Post by OnyxBlade on Sept 18, 2008 7:22:37 GMT -5
wow... book 14.6 is rather hard.
Here's some tidbits I picked up last night doing it.
Laerdan has a one-shot kill. You use the eye on a mob, then the bow shot and their dead. poof. just like that. There's a rather long induction, but it's a great opening shot.
Tidbits to remember regarding one-shot kills:
If you one-shot kill from max-range, no-one will aggo against you.
If you one-shot kill the mob that has "ally of" (ie: the wolves in this instance) before they have aggro on you, the "alliy" will disappear.
The fire-arrow is nearly enough to kill a mob by itself. It may take 1 to 3 auto-attacks.
Elf-Trick is a crazy strong skill.
Here's my general fight strategy. Open up with the one-shot skill, shoot an archer with the fire arrow. When the melee folks get near you, use elf-trick and then use a single fire-arrow on any more archers while you use the AOE attack while your fire-arrow cools-down (after the stun wears off). The fire-arrows will eventually cause the archers to come melee you, by the time they get to you a single AOE attack or melee auto-attack will finish them off.
Be fully rested before you run up stairs. There's a chief encounter that starts as soon as you run up a specific set of stairs that you'll want to be fully healed for.
Pop your heal over time at the beginning of the fight so that you'll have it available a minute later should you need it.
Use the same tactic as above and the only problem you'll have is power issues, so you'll be auto-attacking at the end, but his auto-attack is pretty darned good.
And then the last fight. If you want to call it a fight. Basically you have to survive an onslaught for 2 minutes. If you kill someone, they'll respawn.
Here's what I ultimately did. When Amarthiel is half-way through her speech, pop a self-heal. If you time it right, you'll get a couple pulses of heals and you'll be able to use the self-heal twice more during the battle. I then ran elf-tricked the melee group and then ran around like a headless chicken around the arena, kiting everyone until either the self-heal or elf-trick timer was up in which case I used it. I gathered as many of the archers together as possible and used the elf-trick on them as soon as the melee folks caught up.
I ended with around 4k morale the last time I tried it.
I give this encounter a D, just because of this last fight.
Here's some tidbits I picked up last night doing it.
Laerdan has a one-shot kill. You use the eye on a mob, then the bow shot and their dead. poof. just like that. There's a rather long induction, but it's a great opening shot.
Tidbits to remember regarding one-shot kills:
If you one-shot kill from max-range, no-one will aggo against you.
If you one-shot kill the mob that has "ally of" (ie: the wolves in this instance) before they have aggro on you, the "alliy" will disappear.
The fire-arrow is nearly enough to kill a mob by itself. It may take 1 to 3 auto-attacks.
Elf-Trick is a crazy strong skill.
Here's my general fight strategy. Open up with the one-shot skill, shoot an archer with the fire arrow. When the melee folks get near you, use elf-trick and then use a single fire-arrow on any more archers while you use the AOE attack while your fire-arrow cools-down (after the stun wears off). The fire-arrows will eventually cause the archers to come melee you, by the time they get to you a single AOE attack or melee auto-attack will finish them off.
Be fully rested before you run up stairs. There's a chief encounter that starts as soon as you run up a specific set of stairs that you'll want to be fully healed for.
Pop your heal over time at the beginning of the fight so that you'll have it available a minute later should you need it.
Use the same tactic as above and the only problem you'll have is power issues, so you'll be auto-attacking at the end, but his auto-attack is pretty darned good.
And then the last fight. If you want to call it a fight. Basically you have to survive an onslaught for 2 minutes. If you kill someone, they'll respawn.
Here's what I ultimately did. When Amarthiel is half-way through her speech, pop a self-heal. If you time it right, you'll get a couple pulses of heals and you'll be able to use the self-heal twice more during the battle. I then ran elf-tricked the melee group and then ran around like a headless chicken around the arena, kiting everyone until either the self-heal or elf-trick timer was up in which case I used it. I gathered as many of the archers together as possible and used the elf-trick on them as soon as the melee folks caught up.
I ended with around 4k morale the last time I tried it.
I give this encounter a D, just because of this last fight.