Guard of Valor

Guard of Valor

- Artifact For basic info on this encounter see: http://www.visionofsages.net/toa/artifacts/gift.html

This is the first encounter I'm writing about that I can't do on my own - though if you have the right 3rd person, you can do it with just you, your bot, and a kiter.

I can only recommend doing this encounter at the nighttime location as the daytime location is fraught with peril from random wandering aggro. Set up a power font near, but not in the treeline. Pull as many of the patrollers, arcanists, etc as you can and kill them.

Now ungroup a puller, preferably a shaman with end5 or a RM or skald. Have the puller run in and hit one of Danos' friends with a spell and then run out of the trees and near you but not near enough to get a tick from the power font. When he runs by you, either send your pet in after Danos or hit him with a debuff to get him running at you and put the pet on him. Danos will give up the chase pretty quick so be ready to grab him before he turns back to his camp. If the kiter does his job well, killing Danos with a ML9 pet + focus shield is pretty easy - I did it with less than a full power bar - takes just 2-3 minutes.

The key is the kiter. He must run down past the Braggart's bow encounter. This person's job is to watch behind him and when the mobs stop chasing to turn back and hit them again. Keep them running after him and not turning back until Danos is dead. If you have more people, have them stay with the SM and grab anything that the kiter can't keep chasing him - have them kite off anything that returns.

Danos drops some fairly nice armor and weapons, the artifact, and a spirit legendary component.

  1. posted by Bluebird ShhhhhImConcentrating @ 11:35 PM 4 comments 

Cloudsong - Artifact For basic info on this encounter see: http://www.visionofsages.net/toa/artifacts/cloudsong.html

This one is pretty much a straight-up focus kill. The hard part is finding Eremai up. Wait until he gets clear of the trees but before he gets to the fallen island so you don't get any of his fellow centaurs. Give him the music box then beat him down with ML9 pet + focus shield. Even his PBAE didn't hit the pet very hard.

He drops a lot of ROG cloth items that you may find some useful Summon SM gear in. The artifact is not a guaranteed drop though it seems less rare than it once was.