Guide - Paineel: Reflections Of You 25th Anny mission (you want the bonus augs)

[Sic]

EQResource has a great writeup > here <

This mission has bonus loot of type3s for specialization skills and/or offense/defense

There will be some debate as to what to get on each class, but here are some basic suggestions to get you pointed in the right direction

@Kookies gave me this list, and it lines up with what i'd think too
Necromancer/Cleric/Enchanter/Shm(for heals): Alteration
Mage/Shm(for dmg): Conjuration
Wizard/Druid: Evocation (assuming you're a druid using Nature's X Wrath)
Shaman: do shaman have mana issues? Alteration/Conjuration are fine. Alteration if you think mana issues are derived from healing, Conjuration if DoT'ing.
Melee/Tanks: Personally, i'd go with Offense. You can already get Defense from the tears of alaris

I also put up a guide in 2022 about Specializations if you wanted more context/information

/item target egg
/nav item
/click leftclick item (not clicky)

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[Eltai86]

If I remember correctly, evocation for the mage will be higher return overall then conjuration. In any case there are the Ldon/cotf versions of these augs which while they do take a 7 or 8 slot have much better returns then a traditional hme based Aug for those slots for secondary choices.

Melee/tanks: offense is the correct choice, it’s likely going to be borderline unparseable but so is defense.

 

[apop]

fyi, comments still on

 

[killerclown]

this mission i just put it on hunter tank kill the zone pick up eggs and done

 

[Granditos]

If I remember correctly, evocation for the mage will be higher return overall then conjuration. In any case there are the Ldon/cotf versions of these augs which while they do take a 7 or 8 slot have much better returns then a traditional hme based Aug for those slots for secondary choices.

Melee/tanks: offense is the correct choice, it’s likely going to be borderline unparseable but so is defense.

Im assuming these don’t stack with with the 7/8 augs, correct?

Also, are you saying the new augs are a better return since you aren’t wasting a 7/8 slot?

 

[Sic]

fyi, comments still on

thanks, the FIRST thing i do is turn off comments - i was PRETTY sure i did last video, and I'm 100% sure i did this time, so no idea how that got on

 

[Peix]

Im assuming these don’t stack with with the 7/8 augs, correct?

Also, are you saying the new augs are a better return since you aren’t wasting a 7/8 slot?

Skill mods don't stack.

Btw, you can turn in an egg again if you rerun the mission, so you can get all of them and bank the unused ones in case they turn useful in the future.

 

[Eltai86]

Im assuming these don’t stack with with the 7/8 augs, correct?

Also, are you saying the new augs are a better return since you aren’t wasting a 7/8 slot?

They do not stack in addition. But if you use the evocation type 3 on a mage you can still use the 7/8 conjuration to cover both spell types.

The new augs if you have type 3 space (not all classes realistically do) are a higher net positive then the type 7.

 

[B_I_G__D_A_D_D_Y]

Probably an exploit, but since you do the turn-in to get the Aug before you finish the mission... you could then drop the mission at that point and do it again to get another type of Aug.

If you do the final Hail and get the chest it has been dropping nice power sources. So I've been finishing the mission to get them.

 

[Peix]

Probably an exploit, but since you do the turn-in to get the Aug before you finish the mission... you could then drop the mission at that point and do it again to get another type of Aug.

If you do the final Hail and get the chest it has been dropping nice power sources. So I've been finishing the mission to get them.

Really need to rethink what an exploit means.... you can turn in the egg before or after the mission is done, like most of anniversary missions: the bonus reward is independant of the mission objetive.
the script only limits you to one egg reward per character, and there are 6 eggs on the zone, so on a single run you can get 6 characters with an aug each.. No exploits there, like all of the bonus yearly rewards, which they have been meant to be repeatable.... the only expoitable-weird difference versus other years is that you can get the bonus rewards for an entire group on a single run.

 

[Hylander]

my advice is
1. mages and shaman have effectively infinite mana, so saving mana from these augs is marginal at best
2. clerics never run out of mana, unless dead or drained, so again marginal upside here
3. druids and enchanters need all the help they can get

so get the easy to acquire elsewhere augs, and fill in the rest with this
1. get Offense one (from this mission) and use the Tears of Alaris for defense (for tanks, melee and bards)
2. get tome of manipulation (alteration specialisation) and get the conjuration one (from this mission) for kneecrows and shaman
3. get tome of manipulation (alteration specialisation) and get the evoc one (from this mission) for enchanters and druids
4. get splinter of potency (evoc specialisation) and get the conjuration one (from this mission) for Mages
5. wizards only need the evoc one from this mission
6. clerics only need the alteration one from this mission

this is informed by
1. the relative rarities of the bixie summoner stone, splinter of evoc, and tome of manipulation from the COTF missions are, and
2. MQ2Mage basically casts 62% evoc spells (higher mana cost too) and 38% conjuration spells

 

[burdsjm]

Do a huntertank and kill everything
then do
/dg /ground add Egg
/dg /ground active on

then finish the mission minus doing the final hail. Turn the egg in and get the aug.

Then finish the mission

 

[Sic]

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[Deflo]

Can the mission be soloed ?

Thank you

 

[burdsjm]

Can the mission be soloed ?

Thank you

With the right class and time. I have molo’ed it a bunch of time.

 

[Deflo]

I was thinking about to go there with my sk, but I think I will bring my shammy as well.

 

[burdsjm]

Put the shaman on chase and SK on hunter tank mode. Pop a few mercs. Kill everything, get your egg, and then finish the mission to get the updates you missed.