Enchanter Epic - Any Advice?

[commongood]

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

I did the epic a year ago or so and spent a couple months tracking both Verina and Vessel.

Leave rushing to them on quake / server reboot to people who don't know better. You're a chanter, use your brain. Both mobs are casters and will start casting their buffs immediately upon popping.

Set up a Gmail account if you don't have one already. Add it to your mobile phone. Find the most annoying and loud ringtone you can find on the internet and set it as the notification sound for emails which have a subject starting with 'POP:' (Gmail allows that, find a guide somewhere).

Park a level 1 character near the spawn spot and set a GINA trigger (or a 1-line shell script if you run Linux / MacOS and have half a brain) to watch your EQ log file for "<mob of interest> begins to cast a spell" and send you an email when this happens. The email's subject must begin with 'POP:'

Make sure the whole chain works by testing it on common caster mobs somewhere.
Now just log on your tracking mule near Verina or Vessel (doesn't have to be LoS - casting message can be "heard" through walls) whenever you don't play your real characters, and wait to be notified of the mob popping.

This guide works for any caster mob really. I got both Verina and Vessel with minimal effort this way.

From my experience, both Verina and Vessel will be highly contested when they pop. You really have only few minutes to engage the mob. But since with my method, tracking them is so easy, you can afford losing a few spawns to competition and get it when you get it.

That sounds like a very solid method. Though you don’t need to min/max at EQ like this to get them. In my experience tracking method matters less (with Verina anyway) than your ability to FTE her FAST and survive until she’s down or your friends have shown up.

[Izmael]

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

That sounds like a very solid method. Though you don’t need to min/max at EQ like this to get them. In my experience tracking method matters less (with Verina anyway) than your ability to FTE her FAST and survive until she’s down or your friends have shown up.

Minimizing time commitment can be important to people who value their time highly or have little to spare, but still want to maintain a link with the P99 biotope.

[Tecmos Deception]

Yeah. VT was the one time I did something for more than like 6-7 hours straight in EQ. IIRC my family was out of town for the weekend, and a few pals from The A-Team sat online in her room with me towards the end of a window doing trivia and taking turns being passed out until she popped and we texted each other and killed her. Fortunately I think we only spent about 24 hours on vigil.

[kjs86z]

Man, this is some disheartening conversation.

I'm probably just not going to do this.

[Triiz]

Originally Posted by kjs86z [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How tough is The Tangrin (Field of Bone)? Any advice / required numbers / where to check if he's up?

I killed Tangrin at around 7:40 EST this morning so there is your timer. I solo'd it, and it wasn't hard at all but charm didn't break. If charm breaks, you're probably going to want Wand of Allure/Puppet Strings/really high MR to avoid the 12 second stun.

Trooper Taer with VOG/boon tore his ass up and had like 50% HP at the end of fight. The fight took ~5ish mins tho so I was pretty lucky on charm not breaking since after the fight Trooper Taer resisted mez and broke fetter after about 30 seconds so he has extremely high MR for a level 50.

Originally Posted by kjs86z [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Man, this is some disheartening conversation.

I'm probably just not going to do this.

Yeah, I'll probably never finish the epic. I started a long long time ago and have 90% of it, but I'll slit my wrists before I sock VT or VD or even sit there afk for days with GINA on. Just hoping to get lucky and happen to be in Neriak/Cab during an earthquake one day I guess, heh.

[Baylan295]

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

I killed Tangrin at around 7:40 EST this morning so there is your timer. I solo'd it, and it wasn't hard at all but charm didn't break. If charm breaks, you're probably going to want Wand of Allure/Puppet Strings/really high MR to avoid the 12 second stun.

Trooper Taer with VOG/boon tore his ass up and had like 50% HP at the end of fight. The fight took ~5ish mins tho so I was pretty lucky on charm not breaking since after the fight Trooper Taer resisted mez and broke fetter after about 30 seconds so he has extremely high MR for a level 50.



Yeah, I'll probably never finish the epic. I started a long long time ago and have 90% of it, but I'll slit my wrists before I sock VT or VD or even sit there afk for days with GINA on. Just hoping to get lucky and happen to be in Neriak/Cab during an earthquake one day I guess, heh.

There is some evidence that VT and VD can drop two wards/Rods... but it’s all out of era. There are even patch notes indicating they will only drop 1 set, but it’s all circa 2003. Might be worth digging. There is also some anecdotal evidence that it’s a smaller window. I am all in favor of trying to make the window smaller if someone can provide real evidence on the window. The only evidence I’ve seen that the window is 5 days (which is a bigger window than anything else in the game, I think) is the Diku write-up which Nilbong relied on in the spawn timer post.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

Just hoping to get lucky and happen to be in Neriak/Cab during an earthquake one day I guess, heh.

Put level 1 alts at their spawns to watch for them now and then. Maybe you'll get lucky. But I wouldn't bet on it :-/

On the plus side you can say/ooc/emote/whatever "Verina Tomb begins to cast a spell." to trigger the gtt/Gina of all the worthless fucks who are trying to get the kill before you whenever you log on your level 1s. I know I do!

[Triiz]

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

Put level 1 alts at their spawns to watch for them now and then. Maybe you'll get lucky. But I wouldn't bet on it :-/

Yeah I tried this when I first started working on the epic. After a couple weeks of checking I said fuck it.

I figure eventually I'll get lucky and stumble into VT/VD or I'll just cast VOG forever. Clicky haste would be nice I'm sure, but it'd have to be something borderline game breaking, like clicky Boltran's, to really motivate me to dedicate the time to VT/VD.

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

On the plus side you can say/ooc/emote/whatever "Verina Tomb begins to cast a spell." to trigger the gtt/Gina of all the worthless fucks who are trying to get the kill before you whenever you log on your level 1s. I know I do!

Lol I've thought about doing this when I was in Neriak doing Reaper/ IVU cloak turn-ins but never have, good to know someone is keeping people on their toes though.

[Nagoya]

...and to think this is considered one of the "easy-ish" epic is quite telling for a filthy casual like myself lol. what a crazy game we play [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Baylan295]

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

...and to think this is considered one of the "easy-ish" epic is quite telling for a filthy casual like myself lol. what a crazy game we play [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In terms of encounters, it IS easy. The only multi-group content is Fear and Hate. There are no contested God or Dragon kills. The most contested parts are solo-able with good luck and/or good clickies. It’s just two incredibly long spawn windows that no reasonable person can sit through consecutively. I applaud those that have, but there is a reason 10 chanters all race to neriak after an earthquake. You’re more likely to get lucky in that circumstance and have someone that beat you to it wipe on a bad charm break.