How to Defeat the Emperor A compilation of facts I learned in my server’s uber guild. This guide has everything you need to know in order to defeat the Emperor in Luclin. All copyrights belong to their original owners. No copyright is expressed or implied by this document. Everquest Strategies Table of Contents Table of Contents............................................................................................................................ 2 Overview......................................................................................................................................... 3 Item drops ................................................................................................................................... 3 Maps of the Temple .................................................................................................................... 6 Key to the Emperor's Chamber....................................................................................................... 8 Emperor Strategy ............................................................................................................................ 9 Issues During Fight................................................................................................................... 11 #1 Adds ................................................................................................................................. 11 #2 Rampage .......................................................................................................................... 11 #3 Tanking ............................................................................................................................ 11 #4 Damage ............................................................................................................................ 12 In Fight Screenshots...................................................................................................................... 13 In Fight Screenshots...................................................................................................................... 13 Vital Information .......................................................................................................................... 17 Vex Thal Key Quest...................................................................................................................... 18 Shards........................................................................................................................................ 18 Other Items and Containers ...................................................................................................... 19 Dialogue.................................................................................................................................... 19 - 2 - Everquest Strategies Overview Item drops - 3 - Everquest Strategies - 4 - Everquest Strategies - 5 - Everquest Strategies Maps of the Temple - 6 - Everquest Strategies - 7 - Everquest Strategies Key to the Emperor's Chamber Starts in: Ssraeshza Temple Who: Rating: Not so Good (2.00) Estimated Time: Days Minimum Level: 60 Best Class: All Related Creatures: Commander Zazush Commander Zeruzsh Related Quests: Corrupted Shissar Weapons In the basement of the temple, kill named taskmasters until you obtain a pouch. Then kill Commander Zazush, on the first floor, and obtain the idol. Then kill Commander Zeruzsh, on the second floor, to get the ring. Then go to the imperial guard chamber and kill the guards until one of the named Mobs spawns. They drop the insignia. Combine the idol, ring and insignia in the pouch and you will receive the Ring of Shissar, which gets you into the Emperor's Chamber. Reward(s): Ring of the Shissar - 8 - Everquest Strategies Emperor Strategy Add Teams: Heriz/Slakiz = Shm Dru Clr Shd Pal Mag Nilasz = Dru Clr Pal War Enc Enc Yasiz = Dru Clr Pal War Enc Enc Emperor Teams: MT = Shm Clr War War War Brd Rot = Shm Clr Clr Clr Clr Nec : Ramp= Clr Clr War War War Pal: Can also use monks for war, sham/dru for pal Support: (rod+curse cure+ss) Shm Dru Wiz Mag Mag Ench Damage Teams: Brd Rog Rog Rog Rog Rog Brd Rog Rog Rng Rng Rng Monks, etc. Wiz Wiz Wiz Wiz Wiz Wiz Specific Roles: Rotation Clerics - 4 sec when slowed Rotation tanks - standard AE taunt defensive/evasive once slowed on disc refresh.. Use fungus glands when *not* cursed to raise agro. Hotkey to tell curer+ spellshielder when proc. Make sure has DI. Heals should be hitting for no more than 3k. Cure Druid- Cure curse on proc.. also times procs consider prempetive spam heal followed by cure. SS wizard - Spellshield MT (and any rampage tanks) on PROC or tell. - 9 - Everquest Strategies Rampage tanks - should get on agro as early as possible, use arrow/shruiken on pull... use disc from start until slow. Don't be afraid to mend/FD. Let rampage healers know when on rampage after each rampage round. Get spellshield/DI. IF proced on ask for ss refresh. Rampage healer - heal rampage tank-- chain ch in 2 person (6 sec) rotation premptively, duck if not needed Low level add tank team- Keep add tanked away from main force (in wall preferably). Do not let low health agro summon occur. When respawn gain agro quickly and position. Yellow Con add tank team- Heal extra early due to HT/Balance procs of npc. Pick up and agro new spawns fast. Enchanters with memory should blur mobs they are mezing to prevent heal agro from building up on a break. Dictate should be loaded as backup only. Support: Mods Mods, + MT spellshield/cure. Debuff adds as time permits. Damage Teams: If get on rampage run as far away as possible from emperor until off. Also can assist on Devouer (yellow con ONLY) to give cleric some med. Control agro.. no ae but no healer either. Non ss wizards should manaburn at 90% health or so. SK/nec should get AC debuff in. After shaman Malo necro need to get in Scent of Terris. DRUIDS MUST NOT USE ROS. Shaman should be using disease based slow at this point. Shaman need to coordnate to insure the adds remain slowed. - 10 - Everquest Strategies Issues During Fight In all seriousnes, there are 4 main issues this fight. 1) adds 2) rampage 3) tanking Emperor 4) Damaging emperor #1 Adds Bare minimum is 2 knights 2 clerics 4 enchanters to handle adds. This is risky since it relies on dictate, and will space the spawns unfavorably for the emperor fight. For more control over respawns we will probably use 4 cleric, 4 tank and 4 ench. BTW for this fight gather mana for enchanters is STRONGLY recommended, so more mods can go to clerics and wizards. We will require at 5 cleric roatation after slow at a bare minimum...and 2 clerics on rampage at the minimum, that pretty much spells out how we have to handle the adds. #2 Rampage Establishing rampage on a non rooted mob that hits this hard will be a challenge. We dont have the option to knight agro and memblurr. We may end up having to go somewhat reactive. This requires people to be observant when they get rampaged, not wait for us to ask in GU who is on rampage. #3 Tanking The emperor as far as we know (admittdly its been a while since we engaged procs a serious DD (4k) and long lasting deagro proc. To counter this we will need a warior with dual EB weapons and/or, or loads of fungus beastglands. - 11 - Everquest Strategies #4 Damage Folks need to be aware of the potential DPS of their proc weapons and chose them or shissar bane weaponry as appropriate. Nukers will be doing a large portion of our damage but it is critical we control agro given the problems with the emperor's proc. - 12 - Everquest Strategies In Fight Screenshots - 13 - Everquest Strategies - 14 - Everquest Strategies - 15 - Everquest Strategies - 16 - Everquest Strategies Vital Information 1) casts an AE every 60 that wipes the hate list 2) has 4k dd nuke 3) we will have repop in room 4) he is slowable with plague of insects(25% slow) Rage of Ssraeshza 1: Decrease Attack Speed by 90% (L1) 2: Decrease Current Hitpoints by 4000 (L1) 3: Decrease Mob Aggro by 95% 4: Decrease Armor Class (AC) by 300 (L1) 5: Adding 36 Curse counters -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Classes: None -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Skill: Instantaneous Allowable Targets: All Beneficial: Detrimental -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Range to Target: 200 feet Pushes Target Back: 3 feet Throws Target Up: 4 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resistance Check: None -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spell Duration: 5000 ticks (500.0 minutes) Duration Formula: 3 Recast Delay: 60.0 seconds - 17 - Everquest Strategies Vex Thal Key Quest 1. The first part entails gathering 10 different shards from all over luclin. 2. For the second part, you will need to obtain a Scepter Frame and combine the 10 shards to reassemble the Scepter. This Scepter is now a 2 slot container. 3. The third part will require the killing of the Emperor and looting a Staff. This Staff has 2 charges of Summon a Shaded Sphere. Zaar of Triton confirmed it with : Yea 2x charges of 20 power source, so 40. 4. The fourth part is the re-energizing of the Scepter by combining the Orb of Luclinite and the summoned Shaded Sphere in the reassembled Scepter. 5. Enjoy your key as the final product is the Scepter of Shadows aka Vex Thal Key - Item 22198 in Magelo. 6. Use key to enter Vex Thal