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[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[S] Crypt Wurm [50 Warrior, HS North]

I didn't realize "a crypt wurm" was the sperm named over here, I thought it involved capital letters. So turns out I just did him too and didn't realize he was a named until I looted: http://s11.postimage.org/66vczs11f/EQ000042.png

Just caught The Spectre Sepulchre up again and got an adamantite club off of him too =D


I've got a system down for clearing all 3 named spots outside of the locked room now too, so hopefully I'll get the golem master to pop soon and then I can head over to seb to do those warmups before I get a couple levels and move on to disciple [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[S] The Golem Master [50 Warrior, HS North]

But it took forever! Lol.


I got home from my inlaws and hit HS north. Found Sentient Bile up and dropped him quick for another muca girdle. Also found Golem Master up. Woot, the last dude I need from HS for now! I proxy aggrod him on accident while trying to lull the last mob in the back corner of his room though... doh. Ran off back to ramp, but he and his buddy were too close behind to even get off a stun before they were on me. Interrupted a few things, dropped runes... I tried to hat but I stupidly had my hat in a bag instead of an inventory slot. Dead. Time for my first HS CR.


Buffed up just outside where I'm bound, came in to no mobs at ent and no one with a key. So I air elemental lev'd down to basement and killed a sperm down there to get key and went back up. But uh oh. Someone has been killing in HS north. There are two biles right inside of the door. And one of them felt like crit resisting my first lull attempt. Dead again.

Gippy from Divinity (thanks!) was CRing in west and tossed me a rez on my fresh corpse so I could get my key off it, and I tried again. Lulls worked this time! IVU and ran through tapestry... stupid again to not check for what was up. A sperm was up farthest away from the tapestry... but I managed to sneak past him without aggroing (lucky?). Got body, cleared pathers, lull room correctly this time and get a pet and then named.

But he's got that damn PR ranged item and I didn't realize that's what it was until after the fight. So when I broke charm on purpose partway through fight to ToT my pet and refresh roots on both... my pet's root was gone and I hadn't noticed. And then Golem Master broke root normally. And both were dotted so mezmerization wouldn't stick. And Golem Master resisted a stun.

This time around, you can bet I had my hat in an inventory slot.


Gippy was at entrance so I pulled my first corpse up out of north omw back in from recharging and got rezzed. Then I hatted accidentally cause I was on the wrong hotkey set. Just not my night. I haven't even had anything to drink [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]


Lulled all the way through into north. Killed hallway mobs in one fight, lulled named room. I actually managed to aggro the lulled pather because he pathed RIGHT over top of me, but I needed a pet anyway so oh well! Got him petted, buffed up, parked down the hall. Then I pulled named, got pet on him, got him debuffed, and it was a cakewalk from there. At least. Finally.

Just one SS, was too busy trying to make sure I didn't have to try yet again than get nicely-timed captures: http://s10.postimage.org/5ttcsms61/EQ000046.png

That spell he had is actually Enlightenment, one I was looking for [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]


Seb starts tomorrow!

[Handull]

grats tecmos! few tips...

in HS, if you die in the 'right' places, you can use the lower tunnels to get your corpse. what I mean is, if u die on the safe ramp in HS north, just take the lower tunnel to under the carpet trap near there and you can drag your corpse. can come in really handy if no key mobs are up or if you die in west/south.

as far as your 'lucky' non-agro goes, agro works on server ticks, just like everything else. you can look at mana/hp regen to try and time it right. you can use this to get past certain mobs where you only have to be inside their agro radius for a short period of time. the more you practice it, the better you'll get at it


had a fun little solo of my own today, killing Nezekezena in burning woods. Just a named lvl 51 wizard wurm. With buffs/resist gear i resisted all of his nukes, and Slixen Klex (50 war) made for a great pet. after trying to snare Nezekezena twice and failing, i gave up. the fun started when a light blue con wurm agro'd me. i was glad that he was rootable. the real fun didn't start til Nezekezena was at 2% though. I saw him starting to cast gate, but I think he got interutped. Then charm breaks, he summons me once to throw me off, then gates while i'm recharming. of course he was then at 27% hp (gotta love gate-heals), so I couldn't just nuke him down. i was fighting him around 0, -1000, and was now near -500, -3000 and my pet was snared. I quickly started to track Slixen and just auto-ran in his dirrectly. Nezekezena was slowly following me, trying to cast once in a while, and summoning me regularly before letting me get too far away. eventually I got my pet back on Nezekezena and he finished off the wurm. this time Nezekezena was nice enough to run and let me nuke him for good measure. sadly, he didn't have his pretty wurm scale coat this time. easy fight, but the whole gate/summon thing made it interesting enough to write out [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Tecmos Deception]

Thanks for the tips [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How high did you get your resists that a level 51 didn't stick anything at all on you? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]



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[S] Frenzied Pox Scarab [50 Warrior, Sebilis Disco]

But not even worth it's own post, or more than a paragraph story. Invised and lulled down there to see what the lay of the land was. He was up. Stood behind pillars outside the room to LoS from two frogs right there, timed lulls on inside of room when pathers outside weren't near. Ran in, charmed frog wiz, it owned the scarab. I used tepid deeds, but I don't even think I needed to.

Loot: http://s11.postimage.org/l5a02hssj/EQ000049.png

[Handull]

well as far as spell resists go, having lvl 60 is the best thing. otherwise, with self buffs I was at 115/104/114 for MR/FR/CR (for comparison, my lvl 8 ranger with 75MR can't resist a ghoul root to save his life, mostly because they are all red cons.)

i was a bit shocked by the resists I was getting, but i guess its not too crazy.

[Triangle]

Pretty good stuff at 56 Tecmos. Nice to have you in guild too even though we haven't been on at the same time yet. Hopefully we meet tomorrow.

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by Triangle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pretty good stuff at 56 Tecmos. Nice to have you in guild too even though we haven't been on at the same time yet. Hopefully we meet tomorrow.

Thanks! I'll be around sometime today, I'm sure. Need to figure out where the hell to fight down by disco and how to deal with the ilis wizard that is up [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Question about mob damage. I messed around with the sepsis scarabs that were up a little bit, and one was hitting for 138 (so level 49?)... but the other was hitting for 144 (51?). What decides whether a mob that is level 50+ starts hitting for 140+ or for 200+? I want to say I've seen summoning drolvarg bodyguards only hitting for 144 also.

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[S] Froglok Ostiary [50 Warrior, Sebilis Disco]

Good lord. I must have killed 6 frenzied pox scarabs in the time it took me to finally see the ostiary pop. But it was a good experience overall, since I learned my way around most of upper seb and got some nice gem drops off bugs outside of disco + the pox scarabs and killed my first summoners (I didn't even realize the bugs outside could be 51+ until I had a charm break on one of them).

But still, I was thrilled when I took this screenshot: http://s14.postimage.org/w8l62rald/EQ000051.png

After clicking off the cleric buffs I had from Emms rezzing me earlier (I think I probably hatted out of seb 6-7 times in the course of my time looking for ostiary, and died twice... once stunned when low so I couldn't click and once cause I refused to hat and trying to land a stun on a hasted pet + frenzied pox scarab was too much for me), I rooted and petted a dar in the room that Catherin had given weapons to yesterday. I carefully watched out the door with a few angles to make sure that none of the 3 pathers outside were going to proxy aggro when I brought ostiary, lulled the other frog there and pull him in with tash.

Pet got on him right away. Until I chatted with Catherin yesterday, I never had given a pet weapons and I tried not to haste unless absolutely necessary, figuring it would improve my chances of surviving a poorly-timed charm break. But it's fun having a pet that does 100+ dps... lol. After an early root break and repositioning, ostiary was under half in no time: http://s10.postimage.org/e2l5h8g3t/EQ000053.png

Is the fact that my defense still not maxed a good thing or a bad thing? Lol.

Loot: http://s9.postimage.org/nyh6js2pb/EQ000054.png


I don't think I would finish all of disciple before 58, so I'm probably going to at least go xp to make 57 before I start working on it at all.

[Triangle]

Not on the list but Cazel down solo tonight. Used the vendor mob Gadallion as pet. She turned out to be great, no breaks at all. I would love to say this is a tough fight but it was relatively easy: 1) his resists are awful so slow landed very easily; 2) he does not hit hard at all.

The only reason why he is hard is that he regens 6% of his total HP every 6 seconds.

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unfortunately you can't see his regen in pictures, but it was really crazy. Never seen anything like it. All in all an easy fight though. He does run so if anyone else attempts him make sure to sow your pet.

[pasi]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thanks! I'll be around sometime today, I'm sure. Need to figure out where the hell to fight down by disco and how to deal with the ilis wizard that is up [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Question about mob damage. I messed around with the sepsis scarabs that were up a little bit, and one was hitting for 138 (so level 49?)... but the other was hitting for 144 (51?). What decides whether a mob that is level 50+ starts hitting for 140+ or for 200+? I want to say I've seen summoning drolvarg bodyguards only hitting for 144 also.

Pox Scarab room is the best area to fight at Disco. There's a small safe spot to kill in there. And, level 45 mobs hit for 120. Most Mobs follow the gain 4 damage max per level. So a level 50 mob max hit is 140. At 51, 144. 51+ mobs summon.

And my Gandallion serving Dark Lord Svenn :[