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[S] The Spectre Sepulcher [50 Monk, HS North]
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Alrighty then. I deleted my short version of my first HS north kill and I'll post the real one with SSs. Gonna end up with more breaking-in story than actually kill though:
I was like 2% from 55 when I zoned into HS. It was primetime yesterday, but all the entry-way mobs were actually up so I ran off to the side and waited until they were away from the east stairs before killing them. Got my key, killed the golems leading into north, then went to see what I had to deal with inside.
Greater war boned, bile, sepulcher skele, golem. I was concerned (again) about whether I'd be able to rely on lull as heavily as I have while xping, but even though I had 5 resists on the bile, 255 charisma really, REALLY reduces the crit resist chance. Finished these off for full xp and dinged 56
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Gnome illusion to see what I had to deal with on the other side of the painting. It's worth mentioning that I have never set foot in HS north (or south, or east) before, so I do my best to be careful before rounding a new corner, etc. Bile, sepulcher, sperm, from right to left. I IVUd with both runes up and hoped I could run down the ramp partway with the skele chasing without losing invis, but HT + I got bashstunned and meleed was more damage than I expected, so I ended up just stunning everything together and AE mezzing and proceeding to kill them safely.
While they were fighting I kept an eye on the bottom of the ramp, paranoid as crap cause I didn't know if pathers came up here of if they'd drag more stuff up to me, etc. As far as I can tell there are 2 pathers that just wander between the hallways and the rooms right near them, no doubt serving to train you if you aggro at the wrong time, and then a couple of mobs that patrol the hallways farther. 4 (5? I didn't go up near the room with the exit teleporter yet) static mobs, and 3 side rooms with 3-4 mobs each.
The first time going down the ramp I drifted down the trap because I was in third person but with my angle down to keep me near the floor. Memmed gate and got out and then quick invis/lulled my way back into north before the stuff in front of painting repopped. Stupid carpet.
I almost got myself trained and killed (3 HTers in the room) by that room on the leff, down the hallway when facing down the ramp that has the pit trap at it's base. The eqatlas map didn't show any mobs spawning in there, and I actually had a pet and a mob fighting RIGHT outside that door but somehow I didn't aggro from inside.
By this point I had cleared the pathers in the hallway except the one skele that was pathing between the two named rooms. I IVU'd and used third-person camera angles to check out the rooms. Saw the Spectre Sepulcher up in the room marked #2 on this map (
http://www.eqmacwiki.com/eqatlas/howlingstonesmap.html) along with 2 skeles (contrary to the map's legend saying there would be 4 total mobs in there PLUS the pather).
Lulls!
Mezzed the named and debuffed him thoroughly, mezzed the pather and petted him, send him to do his work (
http://s9.postimage.org/lrfa82zen/EQ000031.png). I relulled the two other skeles in the room with me, dealt with 1 pet break (after nearly killing myself because I didn't remember that I couldnt use AE stun with 2 lulled mobs right next to me until the LAST second), and that pet was pretty much dead (
http://s10.postimage.org/aap2hb5ih/EQ000032.png).
I believe slow was wearing off by now, since these level 43ish mobs were getting massacred by the 50 named since I was just doing debuffs, not buffing pets or giving weps. I petted one of the mobs inside the room and dealt with a poorly-timed charm+root break combo, but by this time the named was almost down (
http://s8.postimage.org/uo6lp9qat/EQ000033.png).
Non-adamantite club loot:
http://s9.postimage.org/cml62th33/EQ000035.png
Pet and the last skele in the room beat each other to the brink of death, I finished them off, then I needed to log. I carefully ran back to a spot I discovered is safe (I think), and took off.
The whole ordeal was much more exhilarating than lguk was. I'm about to log on again to see if I can find more nameds up in there
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