Doom Lord Septimus

[Guy De Alsace]

<DIV>We went into HoF today to get some Hooloh Hat updates (all 70's). We killed Sothis with no trouble much to our suprise and the other named mobs relatively ok. We messed up a few pulls and wiped as we're not exactly super-great at this game :smileywink: Our gear is mostly instance-gained legendary and mastercrafted. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>However when we got to Septimus it was like fighting a raid with only one grp. I was trying out a parsing program I'd just downloaded and noticed people were being AOE'd for 5-6k damage. Some were getting hit for single target damage in the same range. We had 2 healers (Mystic and Warden) but we couldnt keep up (since we were dying quickly too). The Warden's tree thing took 25,000 damage in one hit :smileyvery-happy:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>His autoattack was in the 1.5-3k range - needless to say we wiped about 6 times against him. I was trying to time my group wards with his AOE but wasnt being very successful - he was hitting through my 2.9k grp ward for over 3k anyway on occasions.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Is this guy meant to be this hard or is there some bug or something we should know about? I've killed him before and got a wooden chest from him (most of the named mobs dropped wood chests <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> ) so is it really worth bothering trying to kill him?</DIV>

[Melchiah]

<DIV>Was there trauma effects on the people getting hit hard? HoF punishes groups that don't cure trauma quickly.</DIV>

[Outerspace]

Aye seems a bit odd. I got hit for 7k in one hit by him then I was tanking, although it was one of his CA's and it was a critical hit.In the end the wizzy just root/nuked him because he kept killing my tank with obscene melee hits. I always remember him being a bit like that though.<div></div>

[Krokous]

we used to kill him with 1 healer, so you with 2 shoud do it easy.. always check if he didnt debuff you

[Mr. Dawki]

<P>i believe his ae is devine based and most people dont have that resist</P> <P>that may be your problem</P>

[Arathy]

Killed him two nights ago with a group of 70's in pretty much average gear.  Had no issues really.  Group had a single healer.<div></div>

[Lewizzard]

<P>I have killed Septimus many many time and had no trouble since after the first few weesk of the KOS.  A few nights ago, I went in with 5/6 pretty much fabled out and just 1 who was getting his Quest Update. </P> <P>BAM he killed us several times Mind you the Warden decided to pull every drake in the room for fun <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />.   BTW most of the named in there dropped wood chests that night.  The fact that I cant remember the last time Septimus dropped anything but wood is kinda funny.</P><p>Message Edited by Lewizzard on <span class=date_text>12-25-2006</span> <span class=time_text>06:41 AM</span>

[Mr. Dawki]

<DIV>Actually its pathetic</DIV> <DIV>really</DIV> <DIV>the honorable leader of a band of droag warriors holding a worthless trinket</DIV> <DIV>common!</DIV>

[ReviloTX]

Killed him a few nights ago and he wasn't any harder than he ever was (and he never was hard).  Tip to the OP, you can avoid his AE, if your actually taking that much damage from it I would suggest doing so.

[TimidMou]

You can also pull him out of his room, although, not if you need any updates (the doors cannot be opened if you kill him outside).

[Fazzarya]

<DIV>What a couple people are telling you in a not so clear way is that the Doom Lord places a Debilitate debuff on whoever he has targeted (i.e. your tank) that basically makes them a lvl 55 version of themself. If you cure this trauma off the tank asap his melee is really kind of weak and he is easily killable.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Good luck!</DIV>