Tower of Rot #6: The Source of Rot  

With the magelock fragments I think the number of them that drops per kill is based off of how toons in the group have the task. As toons complete them (1 by 1 if you are looting all you need for each toon in sequential order) the number pet kill to drop will decrease. So. Divide them all out to each toon as you kill them but do not actually loot them, just have them waiting for each toon to loot. Once every toon has the required amount waiing to be looted in their personal loot then click to loot them all.. Makes it go by much faster.

Tough fight. Plus each toon working this quest has to loot the drop, which always drops as a single, so if all 6 in the group are working on this task you'll have to kill this mob 6x.

Even getting TO his room is challenging. There are 2-3 see-all-invis sperm en route. You can fight your way, but expect constant adds. I used a rogue to scout and ran a mage to safe spots to CoH the group. But no spot is really safe since the sperms wander. The room itself has a corner which is just barely out of agro range of the 2 scions with static spawn spots in the room. There are two wandering scions who pass thru the room and they'll get close enough to agro onto anyone uninvis'd in that corner. We were able to plant a campfire there and if done with care a mage can /campfire into the spot and, timing it carefully, CoH the group to this spot. You then have to clear the 4 scions to have some working room to fight Farji.

The commenter below is correct, there is no trigger dialogue with Farji. He spawns if anyone needing his drop enters the room. He won't agro until a player is very close to him. It doesn't matter if the player needing the drop is close to him, or gets the agro. Once he spawns for a player, he's "in play" and his drop can be looted by anyone in need.

He's a fairly tough fight, with a lot of HPs and aoe nuke spells that hurt. I suggest burning him down so you might just have enough time to fight him a second time before you have to deal with the scions re-popping. Once Farji dies, he comes back in a couple of minutes. You'll see warning text that he's no longer in the area but coming back soon. A group of 6 will have to deal with the 4 scions at least once and probably twice. Makes for a long stretch of almost constant fighting.



Each player has to loot 8 and they drop one per kill every time so a full group has to slay 48 of these mobs. The good news is there are a lot of spawns and they repop in 2.5 minutes. The bad news is they lurk in packs of 2 or 3, assist each other and are close to other undead mobs that assist them. There is one good camp, though. If you run around Tower of Rot for a time you learn that between the up and down ramps there's a little room that goes nowhere. On the top floor that room has a 2-spawn of the apprentices. This is a good camp to hold, due to the fast respawn timers, and you can get your drops pretty quick. There is one undead wanderer who might add unless you keep the fight very close to the back wall.

Other posts about Tower of Rot have mentioned unusual agro between walls and floors. We didn't notice this until a bad pull forced our enchanter to cast a beam aoe mez spell. This immediately aggro'd practically the entire floor of mobs plus, I think, some from below. We evacd. Incredibly when we landed on the first floor, the enchanter still had a full target window of aggro'd mobs. Presumably they were rushing down the ramps. Discretion being the better of valor, we evacd out of the zone. LOL



Suggest doing the 2nd and 3rd first since they're much easier to get to (they're close together), requiring only clearing a couple of see-all-invis sperms. With 105 spells, the best approach is to burn them down and ignore the adds. The adds will keep popping even after the altar is destroyed, so be ready for that. If you burn the altar REALLY fast, you can handle all the adds sequentially as they pop afterwards. They have very few HPs but they cannot be mezzed.

The 1st is a beeyutch to get to and then to set up for the fight. Group has to get past 2 sperms, get tight into the corner near the altar and then clear at least 4 scions to avoid adds during the engagement. A worthy challenge to complete all the Tower of Rot's partisan tasks!



Edited, Oct 8th 2015 6:59am by Sippin

Im not sure if something changed but the Fujari part of this post is totally not accurate. I spawned him and he agroed immediately no dialogue. Either he spawned adds or he pulled mobs from the adjacent rooms, in less than 30 seconds I had at least 4 scions in the room with me, needless to say it was over pretty quick lol. I did clear in and everything, the adds were not respawns.

They were more resistant than run of the mill mobs though.

The cowering apprentices are a bit special - anything magic based will NOT land on them. Tash will as it's poison based, but even after that, malos won't land nor will anything else based on magic. Thus they can't be mezzed, chanter slowed, most stuns, etc. They do not flag as technically magic immune so maybe at some point we'll be able to land magic on them when the level limit increases etc.