South Karana MMFollow

We tried the suicide run for the jail and didnt even get close...not sure if that's a viable strat.

If the Mages could coth it would rock!

Had time to try this once last night. Not knowing anything we went in haphazardly with Chanter, Cleric, Cleric, Tank, Mage, Mage.

We got as far as the Jail in the time allowed.

Is it possible that the devs made this so you would actually have to devise a strategy (as stated above) rather than try to grind it out? In which case it is not a bug or exploit if you figure out a way to do it. Time to completion makes no difference since you are locked out a certain amount of time anyway.

My thoughts from playing the enchanter...

Don't bother with extended enhancement, mission can only last a tad longer than your buffs anyway, plus you will be re-buffing a lot.

Why do you get charm? You cannot charm any of the mobs, not that they resist, you get the message '<<mob name>> cannot be charmed'.

I bought all 5 levels of Subtlety, didn't seem to matter, mobs made a bee-line for me after a slow or mez. Slow was either partially successful or sometimes 'mostly' successful.

Again this points to a strat where you run past the mobs, mezzing everything to accomplish your goals. It probably was ment to take 10 minutes, but they give you an hour to try again and again if you wipe.

ok, when leaving the Jail, stay to the left and take the next door.(go out jail door, left to next door) In this next area run to the T and take a sharp left hand turn. After this turn, take a sharp right nearly right after the left and you will enter a giant chamber where Farsoth spawns.

Bingo! I had to think about it for a second, my thought was "its either council chamber or where the old Ishva Mal spawned." The latter seemed better cuase it was closer :D

From the gnol by the Bridge in SK you have to say venture to him and u port to instanced.

A guild group was playing with this mm today, and we couldnt get the prisoners free. Is there a way you have to operate the levers? Is it just the lever to open cell door and 2 on inside wall next to each other? Seemed like we ewre misisng something thanks

Best group makeup I've used to win is: Cleric, Cleric, Warrior, Warrior, Enchanter, Mage.

Assign each cleric to a tank or just rotate them when mana gets low. This way you can keep moving without having to stop to med at all.

To save a tiny bit of time, we had one of the tanks suicide run the jail instead of fight the ones in there.

We would finish with about 5 - 10 mins left on each run, if we fight the ones in the jail we just barely make it.

I haven't tried just flying through the whole thing yet. Might be an option.

This MM is an example of why MMs will probably ruin the EQ experience for most people. I have a person in our lower level guild who has done this mission exclusively since she got out of the tutorial. She has gone from level 10 to level 67 in 4 weeks, by running in with full group, she does whatever it is that has to be done in less than 5 min, (I think, kill some dude) and zoning out. She AFKs and sits until the timer resets in 30 min, I think, then goes back and does another, 6-12 per day.

My level 60 went in with her as a cleric, had enough time to cast temp on group, and was still selecting AAs for the mission when she completed the mission. We zoned out and completed the task, with half a bar XP for me. Heck, I didn't even see any of the zone but the entryway.

And this is bad why.. you may ask? Well, as many will attest, one of the biggest complaints on this board is someone who is level 50 plus and doesnt know their character, either thru buying a char thru EBuy, or a char who is PowerLeveled up using freinds resources or purchased plat. Either way, you get a tune who does not know how to play their character. I personally cant imagine the char above will be in a real fight. She has never cast a spell without being a Splitpaw Gnoll. <Can you imagine the fizzle rate? (20 fizzles then a success, then 20 more?)> She has never swung a weapon except as a Splitpaw Brute. <Dang, I miss frequently, and I have been working on swinging a 1HS for two years and 60 levels.>

I have talked with my fellow officers, and we will never invite her into our upper level guild, primarily because, we dont want her carrying our guild name into a PoP zone or DoN instance when she gets bored playing where she is and someone seeing how badly skilled her tune is. God forbid she decided to try a raid in Fear or Hate, where we occasionally raid with a few other guilds. I guess, if getting to level 70 is all you care about, this MM is the way to go. But, after I completed the above, with the XP I received, I felt positively dirty. I have been debating getting a necro to make some Essence Emeralds to get rid of the XP.

It's a tough mission if you don't just run thru and train everything. I like this one.

That's exactly what was fixed.

The mission was never intended to be trained and finished in 10 mins. Cry me a river that you actually have to fight and EARN your experience.

Monster missions SHOULD be harder and take MORE time than XP in the regular zones. There is no risk of loss of XP in a monster mission.

Get over it.

I havent done this mission since the last patch. Are the drops/stats the same or did the patch alter them as well?