General Notes:
1st off... definitely try out the /dance command while in this MM. It is... awesome to say the least.
For 3 boxing use Clockwork Infantry (Warrior) for all 3. The rogues HP is too low and the Juggernaut is too slow and big to maneuver in well in the tunnels.
There are 3 objectives and a one hour time limit:
Kill 40 Goblins
Free 10 Gnome Hostages
Loot The Chest That Appears At The Entrance After Completing The Above Two
You'll have plenty of time to free the hostages following this guide. Your only concern for losing will be dieing too many times. 8 total deaths within the group will end the task. To avoid this: DON'T FALL IN THE LAVA AT THE START, for some reason any time I do this with other people at least one of them falls in and dies repeatedly. Also kill wizards first, then other casters, then rogues, then warriors. Finally, if a goblin is fighting by himself or if he's the last one alive then he might run at 20%. Watch all goblins when they approach 20% to make sure they don't run. If they do use a net launcher (clicky snare). If your out of snares then at 25-30% have 2-3 toons cast a nuke so that it goes straight from 25-30 to 0% without giving it a chance to run. The infantry have a clicky slow on their offhand weapon, a repair kit (clicky heal, use it lots as it recharges fairly fast) 3 clicky snares, as well as some click nukes and heat sinks (clicky haste, run speed increase and fire resist.) Save the heat sinks for when there are 3+ mobs or you towards the end of the mission. I recommend putting your heal and snares on your potion belt.
There are two setups of gnomes that overlap. 6 gnomes that will always be there (denoted by **) and then 4 gnomes that will either be in the south setup (from here on SS) or the east setup (from here on ES). At about 20 minutes in a system message will tell you which setup you have but you will be able to tell before then by following this guide. So all set? Lets go.
Start off by following the path around and killing the goblins on the way. At the first intersection you come from the north and can go east, west, or to the south there is a drop down and a door. Drop down and you will find your first gnome <** loc -578, -545, 42>. Then go south through the next two doors. Your now in a room with a big metal gate that you can click to raise and 3 goblins
The goblin just to the right of the door will aggro the other two if he runs to you. Instead run right up to where he is and kill him where he's standing. Then leave you group just inside this room and pull the two behind the metal gate to you. Kill them. You will leave your group here for the next two pulls. If by accident you get a lot of adds (don't take on more than 4 goblins) it's better to let the puller die without engaging than have your whole party wiped.
Send your puller south through the metal gate then through the door to the west. There is a four way cross roads. To the north are some stairs. If there is a goblin up them pull him to the group and kill. Then send puller back through metal gate, back through west door and this time go south at the cross roads. In the room to the south pull the goblins to the group. Be careful of adds here as you can sometimes get unlucky and get as many as 4 adds for a total of 6. Once the goblins are dead. Take your whole group into the room you just pulled them from.
To the east is a door. Go through it. To the south is a large double door. If there is a gnome <SS loc -766, -528, 56> in this room when you come in you have the SS. If not you have the ES. If you have the SS free the gnome. Regardless of which go through the double door to the south. In this room there will be two goblins and a gnome <** loc -845, -523, 42>. Kill the goblins and free the gnome. Your path now splits depending on which setup you have.
Instructions for SS:
After freeing this gnome you can go further south into the room to see lava. To the west of the lava you can drop down and follow a tunnel west. Do so.
The tunnel will have an intersection going further west or turning east. Go east and you'll immediately come to your next gnome <SS loc -856, -475, 19>. Free the gnome and continue along the east tunnel. The tunnel will curve around go up some stairs and come to a door facing west. Inside the door is a gnome <SS loc -824, -442, 37>. You can kill the goblins inside or just open the door and hail the gnome from outside.
To the north are more stairs and then a turn west. Go up them and you'll come to another door to the west. Inside is yet another gnome <SS loc -787, -417, 56> and more goblins. Go inside and liberate the poor thing. Then go through the door to the south and kill the goblins in the next room. This room has an exit to the west. Take it. Your now in a room with 3 doors. The one you came through to the east of you, one to the north, and another one to the west.
The door to the north is a dead end two-section room with 3 goblins and a gnome <SS loc -775, -328, 59>. After inviting the goblins to lunc... err crunch, free the gnome. Then take the door to the west. The hallway your in now curves around north then east without any intersections. At the end is a walk through wall to the east. Go through it and keep going east until you come back to the room with the metal gate.
Instructions for ES / Last part of SS.
If your on the SS path you've just completed the above. Skip to the next paragraph and your in the room with the metal gate. If you have the ES path you just free the gnome and you can go back through the big double door to the north of you. Do so. In this room there are doors on the east and west side and two tunnels to the north that curve around into each other. Go into either tunnel and on the north side you'll see a big window. Jump out it and your back in the room with the metal gate.
Go north through the barred gate and there will be a door to the north that you originally came in and a second door to the east. Choose the east. Up the stairs and free the next gnome <** loc -579, -610, 54>. Behind the gnome is a walk through wall. It's a miracle! After the walk-through wall go east and kill the two goblins in the room at the end of the hall. From this room turn south and go down a few stone steps to your next gnome <** loc -615, -671, 48>.
From this gnome turn around. To the north are two passages: to the north west the one you just came through. To the north east.... well go north east and out onto a rock ledge over lava. The rock ledge turns east and from it you can see and hail the next gnome <** loc -497, -747, 43>.
Follow the rock ledge east and keep going east until the tunnel curves south. Follow it south and then it comes out in front of some lava with a narrow path going north-east. Follow the path north east to some more goblins and a gnome <** loc -542, -931, 41>. If you have the SS then this is your last gnome. Free it, finish your 40 goblin kills if you need and return to the entrance to loot the chest.
Last part of the ES:
If you have the ES then just free the gnome and the path ends to the east of you with lava and land on the other side. There is a gnome <ES loc -518, -1001, 43> on the other side. Swim across the lava and free him. From here there are two bridges you can click to lower. One going north, the other east. Lower the east one. The following tunnel you can follow north without an intersection for a while. Kill the goblins along the way.
When the tunnel finally turns west you'll immediately see another gnome <ES loc -225, -1185, 49> right at an intersection. The intersection goes back around the corner to the east where you just came from, continues west, or turns south and goes down an incline to a door. Free the gnome and continue west a short bit to a door on the south wall. Go in the door.
Your now at about the last part of the mission for the ES. Your standing just inside the door on the second level of what looks like a stone fort. You wan't to kill the goblins in here to the left of where you came in and you will find a door on the east side of the fort to go in. Once your inside you can kill the goblins. From here you should have more than reached your 40 kill count. The remaining two gnomes can be reached by a suicide run.
After going inside the fort turn around. Your facing the door you just came in to the east and right next to it is a path leading out on to the ledge of the fort. The runner will jump down and turn around. The next gnome <ES loc -306, -1115, 35> is directly beneath the ledge. Free the gnome and then run like crazy to the west and through the tunnel. This tunnel will have no more intersections before reaching the final gnome <ES loc -277, -1004, 45>. The gnome is just across a short stone bridge over some lava. Once free the runner can die and respawn at the entrance.
Once your group at the fort has confirmed the runner free'd the gnomes (rarely the runner can get rooted and killed before reaching the last one) then everyone returns to the entrance to loot the chest.
Congrats you've just successfully completed the clockwork mm.
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