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I was amiable when I got this task and doing it shot me STRAIGHT to ally. I thought omg that can't be right but sure enough.... Excellent faction task. And fairly easy too.

Remember when you do it that they immediately summon the crystal-clicker when you click it - each golem spawns at 95% life for that purpose. I really suggest waiting until the mobs path somewhat away from the crystals before clicking.

I did this solo with my wizard - I got lucky. Only two golems spawned where usually three is the magic number. I used both instant-cast port AAs to avoid death. Another trick you could use is buying a Vial of Swirling Smoke from alchemy vendors. They cost 1k but are instant-cast gate potions. Some might find it easier (and cheaper) to just die summon go back and click more but the vials are probably faster hehe... and less dangerous. Note that if you use the potion method, vendors that sell those potions only have a limited stock of 10 and they're lore, and when they're sold out, they won't have more until a zone crash or server reset. A lot of vendors have stocks of them though. Use Allas to look up the item for a vendor listing - if you don't have a Premium account, people listed some locations in the comments.

i just did this solo as a 80 berserker and it finished off my FC faction woot ally.

just agro one at a time and train them to a zoneline either fc or icefall and when they get close to you click if it pops a mob either train it or kill it not too hard at all.

16.3khp 2.9kac unbuffed but since killing them isnt needed can just train them out specially if you agro another mob like i did 2x :)

goodluck and enjoy the click

Call of the Hero does not appear to clear aggro for this quest. At first I thought it might have to do with the CoH landing after a summons since these mobs spawn damaged and hence are capable of summoning instantly. But the problem persists even if a toon is within melee range when they click. The mob warps to wherever the quester was CoH'd to, and the mage casting the CoH spell gets aggro as well.

Nasty little quest...

Best way to do this fast and safe is to duo with an evac class. Approach a crystal with both toons (invisd) and have the evacer start to cast group evac. Then do the click. If the mob spawns allow the evac to complete. If not, interrupt, re-invis and move on to another crystal.

You gotta time it right since the spawned mobs hit fast and hard. My wiz buffs to 13.5k and by the time the druid evac got off she was usually at 30-40% health.

Edited, Aug 27th 2007 3:37pm by Sippin

The rune has ten charges, and cannot be recharged.

If you mess up and lose a charge, you need another rune.

You must drop the task and get a new task to get another rune.

HOWEVER, you can request the task, get a rune, drop the task, and get another rune. Then you only have to turn in a used up rune after you've clicked 10 shards successfully.

(found out the hard way, had accidentially used a charge, then clicked 5 shards, and discoverd I was one charge short, had to drop the task and lost credit for those 5 shards)

On the 3rd, 7th and 10th crystal an_animate_shard popped, white or yellow to 75, 2k melee, and they pop at 94% so they summon.

As an CoA level paladin I was able to solo them by using a full mana bar.

This gives WL faction boost.