Requirements: Level: 68+, previous missions in arc completed.

Submitted by: Fdirenor of Xegony

After recieving the mission from the prophet, he asks you to go hail another NPC. This NPC is standing on right side of the door as you leave. As soon as you hail you will be teleported to the mission. This is a monster mission and so everyone will have to select a monster. Obviously you need a warrior, cleric and enchanter type. For damage class, a rogue is more preferable to a wizard. The rogue does an insane amount of damage. This may be broken at the moment, but if the rogue unequips thier weapons, they will do a lot more damage and hit very fast. The rogue was parsed at about 900 DPS.

Once in the mission, go to your AA abilities window to spend your monster points. I found the best way to do this was to only train abilities up until the point where they got too expensive. Once the abilities started to go over 8 or so points per rank, I switched to buy a different ability. The higher ranks did not seem to provide as much of a benefit. I only played a cleric, so I do not know about the other classes, but I recieved a greater benefit from having spell haste, mental clarity, improved healing, and mana preservation all worked up to an average level, instead of just having one ability maxed.

Another note is that if you are a caster and run out of mana, the best thing to do is to go and die. These monster templates have about 14k mana, and it regens slowly. If you die, you respawn with about 40% mana. There is no XP penalty for death that I have noticed so far.

After spending all ability points, the whole group needs to run from the zone in to the Emperor. This is a small zone, and he is just directly ahead. There will be no mobs at this point. When you are ready to begin, hail him and about 15 drachnids will spawn at the zone in and then move out into the room. Some will stay put, and some will wander. If the group moved to the Emperor, you will be safe. If you stayed at the zone in, you will all die.

In my group the warrior did the pulling. He just waited for the roaming mobs to path away, and he was able to get singles. The agro assist radius seems to be very low. Once you kill all the mobs, a second wave will spawn. Kill these in the same manner. A named spawns in this second wave. Before pulling him, move out to away from the Emperor to like the middle of the room. Kill him and any remaining spawns. The named drops some loot that is about 120hp/mana quality and no drop, and I did not see any other chests. Once all of the drachnids are dead, move back the emperor and you will be ported back to the undershore. Hail the prophet to recieve credit for the mission. You will recieve experience, but there is no item reward for completing the mission.

The first time I did this mission we pulled the named to where the Emperor was, and we got bugged because as soon as the named was dead we were ported out of the zone and did not recieve credit for the mission. So that is why you need to move away from the emperor.