The Hidden Forest

Ventured into ToV tonight after our emp kill and needless to say the bosses are half good, half bad. We raided Dozekar the Cursed with 10 and managed to kill him, however it was a tough fight. We had 3 clerics + a sham for heals and needless to say I don't think it can be done with much less atm.

After raids were done, I went back with a group. With 5 people + 1 bot (warrior, 2 clerics, monk, rogue) we were able to kill the named drakes which were behind Dozekar that drop the symbols needed for ToV armor. Long fights for sure, but doable with our force. I dont think this is what you intended Lillu. The mobs did put out the right amount of damage, but also missed quite a bit. If you intended them to require a bigger force then I would up their ATK and make their min hit a higher number. They hit for 900's fairly often without def.

After the drakes Djani left but we decided to check out west ToV with our 4 + a cleric bot. We found a giant dragon called Gozzrem and decided to try him...and killed him. The fight was very long, I even had defensive repop mid fight, so it's obviously meant to be a raid encounter. He hit for the right amount I think, but he seems to be missing some accuracy too. He most likely needs more +ATK.

After killing him we went to try the Keeper. We didn't kill him, but he still seems too easy... With one more cleric he would be one groupable I think, and I am positive you didn't intend that. His hits seemed on the low-end, accuracy seemed okay.

As a final note, pathing is really messed up on lots of roamers. We had so many mobs come through the walls :\ whoever redid ToV on PEQ slacked I think. Hopefully you can look into it.

Grats on being the first people to get into ToV! I hope everyone enjoys the zone as I put lots of hours into this, far more than any other zone.

Pathing issues apart (points at Lillu), the design of the zone is as following:

Gear up (with single group) on trash mobs to get the molds and take 1-2 groups to kill symbol droppers. Doze is expected to need 2+ groups for sure. So it looks "about" right. Will strenghten the other symbol droppers a bit. .

As soon as your force is equipped with the new Armor (what loots did you get btw and how did you like them - same for Emp loot, what did you get , thoughts? Input!) you should be able to take out the West Wing. I upgraded the Dragons accordingly, they still had their old AEs (thought i changed that). So enjoy the easy loot you got from them

I'm wondering, did you guys "say" anything while passing the Blind Guards? I managed to improve their abilities a bit..

No we did not Lillu. Kitou REALLY wanted to test it but I didn't let him! :p

As for the items, well emp loot was good but we got the damage aug, caster boots, and torque of the wyrmlord. Boots ended up going to alts, aug we just randomed for due to having no actual 2h classes, and the Torque Magoo spent a buttload of DKP for hehe.

ToV items were insane! We got the bracer from Grozzum as well as the 2HB. Kitou may use that 2HB over his 1hand combo, Ienjoypie got the bracer. It's too bad Kitou didnt get the emp aug >< hehe he didnt think he needed it!

Edit: Oh and care to share what drops Glowing Drake Orb? Or is it not in game yet? :p I noticed you conveniently left that out of your post Tyler!

Didnt see that question - sorry, East Wing trash has this as random/rare drop. East wing only tho.

And sorry you got 2 booby drops from Emp! The Aug is 50% chance to drop (sort of epic upgrade for 2h classes like pal/sk/ber) and there is kick ass int caster , priest and melee loot yet to be discovered.

I expect you guys to farm him lots more

Tyler wrote: and there is kick ass int caster , priest and melee loot yet to be discovered.

WOOOHOOO GO PRIEST STUFF!