted this mission again today 2/23 and i have done this mission many times before by using my necro to pull the boss to zonin on hard mission... well first pull went as ussual we killed to 50% then his adds spawned and we zoned they cleared and i went back to pull him again and it wont allow any spells to be cast on him or anything to agro him i tried hailing him i tried pulling another mob on top of him i sent pet at him nothing works... the mission text is still the same has anyoen done this mission since all the patches???

I just want to get this thing done so that I can start using my L69 spell since I already have my L70 one. I am reading alot about pulling with pet to zoneline and then zoning back in to actually kill the mob. I can see this working the first time, but when the named gets to 50% and pops 2 adds, once adds are dead and he has poofed to NW room will he not still have aggro on the entire group? If I just want to get the mission done for spell purposes would I be better off just clearing to named and killing him to 50% then invising to NW room (or killing any see invis along the way) and killing him the rest of the way in there?

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Just Dropped from HARD mission.

My group and I did this with 66 Airpet as Tank. We did the Normal Version.
70 mage 70 cleric (2)70 Shammies 70 Druid 66 BeastLord

Wicyl, the Watcher was not slowable for us. we cleared the first 5 mobs at entrance of the Zone.

The we sent druid down with pet with cammo on us and herself and she set up pet to attck wicyl and run him to zone.

We pulled him to zone just a bit to the left of the entance under a hanging coocoon so on rezoneing of druid from losing aggro she would not aggro wicyl.

The zone in drops you over top a green cocoon in about about 75 ft away from the zone out door in the instance.
So make sure you get wicyl far enough away incase you have to zone back in and rezz everyone trust me we know this from experince.

Once we had him in place we went to buffing. Mage Air pet had all AAs maxed with pet affinity and had pet teir 2 Aug strength. The DON misson one.

We buffed pet with Cleric symbol Bailkor, Druid Steel Oak Skin and shammie buffs. Mage Ds and every other buff you could stick to him.

Mage used Suspened minion for a back up pet just incase their was a problem. Trust me its good to have.

With Both Air pets buffed and shammie pets and Beastlord pet We engaged Wicyl.

Everyone healed Airpet chained casting heals along with mage heals and mage doted and nuked carefully not to get aggro.

Shammies doted as well as crippled.

Wicyl hits hard and fast a couple times the Airpet was at 2% hps before getting a heal landed.

We burned wicly down to his 49% and popped the 2 broodtenders.


The shammies had root and the druid had snare ready and rooted and snared the 2 adds.

The Airpet and all other pets went to finish them off.

Once those were done we buffed up and got mana back up and readied to repeat the pull of wicyl to Zone in.

We finished this with Np and mage didnt have to bring up the suspended minion on that fight.

we ended up getting our augs and one of the shammies won the Blood Fire Wand.

It was fun we did it in 3 hours using no tank.

Hopefully this helps anyone who cant find a tank a lot of the times.


Dalinsia Silverwolf of Lanys on 7th Hammer
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Edited, Sun Feb 19 14:33:10 2006

I can verify RottnBlackheart post -- excellent idea.

We did this mission with all lvl 70's. At first we tried to do it the traditional way, clear to named, attack there, evac with wiz. But after 2 wipes and wasting 4 hours, decided to keep main party at zone in & just pull Wicyl there. Died twice doing this but was able to pull him both times (2nd time after he warped) and killed him pretty easily.

I suggest everyone do the mission this way. There is really no excuse for plowing to the named unless there are see invis mobs in the way. Of course the puller will probably die in the process so use a ranger. ;-)

A few notes from my experience.
1. We had no see invis mobs in the way other than one wanderer that didn't roam into our path.
2. Nothing other than Wicyl summoned.
3. The 2 adds that pop when fighting Wicyl the first time are mezzable but highly resistant (chanter had to mezz them each after tash).
4. Wicyl will cast a root-like dot thus he can't be kited.

Ok I box 6 toons on this mission and I have figured out how to do it in about 30 minutes. It was pain in the but at first but the trick to it is have a pet class invis and get close to wicyl .. have pet guard right there .. then walk away from pet far enough that he will still attack your target .. target wicyl pet attack .. and run to zone .. he will follow you with a huge train of mobs ... zone out to clear aggro and then zone back in. Wicyl stays where you pull him too .. just repeat until he is at the zone in single. Then all you have to do is kill till at 50 percent .. he warps away .. and you pull him back to zone the same way you did before. Viola I have killed him about 10 times this way now. All on hard setting. Btw he is immune to slow so have descent tank or cleric with good mana pool. Gluck hope it helps

Did normal task on this today. Wicyl didn't port away on us, just walked. For pet classes : pet won't stop attacking once invulnerable, so unless you call it back, expect a train heading your way.

These missions are rather easy. I've done all 3 of the first ones with 13.5k monk and his 8k hp/mana shaman box that has a slow stick. I play an 11k hp bard and box a level 69 cleric with 6k hp/mana + ft 16. We had no trouble at all, just take your time and they are easy.

For mission one, We just plowed the whole top level of the zone including the insides of the towers and got all 9 books.

For mission two, we cleared around the mushroom at the entrance, also clearing the treehouse somewhat, after we got about 7 shrooms we cleared to the south of that and got the rest before we got to the fork.

For mission three, we just invised to the entrance of the southwest room, killed the 2 roamers in that tunnel, then invised to the room with Wicyl, killing the add first, then pulling him to the SW edge of the room, at 52 %, all but to the monk invised to the zone in. After that we invised to the north west room, and basically killed the roamers, and the first mob to the left of the entrance of the room. We pulled him there and viola, we won.

Cocoon Skin Gloves dropped on Wicyl's corpse after killing him. Won this expedition easily with a Time/elemental geared group.

AC: 17
STR: +12
DEX: +12
STA: +12
WIS: +12
AGI: +12
HP: +195
Mana: +195
End: +195

Rec level of 70, Req level of 63.
WT: 0.7 Size: Med
Class: DRU MNK BST
Race: All
Slot 1 type 7

On hard, Wicyl dropped Dark Web Bowl.

also, the hard reward for casters was Bloody Drachnid Collarbone. melee reward on hard was Drachnid Bone Mantle.

There's some few who see invis, though it isn't a very big deal. Clearing in works well enough, if there's too many in the way.

Maybe it isn't so in the easy version, but there were like 3 see invis ones in the way.