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Master Level Seven

This outline provided by Shandu, and filled in with comments from myself and others.
All of these trials, except the first one, happen inside Deep Volcanus, in Ashen Isle.
Entry requirement to Volcanus is ML 3.
Running the Raid
Trials:
1 - The Lava Bridge
2 - Know your Opponents
3 - Apophian's Challenge
4 - Volurgon's Challenge
5 - Shaitan's Challenge
6 - Hephaestian's Challenge
7 - Crossing the Chamber
8 - Pillars
9 - Facing Typhon
10 - Typhon's Rage
11 - Help Realmmates

Running the Raid

Map of Heart of Volcanus Dec 27 - MastaMappa

What You Need Done Before Coming on an ML Raid/Recommended Raid Order

ML7 is located in Deep Volcanus, a dungeon at the far eastern side of Ashen Isle.

Minimum ML requirement: ML3 to zone in

7.1-7.6 are group trials/faction farming.

Of the ML7.2-6 Best bet is to do apophians (Trial 3) last as it is the most likely the one you will die to. Feb 4
- Visili

Bring a group and do them beforehand.

See how to get a glove and get 7.1.

Then an ML7 raid can quickly do:
7.7 Chamber of Flame
7.8 Katorii
7.9 Mysterious Force
7.10 Typhon Jan 24
- Alcara Argenta

Trial 1 -The Lava Bridge

7.1 You must acquire the gauntlet of fire! This is a group encounter.

Strategy:

Get a Salamandar Wool, Barracuda Needle, and Pristine Volurgorgon Hand, they auto-combine into a glove which you can wear to shut off the lava falls. Move through fast cause it turns back on pretty quickly. You don't need a glove for each person, once the whole group reaches the other side they should get credit. Dec 12
- Drayk

For this one only one person actually needs the gloves which you get by combining the Barricuda Needle, Salamander Wool, and Voulgarian (sp) Hand. Everyone else can get credit just by crossing the bridge when the person with the glove shuts of the lava stream. Dec 19
- Shandu

How to make a Volugorgan Glove:
Salamander Wool + Barracuda Spine Needle + Pristine Volugorgan Hand = Volugorgan Glove Nov 22
- Seijin

Salamander Wool comes from Salamander Hatchlings in Typhon's Reach, 13k, 32k.
- Glaun

Barracuda Spine Needle -

I've gotten 2 of them so far. Barracudas drop them. No special barracudas, just "Barracuda". I found 1 camp of mixed barracudas east of the large harpy island and a camp of barracudas around the shipwreck in Anatole, approx loc 25K, 30K. - Schintok
The Barraacuda Spine Needle dropped off an immature barracuda in ToT during ML 3 raid at 41.9k, 25.3k
Seen the needle drop from the barricudas at the 3.6 encounter and the hand drops in deep volcanus itself from misc volgurons. Jan 4 - Youmiss TheShieldCollector

Pristine Volugorgan Hand -
You will get one killing Volurgorgon's in Deep Volcanus ( ML7 Dungeon ). You have to fight your way through them to get to the lava bridge and you will most likely get a couple of them along the way. If one doesn't drop, keep farming. Jan 26
- Armagnan

Tips:

Trial 2 -Know your Opponents

7.2 You can learn all there is to know of your opponent through combat, but time multiplies when there are four. It is not for you to end the feud, but you can't move on until they have all seen you as a threat. This is a group encounter.

Strategy:

This just involves going around to each of the 4 "fueding" mobs and kill enough to mess up yer faction. Once you do to all four mob types you will get the step. When done with So-and-so mob you will get a /s text saying that you have learned all you can from So-and-so faction. Feb 4
- Visili

You don't have to get the faction for all 4 feuding mobs to move onto 7.3-7.6. Each feuding faction is tied to other ml steps. For instance, once you get the faction for Apophian's you can move onto ml 7.3. On the map of Heart of Volcanus, there are four red dots in rooms after the lava bridge. In these rooms are 4 sphinx creatures. They are labeled by the factions. Clicking on them will tell you if you have completed the faction test. If you have, it will teleport you to the corresponding ML step, i.e.- talking to the Apophian sphinx will take you to 7.3. A note on teleporting: it appears that it will only teleport your group only. If you are in bg, it doesn't appear to teleport the whole bg to the same room. I am not sure if this is true. This is what happened to us. We were in a bg with another group. One group was teleported while our group was still getting faction and when we went to try and help them we were teleported but to a room of our own. Feb 8
- Tazena

Trial 7.2, "Know Your Opponent", has had some changes made to how the faction gaining system works. Now each member in the group will share in an equal amount of faction gain. This should help ensure that support classes will not be left behind in a group.
(1.68 patch, Feb 19, 2004)

Tips:

Basically you farm the 4 feuding species. Eventually it will say something to the nature of "You have learned all you can about [Named] of the [Race] and the feud." At that point you can do 3-6. Dec 12
- Drayk

Its about 30 mins per faction for a non optimal group. Its slow, but you make some decent gold and several good scrolls can drop. 2 hours for 4 steps isn't all that out of line from other steps, its just a lil boring. Feb 7
- Megaera

I haven't completed this one yet, as I've only farmed to factions. Once you've killed enough of a faction though you get a message in your chat window (where /say /gu /g, etc.) would show up. That says something to the effect that you've learned all you can about the faction. Each player needs to get the message. Healers and other players not involved in the combat seem to get the message last. Dec 19
- Shandu

Drops:

Trial 3 - Apophian's Challenge

7.3 The Apophians wish to test your endurance. This is a group encounter.

Players who find themselves dead at the end of any of the four Mediator Challenge encounters will have their corpses ported back to the Mediator that they spoke with to begin the encounter. This will allow players a chance to be resurrected rather than having to /release to bindpoint.
(1.68 patch, Feb 19, 2004)

Strategy:

Well I didnt see that we needed to engage him so i nuked him 2 times when he was at about 30% health and he died. He didnt respawn so we just sat there for 9 minutes till the encounter was over and we get credit. was done with 2 cleric 3 pallies a merc and a necro.   Feb 10

Have a Tank engage this mob, no one else attack him, fore if you do he will spawn into two mobs and so on, about every 30 seconds he lvls up. Best strat we had was have the tank engage and then mez the apop, continue this until the mob cons grape(about lvl 60-65) then he will spawn into two Oj con mobs again, repeat the engage and mezzing, and then again when they get to be grape con kill and repeat. The only problem we came across was that at the end we had about 6 diff apop's lvling and had turned grape and they killed 2 of our group members and then the encounter ended, porting all but the dead back, which really sucks cause you cannot rez them and they have to release and come back. And CSR's wont help even though next patch will port dead bodies back.   Feb 4
- Visili

Engage the mob in the center, he will grow bigger and bigger. DO NOT KILL HIM! If you do he will spilt and the get bigger. Just get 2 shield tanks and guard one, and have him engage the mob. You can beat on it to regain argo if needed.   Jan 8
- Muppet

Tips:

Trials 3-6 - Talk to each Mediator, he will teleport your group to the encounter. You will only get credit for 3-6 if you have credit for the part of 2 for that race (I think, you may need full credit for 2). Note: MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AN EMPTY SPOT IN YOUR INVENTORY. The mediator gives everyone a token, and if it auto-drops due to a full inventory you are teleported back near the dungeon enterance. This happened to 7 of our group so I don't know what happens for the trial exactly. Dec 12
- Drayk

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Trial 4 - Volurgon's Challenge

7.4 The Volurgons wish to test your endurance. This is a group encounter.

Strategy:

This one is not all that hard, all you need to do is kill Mandra and do it fast, each Mandra that pops also brings a grape flame looking thing like Tine from Galla and will circle around the area till it get to here and does a wicked 759 AoE damage, the mob will despawn when you kill Mandra, so just kill her fast and repeat, eventually however you get about 2 breaths of Mandra and the first time we ended up being Pbaoe'd to death. Feb 4
- Visili

Tips:

Kill the the Volurgon Mandra as fast as you can, the rage of Volurgons will circle you and PBAE you if you dont kill Mandra fast enough, you have her over and over and over for 10 mins. Drop power wards and PBAE her. Jan 8
- Muppet

Trials 3-6 - Talk to each Mediator, he will teleport your group to the encounter. You will only get credit for 3-6 if you have credit for the part of 2 for that race (I think, you may need full credit for 2). Note: MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AN EMPTY SPOT IN YOUR INVENTORY. The mediator gives everyone a token, and if it auto-drops due to a full inventory you are teleported back near the dungeon enterance. This happened to 7 of our group so I don't know what happens for the trial exactly. Dec 12
- Drayk

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Trial 5 - Shaitan's Challenge

7.5 The Shaitan wish to test your endurance. This is a group encounter.

Strategy:

This one is cake if you have 2-3 tanks and one cold caster, dont think we healed more then twice. What happends is a large Jinni pops at some place in the room and you just go kill her before a second one pops, and walla, you win not hard at all. Feb 4
- Visili

Tips:

Big jinni pops in the room, can pop other places other then the center. Get heat resists up she likes to PBAE for a lot. Just keep killing her, shes not hard. Kill her fast though, if you don't you get more than 1. Jan 8
- Muppet

Trials 3-6 - Talk to each Mediator, he will teleport your group to the encounter. You will only get credit for 3-6 if you have credit for the part of 2 for that race (I think, you may need full credit for 2). Note: MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AN EMPTY SPOT IN YOUR INVENTORY. The mediator gives everyone a token, and if it auto-drops due to a full inventory you are teleported back near the dungeon enterance. This happened to 7 of our group so I don't know what happens for the trial exactly. Dec 12
- Drayk

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Trial 6 - Hephaestian's Challenge

7.6 The Hephaestians wish to test your endurance. This is a group encounter.

Strategy:

This one similair to 5 cept youll get a new Fire guy every 20 seconds or so, not bad with pbaoe and they hit for less then 100(me being a hero) and only other damage is a wussy DS that hit me for maybe 15 damage. If it comes down to it, you can always use crowd control. Feb 4
- Visili

Tips:

This trial is same as 5, but its a fire statue instead. Bring lots of cold dmg weps or casters. Jan 8
- Muppet

This encounter was fairly easy. A grape con Hephaestian spawn about every 15-20 seconds or so. A group with any decent offense can kill the grape con by the time the next one gets to them. Dec 19
- Shandu

Trials 3-6 - Talk to each Mediator, he will teleport your group to the encounter. You will only get credit for 3-6 if you have credit for the part of 2 for that race (I think, you may need full credit for 2). Note: MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AN EMPTY SPOT IN YOUR INVENTORY. The mediator gives everyone a token, and if it auto-drops due to a full inventory you are teleported back near the dungeon enterance. This happened to 7 of our group so I don't know what happens for the trial exactly. Dec 12
- Drayk

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Trial 7 - Crossing the Chamber

7.7 You must face a challeng in the Chamber of flame! This is a battlegroup encounter.

Strategy:

Kill the Flame of Volcanus. Not a very hard fight, we beat with 5 using power spheres, but it took 30 minutes or so. Just concentrate on the Flame of Volcanus, the little fire balls aggro is messed up and if they start nuking you they give up after a minute or so. Plus for reds they don't hurt much at all. Dec 12
- Drayk

Tips:

Drops:

arcanium Magma Infused Defender
Large Shield, MP
Shield: 5 pts
Dexterity: 15 pts
ALL melee weapon skills: 3 pts
Heat: 6%
Bonus to armor factor (AF): 10
Reactive 80 value heal proc   * this changed with 1.68 patch
Has an *awesome* unique graphic   Dec 26
- Heish
The Magma Infused Defender shield (All Realms) has had its proc changed so that it is triggered when the shield is used as a weapon.
(1.68 patch, Feb 19, 2004)

Magma Axe
16.5dps 3.9 spd
100q
Axe: 5 pts
Strength: 15 pts
Slash: 6%
Hits: 40 pts
Bonus to Strength attribute bonus cap: 5
150 ablative       Dec 26
- Heish

arcanite Magma Infused Buckler   Jan 20
- Mura

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Trial 8 -Pillars

7.8 Katorii's gaze destroys all life it falls upon, yes she must be destroyed! This is a battlegroup encounter.

Strategy:

Picture of Katorii
- Seijin

Once you go north from the Flame of Volcanus (ML7.7) the path will bend right and open up into a maze (really just sort of a grid). Leave your groups at that spot, pressed up against the western wall.

Send a spotter to find where Katorii is wandering. A speed class is good for this. You don't want Katorii aggro, because if you get it, she will instakill. Your only aim right now is to get your raid from the western wall to the eastern wall. ** She can and will wipe your raid if you aggro her. She does not give up and aggros anything nearby while chasing. She is not killable until she is traveling with her 4-5 small yellow/orange pets. You need to kill her big snake pets (Touch, Breath, Blood) to get her into a killable state.

Once the spotter says Katorii (or any of her pet snakes Breath Touch Blood etc) is not near the south hallway then move your raid to the eastern wall (all the way down the south hallway). Then go a bit north and down the stairs. Go all the way down the stairs, then east and set up spheres -- err your sphere (alas for the nerf) there. That is where your puller will bring Katorii's pet snakes. Make sure your puller is someone who can hit Katorii's pets from good range. A nearsighter or scout is ideal.

Find Katorii's Breath, Touch or Blood (which one is up is a bit buggy right now -- order should be Breath Touch Blood but I've seen all three up at once <shrug>). Pull it and then run back down the stairs and east to the raid.

Kill it. It will drop a metal plate. Set bg lootlevel to 0 to get it in your inventory, as it is not level 50. Run south from where the raid is (leave the raid there, have your puller go to the top of the stairs) and go down to Typhon's gate. WARNING: Plate poofs when you log [katorii aggroed so we had ressers logged]. Logged back in and it was gone. Jan 17 - Mevi

At the gate, right click the little box in front of the gate -- this will drop the plate in, make Katorii scream and spawn another pet.

Pull the next pet, kill, get plate, drop in door.

Keep doing this until no more pets spawn. Then kill Katorii. If the doors still haven't opened, kill whatever other pets are up and keep dropping in plates. Eventually the doors will open. We've had to do Breath Touch Blood Katorii Touch Blood Blood Touch Blood before getting the gates open once, so don't worry if it doesn't seem to be working at first. The encounter is slightly buggy.

Note, you get 7.8 credit when Katorii dies. Jan 8
- Alcara Argenta

Tips:

Oohh, she's nasty. Do it wrong, she insta-kills you (your HP +1 insta-nuke, generally). Gotta kill her breath, touch, and blood. When you kill her breath, it drops a Runed Metal Plate. Run the plate past her area down to typhon's gate and plunk it in. Repeat these steps , killing breath/touch, then kill Katorii herself. She'll be killable when she's roaming w/ 4-5 orange/yellow con snakes. Dec 19
- Bert

" We have tried her twice so far with about 3 groups. We pull the breath to the side room and then Katorii ends up popping on us and killing the whole raid...
Just bad luck or are we doing something wrong?"
Sounds like bad luck.
Try having your group(s) set up in the room just beyond the bottom of the steps.
Pull the breath and the other two snakes afterwards to that room - no way you can get Katorii aggro there.
However, if you set up at the foot of the steps, Katorii *will* aggro thru the floor if it passes by.
Once the breath and the other two snakes are dead, head up and fight Katori in the maze. Dec 23
- PiaoSB

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Trial 9 -Facing Typhon

7.9 A mysterious force blocks your path! This is a battlegroup encounter.

Strategy:

You'll see two alcoves to the north and south. Kill both mobs (which instarespawn) and you get 7.9 credit. These mobs control the twirling blue things and shut them off for like 5 seconds before they are back off.

Theoretically you could set up groups to chain kill these mobs to keep the twirly blue things down (which port you back, btw) but since you can just jump over the twirly blue things, it is over kill. Jan 8
- Alcara Argenta

Tips:

Use the Plate you were given by Katorii on the pedestal, it'll unlock Typhon's Gate. Dec 26
- Asakura Yoh

Enter Typhon's lair, and head into one of the two caves on the left or right side. Kill one gorgon or snake dude to get credit. Dec 19
- Bert

We had a bug today before we attempted Typhon with Katorii. We killed Katorii and the plate spawned a Katorii's Touch...
Killed Touch and its plate spawned Blood, then that plate spawned Touch, which spawned Blood. The plate from that Blood spawned another Blood which led to another Blood which finally dropped the plate that opened the gate x.x
And no I'm not joking. Dec 26
- Gilean

We had to kill like 4 snakes after Katorii... <gate> finally opened Dec 30
- Alcara Argenta

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Trial 10 - Typhon's Rage

7.10 Typhon lies in the lava pool in the center of Volcanus deep! This is a battlegroup encounter.

Comments on Solo, Grouped, or Battlegrouped:
Some say you will need 5-6 full groups. This has been done with 21 people (read tips section).

Strategy:

Plant a scout at 3 of the locations, plant the zerg at one. Wait for Typhon to pop at your location, then hit him with pet spam, casters casting and melee. Make sure the essence is continually engaged or else you won't be able to hit (it is charmable atm, so charm+duel or just get one caster on essence duty).

He will then port and not come back to that spot after you hurt him enough, so move to him and kill him.

Did it in about ~15 minutes of actual fighting, had about 80 theurg pets up.
A smite cleric got the kill.
We were using level 7 theurg pets, which didn't hit him but added to attacker count.

1 person attacking essence.

Rest on Typhon.

When we had 3 fg albs we couldn't get him below 99%. Add 2-3 more fg and 80 pets and we could, quite quickly too.

we had an MW3 smite cleric and he was hitting in the 100s :-/ Petspam is what's needed here really -- he has a lot of hps.   Dec 31
- Alcara Argenta

Note: now with stacking spheres gone, you'll either need a zerg or a bunch of MW cold-damage casters. In either case, the strategy above applies. Jan 8
- Alcara Argenta

We got the raid past the 1st blue porter thing. The porters go down for about 5 seconds when one of the entrance mobs is killed. At this point we sent 1 sorc and 1 wizard up to the top of the center hill with a Font of Power going. The sorc and wizzy kept the essence in constant combat as it floated around. The raid then attacked Typhon, leaving several clerics right past the 1st porter thing. If people got teleported back to the entrance, they simply suicided in the lava and the clerics rezzed them up past the 1st porter. The 2nd porter thingy can be avoided by hugging the left side of the path around it. You can even jump in the lava briefly to get around it. Typhon teleported around, but the raid was able to reach 3 of the 4 locations that he spawns. When he spawns at the far South location we had theurgists pet spam him and wizzys bolt him to keep him in combat until he teleports again to a place that the rest of the raid could reach him. Once Typhon was at about 20% life, he stopped teleporting. He happened to be at the far South spot at this point, so we took most of the raid over there to finish him off. The porter thingy blocking the far South spot can be avoided by briefly jumping into the lava on the right side of the path. It took nearly an hour to kill him.   Jan 11
- Mythius

Tips:

Crush weapons will now do more damage to Typhon.
Typhon's defense has been lowered.
(1.68 patch, Feb 19, 2004)

What surpised me the most was the Typhon fight : he NEVER ported !
I dont know if it was related to your very low number or a bug but he just never ported elsewhere than where you find him at first.
We charged a first time but after a min of fight we found that we were not engaging the sphere properly, backed off, set our caster on the hill to nuke and charged again.
Switched caster on the hill as their MW repop to come nuke Typhon and back on sphere when MW used.
The fight lasted 35 min ( 3 MW caster ) with 21 people bot included.
He just never teleported. Perhaps if you not a lot he not port ? Your tanks were so few ( around 8 including me ) that we berely prevented him not regenerating hp while MW repop. Might be the cause ?

Typhon repop is fast ! We lotoed keys, ran chest to open em and he repoped. When he repop it seems the exit portal close. So had to finish loto in room and sucide out. Jan 26
- Obside

We had so few melee that I didn't hit him ONCE. Just to add to the info above, we got him down to 50% in our first burst of MW. He regenerated back up to 55% in the half our that we kept him engaged. One of our 3 MW were wasted in the first round due to the essence not being engaged at the time.   Jan 26
- Armagnan

After battling him for a grueling half hour until the runemasters MW3 came back, we managed to keep typhon's hp relatively constant at between 70-80%. The biggest surprise:
On the final onslaught, the RM took typhon down from 80% to 0% in roughly 10 seconds. Hibs may have their animists but we have the power of cold damage at our disposal. Only thing is getting ones to spec MW3. Jan 4
- Slyzer

The runemaster stated after the battle that he is about 90% non-resistant to cold damage...she just regularly nuked and took him down in about 30-45 seconds...first time she was unbuffed (lack of healers/shamans) Jan 4
- Youmiss TheShieldCollector

Typhon is completely heat resistant   Jan 4
- Aram

I was hitting Typhon last night for around 35-50 damage on average when the essence was engaged. I also used a Benthic Falchion (ice sword). I was getting good + damage.   Dec 31
- Uladar

I was getting 50% to 100% bonus damage using my cold sword. Not sure if the 100% was from someone's debuff landing, but if you have a cold weapon, USE IT. Dec 31
- Drayk

He's fun. Doesn't hit too hard (400~ w/ 790 plate AF, armsman), but has a lot of thick skin (you hit for 1 damage!). Dec 19
- Bert

Well we tried again.. this time with trebs..   Just can't seem to do any signifact dmg to him. Dec 24
- aramtrueshot

Drops:

Typhon's Trophy Feb 20
- Acauna

arcanite Heavy Antlya Truncheon Jan 25
- Eadoin

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Trial 11 - Help Realmmates

7.11 Your lesser experienced realm mates need help finishing trials!

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Last modified: Saturday February 28 2004