Spells: Poison breath too easily resistable

[Nirgon]

Finally a raid guide:
http://www.angelfire.com/freak/eqjonze/maps/

Specifically: http://www.angelfire.com/freak/eqjon...s/trakanon.htm

Get 175 PR, might use a few buffs and potions. Too much PR is a waste. Levels are more important for resisting the AE then your resists

175+ helps of course, but this is still going to have a good chance of landing regardless. Hence why having aoe healing and abolish poison available is so helpful.

Clerics use group heals and paladins use their level 55 group heal, at least 1 paladin and one cleric or 2 clerics in each group would make the fight almost trivial.

All healers that are not doing group heals, abolish poison and heal whoever yells or on the main tank.

Notice how it doesn't say "get 235 because it will help so much/make you immune" or "if everyone is at 200 you should have nothing to worry about". It's just going to land on people almost regardless of crazy high poison resist, it is (again!) a -150 resist check from a lvl 65 mob! Right now, I see basically everyone get resists when it goes off. Everyone 57 or lower should be getting hit by this pretty much every single time, few resists if any, the reverse of what I see now.

Further his tap:

A quick fight means his lifetap (not the same as VS by the way) wont hit much and he wont be able to AE as much.

I think he will just proc his tap and it will damage rune and its not the same (prevention wise) as VS from this link. Hopefully it is working this way here, I don't tank him.

I was 60 in velious, fought him and can attest that raid guide is correct. Even with blue diamond/velium diamond jewelry/drape/DMF/resists... I got hit by that Trak AoE breath. With that gear and being 60 here, it might hit me one in 70+ times. Again, test it against envenomed bolt, it is too similar here.


Much to your relief, the prosecution truly and finally rests its case against a very trivial Trakanon on the P99 servers (thanks for fixing shadoo + resist poison).

[Nizzarr]

The trak aoe is fine here. not that it matters anymore, we dodge the first aoe and he dies in 25 seconds now.

It lands all the time on people with 300+ pr, theres nothing wrong with it. Your forumquest is over.

[Nirgon]

Originally Posted by Nizzarr [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It lands all the time on people with 300+ pr, theres nothing wrong with it. Your forumquest is over.

Yeah well resisting at 120 under lvl 57 here, I disregard your claim.

This isn't about how fast anyone kills it or if they should be able to continue it or not. Trak breath and dragon fear here are pretty sad.

It's about the content, which is currently rather off concerning a center piece of Kunark content.

[Tasslehofp99]

My 60 monk gets hit at lvl 60 with 250 to 300 pr...2 cure poison pot clicks and I'm gtg.

[SamwiseRed]

what is the resist check for the linkdead ability?

[Nirgon]

Fear flagged players as linkdead, which includes dragon fear before you find basis for another multiple face palm inducing argument.

I call shenanigans on Nizzar's pics being related to Trakanon kills or as evidence to negate that breaths did not ever land from him on lvl 60 players with 175 poison.

There are x players in...... you seem to have chopped off which zone [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. Shenanigans.


Oh hey someone with dmf/shadoo getting poison breathed in Velious... in b4 no blue diamond gear or they didn't have resist as a raiding guild clearing Velious content. I added some notes for people with a less trained eye, but did not add the blacked out text boxes.. source:

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Again, obvious to someone who raided the content (oh hey some corpses in this one too early into the fight, man what happened). I'm also NOT contending that he didn't die quickly, notice the comment below the screenie in the source link. Also, regarding what level they likely were and availability of resist gear at this point? This image is from goddamned JULY 2001 into Velious. Luclin being December 2001.

Originally Posted by Nizzarr [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It lands all the time on people with 300+ pr

Originally Posted by Dullah [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

400pr multiple times, and with under 300pr .

Someone just set off the not classic alarm!

Originally Posted by Dullah [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The whole pretense of being experienced in this era as an RZ vet is laughable too. Anyone who played end game kunark-velious knows dragons stayed up for weeks at a time due to lower pop and much higher competition. The opportunity to truly test pve was therefore nonexistent. Better off lying saying you played a blue server. It would carry more weight.

The whole pretense of this... maybe to most people like you who were wondering where to level and how the game was played, but RZ had extremely knowledgeable players (hi there!) handling end game content with big boy gear. I had a wizard epic and mana robe on live RZ during this era. Dr. Jelly-ngton I presume? I don't need pixels here to try and establish myself (cough cough cough).

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[Dullah]

Originally Posted by Nirgon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

... foolish speculations.. blah blah

Someone just set off the not classic alarm!

Way to intentionally remove half the quote to argue your "point".

I said with under 300pr, the ae lands quite frequently.

How pathetic do you have to be to continue crusading against mechanics you have no experience with either on live and or p99?

OG players from both Legacy of Steel and Fires of Heavens have posted in this thread with hundreds of kills on live and both claim it to be legit. These same players have endorsed making the encounter harder in ways that put it in line with classic (agro range), but the trak breath does not fall into this category.

And ya, I remember you from RZ, you were not the super star you pretend to be. I previously didn't want to bust your balls and out you on the forums, but you are losing it and clearly furious. Take a deep breath and step back. Either play or don't, but stop trying to compensate for your shortcomings in game by forum warrioring.

Non factors gonna not factor.

[Brut]

Don't think this is Trak breath exclusive, but moreso something about NPC poison-based dots having wonky resists in general. I resist ebolts from the high level shaman frogs in seb like 95% of the time without bothering with PR equip at all, got like 50-60 going around most of the time and rarely seen ebolt/ebreath land. Pretty sure have resisted them while malo'd also.

On the other hand, lvl60 w/ 300+ PR and I get hit by Trak AE like 9/10 times. So bleh.

There's prob something off with the resist checks when being low lvl / having low resist #?

[Nirgon]

I'm sure he's great fun here with 400pr and when its resisted at 100 PR range for 51-55's.

Killed on live, killed on blue, classic players gonna want classic.

[Nirgon]

Source

Ya, trak has been killed tons of times. He's a biatch, thats for sure. (actually I wouldnt know, I died in 2.3 seconds) Word of advice, make sure your PR (poison resist) is at LEAST 200...and thats on the low end. Mine was only 150 and as I said, I didn't last long enough to even see 1 spell cast.