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Guide - Chasing the Bifold Focus

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The Bifold Focus is a rare clicky from the Rain of Fear Expansion.
It is a twincast clicky usable by ANYONE.
When you click it, it gives you a Buff Called: Bifold Focus that has a 30 second timer.

Everyone should have it! ie SK want to trigger Alliance with just 2 casts - this will help.

Zone: Valley of King Xorbb

NPC - Thistlebrush

Keyword: Large

Zone in Phrase: Valley


The item is VERY RARE - But if you get the Achievements, you can unlock the Item from the Teir 2 Vendor in Shards Landing (840 Crystalised Fear)
840 may seem a lot - but this raid actually gives you 120 Crystalised Fear - so pretty easy.

Also - MONEY - this raid gives 3 chests with 40K pp in each chest.

NOTE: Progression is required before Thistlebrush will talk to you. The pre-tasks are fairly straightforward so I wont detail them here at this time.

There are 3 Fights in this raid

Fight One - The Guardians at the Gate:
ie: Mordaur (Minotaur) and Findlewill (Brownie) sitting on their pedestal.

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Not far from Zone in - you find these two dudes.
No great strategy....Kill the Brownie First.
No need to worry about any achievements here.
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Pretty good for about 15 seconds work....


Run back to where thistlebrush is standing at zone in.
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Have all your toons target him and say Next battle to teleport to the next fight.
Note: PAUSE KA so they dont try and fight his ass.

Fight 2: Yymp the Abyssal: (Fire Mephit dude - Splits into Adds at intervals. For Fun - try to use Fire against him - and see if you can kill yourself on the reflect)
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Things to watch here is the Big Pit. If you fall in there are mobs at the bottom. You may not die, but it becomes Chaotic.
Yymp is Leashed to this room too - so need to balance him about halfway between the wall and the Pit.

I just turn AOE on and go for it. You do need to kill each wave of adds - and it is possible to Wipe the raid when the Wizards are using Fire.
I just ignore the mechanic and if a few folks die, then they should get better gear n stuff.

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Once again dont worry about the achievements....nothing spectacular from this fight.

Head back up the Stairs to Thistlebrush, and say Next battle to him again.
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You now find yourself in the Chamber of King Xorbb
You need to go through the text from Barleyburr and Lupin to make him spawn
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And there he is sitting at his throne.

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Good news is - He is Non Agro. Feel free to setup behind him.

The TRIGGER PHRASE IS: ESCAPE

Xorbb doesnt actually talk to me...something about being a piece of refuse...so it took a while to figure out his trigger phrase.

There are 3 Achievements we MUST get to open up the Bifold Focus.

You are going to do this raid at least 3 times to get your Bifold Focus - so concentrate on getting the hard achievement first.
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1. Avert your Gaze- very easy - Respond to a Emote. (Pass one emote and Burn his ass to the ground = very easy)

2. Mirror Mirror - VERY HARD IN CAPS - Unless you are using MQ2

Kill Xorbb very slowly - at around 90% you get adds. All DPS get off Xorbb and Kill the adds.
Set AUTOLOOT raidloot On and let autoloot hand out the crystal shards.
Xorbb will wander off and he will do a Emote for his evil ray of destruction.
Have your MQ2Event trigger and use the Crystal Shards.
You will get an emote syaing well done - you succeeded.
Wait till Xorbb comes targetably again and BURN him to the ground.

3. Procrastinators Unite -
Just kill shit slowly, and let all the adds spawn and its really chaotic, cos they are charming you and stuff - but its very fun to lose control.
Just dont kill them all too quick.

Copy these into your MQ2Events.ini

[Xorbb 1]
trigger=#*#King Xorbb shouts, '#1#|${Me.CleanName}|#*#
command=/multiline ; /boxr pause; /rsay Facing Away from %t; /face away;
[Xorbb 2]
trigger=#*##1#|${Me.CleanName}| averted their gaze#*#
command=/multiline ; /rsay Unpausing; /boxr unpause;
[Xorbb 3]
trigger=#*#chooses a lens#*#
command=/multiline ; /boxr pause; /useitem "Barrier Shard"; /rsay Clicking Barrier Shard;/boxr unpause;


These events are not perfect - and this fight can be very chaotic. But its worth the effort.

Note he also drops the Illusion Lord Soptyvr (Cool Evil Eye Illusion)
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Did I mention how rare it was to find the Bifold Focus on the Chest...... Until you are doing a guide, and you dont need it - and then it drops!
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And another 40K
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So:
120K
120 Crystalised Fear
The Bifold Focus
Illusion Lord Soptyvr
Heaps of ROF Rank III spells

And some really cool events.

Get there!!!
 
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Do you need to do all previous raids on your requester/participants to do this?
 
So, I guess a warrior could use this right? As long as a spell/ability is focusable it will be affected by twincast?
 
Its only the requester that needs the pre-requisite.
Which if you weren’t raiding when this was live means it’s a LOT of work to get to the point where you can request these. I wish DPG would remove some of these impediments to older content staying relevant by removing some of these blocks. Maybe make it so that when you’re 30 levels over the point where the content was current any profession requirements are removed or something.
 
King Xorb and some of the adds like to charm. If you go there with just one group, it may happen more than once, that all 6 are charmed. Once a while you may get killed by one of your fellow mates. We didn't went for the archivements but hoped for the drop in the chest. We may have been there about twenty times and got 2 clickies so far. Despite having be killed more than once, we had a lot of fun with the raid.
We will go there until all of us who want the clicky got theirs.
We had the luck that 2 of us had done the progression needed, when content was actual, so we could start directly with the raids.
None of the raids has been a challenge for a group of TOL-group-geared / max AA chars.
 
REWARD (aka - Why should I bother):
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The Bifold Focus is a rare clicky from the Rain of Fear Expansion.
It is a twincast clicky usable by ANYONE.
When you click it, it gives you a Buff Called: Bifold Focus that has a 30 second timer.

Everyone should have it! ie SK want to trigger Alliance with just 2 casts - this will help.

Zone: Valley of King Xorbb

NPC - Thistlebrush

Keyword: Large

Zone in Phrase: Valley


The item is VERY RARE - But if you get the Achievements, you can unlock the Item from the Teir 2 Vendor in Shards Landing (840 Crystalised Fear)
840 may seem a lot - but this raid actually gives you 120 Crystalised Fear - so pretty easy.

Also - MONEY - this raid gives 3 chests with 40K pp in each chest.

NOTE: Progression is required before Thistlebrush will talk to you. The pre-tasks are fairly straightforward so I wont detail them here at this time.

There are 3 Fights in this raid

Fight One - The Guardians at the Gate:
ie: Mordaur (Minotaur) and Findlewill (Brownie) sitting on their pedestal.

View attachment 34384

Not far from Zone in - you find these two dudes.
No great strategy....Kill the Brownie First.
No need to worry about any achievements here.
View attachment 34385
Pretty good for about 15 seconds work....


Run back to where thistlebrush is standing at zone in.
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Have all your toons target him and say Next battle to teleport to the next fight.
Note: PAUSE KA so they dont try and fight his ass.

Fight 2: Yymp the Abyssal: (Fire Mephit dude - Splits into Adds at intervals. For Fun - try to use Fire against him - and see if you can kill yourself on the reflect)
View attachment 34387

Things to watch here is the Big Pit. If you fall in there are mobs at the bottom. You may not die, but it becomes Chaotic.
Yymp is Leashed to this room too - so need to balance him about halfway between the wall and the Pit.

I just turn AOE on and go for it. You do need to kill each wave of adds - and it is possible to Wipe the raid when the Wizards are using Fire.
I just ignore the mechanic and if a few folks die, then they should get better gear n stuff.

View attachment 34388
View attachment 34390

Once again dont worry about the achievements....nothing spectacular from this fight.

Head back up the Stairs to Thistlebrush, and say Next battle to him again.
View attachment 34393

You now find yourself in the Chamber of King Xorbb
You need to go through the text from Barleyburr and Lupin to make him spawn
View attachment 34394

And there he is sitting at his throne.

View attachment 34395

Good news is - He is Non Agro. Feel free to setup behind him.

The TRIGGER PHRASE IS: ESCAPE

Xorbb doesnt actually talk to me...something about being a piece of refuse...so it took a while to figure out his trigger phrase.

There are 3 Achievements we MUST get to open up the Bifold Focus.

You are going to do this raid at least 3 times to get your Bifold Focus - so concentrate on getting the hard achievement first.
View attachment 34396
1. Avert your Gaze- very easy - Respond to a Emote. (Pass one emote and Burn his ass to the ground = very easy)

2. Mirror Mirror - VERY HARD IN CAPS - Unless you are using MQ2

Kill Xorbb very slowly - at around 90% you get adds. All DPS get off Xorbb and Kill the adds.
Set AUTOLOOT raidloot On and let autoloot hand out the crystal shards.
Xorbb will wander off and he will do a Emote for his evil ray of destruction.
Have your MQ2Event trigger and use the Crystal Shards.
You will get an emote syaing well done - you succeeded.
Wait till Xorbb comes targetably again and BURN him to the ground.

3. Procrastinators Unite -
Just kill shit slowly, and let all the adds spawn and its really chaotic, cos they are charming you and stuff - but its very fun to lose control.
Just dont kill them all too quick.

Copy these into your MQ2Events.ini

[Xorbb 1]
trigger=#*#King Xorbb shouts, '#1#|${Me.CleanName}|#*#
command=/multiline ; /boxr pause; /rsay Facing Away from %t; /face away;
[Xorbb 2]
trigger=#*##1#|${Me.CleanName}| averted their gaze#*#
command=/multiline ; /rsay Unpausing; /boxr unpause;
[Xorbb 3]
trigger=#*#chooses a lens#*#
command=/multiline ; /boxr pause; /useitem "Barrier Shard"; /rsay Clicking Barrier Shard;/boxr unpause;


These events are not perfect - and this fight can be very chaotic. But its worth the effort.

Note he also drops the Illusion Lord Soptyvr (Cool Evil Eye Illusion)
View attachment 34397

Did I mention how rare it was to find the Bifold Focus on the Chest...... Until you are doing a guide, and you dont need it - and then it drops!
View attachment 34398
And another 40K
View attachment 34399

So:
120K
120 Crystalised Fear
The Bifold Focus
Illusion Lord Soptyvr
Heaps of ROF Rank III spells

And some really cool events.

Get there!!!
Excellent analysis and documentation, thank you
 
This still an item I should strive to get for any of my toons?

Running: SK / BST / CLR / MAG / NEC / BRD
 
Okay great thanks guys. Got the pre-quests done now. Starting the raid.

Great write up BTW!


** thought I got all the pre-reqs done.. I guess not. Just got all the quests and missions done in that Valley of King Xorbb. Didn't realize I needed to do all the raids prior to this to get flagged. Oh well gives me some stuff to do. Was getting tired of farming LS missions.**
 
I am working this progression with my 6 char LS Raid Geared group.

First raid has been The Madness of King Tormax. This is a bear due to mechanics limiting DPS or the event resets. Tormax has to be off-tanked effectively the whole fight. He is fragile by todays standards, even a basic noob sword and he died to repost and other procs. Not fighting Tormax at all and he still died to the damage shields quickly. It was really eye opening how much DS we run with these days. Tormax will eventually hurt my tank so I have to make sure he gets heals.

My solution to this was to

Split my group of 6 into two parts, SK and SHM. SHM goes fair bit west of Tormax, goes into assist mode then pauses (So they are standing up not sitting). This is to ensure SK gets aggro when Tormax goes live.

SK Has all buffs removed except SHM HP buffs. while on pause I stand the SK a short distance from Tormax.

The remaining 4 members of the "raid" are in group 2. BER is the MA/Tank/Puller in this group and set to Sic Tank. Remaining 3 are set to chase mode, no swarm pets, melee on, checkprioritytarget off and set to "pause"

This group I have stationed back at the door next to Noble Hesslan.

To start I have a BER hotkey to, hail the Noble, have the SK target Tormax and cast encroaching darkness. Hotkey also turns on autoattack for the SK and unpauses the SHM. I swap over to the SK and let Tormax get to ~95% to ensure aggro established. Once established I have the SK turn off attack and back Tormax about halfway to the SHM. His job the rest of the fight is to let Tormax wail on him and not do anything else back to him.

At this point, I go target the crystal with the BER and get it to ~70 to spawn the Dain and Adds. I have a BER hotkey to unpause his group and target the Dain and attack. They will run straight for the SK on spawn so we do our best to intercept and pull them back to the south a bit away from Tormax and the SK. We get the Dain onto the BER, then swap to the adds take them out quickly, the back to the Dain. When Dain is 5% or less I turn group 2 to pause again, other than the BER who finishes the Dain. Dain dies, BER goes and DPS the crystal again to spawn Lord Yelinak.

As we did with the Dain, the BER intercepts Lord Yelinak, unpauses the rest of Group 2 and has them target and attack Lord Yelinak. About 5% again BER will pause the rest of Group 2 again. When Lord Yelinak is dead, BER goes and DPS the crystal to about 10-15% to spawn final wave of adds.

This wave spawns the Dain with his adds and Lord Yelinak at the same time. BER unpauses group 2, attacks the Coldain adds. When the adds are down attack the Dain or Yelinak whichever is lower at the time of swap. DPS them down, then when all adds are dead, finish off the crystal, open the chest and you are done.

Suggestions:
I found that swarm pets are just terrible for this event, they always seem to get onto Tormax and ruin the event. For a group of 6 just go without, current expansion group DPS is more than sufficient.

I had a hotkey on the BER that made the SHM target and heal the BER when needed.
 
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I did the Crystal Caverns raid today, "Raid Expedition: Danela's Stand" and I can confirm it is now able to be defeated just by brute force.

I was able to completely DPS her down without moving her from her spawn location. 1 group level 125, Raid geared ToB tank and NOS-Tob raid geared rest of the group. She did have regen (at one point she went from 25% to 30% but our DPS was to much for her. I didn't mess with the orcs - focused solely on her and received the two achievements "Boulder Basher" and "Orc Preservation". We didn't move at all so a barrel did go off near us and cost us "Avoiding Explosives"
 
For Xorbb...First achievement Avert Your Gaze - burn him ASAP. Current expansion DPS will destroy him fast enough he never does the gaze thus you get it basically for nothing.

For Procrastinators Unite - I put whole group on pause except the SK and BRD. Thought BRD could AE Mex/charm potentially a bit but on subsequent attemptsI just left him on pause with the rest of the group at the port in point. SK just DPS Xorbb down a bit - took his time - ensure enough MOB spawn (check Allakhazam) then turn group on and finish him in short order.

I have to do the raid a 3rd time to both unlock the focus with "Mirror, Mirror" and get enough raid currency but it should be a straight forward task per the instructions in OP.
 
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For the Mirror Mirror I have to wait another 4 days to try again...I managed "Don't Look Now" with the 3 MQ2Events above but it appears we don't need all 3 MQ2Events for "Mirror Mirror". Just the one to use the barrier is needed for "Mirror Mirror". It also seems boxr pause/unpause doesn't work anymore. I edited the event to use class shortnames, use /g instead of /rsay and use the pause on/off plugin syntax. You have to do this for each char 's mq2events ini :

[Xorbb Shard]
trigger=#*#chooses a lens#*#
command=/multiline ; /[Class Short Name] pause on; /useitem "Barrier Shard"; /g Clicking Barrier Shard;/[Class Short Name] pause off;

Alternatively to using the class short name directly you could try this snippet :
/docommand /$\{Me.Class.ShortName}

Since this is being done with just my one group - I am not bothering with Autoloot - I just have ADVLoot window up and pass them out...everyone is set to autoloot so they pick up what the tank passes out. Then when he does the emote it will fire off.

I think this might be a good opportunity for me to do a LEM maybe...
 
For the Mirror Mirror I have to wait another 4 days to try again...it appears we don't need all 3 MQ2Events listed above. Just this one for mirror mirror...and boxr pause/unpause doesn't seem to work anymore. I edited the event to use class shortnames. You have to do this for each char mq2events ini file like this

[Xorbb Shard]
trigger=#*#chooses a lens#*#
command=/multiline ; /[Class Short Name] pause on; /useitem "Barrier Shard"; /g Clicking Barrier Shard;/[Class Short Name] pause off;

Alternatively you could try this snippet : /$\{Me.Class.ShortName}

Since this is being done with just my one group - I am not bothering with Autoloot - I just have ADVLoot window up and pass them out...everyone is set to autoloot so they pick up what the tank passes out.

I think this might be a good opportunity for me to do a LEM maybe...
you have to do a /docommand /${Me.Class.ShortName} y ou can't just /${Me.Class.ShortName}
 
Ok finished it off today with Mirror, Mirror and claimed the Bi-Fold Focus of the Evil Eye!

I kept having issues with trying to get everyone on it properly and timed etc...so I went simple. Took the group to the zone, did the first two events but I only had the tank talk to Thistlebrush after the second event and pop over to Xorbb. I had my tank start the event, kill the first few adds and get a barrier shard. Basically waited for Xorbb to walk over and start the beam, then popped the shard and he lost his protection. I had my mage pop over to the event via Thistlebrush from the second event, and then Group COH. Afterwards set everyone to chase and burned Xorbb down fast clean and easy for the achievement. It really is something how much that thing costs in raid currency vs the next most item...back when that was current content it must have been staggering.
 
Glad to see you got it. Your method is probably and easy way to do it too if you are one grouping it.

The cost wasnt so much back in the day..because there were lots and lots of raids and we had a lot of currency to spend.
 
Any hints on beating the raid "A Matter of Life and Death" please? (with a group of 6). Once it turns into a skeleton is game over for me...
First thing is to turn burns off this raid. In fact I think when I did it I only attacked the boss with my SK, but can't remember. Secondly in order to attack him in his Skelly form you have to have at least 1 toon shrouded. You just have to run them to the pool to the North I believe. I will link the Alla write up for the raid so you can reference it as well.

 
First thing is to turn burns off this raid. In fact I think when I did it I only attacked the boss with my SK, but can't remember. Secondly in order to attack him in his Skelly form you have to have at least 1 toon shrouded. You just have to run them to the pool to the North I believe. I will link the Alla write up for the raid so you can reference it as well.

Thanks for the hints.

I know the mechanics, the issue is that the skelly phase takes too long / dps is too low. How many toons did you use? also, did you turn them all into shrouds after the human phase?
 
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