Diren Hold - Order of Echelon

EVIL MELEE EPIC

Credit to: Creegan, Skronk, Telchar, Waxiphex

Epicsode 1 - Evil Melee

1) Talk to the Recruiter in Freeport, Southwest of the coach, under the tent.

2) He sends you to Rashiroz the Rogue located in North Kithicor (C).

3) You are sent to The Great Waste to procure 2 Glowing Crystals. To do so, you will need to farm the Taksehir Miners - Great Waste (W).

4) Return the two Glowing Crystals to Rashiroz the Rogue.

5) Kill Treants, in Guardian forest (SW), to retrieve two Enchanted Treant Branches. They are located both atop a hill with a stonehenge in the center; AND on the hill northeast of that one.

STRATEGY: To get everything to spawn, you must let the Treant Prisoner, and the Goblin Prisoner LIVE, DO NOT KILL THEM. After the Treant Prisoner makes it to the stonehenge, light blue conned Treant Defenders and Diviner will start spawning in the nearby woods - you must kill these to get the higher level ones to spawn, which con White and Yellow. Those drop the BRANCHES that you need, even though your quest log requires Barks.

NOTE: If you let the Treant Prisoner make it to the first rise before the Stones, and you see the NPC chat in Say occur, you can kill the Treant Prisoner, and keep him fresh. Do not let the body disapear; also, you must NOT kill the Goblin Prisoner. This way, you should get spawns every 10 minutes or so.

NOTE 2: There is a semi-insta spawned Treant Diviner on the North side of the hill, with the stonehenge.

NOTE 3: There is an insta spawned Treant Diviner on the hill NE of the one with the stonehenge. Be sure to keep looting the insta after you kill it or it will stop insta'n. You must loot it before you kill the next one.

5) Upon returning the branches to Rashiroz the Rogue, you are sent on the final step of this first epic-sode - finding the heart and brain of Aktana the Flamekissed, and bringing back his soul. Lavastorm Mountains (E). You will need to farm Animated Lava. After you getting the heart, head North to a Gargoyle statue of Aktana. Place the heart into the statue and it will become an unconnable roamer. Run North around the mountain to find a group of Gargoyle Patrollers that have now spawned. Farm these patrollers until a Fire Imp Protector spawns, which will eventually drop the Brain. Return to the unconnable statue to spawn Aktana the Flamekissed, from a popup. Return to Magi'kot with Aktana's Soul to receive 20 million xp.

Epicsode 2

1- Rashiroz the Rogue starts ya off by sending you to kill the bandits that come to the north gate of FP every few hours or so, much like the good caster epic. Evil Melee needs the coin purse dropped by the brigand, and to talk to one of the henchman.

2- Rashiroz the Rogue now tells you that he wants to summon Vylinnuza, and you need to help him get her consciousness. The conscioussness is in three parts, but must be constructed together using six items. To do this step, you will need a jewelry kit (you can have level zero skill in jewelcrafting, so don't worry about being a crafter) and the correct combination of items. If you don't craft them correctly, they will disappear.

The mobs you need to farm are Enchanting Sirens, and there are three camps of them: Vastly Deep (E), Kerra Isle (SW), and West Toxx (SW). Each camp contains two sets of four mobs each, with a treasure chest located (blank con) in the middle of the four. Farming the sirens will yield a NTL key - now, some important notes on the keys.

There are three different types of keys, which are totally indistinguishable. They are all NTL, with the same description and same name. Each different key opens up the chest at a different location, but you cannot tell which one opens which location. The best strategy is that when you are at a camp, loot up a key and test it on the chest. If it opens, you lose the key and get your item. If it does not open, continue farming until you can loot another type of key, and then check the chest again. If you are unlucky, you will know that you can open the chest when you have all three different keys.

Here are the six items that an evil melee will need:

a) Fragment of Logic - random drop at all three camps.
b) Fragment of Passion - random drop at all three camps.
c) Fragment of Restraint - random drop at all three camps.
d) Fragment of Calculation - chest reward at Kerra Isle camp.
e) Fragment of Motivation - chest reward at Vastly Deep camp.
f) Fragment of Complacency - chest reward at West Toxx camp.

Now when you have all the items, it's time to craft. Equip a jewelcrafting kit, and make the following combinations:

Complacency - Restraint
Logic - Calculation
Motivation - Passion

You will create three NTL gems - Turquoise, Azure, and Cobalt. The return to the Rashiroz the Rogue, who will give you a NTL equippable robe, which you will use to disguise yourself and trick Magi'Kot in Elemental Towers (W) into summoning for you. Be sure to bring your raid force to Elemental Towers.

3- Raid force? That's right. Magi'Kot despawns and summons up Vylinnuza of the Tide. She walks in from the north, and is a beast of a mob. She crits for 1200, melees for 1020, nukes for 400 (with max CR and LR), AoEs for 1000, and has tons of HPs.

She resists all nukes (to zero!) except lightning, which hits for a reduced amount. At one or two reds left, she begins hitting the tank much harder. You will need 5-8 healers to MT the mob, depending on the build of the tank. Tank must max up CR and LR, and have high AC and AGI.

Killing her gave 860k for a group of 60s, so she must be pretty high level. Kill this boss mob and she will drop four NTL Vylinnuza's Soul items.

Epicsode 3

Return to Rashiroz the Rogue. He sends you to find Boldunder in the deserts of Odus

Head to North Barren Coast (C). At the base of a hill, near a large depression you should get a popup telling you you feel the ground rumbling. Walking away from the hill toward the depression, you should get two more popups, then Boldunder spawns and tears you a new one.

You'll need a good-sized force to take out Boldunder. He resists all nukes, and hits hard. We had a 60 SHA kite him without too much trouble, but it took a while to bring him down. He drops 4 souls. Bring one back to Rashiroz the Rogue, and share the rest with the nice folks who got owned along with you. Rashiroz now sends you back out to Magi'Kot in Elemental Towers.

Magi`Kot tells you to speak with him again to port to the plane of sky to witness the ultimate summoning.

Gather up a sizable raid force, and talk to Magi`Kot. He'll port you and everyone in about a 15' radius to PoS (the usual first island, where the Isle of Wonder port is). Once everyone's ready, talk to Magi`Kot again, and he'll spawn Ahriaana the Ultimate. She looks like a gigantic ghilan, but fights like Boldunder on steroids. Nukes do no damage. We had reasonably good luck pet-grouping her. Supposedly, she can port whoever has aggro off the island, but we didn't see that happen. Anyway, kill her. She'll drop 8 "torn journal page"s for 8 lucky questers. After she's dead, head NW of the IoW port to talk to Magi`Kot's ghost. There appears to be a glitch in the quest at this point where, if the quester does NOT talk to Magi`Kot's ghost, it's difficult to get the ghost to reappear. We got around this by repeatedly jumping, talking to Magi`Kot, and waiting around a long time for the ghost to appear.