Drachnid Queen of the Hive
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 11:12 am
Just had to pop a quick post on how fantastic I thought the Drachnid Queen Hive Zone/adventure was.
I know its a fairly old zone, but I never got around to trying it out through to fear of how hard it might be. I wasnt mistaken on its difficulty.
I tried it for the first time last night and I still cant get over how enthralling it was. I picked my 1 group carefully and ended up with War, Wiz, Ranger, Mage, Clr, Clr and entered the zone. I consider myself to be very well geared for a T7 tank with 53k HPs and 14.1k ac (with a fair amount of Donor items), but as soon as you try 1 of the trash spawns you know your in for a rough ride.
Without wanting to give any spoilers away, I thought the zone was awesome. Had me hooked for over 2 hours, and apart from my wizard dying on allmost every boss through over nuking, I was on the edge of my seat for the entire adventure. Some of the mini boss encounters caused me no end of issues and a few wipes as my warrior cleverly Feigned Death when I realised I had more than I could handle and had to re-evaluate the encounter. Each boss gets harder and no longer becomes tank and spank, but requires a little more thought, and you really need to pay attention.
The gem drops make the time worthwhile, because we all like PP, and a lot of them spiders are damn rich. I got lucky and got the 10% chance aug drop and the final event complete drop which made it all the more worthwhile.
If anyone out there has never tried this event, I can recommend you try this. Having just 1 group makes it much more interesting rather than just loading up more toons. Just make sure you know what your getting into.
The previous adventure (Enomuth's Bone) seems like a newbie zone compared to this, and is the only requirement for all characters to have before entering this zone. I can rip through that zone in 20 minutes.
Many thanks for yet an another excellent zone. Another 2-3 hours of my evening went by far too quickly for me to remember.
I know its a fairly old zone, but I never got around to trying it out through to fear of how hard it might be. I wasnt mistaken on its difficulty.
I tried it for the first time last night and I still cant get over how enthralling it was. I picked my 1 group carefully and ended up with War, Wiz, Ranger, Mage, Clr, Clr and entered the zone. I consider myself to be very well geared for a T7 tank with 53k HPs and 14.1k ac (with a fair amount of Donor items), but as soon as you try 1 of the trash spawns you know your in for a rough ride.
Without wanting to give any spoilers away, I thought the zone was awesome. Had me hooked for over 2 hours, and apart from my wizard dying on allmost every boss through over nuking, I was on the edge of my seat for the entire adventure. Some of the mini boss encounters caused me no end of issues and a few wipes as my warrior cleverly Feigned Death when I realised I had more than I could handle and had to re-evaluate the encounter. Each boss gets harder and no longer becomes tank and spank, but requires a little more thought, and you really need to pay attention.
The gem drops make the time worthwhile, because we all like PP, and a lot of them spiders are damn rich. I got lucky and got the 10% chance aug drop and the final event complete drop which made it all the more worthwhile.
If anyone out there has never tried this event, I can recommend you try this. Having just 1 group makes it much more interesting rather than just loading up more toons. Just make sure you know what your getting into.
The previous adventure (Enomuth's Bone) seems like a newbie zone compared to this, and is the only requirement for all characters to have before entering this zone. I can rip through that zone in 20 minutes.
Many thanks for yet an another excellent zone. Another 2-3 hours of my evening went by far too quickly for me to remember.