Ancient Kingdoms

Got the giant king, but of course he dropped druid chest. The hardest part is clearing the room without aggroing everything and the boss; the fire casters do a ton of damage and getting two in a fight is even a bit of a challenge.



Went to try the giant caster boss but that room with the frozen DoT floor is annoying af and gave up just clearing when my mage died to the DoT.

I've killed Avatar of Water four times, he's easy now, just annoying to get the spawn item. Most of the basic upgrades i need are optimized jewellery from any and all bosses, the set armor items from Winterforge, and bracers for everyone which I have not researched to target farm. My item level is 4,897, and my mercs average around 4,000 with the rogue at 4,570 from all my hand-me-downs.

Vault of the Vanished appears to be the next big challenge. I tried Morwyn but she is another caster boss with AoE mana degen spells. She also spawns some serious spongy adds that take a while to clear, and the boss ALSO has lifetap effects, so she heals while you are clearing adds. Just tried once so will obviously have to carve out a strategy. I assume she drops the key to get to the dragon on the last floor of the dungeon, which is the target for the next quest for the Planes.

I have killed Pyroth and Urzak at least 8 times each and they won't drop their quest item; 30% chance on Urzak and 20% on Pyroth - may the odds be ever against you (edit - world boss loop before bed, Urzak finally dropped Savage Blood. Two more items to go, both 20% drop rates). I have 3 friggin' black dragon scales, and even the spine. I figure to try the Spirit of the Forest tonight. Edit - Spirit down. All on farm. And three two that deny me quest items.



I've just stayed with my tank set-up the whole time. 10 mins to switch between specs, so I just don't bother with the dps one. The Fearless Battlestance Mastery ends up being kinda useless, the rage loss is overbalanced.

Slaanesh69 said:

The Fearless Battlestance Mastery ends up being kinda useless, the rage loss is overbalanced.

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Yeah, the Fearless stance is really only useful on about three bosses: the Dragon world boss, the stupid fucker in Sunken Temple, and the 50% named in Despair/Chamber of Fire.

Rage generation in general is piss poor, and the devs have said they don't want Warriors generating rage from being hit because it would somehow make DPS Warriors overpowered. But I don't really understand that logic, because if a DPS Warrior is getting hit, it's probably because you're running a DPS spec to burn down easy bosses you already have on farm. The reasoning feels pretty odd.

I'm still just doing my normal boss loop. At this point, I only need the Cobalt chest and helm. The helm is going to take a while since I'm still nowhere near killing Hrimsorr. That boss is insane.

Morowyn is still giving me problems too. She doesn't seem that difficult at first, but once the adds spawn it turns into a complete shitfest that just snowballs out of control. Next attempt I'm going to try Runeshielding through that phase, though I don't think it'll be back up by the time she does it again. There's always praying for an interrupt, but not only can interrupts miss, the delay between pressing the button and the ability actually firing in this game is horrible. Most bosses only have 1.0-1.5 second casts, so you basically just have to luck into "predicting" it.

The good news is that it sounds like the Dragon boss after her is a total pushover and basically free loot. Apparently it drops one of the best Warrior tank weapons too, outside of the legendary from the MC zone.