Ml5.2

[Daws]

Ok, first of all apologies to all those who were unable to attend today's ML5 group steps raid due to my imcompetence.

Right, onto the point of the thread...I would like to arrange another group to do ML5.2 as my group were unable to due to the fecking scarabs splitting thing. The next time I am free to do this would be on Saturday daytime. So from 11am GMT on Saturday would be a good time. I am happy to do the rest of ML5 group steps if the group desires.

So I require the following classes:

Cleric: Myself
Cleric [No FoP needed as I have FoP bot now ]:
Paladin:
Ice:
Ice:
Scout:
Theurg:
Random:

That looks good to me. If we can get that together before saturday then meet 11AM GMT at Stygia Haven. If not then I'll have to think about it another time. Please do not bother posting chars for the [random] spot after it has been taken as there is really no space for error. I'm very irate as I've spent over an hour trying to do one feckin step. Thanks all.

EDIT: I'm available to try this either 11pm GMT onwards today or 9am GMT until 11am GMT tomorrow if it is possible to get a group together before then (Putting this in case lots of people want to get ready for the ML5 BG raid tomorrow evening).

 

[zeusmdk]

would like to can with 49.5 ice wizzy and bb isf poss
and id like to do all the steps plz

 

[Tijl]

Arrows/bolts is easier then icewizzes imo, didnt have one split last time (1.69), let everyone who can use arrows/bolts shoot the mob w/o proc on (x)bow and no EB, and melee the mob down once its 1%. I gues shooting him to death may work too but I had half my group w/o credit when we did this in 1.68 and redid the step while melee killing him at 1%.

Works for the other splitting mob as well, think it's 5.4, the one who copies himself into 10 pieces.

 

[Pin]

Theurg, Cleric, Nuker and 5 randoms sat watching = no splits

 

[Valgyr]

as i still need it id like to rejoin with mincer impop

 

[Draylor]

Sorry for spam Daws

Arrows/bolts

And that took how long? More than the 30 seconds the theurg method takes Im sure

Someone take aggro: doesnt matter what. Cleric with heal font, paladin (few taunts then out of combat + heal chant), or just whatever tank you have available. Spam low level theurg pets (cant hit it, but add to the to-hit bonus for everyone else). Ice wizzie (or whatever nuker) waits for petspam to be up then kills it in under 10 seconds. 1 caster is more than enough for this.

Fair enough go for arrows if you have multiple scouts in group, but I tested (briefly) how long it was going to take to kill with arms/merc using bows. The answer was far longer than my very limited amount of patience would allow for

 

[macddon]

as I still need this would like to sign up for 5.2 in random spot with armsman Macddon if poss

 

[Viel]

I would sure like to get this 5.2 out the way (Viel) Theurgist

 

[Shaitan]

Would like to come again daws with jaem pls mate

SHould add I am available 9am tomorrow if u wanna do it then

 

[collegien]

Did this step this evening. Pally taunts and engages and i just shot him down with thrust arrows ...only took about 3-4 mins. easy pity we got wiped on another step .... still theres always tomorrow

 

[Jugvayne]

I am not a FoP bot!

 

[erialor]

No hard feelings at all, didn't keep myself updated after I first saw Raran listed in the grp-setup, so didn't realize my spot got swapped with Nomans.

Any spot for your next go - for Raran, ML4 Cleric

 

[Nomans Land]

Sry bout that Erialor. But I had asked him to keep me a spot hope you get the steps done.

 

[Daws]

Sorry for spam Daws

And that took how long? More than the 30 seconds the theurg method takes Im sure

Someone take aggro: doesnt matter what. Cleric with heal font, paladin (few taunts then out of combat + heal chant), or just whatever tank you have available. Spam low level theurg pets (cant hit it, but add to the to-hit bonus for everyone else). Ice wizzie (or whatever nuker) waits for petspam to be up then kills it in under 10 seconds. 1 caster is more than enough for this.

Fair enough go for arrows if you have multiple scouts in group, but I tested (briefly) how long it was going to take to kill with arms/merc using bows. The answer was far longer than my very limited amount of patience would allow for

Fucking hell why didn't someone tell me that earlier. :|

 

[Draylor]

Last time I suggested to someone to do it that way they got incredibly offended, informed me how often they had done it before, that they had X lvl50 chars, that they were older than me IRL, that their daddy could beat up my daddy, etc

So .....

 

[Nomans Land]

Well I now have a theory as well though I am not entirely sure it works. What you do is get your Pally to Engage then your Scouts or nukers nuke the mob. When he splits run out of room then going back in and keep fighting, even if he repops at 100% every time.

It doesnt matter if hes at 100% because each time he repops he should go down about 10% more. Eg. You start fighting get him to 90% and he splits. Kill the bugs, hes back at 100%. Start fighting again. This time he will split at 80%, etc etc.

There is only one thing that will upset this theory is that when he respawns something it says in /s that he gets strong! But this only means if he split at 40% last time hes gonna split at 50% this time, blah blah.

Long, but I believe it can be done like that.

 

[erialor]

Did this in two different ways; one was pala engage mob, while it was being xbowed - worked, but was slow....

Also had 2fgps on him and just bash away, when he was down to 5-10% the one groups pulled out of room letting the group needing credit finish him off, worked like a charm and was fast, and no splits because of the fast massive damage iirc...

 

[Daws]

We were going to try the 2fg method...but the other group doing ML5 prequests at the time couldn't be arsed to help us.

 

[Aashild]

wahahaha , i did it daws ! and got ml5 today xDDDDDDDDD :eek2:

 

[Tijl]

That works Nomans, but if too many scarabs follow you outside the room (= someone didnt run out fast enought) he idd heals to 100%, the lazy way is to have the scout kill the mob imo

 

[Viel]

Viel got it so my thanks to all that helped

 

[Iskander]

Sorry for spam Daws

And that took how long? More than the 30 seconds the theurg method takes Im sure

Someone take aggro: doesnt matter what. Cleric with heal font, paladin (few taunts then out of combat + heal chant), or just whatever tank you have available. Spam low level theurg pets (cant hit it, but add to the to-hit bonus for everyone else). Ice wizzie (or whatever nuker) waits for petspam to be up then kills it in under 10 seconds. 1 caster is more than enough for this.

Fair enough go for arrows if you have multiple scouts in group, but I tested (briefly) how long it was going to take to kill with arms/merc using bows. The answer was far longer than my very limited amount of patience would allow for

last time it took about 180-200 arrows

 

[Nomans Land]

That works Nomans, but if too many scarabs follow you outside the room (= someone didnt run out fast enought) he idd heals to 100%, the lazy way is to have the scout kill the mob imo

As I said it doesnt matter what % he comes back at once you kill the scarabs, be it 70% or 100% it should still work the same.

 

[Flimgoblin]

he splits after 42 hits into lots of scarabs

when he reforms he _regains_ 10% hp

if you take too long killing the scarabs he gets out of combat and starts regenning via the lovely anti-kite code brought in to stop chain pulling all those years ago.

Thus he reappears at 100% hp.

That's probably a bug - but not annoying enough for mythic to actually get around to fixing it any time soon.