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Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception
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Last night I had just worked my way into east and killed the PH in what Loraen calls "the east nook" before getting summoned to do some other things. This morning I figured I'd head into east to see if I had managed to pop a named, and it turns out I had!
Getting into east this morning wasn't ugly, but it wasn't pretty either. South had half a dozen pathing biles and feasters up, including one pathing into and out of the room with the east key in it, so I set up over by my usual south killing spot to clear out a few living mobs. I actually hatted once in this process, cause when I ivu pulled a bile it came with 2 feaster buddies that I hadn't expected and stuns were getting interrupted... and I hadn't killed the bile up near entrance yet and I didn't much care for trying to sneak past him with no gear and no rune 5.
But after getting back, I did clear them out and get the key and head for east. Someone popped 3 living mobs in the portal room just past the door from south -> east, which is odd, since ... I just don't even know. But they were easy enough to dodge by careful positioning and switching from ivu to invis and then back to ivu once I was past them.
I saw the RP up in the nook, and the level 51 helot I had cleared the PH with last night, with my torch still in hand, in the long hallway there. I went and dazzled my former pet and kept him mezzed while I ensured all my buffs were fresh + hasted him:
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Then, when I was back up to full mana, I used ivu and went to wait for conditions to be just right to pull RP. I had to run back to re-mez pet once or twice before the timing worked out, but then it did and I raptured RP by himself and IVUd quickly back over to my pet:
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Unfortunately my plan for pulling him was based on him being a shadowknight like the sheet says he is. I expected I would lose bedlam and rune to the HT + round or two of melee he'd get off before I landed rapture, and I expected he would sling disease cloud and heat blood and crap at me in my hallway, which would drop my ivu earlier than I wanted because I didn't have any runes up anymore. When he didn't HT me I thought "wtf?" but didn't have time, in the moment, to consider that maybe he wasn't actually a SK, or think to change my initial plans. When I tried to LoS him in my hallway though, I aggrod 2 living mobs from a room back there just as my pet needed a remez... so I hatted.
So yeah. He's not a SK. He's a warrior.
After I recharged and went back in with a simpler plan for the pull, I repeated my steps from earlier sans the live-clearing in south and got this:
http://postimage.org/image/cm8ztpv5t/
I juggled my pet and the RP for a tad while I debuffed him and recharmed my pet. Because of using 2 raptures on RP before I tashed him and could safely switch to cheap mezzes, I started the real fight with only 1/4 mana:
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Fortunately charm held well (like Loraen has told me a couple times, east fights aren't bad in and of themselves when you've got the right pet), and I think that while my pet's constant lifetaps broke root, they also served to build a lot of aggro on RP so that I didn't even get summoned when a fetter faded at like 75%. SS of him approaching re-death:
http://postimage.org/image/5251gms4n/
Loot of the amulet + quiver of marr:
http://postimage.org/image/5681odcdj/