Druid epic, farming certain corrupteds since velious launch

[syztem]

Did the druid epic once, entire thing start to finish about 1 1/2 years ago. Swore to myself I would never do it again, because although I got most of it all pretty easily with the exception of spending like 14hours in kedge keep, and 8 hours in lfay, another 4 + 4 in everfrost foraging.. I find myself with another druid that has even better gear, tempted to do the epic yet again because the clicky and stats are just so amazing.

I have a 60 torpor shaman, solo most of PoM with it. Had one before too but never used him too much. When I did kedge the first time around, was with epic mage, epic monk, epic cleric. all bis kunark geared and it was still a pain in the ass, I am mostly guessing because non-slowed. I am assuming I should have almost no issue soloing all of this stuff now on my velious geared shaman and or druid as backup or just to loot or have piece MQ'd to him.

VS stones are a bit harder to get now, that he doesnt always drop 2 and you have to get people to kill one that doesn't drop loot just stones so there is always someone needing one. Only part I will be paying for MQ since I sold mine long ago pre patch. Just wanted to double check that a 60 shaman could most likely solo entire epic, pretty much looking at it all I am fairly certain I can do it all except for swamp frog and probably need 1 more 60 for the corruptors in EK(assassinated 2 the other day doing epic for someone else and the 3rd was a push over, so I figure root all 3, kill them with slow/backstab boom done)

just looking for opinions, thoughts. Aside from the fay/VS aspect, the rest seems trivial to somewhat easy after having solo'd velious mobs with slow that summon, hit way harder and have way more hp.

[syztem]

One more curious question that may have contributed to my long delay on getting the corrupted in kedge, according to the wiki it says go to #11 on the map and thats where you can get it(on this map its referred to as I). But I recall going to the G and H area to get mine to spawn.




http://wiki.project1999.com/images/Kedge_keep.gif

[Cecily]

Coralyn is before G in the corner, not where it's labeled. But yeah that whole G / H area, including the back tunnels, is where you can find tainted / corrupted spawns.

[Itap]

For kedge, I duod the cave with a 60 monk (as a 60 Druid). I had a seahorse charmed so it was pretty easy. Stay in the caves (where patriarch spawns) and clear all the horses throughout the tunnels. Took about 3 hours of clearing to get him to pop.

I solod pretty much everything else (minus VS/Ulump/Fay). The DE corrupter was easily solod, just kited them all, dotted the corrupter, and kept my distance. The brownie was solod by a 60 nec (he's fearable).

[syztem]

did you solo corrupter as a 60 druid? im only 55 and don't plan on going past that for time being. so I will most likely use a shaman/rogue 60s and my druid for the corrupter fight. Thanks for the infos about G / H area etc. I may give charming a shot, but as long as shaman holds aggro with slow my rogue should tear the shit out of kedge mobs.

[Itap]

I was 60, yes, but I think you can solo the corrupter at 55. Just keep them all snared, and only kill the corrupter, loot, turn in, and gate. You should have no problem with a torpor shaman/rogue duo in kedge, just beware they are all casters, and will dispell your shit constantly. The corrupted also CHs, but that was easily interrupted with the Velious Druid stun. Melee push doesn't seem to work right underwater.

[syztem]

Yeah the push on us underwater seems to work more then ok, too good in fact. Cheals shouldn't be too bad, primal rogue and if pet can be summoned with minimal aggro and slam to try to interrupt might work.

knocked out the coin in <15 minutes, got 3/4 foraged(stuck in everfrost for the last 30-40 minutes still again) spawned 4 tainted goblins, no corrupted so gave up and went for the coin/forages. going to work one cleansed orb at a time i guess. prob kunark last due to fay/uulump. but once i get another char out ther that isn't a 55 druid to keep those 6 min goblin respawns dead ill have it in no time. i was running oom constantly.

after that, I look forward to giving faydwer a shot! hopefully browny and kedge aren't too bad this time around.

edit - scratch that, 4 mins later just got last forage piece.

[syztem]

and on top of that, randomly popped into LOIO to snag a medallion from marauder after getting my rose. saw a tainted barracuda up, spawned first kill. apparently wiki says 10-20% spawn rate. apparently only barracude and the goblin have low low spawn rate chances? I didn't realize every other corrupted was 100% spawn rate on a tainted, maybe that part of the wiki is wrong, thought i did a gorilla in EJ once and it didnt pop. Going so smooth for me, i was gonna go to bed 2 hours ago now i don't know.

[syztem]

going for a triple post, trying to do this epic with as little extra help as necessary so its trial and error. Right now I lack ulump/kedge. Gorilla took about an hour, longer then expected but still not too bad all things considering.

I went into kedge on 60 shaman, I don't know the zone well at all but somehow ended up going the right way, found myself in the matriarch or patriarch cave spot whatever. Had only 2 green con seahorses, took them out relatively easily but not before 1 complete healed once. Epic + 2 banes or bane/pox seems enough to kill the easier ones,

They dispell like crazy you were right. For the first 2 it wasn't bad I used grim aura and flowers to keep my junks up(usually use sow boots too but indoors). Next room had like 3 of them in it, and I know some of them were undercons and or light greens from tracking on druid before swapping over. I only killed a total of 3 seahorses before I ended up just gating out. I could not find a way to pull more seahorses without getting 3 from that adjacent room at a time, Might have to invis and swim to another part and try to pull another 2 or find a solo one possibly drag a enchanter out to calm and help with mezzing cheals.

Upon attempting solo pull of one of 3, Got all 3of them. slowed them just in case as fighting underwater is retarded with the push back. Kept them rooted, and went for the root rot, after the first cheal I realized I should focus dots on just one and burn it down instead of epic clicking 3 and keeping 2 dotted up. Between all 3 though, the cheals just kept coming. after like the 5th cheal, the one or two that shouldve been dead multiple times over had stripped me of full self buffs(grim aura, sow, 3 flowers, acumen, regrowth, health, focus, c2, aego, dmf) the issue wasn't so much as not being able to keep clicks up. But the fact the dispell slot change or whatever. Sometimes it took the top 1 or 2, other times it would take 10th slot randomly and without regrowth/focus at very minimum it hurts, even with a manastone.

Going back in, if I can't find one that someone can MQ me for free or plat I figure ill camp druid in there and then get a rogue and enchanter to come a long. rogue for backstab dps, ench to calm pull and mez cheals. shaman to tank and heal. I am sure shm/ench would be just fine but I don't even want to risk struggling with dps or relying on dots.

ulump its been a while, usually had overkill for him but with velious chars I am assuming a cleric + rogue + warrior can do him no problem? 13k hps, should be less then 1 minute fight, as long as he doesn't hit TOO hard a defensive/evasive tank should be plenty with cheals. max 235 wiki says, so could be less since its not always accurate.

[Itap]

Yea, kedge it a bit of PITA. You really need a way to stun those cleric mobs via push or stuns. I had a monk split the rooms so it was fairly simple to break, but a chanter in there would have np mezzing/charming.

Ulump is a pushover, I had a Ranger tanking him. Hes very MR resistant but he doesn't hit too hard. I believe I had 4; Me, Cleric, Ranger, and a 55 monk, but can easily be triod with a Cleric/ranger/rogue or substitute the cleric for your torpor shaman.

[syztem]

derp, was just slow. assasinated first hit again.

[Doctor Jeff]

TL;DR most of the thread
Here are my tips for the Kedge Corrupted.

Swam in invis to E, then up to the yellow bit and snuck past the Mermaids to the safe spot before F. then I cleared into H and set up my camp there. I had no issue charming mobs and suiciding them into the others and once the camp was broken I never had an issue with casting as the single Savage Spirited seahorse that I charmed pushed the one it was fighting just fine.

When the tainted spawned, my good pal Grammer came down and helped me kill it. I might have been able to solo it, but with two druids charming it was easy as pie and I didn't want to take the risk.

[Doctor Jeff]

any quick help? teloa did not spawn, the 3rd part before corruptor. i did turn in to sionae just fine niuen good. teloa not popping.

The druids do all spawn, but about 900 units EAST of where the Wiki says they should. All you have to do is tag the necromancer and the druids, 5 level 60 druids, will destroy the SKs with no issue. The necro dots you up but you are a druid so you dot it back and pell its dots and you are fine.

Edit: The dark elves take about 15-30 seconds to spawn because the druid must walk to the others before it happens, there is a zonewide shout when they spawn, so you'll know if they are up.

[Doctor Jeff]

and on top of that, randomly popped into LOIO to snag a medallion from marauder after getting my rose. saw a tainted barracuda up, spawned first kill. apparently wiki says 10-20% spawn rate. apparently only barracude and the goblin have low low spawn rate chances? I didn't realize every other corrupted was 100% spawn rate on a tainted, maybe that part of the wiki is wrong, thought i did a gorilla in EJ once and it didnt pop. Going so smooth for me, i was gonna go to bed 2 hours ago now i don't know.

I got lucky and got my barracuda AND my goblin first try off the tainted I spawned, but some people have complained of popping 10+ tainted goblins with no luck.

At any rate, the barracuda is annoying as hell because it loses aggro if you leave the water.

[Doctor Jeff]

In Lesser Faydark, I stood at 0, 0 and killed the brownie that spawned there repeatedly until the tainted popped. I snared and rooted the tainted in a corner of the zone and asked my Necromancer friend to come. The mob is easy, but it summons, so we feared it and dotted it up and it was done.

[Doctor Jeff]

TL;DR most of the thread
Here are my tips for the Kedge Corrupted.

To reiterate, I would not root anything in kedge keep, just stay buffed and vigilant with your back to a corner and rely on your hasted pet pushing the healers around the room.

[Doctor Jeff]

Going for a sextuple post for good measure.

[syztem]

Yeah I saw some people charming in kedge, I may just giveit a try on 55 druid. Savage spirit def is great, 70% haste or something. Between that and tunarean gloves mana free DS, and new velious glamour of tunare spell makes it a bit easier. I will try and pet it up solo on druid til I can pop a tainted/corrupted then and when I do, if I don't think I can take the corrupted on I will bring in back up. I remember it summoning etc also, and if its anything as hard or worse then the brownie in lfay then def cant solo it unless i had c2 and was blasting heals on pet maybe.

[syztem]

btw when you charm suicided seahorses to get repops. what did you do once pet died and they all came after you?

[Doctor Jeff]

btw when you charm suicided seahorses to get repops. what did you do once pet died and they all came after you?

Bonds of Tunare made it quite manageable, I queued a charm on the highest HP seahorse so that it would land while the others were swimming towards me. Took a few hits, yes, but I swam my butt around in circles getting my pet to aggro all the seahorses and healed myself up. It was not super mana efficient, I didn't have ES Greaves at the time, but it was a lot faster than breaking in normally and trying to beat the CHeals.

I only had to do this once for the breakin, and from there I killed them normally using the H as my camp.

Edit: Bonds of Tunare is a level 60 spell, but I don't see why you couldn't apply normal snares and do the same.

Be buffed, be prepared, know where your corners are, and don't let the tiny pirahna's aggro you.

[Itap]

Guy posts tl;dr then makes 6 posts in a row all basically saying what was already said ITT.

Oh you

[Doctor Jeff]

Guy posts tl;dr then makes 6 posts in a row all basically saying what was already said ITT.

Oh you

Its kind of my thing.

[Doctor Jeff]

Also, I want this to be a double post.

Hope this helps.

[Doctor Jeff]

I was thinking I could make this a triple post with a bit of effort and.... I was right!

[SowIsLifeSowIsLove]

Didn't read through this all but couple things from my exp. the EK corrupter was easiest part of this epic. You can single him without harmony. The others don't add. I soloed at 52 or 53 I think. It was a cake walk. If the other mobs kill Druids just wait for repop. Did the seahorse the other day with 51 monk to single. 60 decently geared ranger and 58 Druid. I would knock out the aqua goblin first. That was the worst camp for me. I also bought the kedge crystals MQ for 2.5k, they're pretty cheap.

[syztem]

I am on red, so people don't go to kedge unless they need something. Some guy wanted 30k for crystals MQ, which is redic even for red server though. VS stones are 10k, pods are 5-10k tops. I would rather go spend 15 hours farming seahorses then drop even 10k on the crystals even if I can farm more then 5k plat in a few hours.

I did do the corruptor solo, Just went at it in form of howler, self buffed with DR/PR flowers, thorns/skin regrowth. Got a few dots landed on me, I snared corruptor first, then rooted him then snared and rooted the reavers. everything stayed rooted entire duration. 2x winged death, sundering, 2x ro's and a scoriae was plenty. By time I even ran back down to get the turn in note, the reavers were still rooted and i just ported out to finish up the rest. Was def far more easier then it reads, Then again I should have known that from doing it a few times in the past for others and my other epic 2 years ago.

As far as whats left, just ulump, and kedge. and I will finish kedge first so i can get second cleansed orb, then go for the kunark orb then finish elaborate scimitar vs stone turn in.

[syztem]

So after doing 90% of the epic in one day basically finally was able to get the sea horse, used ench to calm and then sham to slow pull root and start mana sieve x3 + theft of thought leaves then entirely castless. Squallsurge were the higher ones took an extra bane per. Best part was after the 7th clear of the 6 spawn side. Logged out for an hour and I came back in to look only to see a tainted casting and was all yisyisss quickly 5 casts before I swam out that's when I saw 3 had spawned. Was tough fight but not bad, made sure by time tainted was around 20% that I had manastoned to 80m and had a torpor ticking at 90+ health. Looted 2 crystals just in case and left the 3rd tainted up should another druid go need it. Am posting from my phone so this will come out as one large paragraph. Epic was super easy but I don't know if that's because I got lucky in most parts. Compared to other class epics like mage, necro, sk, seems like a joke.but I guess one could chalk it up to the fact once you have done it once or twice it just naturally becomes easy and you know everything.

[ezri]

I got my KK Corrupted piece from the big Square room in front of room F - there was an enchanter and druid charm duoing the spawns there for corrupted MQs; luckily it was a friend and my group were already there so they let me have it.
Make sure you avoid swimming through room L/M (go through the yellow unmarked room); if gloomwater is up she can really make your day sad she has see-invis and big agro range.