I posted the strategy below for my guild on our site, because I found a way I like to do it. And as an officer in a family guild I do a lot of helping for the younger players (toon and experience-wise, not age), so when we do this MM I am usually leading. Using players who knew this strategy well, we completed this MM in 13 minutes.
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BEST WAY TO DO A FAIRY MM This strategy splits the group in the beginning, and once the chest is dead the group stays together, which is the key to winning this mission efficiently. Remember that death means nothing in MM's, except that you respawn with 50% hp and mana. So if you die, just continue doing what you were doing before your death, after your respawn.
So the first thing that needs to be decided when doing a Fairy MM is who is going to the chest, and who is staying up front (approx. 1/2 and 1/2). Priority for the chest group will be given to any players who can benefit from the loot that is in the chest, when it is capable of being looted. If you are in need of loot and the chest group is already filled, don't worry, this mission is easy and you WILL get this loot within a couple missions.
At the beginning of this MM, the players who stay up front just sit at the zone-in until the chest has been looted.
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Assignment of players - The assignment of who goes to the chest and who stays up front will be based primarily on number of players in the group, and secondarily on who needs the loot from the chest. All other players stay up front.
--6 people in group - 3 players to the chest
--5 people in group - 2 players to the chest
--4 people in group - 2 players to the chest
--3 people in group - 1 players to the chest
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Chest Group - If you are in the chest group, this is what is expected of you:
- At the beginning of the MM, run to the chest along the right wall. Stay as close as you can to the wall and keep running, even if you get aggro from the Witch Lamps. The Witch Lamps will lose aggro when high up on the wall of the cave. So get there quickly, and you will get a message telling you when the Lamp has lost aggro. Heal if needed and continue to the chest.
- When you get to the chest, target it and start attacking from maximum melee range. Remember to kick for added dps. The chest is immune to all magic. If you get aggro from a Lamp, back up to the wall behind the chest and stay there until your aggro is lost. Heal only if you're 20% or below, and continue atatcking the chest.
- When the chest is "dead" the person who won the rights to loot the reward loots either the NECKLACE or the SWORD. (only one or the other will be there)
- ONE person (remember who) then loots the Fairy Dust, which triggers each Lamp to turn into a rat called "an undead minion".
- Each player in the chest group then kills themselves by letting the rats attack. At which time they will be returned to the zone-in with 50% hp/mana and join the players who stayed up front.
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Clearing Rats The players up front will decide who the MA is and assist that person when killing the rats. One player can be designated as healer, and then pass the job onto someone else when they are OOM. If need be, also rotate the MA as needed to prevent as many deaths as possible.
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- Begin pulling/killing the rats that are up front, one at a time, and you should have your 2nd rat already dying when the last of the chest group finishes zoning back to the front.
- At this point any player who is OOM may want to die to replenish their mana to 50%.
- After approximately 5 rats are killed, the area in the center of the shrines will be clear of aggro from rats, and you can begin dotting the shrines (which is, of course the real goal).
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Shrine DoTing - Here's how to DoT the shrines:
- DoT ALL shrines from the area between the shrines that has the tree stumps. You can reach all of the shrines from this central location.
- When the group is done clearing rats, go to the DoTing area and all players cast their Fairy Fire DoT on the shrine nearest the cave. (Cave Shrine)
- Continue to DoT the shrine until it reaches 50%, and at which point 'a reanimated cryptrobber' will spawn in the cave and walk toward the Cave Shrine.
- "Cave at 50%" is everybody's cue to quickly switch your target to the North Shrine, DoT it, target the West Shrine, DoT it also, then run toward the zone to hide and med.
- Rules for Cryptrobbers:
a)They have a larger aggro range than the rats, and usually at least one of them sees invis.
b)NEVER DoT a shrine when a robber is near it. It WILL draw aggro.
c)If you DO get aggro from a robber at anytime, run
TO THE CAVE to die. This will avoid training the whole group (and you'll have 50% hp/mana).
- When the North Shrine gets to 50% another robber will pop in the cave and join his buddy at the top, near the shrines. Continue to med until these 2 walk back toward the cave.
- Re-DoT the Cave Shrine, if needed, to finish it off, and re-DoT the other shrines as well.
- A 3rd robber should have popped and walked up top by now, and everybody should be near the entrance avoiding aggro. Once he is out of the way you are ready to re-dot any of the last 2 shrines that may need it, fall back to the entrance and wait for the DoTs to finish them off.
- After the 3rd shrine is down and your task has been updated, the person who looted the dust from the chest zones out. DO NOT zone out until anybody that may be dead has re-popped in the zone.
- When the person holding the dust zones, everybody else will receive the task update message and a experience gained message.
- All zone out and receive your experience reward for completing this MM. Also, if you happened to loot the
NECKLACE or SWORD (link not working at time of this post), you will have it in your toon's inventory and the final stats will be based on your toon's original level. (Highest level stats linked)
I know it sounds hard, but in practice is quite easy. The key to it is just to stay together and follow the lead of your Mission Leader. By following this simple, yet efficient, strategy it is possible to complete this in 13 mins with 6 people.
So good luck on this and don't be afraid to do this one with only 3 people. It will take a few minutes longer, but it is very doable with a little patience.
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Basically, there are a couple of the flaws that I've found in the "Hide behind the shrine" method. The first is that usually at least one of the robbers sees invis and there is no telling whether it's going to be the 1st to pop or the last. The second flaw I see is that if you get aggro, even from one rat, you'll die, which overall adds to the time it takes to complete the mission (I don't know about you, but I've grouped with some great players that were also sloooow-zoners, know what I mean?). If you can minimize the deaths to only when you WANT to die to regain your mana, then your efficiency is increased even further.
I acknowledge that there are may ways to do this MM, and you may not want to do it this way. Actually the only rule in this MM that should be followed is to make sure the group knows which strat you have in mind.
The group has a responsibility to listen to the strat and FOLLOW it, even if they don't agree with it. Even if you don't like that particular strat, and you agree to it, DON'T start doing your own thing in the middle of the mission. That's just rude, and leads to confusion and deaths.