DDO - Trial By Fire / Feast or Famine - Reaper 10
Sep 22 2022
Trial By Fire
So maybe the reaper-killing bug is for all Gianthold since it works here too. I hit a reaper with Meteor Swarm or Shadowblade (my two main attacks), this also tags them with Draconic Incarnation Destiny Mantle + Inevitable so 3 ticks of fire damage, then step through a Dimension Door and it says reaper killed.
Gianthold adventures are pretty old so haven't been scaled up right I guess. Bad guys are fairly easy to kill, even the generals are only a few hits. It's really nice that once you have the gate open you can run from the entrance to the boss in about 50 seconds.
One difficulty is that the spiders above the boss lair entrance respawn quickly (like less than a minute) so I ended up invisibly running past them and down the hole. Then hit the final boss a couple of times and Dimension Door out. Sure, he regenerates hit points but not that fast -- I can do 5k to 6k damage per run and maybe he heals 1k.
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Feast or Famine
Try 1. Getting better using Scarecrow and Shield Guardian to go in and get aggro so I have more time to take out bad guys. Frogo is great at finding and disabling traps.
Unfortunately once you open the final battle there starts to be respawns in the rest of the dungeon, and they'll keep respawning so you can't use Dimension Door afterwards. I wasn't ready for that so eventually gave up.
Need to get to the final room after using the one shrine and then I'll have to die a lot. Will need to investigate how far back I can retreat without hitting a respawn...
Try 2. The map is a bit weird in that there are virtual walls that NPCs will not walk through they can fire shoot and cast spells through. There is one at the first door, in the next room there is a second at the far end of the tent, and a third one at the entrance to the second barracks. The last one is nice in that you can retreat there instead of Dimension Door if respawns start, though I managed to bring the final boss there and kill him and never saw respawns even after a Dimension Door.
Solo [Deep Gnome Wizard] (L30 R10 D10), no optionals, 2-1/4 hours
After I killed the final boss, which ends the quest, there was another half an hour killing enough bad guys to get to the final chest (don't kill everyone since that will initiate the returning hunting party).
So maybe the reaper-killing bug is for all Gianthold since it works here too. I hit a reaper with Meteor Swarm or Shadowblade (my two main attacks), this also tags them with Draconic Incarnation Destiny Mantle + Inevitable so 3 ticks of fire damage, then step through a Dimension Door and it says reaper killed.
Gianthold adventures are pretty old so haven't been scaled up right I guess. Bad guys are fairly easy to kill, even the generals are only a few hits. It's really nice that once you have the gate open you can run from the entrance to the boss in about 50 seconds.
One difficulty is that the spiders above the boss lair entrance respawn quickly (like less than a minute) so I ended up invisibly running past them and down the hole. Then hit the final boss a couple of times and Dimension Door out. Sure, he regenerates hit points but not that fast -- I can do 5k to 6k damage per run and maybe he heals 1k.
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Feast or Famine
Try 1. Getting better using Scarecrow and Shield Guardian to go in and get aggro so I have more time to take out bad guys. Frogo is great at finding and disabling traps.
Unfortunately once you open the final battle there starts to be respawns in the rest of the dungeon, and they'll keep respawning so you can't use Dimension Door afterwards. I wasn't ready for that so eventually gave up.
Need to get to the final room after using the one shrine and then I'll have to die a lot. Will need to investigate how far back I can retreat without hitting a respawn...
Try 2. The map is a bit weird in that there are virtual walls that NPCs will not walk through they can fire shoot and cast spells through. There is one at the first door, in the next room there is a second at the far end of the tent, and a third one at the entrance to the second barracks. The last one is nice in that you can retreat there instead of Dimension Door if respawns start, though I managed to bring the final boss there and kill him and never saw respawns even after a Dimension Door.
Solo [Deep Gnome Wizard] (L30 R10 D10), no optionals, 2-1/4 hours
After I killed the final boss, which ends the quest, there was another half an hour killing enough bad guys to get to the final chest (don't kill everyone since that will initiate the returning hunting party).