OoW - MPG: Destruction

[Samanna]

[Brohg]

This trial can be lost if you don't pull the mobs as they spawn immediately. All casters should keep their eyes peeled for new mobs, since if you don't get them, they just wander and despawn, and you won't have enough mobs to kill by the end.

[Samanna]

OMG, it looks like we barely won that one:

[Sun Jul 17 16:39:08 2005] The voice of the Trial Master rings in your ears, 'You have fourteen minutes remaining to complete your task.'

[Sun Jul 17 16:40:08 2005] The voice of the Trial Master rings in your ears, 'You have thirteen minutes remaining to complete your task.'

[Sun Jul 17 16:41:08 2005] The voice of the Trial Master rings in your ears, 'You have twelve minutes remaining to complete your task.'

...

[Sun Jul 17 16:52:08 2005] The voice of the Trial Master rings in your ears, 'You have one minute remaining to complete your task.'

[Sun Jul 17 16:52:38 2005] The voice of the Trial Master rings in your ears, 'You have thirty seconds remaining to complete your task.'

[Sun Jul 17 16:53:06 2005] Your spell is interrupted.
[Sun Jul 17 16:53:06 2005] A shambling undead knight is rent by a savage maw.
[Sun Jul 17 16:53:07 2005] Gober tells you, 'Attacking a shambling undead knight Master.'
[Sun Jul 17 16:53:08 2005] A shambling undead knight is rent by a savage maw.
[Sun Jul 17 16:53:08 2005] You must first select a target for this spell!
[Sun Jul 17 16:53:11 2005] Cleric tells the group, 'woot'
[Sun Jul 17 16:53:13 2005] Paladin has been slain by Master of Destruction!
[Sun Jul 17 16:53:15 2005] Monk tells the group, 'should be a win'
[Sun Jul 17 16:53:20 2005] Cleric tells the group, 'Monk tank lol'
[Sun Jul 17 16:53:55 2005] Cleric tells the group, 'i guess we have a boss to tank lol'

[Henora]

[Brohg]

[Samanna]

[Samanna]

Posted by Lickity at http://crucible.samanna.net/viewtopic.php?t=198 :

I made this at the request of my guild, thought it might be of some use to the the shaman as well =)
MPG Trial Proven Successful Strats

Destruction: 15 minute of clearing mobs, then boss

This is similar to the fear trial, without the fear aspect to it. Mobs come in random amounts 1-4 at a time, and constantly throughout the trial. They come in several varieties: dragorn, skeleton (VPable/mezzable), discordling, elemental I remember offhand most unmezzable, more than the skeleton may be, but mezzing isnt a very efficient strategy anyhow.

Start the trial on the North side of the room in the little cubby.

The best way I have found is to bring two tanks, I usually bring two warriors because of what is available, but warrior/SK is probably more efficent. One warrior runs around the arena grabbing mobs and tanking all of them, using cyclone blade to hold aggro on them, this is not you main assist. The other tank will pick them off this warrior one by one as the group kills them, DPS/assisting the right tank are the keys here. Most if not all of these mobs will ENRAGE. If you are spending more than 30 seconds or so on each mob, the trial will likely fail. At the end of 15 minutes, if you have killed about 20-25 mobs, you will have the Master come alive. I have heard different things about how he gets harder, it may be the longer to engage, or the longer he is alive, either way I have seen him hit for gross amounts of damage if left alive for too long, so engage ASAP. This master is significantly easier than any of the others, and should not cause any problems.

[Macnair]

[Zigoran]

[Samanna]

[Lickity]

[Henora]

[Samanna]

[Macnair]

We set up camp in the doorway, so that all the mobs have to path through us if they want to escape. I am 99% sure none of them got by us without aggroing onto someone; but we still lost after 23 24 mobs.

Is it a random number > 20 do you think?

[Toruk]

[Macnair]

[Lickity]

[Toruk]

[Unmei]

[Karacus]