TBM: Deadline Quest. Any suggestions?

fv is special ruleset and rampant with afk people, afk boxers, etc in gen chat. Almost all servers are dead (not raiding though).

It is not rampant with AFK people; where do you even get your information.

quietest part of the day on BB, and 261 in general.

Lies. We all know you are a loud mouth General is never quiet!

lol. it's 5:36am here. (ugh, night shift). (1:06pm on west coast USA, 4:06pm on east coast USA, 9:07pm in ENgland, 10:07pm in Euroland)

very quiet. yet still plenty online.. wait, i know you !

LIES! I am no one!

Just need a real tank, then it's close your eyes easy.

FV is FV , its not like other live servers , if you look at the other unique server Zek , how many does it get ? if you average these two out its about the same as most live servers , numbers are way down across the board , and its not just the summer slow down .......

And since there a less players there are less tanks to do these missions with , maybe it is about time the make Rangers the 4th tank class

Yi Min

Again we have someone assuming tanks are here there and every where , and that these tanks that rain from the heaven , even want to group with strangers ...

And yes with out a Tank of some kind this mission is not easy

Yi Min

Get initial agro on a necro with embalmers carapace active. Then put two mobs on earth pet and one add each on necro pets and a single add on each necro. Necro's use there Dictomic for healing as long as it is only a single mob and they have dicotomic up they should nt die..

Then burn fast with mage and enchanter. Shaman heals, while enchanter should also cast group runes on everyone as well to slow down damage intake.

That mission has a chance to spawn this named http://tbm.eqresource.com/theperforator.php which has a chance to drop this 1hander http://items.eqresource.com/items.php?id=147037 . As far as I know, that's the only mob that drops it. Add a 185dmg aug to it + an 11dmg aug and it's 273/34, which as far as I have seen is the best 1hander a group knight can get. And if delay really doesn't matter for offhand, than it's the best offhand weapon a duel wielder can get (although non-knights don't get the 185dmg aug, think it's 106dmg for melee DPS). FOR GROUP GEAR!

Honestly, 6 trash mobs that hit @9k doesn't sound too hard even in just group gear, but my main is a warrior. If that's the only difficult part...should be easy.

Tanks are easy to find. Usually grouping with the other tanks and healers because half the classes in the game don't want us until they realize their mercs/pets can't do it.

OP - You can get through the swarmers by all burning one mob at a time until you wipe, when you come back you will only have left to kill what is left, rinse and repeat. (If you cant find a tank).

Tanks are not easy to find at all !!! And thanks for admitting Pets and Mercs are very under powered for all the people that cant find tanks to finish content they want ....and you assume people that play tanks want to help out strangers 24 -7 , you may not know this , but the world is round and in some spots very very few people play EQ now ....

Yi Min

Tanks are easy to find. Assuming you can make a friend. I really don't care if you can't merc/pet it to victory. I'd love it if mercs/pets exploded causing 100k ae damage if a mob looked at them funny.

I am not here to argue , this is what you are after it is plain to see , you assume I cant make friends , you assume again tanks are everywhere and yet again you assume these tanks want to group with total strangers , And you assume yet again I have not beaten TBM , I am not here for your feelings ,but facts ,and so far you lack any facts ...

This game is a lot smaller then be for EQ does not have one single raiding guild now from China .

Zek has no raiding guild

Many servers have only one raiding guild

Almost all server now are well below 400 people in general , FV is full but then Zek will balance that out since it barly gets 100

only 21 guilds have beaten TBM this is down from well over 40 guild in last 3 expacs .

You live by playing this game in one time zone , you fail to see what happened on the other side of the world is slowing creeping into EQ in North America , but hey keep burying your head in the sand in hopping this will get better ...

You also have this immature tank vs pet class thing going on , I look at these forums to make the game better for all , not just one class since I play every class in game ...


Yi Min

The original poster asked for a strat that could finish the task deadline.

This isnt a post about if tanks are hard to find, start a new thread on that.

OP, with your group make up set up UNDER the stairs, that way mobs wont aggro you as the waves spawn, so you have as much time as you like to recover etc..., clear the caustic blobs, they are not social with the bokons. The swarmers have few hitpoints compared to the bokons. They will come all at once. You need to focus on burning one mob at a time. Do NOT set your healer mercs on balanced or you may not even get through one mob. You will probably wipe after the second mob dies or just before. Just head on down and do it again and kill another, rinse and repeat. Only way your group make up will succeed but, it can be done that way. Hope this helps.

One more thing, dont bother healing with the shammy just do damage. Set up some key binds on your guys to make it simpler, then maybe splash with the shammy. Use the necro pets to tie up a couple of mobs at first to keep the damage off the earth pet at the beginning, as with the servant but everyone else on the earth pets mob dotting etc....burn baby burn ftw!

Your enchanter is going to have to pull chaining unity with runes on, she is your "ranger" sacrifice for tsetses. Good idea to have potions of divinity for the mage on the first pull after sending in pets, necros flop after dots, with the shammy probably taking a dirtnap on the first one or two go as well.

Just did it, wasn't too bad. Did wipe on the swarm part as I had a bad pull and popped last stand and Pain-doesn't-hurt on that bad pull and I wasn't expecting to be immediately bum rushed so my defenses were down. Ressed, rebuffed, zoned in pulled all the testiens and popped last stand and PDH and it was easy.

I'm with the suggestion to concentrate on killing one, evac/gate/die if you must and repeat. Honestly, I have no sympathy that your pet does not tank as well as my warrior does while using /disc. Outside of using my defensive /disc, I think mage pet compares too well as it is, especially with the crazy agro it has now (I also have a lvl105 max AA mage). So no, I don't think mages should nuke/DPS as well as they do and have a pet that is as good as a warrior. And especially not a warrior that is using defensive /disc.