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Old 03-30-2007, 11:07 PM   #1 (permalink)
Pudsley
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Arena Master Weapons - Zaraj Arena (Legendary Weapons)

Some details....

Zone - Zaraj Arena, port to Strandan from Khal, head south from Strandan dock until you reach the arena, you can't miss it.

Recommended Level - 35+

Mobs involved - 38 2 dots, 38-40 3 dots, 36-40 4/5 dots.


Rewards....

Choice of Legendary weapons for most classes.....for Warriors there is.....

http://vg-en.curse-gaming.com/databa...8/subjugation/

or

http://vg-en.curse-gaming.com/databa...7/benevolence/

For Obvious reasons I recommend Subjugation.


Ok, first of all I'll explain what the quest entails...

It's not a faction grind, it's a hand in quest, you need to collect 1000 Zaraj Coins, coins are no drop so you yourself must earn them.

Coins can be obtained in one of the following ways.

1) Random drop off certain mobs, these are.....

a) Minotaurs, 38-40 3dot mobs, poor drop rate surprisingly yielding sometimes only one coin in 10 kills.
b) Suspicious Spectators, these can be found in the arena in the stands, they are mixed in with the Arena Spectators and ae yellow con, they are easily killed and respawn fast....100% drop rate.
c) Named mobs around Zaraj Arena, these range from level 38 2 dot dropping two coins to level 39 5 dot dropping 12 coins, there are many named mobs....all yellow con...talk to them and you should get an option to insult or spit on them, these are the ones you should kill.

2) Repeatable quests

For example killing 75 of the afforementioned Minotaurs will net you 10 coins (plus whatever drops you recieved), not very efficient method of coin retrieval, also bear in mind Minotaurs are not weak by any means, they are certainly not an easy 3 dot.

3) Tickets

Tickets are random drops from named mobs around the arena and the minotaurs.

There are 4 qualities of tickets.

Bronze Ticket (blue, Uncommon).
Silver Ticket (Yellow, Rare).
Gold Ticket (Orange, Heroic).
Platinum Ticket (Red, Legendary).

They aren't as hard to come by as they sound, I have found 3 plats and many of the other quality tickets, Tickets are UNIQUE meaning you can only carry one of a certain type at any one time, be prepared to cry when you watch that legendary plat ticket decay because you already have one.

Tickets spawn encounters in the arena, the higher quality the ticket the harder the encounter it spawns and the more coins that encounter will yield.

Ticket Information.

Bronze Ticket

Spawns 2x level 38 1 dot mobs and 1 level 38 2 dot that will all attack you at the same time, after these have died you will be attacked by a 2/3 dot boss (can never remember which), not an easy encounter but some classes can solo this, not recommended to solo, try in a duo or trio.

Yields approximately 10 coins.

Silver ticket

Similar to above, except you will be attacked by 2x 2dot and 1x 3dot mobs, followed by a 3 dot boss.

Yields approximately 15-20 coins.

Gold Ticket

Much harder encounter, I managed to duo it with a level 39 Druid, was a very long fight, went much faster with three of us (38 Warrior, 39 Druid and 40 Psi).

Ticket spawns 4x 38 4 dot mobs...DON'T PANIC.... they are all rooted and will only attack you one at a time.

After all four of these mobs are dead a 5 dot boss will spawn, he isn't much harder than his 4 dot counterparts so don;t worry, like I said I duo'd him with a 39 Druid.

Each trash mob in this encounter drops 10 coins, loot these as they die, since they will despawn well before the fight is over, the boss drops a further 20 coins giving a total of 60 coins for a gold ticket.

Platinum Ticket

It was 07:30 in the morning and I'd just pulled an all nighter, did the plat tickets four times, may have the mob details wrong somewhat...anyway, here goes...

Spawns 4x 4 or 5 dot adds, these come one at a time, when they are all dead the Arena Champion Takran (think I have his name right) will make his way down to the arena.

He is a 5 dot, he used to have a whopping 1.7 million hitpoints, he's been nerfed to a much more managable hitpoint pool, in place of the missing hitpoints he has an annoying knockback.

We 4 manned him, should be possible to 3 man in all truth, when Takran comes down to the arena you can pull him into what I can only thinkto describe as a dugout in the side of the arena, fight him with your back to the wall in this dugout and you pretty miuch effectively neutralise his knockback, he can be a handful with regards to aggro but if your team gives you a little time and exercises a little aggro management it isn;t much of a problem.

Total coins dropped - 100 some off trash and the rest off of Champion Takran.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT TICKETS

Each encounter is locked to the group that spawned it.

Only one encounter can be spawned at once, therefore spending your tickets can be almost impossible, although there is a 10 second period after each encounter where the group that just completed the encoutner cannot stat another one, so have your ticket ready when they finish up.

Ticket bosses often drop further tickets, we entered with 2 gold tickets, we ended up doing the gold encounter 6 times due to more gold tickets dropping.

Always loot the trash during the fight, especially on gold or platinum tickets, it's highly likely the trash will despawn before the fight is over, each trash mob has a substantial amount coins on them.

More group members = safer and faster encounters, however it also means a smaller amount of coins per player.

How long does it take?

Depends how you want to collect your tickets and how much time you have to invest.

I personally decided to grind most of my coins from the Suspisious Spectator 2 dot mobs in the arena stands, they can be found on the bottom and top floors of the arena, they respawn pretty fast in fixed positions and have a 100% drop rate on coins.

I collected approximately 800 of the 1000 coins I needed for my Legendary from the spectators, I did this in two days.

I started at 23:00 pm on Wednesday night, I pulled an all nighter......by 08:30am the following morning I had collected 331 coins from spectators and a further 100 coins from duo and trio'ing arena ticket challenges.

I resumed play at 14:00 that same day after a few hours sleep and by midnight that same night I had ground a further 431 coins.

The remaining 138 coins I collected in a couple of hours on friday afternoon, I was averaging approximately 60 coins an hour, I had a relatively fast horse (rank 3 +60 mount speed with +20 horseshoes and +8 tack), having a fast horse can help, but is by no means necessary.

To summarise, this is a beautiful weapon that at level 40 max skill is giving Decimate and Obliterate crits of 2500-3500, killing blows of 1300-2500, autoattack seems ot range from 660-800.

It is perfectly attainable, if I did it in roughly two days then a casual player who doesn't have time off work will probably take about a week.

DISCLAIMER : Some of the info here may well be wrong, some of it is no doubt innacruate, but none the less I'm sure many will find it useful, I will update the info as I go, feel free to correct me on any of the above info, I'll edit it as and when I can.

It was written at 03:30 in the morning and I spent most of my legendary weapon grind in a caffiene induced coma so it's likely some details are a little off.
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