Veksar after the shop

[Glauron]

Big Veksar fan here, I mean who wouldn't be. Undead central. I've only really had exp up to the shop and am wondering how many camps a 64 Necro could handle from highborns onwards. Can nobles/highborns be solo'd effectively? How easy is it to get to the chef etc? And also, what other camps are there to be had? Few see invis mobs from Highborns onwards, so i've not explored further than this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Blacklotis]

Glauron: This is from another board but an excellent guide.

http://necro.eqclasses.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=24008

hope you find what you are looking for. :rolleyes:

Blacklotis

[Jebasiz]

Glauron if you have touch of death and decent gear you can probably do the highborns and nobles. Then clear and work your way to the chef. I'd suggest you just drop down and try a noble, then a highborn, and then a highborn commander and see how you do. The wraiths dukes and cooks you run into aren't any harder then those mobs, so if you can do one set, you can do the other, and thus the chef camp.

A word of caution, alot of mobs after the shop HT for around 900. It can hurt if they get a good round off on you and resist shackle. Maybe get a virtue before you try it your first time. After it's slowed LoZ can "probably" tank them fairly well, I'm not certain, but he should do ok with touch of death. CoB would definetly help, so would LR5(aa). You should be ok without slow resists, as long as you get single mobs. Watch out for the hands (little buggers roam and aren't undead, they summon and generally are just a PITA) they can suck if your not expecting to kill them.

[Neante]

check this site out... lots of usefull tools and tricks.. I think it had been posted here in fact.

http://web.syr.edu/~tjmyers/platfarm/sekret.html

[quik2]

You don't need to clear highborns to get to chef, just use undead invis. they see through it, but it won't matter, just don't get close to them, everything in the chef building don't see invis. My normal routine when I can't find an LDON group. Kill Shopkeeper, IVU, run to chef, IVU, run to Monk, IVU, run to trooper (forgotname), ivu, invis when get to golems, clear the named at bathtub. Run back to Shop keeper and repeat. In that order u camp 5 named, all the profitables atleast. Get suspend minion 2 and u are set.

[Jebasiz]

It's true you don't have to kill highborns to get to chef...but it will give you a good idea if you should be at the camp at all. I don't find many things more sad then going into veksar and seeing it littered with necromancer corpses that got over there head (unless druid corpses are next to it, then I just think it's funny, heh). The "try a highborn" statement was just so he had a barometer to see if he was ready to do the chef at all, at 63 it could be rough heh.

[Captain_Crunch]

That link will help you a lot, thats what I use. I usually can do chef, remains of sar... whatever... and shop in one go usually (however more often then not shop is camped). After you have cleared shop, there is a big drop that you go down. Go across the alleyway and hug the wall to the left, then just follow the wall to the right. make SURE You aren't encumbered, or have some sort of run speed AA because you are going just inside 2 of the guys aggro ranges by doing this, but so little that they shouldn't aggro until after a couple seconds. However if you are encumbered or something they WILL aggro. Anyway follow the wall to the right, and when you get to a small room you will see a revenant (or the remains) in the corner. Kill it and go back to the alleyway, cross the church and diagonally head to the entrance on the left (there is an animated hand but it SHOUDLN'T aggro). There is a highborn at the end of the hallway but once again that shouldn't aggro. ANyway once you are inside the passageway nothing will see through IVU, so go through the fire, and you are at dogs/chef. Kill the dogs/chef and start all over again, it is that easy.

*note*
You have to be pretty good to kill both the dogs and the chef in time. If you want to take the shop too you MIGHT want to leave out the dogs. They drop a cap that is worth about 20k but it rarely, if at all (you can camp the place for 4 hours, killing all the dogs, without the cap dropping on rare occasions), and since you have to kill them all you might run out of time.

Also with the remains it is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE to fight it reguarly with pet. Pretty much the only way to do this is to charm a highborn and sick it on the slowed highborn. This can be risky at best because as you all know charm is annoying as hell, it always seems to drop at the worst possible moment. However the remains IS worth it the guy can drop about 4-6 items that all grab a hefty price. Anyway if you are going to do it you MUST charm, and despite the fact it might turn on you at any moment try to keep it alive because you aren't getting another if the remains turns its attention on you. As always FD IS YOUR FRIEND.

Also pet suspension is a MUST for this place. I know doomfir loves DC kiting but unless you want to fight your way through 15+ worthless mobs every time you do this round you really want to have pet suspenion. If not I suppose you can tank like Jebasiz but I prefer pet tanking, so there you go a semi-indepth guide of the camp sets that I like to type.

[AnimocityStromm]

Anyway if you are going to do it you MUST charm, and despite the fact it might turn on you at any moment try to keep it alive because you aren't getting another if the remains turns its attention on you. As always FD IS YOUR FRIEND.

Just remember that if you FD with a charmed pet, charm breaks, so you'll have to start over. I've done this to lower my agro without thinking and it pisses me off.

[quik2]

chef is cake w/ cob, slow, throw sk, pyre/nightfire, then fd, let pet tank, chain destroy undead, throw in a pet heal when it gets low, fd if u get aggro, u got a dead chef in a minute.

Also Highborn's isn't a very good comparison to chef, since my cob tanks chef w/ ease, highborn totally owns cobs. requies twice as much heals if not more. Leave the HighBorns alone! They don't drop shit anyways, besides the random kylong guants, but that's so rare, just go do shop, then do chef, do the monk, do the guy on 2nd floor above monk, do the bath tub guy, and u'll walk out w/ 30-50k if all named pop for u. Leave the dogs alone too, they not undead, waste of freakin mana and time on those. Stick w/ undead and u will be rewarded. But that's just me, u do whatever u like.

[Captain_Crunch]

well of course it does that im talking when it breaks right at the worst moment possible. I think a dead mob that you had to redo 3 times is better then a dead necro with a mob at 20% health. It might take a couple tries but eventually charm will last long enough to finish him off. Also its a given about FD but sometimes I am tempted to switch it for an extra dot, and do on some of the easier camps, but here it is a necessity as it can be VERY unpredictable.