Question about Nek 2 (Nektropos: The Return)

[Cadaveria]

<p>Is this a single group instance? The one time I attempted it, we went in with 5 moderate-to-good geared players, all around 55. We could barely get the mobs in the courtyard down to 50% health before getting creamed.</p><p>Were we 7 players too short? The mobs were only ^^^ Heroics, but I can't really see a single group of anything but top-end raiders being able to handle them. Is this an x2 instance?</p>

[Zard]

<p>I went in with a non-fabled trio levels 53-56 thinking we would do well in there since the entry mobs were level 52/53. The dogs in the courtyard were no problem and about what we expected. . . but that all changed once we engaged the first golem.</p><p>While no one died it was such a long fight that we basically felt if there were any more golems like that we might as well pack it up since we would be here all night -- just to clear trash mobs! The golems did not hit very hard but I think someone misplaced a decimal point when setting the number of hit points; meaning they had 10x the number of hit points we expected. Our trio lacks serious DPS (SK+Dirge+Inq), so that made the situation worse, but it was like fighting a raid mob.</p><p>When we encountered the second golem and discovered it had the same crazy amount of hit points we just evacced mid-fight, zoned out and said "no point in coming back here."</p>

[joeygopher]

<p>Its a "single group raid zone" designed for uber groups.  Other examples include nek 3, nizara and icespire summit.  The encounters are of a strength that used to be labelled epics before they changed the label convention - traditionally pairs of ^^^s etc.  Crowd control tends to make these zones a lot easier, as a single group can handle just about any single ^^^ without too many problems if it cons below them.</p><p>Worth taking a full group tho...</p>

[Brigh]

<p>If you have the dps, the golems are just PITA mobs to fight.</p><p>You get AP exp in here. It is the only place where you can get a blacksmith hammer with + to metalshaping or some other smithy mod that I can't remember right now.</p><p>Fighting Everling is a challenge too that I figured out how to fight him with just a paladin, fury, and some other fighter/melee dps class when others in the group left (this was over a year ago).</p>

[Prodigus]

I had the same thoughts when I arrived there to 3 box and killing that Golem felt like killing Emperor Fysk.  I quickly ported out but would love to hit it again sometime.  Do the mobs respawn, or just the courtyard dogs?