So seeing as how Draco went down last night and CT still had quite a bit in window I decided to give Fear another shot. My first move was to kill the roaming shiverback using the spider behind the portal. I was lucky enough that he was L49, so my new Shissar Focus Staff got a real workout.
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It turns out that actually breaking fear is pretty easy. After killing like 5 mobs I could afk at the portal and cook breakfast
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] But it was kind of annoying; all the mobs have annoying special abilities (toads can freaking CAST fear) but aren't tappable. Plus in order to keep the scarelings under control I had to chainstun them (I tried getting cocky there, and it was a disaster) so I would kill a mob with my spider/chainstuns and then afk for like 7-8 minutes meditating.
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After this I was just gradually killing trash. The only mobs that gave me trouble were scarelings and toads.
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The toads would fear me about 40% of the time with 154 MR which I thought was fairly ridiculous and my pet literally 100% of the time. I had to cap out of this encounter as it gradually built up to 4-5 mobs.
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Here I made an interesting discovery: the scarelings really do proc gate. When they procced on my spider they just teleported him back to his spawn point behind the portal and healed him to boot. So once I had the area more or less clear of roamers I didn't have to worry about the scarelings too much (this wouldn't work on the break though; too many mobs path behind the portal).
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I died a few times, mostly from either getting cocky or the fucking toads. As you can see getting a cleric to come rez in fear requires a certain amount of persuading. In the event VP took a while and Tizzle showed up on Liia.
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He wanted to kill stuff on the western wall (which I had mostly ignored) so that he could fear kite some tentacle terrors for a ranger bracer. Meanwhile I had the brilliant idea to fight two toads against each other. They would root each other so they wouldn't run when feared. This was actually working OK and I had both of them about 10% when Tizzle (on Arae) backed into my spider and trained 3 WW mobs on me and I died again.
So I decided to sneak past the boogey house and ivu pull some toads to the zone line where I could slaughter them with my spider. It turns out I got 2 gorgons and 2 toads. I started at about 30% mana and life but thankfully most of them were pretty low level and charm held well. I charmed both toads against the gorgons and finished with another Focus click and somehow I actually survived that.
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You can also see I get tells from all kinds of crazy people - who the heck names their char Slutforclothcap? Anyway I hung around for a bit more and ended up dying to a glare lord roamer while engaged with 4 other mobs in the SW corner. At this point I was just pretty disgusted with the whole business and Bier was nice enough to CR me so it's lunch time.
My log shows almost 30 mobs killed (and it was probably somewhat over 30 as the log doesn't get everything) so while I feel like I pretty much owned the zone there were just too many mobs around to make an attempt at a golem. So I really have no idea how Svenn managed that. I tried going directly east and that was one of my cap outs as I managed to find quite a few mobs. As you can see from the timestamps I was in there a solid 6 hours so about 1 kill every 10 minutes including caps and deaths and rezzes and stuff. So either I have to find a way to kill fewer roamers or kill faster.
[Thu Feb 07 07:38:09 2013] a spinechiller spider has been slain by a shiverback!
[Thu Feb 07 07:40:19 2013] a shiverback has been slain by a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 08:06:39 2013] a scareling has been slain by a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 08:09:22 2013] a shiverback has been slain by a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 08:27:35 2013] You have slain a shiverback!
[Thu Feb 07 08:28:05 2013] You have slain a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 08:33:31 2013] a scareling has been slain by a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 08:49:10 2013] a scareling has been slain by a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 09:05:24 2013] a shiverback has been slain by a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 09:09:36 2013] a scareling has been slain by a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 09:12:15 2013] a fetid fiend has been slain by a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 09:39:17 2013] Amygdalan warrior has been slain by a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 09:41:36 2013] a scareling has been slain by a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 10:05:59 2013] a scareling has been slain by a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 10:08:59 2013] Amygdalan warrior has been slain by a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 10:51:23 2013] a fetid fiend has been slain by a samhain!
[Thu Feb 07 10:51:55 2013] You have slain a samhain!
[Thu Feb 07 11:17:52 2013] a fetid fiend has been slain by a fetid fiend!
[Thu Feb 07 11:18:27 2013] You have slain a fetid fiend!
[Thu Feb 07 11:24:09 2013] a scareling has been slain by a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 11:26:41 2013] a turmoil toad has been slain by a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 11:57:24 2013] a fetid fiend has been slain by a fetid fiend!
[Thu Feb 07 11:57:44 2013] You have slain a fetid fiend!
[Thu Feb 07 12:15:06 2013] Amygdalan warrior has been slain by a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 13:00:51 2013] a turmoil toad has been slain by a gorgon!
[Thu Feb 07 13:11:47 2013] a gorgon has been slain by a spinechiller spider!
[Thu Feb 07 13:20:11 2013] a shiverback has been slain by a spinechiller spider!