Florandir the loremaster felt his staff was a little dusty after being in the cupboard for a long time so he needed a good challenge to sharpen up his skills.
So at level 47 he set off for Goblin Town to try and solo all the way to Gollum's Cave so he could make a sketch for Bilbo.
Working his way to the Slave Pens was good practice for his mez & root skills. He summoned his eagle for the good flank rate so he could try a 'flank & tank' tactic using Wizards Fire. He also expected a few defeats so the eagle rez would come in handy (and it did).
Flank and tank worked well and Florandir got good experience of the
timing of cracked earth root and blinding flash duration to manage the
fight. He tried alternatively starting the fight with the eagle and then
doing a mez pull. The mez pull meant Florandir did not have to worry as
much about breaking mez with AOE skills so preferred this approach.
The eagle rez was tried as an aggro wipe after running through a crowd to avoid some fighting. The eagle was set to passive, then run through the crowd to a safe spot, let them kill you, eagle rez, mobs all run back. This worked some times but others times the eagle seemed to aggro mobs that the loremaster didn't so was not around for the rez. Good job he had a stack of revive scrolls as backup.
A vital piece of advice from fellow loremaster Aeshac about Air Lore healing the pet as well when using Wizards Fire after a flank served Florandir well as he adventured deeper and encountered the level 50 signature Goblin Town Soldiers (GTS). The eagle would survive the whole fight to allow use of mez then Inner Flame healing when down to 1 mob. Florandir managed to defeat 1 GTS plus 2 normals and 2 GTS using this technique.
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A final sprint towards Gollum's Cave ended in defeat as Florandir's level 48 was too low to enter the Great Goblin's Den and shake off his pursuers. A revive, Wisdom of the Council and sprint down the right tunnel found Florandir at Gollum's Cave where battered, bruised and much the wiser, he could finally achieve his objective and make a sketch for Bilbo.
Florandir enjoys adventuring with his pets so looking forward it is worrying that pets DPS/abilities have not scaled well to L75 (see this post).
Further info on Eagle Rez from Elborigorn - a passive Eagle is no good.
ReplyDeleteThe Loremaster needs to be within 40m of the Eagle.
The Eagle must be actively in combat (this means fighting something and not parked somewhere in passive mode) at the time the Loremaster dies.
Upon receiving the Eagle’s Sacrifice rez, you receive a buff that blocks you from receiving another Eagle rez for the next 10 minutes.
Here is the link
http://casualstrolltomordor.com/2010/07/eagle-pet-worth-it-for-solo/