Well first off a beastlord and I went and attempted to fight into the temple, but theres so many healers and see invis mobs that things get out of control reall quickly. After a few deaths and alot of trains to zone I tried to figure out something better.
First off the Animist is at the very top of the temple in CT. To make things worse, some lizards randomly see invis and others don't. So you'll have to do alot of conning and hugging walls to get to the entrance to the temple.
Anyways, once you get to the backside of the temple where the entrance is. Your gonna wanna run up the ramp area nexto the stairs as show in this picture:
(http://www.mrfo.com/everquest/EQ000308.jpg)
You'll also notice that all of the rest of the ramps are slightly slanted. You can basicly run from one to the other after that.
(http://www.mrfo.com/everquest/EQ000310.jpg)
Make sure you con the mobs you are running over becaus they can see invis and will follow up to the top of the temple. CR up top is a pain in the butt to say the least.
Finally when you are at the top, you wanna look down and you'll see a a few pools of water.
(http://www.mrfo.com/everquest/EQ000314.jpg)
(http://www.mrfo.com/everquest/EQ000316.jpg)
In one of the pools, you'll find Ikpug Giblod swimming in the water. Hand him the note and you'll be done.
Hopefully this helps some people out. Lots were asking how to do this in the channel so I figured I'd post how I did it.
Awesome work!
thanks
Did you find that you needed to kill anything to get to him or did a combo of invis and hugging walls get you to him without having to engage anything?
And thanks a bunch for the info!
Quote from: GatitoDid you find that you needed to kill anything to get to him or did a combo of invis and hugging walls get you to him without having to engage anything?
And thanks a bunch for the info!
Not killing required. Just need invis, wall hugging and a bit of luck when you are running on top of mobs. If one agros then you better run to zone.
I used a necro . Got the necro up to the spawn . Killed bst then summoned his corpse and did the turn in .
To run from one to the other do you need levi or can it be done w/o levi?
You need levitation.
I found this alot more difficult than it sounded in the original post!
It didn't sound that easy in the original post, either :P
Levitate + Invis + Sneak (I'm a Vah Shir) got me there without incident. Now I'm waiting for him to respawn...
edit...popped after 35 mins.
I was able to levitate/invis, swim up the center column (it's narrow, but doable), float off the temple and run to the exit. I had port devices, just decided to do it the hard way.
I was able to 2 box my way up there with my druid bot, fought all the way. Too many see invis and the fighting was just safer for me. Only had one close call at the top when I got 3 mobs unexpectedly.
Now, since I was ragged on before, check my gear before you try this yourself. It is doable with a small group or 2 box, but you will need some serious gear. Oh, and the first mob stole my c3, which did not help.
The guide was very helpful, as I was able to figure it out even though it was my first time at the temple. Thanks for the post.
The NPC is in one of the water tanks embedded in the concrete walkway that is suspended mid way ish inside the temple/pyramid. It is the SE corner tank. Be sure you have a way to gate out because once you jump in to talk to him you cannot get out.
I did the same thing as Sempai, i invised past most mobs and fought my way for the see invis one, teamed with a druid it was kinda easy but a bit long. :D
Thx for the infos.
I had two necros trying to flop in.. they couldnt figure out where to go.. what little pool is he in?
{edit} I could target him.. but I think the necro fell down one level too far.. now we are stuck try to to get up one level =(
Quote from: DeiadroxI had two necros trying to flop in.. they couldnt figure out where to go.. what little pool is he in?
{edit} I could target him.. but I think the necro fell down one level too far.. now we are stuck try to to get up one level =(
The NPC is in one of the water tanks embedded in the concrete walkway that is suspended mid way ish inside the temple/pyramid. It is the SE corner tank. Be sure you have a way to gate out because once you jump in to talk to him you cannot get out.
The walkway thing is about 25-50 feet below the door you enter into the temple. DO NOT drop to ground level. He is in the SE corner water tank on the walkway.
Yea, don't drop to the bottom, BUT don't drop onto one of the lower levels of tanks either as there is NO way to get to the higher levels, I tried for hours. Gotta reflop but at least my necros know the way now.
Here is my experience with this hand in. I got to the back of the temple after dying three times and started working my way up the ramps. At the top of the temple I got aggro from some see invis mobs, high-tailed it into the temple, dropped into the water and did my turn in as quick as I could. I only managed to do one of the text prompt replies before dying though. Hopefully Muada will still accept the letter as I got the letter back from the ogre before dying.
You don't have to go through the diagolue to get the flag for the turn in.
Yup, it worked. :) Now to kill the Delirious Drogmor and catch up with all you guys and start helping find new clues.
Bleh, I found this completely impossible as a Troll - just too many see invis lizards on the way, I couldn't make enough headway to stay ahead of repops solo. I'm sure it would be doable as a Vah Shir, a lot of them could be bypassed with some careful sneaking.
I'll drag a Druid out there tomorrow and try again.
aye you should all the Cats it took only 2 tried to successfully sneak by the se invis and get to the guy. :)
tho haveing helped a bard do it..a group is handy. just clear the temple
Ok, I have one question ...
WTF is an ogre beastlord doing sitting in a pool of water in the middle of Cazic Thule ... ??
Having stood downwind of an orge beastlord, I couldn't possibly comment :twisted:
Atashi
Quote from: AtashiHaving stood downwind of an orge beastlord, I couldn't possibly comment :twisted:
Atashi
Up wind. Down wind. Does it really matter whentalking about ogers? :twisted: :twisted:
Ogres do make their own (foul) wind, after all.
They see through invis has anyone tried invis to undead through the second half of the field?
CT lizards aren't undead. (And even if ITU worked on the see-invis ones, you'd be visible to the 2/3 or more of the lizards that would see through ITU.)
Ok I had a 55 necro alt that I gave a coffin and essence emerald to. I then just invised DMF'd then ran him up the side of the temple. When i got to the top i fd'd and waited for agro to clear. Invised again then ran to where the ogre guy should be. I then killed my bst and summoned his body and rezed him right there.....
Now I just need to wait for him to respawn, what is his spawn time do you know?
Does this guy despawn right after the text or can you have multiple turn ins at once?
Like the others, he despawns about two or three minutes afterwards. While I haven't seen anyone try it yet, I suspect you could do multiple turn ins before he despawns.
You can do as many turn ins as you have Beasts with the letter.. and now it seems he despawns only after you have left a certain range after turn in (from last night - I finally got to him)
There was another VS Bst that used the Invis/Sneak method to get up tehre.. fought some mobs from about half way up to the top, dueting with a Rog. Invis/Sneak just wasn't cutting it for me... so I had to take the time to build a couple groups (another Bst from another guild joined forces with us) and we cleared from the caves all the way up (took about 25 minutes)... during our time waiting for our guildies to arrive.. the first beastlord was standing near Ikpug while the rog SoS'd back to ent to invite a mage for a COH ... Ikpug did not despawn whilke she was standing near him (20-30mins after turn in) .. Ikpug DID despawn after she left the zone tho... just before we started our crawl.
Ikpug repoped about 20 mins after she left the zone. Both Bsts were able to lev down to him our do our turn ins.
One last hint: If you manage to get there solo via the Invis/Sneak method... and do not have a gate potion/item.. it IS possible to "swim" your way back up to the top by carefully going back and forth thru the water fall in the center while looking up (with lev on).. Take a few mins to zig zag thru the water to gain the hieght and eventually pop back up thru the hole at the top, but you can definitely do it before the temple mobs repop... then you can train out...
Hm, Ikpug despawned for me about three minutes after I did the turn in - I was a few inches from him at the time updating my zone map.
Died 4 times had a BST, CLR, and SK friend finally get me through it. I'm camped in tank waiting for him to spawn.
So I get to temple do turnin , get trumpets and before I can do any lines with the Ogre I drown. Think I need to go back and do hails and lines or should I be fine ... please please say fine
You should be fine, assuming you got the letter back. All you need is for him to sign it, you don't actually have to go through his text.
How did you climb up the temple? I got to the back stairs as shown in the picture twice last night but could not figure out how to climb it. This in turn led to ugly situations trying to run around it to go up. I'm going to try this again tonight with a cleric and sk camped at zi to get me body back lol.
Ps.. If any beasts on SARYRN server are up to this point please send me a tell and maybe we can team up to do it.
psycattik
After trying to sneak on my own and dying and then dying more on other failed attempts at a combination of fighting/sneaking with partners, I finally begged a mini-raid that had just finished getting a drop in Fear to jog over to CT and escort me. We simply wiped every lizard who aggroed as we crawled up the temple.
Sometimes a sledgehammer IS the best solution.
Did this last night, sneaking was very easy to get up although I did use my mage for get-out-of-jail-free card. Took me 4 attempts total to get it down pat.
See invis mobs can pretty much start outside the doorway to temple. you can sneak past these guys if you stick to the wall. None of the roamers I saw could see invis, once past entry mobs hug the inner wall and head round to the opposite side sneaking as some of the corner mobs see invis.
At the back is the ramp. go up the ramp with lev on and basically just float outside the ramp onto the slope of the outside wall. Once on there you can just run up the side of the temple. Stop 2 levels below and take care from here, usually see invis mobs on the top level who will spot you at the top. Work your way carefully round to the front again and go in.
Then run down to SE pool and you're set :)
First of all this is my least favorite zone in the game, that being said I tried to make my way to the npc last weekend and died twice. Currently my BL is 67th level with decent equipment not ELE, VT or GoD armor. Fully buffed with self buffs and virtue I het the 6.2K hp mark. The group that we took has SK, 2BL, cleric and ranger. Closest we made it was to the base of the pyramid and a bad pull by the SK (unusual for our SK) brought 7 mobs to our camp and they immediatly kicked the clerics rear then moved on to the rest of us. I also was going to make a suicide run to the npc and hopefully do the turnin before death but from our prior romp to the base we killed mobs in the maze and low and behold spawned the named rator who saw me along the way needless to say I did not make it. The next attempt I think I will work with another BL in the guild and work it this way. One of us runs in and aggros as many mobs as he can run to the right side of pyramind and die. The 2nd BL will follow the token sacrifice a little behind invis and run to left end of pyramind and the work around to the spot to run up and do the turn in. Then summon rezz and repeat for the other BL. Has anyone tried this tactic, if so did it work . I will post if this works later this week when I try it again.
BTW Both BL are barbarians so sneak is not an option.
On cazic thule server
I fought my way in with a group consisting of myself (67 at the time), a 66 shaman, a 67 enchanter and my 65 druid bot. It was pretty easy.
Invis to the wizard port in, and fight from there. It takes a little while, but it's a pretty safe way to go. If you pull carefully (I was pulling) you shouldn't ever get more than 3 mobs and they don't hit hard so you can either mez (if you have CC) or root them or off tank or just tank all at once if you have a good enough healer.
I tried invising in a couple of times but it just didn't work; maybe I was unlucky with see invis mobs but we wiped twice. I then decided to go with the slow, steady option and it worked great.
Three bsts and a druid made the run up the temple easy.
One thing I would say though if you lev off the top to avoid using the ramps coming back down keep running to the zone and dont look back :)
Thanks for the Great info. Being a Kitty Bst I decided to try my hand at the sneaking thing, lev'd , invised and hit sneak key and made sure I was sneaking. I got agro and used my insta gate potion ( 1020 plat in PoT from vendor ) . second time I decided to shrink myself 2x, got a dmf and invised and was able to sneak by the guy that saw me before.
Went to the back of the pyramid and found the steps, Coning everything as I go. went up steps then ran off to the left a bit so I could run up the inclined sides. doing so ;;you can get all the way to the top always stopping just a bit short at each level to peer over and con any mobs in the walkway below.
ran across the roof to the entrance and went in . found the guy up in the right most corner tank as ;you enter ...
Madcat 70 bst Druzzil Ro
66 VS beast, very unsure of my sneak abilities so I made a group with wife 66 cleric and my boxed 56 wizzie (insurance). Since neither of us had ever been here before much less fought here, we weren't sure what to expect.
Most blue to the 56 pre-temple. In the temple area, mix of blue to yellows. These things run and hit fast. Although I was slowing them, I could barely tell, glad they don't hit hard. We got to the back of the temple and she got to tired to go on so I tried the invis/sneak thing. I am not a rogue lol. Died 3 times total. First time I got into the temple and died to spells before I could turn in (most spells were hitting me even with 300ish resists) - necro friend summoned the body out. The next two times, I didnt make it past the first corner at the base of the temple. All three mobs saw invis on both sides. At my level, the aggro range was just too large for me to get by all of them.
I don't know how you guys can train all the way to zone, at 7.2k I could barely make it to the wizzie port.
Going to try again tomorrow - hopefully the patch didnt fubar things.
Using a necro was so very easy. We had 3 BLs in my guild all do this at once. Necro FD'd his way up, we died, he summond and rezz'd us, and all 3 of us did turn-in. We also had a mage sitting at the zone-in ready to CoH the necro in case he got into trouble. Took all of 5 minutes. :D
I got my bot 61 Druid and suicide kited all the named out of the way, was cake after that.
Took 2 tries to get it right. Did the sneak/invis/lev thing up the pyramid.
First time I got stuck just as a see invis mob turned to look at me. Let Spot deal with him. Got an add. Decided to regroup so I used my thurg gate potion.
Second try I got to the top without incident. Zipped around to the front of the pyramid. Dropped down in front of the entrance went in far enough that I could see the pools, turned South East and ran till I saw the ogre in the pool. Did my turn in, got back the letter. Used my just made thurg gate potion to get out.
I just tried this as my Necro, but didnt have any luck. I ran around to the back and feign deathed to clear the aggro from the mobs I had so far, but I kept getting cast on and having feign broken and killed.
Can any of the necro's that did this post any details? Do you have to run straight thru and not feign until you are at the top or something?
If you have access to a druid this portion of the epic is cake. Invis to the temple as normal. If there is a see invis mob at the entrance harmony the others and and pull him. After they are dead get lev and invis up. Then move around to the bottom left corner of the pyramid. Watch for roamers and have the druid harmony all the mobs on the corner. Invis up and run by. Do this again in the upper left corner and move onto the stairs. At the top of the stairs you will see a slight incline on the outside of what forms the outside wall of the first level. Get on that incline and you can run your way all the way to the top without any agro whatsoever. Once you reach the level with the entrance to the inner pyramid go around to the front. The squidfaced guards do not see invis and once your inside you will not gain any agro if you drop invis. The tank that the ogre is in is 1 level down to the right as you enter. levitate down to the tank next to it and use the connecting ramp to walk up to the ogre tank. Make sure you get into the tank to do your turn in then leave. No need to do the text.
I have done this for 4 other beastlords and it worked flawlessly every single time.
Are the pics in the original post no longer avail?
Thanks for the info. Tried this with my bst twice but didn't make it to the first steps at temple. Came back and corpse dragged with my nec, and realized I did not stand a chance on bst. There were way too many see invis. Dragged to the slim walkway above the pools and rezzed, did turn in just fine after.
OK not wanting to bother my friends or guild and basically wanting to see what I could do on my own I came upon this solution.
1) Load up friends bard (60+)
2) Max buff including Levitate
3) Invis both Bard and Beastlord to the "entrance" of the temple area before the stairs
4) Place letter on your cursor
5) Have bard hit the group wtih Selo's
6) Have bard play DA song
7) Hightail it to the mob and do your turn in
8) Die
9) Load up friends Nec/SK for SC
10) Load up friends CLR for rez
First off I know not everybody has access to a friends Nec/Brd/Clr but if ya got friends willing to help it only takes 18 seconds!!!
I would HIGHLY suggest making a Halfing Rog (cus they get sneak and hide both off the bat) and making a couple of practice runs with just SoW and Levitate. Be warned though that going from Sneaking speed to full out Selo speed is quite a change and I failed my first attempt at this suicide run. Get some practice then take your time, you will have plenty.
Hope this helps at least 1 other person out there that tries to be as little as a burden to his friends/guild as I do.
No pics?
Quote from: VoidstalkerNo pics?
sorry about that. images fixed now
heres one for ya. use levi and invise. and get a tank thats willing to die. dont gro with tank, and have him run to corner where the mob that sees inv is to left when ya get up stars after the maze. while hes keeping them busy, run over to the side where you start up the walls of the pyramid. ( be invable ) run straight up and when ya hit the top of temple, do a /quit and whala. wait a little while and log on. worked for me.
Hi
Pictures still broken.. iam realy having a hard time on this hehe
this guide was a great help took me 3 times to get it down then ran naked up to the top of the temple cause my body was up there and PoK was down so no guild lobby , looted up, reinvised and did my turn in. Its not easy you just have to be careful of the see invis mobs and haul butt. Great post on this once again :-)
Bah, up to this point and the pictures are broke.
Yup, pictures are still broken.
I took a group up, slaughtering along the way. When I looked down off the bridge at the pools below, I saw letters moving around for the Animist's name.
I thought inside there was really nice. I never would have visited there if not for the epic hunt. One of the hidden gems, I think.
Ok Im having all kinds of problems with this, I must of died 10 times last night.. I think my biggest problems is I dont know where to go... Ive walked through every door.. I keep ending up in these little rooms with a bunch of fly that see invis.. By the way you guys are talking im going the wrong way.. Any help would be appreciated..
zi, go into the CY, hang a right thru the door, follow ur map northish thru the maze.. kill things otw there, kill more things when u get to the big old pyramid. Kill around to the back of the pyramid. Lev up, invis up.. watch ur pathers, climb side of pyramid straight up to the top. Drop down inside.. find him in one of the pools (this part i'm weak on.. did it really fast with a guildie & then gated the hell outa there ;p)
Quote from: Kanan on October 19, 2005, 01:54:44 PM
zi, go into the CY, hang a right thru the door, follow ur map northish thru the maze.. kill things otw there, kill more things when u get to the big old pyramid. Kill around to the back of the pyramid. Lev up, invis up.. watch ur pathers, climb side of pyramid straight up to the top. Drop down inside.. find him in one of the pools (this part i'm weak on.. did it really fast with a guildie & then gated the hell outa there ;p)
Ahhh ok I see this now... thats the only route I didnt take last night duh ty bud...
Died about 20 times doing this part before there was a guild lobby and easy corpse summoning.
If you are Vah Shir you have a small benefit in doing this, you can sneak past any see invis mobs on the ground level, just make sure sneak took (note your movement speed) before you try.
I did this (as I said after 20 or deaths) without any snare capability by a combination of invis and killing any see invis mobs on the pyramid. Most of my deaths were from the mob I was killing running into the next mob on the walk. This was a matter of luck, they all seem to path from mid-way on one side of the pyramid to mid-way on a second side so if the other mob was at the other end of his path I was successful. Also, remember there are 2 routes you can take on each level, if a see invis mob is in the way one direction try the other. It is possible, however unlikely, to reach the top without ever fighting.
Good luck everyone, this was way harder for me than any of the mobs up to GS.
This part is not fun... I got frustrated so I took a group of our top guildies and we still couldn't get to the top... we were fighting our way up, we got about 2 tiers up and got wiped.. ugggg...
OK i found an easy way to od this, not sure if it was said or not. had a lvl 70 necro drag my body to tanks and fd, waited til ago cleared and rezzed me right beside tank I needed
WOOT!
hmph.. well yeah, if ya wanna do it the easy way FF ;p
Well after dying about 40 times I finally did it.. Fought my way up with Me (68 Bst) and my 70 War my buddy 2 boxed his 70 bard and 70 Cleric.. Though I made it up once and fell lol.. I died quick so we had to do it again with lev this time hehe.. It was funny though we beat a raid to the top.. not sure how... 4 vs 40.. hmmm doesnt sound right... Though the bst waiting thank me for clearing the way lol
with the advent of shrouding, anyone know if the mobs see through the rogue shroud with its Hide/Sneak?
and if not, is it possible to hand in the note while shrouded or does the class/race (goblin rogue) thing become an issue?
if anything, if mobs don't see through rogue hide/sneak, it'd be a great way to scout this location--despite y'alls very awesom descriptions, i'm just not able to envision the layout.
you could scout it prolly.. but you would have some minor troubles doing the hand-in since all of your gear goes into limbo when you're shrouded ;p
ah, kk thanks. never been to CT but looking at the maps, seems to be a pretty wide and deep zone.
about the letter, i was thinking of banking it before shrouding up, then withdrawing after shrouding.
iirc, your bank empties out on the shroud too, only the shroud bank being a bridge b/w shroud & regular.
You and a druid could prolly duo over to there pretty easily Neko. Just clear most of the pathing mobs as you go. Pulling as many as feasible to the start of the pyramid.
Something I think I failed to mention before: have lev when you scale the pyramid up the backside.
Quote from: Nekokirei on November 02, 2005, 06:28:07 PM
with the advent of shrouding, anyone know if the mobs see through the rogue shroud with its Hide/Sneak?
and if not, is it possible to hand in the note while shrouded or does the class/race (goblin rogue) thing become an issue?
if anything, if mobs don't see through rogue hide/sneak, it'd be a great way to scout this location--despite y'alls very awesom descriptions, i'm just not able to envision the layout.
I have just tried this approach... failed :-P
It gave me a "quest-completed" ding sound after I turned in my letter, but no text followed. Nor after I said the phrase "How do they survive?" and "What are you learning?"... Nor after I unshround. :-P probably it will check your class hehe
Did this part last night... TOTALLY forgot about the sneak/hide, my print out should have been updated before I started, many things missing.. anyway there were see invis mobs at both ends of the pyramid while trying to get to the top. I was with hubby, 70 Druid. The hardest parts were the last two levels as there were two mobs at each spot that are immune to speed changes, cannot be rooted but can be slowed and could not split them. They summon. We were able to do them without dieing. Had to do some medding for mana between the fights from spot to spot. Once at the top, I was able to see Giblod in his pool. He is alone and it is easy to float down to him and do the script and hand in.
Hope this helps!
:-o
pictures are broken some one please fix!
thanks
kina.. the pics been broken for a very long time.... scroll up & try reading my directions to see if they'll work for you.
Howdy,
CT is a pain to say the least, best way to the top (if you don't have sneak) is get a few friends & slay every lizard you see.
The Animist is in first tank to your right. After you walk into the top of the temple turn to the right corner behind you. With LEV on
(I fell to the bottom 2 times before, and theres no way back up) float down to him and your styling. If anyone on Druzzil Ro
needs a hand I'd be happy to help out.
Kinamon
Xev
Druzzil Ro
Quote from: Animist on November 06, 2005, 05:02:37 PMI have just tried this approach... failed :-P
It gave me a "quest-completed" ding sound after I turned in my letter, but no text followed. Nor after I said the phrase "How do they survive?" and "What are you learning?"... Nor after I unshround. :-P probably it will check your class hehe
I'm impressed! I couldn't make it to the pyramid! Shroud worked great right up to the point where I exited the maze and got my very first look at the pyramid. Was standing there checking things out, when I hear the attack script from one of the lizards--got hit with some kinda Slow, rogue sneak/hide dropped, got slaughtered in a few seconds.
Well, on the good news side, I saw CT is gonna be a 60+ hotzone, so putting together a group shouldn't be an issue. =)
Thanks for testing this out!
GAH was going to attempt this step this morning ... and the servers are down ~sulk~
Going to attempt it by the use of shrink/sneak/invis/levi.. and if that fails.... box a 66 necro and do the rez in the pool.
Ekkkk Well, server is back up. Tried and got slaughtered as I came out of the maze - some raptor got me. Tried with the necro and same thing.. didn't help that necro's darn FD failed.. OH I'm gonna HATE this part soon.. trying to box the cleric and see how that goes...
EDIT
Well got 1/3 up the pyramid.. (still not sure I'm going the right way.........) got agro and all of a sudden me and the cleric bot had 6-7 on us.. gated cleric out and ran my tail of to Zoneline.. made it with 500 HP left or so hehhe Thanks to Tigger. Going see if I can find me a necro who know the place and do the harikiri & summon/rez thing.
BY the way anyone know if I can drink an invis potion when doing the turn in in WW? or keep hitting sneak till it works?
Kit Kat
pull most of the initial mobs to the ramp just before the pyramid area. That should lessen the pathing adds, esp since they'll only be able to cast a single time before they have to run there to see you (LoS casting issues help on the pulling casters)
When I did this for myself, I ran up the back, to the top with no agro. I was amazed! Tried the same thing with a friend of mine, and didn't work so much. This should work for you if you have a second person with decent resists. Have the first person run to the top using levi and running up the side, aggro the top mobs, and levi to the bottom most part. (make sure to have fero and all other resist buffs up) then when they get close, run back to the top. up and down, up and down, up and down staying on the ramp parts (not in the halls) while the person needing to turn in, goes past invis. When my friend turned in and gated, I ran all the way to the bottom, let them get very close, then all the way to the top and had enough time to get origin off. Hope this might work for some others.
WOOT I'm so HAPPY. Ran into a couple of former guildies headed to CT to farm blood for the shaman so we teamed up and killed ALL the way to the top of the pyramid. I hailed the silly Ogre taking swimming lessons in his pool - did my speach - Mage CoTH me back and we fought part of the way down till we decided we had enough of leeeeezards and gated out.
Next step is killing Sphinxes - Girplan and then.. the dreaded DDA.. I'm so excited!
I can warmly recommend beating your way to the top. The whole sneak/invis thing didn't work for me at all.
Thanks to Funnwind & crew, Loofy and my hubby's mage :)
Quote from: Skratz on April 24, 2006, 07:46:45 PM
When I did this for myself, I ran up the back, to the top with no agro. I was amazed! Tried the same thing with a friend of mine, and didn't work so much. This should work for you if you have a second person with decent resists. Have the first person run to the top using levi and running up the side, aggro the top mobs, and levi to the bottom most part. (make sure to have fero and all other resist buffs up) then when they get close, run back to the top. up and down, up and down, up and down staying on the ramp parts (not in the halls) while the person needing to turn in, goes past invis. When my friend turned in and gated, I ran all the way to the bottom, let them get very close, then all the way to the top and had enough time to get origin off. Hope this might work for some others.
Yep this works not too bad cuz I was the one running around trying to find the thing while Skratz kept the area trained away. He even made it out alive IIRC!! Thanks for your help again bro.
I had a very hard time with this. Tried duoing with a cleric, then tried a druid to no avail. Finally I had a wizzy friend of mine who had access to a well equipped and geared cleric and he drug my dead corpse all the way to the top and rezzed me by the ogre. All he did was cast DA on himself.
Okay, just finished this. Beastlord (me) Paladin, Monk, Shaman, Druid just fought our way in. I like the direct approach. The only thing I have to add to all of this is that with Spirit of Eagles I could easily get back out of the tank once done with the turn in. This may have been noted somewhere, but I don't remember it. Perhaps things have changed...
This must have changed. There doesn't seem to be anyway to get to the top other than traversing through the entire pyramid killing around 100 mobs. You can't run up the sides to the top, even from the first staircase, unless I missed something after having to kill everything in the courtyard, since see-invis mobs are about 3 in 5. After 40 mins of killing and only getting to the the 2nd set of stairs (with a see-invis at the top), I decided I'll have to get a group of friends to do this part. <sigh>
somewhere in here I posted my nightmare experience with this. for me this was without a doubt the hardest part of doing 1.5
If you're a Vah Shir you can use sneak to go behind see invis mobs, this and timing usually gets you to the first level of the pyramid. You can try going both ways on any given level of the pyramid to check for see invis mobs, so if one direction is blocked with see invis try the other direction. At the time I tried this I didn't have fetter aa (or the previous version, can't recall its name) so I would die to adds when the mob I was killing ran. Don't forget to cast lev on your self (at the very latest when you first get inside the pyramid before you try to jump down).
If you can choose what class to bring, bring an FD class and have them train the mobs away so you can go up a level, rinse, lather, repeat. Of course a full group works well too.
You can only go up the sides if you have levitation on. Even with lev, you can only get on the side at the stairway points (at least an unshrunken vah shir can). When you go up the side, make sure you don't pause over a walkway drop into the trench...once in, you can't get out without going to the nearest stairway.
As for avoiding mobs to the backside of the pyramid, that's the real trick if you don't have sneak. Having a friend train em out of the way is a workable solution. I did it with sneak, a very long time ago now. No recent experience.
Has anyone tried doing this part as a shrouded rogue? Does that work?
I hope I got this correct as I haven't tried this part of the epic yet. I still have yet to get the grass from the castle, no one wants to one group Grymes and the raid in PoD castle always occurs when I'm not online :(
If any part is not correct, do let me know!
Using EQ Zone Viewer, I pulled a few screen shots:
(http://personalpages.tds.net/~wilykat/eq/CT_start.jpg)
Follow the red line from the ent to the maze. Plenty of routes there to avoid see invis mob so check around until you can reach the pyramid. (Map courtesy of EQAtlas.com, used without permission)
(http://personalpages.tds.net/~wilykat/eq/CT_0.jpg)
Overhead view of the pyramid, follow the ramp starting from the one on the far back (north side) and work your way up to the top most floor. With 2 possible routes per floor, you could get to the top without a single fight.
(http://personalpages.tds.net/~wilykat/eq/CT_1.jpg)
Enter there. But stay on the platform, the first step can be a real doozy. :-D You should have levitate on by then.
(http://personalpages.tds.net/~wilykat/eq/CT_2.jpg)
Turn to the right and look down until you see the pool. Float down carefully to the platform near it or directly into the pool.
(http://personalpages.tds.net/~wilykat/eq/CT_3.jpg)
Once there, just sit back and wait for the ogre to show up.
If you get this far solo, congrats. Do remember to pack a gate potion or use origin AA after the turn in. If you don't have the AA, don't have the gate pot, and can't get anyone to summon you out, log out and use return home button after some time (6 hours?)
Gotta say, the most reliable way for doing this is to just put a regular killing group together and kill back. IMO it's faster, safer and more reliable than all the sneaking / invisi and levi out there, with less chances for oh shoot moments when a see invisi brings his friends to welcome you to the neighborhood.
thank you SO much Unapuma for the visuals. a few posts back you can see the last time i visited CT--over a year--and i still couldn't quite get an image in me head of what it'd look like in the pyramid nor getting up th e thing.
if you're on Stromm, send me a tell. did PoD last night with 75 RNG, 75 ENC, 69 SHD, and 69 DRU--all guildies--and we blew through with no problems. pretty sure they'd be more than happy to ""volunteer" again. ;)
i'm impressed with folks who could get through to the ogre solo--no way i coulda done it w/o help. had 75 cleric, 69 shadowknight, and me. waltzed in and out np. but solo? i don't think i coulda done it.
I didn't have the dps originally back when I did it and took a group up there. I was in 50-120hp gear then with .... not sure what weapons.. level 68-70 or somewhere in there. We had rough goings at one point with 7 in camp.. but made it up top.
I have come back to do it about 4 more times, each time doing it with less.
First a trio of druid, bst, bst at 70 with more aa and gear.
Then 70 bst and 70 bst with even more aa/gear.
And lately i pretty much could solo it, but went up with a 70 bst, me being a 75 bst at the time.
it varies greatly on gear level, and player level. The 73 pet and pet heal spell make offtanking cake, while at 75 I seem to do alot more damage because of the con difference and con change.
I must of died 20+ times trying to do this turn in solo. The only thing I really needed was Fetter of Spirts which wasn't availabe at the time I did the turn in.
I did this part solo, it was easy at level 73 with a level 71 (Qvic boot focus) to solo my way through. a group would have been faster but sometimes it's hard to find some willing player at my time.
I also took down Grymes solo as well. Played pet cleric and let pet do all of the fighting, with a few dots thrown in. Too about 5 minutes total to kill for the key.
at the very top of the temple on the outside there is an entrance, you will be on a catwalk, as you walk in, look down and to the right and you will see the tank that he is in.
What a difference levels make.
Wandered into PoD thinking how hard can it be.
Solo'd up to Gryme, took him down easily, went through and got my roaring grass, so bolstered with enthusiasm I trundled on with the quest, got halfway up the pyramid in CT when I got a tell requesting my presence in crystallos.
CT is fairly easy, solo'd a 5 pull and just about everything else that approached.
Had I actually known where I was going the first time I went into CT, I think I would have been way past this point now.
Cheers to the poster of the pics, much appreciated.
EDIT: found the time to go all the way up the pyramid (sneak sucked so I just beat em down), there are 4 An Amygdalan Protector (http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=8388) on the top floor guarding the door. These mobe see invis and enrage. I couldn't sneak by them, so I stuck the pet in and ended up with 3( think I got summoned by one).
It was an "interesting" moment, but they went down without too much of a struggle andplenty of nukeage.
Ikpug was in the tank waiting for me, and a gate potion to leave is definately a good plan.
Karve
Anyone able to fix the pictures or tell me why they wont display on my computer (i.e. what got turned off that I need to turn back on)
Considering they were posted in 2004 I bet they no longer exist ;/
If I log in I could flop my SK up there and see if I can get some new shots. It may be a couple weeks though hehe. Between working on my car and canoeing my game time is tanking >.<
The pictures on the previous page still display alright ,but no idea what keeps you from seeing them. Issue with the security settings perhaps?
Quote from: Tiroon on September 19, 2009, 11:44:31 AM
The pictures on the previous page still display alright ,but no idea what keeps you from seeing them. Issue with the security settings perhaps?
Ya, those pix are fine and adequate, but he probably didn't read the whole thread. The ones that were originally with the base note have been toast for many years.
I remember that if you have lev on and you get up on one of the walls of the pyramid (only possible at stairway points), you can just run directly up the side of the pyramid....never mind the maze. I also recall there being a hole directly on top of the pyramid, so you can even avoid the mobs at the doorway.