Chronology of a TOI 80's hunt

For those who have ever wondered what TOI is like on the really high floors, I was always someone wondering along with you...until I got the chance to experience it myself. Here's the account of my rookie journey up there, for your enjoyment and (for those considering making such a trip in the future), perhaps your benefit in terms of hunting tips for the different floors.

I log on Friday night, stock up, and am on my way to 35f to do some leveling when I get an invite to join three of my pledgemates up on TOI 81f. I must admit, I was a little skeptical, but eventually I got talked into going. So I wander Oren til I find a shop selling an 81f scroll (only 900k, not too bad)(gack), stock up for a LONG hunt, and hang out in bp house until it is safe to go.

Upon arriving, HeavensBlade escorts me to an enclosed room where he, ShadowFyre, and DreamTime had set themselves up...unofficially dubbed "Fort Kismet."

As you can see, it is a good place to set up. Blade can run around and gather mops, bring them to the doorway to 1:1 them, with Fyre and I providing distance attack and DT healing/i2h-ing/coc-ing/etc. as needed.

Floor has Insolent Zenith Queens, Lesser Seers, and Marquise Vampires. Was able to get two of the three in one shot above (with a cut & paste on a title).

Only problem with this spot? It was actually too easy...too boring. So after a while, we packed up to head to 82f. Here's us cautiously making our way to the 82f stairs.

We ended up on 82f, and made our way and set up shop at the base of the stairs to 83f, figuring if things got out of control, we could escape up steps. Once again, here is the set-up.

With ZQ's and Seers, it is important for the tank to engage the mop far enough away from the support crew that the area attack does not "get" them.



After doing this a while, we were having much success at killing mops, all was working very efficiently...however, our inquisitive nature was getting the best of us. We noticed that LineageDB had absolutely NO drop info for one of the mops on 83f, the Zombie Lord of Fear. So we very cautiously headed up there. Upon arriving, we found a nice enclosed room not too far from the stairs, set up our support peeps against the back wall, and sent our bait out running around looking for some fun.

And here's our first ZL kill.

We learned that ZL's have a TON of hp, but their attack is not that bad. They have a distance/area attack that reaches about a quarter screen. As for their melee attack, it seems to do maybe a little under 200 hp per hit.

After deciding these guys weren't so bad, we went wandering around 83f looking for a little higher spawn. We didn't have to look long.

So after some hunting on 83f, we went back to 82f a while, then towards the end of our night back to 83f. Our second time wandering up there, we came across a sort of dead-end hallway that had at least 10 or 12 mops all gathered together. This shot is only a small portion of them.

So after scouting out the immediate area, we set up "trap" area at a doorway with the hopes of luring the mops out and ending them one at a time.

The spot worked great on the Queens and Seers.


With ZL's, we had to back up the bow peeps a little to stay out of range of the area attack.

And so we worked, til we had systematically lured & slaughtered that whole huge group of mops. To say we were feeling pretty good about ourselves at this point would be an understatement.

We had every reason to be confident. We had been up on the 80's for at least 4 hours, almost 5 hours. We had killed everything we had run across and really done it without any major crises or even very many "close calls." I was so confident myself that I had even taken the hotkey I normally use for escape scrolls and hotkeyed something else in that slot instead.

We were standing where you see us above, talking about how tired we all were (it was past 2:00 a.m. my time!), how both Fyre and I were totally out of wafers, and so forth...when off just to our left comes one mop (ZQ), then a second, then a 3-pack of Seers all right on top of each other (so it looked from across the screen like it was only one). Before I knew what happened DT was down, the other 3 of us scatter to try to separate mops, but even more started coming, it was clear things were out of control, at some point Blade and Fyre escaped, I see DT's dead body yelling at me, "esc esc," and I'm hitting the button BUT THE DARN THING WON'T ESCAPE WHY AM I NOT ESCAPING WHY WHY WHY AM I NOT ESCAPING.....ARR....GAHHHHH.......

Note to self: no matter how well a hunt is going, when hunting on TOI 83f, never, ever, EVER decide to un-hotkey escape scrolls.

So...that was the end of our adventure. In the end during our 5+ hour adventure we got one 91f scroll, maybe 6 or 8 ndais (Zombie Lord's seem to drop ndai maybe 1 in 4 times), and 4 czels. 91f scroll worth a million, so basically I made back about 400k of the 900k scroll cost. But it was a darned good time. Unlike the last trip up there that Blade, Fyre, and DT made (when they got SB Advanced Spirit), we didn't get any uber drops. Definitely not the kinda place someone can hunt everyday, but for a once in a great while kinda trip, it was worth it.

Didn't get a shot of my exp bar, but around 18.2% or so now. Tuesday marks the 1 month mark since hitting 50, maybe I can be up to 20% by then. Until later, have a great day!