Argath - Illdaera's Vengeance
Quest giver - Mechanic Vitesal
Request phrase: rescue
Entry phrase: go
Requirements: 10 Alaran, Critical Mass, Reclaiming Argath
The goal of the mission is to defeat a giant avatar of steel. To make it killable requires going through quite a few steps:
- Have one person go one circuit down the ramp and find a crossbow to break off bits of the avatar, spawning little puddles. The puddles are non-agro, but social, hit about 10k and have low hp. Each one drops a tradable "energized steel shard" and you'll need at least 9 (having extra is useful).
- Once you have a bunch follow the water track north until you come to the cart. The person with the shards needs to jump on the cart, equip a shard, and click it which causes the cart to roll towards the avatar. It will take 3 clicks to get all the way there and a couple adds will spawn. Clear off any adds (the clicker Must remain on the cart) and get the cart all the way and the task will update.
- Next you need to go up top and find the water tower. Use the catapult near it to launch you in, then equip a shard and click to start the tower moving toward the avatar. This time there will be magic blasts heading at the tower. Have a member with ranged nukes keep an eye out and shoot them down. If the blasts hit the tower stops and you'll need to use another click. Once you get it over the avatar the task will update.
- Now head south to find the other cart and repeat the procedure of equip and click. No adds this time but piles of molten rock spawn that emit a damage aura to any that get close. You can avoid them or destroy them.
After completing all 3 steps the explosives go off, the task locks, and the avatar goes live. Engage the avatar but stay on north side to avoid the AE damage from the piles to the south. The avatar hits around 20k, casts an AE snare and emotes about a big swing followed by 20k PBAE. The PBAE is blocked by LoS so you can move to hide if needed. If you take more than two minutes you start to get mezzable adds which mimic the weapons of a player. The avatar's melee seems to go up over time and if you wipe you may need to restart the mission if it doesn't reset properly.
Once it dies Atleris runs down to you. Hail it then open the chest to complete the mission. The chest contains one spell and one of the following: