Miragul's Menagerie

Just wondering if anyone else has had trouble in this zone. I would like to get points here for a really nice ranger BP so yesterday I did several pickup groups here. I ended up with 1 win and 3 losses on the day. Very frustrating. Each group was well balanced with 65's. I make groups with cleric, chanter, BL, ranger(me), and any 2 high dps classes.

The missions we chose were an assassination, a rescue, a kill certain #, and collection. The only one we won was the kill certain #. The other 3 we timed out. We always had a mob in camp and had very good dps every time. The worst is the collection as we got 10 drops right away then no drop for a very long time.

One common theme was that I downloaded maps for the new zones and the 3 failures that we had all had the same configuration (of which my map was only drawn about 10% of the zone). So, perhaps the difficulty isn't so much with what mission you take, but what zone config and mobs you are given.

I have done several missions in other themes but never had this much trouble. Anyone else finding Miragul's a bit more difficult than other themes to complete on time?

Penamian
65 Forrest Stalker of Karana (Run Forrest!)

So far ive watched closely the exp factors here and how they effect you based on group or level. Heres what Ive learned. My level 30's group can go in and make almost a complete level in one of these dungeons if you dont die pull non stop to the end of the mission and then hang out after the mission for xtra exp and loot. The exp is better here then anywhere in Norrath ive found at this level. On the other hand my 55 character does groups in here too. The xperience is substantially less then with the 50's group and i do get better xperience then this elsewhere but ONLY in POP zones. Actually its about = to what youd make in a tier 1 plane. but tier 2 planes still surpass the ldon dungeons xp. Im sure the plan here was to get people to advance from 1-20 in the usual fashion then use ldon to move up faster to higher levels nearer to the planes and all the other new higher level zones being created.In the same intention it will keep 50+ players from always doing ldons providing good xp adventuring in the rest of Norrath too. Good move on Sony's part here (which id rarely say) but it allows much greater spectrum of play at higher level espiecially. i often wonder though since the drops and items received in ldon are better then you will fair in regular Norrath hunting that they may soon nerf the exp in ldon a bit. I guess well see. I better get a lot more done before they do too. lol Hope this helps someone. have a nice day. ;)
55 Baroness Wiz - Rallos Zek
30 Druid - Rallos Zek

after serveral missions I have to ask what is with the agro here? Any casting of any spell is giving more agro then 2 to 3 tanks can cancel and this is every time. even my bardic twisting is giving insane hate list even on all buff songs without hp. My mez breaks they dont even swing at me and got right for the not sitting or engaged with healer. my Mez is giving me no taunt off. they go right back after the pure casters that cant take it. Agro ranges are normal but the hate list seems completely messed up. I have seen less and less casters willing to dungeon dive with this freaky hate list.

and does Infernal Sanctuary seem have a area that warps critters and always draws a train ? about 80percent of the way though? room of mummies come charging in from end of the hall

At lvl 53 adventure (49 to 56), have been ok. The ones that ask you to get 20 or so items, normaly get done with 10 to 20 mins left (full group of 6). We could even get 4 add's with out a slower, and still have no one die. We got about 10 to 15% xp in the time it took us to finsh the adventure (70 to 80 mins). The adventure point where low though. We each got 13, which I fine really low. Group 10 lvl higher are getting near 50 point for normal adventures. (or that what i have read so far).

I have a question after doing 15 sucessful adventures in everfrost. I hailed the NPC valshir that gives you information and give you stats to the adventure stone. But now she has ask me to talk to another npc named Ubzial Lyeagl anyone know who this is? or where they are?
Thanks

I have successfully Evac'd a group in the new ldon dungeons. It brings you to the dungeon entrance. That was on normal setting, but im pretty sure it will work on hard as well.

For most groups the obvious need for a cleric, 2 tanks, a slower > (enchanter to keep clarity,c3,c5 up) a secondary healer are the 5 basic requirements to a perfectly balance 5 person group for these crawls. However now the addition of the wizard will provide exceptional firepower to drop mobs fast. Wizards have a difficult time finding groups at times due to the lack of understanding of how the class benefits the group. A wizard will increase the potiential for you to kill more mobs faster. In these new dungeon enviroments this seems to be a growing need in order to get through the quests.Caster mobs have less hps and often can be dropped by a wizard in 1-2 nukes when they hit 60% from the meele bashing. Anyhow... dont forget to invite your wizards. They just might supply the edge needed to mosh through these crawls.
Also a Question > Anyone try to succor / evac in a dungeon during an adventure? is there a safe point and will it effect the quest? Please advise if anyone knows. I havent tried yet. thanx

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Seems like assassination missions are a lottery - never know what waits at the end - at least for now. I think we should compile a list of all boss mobs, and how bad they are. Sometimes final target is super easy, sometimes insanely hard.

Dream Defiler, in Frosted Halls, ended up being a lvl 66-67 SK, hitting for triple 850, 1200 HT, and a DD proc. VERY tough.

I've done quite a few of these and let me just say from experience that you need a Rogue or TWO to really do well here. I did it once with one Rogue and it was okay...but with TWO we totally owned it! My suggestion (and what I will do from now on) is get at least TWO rogues in my LDON raids/groups.

With the time limits you need all the DPS you can get.

Best groups are a tank, cleric, slower, 2 rogues and (insert class).

ok a few things my 65 chanter couldnt charm anything i have done 9 quests nwo and tried to charm every diffrent type in there, two boxs in ldon as far as i have seen can only be opened with the spells bought from ldon merchant with points, lvl 65 group normal is like pov trash mobs while hard is into elemental planes trash it IS hard it wiped a few groups back to back. also there are the confused guys lying on the floor find one with full health and hail him till he stands up then say follow and you have a neat pet for awhile, this place is so much fun tryin to deal with people who think they know best then get dead cause they sure dont. gluck and hope you enjoy as i still am

at LvL 53 ave we got mainly goo and Skele's with occasional summoned, Pacify is a must and we wiped when the idiot monk decided he could get in front of the puller, with the team work aspect it is so important everyone must know there roles and stick to them. casters REALLY need there new spells or take a rogue <if not don't try to open anything it WILL be a trap>

XP is good getting full yellow AA per adventure 8o)

Everfrost dungeon. WF camp for it is just a tad north of the fork of the river. Very bright -- undead in one or two types of it. two different enterances, follow blue line on compass to find out where you enter.