Tip - 16th Anniversary - Pirates of the Timorous Deep - Great Aug

[chuckles]

If you didn't see it, one of the 16th anniversary missions, Pirates of the Timorous Deep drops a great All/All aug that fits in the charm slot:

Shimmering Black Pearl

The mission itself is stupidly easy - I pulled named plus 2-3 trash with a level 105 group without wiping - so it doesn't need a guide. Named and adds only have about 2 million hit points. XP sucks ~5.5% an AA per kill with the XP bonus with the AA slider set at 90%. 10 AA's on completion.

The aug is a bonus. You need to burn down the named before he fires his cannon AE, or yank him out of the AE radius, which is visible on screen just like the POW Anniversary mission AE. If you keep him from being hit by the AE, you can loot a "Treasure Map" (if you fail it will be a "burnt treasure map"). Hand the Treasure Map to Captain Jack Aviak, and it will spawn a treasure chest placeholder. He will hand the map back. Right click on the map in your inventory, and follow the map to the chest, which will spawn when you run over the right spot (if you have /mapfilter NPC set, the PH will show on your map).

Tip to save you some time: Props to Beastdaddy in the post below: You can get your augs without a lockout by turning in the Treasure Map and looting, then dropping the instance before the final hail.

Most of the workarounds appear to be nerfed now from the commentary later in this thread. Have to do it legit now.

 

[scotsbiker]

mission doable at lvl 75 but shame aug is prestige... are F2p members not supposed to celecrate the 16th anninversary? lol

 

[kknights]

Captain Turek might as well fall over and die when you aggro him... he has shit for HP. I was super paranoid I would fail because I was boxing it but I'm pretty sure my caster merc on burn could have solo'd him :p

 

[RallosGuy05]

Wish I had seen this earlier!

 

[chuckles]

Captain Turek might as well fall over and die when you aggro him... he has shit for HP. I was super paranoid I would fail because I was boxing it but I'm pretty sure my caster merc on burn could have solo'd him :p

Seriously. I hit Chromatic Haze the first time I killed him and was like, "Oh shit, where did he go?" He pretty much just vaporized.

 

[beastdaddy]

Here's the best tip. Don't do the final hail. Just turn in the map and right click. it will send you to the chest then loot chest and drop task. This way you get no lockout timer =)

 

[RallosGuy05]

After starting Beast's strat I've got this down to 25 or so mins per Aug on my Necro/Bard... Nice and easy

 

[Dallas41]

I ran this several times last night.

1. Start with the Captain. Burn him down to get the good Treasure Map. If you get a burnt map, drop task and start over.
2. Continue on with the mission including the hails. UNTIL you see no more question marks on the task list. The final task is a hail, but you will see no more question marks under that task.
3. Turn in the good map, right click it when it is returned to you, and follow the path to the treasure.
4. Loot the augment and drop the mission.
5. Start the mission again and do all of the steps EXCEPT the same final hail. You will need to kill the Captain again, but your previous map will still work if you end up with a burnt map on this round.
6. Repeat step 5 until you no longer need the augment.

 

[rydogg58]

Looks like they changed this. Tried it just a bit ago and got the burned treasure map. I tried to drop the task and it said the task was not allowing players to be removed at this time.

 

[Hendo513]

You need to not get hit by the Named Pirates AE to receive the reg map that shows you where the aug is as a reward. I am not sure if everyone needs to avoid the AE or if you have to pull the mob far enough away from the fire circle to not burn the map.

 

[rydogg58]

Yeah, I got hit by the AE so I tried to drop the task. It wasn't letting me drop the task at that point. I did the quest a couple times last night and I was able to reuse the good map and drop the task. This was the first time I tried it and didn't get the non-burned one...just wouldn't let me drop the task on any characters.

 

[eqgeek]

So my question is, do you have to complete the entire task (killing 4 named and 32 mobs) or is there a way around that?

 

[Dallas41]

Yes, you have to complete all the tasks with the exception of the last one. The bird won't take the map until it is "safe" and you can't click the map to reveal the location of the treasure until the bird looks at the map.

 

[chuckles]

I haven't done it in a couple days, but unless something changed you need to complete the entire task, except the final hail, to get the aug.

If you haven't done it yet, it's way easier than it sounds.

 

[eqgeek]

Yeah I just ran through it with a noob from our guild. he did the final hail even though I said not to. Ah well. lockout is only 4h it seems. We failed the first time (my noobish fault) and was able to drop it and get it again right away.

 

[kknights]

Yeah I just ran through it with a noob from our guild. he did the final hail even though I said not to. Ah well. lockout is only 4h it seems. We failed the first time (my noobish fault) and was able to drop it and get it again right away.

Lockout timer starts from the moment you request it, not when you complete it so that's probably why you saw a shorter time.

It's still working as described here as of this morning and from what guildies have said, still is now-ish. I've been logged in since Monday and have been using the same map... Really though, it's so easy; based on my rough estimate, Turek has ~1mil HP. Or just HA/lure him out of the aura if you can't manage to kill him fast enough.

- - - Updated - - -

Getting reports that when they reset all anniversary instance zones about an hour ago that they stealth nerfed this. Anyone else confirm?

 

[Derp]

This mission is partially exploitable as well. If you're having a hard time with it take a level 75 character in and agro every single mob except for the named ones. Then zone in a higher level character and destroy low level mobs. If they're agroed when a higher level person zones in they don't level up. I was able to kill every single mob at the same time this way. Whole mission took about 20minutes since I had to kill the named separate from the mass of mobs. The named has some nukes they cast so it's best to not include them in the train or it could kill your noobie.

 

[Sodpoodle]

Looks like it's fixed. I tried it twice and both times would not let me look at the map until I did the final hail. Sad times.

 

[Noobhaxor]

Yup I can confirmed they nerfed it. I was doing the mission yesterday and they reset the zone on me. Re-popped all the mobs around 5PM CST yesterday.

 

[Dallas41]

Yeah, It's been "fixed". Won't let you look at the map until you do the final hail and it eats your map after zoning out.

 

[eqgeek]

It's still a good tip that you go right to the last guy and kill him to make sure you get the good map. That way you do't waste time killing mobs only to end up with the burned map

 

[chuckles]

It's still a good tip that you go right to the last guy and kill him to make sure you get the good map. That way you do't waste time killing mobs only to end up with the burned map

And then you can just run back, kill all the other mobs, and spam hail the bird. No need to actually follow the script where he walks from island to island.

 

[calaxa]

Did this get stealth nerfed even more? I went in with 3 toons, killed named, got good map, finished killing the other named and 32 pirates....everyone dropped task except person getting aug. NO lockout for anyone (I went and checked) As soon as the guy getting aug finished, everyone who had the task got lockout.

Tried again...went in with 3 different toons, killed named, got good map, tried to taskadd someone....no dice....task is locked right from beginning. Again everyone dropped task but upon completion of aug, everyone got lockout. OK, so I understand they want to limit this item but really? 6 hour lockout for everyone even when they don't complete? Fine, now I will have to rotate 5 teams to get everyone this aug.

 

[crazykcards]

Oh and if anyone else didnt realize this. Nothing in this instance summons.

 

[PussyFoot]

Named are mezzable, rootable, etc as well. An interesting thing there. I do know this, with twincast+calculated insanity+illusions of grandeur+Chromatic Haze my enchanter takes him down with one cast usually. Sometimes two. Never failed to get the unburnt map that way.

 

[eqgeek]

Did this get stealth nerfed even more? I went in with 3 toons, killed named, got good map, finished killing the other named and 32 pirates....everyone dropped task except person getting aug. NO lockout for anyone (I went and checked) As soon as the guy getting aug finished, everyone who had the task got lockout.

Tried again...went in with 3 different toons, killed named, got good map, tried to taskadd someone....no dice....task is locked right from beginning. Again everyone dropped task but upon completion of aug, everyone got lockout. OK, so I understand they want to limit this item but really? 6 hour lockout for everyone even when they don't complete? Fine, now I will have to rotate 5 teams to get everyone this aug.

You get the task timer as soon as you zone in. You can check to see with /tasktimer