Anniversary Group Task: Infiltrating the Guardian  

Here is m quick run through and notes

I had my 115 in the instance and my wizzie merc, and 4 alts outside in the GH. However, after I killed everything and BEFORE I looted the chest, I dropped the merc and aded one more person. It never task locked.

Quick Notes:

• Nothing Summoned me
• I would suggest you put your dps merc on passive, until you stop to actually fight. that way you can train lots of mobs
• Grab all the items before you get to Assistant Gerta
• Grab Quest from Assistant Gerta
• Yes, you do have to run back to the main Quest giver at least 2 Times

So at 115, I merely buffed up and ran as many mobs as would follow me to the teleports to the next level. one I collected all the items I needed I didn't even stop. I just teleported up. nothing summoned me back or seemed to care I left them behind.

If you have your merc, keep them on passive once you have killed / looted all you need.

once you collected all the items for Gerta run back to her and do the turn in. she will tell you to go back to the main quest giver, this will be good because you need to hail him for her and the main quest line.

On your way back up from the hails, stop at Gerta and just follow the walk through, for her just say two, four, seven. It will appear to fail but it doesn't, the quest completes and you will have the achievement for the Events.

Next, run up to the top. When you attack the CPU, make sure to be standing "inside" the machine itself (you sort of just go into it and its small so it barely covers me shrunk). Outside of it I wasn't able to hit it.

Warning, between you and your dps merc (at least for me), all the adds came at once. Are they hard? No. Are they stupid, Yes. Because they all do that toss back junk, so you get thrown around a lot until they are pretty much done doing that and you kill them. Watch your caster merc, mine was being attacked by a couple and the CPU (does it even do damage???) and got down to 64%.

After killing the CPU, you will have to run all the way back down to the quest giver. Hail him and then HOOF it back up to loot the chest, which will be just next to the ramp up.

The room to pour the bleach in is right before Asst. Gerta.

I've been trying to get Hardened Steel Spur for quite some time now. I have run the mission Infiltrating the guardian pretty much every time it is up and have not seen it drop yet, thats well over 20 runs at this point, no go. Does anyone know if it even drops anymore?

2 lvl 89 characters grouped with a lvl 92 character. When i request with either of the level 89 characters it says "You can not be assigned this shared task because your party's average level is too high". wtf. No problems when i request it with the lvl 92 character though. This task is obviously bugged. No matter how you do the math as long as you do it correctly the group average is lvl 90 so it shouldn't matter which character i request the task with. Once you do get the task you can always later on add who ever you want to the task and even turn over leadership of the task to some one else. You can request the bleach from the npc that you zone in front of so its not like you have to even keep that character you originally requested and got the bleach with.

On a side note though if you are going for the 12th anniversary achievement then keep in mind that task is also level dependent. I wasn't able to request Short Circuit from Assistant Gerta with lvl 97 characters or a lvl 96 character. This seems like another obvious bug but knowing SoE its working as intended. Maybe better luck next anniversary or if they actually patch the game before the anniversary ends.

Edited, Mar 19th 2013 12:16am by Rickymaru

Cannot draw this at level 100. Had to have a 94 draw it.

To clear a few things up:
1. Final encounter the cpu now summons.

2. after you say each number a set of four adds spawn, my suggestion kill them then say next number

3. You end up doing a lot of running, highly recommend having perfect invis. Goos of any kind see invis and the Warders will see invis nothing else. Pretty easy to run around invis.

4. Add people to the task before you complete it as stated earlier everyone gets a shot at the quest loot.

You can do this with level range 80-84 as well. Task gives 99pp and ~1.2 AA's. Chest loot is the only item reward. It was a different aug than those listed, Silver Steamwork Gear, Rec Level 80, req'd 75, AC 30, HP/Mana/End 80.

90 nec, 90 chanter, 90 war, 2 cleric mercs, one wiz. Nec has all pet aa's, and VIII pet focus.

Edit to add... if you have a evaccer, a mezzer and someone else and you're all in a fellowship....
clear the first 4 sentries you meet, then do the bleach part then mez everything til you get to the room full of the big red robots. That room has the rest of the type of mobs you need.... then mez your way all the way to the top, right before Sork Hibbleton on the top floor.

, drop a campfire,,, then evac back, campfire back up, and you don't have to run all the way up...saves a lot of time.

CPU fight, hail CPU, give code, back off, have chanter cast horrifying visage on pet, pet taunt on, send pet, chanter tashes, slows CPU, merc wiz on balanced.. I hold merc wiz off for a couple of seconds to let pet get good agro...(necro pets suck at agro) Hit all discs and robe and burn.... adds pop but don't/won't agro pet.....

CPU is dead in a minute or so. Feign often, cuz if you get summoned, you get all those adds on you, and then you have to clear them all...which sucks...plus it's probably a wipe or semi-wipe. I imagine this is much easier with a mage/beast pet, or merc tank..my pet's health gets kind of low. It has died once, Nec got instantly summmoned....and that one time, I had about 12 mobs to split and clear and ....yeah, it takes a while. Wiz merc has never gotten summoned. Neither have the clerics, using the pet tank strat.

Adds that spawn don't see invis, neither do the mobs by the quest guy. Head up the ramp by him, aoe mez the 3 gnomebots, blur, hail quest guy, loot chest, gate.



Edited, Apr 13th 2011 9:46pm by Bonesmasher

Task locks when you open the chest.

Had "Bipolar Interlock" drop in this instance. Though it has the same name as the lvl 90 version, the stats are differing. Doing a ";<link item>" results in different ID's in game, though a can not loot message (lore item) appears and you can not loot it.

So, the verdict is don't expect to do the lvl 90 version and then the lower level one for another set of augs; it's one or the other!





Only the request can be of a lower level, the rest of the group can be level 90. The mobs con light blue to dark blue for a level 90 character in the lvl 85-89 instance.

Edited, Mar 26th 2011 12:10am by Cylius

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Edited, Mar 24th 2011 2:16pm by Morbidso

Is it possable to get both Hardened Steel Spurs? The 90 one with 38ac 125hp and the 85 one for 36ac and 100 hp or are they on the same lore group?