Manaetic Behemoth  

If you're way overleveled for this, and are doing planar flags / MB for a specific reason, then just sit in his room and kill the spiders as they enter. The spiders have to walk inside a bit, and go to the 4 batteries that are on either side of the doorway as they enter. That's where they explode to power MB.

Since the explosion is what powers the machine, you just need to prevent them from doing the explosion. As a result, MB will become targetable in 5 minutes. This essentially overpowers the script since the few seconds to swing, retarget, swing, run to the other side of the room, and do the same 2 more times is easily enough time to get MB targetable.

I was able to one shot all the spiders with a 115 Bard, so even with the weaker melee classes this should be possible. A move speed buff longer than 5 minutes helps since your going from one side of the room to the other as they come in, but I'm not sure if it's necessary with Run AAs. I have Selo's on all the time, so I figured I'd mention it.

I am a 85 ranger on the Nameless and was just messing around with flags in POP...I tried to get him to spawn several times with a cleric Merc.......I just couldn't do it. The spiders kept entering due to lack of aggro....so I changed it up a bit and brought in a J1 tank....I set him up on one side of the room and let him start tanking a spider and left him there....I took the other side.....was very tough having to clear my side and heal the tank as the spiders added up and started to drop his HP fast. Eventually the MB spawned and I was able to keep my merc alive with heals and AE nukes...pretty fun actually. So don't give up if you want to try this solo for kicks.....

He was killed on Luclin 9/16/16 @ 12:15 am

Did this fight with a 79 SK and 76 cleric. This fight is impossible without Guild Lobby buffs including flameskin. Tried this yesterday without them and couldn't do it because neither my SK or cleric could kill the spiders fast enough. With the buffs I attacked 1 spider and just stood there and the others would aggro and beat themselves to death on the flameskin. I parked my cleric at one door and the SK at the other and killed spiders until MB became active. When he did I ran across MB's room and pulled him to where the cleric was. MB was a wimp. Harmtouch knocked him down to 50% HP and it was easy from that point on. BTW it doesn't take 15 minutes of killing spiders for MB to activate. It was significantly less than 10.

MB event is working fine on Al`Kabor. We did him recently and all folks who needed to get flagged, did.

I tanked with my WAR. 8.8k HP, 1800AC. His DPS was minimal, though his proc kept our spotter awake.

Positioning and CC were the hardest parts of this fight.

Fight Lasted: 03:41
Max Hit: 843 (only once)
Min Hit: 205 (many times)
Avg Hit: 406
His DPS: 321

Usually single or double hits:
1 - 33%
2 - 40%
3 - 14%
4 - 13%
4+ - 0%

According to the SOE forums (no direct link handy, sorry) MB is still broken, has been for a few months (been trying to get him for tactics access for some time now).

Has anyone seen the MB up after the PoP fabled? We've been checking weekly and either someone is really good at killing him, or the fabled patch broke him from spawning. It's been years since killing him, but as I recall, he's either trackable or you can see his untargetable version even before beginning the event.

All Demi-Geared.
Warrior tanked and DPSed MB ( DPS was enough to kill him within 5 mins)
Cleric healed the Warrior

Shadowknight Tanked / Killed Mobs on the east Side
Bard and Shaman Killed mobs on the west side

Note that it takes 10-15 minutes of killing Spiders until the Manaetic Behemoth becomes active.
Dont let anyone but the MT be in MBs room , so you avoid all AEs etc. He really has an insanely low amount of HP

We took this guy down twice so far with 21 person raid. We just one group MB in main room and put people on corners to control spiders. Easy kill.

Did Him Tuesday Night With Full Raid had 2 groups on each corner controling the spiders 1 enc on each corner for engage had 1 grp come back to MB when engage was ready and left others and enc there to handle the spiders and mez other died pretty easy as long as u dont get the AE he is pretty easy killed him in 3 total from engage time to death droped Hammer Shim n Drape

Downed on Tunare at 3:45 AZ time on May 8th to an Open raid of 61 peeps. Went well aside from my "fat-finger" ninja hail. I felt really bad after that. But, everyone still got their flag.

DO NOT DO NOT Put hotkeys anywhere near your H key.

Edited, Sun May 8 19:12:04 2005

I've done MB dozens of times.

Chanters should be ok with up to 6 spiders by themselves. After about 6 the remezzing gets tough. Keep peridot handy to recast rune on yourself on top of your componentless rune. Spiders only hit for like 150 and you should be able to get them remezzed before they go through runes.

I was on an MB raid last night and we were doing good, me being an Enchanter, I was on the north side spiders. We were rockin', killing the spiders...heres how it went

mez the spider
kill the spider
heal the chanter
mez the spider
kill the spider
heal the chanter

it was going good....but then

the raid leader /rsay "ALL ON MB"

and my spider team "LEFT ME", 1 chanter alone against 4 spiders

they ate me alive and proceeded to move into MB's room and wipe the rest of the raid

RAID LEADERS - DO NOT say all on MB, say SPIDER TEAMS STAY WHERE YOU ARE, ALL OTHER MELEE ON MB NOW!!!

it will save you and the enchanter alot of headaches.

Strategy guide at https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=2234&mid=110081846112256

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