NPC Spawn Issue: Trakanon's spawn point is incorrect / he should be roaming a bit

[Nirgon]

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Trak isn't static. He roams around his lair.

He roamed rather circularly, like an oval around the inside of his lair with an erratic movement here and there.

Use a DApally if ya got one or somone who can survive a few hits to rush trak and pull him to the back of his lair. Everyone else needs to run in right behind him. Make sure people understand not to heal right away until they join up in traks lair otherwise Trak will run out to whoever is healing.

^ Needs to be pulled to the back of his lair. That's where this experienced, classic guild pulled him. I recall EXACTLY the same.

None of this stuff changed between Velious and PoP.

http://sigilsmotel.yuku.com/topic/963#.USq3WldNtRc

he will try to gate at around 30% health, which is why we will be charging at him in his lair

He should spawn right abouts here or VERY close (aka not right in the middle of lair.. must be near wall!). Image from July 2001, towards the end of Velious.
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Another gateless kill from August before Luclin (there's dat mentioned rock and some corpses too hum!):
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Correct raid strat is to either charge him once he paths here or have someone DA him there, wait for the breath (if it hasn't fired already) the stomp him down fast.

If he is not tanked here or very close to it, he should gate... and evidence suggests mobs go for a gate at 30%, fight for a bit again if they survive then flee or flee immediately after gate if brought within flee range.

His aggro range appears to be correct and should be quite large (like other raid mobs: Inny in particular I remember being nutso aggro range).

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Bonus: Tolumpaj should be buffing Trak. Hard to get close enough to observe (esp now), doesn't stay alive for long, just want to confirm! Will make him interesting on a repop day [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

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Dispell him at the start of the fight, he is buffed by Topalumj and much more dangerous then he is without those buffs.