I have a 65 necro and want to kill a Valorian Sentry in Halls of Honor. Any
other necros have any tips I can use?
If your necro is 65, you should already know how to play him/her. They
dont summon so figure it out :P
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stanmann - 20 Mar 2006 18:44 GMT
mgarvie wrote:
> I have a 65 necro and want to kill a Valorian Sentry in Halls of Honor. Any
> other necros have any tips I can use?
> If your necro is 65, you should already know how to play him/her. They
> dont summon so figure it out :P
In other words Do it like the druids.... JUST KITE IT!!! YEAH!
StanMann
Mark Rafn - 20 Mar 2006 22:05 GMT
>mgarvie wrote:
>> I have a 65 necro and want to kill a Valorian Sentry in Halls of Honor. Any
>> other necros have any tips I can use?
>> If your necro is 65, you should already know how to play him/her. They
>> dont summon so figure it out :P
>In other words Do it like the druids.... JUST KITE IT!!! YEAH!
Beware the non-snarable ones, though. Picking the right spot where you're not
suprised by "immune to changes in run speed" is key in Halls of Honor. IIRC,
the far left hero shrine is good. Some of the armors are undead, which may
help you out too.
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mgarvie - 20 Mar 2006 22:56 GMT
All the ones I've encountered are immune to my darkness spells.
> >mgarvie wrote:
>>> I have a 65 necro and want to kill a Valorian Sentry in Halls of Honor.
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> Mark Rafn dagon@dagon.net <http://www.dagon.net/>
Crash86 - 20 Mar 2006 23:25 GMT
> >mgarvie wrote:
>>> I have a 65 necro and want to kill a Valorian Sentry in Halls of Honor.
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> may
> help you out too.
As a druid, the ones in the SE basement were my flavor of choice. You just
had to be careful getting back there. Con your way back ... every so often
they'll throw one at you along the way that'll see through invis.
Once down there, you have plenty of targets and plenty of kiting space.
Crash
Crash86 - 20 Mar 2006 23:27 GMT
>> >mgarvie wrote:
>>>> I have a 65 necro and want to kill a Valorian Sentry in Halls of Honor.
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>
> Once down there, you have plenty of targets and plenty of kiting space.
Having said that, I found it just as easy to grab an instance of Vxed. A
little more risky, but the AA used to be obscene as a solo druid in Vxed
back in the day.
Crash
>I have a 65 necro and want to kill a Valorian Sentry in Halls of Honor.
>Any other necros have any tips I can use?
It's been years since I've killed those, but here are the tips I can
remember...
First of all, be sure you're in the right room - in each of the 3 basements,
you want to set up shop in the second to last room, with the human
valorians. Don't bother with the rooms of undead armors - some are
unsnareable and others summon.
Upon arriving in your camp, if there is a sentry up, leave him and his buddy
beside him alone until you've cleared the other 2 pairs in the room first.
FD split the snareable pairs and kite each along the back wall.
So you've killed 4 valorians, and now there's a sentry and normal one
(guardians? forget) at the last doorway. Snare the guardian and FD once
they're both moved from the doorway, then stand up once the sentry resets at
the door. Kite the guardian down.
For the sentry, it always worked best for me to use the diagonal line in the
room for kiting. Use the direction that won't bring you right beside the
first repop.
____| |____
| x x / |
|x / x |
= / |]
|s / x |
| / |
----------------
x's are where they spawn. Let's say the sentry was at position s. You will
have killed counter clockwise from the right, and will kill the sentry last
along the dashed line, instead of along the safe wall or in a rectangle
pattern.
So, how to kill the sentry.
#1) focus effects. Get affliction haste
#2) have a sow potion and be sure there's enough time on your SoW to kill
the sentry before you pull (I seem to recall having to buy Run4 during a
sentry kite when my SoW wore off lol)
For those not in the know, sentries are unsnareable.
So pull with saryrn's kiss, since it has the longest cast time.
Cast funeral pyre while he's running for you, then run to the opposite
diagonal once he gets close. Sick pet on him. Once across, stop quick and
cast blood of thule, then back to opposite diagonal and cast horror.
As soon as horror lands, stay at that corner and run the sentry in tight
circles, staying just out of melee range. Why do this? Your pet can get
many, many more hits in when the sentry is only moving in 10 foot circles.
When the first of your dots is close to fading, start running corner to
corner again and reapply as needed. Once all dots are back on, go back to
the tight circles. He should die as that round of dots fades, and you'll
have a minute or two until the first kill repops. With practice, you can
kill the 6 in your camp room and the other 2 or 4? in the last room before
the first repop.
I always found the sentries really fun to kill :)
OH... and another thing that will SERIOUSLY speed up your killing in
there... get dire charm AA.
You can bring once of the little undead squires from the lobby down to a
basement without agro if you really want to :) Just means you can't FD
split anymore, but kiting 2 (or 4) valorians at a time is more fun.
EQ: Hexfate Decay (70 Necro) <retired>
EQ2: Hexfate Blackthorne (60 Brigand/60 Armorer) <retired>
...levelling up in RL now...