Help on hunting grounds

[Gunzak]

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zone.html?zstrat=308

It's called The Lost Notebook.  Quest starts in Corathus Creep.  Your task is to go to the hive and collect 9 missing pages from Brovil's notebook.  There are no named, no summoners, and a very big kite area if you choose to kite (I just tank em).  Normal missions the mobs are all level 68-71 and on hard missions the mobs are all level 73.  Even on hard, which is only one I do, max hit is around 1100 and normal hits are around 600 so my Druid can easily heal me.

[sicshift]

hmm sounds about the same as rss

[dainfrol]

69.1 is a spell mission from DoDh expansion is DoD Level 69 Spell #1: The Lost Notebook and that's the link from Alla.

[Khauruk]

hmm sounds about the same as rss

I actually found it considerably harder to tank, though it has been a good while (and was at lvl70).  Perhaps it's just higher attack speed or higher attack rating on the mobs? /shrug...ymmv.

[sicshift]

ok i tried it yesterday and yeah ive done the mission before. i tried the normal just to get a feel for 2boxin it. after the first "field" of mobs it looks like a lot of time splittin mobs /shrug so i ditched it. went and tested rss some more and after a feel for that, it seemed i ended up waiting on mobs. (i just camp the ent and being we use cold spells mainly and i have a cold aug i dont do the cold mobs, and i also havent gotten balsy enough to pull a room yet heh) so i decided to try bears in icefall....sheesh them fuggers are mean lol. i did it, but it just doesnt seem efficient. now i dont have all of my def aa, just the first 8 avoidance. not sure how much any of the other def aa will help as i keep reading how it all sucks past that point /shrug  ill have to try a couple more times to see how it compares to my current spot

[Khauruk]

If you're tanking things at that level, all the def. AAs are very useful.  They're just expensive.  But, you're missing 25% (? can't recall exact # atm) on mitigation, and a good bit of avoidance.  Offhand riposte AAs are good too.

[sicshift]

yeah im missing 10 ranks of avoidance and all 18 mitigation. just finished up pet crits so now i guess im going to work on some mitigation

[Gunzak]

I just do 69.1 Hard since I can go as slow as I want and since it's instanced no one can bother me.  There is little loot to speak of except rare random drops and chest loot though.  I will have to hit MPG named again soon since my Druid is gonna be 70 soon and I have no glowing runes for him.  I plan to try and box some MPG trials soon so hopefully I can get my Druid some upgrades as I have really neglected his gear.

As for AAs I have 13 ranks of avoidance and 13 ranks of mitigation and have PE1.  From reading the parses on the EQlive board between Monks and Rangers it looks like the next 5 ranks of mitigation lowered the avg dmg a total of 0.98% and the next 5 ranks of avoidance caused the mobs to miss 1.57% more.  I have not yet decided whether to max my defensives or do other AAs first.


Monk 18% shielding 2592AC
no aa, 640.97 avg punch, 27.23% misses, DI20 6.28%, DI1 28.99%
ca3/cs3, 633.33 avg punch, 29.85% misses, DI20 6.09%, DI1 30.17%
ca3/cs3/pe, 629 avg punch, 30.3% misses, DI20 5.88%, DI1 30.83%
ca8/cs8/pe, 613.33 avg punch, 34.44% misses, DI20 5.18%, DI1 33.23%
ca13/cs13/pe, 605.66 avg punch, 35.88% misses, DI20 4.83%, DI1 34.54%
ca18/cs18/pe, 597.56 avg punch, 37.45% misses, DI20 4.23%, DI1 35.95%

[sicshift]

As for AAs I have 13 ranks of avoidance and 13 ranks of mitigation and have PE1.  From reading the parses on the EQlive board between Monks and Rangers it looks like the next 5 ranks of mitigation lowered the avg dmg a total of 0.98% and the next 5 ranks of avoidance caused the mobs to miss 1.57% more.  I have not yet decided whether to max my defensives or do other AAs first.

bleh thats depressing

[Gunzak]

According to the dps calculator by spending 38AA to max Combat Fury and Veterans Wrath I will add 29.22dps.  If the calculator is accurate, only goes to level 70, then that is a much more beneficial use of my AA points.

[Tiroon]

From reading the parses on the EQlive board between Monks and Rangers it looks like the next 5 ranks of mitigation lowered the avg dmg a total of 0.98% and the next 5 ranks of avoidance caused the mobs to miss 1.57% more.

The 5 ranks of avoidance raised the misses by 1.57 percentage points, increasing the miss rate by 4.37%, i.e 4.37% less swings/damage taken. Still not quite what I would like to see but almost respectable.

The mitigation on the othe hand is leet. The average punch was reduced by 1.337% 

[Gunzak]

Your right my math was wrong it is 1.337% which isn't worth the trouble.  As for CA18 it might be 4.37% better then CA13 but it still only means the mobs will miss 1.57% less.