Halls of FateFollow

So, lately me and my guild are starting to group to do some high lvl instances. Last time we did Mistmoore Catacombs (only died about four times, three of those times about my fault) but this time we went in the HoF.

We would be my 70 monk, a 70 warden, 69 troubadour and a 69 shadowknight. And things went very well, we died the first time as I did a bad pull and got the first named we encountered along with another group. Not a good idea, in the confusion we dropped pretty rapidly.

But the second time we cleared that room and moved on. (the one with Raluvh)

It's a pretty zone, albeit repetitive.

Then we moved on, clearing our way slowly but steadily (I pulled and I have always been a slow puller, it's instinct really, which doesn't really make me all that suited for the job, had some arguments about that when I was still playing EQ). The next room and something odd happened, a lvl 69 named actually dropped us all, and we didn't get him as an add or anything, he just wiped the floor with us. Vimock did go down the second time, but he does a lot of damage for his lvl and not being a boss. (that makes death no. 2)

We enter the Dracotarium and first clear the circle to avoid all adds before taking down the lvl 70 named. (Jin-Tiz the Cataloguer) He went down in almost half the time of Vimock btw, still find that very odd.

Then ofcourse I mess up and wake up that lvl 71 named on the table, first the troubadour drops and the rest follow quickly (well, I did anyway, others evac'd). Second run he dies swiftly.

Funny thing about all the dragonwhelps in a following room, there are three groups of about 10 or so lvl 69 triple arrow down heroics. We actually skipped them at first, then decided to take them as they might be doable and drop a good chest. Ofcourse, after killing the first group in about 5 seconds, the other two followed swiftly.

Then we hit the big one, Sotish. We're going to have to go back to get him, it was just near impossible to take him down and get rid of the adds. Sothis himself is nothing, he'ld drop soon enough, but the constant flow of lvl 70^^^ animated mobs was always too much. The first time we didn't even know that Sothis would call them, although we did suspect it. Second and third try got us closer but we just couldn't do it. We tried to pull Sothis up, giving us more time before the mummies got to us, but to no avail. One more member in our group and we might have made it though, it's fairly close.

Fun times, although I still wonder about the room after the first staircase, what's with all the dragons you can't target? Why can I inspect those torches?

Meh, we're going back in there soon, with five of us, see if we get more lucky with Sothis. And hopefully get as many masters as we did now.

Oh yeah, anyone know if a group of five lvl 70's could go in Unrest and be expected to live long? None of us have raid equipment, mostly master lvl and good non-raid equipment.


Edited, Sep 10th 2007 12:45am by Zieveraar

Not a raid zone indeed, but as I hear it still the toughest non-raid zone in the game at this moment.

We'll try anyway, mostly to get the cloaks, it might work out better as I think, HoF was an instance I didn't expect us to do so good in too.

Aha, thanks for clearing up a few things! And we never really thought of using those potions on Sothis, we got him down to 25% but if one of us had concentrated on getting the potions and continuously use those on him, might just have made it!

I read the guide on the link Calthine gave, looks like a very interesting zone Unrest. We'll definitely have to try that one out!

or do it both ways. We also try and grab one before we leave for when we have raids. Named mobs that take forever to get down go down just a little easier when you hvae those potions on hand

two healers does wonders for a nice tank in Unrest :) (you got a spare space... someone wants it!)