Guide - End of Empire, ROS Skyfire Mission Guide

[Dozecar]

Guys, save yourself the frustration and put together normal, non-boxed groups to get through this. This event is infinitely easier playing solo or just dual boxing. You can even swap out characters at the end of the event before you kill Overking Bathezid (he doesn't fight back). That way you can get a tooth for any character.

This would be great if I had any friends. I have mq so i dont need friends. :p

And yes I'm kidding, but semi serious, i am working with the people i know to do eok progression, but i will still be at a loss for a cleric so it will still be botted. My pool consists of a wiz, bst, & druid for the most part.

 

[Sum1]

Review this thread. Some people have given insanely good write-ups for EoE.

End of Empire - only for raiders or ultrahardcore groups? | EverQuest Forums

This mission - like fell foliage - as first mission and minimum requirement for VP key seems completely overtuned. Has anybody a clue how to get through...

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[sirkenshin]

Guys, save yourself the frustration and put together normal, non-boxed groups to get through this. This event is infinitely easier playing solo or just dual boxing. You can even swap out characters at the end of the event before you kill Overking Bathezid (he doesn't fight back). That way you can get a tooth for any character.

Looking at videos it looked easy with a 3 box team with TBL gear and their mercenaries. Maybe I'll go that route if I keep running into issues and task add folks.

 

[sirkenshin]

I removed the Enchanter and added a Cleric mercenary and got a little further with the fourth wave. By the time one soulfeaster was down and I was working on another target my warrior died first after all those burns wore off then rest of group died. I am thinking of just asking the server for help with this mission ;0

 

[quo]

I can get you my MQ2Heals settings later on, if necessary.

What I recommend is for you to go into your mq2heals settings (should be in your character_server.ini file, if i recall correctly) and make sure you:

1. Turn group heals on
2. Set the group heals point fairly high
3. Turn AA heals on
4. Turn arb heals on
5. Turn promised heals OFF -- promised heals are TOO SLOW for this. Turn those fuckers off.

For your spell line-up, get rid of any promised heals. Load up on Remedies (like you have) from the last couple of expansions. Get rid of Gem 6 (Curate's Retort) and Gem 8 (Divine Reaction). Use those slots for more heals.

Run MQ2Heals in conjunction with a mostly blank kissassist.ini file. What I do is turn OFF DPS, turn OFF heals (in kiss), and basically turn off anything that isn't just watching buffs. That way MQ2Heals (which is MUST faster) is doing all the healing, kissassist isn't wasting time casting curate's on shit or casting nukes, and your cleric is essentially only focused on its main job.

HI Sum1,
I have just finished TBL progression and EoK, need to clear EoE and BoP missions to finish RoS progression so I can get the traveller updates for Efreeti boots.
Going to try my first play through today and have been reading everything I can on both missions to try and get an idea of what to do.
Switching my cleric to MQ2heals during cactii mission I found he was doing less and I switched back to IHC.
I looked into the server ini file and all I can find under MQ2Heals is Healson=1 nothign else, is there something missing here that will explain why my clerics performance is so poor when using it? He doesn seem to use any AA heals.
He has all AA passives and focus heal AA's, im on the verge of ditching him and going for more dps and just sticking with my shammy to heal.
Would appreciate any advice.

 

[Sum1]

HI Sum1,
I have just finished TBL progression and EoK, need to clear EoE and BoP missions to finish RoS progression so I can get the traveller updates for Efreeti boots.
Going to try my first play through today and have been reading everything I can on both missions to try and get an idea of what to do.
Switching my cleric to MQ2heals during cactii mission I found he was doing less and I switched back to IHC.
I looked into the server ini file and all I can find under MQ2Heals is Healson=1 nothign else, is there something missing here that will explain why my clerics performance is so poor when using it? He doesn seem to use any AA heals.
He has all AA passives and focus heal AA's, im on the verge of ditching him and going for more dps and just sticking with my shammy to heal.
Would appreciate any advice.

AA heals is a setting you turn on via the .ini. I'm not at home, or I could show you what I have. If I recall, the MQHeals settings are actually in your character_server.ini rather than a separate .ini for mq2heals. Check there first.

For EoE, AE heals are a MUST... and they must come quickly. I didn't have good luck with kissassist, and I didn't try IHC. I'm used to the movement and targeting functionality in kiss, so I like to use a blank (or nearly blank) kissassist.ini with MQ2Heals. My kissassist.ini only has buffs, AA heals (to make sure they fire), mark (in the dps section), and GoM heals set. Everything else is handled by MQ2Heals.

 

[quo]

I have looked in the server ini and it only has healson=1, would appreciate if you could share your set up.
Still having issues with Fell Foilage, cleared it 3 times, but died 5 times on the spin today, dont get why.

 

[quo]

Just tried EoE, cleared it on my 1st go, thought it was far easier than Fell Foilage.
Only concern was at the end, leaving shammy dots on the range kill mob, it kept regening to 100% so had to keep fireing off nukes to kill him.
Just Balance of power to go and I can get the scaled key quest.

 

[Sum1]

Just tried EoE, cleared it on my 1st go, thought it was far easier than Fell Foilage.

congrats lol, but you shut your dirty mouth! I had fell foliage on farm after 1 wipe ... EoE was f’n terrible for a while. I eventually got it down and never went back.

but seriously, good job and congrats

 

[jande]

Just tried EoE, cleared it on my 1st go, thought it was far easier than Fell Foilage.
Only concern was at the end, leaving shammy dots on the range kill mob, it kept regening to 100% so had to keep fireing off nukes to kill him.
Just Balance of power to go and I can get the scaled key quest.

How many shammy dots ? I use the combine dots + 2 curse + 1 disease + pet. Kills him in a reasonable time.
Btw pets dont take dmg from that fire aura

 

[quo]

Well I am going to have to confess, after beating EoE 1st time last night, I tried 4 times today, and got to last mob and 2 chokodais and failed every single time. Dont understand why but just kept happening.
Then did BoP which was last one I needed to do, and that really was a walk in the park was shocked how easy that was.
Started camping for the VP key mobs, ooh what a nightmare that is turning out to be, only 1 pher spent hours in gorowyn and it never popped from priest spawn.......

 

[goatmaster]

Slight necro on this thread as I am having a heck of a time with this mission. I six box playing the SK and using Kissassist to run BL, mage, cleric, wizard, enchanter. I can get to the 4th wave pretty smoothly but then it all falls apart as I try to burn the first 'feaster. I think some toons are somehow getting aggro from the dogs and getting punted. I have been using an assortment of the tips from above, summarized as follows:

1. Buff NPCs, etc and set up group just behind NPC back row
2. Kill first wave (somewhat balance) keeping my casters away from the fighting spot
3. Kill second wave keeping casters back
4. Engage Vets and balance; use "come to me" often to keep together and click shield (or not)
5. Maintain position behind NPCs and use SK aa to get aggro on feaster.
Then it goes south as at least one of the team (SK included) gets dog aggro and gets punted and I cannot recover.

The furthest I have made it is to get one feaster down. I should also add that I have always been somewhat of a lazy boxer and I am new to KissAssist (I had used another site's service for a number of year's previously).

Just can't figure out how to get through those feasters, so any help wold be greatly appreciated.

 

[eqtrader74]

Levitate on? Dogs mem blur maybe?

I wound up making a bunch of custom hotkeys to command quick burst dmg out of my DPS toons. I'd swap them onto my SK target and quick pop certain AA, attacks or abilities to drop/balance my current target. I had like 7 of these keys that did various amounts of dmg, then learned which mobs needed what level of damage or would hit a big one on the Burn Now types of mobs.

Maybe set one to toss the Ench's Doppleganger out on the dog phase or hotkey the mage's pet to grab one, just for another alternate target for a sec while you get the wave under control.

In large part this event is just practice, practice, practice and making small improvements in how long you make it through. And then about 25% luck on not getting aggro on the wrong toon, a bad meteor or an early NPC death. This was far and away the hardest mission of RoS era and I spent days in this instance working on it.

 

[Sum1]

Biggest thing I’m taking away from your description is you’re probably too close to the DT aura. If you’re “behind” the friendly NPCs AND you’re keeping your toons “back”, then you’re probably right on the edge when the dogs spawn and start flinging people around. It is counterintuitive, but when I won this I actually was right in the middle of the NPCs or even slightly in front of them. The angry NPCs and friendly NPCs still quickly engage each other, and you’ve got more of a buffer.

the other really important thing I did was not my “move to me” hotkey OFTEN ... especially after you see a fling go off. It fucks with dps/healing a bit, but it keeps your group tight and in the right place.

I also had to get kissassist help healing. It wouldn’t do group heals fast enough to keep my group up, so I loaded MQ2Heals and used that to handle the heals.

Once I did that stuff I could get a win about half the time. I did it just a handful of times to flag my group and some alts and never went back. F that event.

 

[goatmaster]

Thank you for the feedback. I seem to be inching closer to getting them done but something inevitably goes bad. I will start using Projection of Doom on named during feasters as that mob seems to beeline for my cleric.
One more question about something that is related to KissAssist in general but has a big impact: sometimes my toons don't engage at all. Sometimes if I tab to their screen and manually cast a spell they will start.

Edit: Yeah fuck this shit. I will just camp named to finish t2 ROS gear on my team. Was hoping to do BoP to do that. (I'm currently a freeloader on test so RoS is my max.)

 

[Sum1]

Thank you for the feedback. I seem to be inching closer to getting them done but something inevitably goes bad. I will start using Projection of Doom on named during feasters as that mob seems to beeline for my cleric.
One more question about something that is related to KissAssist in general but has a big impact: sometimes my toons don't engage at all. Sometimes if I tab to their screen and manually cast a spell they will start.

Edit: Yeah fuck this shit. I will just camp named to finish t2 ROS gear on my team. Was hoping to do BoP to do that. (I'm currently a freeloader on test so RoS is my max.)

dont give up, dude... you’ll get it. It literally took me like 20 tries before I finally got it down. It gets frustrating, especially when you go back in and have to spend 20 minutes rebuffing all the NPCs with single buffs and shit. But don’t worry ... you’ll get it.

pro-tip ... either completely ignore the meteors or setup a MQ2Event for it on one of your toons. I took the “ignore it” route. Your cleric can heal through it.

 

[eqtrader74]

Same, I got auto-kicked for being in the instance over 6 hours many, many times. If you get too frustrated, take a break and do something else, but this event is about small improvements over many tries. You'll actually get very good at running your automated group by learning this event. Many of the hotkeys I made for this event stayed on my permanent hotkeys, they are just super useful when the shit hits the fan.

 

[earthsnemesis]

It is pretty trivial if you get the AA from EoK progression that blocks the Green Mob Puke and being lvl 115. I been working on trying to get the shield achieve, I do not know what I am doing wrong, I click the shield and it saves me the damage but no achieve.

 

[Many_Whelps]

It is pretty trivial if you get the AA from EoK progression that blocks the Green Mob Puke and being lvl 115. I been working on trying to get the shield achieve, I do not know what I am doing wrong, I click the shield and it saves me the damage but no achieve.

You must click the shield while standing in the dead center of the meteor decal. Multiple decals appear at once, they can overlap and they can be partially embedded in the terrain. So pretty much a cluster fuck. However, you can get the achievement after killing the boss and moving up to the VP entrance (after Talendor fucks off and before you kill Overking Bethezid). Just move the group to the safe zone and then, one by one, run out and click shields on meteors.

You were never supposed to be able to do the mission without the achievement from eok. So yeah, that makes it a hell of a lot easier, lol.

 

[goatmaster]

Thanks to everybody in this thread and to those that replied to my post--I finished the mission just now.

I believe my issues can be summed up by PEBKAC--eg, my lack of skills fine tuning the inis. I had a few times where the toons simply wigged out and stopped doing anything. This happened when I was down to only the named in the fourth wave, which is when I decided to simplify

General:

• unloaded MQ2melee on all toons
• loaded MQ2heals and set thresholds to basically spam levels
• did not use MQ2AFnuke
• set up pet back off and pet attack hotkeys (four pets in group)
• set up /bcg //switchnow hotkey

Simplified version is as follows:

Waves
Wave 1: Set up on right flank of main NPCs and targeted and attacked mob coming from furthest away. Practiced balancing
Wave 2: Group positioning enabled NPCs to get aggro first and ensured casters did not get viral silence. Practiced balancing
Wave 3: Used 'come to me' as Vets were coming in. Tried to ensure NPCs got first aggro (ready with ae aggro AA on SK). Targeted full health Vet. Balanced and kept group tight at all times. Ignored meteors and hoped balance practicing paid off.
Wave 4: Used 'come to me' while positioned just behind the NPCs then hotkey to target 'feaster. Let them engage and then unload on 'feaster. Used AA agro on named to prevent cleric from being splatted. Ignored meteors. Killed the two dogs then the named.
Finale: Didn't mess around with achievements--killed and looted OK and then chest.

It went much easier when I was sure my dps would engage

Thanks again.